Number 1
WHATEVER WILL BE WILL BE (QUE SERA SERA)
DORIS DAY
- LW: 1,
- Peak: 1,
- Weeks: 12
Number 2
LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS
ANNE SHELTON
- LW: 5,
- Peak: 2,
- Weeks: 4
Number 3
- LW: 6,
- Peak: 2,
- Weeks: 10
Number 4
SWEET OLD-FASHIONED GIRL
TERESA BREWER
- LW: 3,
- Peak: 3,
- Weeks: 10
Number 5
ROCKIN' THROUGH THE RYE
BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS
- LW: 4,
- Peak: 4,
- Weeks: 5
Number 6
WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE FT FRANKIE LYMON
TEENAGERS FEATURING FRANKIE LYMON
- LW: 2,
- Peak: 1,
- Weeks: 12
Number 7
THE GREAT PRETENDER/ONLY YOU
PLATTERS
- LW: 13,
- Peak: 7,
- Weeks: 2
Number 8
- LW: 7,
- Peak: 4,
- Weeks: 19
Number 9
THE YING TONG SONG/BLOODNOK'S ROCK 'N' ROLL CALL
GOONS
- LW: New
- Peak: 9,
- Weeks: 1
Number 10
BRING A LITTLE WATER SYLVIE/DEAD OR ALIVE
LONNIE DONEGAN
- LW: 28,
- Peak: 10,
- Weeks: 2
Number 11
- LW: 27,
- Peak: 11,
- Weeks: 2
Number 12
- LW: 11,
- Peak: 8,
- Weeks: 11
Number 13
THE SAINTS ROCK 'N' ROLL
BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS
- LW: 10,
- Peak: 5,
- Weeks: 17
Number 14
I WANT YOU I NEED YOU I LOVE YOU
ELVIS PRESLEY
- LW: 14,
- Peak: 14,
- Weeks: 9
Number 15
BORN TO BE WITH YOU
THE CHORDETTES
- LW: 8,
- Peak: 8,
- Weeks: 3
Number 16
I ALMOST LOST MY MIND
PAT BOONE
- LW: 15,
- Peak: 14,
- Weeks: 5
Number 17
- LW: 17,
- Peak: 1,
- Weeks: 21
Number 17
BY THE FOUNTAINS OF ROME
EDMUND HOCKRIDGE
- LW: 20,
- Peak: 17,
- Weeks: 3
Number 19
- LW: 12,
- Peak: 12,
- Weeks: 6
Number 20
- LW: 9,
- Peak: 2,
- Weeks: 19
Number 21
YOU ARE MY FIRST LOVE
RUBY MURRAY
- LW: 16,
- Peak: 16,
- Weeks: 3
Number 22
WALK HAND IN HAND
RONNIE CARROLL
- LW: 20,
- Peak: 13,
- Weeks: 8
Number 23
- LW: 18,
- Peak: 18,
- Weeks: 7
Number 24
LOVE ME AS THOUGH THERE WERE NO TOMORROW
NAT 'KING' COLE
- LW: New
- Peak: 24,
- Weeks: 1
Number 25
- LW: New
- Peak: 25,
- Weeks: 1
Number 26
- LW: 19,
- Peak: 8,
- Weeks: 13
Number 26
- LW: 22,
- Peak: 6,
- Weeks: 12
Number 28
- LW: 24,
- Peak: 22,
- Weeks: 4
Number 29
RAZZLE DAZZLE
BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS
- LW: New
- Peak: 29,
- Weeks: 1
Number 30
- LW: New
- Peak: 30,
- Weeks: 1
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Institute for Music Research
No 9. The label of Decca F 10780 shows the artist is 'The Goons'.
No 25. Note: HMV DA 2085 and HMV DA 2065 are recordings of different compositions.
No 30. The label of London HLD 8298 shows the title is 'Trying'. The artist is 'The Hilltoppers'.
Michael Javes
Wrong chart
AM
Alan McKenna
Serenade new entry at #25 should be a re-entry as first charted in 1955
PD
Phil Davis
This was a reissue with a different catalogue number to the first - DA2065.
AM
Alan McKenna
Take your point but if it is the same song by the same artiste it should count as a re-entry irrespective of the catalogue number in my opinion
PD
Phil Davis
Hi Alan,
This is a valid point and is one which I've pondered several times when reissues are listed as if they were new releases. It's probably a case of how you define a 'new' entry. I think in this case the song was used in two separate musicals a year or so apart, but I don't know if the same recording was used or if it was a new recording. Presumably we should class a new recording as a different record. Or should we?
A good example of this potential confusion is Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock. Of the first release on Brunswick the OCC state the weeks on chart as 36, even though the record had 6 separate chart runs. There's an 11 week run in 1968 on MCA which may have been a different recording, then again in 1974 on MCA (but with a different catalogue number) a 10 week run which is definitely the same recording as the original Brunswick version.
So 8 chart runs in total, of 1 or maybe 2 recording(s), on 2 record labels, with 3 different catalogue numbers totalling 57 weeks on chart, but listed as 3 separate entries of 36, 11 and 10 weeks by OCC.
It would help if the OCC published what their criteria is regarding re-entries, reissues and re-recordings. But in regards to our original issue, I'm in full agreement with you Alan regarding Serenade's re-entry and I would class Haley's record as having 57 weeks on chart.
AM
Alan McKenna
Hi Phil
It can get a bit confusing at times especially when they are on different labels. I picked up on the Bill Haley one. I have to class them all as re-entries for the project I am working on. Makes it hard work at times
Nick Bellhouse
The two recordings mentioned in this discussion are in fact two different songs.
AM
Alan McKenna
Thanks I realise that now and don't know why I didn't pick it up. It didn't help that Slim Whitman also had an entry with a version of Serenade in 1956