You can wallow for hours and hours listening to the 240 recordings in this box that presents one musical hit after the other. That is in fact the meaning of the word hit: a song that hits it off with the public and so becomes a selling success. And that goes for most of the records in this collection; when they were first issued these hits were available as vinyl singles that our (grand)parents in those days had to buy with their pocket money - no-one could have imagined the gratis downloading of music from a world-wide-web, at a time when radio still played an important part at home. These 12 CDs bring together stars known world-wide, such as Caterina Valente, as well as lesser known artists - who can still remember Lieselotte Malkowsky or Detlev Lais? These rarities can now once again be heard, ranging from swinging boogie to sentimental loves songs, and with popular foreign singers in the German music business such as Connie Francis, Siw Malmkvist, Eddie Constantine and Vico Torriani. Hit songs always reflected the current trends and so after world war 2 there were numerous songs that took as their subject the longing for carefree holidays in distant lands: Lass uns träumen vom Lago Maggiore (''Let s dream of Lago Maggiore'') by Rudi Schuricke, or Wo die Südsee rauscht (''Where the South seas whisper'') by Hula Hawaiian Quartet. Peter Alexander and other singers catered for a few minutes of an ideal (Hit-) world. They, for reasons of simplicity and commercial success often sang Engish-language hits with substituted German words, for instance Ted Herold with Hula Rock. The majority of the evergreens in this box lend themselves to singing, or at least, humming along, because they were heard on the radio on innumerable occasions and for many listeners will reawaken memories of their youth. Here is a sequene of 240 hits in the best sound quality and with a guaranteed nostalgia factor built in.