Vinyl Album - Various Artists - 20 Years Of #1 Hits - Columbia

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Various Artists
Title:	20 Years Of #1 Hits
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	KG 32007 / C 32008 / C 32009
Date:	May 1973
Format:	Double LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Johnnie Ray	Cry	Kohlman	Rate
A2	Percy Faith	The Song From Moulin Rouge	W. Engvick, G. Aurie	Rate
A3	Rosemary Clooney	Hey There	Adler, J. Ross	Rate
A4	Tony Bennett	Rags To Riches	Adler, Ross	Rate
A5	Joan Weber	Let Me Go Lover	Hill, L. Carson	Rate
B1	Johnny Mathis	Chances Are	Stillman. Allen	Rate
B2	Guy Mitchell	Singing The Blues	M. Endsley	Rate
B3	Marty Robbins	El Paso	M. Robbins	Rate
B4	Johnny Horton	The Battle Of New Orleans	J. Driftwood	Rate
B5	Jimmy Dean	Big Bad John	J. Dean	Rate
C1	Percy Faith	The Theme From "A Summer Place"	M. Steiner	Rate
C2	Gary Puckett And The Union Gap	Young Girl	J. Fuller	Rate
C3	The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man	Bob Dylan	Rate
C4	Johnny Cash	A Boy Named Sue	Shel Silverstein	Rate
C5	The Byrds	Turn! Turn! Turn!		Rate
D1	Janis Joplin	Me And Bobby McGee	K. Kristofferson, F. Foster	Rate
D2	Blood, Sweat And Tears	And When I Die	L. Nyro	Rate
D3	Lynn Anderson	Rose Garden	J. South	Rate
D4	The Raiders	Indian Reservation	J. D. Loudermilk	Rate
D5	Mac Davis	Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me	M. Davis	Rate

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BB - May 26, 1973 (review)

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W.B.lbl ● 19th Apr 2024		I noticed another #1 missing from this set - Mitch Miller's "The Yellow Rose Of Texas" from 1955. They were also stretching it on "Cry," as: a) its #1 run began at the very end of 1951, and b) it was on OKeh; but its very success led to Johnnie Ray being moved to the main Columbia label for the rest of his time with the company. But even in their consideration of the other two charts in fashioning this, there was something conspicuously absent: Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" (a Cash Box #1 in 1965). Yet that Johnny Mathis' "Chances Are" is on this is also, in a way, a reflection on the "Whitburnization" of chart compilations; it only made #1 on Billboard's "Most Played by Jockeys" chart. And don't get me started on the fake stereo used on the early years' of selections.



W.B.lbl ● 7th Apr 2024		Also . . . noticeably absent from this compilation was Steve Lawrence's "Go Away Little Girl" which made #1 in early '63. Columbia most likely lost the rights to that after he and Eydie Gorme left the label. And one wonders if Paul Simon had veto power, due to the absence of the three #1's he and Art Garfunkel had ("The Sounds Of Silence," "Mrs. Robinson," "Bridge Over Troubled Water"). It also looks like they figured in what made #1 on the Cash Box and/or Record World charts as well as Billboard in compiling this. (It was for the reasons of the label losing the rights to certain masters why Jo Stafford's biggest hit for them - 1952's "You Belong To Me" - was likewise conspicuously absent.)



W.B.lbl ● 1st Apr 2024		We're still waiting here, but on the other side, here's how Pitman laid everything out.



W.B.lbl ● 9th Oct 2016		{Images #1165832, 1165833, 1165836 & 1165842} are all Santa Maria, CA. Terre Haute, IN also did their own typesetting on their pressings. When are we gonna see a Pitman, NJ variant?

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