American Music Library: The Hits Of 1962 (4 CD)
Surveying America's Pop, R&B and Country Hits of 1962 The Hits Of 1962 is the latest volume of our popular American Music Library series. It includes all the American Top 10 hits that weren't hits in Britain, any number ones on the R&B and C&W charts that didn't make the Top 10 on the Hot 100, nor were hits in the UK, as well as a selection of the Hot 100 hits that didn't make the US Top 10, nor the British charts. America took no notice when Parlophone Records in Britain issued 'Love Me Do' by The Beatles in October 1962. Across the water that year it was business as usual and when all the figures were added up, RCA Victor came out as the label with the most hit singles that year, with the Liberty label as runner-up and three majors, Columbia, Decca and Mercury tie-ing for third place. America's teenagers were still dancing, thanks to a steady supply of dance crazes, mainly emanating from Philadelphia's Cameo and Parkway labels and in Detroit Berry Gordy was in the early stages of formulating his Sound of Young America at his Tamla-Motown-Gordy stable of labels. Because of the amount of chart action in the Hot 100 in 1962, we have had to expand our coverage of 'The Hits Of 1962' from the 90-track 3CD set of previous instalments in this series, to a whopping 120-track 4CD set, featuring: All 55 US Pop 10 hits from 1962 that didn't make the UK chart; All 8 additional US Country and R&B chart-toppers that evaded the US Pop Top 10 (and again didn't make the UK charts); A generous 57-track selection of further hits from the US Pop Hot 100, none of which made the UK charts. With an expanded booklet annotated by compiler Austin Powell, 'American Music Library: The Hits Of 1962' offers a fascinating overview of the world's biggest record-buying market of the time...
Various  (Artist)    Format: Audio CD
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