With so many labels and so many CDs, you’d think it would be easy to find all the top hits from the fabulous ’50s. Not so! To remedy this musical misfortune, Hit Parade Records inaugurates its 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 until 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, and the label employs many of the same creative folks who lovingly compile those great Eric CDs – 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
DIGITALLY REMASTERED FOR HIGHEST QUALITY SOUND
Track Listing — Disc #1 · 24 Songs · Various Artists · Hit Parade Records
| Track | Title | Artist | Chart Peak | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
RARE ON CD
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Jim Lowe | #1 | 9/56 |
| 2 |
RARE ON CD
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The Cheers | #6 | 9/55 |
| 3 |
RARE ON CD
|
Chuck Miller | #9 | 6/55 |
| 4 | Frankie Laine | #3 | 12/56 | |
| 5 |
CD DEBUT
|
Somethin' Smith & Redheads | #27 | 6/56 |
| 6 |
RARE ON CD
|
Somethin' Smith & Redheads | #7 | 4/55 |
| 7 |
CD DEBUT IN USA
|
The Highlights | #19 | 10/56 |
| 8 |
RARE ON CD
|
The Dream Weavers | #7 | 11/55 |
| 9 |
RARE ON CD
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Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly | #3 | 9/56 |
| 10 | Vic Damone | #4 | 4/56 | |
| 11 |
RARE ON CD
|
Don Rondo | #11 | 10/56 |
| 12 |
CD DEBUT
|
Tony Bennett | #11 | 8/56 |
| 13 |
RARE ON CD
|
Tony Bennett | #16 | 4/56 |
| 14 |
RARE ON CD
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Jerry Lewis | #10 | 11/56 |
| 15 |
CD DEBUT
|
Morris Stoloff & His Orchestra | #1 | 4/56 |
| 16 | Patience & Prudence | #4 | 8/56 | |
| 17 |
RARE ON CD
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Betty Johnson | #9 | 11/56 |
| 18 |
CD DEBUT
|
The Owen Bradley Quintet | #18 | 7/57 |
| 19 |
CD DEBUT
|
Russell Arms | #22 | 12/56 |
| 20 |
RARE ON CD
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Vince Martin featuring The Tarriers | #9 | 10/56 |
| 21 |
CD DEBUT
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Fess Parker | #12 | 12/56 |
| 22 | Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group | #8 | 3/56 | |
| 23 |
CD DEBUT
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Dorothy Collins | #16 | 11/55 |
| 24 | Kay Starr | #1 | 1/56 |