This 95-track 4-CD collection comprises every record that featured in the Your Hit Parade chart during 1938

One of Acrobat's most popular and successful series are the America's Greatest Hits collections - 4-CD sets featuring the biggest hits from the Billboard charts from 1940, when the Billboard record sales chart was launched, through to 1962. However, before the Billboard chart was first published, the popular US weekly radio show Your Hit Parade, sponsored by Lucky Strike, began producing a chart in 1935, which was sometimes a Top 10, sometimes a Top 15, so we decided to take the America's Greatest Hits format back into the Your Hit Parade era of the 1930s. This 95-track 4-CD collection comprises every record that featured in the Your Hit Parade chart during 1938. It was a varied musical landscape, with the big swing orchestras like those of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman making their mark, though often with middle-of-the-road vocal performances rather than jazzy pieces, although there's plenty of hot stuff here too, from Duke Ellington, Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald and Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey. Along with them are the big dance bands who were popular on radio, including Guy Lombardo, Shep Fields, Larry Clinton, Horace Heidt, all with their featured vocalists, who included fine singers like Martha Tilton, Helen Forrest and Bea Wain, plus some of the top solo singers of the era, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Rudy Vallee and Fred Astaire among them, competing with each other as they recorded the future classics of the Great American Songbook that were coming out of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley. It's an enjoyable and fascinating musical snapshot of the era, complete with a 12,000 word booklet with notes on each track, and full discographical and chart information.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. - Once In A While
• Swing & Sway With Sammy Kaye - Rosalie
• Fred Astaire - Nice Work If You Can Get It
• Benny Goodman Orch. - Bob White
• Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn Patrol - You're A Sweetheart
• Bing Crosby - There's A Goldmine In The Sky
• Larry Clinton Orch. - True Confession
• Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - Vieni, Vieni
• Teddy Wilson & His Orch. - You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - If It's The Last Thing I Do
• Andrews Sisters - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
• Russ Morgan & His Orch. - I Double Dare You
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - The Dipsy Doodle
• Horace Heidt & Huis Musical Knights - Sweet Someone
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. - In The Still Of The Night
• Benny Goodman Orch. - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Heart
• Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm - Mama That Moon Is Here Again
• Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm - Whistle While You Work
• Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm - Thanks For The Memory
• Artie Shaw & His New Music - Goodnight Angel
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - I Can Dream Can't I
• Horace Heidt & Huis Musical Knights - Sweet As A Song
• Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - I See Your Face Before Me
• Red Norvo & His Orchestra With Mildred Bailey - Please Be Kind

Disc 2:

• Horace Heidt (Lysbeth Hughes) - Ti-Pi-Tin
• Horace Heidt & Huis Musical Knights - Heigh-Ho
• Larry Clinton Orch. - You're An Education
• Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Let's Sail To Dreamland
• Benny Goodman Orch. - It's Wonderful
• Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - How'd Ja Like To Love Me
• Swing & Sway With Sammy Kaye - Love Walked In
• Larry Clinton Orch. - Always And Always
• Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - I Fall In Love With You Every Day
• Fats Waller And His Rhythm - I Love To Whistle
• Bing Crosby - On The Sentimental Side
• Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - At A Perfume Counter
• Benny Goodman Orch. - Don't Be That Way
• Larry Clinton Orch. - Cry Baby Cry
• Hudson-DeLange Orch - Sunday In The Park
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - You Couldn't Be Cuter
• Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm - Cathedral In The Pines
• Duke Ellington - I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
• Horace Heidt & Huis Musical Knights - Love Light In The Starlight
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - Bewildered
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - You Leave Me Breathless
• Red Norvo & His Orchestra - Says My Heart
• Bing Crosby - Let Me Whisper
• Tommy Dorsey (Edythe Wright) - Music, Maestro, Please
• Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - Oh Ma Ma

Disc 3:

• Horace Heidt & Huis Musical Knights - This Time It's Real
• Horace Heidt & Huis Musical Knights - My Marguerita
• Larry Clinton Orch. - I Married An Angel
• Slim & Slam - Flat Foot Floogey
• Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - Day Dreaming
• Ray Noble & His Orch. with Tony Martin - I Hadn't Anyone Till You
• Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Little Lady Make Believe
• Sammy Kaye Orch. - When They Played The Polka
• Vincent Lopez & His Orch. - There's Honey On The Moon
• Bing Crosby - When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby
• Hal Kemp & His Orch. - Where In The World
• Billie Holiday & Her Orch. - I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key)
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - Now It Can Be Told
• Chick Webb & His Orchestra - A-Tisket, A Tasket
• Larry Clinton Orch. - You Go To My Head
• Benny Goodman Orch. - What Goes On In My Heart
• Bing Crosby - I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - Stop Beatin' Around The Mulberry Bush
• Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra - So Help Me (If I Don't Love You)
• Benny Goodman Orch. - I've Got A Date With A Dream
• Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell - Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Horace Heidt & Huis Musical Knights - Tu-Li Tulip Time
• Jan Garber and his Orch - Bambina

Disc 4:

• Fred Astaire - Change Partners
• Russ Morgan & Jimmy Lewis - Lambeth Walk
• Ozzie Nelson & His Orch. - At Long Last Love
• Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer - Small Fry
• Buddy Rogers & His Famous Swing Band - While A Cigarette Was Burning
• Larry Clinton Orch. - Heart And Soul
• Larry Clinton Orch. - My Reverie
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - My Own
• Swing And Sway with Sammy Kaye - All Ashore
• Larry Clinton Orch. - Summer Souvenirs
• Larry Clinton Orch. - Who Blew Out The Flame
• Richard Himber & His Rhythmic Pyramids Orch. - Day After Day
• Fats Waller And His Rhythm - Two Sleepy People
• Red Norvo & His Orchestra With Mildred Bailey - Have You Forgotten So Soon
• Artie Shaw & His Orch. - Deep In A Dream
• Mills Brothers - Sixty Seconds Get Together
• Bing Crosby - You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
• Benny Goodman Orch. - This Can't Be Love
• Al Donahoe & His Orchestra - Jeepers Creepers
• Eddy Duchin & His Orch. - (Don't Wait Till) The Night Before Christmas 
• Benny Goodman Orch. - What Have You Got That Gets Me
• Andy Kirk & His Clouds Of Joy - I Won't Tell A Soul
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orch - You Got Me

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Adult Contemporary/MOR

Language: English

Run Time: 288 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/06/26

UPC: 824046719623