The Greatest Country Hits Of 1954 (CD)

It's a fascinating and entertaining musical snapshot of the country scene as the music industry entered a dynamic new musical era This release continues the series of 4-CD sets which comprises selected collections of the biggest US country hits of each year, and this expanded edition provides a fuller picture of 1954 than our existing 2-CD set devoted to that year (ADDCD3025) This 90-track collection covers the year of 1954, during which time Billboard published three charts devoted to Country & Western Records - Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played in Juke Boxes and Most Played by Disc Jockeys - and it comprises every record which peaked in the Top 15 of those charts during the year, apart from one we are unable to include. The pop landscape was still only feeling the first stirrings of rock 'n' roll, and on the country scene, the familiar names still dominated the scene, some of them having long-running No. 1s during the year, notably Hank Snow and Webb Pierce, with those two, alo