America's Greatest Hits 1948/ Various - America's Greatest Hits 1948 (Various Artists)We complete our popular and successful series devoted to the biggest chart records of each calendar year in the early chart era as we focus on 1948, the eighth full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart which was launched in July 1940. Acrobat now boasts a complete series of these collections from 1940 through to 1962. This great value 103 track 4 CD set comprises just about every record which peaked in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best

Johneron Davis

starting his career by following in the footsteps of Frank Sinatra

together with Dvorák's Symphony No

Here are two dozen cracking uptempo examples of West Coast R&B by some of the best names of the early-mid 50s

The collection features many of his well-known compositions like "One O'Clock Jump"

1) faking it 2) tenderly 3) going home 4) loose light 5) swipe 6) dice in Santa Fe 7) taxi ride 8) last date

and the feel of a wet Saturday afternoon at the dawn of the '70s spent flicking through the racks

in times of upheaval

I Smell A Rat

making for an exciting and joyous showcase for their talents

for whatever reason some compositions have never been included on these releases

encompassing his recordings which came out on the Bluebird