scored 20 consecutive Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965, all but the last of them on the label. This compilation presents 16 of the first 17 of those hits (missing is the 1963 Christmas song ), from the 1960 gold-seller to the 1964 chart-topper with 's seven other Top Ten hits of the era in between. Technically, a few of 's singles of 1965 and 1966 did a little better in the charts than a few of the ones here, and, of course, he scored a final, posthumous Top Ten hit with on in 1989. But this collection presents the music from the hottest part of his career in chronological order, with standards like sharing space with lesser, but still worthy songs like Aficionados know 's works, and his later recordings earned him a new audience, but the hit singles of the early '60s are what he is best remembered for, and they're all here. ~ William Ruhlmann