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Billboard Pop Memories: 1945-1949 ()

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Billboard Pop Memories: 1945-1949 - Various Artists
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  1. Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
  2. Maņana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
  3. Heartaches
  4. The Old Lamplighter
  5. My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
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  1. Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
  2. Maņana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
  3. Heartaches
  4. The Old Lamplighter
  5. My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
  6. The Gypsy
  7. Buttons and Bows
  8. Rumors Are Flying
  9. Cruising Down the River
  10. Sentimental Journey
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As the 1940s wore on, the end of the big band/swing era resulted in changes on the pop music horizon. This fourth disc in Rhino's latest pre-rock series, Billboard Pop Memories: 1945-1949 shows how sophisticated, jazzy fare declined, and forgettable, novelty numbers reigned. Peggy Lee's "Maņana," with its phony Afro-Latin vocal and exaggerated rhythms, Dinah Shore's "Buttons and Bows," and Frankie Carle's "Rumors Are Flying" were symptomatic of the lightweight lyrical fare that dominated the era's popular music. The CD also ...

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