One of Acrobat’s most popular and successful series are the America’s Greatest Hits collections – 4-CD sets featuring the biggest hits from the Billboard charts from 1940, when the Billboard record sales chart was launched, through to 1962. However, before the Billboard chart was first published, the popular US weekly radio show Your Hit Parade, sponsored by Lucky Strike, began producing a chart in 1935, which was sometimes a Top 10, sometimes a Top 15, so we decided to take the America’s Greatest Hits format back into the Your Hit Parade era of the 1930s. This 98-track 4-CD collection comprises every record that featured in the Top 14 of the Your Hit Parade chart during 1936, the first full year of the chart (records were quite long in those days, and there was insufficient space to include the Top 15 entries, although we have squeezed a couple of them in). With growing optimism in the US as President Roosevelt’s New Deal made its impact, it was a very varied music landscape, with the big swing orchestras starting to make their mark, though often with middle-of-the-road vocal performances rather than jazzy pieces, although there’s plenty of hot stuff here too, and the big dance bands who were popular on radio competing with each other as they recorded the future classics of the Great American Songbook that were coming out of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley, along with some of the top singers of the era. It’s an enjoyable and fascinating musical snapshot of the era, complete with 15,000 word booklet with notes on each track, and full discographical and chart information. 1-1 A Little Bit Independent 2:54 1-2 On Treasure Island 3:26 1-3 Red Sails In The Sunset 3:13 1-4 Moon Over Miami 3:05 1-5 Thanks A Million 2:40 1-6 Eeny Meeny Miney Mo 2:00 1-7 The Music Goes Round And Round 3:24 1-8 With All My Heart 3:15 1-9 Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddle 3:18 1-10 Im Sittin’ High On A Hilltop 2:58 1-11 No Other One 2:40 1-12 Alone 3:35 1-13 Lights Out 3:06 1-14 If I Should Lose You 2:58 1-15 I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze 2:56 1-16 The Broken Record 3:38 1-17 Dinner For One, Please, James 3:19 1-18 (If I Had) Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes 2:43 1-19 Please Believe Me 2:50 1-20 Im Shootin High 3:03 1-21 A Beautiful Lady In Blue 3:11 1-22 Cling To Me 2:27 1-23 Im Building Up To An Awful Let-Down 3:05 1-24 You Hit The Spot 2:23 2-1 Alone At A Table For Two 3:09 2-2 Im Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter 2:57 2-3 Its Been So Long 3:22 2-4 Sing An Old-Fashioned Song (To A Young Sophisticated Lady) 3:25 2-5 A Little Rendezvous In Honolulu 3:07 2-6 Wah-Hoo 2:46 2-7 West Wind 3:34 2-8 Let Yourself Go 2:34 2-9 Lets Face The Music And Dance 2:28 2-10 Im Putting All My Eggs In One Basket 2:46 2-11 Goody Goody 2:27 2-12 Lost 3:09 2-13 Whats The Name Of That Song 3:26 2-14 Wake Up And Sing 2:30 2-15 The Touch Of Your Lips 3:02 2-16 You Started Me Dreaming 2:45 2-17 Yours Truly Is Truly Yours 2:49 2-18 Melody From The Sky 2:55 2-19 Love Is Like A Cigarette 3:01 2-20 Tormented 2:52 2-21 You 2:50 2-22 All My Life 2:45 2-23 Is It True What They Say About Dixie 2:59 2-24 I Dont Want To Make History (I Just Want To Make Love) 3:18 3-1 Robins And Roses 2:54 3-2 Theres Always A Happy Ending 2:39 3-3 Would You 2:54 3-4 She Shall Have Music 3:08 3-5 Its A Sin To Tell A Lie 2:56 3-6 The Glory Of Love 2:35 3-7 Theres A Small Hotel 3:03 3-8 You Cant Pull The Wool Over My Eyes 2:34 3-9 Take My Heart 3:26 3-10 On The Beach At Bali Bali 3:07 3-11 These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You 2:44 3-12 Lets Sing Again 2:19 3-13 Cross Patch 3:30 3-14 Stompin At The Savoy 2:27 3-15 When Im With You 3:18 3-16 No Regrets – 2:44 3-17 Afterglow 3:19 3-18 A Rendezvous With A Dream 3:20 3-19 Did I Remember 3:22 3-20 A Star Fell Out Of Heaven 3:15 3-21 Youre Not The Klind 3:05 3-22 Me And The Moon 3:20 3-23 Knock Knock Who’s There 3:10 3-24 Bye Bye Baby 2:20 3-25 Until Today 2:29 4-1 Until The Real Thing Comes Along 3:01 4-2 Sing Baby Sing 2:39 4-3 Im An Old Cow-Hand (From The Rio Grande) 2:41 4-4 When Did You Leave Heaven? 3:14 4-5 I Cant Escape From You 3:13 4-6 Empty Saddles 3:02 4-7 The Way You Look Tonight 3:06 4-8 A Fine Romance (A Sarcastic Love Song) 2:51 4-9 Who Loves You? 3:13 4-10 When A Lady Meets A Gentleman Down South 2:37 4-11 You Turned The Tables On Me 2:50 4-12 Ill Sing You A Thousand Love Songs 3:01 4-13 Close To Me 3:07 4-14 South Sea Island Magic 3:00 4-15 Did You Mean It 2:58 4-16 Organ Grinder’s Swing 2:40 4-17 Midnight Blue 3:09 4-18 In The Chapel In The Moonlight 3:16 4-19 Pennies From Heaven 3:13 4-20 To Mary With Love 2:43 4-21 Heres Love In Your Eyes 2:22 4-22 Im In A Dancing Mood 2:50 4-23 Its De-Lovely 3:03 4-24 Ive Got You Under My Skin 2:59 4-25 When My Dream Boat Comes Home – 3:13
