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.