Greatest Country Hits of 1953

2008 two CD collection containing 50 of the most popular Country recordings of 1953 by many of the genre's greatest performers. Among the artists who feature on the albums is Hank Williams, who died on New Year's Day of 1953 aged just 29, but who had five posthumous hits during the year, one of them ironically titled "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive". Other well-known Hanks included are Messrs. Thompson, Snow and Locklin, while other big names who got chart outings were Red Foley, Ernest Tubb, Webb Pierce, Marty Robbins, Ferlin Husky, Jean Shepard and Faron Young, as well as the chart debut of Jim Reeves. Acrobat.