This disc completed my "Your Hit Parade" CD collection -- marvelously!
As a life-long music collector, I found that there were precious few across-the-board labels I could recommend.<br />Very high on that list, the now ancient Time-Life compilations released on CD.<br /><br />I own quite a number of complete collections from them, most of it music I'd heard on the radio growing up in the 1950s & '60s and later began amassing on disc (45s, LPs), tape (8-track cartridges, open reels, cassettes) and finally on optical discs.<br /><br />While the bulk of my collection was music for the 2nd half of the 20th century, I'd heard a great deal of music from the first half -- via family fondness for music of THEIR lives -- as played on piano, phonograph records and even sung to me while still a toddler.<br />Thus adding Time-Life's "Your Hit Parade" was both a journey of new discovery and of partial reminiscence.<br /><br />It took a number of years to complete the set and how altogether fitting that "#1 Hits Of The '40s" was the final disc I needed -- and found, here on AMAZON -- with such ever memorable tunes as<br />"Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree"<br />"Besame Mucho"<br />"Chattanooga Choo Choo"<br />"Sentimental Journey"<br />"Riders in the Sky"<br />"Mairzy Doats"<br /><br />Those are only a few of the 36 songs on this 2-disc set, all of it transferred with the impeccable quality expected of the Time-Life producers who began releasing the "Your Hit Parade" series in 1988.<br /><br />Wistfully, I wonder how much appreciated it might have been had the many now-deceased relatives been given the opportunity to hear these delightful selections in such a great format?<br />That is, not on the worn, cracked, skip-prone, 78rpm relics THEY collected and which still survive them.
Rating: 5 stars