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Title: Heartbreak Hotel Top 100 / Various Artists
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046712228
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2018-03-09
Number of Discs: 4

As adjuncts to our highly popular "America's Greatest Hits" series of collections for each calendar year in the 50s and early '60s, we have already produced collections based on landmark moments in the Billboard charts - "The First Top 100 Nov. 1955" (ACQCD7062), "The First Hot 100 Aug. 1958" (ACQCD7083) and "The First Hot 100 of the '60s" (ACQCD7097), each comprising all the records in the Top 100 for the date in question. This collection highlights another musical landmark with the Top 100 on the date when Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" went to No. 1 in the first week of May in 1956. Although, contrary to popular wisdom, the advent of rock 'n' roll was much more of a musical progression than an explosion, the arrival of The King at the top of the charts was somehow an especially significant and iconic moment, which marked something of a watershed between the established order of the early '50s and the changing musical, social and political landscape of subsequent years. It comprises 100 records from the Billboard chart of May 5th 1956, from Elvis at No. 1 to Peggy Lee's "Joey, Joey, Joey" at No. 100, and as those two records imply, the chart encompasses strands of music of all kinds as the rock 'n' roll pioneers jostle for position with the crooners, divas, vocal groups and orchestras who had held sway for so long. It's a fascinating snapshot of a time when the music business and popular tastes were in transition, and every week there was something new to excite the baby-boomers. Alongside the major names there some obscure and often collectable records - minor one-hit wonders on relatively unknown labels which are not generally available on CD and which give a fascinating insight into the music of the time. It contains a 12,000+ word booklet featuring background notes on every record.

Tracks:
1.1 Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
1.2 Hot Diggity - Perry Como
1.3 Poor People of Paris - Les Baxter
1.4 Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
1.5 Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle
1.6 Magic Touch - the Platters
1.7 A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer
1.8 No, Not Much - the Four Lads
1.9 I'll Be Home - Pat Boone
1.10 Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan
1.11 Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Feat. Frankie Lymon) - the Teenagers
1.12 Ivory Tower - Cathy Carr
1.13 Moonglow ; Theme from Picnic - Morris Stoloff
1.14 Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
1.15 Moonglow ; Theme from Picnic - George Cates and His Orchestra
1.16 Main Title (From 'Man with the Golden Arm') - Richard Maltby Orchestra
1.17 Rock and Roll Waltz - Kay Starr
1.18 Eddie My Love - the Fontane Sisters
1.19 Why Do Fools Fall in Love - Gale Storm
1.20 Juke Box Baby - Perry Como
1.21 Why Do Fools Fall in Love - the Diamonds
1.22 Long Tall Sally - Pat Boone
1.23 Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley
1.24 Happy Whistler - Don Robertson
1.25 Ivory Tower - Gale Storm
2.1 Mr. Wonderful - Peggy Lee
2.2 Eddie My Love - the Chordettes
2.3 Main Title ; Molly-O - Dick Jacobs
2.4 Standing on the Corner - the Four Lads
2.5 R-O-C-K - Bill Haley and His Comets
2.6 I Was the One - Elvis Presley
2.7 Wild Cherry - Don Cherry
2.8 Bo Weevil - Teresa Brewer
2.9 Theme from the Threepenny Opera (Moritat) - Dick Hyman Trio
2.10 Too Young to Go Steady - Nat King Cole
2.11 See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley and His Comets
2.12 Main Title (From 'Man with the Golden Arm') - Elmer Bernstein
2.13 Lovely One - the Four Voices
2.14 To You, My Love (Je Ne Sais Pas) - Nick Noble
2.15 Without You - Eddie Fisher
2.16 I'm in Love Again - Fats Domino
2.17 Poor People of Paris - Russ Morgan
2.18 I Want You to Be My Girl (Feat. Frankie Lymon) - the Teenagers
2.19 Innamorata - Dean Martin
2.20 Eddie My Love - Teen Queens
2.21 Can You Find It in Your Heart? - Tony Bennett
2.22 Church Bells May Ring - the Diamonds
2.23 The Great Pretender - the Platters
2.24 Held for Questioning - Rusty Draper
2.25 Port-Au-Prince - Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra
3.1 Saints Rock and Roll - Bill Haley and His Comets
3.2 Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
3.3 Slippin' and Slidin' - Little Richard
3.4 Look Homeward Angel - the Four Esquires
3.5 Main Title (From 'Man with the Golden Arm') - Les Elgart ; His Orchestra
3.6 Walk Hand in Hand - Andy Williams
3.7 Mr. Wonderful - Sarah Vaughan
3.8 Too Close for Comfort - Eydie Gorme
3.9 A Crazy Little Palace (That's My Home) - Billy Williams
3.10 Little Girl of Mine - the Cleftones
3.11 Walk Hand in Hand - Tony Martin
3.12 My Little Angel - the Four Lads
3.13 On the Street Where You Live - Vic Damone
3.14 Rock Island Line - Don Cornell
3.15 To Love Again - the Four Aces
3.16 No Other One - Eddie Fisher
3.17 Main Title (From 'Man with the Golden Arm') - Billy May and His Orchestra
3.18 Delilah Jones - the McGuire Sisters
3.19 Tutti Frutti - Pat Boone
3.20 Rock Right - Georgia Gibbs
3.21 Lisbon Antigua (In Old Lisbon) - Mitch Miller
3.22 Winner Take All - the Platters
3.23 Flowers Mean Forgiveness - Frank Sinatra
3.24 Mr. Wonderful - Teddi King
3.25 It Only Hurts for a Little While - the Ames Brothers
4.1 Memories Are Made of This - Dean Martin
4.2 Rock and Roll Wedding - Sunny Gale
4.3 Forever Darling - the Ames Brothers
4.4 My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino
4.5 Innamorata - Jerry Vale
4.6 In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This) - Bing Crosby
4.7 I Woke Up Crying - Joni James
4.8 Church Bells May Ring - the Willows
4.9 Just As Long As I'm with You - Pat Boone
4.10 Eleventh Hour Melody - Lou Busch and His Orchestra
4.11 Our Love Affair - Tommy Charles
4.12 Never Let Me Go - Nat King Cole
4.13 Theme from the Threepenny Opera (Mack the Knife) - Louis Armstrong ; His All Stars
4.14 A Little Love Can Go a Long Long Way - Dream Weavers
4.15 Eleventh Hour Melody - Al Hibbler
4.16 Hi Lili Hi Lo - Dick Hyman Trio
4.17 I Could Have Danced All Night - Dinah Shore
4.18 My First Formal Gown - Patti Page
4.19 Poor People of Paris (Jean's Song) - Chet Atkins
4.20 Main Title (From 'Man with the Golden Arm') - Buddy Morrow ; His Orchestra
4.21 Bo Weevil - Fats Domino
4.22 If You Can Dream (Feat. Al Alberts) - the Four Aces
4.23 Picnic - the McGuire Sisters
4.24 Joey, Joey, Joey - Peggy Lee