This 4CD set continues Acrobat’s celebration of the biggest US country hits of each year, and fills in a gap in the series at the start of the 1960s.
Containing 114 tracks, this is a solid overview of the most popular country music in 1960. Despite the fact that the pop landscape had been transformed over the preceding years by rock ’n’ roll and its aftermath, the charts still had a familiar look about them for country fans, with many traditional established country stars well-represented.
Artists like Ernest Tubb, Webb Pierce, Hank Snow, Hank Thompson, Kitty Wells and Ray Price appear alongside some hot new kids on the block like Buck Owens, Roy Drusky, and Jimmy Dean, along with some highly collectable obscurities among the many one-hit wonders.
It includes an in-depth 12,000+ word booklet with background notes on every record.
| Disc 1 |
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
| 1 |
I'm Movin' On |
Don Gibson |
| 2 |
Money To Burn |
George Jones |
| 3 |
Amigo's Guitar |
Kitty Wells |
| 4 |
Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) |
The Browns |
| 5 |
Are You Willing, Willie |
Marion Worth |
| 6 |
I Didn't Mean To Fall In Love |
Hank Thompson & The Brazos Valley Boys |
| 7 |
Face To The Wall |
Faron Young |
| 8 |
Riverboat |
Faron Young |
| 9 |
Dead Or Alive |
Bill Anderson |
| 10 |
He'll Have To Go |
Jim Reeves |
| 11 |
No Love Have I |
Webb Pierce |
| 12 |
Mary Don't You Weep |
Stonewall Jackson |
| 13 |
The One You Slip Around With |
Jan Howard |
| 14 |
Riverboat Gambler |
Jimmie Skinner |
| 15 |
Straight A's In Love |
Johnny Cash |
| 16 |
The Bottle Or Me |
Connie Hall |
| 17 |
The Prison Song |
Curly Putman |
| 18 |
Georgia Town Blues |
Mel Tillis & Bill Phillips |
| 19 |
Timbrook |
Lewis Pruitt |
| 20 |
Nobody's Darling But Mine |
Johnny Sea |
| 21 |
I Love You Because |
Johnny Cash |
| 22 |
Crying My Heart Out Over You |
Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs And The Foggy Mountain Boys |
| 23 |
You're The Only Good Thing (That's Happened To Me) |
George Morgan |
| 24 |
Wishful Thinking |
Wynn Stewart |
| 25 |
Another (Just Like Me) |
Roy Drusky |
| 26 |
Trouble In The Amen Corner |
Archie Campbell |
| 27 |
Am I That Easy To Forget? |
Skeeter Davis |
| 28 |
Family Bible |
Claude Gray |
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| Disc 2 |
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
| 1 |
Until Today |
Elmer Snodgrass And The Musical Pioneers |
| 2 |
I Miss You Already |
Jimmy Newman |
| 3 |
Just One More Time |
Don Gibson |
| 4 |
Big Iron |
Marty Robbins |
| 5 |
Sink The Bismarck |
Johnny Horton |
| 6 |
The Old Lamplighter |
The Browns |
| 7 |
Rockin', Rollin' Ocean |
Hank Snow |
| 8 |
A Six Pack To Go |
Hank Thompson |
| 9 |
Life Of A Poor Boy |
Stonewall Jackson |
| 10 |
Please Help Me I'm Falling |
Hank Locklin |
| 11 |
(Doin' The) Lovers Leap |
Webb Perce |
| 12 |
Why I'm Walkin' |
Stonewall Jackson |
| 13 |
Smiling Bill McCall |
Johnny Cash |
| 14 |
Accidentally On Purpose |
George Jones |
| 15 |
One More Time |
Ray Price |
| 16 |
Seasons Of My Heart |
Johnny Cash |
| 17 |
Is It Wrong (For Loving You) |
Webb Pierce |
| 18 |
Johnny, My Love (Grandma's Diary) |
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper |
| 19 |
Who Will Buy The Wine |
Charlie Walker |
| 20 |
Lonesome Road Blues |
Jimmie Skinner |
| 21 |
Above And Beyond |
Buck Owens |
| 22 |
Your Old Used To Be |
Faron Young |
| 23 |
Jenny Lou |
Sonny James |
| 24 |
Left To Right |
Kitty Wells |
| 25 |
He'll Have To Stay |
Jeanne Black |
| 26 |
The Key's In The Mailbox |
Freddie Hart |
| 27 |
Too Much To Lose |
Carl Belew |
| 28 |
Each Moment (Spent With You) |
Ernest Ashworth |
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| Disc 3 |
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
| 1 |
The Ballad Of Wild River |
Gene Woods |
| 2 |
(Little Angel) Come Rock Me To Sleep |
Ted Self |
| 3 |
Mule Skinner Blues |
The Fendermen |
| 4 |
I'm A Honky Tonk Girl |
Loretta Lynn |
| 5 |
Everybody's Somebody's Fool |
Connie Francis |
| 6 |
Softly And Tenderly (I'll Hold You In My Arms) |
Lewis Pruitt |
| 7 |
A Lovely Work Of Art |
Jimmy Newman |
| 8 |
That's My Kind Of Love |
Marion Worth |
| 9 |
The Picture |
Ray Godfrey |
| 10 |
This Old Town (Is Such A Lonely Place) |
Buddy Paul |
| 11 |
I Know One |
Jim Reeves |
| 12 |
Miller's Cave |
Hank Snow |
| 13 |
The Long Walk |
Bill Leatherwood |
| 14 |
But You Used To |
Laverne Downs |
| 15 |
I'm Getting Better |
Jim Reeves |
| 16 |
The Tip Of My Fingers |
Bill Anderson |
| 17 |
Out Of Control |
George Jones |
| 18 |
Anymore |
Roy Drusky |
| 19 |
Far, Far Away |
Don Gibson |
| 20 |
Second Honeymoon |
Johnny Cash |
| 21 |
Ev'rybody's Somebody's Fool |
Ernest Tubb |
| 22 |
Imitation Of Love |
Adrian Roland |
| 23 |
Heart To Heart Talk |
Bob Wills (Tommy Duncan) |
| 24 |
Hot Rod Lincoln |
Charlie Ryan And The Timberline Riders |
| 25 |
(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too |
Skeeter Davis |
| 26 |
Drifting Texas Sand |
Webb Pierce |
| 27 |
She's Just A Whole Lot Like You |
Hank Thompson |
| 28 |
Cruel Love |
Lou Smith |
| 29 |
Carmel By The Sea |
Kitty Wells |
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| Disc 4 |
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| Track |
Title |
Artist |
| 1 |
This Old Heart |
Bobby Barnett |
| 2 |
Reasons To Live |
Jimmie Skinner |
| 3 |
This Ole House |
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper |
| 4 |
Broken Dream |
Jimmy Smart |
| 5 |
The Poison In Your Hand |
Connie Hall |
| 6 |
I Don't Believe I'll Fall In Love Today |
Warren Smith |
| 7 |
It's Not Wrong |
Connie Hall |
| 8 |
There's Not Any Like You Left |
Faron Young |
| 9 |
I Can't Run Away From Myself |
Ray Price |
| 10 |
Lonely River Rhine |
Bobby Helms |
| 11 |
I've Got A Right To Know |
Buck Owens |
| 12 |
I Wish You Love |
Billy Walker |
| 13 |
This Old Broken Heart |
Skeets McDonald |
| 14 |
Wings Of A Dove |
Ferlin Husky |
| 15 |
Let's Think About Living |
Bob Luman |
| 16 |
Here I Am Drunk Again |
Clyde Beavers |
| 17 |
Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache) |
Buck Owens |
| 18 |
Before This Day Ends |
George Hamilton IV |
| 19 |
Wanting You With Me Tonight |
Jimmy Newman |
| 20 |
I Wish I Could Fall In Love Today |
Ray Price |
| 21 |
You Can't Pick A Rose In December |
Ernest Ashworth |
| 22 |
The Moon Is Crying |
Alan Riddle |
| 23 |
A Little Guy Called Joe |
Stonewall Jackson |
| 24 |
A World So Full Of Love |
Ray Sanders With The Anita Kerr Singers |
| 25 |
Am I Losing You |
Jim Reeves |
| 26 |
I Missed Me |
Jim Reeves |
| 27 |
Fallen Angel |
Webb Pierce |
| 28 |
I Think I Know |
Marion Worth |
| 29 |
Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On |
The Browns |
