On Friday, 15 November 1952, The
New Musical Express
published the first ever singles chart in the UK.
When England drew with
Belgium,
Doris Day's Secret Love
was still the best selling single for the sixth week in a row (although its
seventh week as number one). When the chart of Friday, 11 June 1954 was
published, there were eight surviving songs from the last chart when England played
three weeks ago:-
1. |
(=) |
Secret Love
- Doris Day (Philips) |
2. |
(=) |
Such A Night
-
Johnnie
Ray (Philips) |
3. |
(=) |
Friends And Neighbours
-
Billy
Cotton & His Band (Decca) |
4. |
(=) |
The Happy Wanderer
- Obernkirchen Children's Choir
(Parlophone) |
5. |
(=) |
Someone Else's Roses
- Joan Regan (Decca) |
6. |
(9) |
(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely -
Four Knights (Capitol) |
7. |
(6) |
The Kid's Last Fight
-
Frankie Laine
(Philips) |
8. |
(7) |
The Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart
-
Max Bygraves
(HMV) |
9. |
(8) |
Changing Partners -
Kay Starr (Capitol) |
10. |
(11) |
Wanted
-
Perry Como (HMV) |
11. |
(10) |
The Book
- David Whitfield (Decca) |
12. |
The Little Shoemaker
-
Petula Clark
(Polygon) |
|
♪Most weeks at number one when England
played: Frankie Laine,
five, Doris Day, three, Guy Mitchell, two
Al Martino, Lita Roza, Stargazers and David
Whitfield, one each |
|