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exclusively distributed in the U.S.
by Eric Records |
Hard To Find Jukebox Classics 1956
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With so many labels and so many CD's, you'd think it would be easy to find
all the top hits from the fabulous 50's. Not so! To remedy this musical misfortune, Hit
Parade Records inaugurates their new year-by-year CD series with Hard
To Find Jukebox Classics 1956. This exciting, audiophile-quality disc is bulging
with 24 classic pop, vocal group, folk, and early rock 'n' roll hits. All these
platters made the Top 40 - sixteen hit the Top 10, three made it all the way to #1 - but
just try and find these terrific songs today!
Hard To Find Jukebox Classics 1956 includes eight
songs never available on CD till now, including Fess Parker's "Wringle Wrangle" (#12),
Dorothy Collins' "My Boy - Flat Top" (#15), and the stereo single version of
Morris Stoloff's #1 smash, "Moonglow & Theme
from 'Picnic'." Others, like the Cheers' tragicomic "Black Denim Trousers" (featuring
Bert Convey) or Tony Bennett's rapturous "Can You Find It In Your Heart " are
very difficult - if not impossible - to find on CD these days.
Hit Parade Records is a new Canadian label dedicated to finding, restoring, and preserving
lost treasures like these. Exclusively distributed in the United States by Eric Records,
Hit Parade employs many of the same creative folks who lovingly compile those great Eric
CD's - including Greg Adams, whose detailed liner notes with biographies of all
the artists will fascinate you for almost as long as the full hour it will take
you to listen to Hard
To Find Jukebox Classics 1956! And, don't miss Hit Parade's other great collections, Fabulous
Fifties Divas and Fabulous Fifties Crooners as
well as The Complete Original Hits Of Georgia Gibbs.
- 8 CD DEBUTS - ALL ORIGINAL 45 RPM SINGLE VERSIONS -
- DIGITALLY REMASTERED FOR HIGHEST QUALITY SOUND -
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
Chart |
Date |
| 1. |
The Green Door |
Jim Lowe |
#1 |
9/56 |
| 2. |
Rare on CD Black Denim Trousers
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The Cheers |
#6 |
9/55 |
| 3. |
Rare on CD The House of Blue
Lights |
Chuck Miller |
#9 |
6/55 |
| 4. |
Moonlight Gambler |
Frankie Laine |
#3 |
12/56 |
| 5. |
CD Debut In a Shanty in Old
Shanty Town (Single Version) |
Somethin' Smith & Redheads |
#27 |
6/56 |
| 6. |
Rare on CD It's a Sin to Tell
a Lie |
Somethin' Smith & Redheads |
#7 |
4/55 |
| 7. |
CD Debut in USA City of Angels |
The Highlights |
#19 |
10/56 |
| 8. |
Rare on CD It's Almost Tomorrow |
The Dream Weavers |
#7 |
11/55 |
| 9. |
Rare on CD True Love (STEREO) |
Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly |
#3 |
9/56 |
| 10. |
On the Street Where You Live |
Vic Damone |
#4 |
4/56 |
| 11. |
Rare on CD Two Different Worlds |
Don Rondo |
#11 |
10/56 |
| 12. |
CD Debut From the Candy Store
On the Corner to the Chapel On the Hill |
Tony Bennett |
#11 |
8/56 |
| 13. |
Rare on CD Can You Find It
in Your Heart |
Tony Bennett |
#16 |
4/56 |
| 14. |
Rare on CD Rock-a-Bye Your
Baby with a Dixie Melody |
Jerry Lewis |
#10 |
11/56 |
| 15. |
CD Debut Moonglow & Theme
from 'Picnic' (Stereo Single Version) |
Morris Stoloff & His Orchestra |
#1 |
4/56 |
| 16. |
Tonight You Belong to Me |
Patience & Prudence |
#4 |
8/56 |
| 17. |
Rare on CD I Dreamed |
Betty Johnson |
#9 |
11/56 |
| 18. |
CD Debut White Silver Sands |
The Owen Bradley Quintet |
#18 |
7/57 |
| 19. |
CD Debut Cinco Robles (Five
Oaks) |
Russell Arms |
#22 |
12/56 |
| 20. |
Rare on CD Cindy, Oh Cindy |
Vince Martin featuring The Tarriers |
#9 |
10/56 |
| 21. |
CD Debut Wringle Wrangle |
Fess Parker |
#12 |
12/56 |
| 22. |
Rock Island Line |
Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group |
#8 |
3/56 |
| 23. |
CD Debut My Boy - Flat Top |
Dorothy Collins |
#16 |
11/55 |
| 24. |
Rock and Roll Waltz |
Kay Starr |
#1 |
1/56 |
Chart positions taken from Joel Whitburn's Record Research series of Billboard
chart books.