All No 1 Hits 50's (2007)

Product Summary Label: Madacy Entertainment UPC: 00628261260423 Release Date: 2/27/2007 Buy.com Sku: 204064261 Item#: M3GEGK Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets ~ Various Artists 2. At The Hop - Danny & The Juniors ~ Various Artists 3. That'll Be The Day - The Crickets ~ Various Artists 4. It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty ~ Various Artists 5. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters ~ Various Artists 6. Young Love - Tab Hunter ~ Various Artists 7. April Love - Pat Boone ~ Various Artists 8. It's All In The Game - Tommy Edwards ~ Various Artists 9. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing - The Four Aces/Al Alberts ~ Various Artists 10. Tammy - Debbie Reynolds ~ Various Artists 11. Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts ~ Various Artists 12. Purple People Eater, The - Sheb Wooley ~ Various Artists 13. Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price ~ Various Artists 14. Twilight Time - The Platters ~ Various Artists 15. Hearts Of Stone - The Fontane Sisters ~ Various Artists 16. Love Letters In The Sand - Pat Boone ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Featuring hit tracks that range from Perry Como ("Hot Diggity") to Dave "Baby" Cortez (the implausibly irresistible "The Happy Organ") and Lloyd Price ("Stagger Lee"), with stops along the way for Johnnie Ray ("Cry"), Elvis ("Don't Be Cruel"), and Sheb Wooley (the really, really implausible and not so irresistible "The Purple People Eater"), this two-disc set reflects an era when radio was not yet micro-directing its playlists and almost any song imaginable from any genre at all had at least a fighting chance of breaking out as a hit. Today's music radio formats, although the industry swears by diversity, are far more insular and isolating than pop radio was in the 1950s, when a country song might be followed by an R&B song or a straight pop ballad, and then of course, a novelty hit like "The Purple People Eater." Music radio in the 1950s wasn't always pretty, but it was diverse, and the listening audience was just that, a collective audience, and not portioned off into isolated population segments according to musical preference. ~ Steve Leggett   Technical Info Release Date : 02/27/2007 Original Release Date : 2007 Catalog ID : 6042 Label : Madacy Distribution Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00628261260423    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray