Comprises all the cover versions of 1960 hits that were sold exclusively in Woolworths.

Acrobat Music's series of British Hit Parade collections has become an essential annual purchase for a significant number of collectors and enthusiasts who wish to hear and own every record that entered the British record charts during each year.
This year, we are introducing another innovation into our annual trawl of the songs that the great British record-buying public was spending their hard-earned shillings on. This collection comprises every 45rpm single that was released in 1960 on the Embassy label, the cover versions that were sold exclusively in Woolworths stores from 1954 to 1965. Obviously, they were highly selective about the tracks they recorded - they were generally already guaranteed hits - although they did do one or two pre-emptive recordings of things they expected to chart which didn't make it.
For those who began their record-buying lives in the '50s and '60s the Embassy label provided a variety of different perceptions. For the purist, it was anathema - the idea of buying anything other than the version of a hit that was in the charts by the star artist was unconscionable (although people would happily buy a watered-down British cover of a stonking and original US hit if that was what was being pushed at them on the radio). For others, the chance to buy a halfway-decent version of two different hits on one 45 for not much more than half the price of a regular single - and from a shop they were probably in most Saturdays - looked like a sensible deal, especially if you weren't a dyed-in-the-wool NME or MM-reading aficionado. There were also those who were genuinely interested in the music, and saw it as an interesting parallel world, buying either or both of the original and the sound-alike version.
Half a century and more distant, in the world of collectors, enthusiasts and nostalgia, even the prejudices about the presumed naffness of Embassy recordings have gone out of the window as fans of '50s and '60s pop are happy to revisit the music of the times in all its forms in a happy voyage of rediscovery, and people can hear them for what they really are.
In addition, the artists who made the cover versions have a story of their own to tell, and still command a hard core of fans, and so this collection provides an eclectic slice of nostalgia that will appeal at a number of levels.
We are sure that in addition to the enthusiasts with a special interest in Embassy, many purchasers of our main British Hit Parade sets will also be keen to acquire the 'B' sides to ensure the completeness of their collection.

Track Listing

• Jean Campbell - The Big Hurt
• Hal Munro - Good Timin'
• Jean Campbell - I Can't Begin to Tell You
• Don Duke - Please Don't Tease
• Gordon Franks & Bobby Britton - Porgy and Bess, a Woman Is a Sometime Thing
• Don Duke - Made You
• Barry Johns & Neville Taylor - I Got Plenty O' Nuttin', It Ain't Necessarily So
• Paul Rich - What a Mouth
• Paul Rich - Heartaches By the Number
• Paul Rich - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
• Bud Ashton - Some Kinda Earthquake
• Bobby Stevens - Shakin' All Over
• Steve Stannard & His Sextet - Reveille Rock
• Bobby Stevens - Angela Jones
• Bobby Britton - Dance With Me
• Don Duke - When Will I Be Loved
• Johnny Worth - Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
• Don Duke - Look for a Star
• Johnny Worth - Pretty Blue Eyes
• Rikki Henderson - Mais Oui
• Rikki Henderson - Starry Eyed
• Rikki Henderson - If She Should Come to You
• Rikki Henderson - Why
• Jean Campbell - Everybody's Somebody's Fool
• Paul Rich - Little White Bull
• Jean Campbell - I'm Sorry
• Paul Rich - Harbour Lights
• Jean Campbell - Paper Roses
• Johnny Worth - A Voice in the Wilderness
• Jean Campbell - The Train of Love
• Johnny Worth - Poor Me
• Bud Ashton - Because They're Young
• Black Knight's Jazz Band - Summer Set
• Bud Ashton - Apache
• Hal Munro - On a Slow Boat to China
• Vicki Stevens - As Long As He Needs Me
• Dick Jordan - Misty
• Vicki Stevens - Where Is Love'
• Dick Jordan - Beyond the Sea
• Paul Rich - Tell Laura I Love Her
• Rikki Henderson - El Paso
• Paul Rich - Lorelei
• Rikki Henderson - What More Do You Want
• Bobby Stevens - Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
• Rikki Henderson - Delaware
• Bobby Stevens - A Mess of Blues
• Rikki Henderson - Lady Luck
• Johnny Worth - How About That
• Dick Jordan - Let It Be Me
• Johnny Worth - Nine Times Out of Ten
• Dick Jordan - Running Bear
• Don Duke - Only the Lonely
• Steve Stannard & His Orchestra - Theme from 'A Summer Place'
• Don Duke - Chain Gang
• Rikki Henderson - What in the World's Come Over You
• Steve Stannard & His Orchestra - Walk Don't Run
• Steve Stannard & His Orchestra - Never On Sunday

• Hal Munro - You Got What It Takes
• Don Duke - So Sad
• Hal Munro - California Here I Come
• Don Duke - Please Help Me I'm Falling
• Paul Rich - My Old Man's a Dustman
• Jean Campbell - My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own
• Paul Rich - Fings Ain't What They Used to Be
• Jean Campbell - I Want to Be Wanted
• Rikki Henderson - Be Mine (Aller Madchen Wollen Kusser)
• Don Duke - Dreamin'
• Rikki Henderson - Do You Mind
• Don Duke - Let's Think About Living
• Johnny Worth - Handy Man
• Rikki Henderson - Save the Last Dance for Me
• The Gordon Franks Sextet - Beatnik Fly
• Rikki Henderson - It's Now or Never
• Bobby Stevens - Fall in Love With You
• Matt Bryant & Linda Joyce - Goodness Gracious Me
• Bobby Stevens - Wild One
• Steve Stannard & His Group - 'Man of Mystery
• Rikki Henderson - Fame and Fortune
• Paul Rich - Mr Custer
• Rikki Henderson - He'll Have to Go
• Steve Stannard & His Orchestra - McDonalds Cave
• Bobby Stevens - Clementine
• Bud Ashton - Kommotion
• Bobby Stevens - Stuck On You
• Steve Stannard & His Group - Rocking Goose
• Johnny Worth - Someone Else's Baby
• Rikki Henderson - My Love for You
• Johnny Worth - Footsteps
• Rikki Henderson - Just As Much As Ever
• Dick Jordan - Cathy's Clown
• The Embassy Singers - Little Donkey
• Dick Jordan - Don't Throw Away All Those Teardrops
• The Embassy Singers - The Little Drummer Boy
• Jean Campbell - Sweet Nothin's
• Don Duke - Poetry in Motion
• Paul Rich - Standing On the Corner
• Don Duke - Ol' Macdonald
• Bud Ashton - Shazam
• Paul Rich - Must Be Santa
• Paul Rich - Green Fields
• Paul Rich - Virgin Mary
• Bobby Stevens - Cradle of Love
• Bobby Stevens - I Love You
• Bobby Stevens - Heart of a Teenage Girl
• Bobby Stevens - Strawberry Fair
• Jean Campbell - Robot Man
• Bobby Stevens - Lively
• Bobby Brent - Lucky Five
• Bobby Stevens - Lonely Pup
• Rikki Henderson - Three Steps to Heaven
• Steve Stannard & His Group - Gurney Slade Theme
• Rikki Henderson - The Urge
• The Tonettes - The Green Leaves of Summer
• Steve Stannard & His Sextet - Down Yonder
• Rikki Henderson - Ain't Misbehavin
• Hal Munro - I Wanna Go Home

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Pop/Rock

Run Time: 281:38 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 06/19/12

UPC: 824046704322