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On Friday, 15 November 1952, The
New Musical Express
published the first ever singles chart in the UK.
When England lost to
Hungary,
Doris Day's Secret Love
was still the best selling single for the third week in a row (although its
fourth week as number one). When the chart of Friday, 21 May 1954 was
published, there were eleven surviving songs from the last chart when England played
last week:-
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1. |
(=) |
Secret Love
- Doris Day (Philips) |
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2. |
(=) |
Such A Night
-
Johnnie
Ray (Philips) |
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3. |
(6) |
Friends And Neighbours
-
Billy
Cotton & His Band (Decca) |
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4. |
(6) |
Changing Partners -
Kay Starr (Capitol) |
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5. |
(4) |
The Happy Wanderer
- Obernkirchen Children's Choir
(Parlophone) |
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6. |
(3) |
The Kid's Last Fight
-
Frankie Laine
(Philips) |
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7. |
(10) |
Someone Else's Roses
- Joan Regan (Decca) |
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8. |
(=) |
I See The Moon
-
Stargazers
(Decca) |
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9. |
(11) |
The Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart
-
Max Bygraves
(HMV) |
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10. |
(8) |
Don't Laugh At Me ('Cause I'm A Fool)
-
Norman Wisdom (Colombia) |
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11. |
(9) |
A Dime And A Dollar
- Guy Mitchell (Philips) |
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12. |
(re) |
Bimbo
-
Ruby Wright
(Parlophone) |
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♪Most weeks at number one when England
played:
Frankie Laine,
five, Doris Day and Guy Mitchell, two
Al Martino, Lita Roza, Stargazers and David
Whitfield, one each |
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