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Easy Listening Gold 1962-1963 {Various Artists}

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I have listened to 6 cd's of the 10 total in the series. All of them have great production value and are top notch remasters. Highly recommended for fans of the 60's Easy Listening genre.

Easy Listening Gold 1962-1963 is a two CD that is one hour, twenty minutes, and forty-four seconds. There are a total of 30 songs on this two CD set. There are at least four instruments songs and two foreign sung songs that both went to number one in the same year. With the exception of Andy Williams Moon River, the rest of the 29 songs charted. We have at least eight songs spend more then one week at #1. The winner goes to Bobby Vinton's song Blue Velvet. That song last for eight weeks on the U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles chart. This CD mostly sticks with the easy listening genre. Also there are some artists on it that you did not know exist unless you heard the song. Easy Listening Gold 1962-1963 gets an AAAAA+++++.

Disc One
45 minutes and 37 seconds

Blue Velvet-Bobby Vinton
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (three weeks at #1)
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles (eight weeks at #1)
Stranger on the Shore-Mr. Acker Bilk
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
All Alone Am I-Brenda Lee
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles (five weeks at #1)
Walk Right In-The Rooftop Singers
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (two weeks at #1)
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles (five weeks at #1)
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
#23 U.S. Billboard Country Music Chart
Sukiyaki-Kyu Sakamoto
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (three weeks at #1)
The End of the World-Skeeter Davis
#2 U.S. Billboard Country Music Chart
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Midnight In Moscow-Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Washington Square-The Village Stompers
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles (three weeks at #1)
Ramblin' Rose-Nat King Cole
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles (five weeks at #1)
#7 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Don't Break the Heart That Loves You-Connie Francis
#1 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles
Dominique-The Singing Nun
#1 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles (four weeks at #1)
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes-Bobby Vee
#3 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#2 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles
#8 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Danke Schoen-Wayne Newton with The Newton Brothers
#13 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#3 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?-The Kingston Trio
#21 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Moon River-Andy Williams
Did not chart
If I Had A Hammer (Live Version)-Trini Lopez
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles

Disc Two
35 minutes and 7 seconds

Can't Get Used To Losing You- Andy Williams
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Only Love Can Break A Heart-Gene Pitney
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles (two weeks at #1)
#16 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
I Love You Because-Al Martino
#3 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles
Rhythm of the Rain-The Cascades
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
The Stripper-David Rose
#1 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles
A Little Bitty Tear-Burl Ives
#9 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs
That Sunday, That Summer-Nat King Cole
#12 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
When I Fall In Love-The Lettermen
#7 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles
More-Kai Winding
#8 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Since I Fell For You-Lenny Welch
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Al Di La-Emilio Pericoli
#6 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#3 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles
Sweet Dreams (Of You)-Patsy Cline
#5 U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs
#44 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#15 U.S. Billboard Middle-Road Singles
Up On The Roof-The Drifters
#5 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Things-Bobby Darin
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles

This album was definitely hard to find, especially the variety of songs from various artists in one album/CD set. A combination of the many hits that we enjoyed listening to back then and now. I would highly recommend trying it out for those that have not had the pleasure of listening to it yet. We do not regret buying this, it's worth every penny!

HQ recordings of great songs from 62-63'. If you "were there" & even if you weren't but you like easy listening type music, you will enjoy these; highly recommend. I didn't like every single song on the 2 CD set, but thoroughly enjoyed almost every one. Many songs on the CD are rarely heard on oldies stations, so it was a real treat to hear many of these songs again. When you take into account that oldies atations are rapidly disappearing, this CD set becomes all the more valuable & collectable.