Artist: Various Artists
Title Of Album: Your Hit Parade: 1955
Year Of Release: 1989
Country: Wolrd
Label: Time-Life Books Inc./MCA
Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: CBR 320 kbps
Total Time: 1 h 06 min 26 sec
Total Size: 133 Mb (+3%) | Scans
Review

The year 1955 is remembered as the beginning of the rock era, as marked by the success of Bill Haley & His Comets' "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock." The omission of that song from an album purporting to present the biggest hits of the year is both a major flaw and an ominous choice. Time-Life Music's Your Hit Parade series begins in 1940 and runs through 1959, and there seems to have been a deliberate decision to ignore the rise of rock & roll in the second half of the '50s....

Tracklist:

01. Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) - Perry Como (2:43)
02. Whatever Lola Wants - Sarah Vaughan (2:40)
03. Wake The Town And Tell The People - Les Baxter (2:32)
04. The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane - The Ames Brothers (2:52)
05. Let Me Go Lover - Joan Weber (2:24)
06. The Shifting, Whispering Sands - Rusty Draper (2:45)
07. Dance With Me Henry (The Wallflower) - Georgia Gibbs (2:20)
08. Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White - Perez 'Prez' Prad (3:03)
09. That's All I Want From You - Jaye P. Morgan (2:43)
10. Unchained Melody - Al Hibbler (2:57)
11. Hard To Get - Gisele Mackenzie (3:03)
12. Moments To Remember - The Four Lads (3:19)
13. Hearts of Stone - The Fontane Sisters (2:07)
14. Only You - The Platters (2:39)
15. Love And Marriage - Dinah Shore (2:26)
16. Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams (2:55)
17. A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole (2:35)
18. I'll Never Stop Loving You - Doris Day (3:06)
19. Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (2:39)
20. The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller & His Orchestra (3:07)
21. Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing - The Four Lads (3:02)
22. Sincerely - The McGuire Sisters (3:01)
23. Melody of Love - Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra (3:03)
24. The Ballad of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes (2:25)

To be continued...