On Friday, 15 November 1952, The
New Musical Express
published the first ever singles chart in the UK.
When England lost to
Yugoslavia,
Doris Day's Secret Love
was the best selling single for the second week in a row (although its
third week as number one). When the chart of Friday, 14 May 1954 was
published, there were five surviving songs from the last chart when England played
in six weeks ago:-
1. |
(=) |
Secret Love
- Doris Day (Philips) |
2. |
(=) |
Such A Night
-
Johnnie
Ray (Philips) |
3. |
(6) |
The Kid's Last Fight
-
Frankie Laine
(Philips) |
4. |
(3) |
The Happy Wanderer
- Obernkirchen Children's Choir
(Parlophone) |
5. |
(=) |
I See The Moon
-
Stargazers
(Decca) |
6. |
(4) |
Changing Partners -
Kay Starr (Capitol) |
(re) |
Friends And Neighbours
-
Billy
Cotton & His Band (Decca) |
8. |
(9) |
Don't Laugh At Me ('Cause I'm A Fool)
-
Norman Wisdom (Colombia) |
9. |
(re) |
A Dime And A Dollar
- Guy Mitchell (Philips) |
10. |
Someone Else's Roses
- Joan Regan (Decca) |
11. |
(10) |
Bell
Bottom Blues
-
Alma Coogan (HMV) |
|
The Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart
-
Max Bygraves
(HMV) |
|
♪Most weeks at number one when England
played: Frankie Laine,
five, Guy Mitchell, two Doris Day, Al Martino, Lita Roza, Stargazers and David
Whitfield, one each |
|