Various Artists – The Starday-Mercury Hillbilly Hit Parades

• In 1956, STARDAY RECORDS issued a 16-track LP titled “Hillbilly Hit Parade Volume 1”, which featured George Jones, Leon Payne, Jeanette Hicks, Benny Barnes, Eddie Blank (aka Eddie Noack), Red Hayes and Thumper Jones.
• It included George Jones’ ‘Why Baby Why’ plus cover versions of fifteen other C&W hits, which had appeared on Starday’s budget label, Dixie.
• In 1958, Starday - by now conjoined with MERCURY RECORDS - issued another 16-track LP, also titled “Hillbilly Hit Parade Volume 1”.
• This one featured George Jones, Benny Barnes, Jeanette Hicks, James O’Gwynn, Leon Payne and Earl Aycock, including Jones’ hits ‘Yearning’, ‘Uh, Uh, No’, ‘Just One More’ and ‘Don’t Stop The Music’, and Barnes’ ‘Poor Man’s Riches’.
• The remaining tracks were covers of other recent Country hits.
• Also included are four bonus tracks by Sleepy LaBeef.

Track Listing

1. George Jones - WHY BABY WHY
2. Leon Payne - YOU ARE THE ONE
3. Jeanette Hicks – SEARCHING
4. George Jones - ANY OLD TIME
5. George Jones & Jeanette Hicks - I TAKE THE CHANCE
6. Benny Barnes - CONSCIENCE, I'M GUILTY
7. George Jones - HOLD EVERYTHING
8. Eddie Noack - I WANT YOU, I NEED YOU, I LOVE YOU
9. Leon Payne - CRAZY ARMS
10. George Jones - YOU GOTTA BE MY BABY
11. Benny Barnes - I WALK THE LINE
12. George Jones - SWEET DREAMS
13. Leon Payne - BLACKBOARD OF MY HEART
14. Joe 'Red' Hayes - A SATISFIED MIND
15. George Jones - YES I KNOW WHY
16. Thumper Jones - HEARTBREAK HOTEL
17. Benny Barnes - POOR OLD ME
18. George Jones - SINGING THE BLUES
19. George Jones & Jeanette Hicks – YEARNING
20. Benny Barnes - THERE YOU GO
21. George Jones - UH, UH, NO
22. George Jones - JUST ONE MORE
23. Benny Barnes - TRAIN OF LOVE
24. Benny Barnes - AM I LOSING YOU
25. George Jones - DON'T STOP THE MUSIC
26. Benny Barnes - POOR MAN'S RICHES
27. James O'gwynn - I'M TIRED
28. Leon Payne - YOUNG LOVE
29. George Jones - GONNA COME GET YOU
30. Earl Aycock - THE SAME TWO LIPS
31. Earl Aycock - I'M COMIN' HOME
32. George Jones & Benny Barnes - I'VE GOT A NEW HEARTACHEBonus Tracks
33. Sleepy La Beff - HOME OF THE BLUES
34. Sleepy La Beff - BALLAD OF A TEENAGE QUEEN
35. Sleepy La Beff - THE WAYS OF A WOMAN IN LOVE
36. Sleepy La Beff - GUESS THINGS HAPPEN THAT WAY