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We continue our highly popular and successful America’s Greatest Hits series as we work back through the 1950s, this time with an expanded 4-CD set edition to sit alongside the existing single C...
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The 1950s saw the emergence of a new and more adventurous strand of political and social satire evidenced in books and newspapers, on stage and on radio, and especially on the burgeoning new medium of...
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Johnny Horton was a honky-tonk country and rockabilly singer, who found international fame and chart when he recorded a run of “saga” songs which crossed over into the pop charts in the US...
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Hank Locklin was one of the early exponents of the honk- tonk style of country, although his biggest successes came during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s with hits like “Send Me The Pi...
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Crooner Tony Martin was one of the coterie of male vocalist like Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Al Martino and others who dominated the pop charts during the post-war decade (...
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Tommy Edwards was a sophisticated R&B vocalist, best-known for his landmark US and UK No. 1 “It’s All In The Game”, but who also had many other pop and R&B hits, and released...
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The sub-genre of guitar instrumental hits is a fascinating musical strand of rock ‘n’ roll, with Duane Eddy representing its primary high-profile chart vanguard, but it was with groups lik...
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This is the latest in Acrobat’s series of 4-CD collections devoted to the work of the great arranger/conductors of the post-war era, who contributed so much to the recordings of the most success...
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George Gershwin was one of the bastions of the Great American Songbook group of composers and songwriters, composing many Broadway shows and hit songs during his tragically short life.
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