Various Artists - America's Greatest Hits 1949

This 103-track 4-CD set comprises just about every record which peaked in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best Sellers and Cash Box charts during 1949. For reasons of space, it excludes some

records were still in the chart at the start of the year, but which peaked in the Top 15 in 1948, and so will be included in the forthcoming 1948 collection.

Disc 1:
1) Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) - Sammy Kaye & The Three Kaydets ()
2) So Tired - Russ Morgan ()
3) Buttons and Bows - Betty Rhodes ()
4) A Little Bird Told Me - Evelyn Knight & The Stardusters ()
5) Far Away Places - Margaret Whiting & The Crew Chiefs ()
6) Powder Your Face With Sunshine - Evelyn Knight & The Stardusters ()
7) Far Away Places - Bing Crosby ()
8) Sweet Georgia Brown - Brother Bones & His Shadows ()
9) By the Way - Perry Como ()
10) Far Away Places - Perry Como ()
11) I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Les Brown ()
12) Galway Bay - Bing Crosby ()
13) The Pussy Cat Song (Nyow! Nyow! Nyow!) - Patty Andrews & Bob Crosby ()
14) Lavender Blue - Dinah Shore ()
15) Cruising Down the River - Blue Barron and His Orchestra ()
16) Red Roses for a Blue Lady - Vaughn Monroe ()
17) Powder Your Face With Sunshine - Sammy Kaye & The Three Kaydets ()
18) I Love You So Much It Hurts - The Mills Brothers ()
19) Careless Hands - Sammy Kaye & The Three Kaydets ()
20) Cruising Down the River - Russ Morgan & The Skylarks ()
21) Here I'll Stay - Jo Stafford ()
22) So in Love - Gordon MacRae ()
23) Down By the Station - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra ()
24) You, You, You Are the One - The Ames Brothers ()
25) Forever and Ever - Russ Morgan & The Skylarks ()
26) Forever and Ever - Perry Como ()

Disc 2:
1) Sunflower - Russ Morgan & The Skylarks ()
2) Red Roses for a Blue Lady - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians with Don Rodney ()
3) Careless Hands - Mel Tormé ()
4) Sunflower - Jack Fulton ()
5) 'A' You're Adorable - Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae ()
6) Need You - Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae ()
7) 'A' You're Adorable - Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters ()
8) Clancy Lowered the Boom - Dennis Day ()
9) Cruising Down the River - Jack Smith & The Clark Sisters ()
10) Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe ()
11) Again - Gordon Jenkins & Joe Draydon Chorus ()
12) I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore - The Stardusters ()
13) Once in Love With Amy - Ray Bolger ()
14) All Right Louie, Drop the Gun - Cass Daley ()
15) Comme Ci, Comme Ca - Tony Martin ()
16) Again - Mel Tormé ()
17) Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como ()
18) Baby, It's Cold Outside - Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer ()
19) Again - Vic Damone ()
20) Bali Ha'i - Perry Como ()
21) A Wonderful Guy - Margaret Whiting ()
22) Some Enchanted Evening - Bing Crosby ()
23) Room Full of Roses - Sammy Kaye & The Three Kaydets ()
24) Four Winds and the Seven Seas - Sammy Kaye & Tony Alamo Choir ()
25) You're Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone ()

Disc 3:
1) Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dinah Shore ()
2) Merry Go Round Waltz - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians with Kenny Gardner ()
3) I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore - Perry Como ()
4) Kiss Me Sweet - Kitty Kallen ()
5) How It Lies, How It Lies - Connie Haines ()
6) The Huckle-buck - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra ()
7) Room Full of Roses - Dick Haymes ()
8) Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Benny Strong & His Orchestra ()
9) Blue Skirt Waltz - Frankie Yankovic & His Yanks with The Marlin Sisters ()
10) The Huckle Buck - Frank Sinatra ()
11) Jealous Heart - Al Morgan ()
12) Maybe It's Because - Dick Haymes ()
13) Baby, It's Cold Outside - Don Cornell & Laura Leslie ()
14) Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) - Vaughn Monroe ()
15) Lover's Gold - Dinah Shore ()
16) Room Full of Roses - Eddy Howard ()
17) You're So Understanding - Evelyn Knight ()
18) Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes - Eddy Howard ()
19) Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk - Perry Como ()
20) My Bolero - Vic Damone ()
21) That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine ()
22) You're Breaking My Heart - The Ink Spots ()
23) Twenty-four Hours of Sunshine - Art Mooney and his Orchestra ()
24) Some Enchanted Evening - Ezio Pinza ()
25) I Love You (Just One Way to Say) - Perry Como ()
26) Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely ()

Disc 4:
1) Whispering Hope - Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae ()
2) Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) - The Mills Brothers ()
3) I Never See Maggie Alone - Kenny Roberts ()
4) Don't Cry, Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go) - Gordon Jenkins & Betty Brewer ()
5) (Where Are You) Now That I Need You - Doris Day with The Mellomen ()
6) Dance of the Hours - Spike Jones & Doodles Weaver ()
7) Circus - Tony Martin ()
8) You're Breaking My Heart - Buddy Clark ()
9) Give Me Your Hand - Perry Como ()
10) Hop-scotch Polka (Scotch Hot) - Guy Lombardo & Kenny Gardner Trio ()
11) That Lucky Old Sun - Vaughn Monroe ()
12) A Dreamer's Holiday - Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters ()
13) Mule Train - Frankie Laine & The Muleskinners ()
14) I'll Never Slip Around Again - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely ()
15) Dime a Dozen - Sammy Kaye ()
16) I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts - Freddy Martin & His Orchestra ()
17) Toot Toot Tootsie (Goodbye) - Art Mooney and his Orchestra ()
18) Mule Train - Vaughn Monroe ()
19) Canadian Capers - Doris Day ()
20) Mule Train - Tennessee Ernie Ford ()
21) I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas - Yogi Yorgesson ()
22) Charley, My Boy - The Andrews Sisters ()
23) Way Back Home - Bing Crosby ()
24) Yingle Bells - Yogi Yorgesson ()
25) I Wanna Go Home With You - Perry Como ()
26) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - The Andrews Sisters ()