On November 12th 1955 Billboard magazine in the USA published their first chart which was called the Top 100. Up until that point they had published charts called Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played By Jockeys and Most Played in Juke Boxes. This new chart was based on a combined tabulation of Dealer, Disk Jockey and Juke Box Operator replies to The Billboard's weekly popular record Best Seller and Most Played surveys. This 102-track 4-CD set includes all of the records in the chart, including both sides of two records which were listed as double A sides. It's an interesting and unusual chart, with multiple versions of several high profile songs, and multiple entries for several artists, some of whom charted both sides of releases separately. Alongside the big names, it includes a significant number of collectible obscurities, especially towards the bottom end of the chart, and for collectors it will be a must-have snapshot of a significant date in US chart history.
1 Four Aces Featuring Al Alberts - Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
2 Roger Williams - Autumn Leaves
3 Four Lads - Moments to Remember
4 Mitch Miller - the Yellow Rose of Texas
5 Billy Vaughn Orchestra - the Shifting Whispering Sands Part 1
6 Gale Storm - I Hear You Knocking
7 Rusty Draper - the Shifting Whispering Sands
8 Pat Boone - at My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)
9 Platters - Only You (And You Alone)
10 Al Hibbler - He
11 Ames Brothers - My Bonnie Lassie
12 Perry Como - Fooled
13 Perry Como - Tina Marie
14 The Cheers - Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots
15 Gogi Grant - Suddenly There's a Valley
16 Fontane Sisters - Seventeen
17 Frank Sinatra - Love and Marriage
18 Jaye P. Morgan - the Longest Walk
19 Jaye P. Morgan - Swanee
20 Pat Boone - Ain't That a Shame
21 Joni James - You Are My Love
22 Nat King Cole - Forgive My Heart
23 Les Baxter, His Chorus and Orchestra - Wake the Town and Tell the People
- Disc 2 -
1 Don Cornell - Young Abe Lincoln
2 Nat King Cole - Someone You Love
3 Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
4 The Dream Weavers - It's Almost Tomorrow
5 Don Cornell - the Bible Tells Me So
6 Patti Page - Croce Di Oro
7 Georgie Shaw - No Arms Can Ever Hold You (Like These Arms of Mine)
8 Russ Morgan and His Orchestra - Dogface Soldier
9 Jaye P. Morgan - Pepper-Hot Baby
10 Boyd Bennett and His Rockets - My Boy Flat Top
11 Les Paul & Mary Ford - Amukiriki (the Lord Willing)
12 The El Dorados - at My Front Door
13 Chuck Berry and His Combo - Maybellene
14 Eddie Fisher - Song of the Dreamer
15 Bill Haley and the Comets - Burn the Candle
16 Georgia Gibbs - I Want You to Be My Baby
17 Bonnie Lou - Daddy-O
- Disc 3 -
1 Mitch Miller & His Orchestra & Chorus - the Bonnie Blue Gal
2 Pat Boone - No Arms Can Ever Hold You
3 Bill Haley and His Comets - Rock Around the Clock
4 Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy - Rememb'ring
5 Julie London - Cry Me a River
6 Peggy King - Learnin' to Love
7 Bill Haley and His Comets - Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie
8 Frank Sinatra - Same Old Saturday Night
9 Eddie Fisher - Magic Fingers
10 Jaye P. Morgan - If You Don't Want My Love
11 Perry Como - All at Once You Love Her
12 Three Chuckles - Times Two I Love You
13 Lola Dee - Paper Roses
14 Frankie Laine - Hawk-Eye
15 Eddie Fisher - (I Want to Go Where You Go, Do What You Do) Then I'll Be Happy
16 Disc 4:
17 The Four Freshmen - Day By Day
18 Rosemary Clooney - Pet Me Poppa
19 Perry Como - the Rose Tattoo
20 The Jacks - Why Don't You Write Me
21 Crew-Cuts - Gum Drop
22 Gisele MacKenzie - Hard to Get
23 Kitty Kallen - Sweet Kentucky Rose
24 Jeri Southern - An Occasional Man
25 Somethin' Smith and the Redheads - When All the Streets Are Dark
26 The Loreleis - You're So Nice to Be Near
27 Bubber Johnson - Come Home
28 Doris Day - I'll Never Stop Loving You
29 Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - It's Obdacious
30 The McGuire Sisters - Give Me Love
31 Les Paul & Mary Ford - Magic Melody
32 The Turbans - When You Dance
33 The Hilltoppers Featuring Jimmy Sacca - Searching
34 Johnnie Ray - Johnnie's Comin' Home
On November 12th 1955 Billboard magazine in the USA published their first chart which was called the Top 100. Up until that point they had published charts called Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played By Jockeys and Most Played in Juke Boxes. This new chart was based on a combined tabulation of Dealer, Disk Jockey and Juke Box Operator replies to The Billboard's weekly popular record Best Seller and Most Played surveys. This 102-track 4-CD set includes all of the records in the chart, including both sides of two records which were listed as double A sides. It's an interesting and unusual chart, with multiple versions of several high profile songs, and multiple entries for several artists, some of whom charted both sides of releases separately. Alongside the big names, it includes a significant number of collectible obscurities, especially towards the bottom end of the chart, and for collectors it will be a must-have snapshot of a significant date in US chart history.
