1960`s Oldies

Fotis Polymeris is a legendary Greek singer and songwritter who was very popular at the period 1940-1960. He composed and recorded more than 250 songs and knew a huge popularity. His music has influences from the french musette and most of his songs are waltzes and tangos, backed by accordeon. Polymeris' voice is warm and tender, ideal for love ballads. In 1960 he moved to US where he continued his brillant career. This rare album with the title "Good bye my homeland", was released the year he left Greece, with all his greater hits, in a continuous medley. Enjoy a velvet voice in a parade of beautiful songs.

211 tracks, with all her most popular songs ( La Vie en Rose; Milord; Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, etc.), all CDs have picture sleeves and when the images on the spines are arranged together they form a picture of Edith + 84-page booklet in english and french, housed in maroon & gold picture box.

Born in 1935 in Istanbul, Tülay German graduated from Üsküdar American High School in 1965. She appeared for the first time on stage in Ankara and made her name heard as a jazz singer between 1960 and 1962, performing jazz songs for a weekly program on Istanbul Radio.Making “Polyphonic Turkish Pop Music” with Erdem Buri, German was chosen as the “most loved singer by critics” in 1964 at the Balkan Melodies Festival. At the time, she recorded the album “Burçak Tarlası,” widely regarded as the first hit song in Turkish pop music history.German went to Paris in 1966 to make an album and made 10 albums. She also attended radio and television programs and festivals in France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Tunisia, Morocco, the Netherlands and Brazil.One of the Turkish-language albums that she produced in France even won the Charles Cros Academy 1981 Album Grand Award.During the latter years of her career, she made an album titled “Respect for Nâzım Hikmet,” an ode to one Turkey’s greatest-ever poets, and pulled down the curtain on her musical career with a concert in the Netherlands in 1987.

This compilation features everything released by The Hollywood Argyles between 1960-62, including rare 45s and unissued demos, many of which have never previously appeared on CD. The Hollywood Argyles were archetypical one-hit wonders, topping the US charts in 1960 with the multi-million selling, worldwide hit "Alley-Oop", but never quite being able to get a follow-up hit away. As a result, their cash-in LP and subsequent singles have all become huge collectors' items. The Argyles' Main Man, singer/songwriter/producer/entrepreneur Gary Paxton, had earlier been one half of a vocal duo, Skip & Flip, who'd hit the US charts in 1959 with a pair of million-sellers, "It Was I", and "Cherry Pie". Both are included herein as bonus tracks, alongside a handful of Skip & Flip rarities.

Born in Texas, Orbison began singing in a rockabilly and country-and-western band in high school. He was signed by Sam Phillips, of Sun Records, in 1956, but his greatest success came with Monument Records. Soon afterward, Orbison was struck by a number of personal tragedies while his record sales declined. In the 1980s, he experienced a resurgence in popularity through the success of several cover versions of his songs, and in 1988, co-founded the Traveling Wilburys, a rock supergroup with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. He died of a heart attack later that year, at the age of 52. One month later, his song "You Got It" (1989), co-written with Lynne and Petty, was released as a solo single and became his first to break the U.S. Top 10 in twenty-five years.

As adjuncts to our highly popular “America’s Greatest Hits” series of collections for each calendar year in the 50s and early ‘60s, we have already produced collections based on landmark moments in the Billboard charts – “The First Top 100 Nov. 1955” (ACQCD7062), “The First Hot 100 Aug. 1958” (ACQCD7083), “The First Hot 100 of the '60s” (ACQCD7097), “The 'Heartbreak Hotel' Top 100” (ACQCD7122)and “The Day The Music Died - Feb 3rd 1959 Hot 100” (ACQCD7134) and “The 'Telstar' Hot 100 December 22nd 1962” (ACQCD7144) each comprising the records in the Top 100 for the date in question. This collection celebrates a notable chart event of January 1962, namely when Chubby Checker’s record “The Twist” topped the US pop charts for the second time, signalling the approaching peak of the worldwide Twist dance craze – he had first made No.1 well over a year earlier, in September 1960, since which time the dance had started to catch on all round the world.