Tracks Disc 1 Don't Be Cruel Get a Job Kansas City Singing the Blues Chances Are The Happy Organ The Battle of New Orleans The Rock & Roll Waltz Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) Cry Let Me Go Lover Heartaches by the Number Disc 2 (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock At the Hop That'll Be the Day It's Only Make Believe Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Young Love April Love It's All in the Game Love Is a Many Splendored Thing Tammy Sh-Boom The Purple People Eater Stagger Lee Twilight Time Hearts of Stone Love Letters in the SandProduct Details Release Date:02/27/2007Label:Madacy RecordsUPC:0628261260423catalogNumber:52604 Overview Featuring hit tracks that range from Perry Como ("Hot Diggity") to Dave "Baby" Cortez (the implausibly irresistible "The Happy Organ") and Lloyd Price ("Stagger Lee"), with stops along the way for Johnnie Ray ("Cry"), Elvis ("Don't Be Cruel"), and Sheb Wooley (the really, really implausible and not so irresistible "The Purple People Eater"), this two-disc set reflects an era when radio was not yet micro-directing its playlists and almost any song imaginable from any genre at all had at least a fighting chance of breaking out as a hit. Today's music radio formats, although the industry swears by diversity, are far more insular and isolating than pop radio was in the 1950s, when a country song might be followed by an R&B song or a straight pop ballad, and then of course, a novelty hit like "The Purple People Eater." Music radio in the 1950s wasn't always pretty, but it was diverse, and the listening audience was just that, a collective audience, and not portioned off into isolated population segments according to musical preference.