VA - R&B Chartmakers With A Difference (2017)

Apart from a two year break during the mid-60s, Billboard magazine has published a chart reflecting the record buying habits of black Americans for over 70 years. Throughout the last 50 of those years, its content has predominately featured soul, hip hop, blues and r&b. However during the first 20, Billboard's r&b chart also featured the pop, MOR and rock 'n' roll records that were crossing over to black audiences. Those early charts have always made for fascinating reading - and now, for the first time, they make for a fascination listening tool! 'R&B Chartmakers…With a Difference' offers more than two dozen classic non-r&b hits that appealed to white and black record buyers alike in the USA between 1955 and 1962.

Track List:

1. Duane Eddy - Ramrod
2. Eddie Cochran - Sittin' In The Balcony
3. Bruce Channel - Hey Baby
4. Sanford Clark - The Fool
5. Pat Boone - At My Front Door
6. The Everly Brothers - Devoted To You
7. Gino & Gina - Pretty Baby (It's Been A Long Time)
8. The Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry
9. Carl Dobkins Jr - My Heart Is An Open Book
10. The Diamonds - The Stroll
11. The Chordettes - Lollipop
12. Brenda Lee - That's All You Gotta Do
13. Jimmie Rodgers - Secretly
14. Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra - So Rare
15. Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps - Lotta Lovin'
16. Art & Dotty Todd - Chanson D'Amour
17. Bill Parsons And His Orchestra - The All American Boy
18. Miss Toni Fisher - The Big Hurt
19. Freddy Cannon - Palisades Park
20. Edd Byrnes & Connie Stevens - Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)
21. The Four Preps - 26 Miles (Santa Catalina)
22. Boyd Bennett And His Rockets - My Boy Flat Top
23. Dion And The Belmonts - Where Or When
24. Guy Mitchell - Singing The Blues
25. Martin Denny - Quiet Village
26. Fabian - Tiger
27. Billy Grammer - Gotta Travel On
28. Jan & Arnie - Jennie Lee