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Billboard Pop Memories: 1950-1954 ()

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Billboard Pop Memories: 1950-1954 - Various Artists
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  1. Rags to Riches
  2. Tennessee Waltz
  3. The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?)
  4. How High the Moon
  5. You Belong to Me
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  1. Rags to Riches
  2. Tennessee Waltz
  3. The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?)
  4. How High the Moon
  5. You Belong to Me
  6. Cry
  7. Wheel of Fortune
  8. Oh! My Pa-Pa (O Mein Papa)
  9. Come On-A My House
  10. Goodnight Irene
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Rock & roll seemed the farthest thing from anyone's mind during the early '50s. Elaborate, highly arranged songs such as Tony Bennett's "Rags to Riches," Rosemary Clooney's "Come On-A My House" and Kay Starr's "Wheel of Fortune" were the norm, plus the overwrought and frenzied vocals of Eddie Fisher and Johnny Ray & the Four Lads. There were also sentimental tunes by Patti Page and Jo Stafford, and folk from Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra with the Weavers. Only "How High the Moon" by Les Paul & Mary Ford provides any ...

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