Hard To Find Jukebox Classics 1956

Hit Parade CD  #12303    $14.98

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, and they employ 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!

Track List

1.   The Green Door - Jim Lowe
 
2.   Black Denim Trousers - The Cheers  
 
3.   The House Of Blue Lights - Chuck Miller  
 
4.   Moonlight Gambler - Frankie Laine
 
5.   In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town - Somethin' Smith & Redheads   

6.   It's a Sin to Tell a Lie - Somethin' Smith & Redheads  

7.   City of Angels - The Highlights  

8.   It's Almost Tomorrow - The Dream Weavers   

9.   True Love  (Stereo) - Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly   

10.   On the Street Where You Live - Vic Damone

11.   Two Different Worlds - Don Rondo   

12.   From the Candy Store On The Corner To The Chapel On the Hill - Tony Bennett  

13.   Can You Find It in Your Heart - Tony Bennett  

14.   Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody - Jerry Lewis   

15.   Moonglow & Theme From Picnic  (Stereo Single Version) - Morris Stoloff & His Orchestra    

16.   Tonight You Belong to Me - Patience & Prudence

17.   I Dreamed - Betty Johnson   

18.   White Silver Sands - The Owen Bradley Quintet   

19.   Cinco Robles  (Five Oaks) - Russell Arms    

20.   Cindy, Oh Cindy - Vince Martin,  Featuring The Tarriers   

21.   Wringle Wrangle - Fess Parker   

22.   Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group

23.   My Boy Flat Top - Dorothy Collins   

24.   Rock And Roll Waltz - Kay Starr