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   341    Sunday, 22 May 1960
Hungary 2 England 0 [0-0]
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The Top Fifty UK Music Chart by Record Retailer 
   

On Friday, 15 November 1952, The New Musical Express published the first ever singles chart in the UK, comprising the twelve highest selling singles of the week, it increased to twenty on Friday, 1 October 1954, and thirty on Friday, 13 April 1956. On 10 March 1960, the chart increased to fifty singles and now published by The Record Retailer. When England lost in Hungary, The Everly Brothers' Cathy's Clown was the best selling single for its third of seven weeks. When the Top Fifty chart of Thursday, 19 May 1960 was published, there were 33 surviving songs from the last chart when England played one week ago. The Top Forty is thus:-

1. (=) Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers (Warner Brothers)
2. (3) Someone Else's Baby - Adam Faith (Parlophone)
3. (4) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones (MGM)
4. (2) Do You Mind? - Anthony Newley (Decca)
5. () Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (Brunswick)
6. (8) Fall In Love With You - Cliff Richard and The Shadows (Columbia)
7. (=) Shazam! - Duane Eddy (London)
8. (9) Footsteps - Steve Lawrence (HMV)
9. (11) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston (Mercury)
10. (=) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (Pye)
11. (6) Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (RCA)
12. (20) Heart Of A Teenage Girl - Craig Douglas (Top Rank)
13. (12) Standing On The Corner - The King Brothers (Parlophone)
14. (=) Beatnik Fly - Johnny and The Hurricanes (London)
15. (32) Three Steps To Heaven - Eddie Cochrane (London)
16. (15) Theme From 'A Summer Place' - Percy Faith (Philips)
17. (24) Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (RCA)
18. (16) He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves (RCA)
19. (28) Mack The Knife - Ella Fitzgerald (HMV)
20. (13) Clementine - Bobby Darin (London)
21. (17) Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be - Max Bygraves (Decca)
22. (45) Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens (Warner Brothers)
23. (21) What In The World's Come Over You - Jack Scott (Coral)
24. (19) Wild One - Bobby Rydell (Columbia)
25. (18) Hit And Miss - John Barry Seven (Columbia)
26. (30) This Love I Have For You - Lance Fortune (Pye)
27. (re) Tease Me - Keith Kelly (Parlophone)
28. (27) Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Eddie Byrnes and Connie Stevens (Warner Brothers)
29. Green Jeans - The Fabulous Flee-Rekkers (Triumph)
30. (22) Poor Me - Adam Faith (Parlophone)
31. (23) Delaware - Perry Como (RCA)
32. (25) Running Bear - Johnny Preston (Mercury)
33. (26) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson (London)
34. Mama/Robot Man - Connie Francis (MGM)
35. (39) I Love The Way You Love - Marv Johnson (London)
36. (re) My Heart - Gene Vincent (Capitol)
37. (31) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson (Decca)
38. (49) Standing On The Corner - The Four Lads (Philips)
39. Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland (London)
40. (34) Summer Set - Mr. Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band (Columbia)
 
♪Most weeks at number one when England played:
Frankie Laine, six
Connie Francis and Doris Day, five
Ronnie Hilton, four
Lonnie Donegan, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and Guy Mitchell, three
Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Elvis Presley, Marvin Rainwater, Johnnie Ray and Jimmy Young, two
Paul Anka, Winifred Atwell, Harry Belafonte, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Russ Conway, The Crickets, Tommy Edwards, Bill Haley, Tab Hunter, Vera Lynn, Al Martino, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Lita Roza, Anne Shelton, Frank Sinatra, Stargazers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, David Whitfield and Slim Whitman, one each

 
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