Various Artists - Radio Fun-Fifty for the Over Fifties

2008 two CD set. Radio still held sway over TV for most of the 1950s. Fifty musical memories of the time here cover optimistic ballads, instrumentals, relaxed crooning, a touch of Skiffle and some enduring novelty hits. 50 tracks including cuts from Paul Anka, Lonnie Donegan, Patti Page, Bing Crosby, Guy Mitchell, Harry Belafonte and many others. Primo.

1) Putting on the Style (Lonnie Donega
2) Singing the Blues (Tommy Steele)
3) Diana (Paul Anka)
4) Rock-A-Billy (Guy Mitchell)
5) The Green Door (Frankie Vaughan)
6) Love Letters in the Sand (Pat Boone
7) Mary's Boy Child (Harry Belafonte)
8) Tammy (Debbie Reynolds)
9) True Love (Bing Crosby ; Grace Kell
10) Elizabethan Serenade (Ron Goodwin)
11) Kisses Sweeter Than..(Jimmie Rodge
12) Freight Train(C McDewitt/N Whiskey
13) School Days (Don Lang)
14) Poor People of Paris (Winifred Atwe
15) Ying Tong Song (The Goons)
16) Sixteen Tons (Tennessee Ernie Ford)
17) Young Love (Tab Hunter)
18) Last Train to..(Johnny Duncan ; Hi
19) Oh Mein Papa (Eddie Calvert)
20) Bell Bottom Blues (Alma Cogan)
21) Three Coins in the..(Four Aces)
22) Mr Sandman (Chordettes)
23) Secret Love (Doris Day)
24) Happy Wanderer (Obernkirchen Childr
25) Don't Laugh at Me (Norman Wisdom)
26) Que Sera Sera (Doris Day)
27) High Noon (Frankie Laine)
28) Wonderful Copenhagen (Danny Kaye)
29) This Ole House (Rosemary Clooney)
30) Rock ; Roll Waltz (Kay Starr)
31) I'm Walking Behind You (Eddie Fishe
32) How Much Is That Doggie..(Lita Roz
33) Poppa Piccolino (Diana Decker)
34) Theme from Limelight (Fran Chacksfi
35) Tennessee Waltz (Patti Page)
36) Cry (Johnnie Ray)
37) Too Young (Nat King Cole)
38) Be My Love (Mario Lanza)
39) Shrimp Boats (Jo Stafford)
40) Music! Music! Music!(Teresa Brewer
41) Ferryboat Inn (Beverly Sisters)
42) If I Knew You Were..(Eileen Barton
43) Exactly Like You (Bing Crosby)
44) Harry Lime Theme (Anton Karas)
45) A Bushel ; a Peck(P Como/B Hutton)
46) Hey Neighbour (Flanagan ; Allen)
47) The Thing (Phil Harris)
48) Cumberland Gap (Lonnie Donegan)
49) Finger of Suspicion (Dickie Valenti
50) Gone Fishin'(L Armstrong/B Crosby)