1953: 20 Original Chart Hits

1953: 20 Original Chart Hits

1953: 20 Original Chart Hits
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1998-03-18
Music Label: A Time to Remember
Soundtracks:
  1. Makin' Whoopee
  2. Isn't Life Wonderful
  3. Now
  4. Re-Enlistment Blues
  5. Eternally
  6. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
  7. Honeysuckle Rose
  8. Rose Marie
  9. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
  10. That's Me Without You
  11. Almost Like Being in Love
  12. When Love Goes Wrong
  13. Someone to Watch over Me
  14. Side by Side
  15. Goin' Steady
  16. 40 Cups of Coffee
  17. Kiss
  18. No Other Love
  19. Chattanooga Choo Choo
  20. Brother John

Music reviews of 1953: 20 Original Chart Hits

Music Review: Interesting sampler
Rating: 4 Stars

This sampler is part of a series of year-based CDs composed of US Capitol and UK EMI recordings. It reflects the UK song scene of the time, which included a lot of songs recorded in the US, British covers of American songs, and a few local hits that never crossed the ocean. So one finds songs like Kay Starr's "Side by Side" (an authentic US hit), a UK version (by Gerry Brereton, who is unknown in the US) of "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" (which in the US was a hit for Karen Chandler), and a song called "Isn't Life Wonderful," which never made it over the ocean, by Alma Cogan, a British singer who deserves more attention than she gets here. (I heard Alma Cogan for the first time in 2004, almost 40 years after her death! But I really like her voice.)

One problem is that only songs recorded on the Capitol label in the US and its parent, EMI, in the UK are included. So even the US songs aren't necessarily the versions that were hits here: for example, Helen O'Connell is not the singer one generally thinks of when thinking of "No Other Love" (Perry Como's, the biggest hit version of the song, was on RCA Victor). But most of the included songs still sound pretty good, and the CD gives an interesting exposure to some unusual versions.

I liked this CD, even if it is an idiosyncratic sample.

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