The Country No. 1s Of The '40s (CD)

A fascinating journey through an era when the commercial country scene developed its character as Nashville Acrobat already has on catalogue collections which present 'America's No. 1s of the '50s' (ACFCD7501), 'America's No. 1s of the '40s' (ACSCD6005), 'America's R&B No. 1s of the '50s' (ACSCD6003), 'America's R&B No. 1s Of The '40s' (ACQCD7168), and 'Country No. 1s of the '50s' (ACTRCD9034), and this release completes that set with presenting the 'Country No. 1s of the '40s'. Billboard published its first country chart in January 1944 under the name 'Most Played Juke Box Folk Records', becoming the 'Most Played Juke Box Hillbilly Records' chart in 1947, and adding a Best Sellers chart the same year. In 1948 'Country & Western' replaced Hillbilly in the nomenclature, with a 'Country & Western Records Most Played by Disk Jockeys' chart added in 1949. This 69-track 3-CD comprises records which made No. 1 in any of those three charts from the first chart in 1944 through