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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 2, 2019 0:53:47 GMT 1
Yes, I said this was coming. I did it slightly different this time to start it off - once I'd compiled a list of 35 songs that were in the UK or US chart at the start of 1956, I worked back chronologically to when they had entered the chart and put them in 7 lists of 5 songs.
I then created a blank chart of 19 November 1955 of all placeholders with all non-movers and then ran the songs into the chart over the next 7 weeks.
I am going to pick up on the 6th of these weeks so the first chart will be
31 December 1955.
1 ( 1 ) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton 3 ( 7 ) The Great Pretender - Platters 4 ( 2 ) Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (#2[2]) 5 ( 3 ) Twenty Tiny Fingers - Stargazers (#3)
6 ( 11 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine 7 ( 9 ) Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin 8 ( 5 ) Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams (#2[1]) 9 ( 6 ) I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm (#5) 10 ( 8 ) Only You - Platters (#6)
11 ( 10 ) Cry Me A River - Julie London (#9) 12 ( 13 ) Meet Me On The Corner - Max Bygraves 13 ( 21 ) Rock N Roll Waltz - Kay Starr 14 ( 18 ) Suddenly There's A Valley - Petula Clark 15 ( 12 ) Love And Marriage - Frank Sinatra (#10)
16 ( 17 ) Hawkeye - Frankie Laine 17 ( 24 ) Teen Age Prayer - Gale Storm 18 ( -- ) Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan 19 ( 15 ) Ain't That A Shame - Pat Boone (#11) 20 ( -- ) Dungaree Doll - Eddie Fisher
25 ( -- ) Someone On Your Mind - Jimmy Young -- ( -- ) Are You Satisfied - Rusty Draper -- ( -- ) Angels In The Sky - Crew-Cuts
For the purpose of how this chart is compiled Jimmy Young is #25 this week not #21. The chart is a top 25 but places 21-24 are all the remaining placeholders and they will all go by next week.
Quite a few classics in here too. I'll do a little more on Anne Shelton for the next chart, but we have Bill Haley And His Comets at #1 with Rock Around The Clock for a 5th week. In the UK it reached #1 then fell to let Dickie Valentine's "A Christmas Alphabet" be Christmas #1 of this year. In my chart that doesn't appear but he does appear with "The Old Pianna Rag" which is #6 this week.
2 of the songs here have charted subsequently as cover version - I Hear You Knocking for Dave Edmunds in 1970 and The Great Pretender for Freddie Mercury in 1987. There have also been covers of Only You, Memories Are Made Of This and Cry Me A River, but I didn't chart those.
Freddie Mercury matched the Platters peak of #3 with The Great Pretender. Dave Edmunds fell one short of Gale Storm's #5 peak of I Hear You Knocking by reaching #6.
(Although this might be considered my first formal chart, Gale Storm's single is marked as a #5 hit, as I do have a published chart for 17 December).
Note the song at #2 in my latest retro chart of 1972 by Lindisfarne is a totally different song to the one Max Bygraves is at #12 in the chart here (which reached #2 in the UK chart)
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 2, 2019 22:51:06 GMT 1
7 January 1956:
1 ( 2 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets (#1[5]) 3 ( 3 ) The Great Pretender - Platters 4 ( 6 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine 5 ( 7 ) Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin
6 ( 4 ) Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (#2[2]) 7 ( 5 ) Twenty Tiny Fingers - Stargazers (#3) 8 ( 13 ) Rock N Roll Waltz - Kay Starr 9 ( 18 ) Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan 10 ( 14 ) Suddenly There's A Valley - Petula Clark
11 ( 8 ) Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams (#2[1]) 12 ( 12 ) Meet Me On The Corner - Max Bygraves 13 ( 10 ) Only You - Platters (#6) 14 ( 9 ) I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm (#5) 15 ( 20 ) Dungaree Doll - Eddie Fisher
16 ( 17 ) Teen Age Prayer - Gale Storm 17 ( 11 ) Cry Me A River - Julie London (#9) 18 ( -- ) The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes 19 ( -- ) Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley And His Comets 20 ( 16 ) Hawkeye - Frankie Laine (#16)
21 ( 25 ) Someone On Your Mind - Jimmy Young 22 ( 15 ) Love And Marriage - Frank Sinatra (#10) 23 ( -- ) Pickin' A Chicken - Eve Boswell 24 ( 19 ) Ain't That A Shame - Pat Boone (#11) 25 ( -- ) Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan
-- ( -- ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle
Bill Haley falls from #1 on the same week he gets another entry in the chart. Don't confuse him with Bill Hayes who enters one place higher with a single that will reach #2 in the UK chart, with another version of the same song by Tennessee Ernie Ford at #3. He would have had the #1 and #2 in the UK chart as Sixteen Tons was #1 at this point, but was in the US chart earlier and in my chart peaked at #2. Dean Martin's single was #1 in the US this week, and will reach #1 in the UK too later in 1956.
At #1 though is Anne Shelton and if you look her up on OCC this is her first hit with 3 years of chart history behind in which she didn't have any hits. However the British Hit Singles book of the 1940-1952 credits her with several hits in this period including another #1 (in addition to the one she will have in the UK later).
She, like Vera Lynn, was a popular war-time female singer, and Lili Marlene is credited as UK #1 on 31 July and 7 August 1944.
By the way, as far as I am aware, two of the singers on this chart are still alive. Petula Clark who is 87 and Pat Boone who is 85
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 3, 2019 15:03:47 GMT 1
I have a new playlist but it will be a while until there are more charts. Some classics on the new list, but I may add "Lisbon Antigua" back for one more week as it's less competitive week-by-week than it was in the last week. That's an instrumental track that reached #2 in the USA.
The source for the above was only top 20 hits but I'm going down to #25 for US hits going forward, and the UK chart becomes a top 30 around April but was a top 25 for one week on 30 December 1955 according to OCC, not sure why.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 8, 2019 10:41:31 GMT 1
Next playlist scored up so a few more 1956 charts coming your way in the next few days
14 January 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton < 2nd week at #1 >2 ( 3 ) The Great Pretender - Platters 3 ( 4 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine 4 ( 2 ) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets (#1[5]) 5 ( 5 ) Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin 6 ( 9 ) Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan 7 ( 8 ) Rock N Roll Waltz - Kay Starr 8 ( -- ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller 9 ( 10 ) Suddenly There's A Valley - Petula Clark 10 ( 6 ) Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (#2[2]) 11 ( 7 ) Twenty Tiny Fingers - Stargazers (#3) 12 ( -- ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets 13 ( 18 ) The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes 14 ( 19 ) Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley And His Comets 15 ( 15 ) Dungaree Doll - Eddie Fisher 16 ( 12 ) Meet Me On The Corner - Max Bygraves (#12) 17 ( 11 ) Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams (#2[1]) 18 ( 16 ) Teen Age Prayer - Gale Storm (#16) 19 ( 23 ) Pickin' A Chicken - Eve Boswell 20 ( -- ) Cloudburst - Don Lang 21 ( 13 ) Only You - Platters (#6) 22 ( 21 ) Someone On Your Mind - Jimmy Young (#21) 23 ( 25 ) Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan 24 ( 14 ) I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm (#5) 25 ( -- ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle
-- ( 17 ) Cry Me A River - Julie London (#9) -- ( 20 ) Hawkeye - Frankie Laine (#16) -- ( 22 ) Love And Marriage - Frank Sinatra (#10) -- ( 24 ) Ain't That A Shame - Pat Boone (#11)
It was mentioned in the voting of the 1990s Time Machine the issue of having familiar and non-familiar songs and that is something that has been a consistent feature of my retro charts, as in all the old years I have covered there have been songs I already knew and liked and some I'd never heard of. I'd never heard of "Arrivederci Darling" before and was of course very familiar with many of the others on the list, like The Great Pretender, and yet the former, aided by Anne Shelton's beautiful singing voice, lifted her to the top of the chart. One person I am going to mention now is Dave Bartholomew, who died about 2 months ago aged 100. He wrote and co-wrote many songs, in particular with Fats (Antoine) Domino, whose song "Ain't That A Shame" was in my first chart for Pat Boone, but Fats Domino's original version was also a US top 30 hit in 1955 but didn't reach the UK chart until 1957. If I ever decide to go back even further that could be an issue, as would many of the others that I put into later weeks than the actual ones in which they came out. He also wrote "I Hear You Knocking". That the US music industry or the radio powers made a big issue about the skin colour of the musicians - actually that is something that continued later on when white musicians started making rap - well partly the Beastie Boys, Vanilla Ice and later Eminem, and record companies also tried to persuade Lenny Kravitz to make R&B style music instead of the rock music he wanted to write. Back in 1956 though we had the influence of the blues music into rock and roll and that came mostly from black musicians and we also had Nat King Cole among the crooners who had been popular long before... Of course my chart is entirely based on the sound and not what colour the skin of the musicians is. But Pat Boone doing a Fats Domino cover appeared to be a big issue then, and he also recorded a cover of Tutti Fruitti and Good Golly Miss Molly. But with regards Tutti Frutti I have selected Little Richard's version over his as they are both due to enter the same week. In the US though Pat Boone's version charted higher. Does anybody still play that version?
With regards this week's chart, the highest new entry is very familiar to all. It's the song that goes "Robin Hood Robin Hood riding through the glen, Robin Hood Robin Hood with his band of men.. " etc.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 9, 2019 23:18:34 GMT 1
21 January 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) The Great Pretender - Platters 3 ( 3 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine 4 ( 8 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller 5 ( 6 ) Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan
6 ( 12 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets 7 ( 5 ) Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin (#5) 8 ( 4 ) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets (#1[5]) 9 ( 7 ) Rock N Roll Waltz - Kay Starr (#7) 10 ( 9 ) Suddenly There's A Valley - Petula Clark (#9)
11 ( 13 ) The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes 12 ( 14 ) Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley And His Comets 13 ( 20 ) Cloudburst - Don Lang 14 ( -- ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra 15 ( 10 ) Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (#2[2])
16 ( 15 ) Dungaree Doll - Eddie Fisher (#15) 17 ( 11 ) Twenty Tiny Fingers - Stargazers (#3) 18 ( 19 ) Pickin' A Chicken - Eve Boswell 19 ( 25 ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle 20 ( 16 ) Meet Me On The Corner - Max Bygraves (#12)
21 ( 18 ) Teen Age Prayer - Gale Storm (#16) 22 ( 23 ) Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan 23 ( 17 ) Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams (#2[1]) 24 ( 22 ) Someone On Your Mind - Jimmy Young (#21) 25 ( 21 ) Only You - Platters (#6)
-- ( 24 ) I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm (#5)
Perhaps we should put this down to the start of years often being slow rather than say 1956 will be a very slow moving year for charts, though I'm expecting generally slower movement.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 11, 2019 0:29:22 GMT 1
28 January 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 4 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller 3 ( 2 ) The Great Pretender - Platters (#2[2]) 4 ( 6 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets 5 ( 3 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine (#3)
6 ( 5 ) Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan (#5) 7 ( 14 ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra 8 ( 13 ) Cloudburst - Don Lang 9 ( 7 ) Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin (#5) 10 ( 11 ) The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes
11 ( 12 ) Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley And His Comets 12 ( -- ) Zambesi - Lou Busch 13 ( 9 ) Rock N Roll Waltz - Kay Starr (#7) 14 ( 10 ) Suddenly There's A Valley - Petula Clark (#9) 15 ( -- ) Chain Gang - Bobby Scott
16 ( 8 ) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets (#1[5]) 17 ( 19 ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle 18 ( 18 ) Pickin' A Chicken - Eve Boswell 19 ( 16 ) Dungaree Doll - Eddie Fisher (#15) 20 ( 15 ) Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (#2[2])
21 ( 22 ) Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan 22 ( 17 ) Twenty Tiny Fingers - Stargazers (#3) 23 ( 20 ) Meet Me On The Corner - Max Bygraves (#12) 24 ( 21 ) Teen Age Prayer - Gale Storm (#16) 25 ( 24 ) Someone On Your Mind - Jimmy Young (#21)
-- ( 23 ) Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams (#2[1]) -- ( 25 ) Only You - Platters (#6)
The Lou Busch version of Zambesi is mostly instrumental but the word "Zambesi" itself is sung a few times. Lou Busch had one other UK hit under the name of Johnny Fingers Carr.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 11, 2019 22:51:12 GMT 1
4 February 1956:
1 ( 2 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton (#1[4]) 3 ( 4 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets 4 ( 7 ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra 5 ( 3 ) The Great Pretender - Platters (#2[2])
6 ( 12 ) Zambesi - Lou Busch 7 ( 8 ) Cloudburst - Don Lang 8 ( -- ) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard 9 ( 5 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine (#3) 10 ( 6 ) Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan (#5)
11 ( 15 ) Chain Gang - Bobby Scott 12 ( 10 ) The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes 13 ( 11 ) Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley And His Comets 14 ( 9 ) Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin (#5) 15 ( -- ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter
16 ( 17 ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle 17 ( -- ) My Boy Flat Top - Frankie Vaughan 18 ( 13 ) Rock N Roll Waltz - Kay Starr (#7) 19 ( 18 ) Pickin' A Chicken - Eve Boswell 20 ( 14 ) Suddenly There's A Valley - Petula Clark (#9)
21 ( 21 ) Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan 22 ( 19 ) Dungaree Doll - Eddie Fisher (#15) 23 ( 16 ) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets (#1[5]) 24 ( 20 ) Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (#2[2]) 25 ( 23 ) Meet Me On The Corner - Max Bygraves (#12
-- ( 22 ) Twenty Tiny Fingers - Stargazers (#3) -- ( 24 ) Teen Age Prayer - Gale Storm (#16) -- ( 25 ) Someone On Your Mind - Jimmy Young (#21)
A new number one with the classic Robin Hood theme, and a new entry at #8 by Little Richard that, whilst it has a simple tune and nonsense lyrics, somehow has caught the imagination.
Les Baxter gets the bragging rights for "The Poor People Of Paris". Sorry Winifred Atwell...
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 12, 2019 21:28:32 GMT 1
11 February 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets 3 ( 8 ) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard 4 ( 4 ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra 5 ( -- ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell
6 ( 6 ) Zambesi - Lou Busch 7 ( 2 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton (#1[4]) 8 ( 7 ) Cloudburst - Don Lang (#7) 9 ( 5 ) The Great Pretender - Platters (#2[2]) 10 ( 15 ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter
11 ( 11 ) Chain Gang - Bobby Scott 12 ( 17 ) My Boy Flat Top - Frankie Vaughan 13 ( 9 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine (#3) 14 ( 10 ) Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan (#5) 15 ( 12 ) The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes (#12)
16 ( 16 ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle 17 ( 13 ) Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley And His Comets (#13) 18 ( 14 ) Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin (#5) 19 ( 19 ) Pickin' A Chicken - Eve Boswell 20 ( -- ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts
21 ( 21 ) Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan 22 ( -- ) Lullaby Of Birdland - Blue Stars 23 ( 18 ) Rock N Roll Waltz - Kay Starr (#7) 24 ( -- ) Young And Foolish - Ronnie Hilton 25 ( 22 ) Dungaree Doll - Eddie Fisher (#15)
-- ( 20 ) Suddenly There's A Valley - Petula Clark (#9) -- ( 23 ) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And His Comets (#1[5]) -- ( 24 ) Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (#2[2]) -- ( 25 ) Meet Me On The Corner - Max Bygraves (#12)
Guy Mitchell had quite a few UK hits including some number ones but his highest new entry here wasn't a hit in the UK.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 15, 2019 1:17:52 GMT 1
18 February 1956:
1 ( 5 ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard 4 ( 2 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets (#2[1]) 5 ( -- ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa
6 ( 4 ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra (#4) 7 ( 6 ) Zambesi - Lou Busch (#6) 8 ( 10 ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter 9 ( -- ) Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong 10 ( 12 ) My Boy Flat Top - Frankie Vaughan
11 ( 8 ) Cloudburst - Don Lang (#7) 12 ( 11 ) Chain Gang - Bobby Scott (#11) 13 ( 7 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton (#1[4]) 14 ( 20 ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts 15 ( 9 ) The Great Pretender - Platters (#2[2])
16 ( 22 ) Lullaby Of Birdland - Blue Stars 17 ( 16 ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle (#16) 18 ( 24 ) Young And Foolish - Ronnie Hilton 19 ( 13 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine (#3) 20 ( 15 ) The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes (#12)
21 ( 14 ) Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan (#5) 22 ( -- ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers 23 ( 19 ) Pickin' A Chicken - Eve Boswell (#19) 24 ( 21 ) Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan (#21) 25 ( 17 ) Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley And His Comets (#13)
-- ( 18 ) Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin (#5) -- ( 23 ) Rock N Roll Waltz - Kay Starr (#7) -- ( 25 ) Dungaree Doll - Eddie Fisher (#15)
-- ( -- ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray
Guy Mitchell climbs from the highest entry at #5 to #1 with the rock n rollers that were #2 and #3 last week not getting there. The highest new entry comes in at #5, again an unfamiliar song but this is full swing at its most classic.
The other entries and the one that just missed our are better known though possibly in other versions. Louis Armstrong's version of Mack The Knife will claim the bragging rights. There are a few instrumental versions around of it too. Frankie Lymon is a teenager himself, actually only 13. But he will die I think within about 12 years of a heroin overdose - Diana Ross had a hit cover version of that song in 1981.
"Who's Sorry Now" is a song that dates back to the 1930s and this is an uptempo swing version of it. I may well chart it next week, but I think a slower version with a soft female vocal would work a lot better... We'll have to wait a couple more years for that (though not here as I'm going through these faster than one week per week).
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 15, 2019 1:32:40 GMT 1
At present I am drawing from the UK top 20 because that's all the chart is and the US top 25. The Guy Mitchell song at #1 in my chart peaked only at #23 there, Tutti Frutti at #21 for Little Richard and the Julian LaRosa song at #21. So essentially 3 of the big hits in my chart failed to reach the top 20 in either the UK or USA.
(Frank Sinatra also peaked at #23 in the USA but #2 in the UK with (Love Is The) Tender Trap. Pat Boone's version of Tutti Frutti reached #12 in the USA. Little Richard's version didn't chart in the UK until 1957 then peaked at #29 but Long Tall Sally was a much bigger hit for him).
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 19, 2019 23:35:10 GMT 1
25 February 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 5 ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa 3 ( 9 ) Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong 4 ( 3 ) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard (#3) 5 ( 2 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller (#1[2])
6 ( -- ) Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins 7 ( 4 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets (#2) 8 ( 8 ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter 9 ( 6 ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra (#4) 10 ( 7 ) Zambesi - Lou Busch (#6)
11 ( 10 ) My Boy Flat Top - Frankie Vaughan (#10) 12 ( 14 ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts 13 ( 16 ) Lullaby Of Birdland - Blue Stars 14 ( 12 ) Chain Gang - Bobby Scott (#11) 15 ( 18 ) Young And Foolish - Ronnie Hilton
16 ( 11 ) Cloudburst - Don Lang (#7) 17 ( 22 ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers 18 ( -- ) A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer 19 ( 17 ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle (#16) 20 ( 13 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton (#1[4])
21 ( 15 ) The Great Pretender - Platters (#2[2]) 22 ( -- ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray 23 ( 20 ) The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes (#12) 24 ( 19 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine (#3) 25 ( 23 ) Pickin' A Chicken - Eve Boswell (#19)
-- ( 21 ) Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo - Alma Cogan (#5) -- ( 24 ) Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan (#21) -- ( 25 ) Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley And His Comets (#13)
Some more rock 'n' roll entering the chart, this time with Carl Perkins. This really is rock n roll, compared with a blues song that is due soon. But that blues song is rather good.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 20, 2019 17:50:09 GMT 1
3 March 1956:
1 ( 2 ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell (#1[2]) 3 ( 3 ) Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong 4 ( 6 ) Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins 5 ( -- ) Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
6 ( 4 ) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard (#3) 7 ( 8 ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter 8 ( 5 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller (#1[2]) 9 ( -- ) Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) - Perry Como 10 ( 18 ) A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer
11 ( 7 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets (#2) 12 ( 12 ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts 13 ( 13 ) Lullaby Of Birdland - Blue Stars 14 ( -- ) Bo Weevil - Teresa Brewer 15 ( 9 ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra (#4)
16 ( 11 ) My Boy Flat Top - Frankie Vaughan (#10) 17 ( 15 ) Young And Foolish - Ronnie Hilton (#15) 18 ( -- ) Juke Box Baby - Perry Como 19 ( 10 ) Zambesi - Lou Busch (#6) 20 ( 17 ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers (#17)
21 ( 22 ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray 22 ( 14 ) Chain Gang - Bobby Scott (#11) 23 ( -- ) Eddie My Love - Chordettes 24 ( 16 ) Cloudburst - Don Lang (#7) 25 ( 19 ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle (#16)
-- ( 20 ) Arrivederci Darling - Anne Shelton (#1[4]) -- ( 21 ) The Great Pretender - Platters (#2[2]) -- ( 23 ) The Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes (#12) -- ( 24 ) The Old Pianna Rag - Dickie Valentine (#3) -- ( 25 ) Pickin' A Chicken - Eve Boswell (#19)
Arriverdeci Elvis!
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 22, 2019 0:00:29 GMT 1
10 March 1956:
1 ( 5 ) Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa (#1[1]) 3 ( 4 ) Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins 4 ( 3 ) Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong (#3) 5 ( 2 ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell (#1[2])
6 ( 9 ) Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) - Perry Como 7 ( 10 ) A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer 8 ( 7 ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter (#7) 9 ( 14 ) Bo Weevil - Teresa Brewer 10 ( 6 ) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard (#3)
11 ( 18 ) Juke Box Baby - Perry Como 12 ( 8 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller (#1[2]) 13 ( 12 ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts (#12) 14 ( 13 ) Lullaby Of Birdland - Blue Stars (#13) 15 ( 11 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets (#2)
16 ( 23 ) Eddie My Love - Chordettes 17 ( -- ) Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Slim Whitman 18 ( 17 ) Young And Foolish - Ronnie Hilton (#15) 19 ( 21 ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray 20 ( 16 ) My Boy Flat Top - Frankie Vaughan (#10)
21 ( 15 ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra (#4) 22 ( 20 ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers (#17) 23 ( 19 ) Zambesi - Lou Busch (#6) 24 ( 22 ) Chain Gang - Bobby Scott (#11) 25 ( 25 ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle (#16)
-- ( 24 ) Cloudburst - Don Lang (#7)
Elvis Presley gets to #1 with his blues song Heartbreak Hotel, with Blue Suede Shoes moving up to #3 for Carl Perkins, while Teresa Brewer and Perry Como both have 2 songs in the top 11.
Only one new entry though, and there's only one lined up for next week too.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 22, 2019 21:28:36 GMT 1
17 March 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 3 ) Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins 3 ( 2 ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa (#1[1]) 4 ( 6 ) Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) - Perry Como 5 ( 9 ) Bo Weevil - Teresa Brewer
6 ( 4 ) Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong (#3) 7 ( 7 ) A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer 8 ( 5 ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell (#1[2]) 9 ( 11 ) Juke Box Baby - Perry Como 10 ( 17 ) Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Slim Whitman
11 ( 8 ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter (#7) 12 ( 16 ) Eddie My Love - Chordettes 13 ( 13 ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts (#12) 14 ( 14 ) Lullaby Of Birdland - Blue Stars (#13) 15 ( 10 ) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard (#3)
16 ( 19 ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray 17 ( 12 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller (#1[2]) 18 ( 18 ) Young And Foolish - Ronnie Hilton (#15) 19 ( 15 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets (#2) 20 ( -- ) I Was The One - Elvis Presley
21 ( 20 ) My Boy Flat Top - Frankie Vaughan (#10) 22 ( 21 ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra (#4) 23 ( 22 ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers (#17) 24 ( 23 ) Zambesi - Lou Busch (#6) 25 ( 24 ) Chain Gang - Bobby Scott (#11)
-- ( 25 ) Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle (#16)
Once again a shortage of new songs, the Elvis B-side which charted separately in the USA gets into the chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 25, 2019 23:28:03 GMT 1
With yet a 3rd week of only one new one I have reduced the chart temporarily to a top 20.
24 March 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley < 3rd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins 3 ( 4 ) Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) - Perry Como 4 ( 5 ) Bo Weevil - Teresa Brewer 5 ( 3 ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa (#1[1])
6 ( 10 ) Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Slim Whitman 7 ( 7 ) A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer 8 ( 9 ) Juke Box Baby - Perry Como 9 ( 6 ) Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong (#3) 10 ( 12 ) Eddie My Love - Chordettes
11 ( 8 ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell (#1[2]) 12 ( 20 ) I Was The One - Elvis Presley 13 ( 13 ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts (#12) 14 ( 16 ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray 15 ( 14 ) Lullaby Of Birdland - Blue Stars (#13)
16 ( 11 ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter (#7) 17 ( -- ) (You've Got) The Magic Touch - Platters 18 ( 15 ) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard (#3) 19 ( 17 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller (#1[2]) 20 ( 18 ) Young And Foolish - Ronnie Hilton (#15)
-- ( 19 ) See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets (#2[1]) -- ( 21 ) My Boy Flat Top - Frankie Vaughan (#10) -- ( 22 ) (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra (#4) -- ( 23 ) Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers (#17) -- ( 24 ) Zambesi - Lou Busch (#6) -- ( 25 ) Chain Gang - Bobby Scott (#11)
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 26, 2019 23:08:56 GMT 1
31 March 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley < 4th week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins 3 ( 3 ) Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) - Perry Como 4 ( 4 ) Bo Weevil - Teresa Brewer 5 ( 6 ) Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Slim Whitman
6 ( -- ) Willie Can - Alma Cogan 7 ( 5 ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa (#1[1]) 8 ( 7 ) A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer (#7) 9 ( 8 ) Juke Box Baby - Perry Como (#8) 10 ( 12 ) I Was The One - Elvis Presley
11 ( 10 ) Eddie My Love - Chordettes (#10) 12 ( 17 ) (You've Got) The Magic Touch - Platters 13 ( 9 ) Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong (#3) 14 ( 14 ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray 15 ( 13 ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts (#12)
16 ( -- ) Nothin' To Do - Michael Holliday 17 ( 11 ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell (#1[2]) 18 ( 15 ) Lullaby Of Birdland - Blue Stars (#13) 19 ( 16 ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter (#7) 20 ( 19 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller (#1[2])
-- ( 18 ) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard (#3) -- ( 20 ) Young And Foolish - Ronnie Hilton (#15)
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 2, 2019 23:05:01 GMT 1
7 April 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley < 5th week at #1 > 2 ( 6 ) Willie Can - Alma Cogan 3 ( 2 ) Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins (#2[3]) 4 ( 3 ) Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) - Perry Como (#3) 5 ( 4 ) Bo Weevil - Teresa Brewer (#4)
6 ( 5 ) Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Slim Whitman (#5) 7 ( -- ) Long Tall Sally - Little Richard 8 ( 16 ) Nothin' To Do - Michael Holliday 9 ( 10 ) I Was The One - Elvis Presley 10 ( 12 ) (You've Got) The Magic Touch - Platters
11 ( 7 ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa (#1[1]) 12 ( 8 ) A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer (#7) 13 ( -- ) The Italian Theme - Cyril Stapleton 14 ( 9 ) Juke Box Baby - Perry Como (#8) 15 ( 11 ) Eddie My Love - Chordettes (#10)
16 ( 14 ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray (#14) 17 ( 13 ) Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong (#3) 18 ( 15 ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts (#12) 19 ( -- ) Moonglow - George Cates 20 ( 17 ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell (#1[2])
-- ( 18 ) Lullaby Of Birdland - Blue Stars (#13) -- ( 19 ) The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter (#7) -- ( 20 ) Robin Hood - Gary Miller (#1[2])
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 6, 2019 11:54:14 GMT 1
14 April 1956:
1 ( 1 ) Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley < 6th week at #1 >2 ( 2 ) Willie Can - Alma Cogan 3 ( 7 ) Long Tall Sally - Little Richard 4 ( -- ) You Can't Be True To Two - Dave King With The Keynotes 5 ( 8 ) Nothin' To Do - Michael Holliday 6 ( 3 ) Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins (#2[3]) 7 ( 4 ) Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) - Perry Como (#3) 8 ( 13 ) The Italian Theme - Cyril Stapleton 9 ( 5 ) Bo Weevil - Teresa Brewer (#4) 10 ( 6 ) Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Slim Whitman (#5) 11 ( 9 ) I Was The One - Elvis Presley (#9) 12 ( 10 ) (You've Got) The Magic Touch - Platters (#10) 13 ( 19 ) Moonglow - George Cates 14 ( 11 ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa (#1[1]) 15 ( -- ) Man With The Golden Arm - Richard Maltby 16 ( 12 ) A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer (#7) 17 ( -- ) I'm A Fool - Slim Whitman 18 ( 15 ) Eddie My Love - Chordettes (#10) 19 ( 14 ) Juke Box Baby - Perry Como (#8) 20 ( 16 ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray (#14)
-- ( 17 ) Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong (#3) -- ( 18 ) Seven Days - Crew-Cuts (#12) -- ( 20 ) Ninety Nine Years (Dead Or Alive) - Guy Mitchell (#1[2])
Alma Cogan can't budge Elvis and with Dave King entering at #4 it looks like that won't happen, similarly Little Richard matching the same position of #3 as he did in the UK chart with Long Tall Sally and also in this chart with Tutti Frutti but a #1 may elude him too. Dave King is a simple swing song. His previous single "Memories Are Made Of This" reached #5 in the UK chart in spite of a competing Dean Martin version getting to #1, whilst this one stalled at #11 without a rival version. Not sure why. Dean Martin's version of "Memories Are Made Of This" got to #5 in my chart and I don't allow competing versions unless they are totally different arrangements, which Dave King's wasn't.
By spending a 6th week at #1, Elvis Presley has with his first hit managed what none of his seven #1s in the 1960s managed. (It's Now Or Never managed 5. Of the Beatles' 15 number ones of the 1960s only one of them, Day Tripper, stayed 6 weeks on top).
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 7, 2019 22:38:25 GMT 1
21 April 1956:
1 ( 4 ) You Can't Be True To Two - Dave King With The Keynotes < 1st #1 > 2 ( 1 ) Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley (#1[6]) 3 ( 3 ) Long Tall Sally - Little Richard 4 ( 2 ) Willie Can - Alma Cogan (#2[2]) 5 ( 5 ) Nothin' To Do - Michael Holliday
6 ( 8 ) The Italian Theme - Cyril Stapleton 7 ( 15 ) Man With The Golden Arm - Richard Maltby 8 ( -- ) Ain't Misbehavin' - Johnnie Ray 9 ( 13 ) Moonglow - George Cates 10 ( 6 ) Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins (#2[3])
11 ( 17 ) I'm A Fool - Slim Whitman 12 ( 7 ) Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) - Perry Como (#3) 13 ( -- ) In A Persian Market - Sammy Davis Jr 14 ( 11 ) I Was The One - Elvis Presley (#9) 15 ( 9 ) Bo Weevil - Teresa Brewer (#4)
16 ( 10 ) Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Slim Whitman (#5) 17 ( 12 ) (You've Got) The Magic Touch - Platters (#10) 18 ( -- ) The Happy Whistler - Don Robertson 19 ( 14 ) Lipstick And Candy And Rubbersole Shoes - Julius LaRosa (#1[1]) 20 ( 16 ) A Tear Fell - Teresa Brewer (#7)
21 ( -- ) No Other Love - Ronnie Hilton
-- ( 18 ) Eddie My Love - Chordettes (#10) -- ( 20 ) Who's Sorry Now - Johnnie Ray (#14) -- ( 19 ) Juke Box Baby - Perry Como (#8)
I'll allow Ronnie Hilton an entry at #21 as it was a top 25 but I ran out of enough songs. That probably means for now if it doesn't get knocked straight off my playlist it will always end up getting in as a straggler. This song spent several week at #1 for him in the UK.
On this particular date, 21 April 1956, the Queen, who was coronated just under 3 years ago, celebrated her 30th birthday.
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 7, 2019 22:59:09 GMT 1
Having checked the list above, only Little Richard is still alive. Cannot identify among the Chordettes if any are still alive.
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