A consistent feature of the pop charts during the early 1950s

A consistent feature of the pop charts during the early 1950s was the popularity of vocal groups, ideally suited to the easy-going style of the time, and providing a ready vehicle for the songs regularly emerging from the Tin Pan Alley production line. One of the most popular of the vocal quartets of that time were the Four Aces, a group of ex-US Navy personnel from Philadelphia, who scored a million-selling hit with their first record, released on their lead singer Al Alberts’ own label because they couldn’t get a deal. Signed to Decca, they racked up around fifty hits over the next decade in the Billboard, Cash Box and UK charts – they achieved significant success in the UK charts, with several Top 10 hits – before rock ‘n’ roll and its aftermath overtook them and the group broke up not long after Al Alberts left in the late ’50s. This great-value 52-track 2-CD set comprises all of those hits, plus a few bonus A sides which were popular airplay records. It naturally includes all of their landmark No. 1 hits ‘It’s No Sin’, ‘Stranger in Paradise’, ‘Three Coins in the Fountain’, ‘Mister Sandman’, ‘Melody Of Love’ and ‘Love Is a Many Splendored Thing’, and many other memorable classics. It’s a thorough overview of their chart career, capturing both the essence of their distinctive appeal and the nostalgic musical zeitgeist of the era

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• (It’s No)Sin
• Tell Me Why
• A Garden in the Rain
• Perfidia
• Two Little Kisses
• My Hero
• I’m Yours
• Should I
• Heart and Soul
• Just Squeeze Me(But Don’t Tease Me)
• Ti-Pi-Tin
• La Rosita
• I’ll Never Smile Again
• You Fooled Me
• Organ Grinder’s Swing
• Honey In The Horn
• False Love
• Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside)
• Stranger in Paradise
• The Gang That Sang Heart of My Heart
• Amor
• So Long
• Three Coins in the Fountain
• Wedding Bells(Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine)
• Dream
• No Other Arms, No Other Lips
• It Shall Come To Pass

Disc 2:

• Mister Sandman
• I’ll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time
• Melody of Love
• There’s A Tavern In The Town
• There Goes My Heart
• Heart
• Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
• Shine On Harvest Moon
• A Woman in Love
• Of This I’m Sure
• If You Can Dream
• The Gal with the Yaller Shoes
• To Love Again
• Dreamer
• I Only Know I Love You (‘Na Voce ‘Na Chitarra E’s Poco ‘E Luna)
• Friendly Persuasion(Thee I Love)
• You Can’t Run Away From It
• Someone to Love (Seul Un Homme Peut Faire Ca)
• Written on the Wind
• Bahama Mama
• You’re Mine
• Rock and Roll Rhapsody
• Roses Of Rio
• The World Outside
• It’s a Woman’s World

Additional Details

Label:Acrobat

Genre:Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language:English

Run Time:140 mins

Region:0

Release Date:01/13/17

UPC:824046318420