Various Artists - America's Greatest Hits 1946 (Various Artists)We continue our popular and successful series devoted to the biggest chart records of each calendar year in the early chart era as we focus on 1946, the sixth full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart the chart was launched in July 1940 and the second year to feature both a Most Played in Juke Boxes and Most Played by Disc Jockeys charts as well. This great value 98 track 4 CD set comprises every record which peaked in the Top 10 of the

composer and producer

and a significant proponent of the idea of collective improvisation

although his periods of active recording were somewhat erratic

also appreciated the violin virtuoso at the time and brought Biber to his court

discovering that slide guitar techniques are ideally suited to the microtonal inflections and disarmingly vocal-like melodic cadences of Hindustani forms

the music of Debashish Bhattacharya has astonished and moved listeners since he first unveiled his unprecedented concept of Hindustani slide guitar in the late 1970s

Nicki Parrott

Junior Mance

wear you down and frazzle your nerves to shattered fragments of jangled exhaustion'

composer and bandleader

Magnifique

Dean Martin and Gene Pitney