This release continues the series which we re-established last year with a 4-CD set of The Greatest Country Hits of 1958

This release continues the series which we re-established last year with a 4-CD set of 'The Greatest Country Hits of 1958' and which comprises selected annual collections of the biggest US country hits of each year. This great-value 116-track collection follows on from that 1958 anthology, and includes every record that appeared in the Top 20 of the Billboard country charts during 1959, excluding those records which had already made the Top 20 and which therefore appeared in the 1958 set (there was insufficient space to include them again in this collection). The country chart had been rationalised in October 1958 into a single 'Hot C&W Sides' Top 30 listing. With the new format and research basis, there are fewer pop and rock 'n' roll records featured in the country charts this year, and it provides a platform for the top country artists of the day, as well as a number of more obscure tracks which have not been widely available on CD. With an in-depth 10-000+ word booklet with background notes on every record, it gives a solid overview of the most popular country music of the year.

Track Listing

• Simon Crum - Country Music Is Here To Stay
• Jim Reeves - Billy Bayou
• Stonewall Jackson - Life To Go
• Jimmy Newman - You're Making A Fool Out Of Me
• Stoney Cooper & Wilma Lee - Come Walk With Me
• Hank Thompson And The Brazos Valley Boys - I've Run Out Of Tomorrows
• Luke Gordon - Dark Hollow
• Louvin Brothers - My Baby's Gone
• Everly Brothers - Problems
• Jim Reeves - I'd Like To Be
• Wilburn Brothers - Which One Is To Blame
• Lefty Frizzell - Cigarettes And Coffee Blues
• Ernest Tubb - What Am I Living For
• Johnny Horton - When It's Springtime In Alaska
• Ray Price - That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome
• Billy Grammer - Gotta Travel On
• Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns To Town
• Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys - So Many Times
• Carl Smith - The Best Years of Your Life
• Wilburn Brothers - The Knoxville Girl
• Faron Young - Long Time Ago
• Don Gibson - Who Cares'
• Faron Young - Last Night At A Party
• Ferlin Husky - My Reason For Living
• The Browns - Beyond The Shadow
• Goldie Hill - Yankee Go Home

• George Jones - White Lightning
• George Morgan - I'm In Love Again
• Kitty Wells - Mommy For A Day
• Kitty Wells - All The Time
• Eddy Arnold - Chip Off The Old Block
• Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl
• Skeeter Davis - Set Him Free
• Johnny Cash - Luther Played The Boogie
• Marty Robbins - Hanging Tree
• Margie Bowes - Poor Old Heartsick Me
• Jim Reeves - Home
• Hank Snow - Doggone That Train
• Webb Pierce - A Thousand Miles Ago
• Johnny Cash - Thanks A Lot
• James O'Gwynn - How Can I Think Of Tomorrow
• Carl Belew - Am I That Easy To Forget
• Jimmy Newman - So Soon
• Johnny Horton - Battle Of New Orleans
• Faron Young - That's The Way It's Gotta Be
• Frankie Miller - Blackland Farmer
• Johnny Cash - Frankie's Man Johnny
• Ray Price - Heartaches By The Number
• Ernest Tubb - I Cried A Tear
• Johnny Cash - You Dreamer You
• Don Gibson - Lonesome Old House
• Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper - Big Midnight Special
• Hank Thompson And The Brazos Valley Boys - Anybody's Girl
• Stonewall Jackson - Waterloo

• Carl Smith - It's All My Heartaches
• Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil
• Wilburn Brothers - Somebody's Back In Town
• Charlie Walker - I'll Catch You When You Fall
• Hank Snow - Chasin' A Rainbow
• Eddy Arnold - Tennessee Stud
• Ferlin Husky - Draggin' The River
• Bob Gallion - You Take The Table And I'll Take The Chairs
• Bill Anderson - Ninety-Nine
• Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys - Come And Knock (On The Door Of My Heart)
• Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Cabin In The Hills
• Marvin Rainwater - Half Breed
• Kitty Wells - Your Wild Life's Gonna Get You Down
• George Jones - Who Shot Sam
• Carl Smith - Ten Thousand Drums
• Webb Pierce - I Ain't Never
• Johnny Cash - Katy Too
• Faron Young - Country Girl
• Jimmy Newman - Grin And Bear It
• Jim Reeves - Partners
• The Browns - Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches)
• Jimmie Skinner - John Wesley Hardin
• Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes
• Johnny & Jack - Sailor Man
• George Morgan - Little Dutch Girl
• Hawkshaw Hawkins - Soldier's Joy
• Johnny Horton - Sal's Got A Sugar Lip
• Johnny Cash - Five Feet High And Rising
• Johnny Horton - Johnny Reb
• Mac Wiseman - Jimmy Brown The Newsboy

• Don Gibson - Don't Tell Me Your Troubles
• Everly Brothers - Til I Kissed You
• Betty Foley - Old Moon
• Margie Bowes - My Love And Little Me
• Buck Owens - Under Your Spell Again
• Skeeter Davis - Homebreaker
• Frankie Miller - Family Man
• Ray Price - Same Old Me
• Hank Snow - The Last Ride
• Jim Reeves - I'm Beginning To Forget You
• Wink Martindale - Deck Of Cards
• Marion Worth - Are You Willing, Willie
• Ernest Tubb - Next Time
• Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper - There's A Big Wheel
• Wilburn Brothers - A Woman's Intuition
• Kitty Wells - Amigo's Guitar
• Faron Young - Riverboat
• Marty Robbins - El Paso
• Fred Hart - Chain Gang
• Faron Young - Face To The Wall
• The Browns - Scarlet Ribbons
• Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go
• George Jones - Money To Burn
• Don Gibson - I'm Movin' On
• Webb Pierce - No Love Have I
• Lewis Pruitt - Timbrook
• George Jones - Big Harlan Taylor

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Country

Language: English

Run Time: 289 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 03/11/16

UPC: 824046709624