The Complete Hit of the Week Recordings, Volume 1

Disc: 1

1. Back In Your Own Back Yard (Hit of the Week Orchestra)[test or prototype record]

2. Tip-Toe Through The Tulips With Me (Don Voorhees Orchestra)[demonstration record]

3. Through (Bert Lown & His Hotel Biltmore Music)

4. Hello Baby (Bert Lown & His Hotel Biltmore Music)

5. My Fate Is In Your Hands (Vincent Lopez Orchestra)

6. My Sweeter Than Sweet (Vincent Lopez Orchestra)[take A]

7. My Sweeter Than Sweet (Vincent Lopez Orchestra)[take B]

8. I'm Following You (Ben Pollack Orchestra)

9. Cryin' For The Carolines (Ben Pollack Orchestra)

10. There's Danger In Your Eyes, Cherie! (Vincent Lopez Orchestra)

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Disc: 2

1. Get Happy (Happy-Rose Orchestra) [not a regular issue]

2. If I Had A Girl Like You (Phil Spitalny's Music)

3. Across The Breakfast Table (Hit of the Week Orchestra)

4. Ro-Ro-Rollin' Along (Hit of the Week Orchestra)

5. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Hit of the Week Orchestra)

6. Cheer Up Good Times Are Comin' (Phil Spitalny's Music)

7. Anchors Aweigh (Phil Spitalny's Music)

8. Singing A Song To The Stars (Hit of the Week Orchestra)

9. Swingin' In A Hammock (Phil Spitalny's Music)

10. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (Hit of the Week Orchestra)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description
They sold on newsstands during the Great Depression for 15 cents and quickly became the best-selling records of the early 1930s: the laminated flexible cardboard records known as "Hit of the Week." Featuring the top songs of the day, performed by some of the most noted jazz and dance musicians (often under pseudonyms), Hit of the Week records provided just that--one hit, once a week--to an American public with hardly a dime to spare but hungry for great music by great artists. Today, you'll find a number of these records all curled up and unplayable at garage sales down the street, but for the first time ever, Archeophone is presenting the complete output of the Durium Company, makers of Hit of the Week records, during its short lifespan.

In collaboration with producer and engineer Doug Benson, and with a great helping hand from the world's top Hit of the Week scholar, Hans Koert, Archeophone's Volume 1 of the Complete Hit of the Week Recordings issues 46 songs on two CDs from that magical year of pop music, 1930. In addition to the regular weekly issues by Hit of the Week from February through October of 1930, this collection presents several extremely rare non-standard-issue advertising and promotional records from the Durium company. So collectors take note! You may have some of these records, but you probably don't have all of them in the pristine shape found here along with the excruciatingly uncommon issues such as "Back in Your Own Back Yard" or "Get Happy" or even "Mysterious Mose." They're all here!

The Complete Hit of the Week Recordings, Volume 1,Various Artists,Archeophone Records,Easy Listening,Nostalgia-Spoken,Pop,V/a Compilations

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