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The One Week Wonders - Episodes 67, 68, and 69. We start today with the 19th and final UK charting single for David Whitfield, with a cover of I Believe, probably the biggest chart hits of the 1950s when Frankie Laine had released it in 1953. In fact David had also released a mono version of the song back then, but this was a new stereo mix with added harp and backing singers. David had last appeared in the chart (and on this thread) in August 1958. I believe spent one week at #49 on w/e 24th November 1960. mAMCqh5Z6TA We then skip over Andy Stewart's Donald Where's Your Troosers, which had a single week at #37 on w/e 15/12/1960, as a reissue in 1989 compehensively removed it from the One Week Wonders list, giving it 8 more weeks and a peak of #4. So instead our next song is Why Why Bye Bye by Bob Luman, which was the follow to his #6 hit, Let's Think About Living. Why Why Bye Bye was at #46 on w/e 15/12/1960 mWNgYbSuJvs Next up we have Jackie Wilson, or Jack Leory Wilson Jr to give him his full name. He was at #50 on w/e 22nd December 1960 with Alone at Last. This is the only time he appears on this thread, so I'm including a potted history here of his career and life. Incredibly he has only had seven different tracks in the UK charts, and three of those much later than the rock and roll era he was associated, but many reissues over the years have given him repeated success over the years with just a few song. At his point Jackie had had a #6 hit with Reet Petite in 1957, and a couple of smaller hits in 1958 and earlier in 1960. After this You're Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher and Higher hit #11 in 1969, and I Get The Sweetest Feeling hit #9 in 1972. In May 1975 a reissue of those last two songs reached #25. In September 1975 Jackie was one of the acts on Dick Clark's Good Ol' Rock 'N' Roll Revue, and was on stage performing 'Lonely Teardrops'. On singing the lyric 'My heart is crying' Jackie sank to the stage. The audience applauded, believing it to be part of the act, but when his fellow musicians stopped the music, and one of the Coasters rushed to resucitate him it became apparent he had in fact suffered a massive heart attack. The heart attack had caused a lack of Oxygen to his brain, and besides a brief period of apparent recovery in 1976, he spent the rest of his life in a semi-comatose state, until he died in January 1984 from pneumonia aged 49. He was said to be broke for much of his later life, due allegedly to his manager being unfair with his earnings, and was certainly broke at the time of his death, and so the music legend was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1987 a US radio station who had decided to do something about this was able to raise the funds to buy him a headstone. I'm not sure if it was part of the money raising initiative, or if that had simply raised his profile enough to cause a new demand for his records, but late 1986 had seen the re-release of Reet Petite, with a quirky clay-mation video, which would take that year's Christmas number one. In 1987 there were also re-reissues of I Get The Sweetest Feeling, and Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher And Higher), reaching #3 and #15 respectively. Finally, at the end of 1987 a previously uncharted track, Baby Workout, was also released, perhaps in an effort to secure him a second consecutive Christmas number one, but in the event it only reached #93 (and even then I think the 75-100 positions were compressed, so in a full chart it would have been lower). I think it's interesting that Jackie Wilson was a big legend of rock and roll, with a big voice and lungs, but at the same time had relatively few charting singles, and a career tragically cut short at the young age of 41. PPvfVRwQdVY I know I covered this next one in the Christmas special a couple of week's back, but in the interest of completion in the main run of episodes we have Tommy Steele's Must Be Santa at #40 on w/e 29/12/1960. kegSOr2FRlo Also on w/e 29/12/1960, at #42, we have Cleo Laine Let's Slip Away. Cleo's only other Uk charting single was the #5 hit You'll Answer To Me in 1961. HXRJfOxlSb0 And in w/e 05/01/1961 another version of Must Be Santa, by Joan Regan, at #42. 4tnDeKajoJc Next up we have the Olympics with I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, which was at #40 on w/e 19/01/1961. They had only other hit in the UK, Western Movies, which hit #12 in 1958, but a had a longer career in their native USA. 0xNYuOswSYQ Then we have Dion, who had previously spent two weeks at #28 in 1959 as part of Dion and The Belmonts, with the single A Teenager In Love, which was also a #2 for Marty Wilde and a #13 for Craig Douglas in the same year. Dion was now back with his first solo single, Lonely Teenager, which was at #47 on w/e 19/01/1961. He would go on to hit #11 later in the year with Runaround Sue, and #10 in 1962 with The Wanderer, which also reentered the top 20 in 1976. In 1989 he had one more charting single, King Of The New York Streets, which peaked at #74. 6YCbHgb8Ya8 Finally for today is the only week of UK chart action for Tommy Zang, with Hey Good Looking, which was at #45 in w/e 16/02/1961. I have to say this song seems to be so familiar to me, but there is no other version ever charted here, and Tommy Zang is obscure enough he doesn't even have a wikipedia page, so no idea where I've heard the song before. There is another single with the same title, by Bo Diddley, which hit #39 in 1965, but that seems to be a different song. uqRYYf8HrPo

I've just checked The Missing Charts by Steve Water, which are privately compiled charts for the UK covering 1940-1952, and using data from music companies' re-order sheets. It shows only four solo hits for Ella in that period, with none reaching the top 20. There is also a duet with Louis Jordan, Baby It's Cold Outside, which peaked at #18 in 1949, and two bigger hits when she was singing on Ink Spots records (which were vitrtually guaranted to hit top 10 anyway with or without her on them), Cow Cow Boogie (#3 in 1944) and a double a-side I'm Making Believe/Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall (#9 in 1945).

The One Week Wonders - Episodes 64, 65 and 66 We start today with Bill Black's Combo with White Silver Sands, which was #50 in w/e 8th September 1960. -9Jx_ZUVHJo A week later at #44 was Paul Anka's Hello Young Lover, a song from the musical The King And I. sneHfOVmGbQ On w/e 29th September 1960 Frank Ifield charted his second single, Gotta Get A Date at #49. He next charted in 1962, when he began a run of 5 top 5 hits, four of which topped the charts. kD-au8oJT54 Next up on 6th October 1960 at #44 was Ella Fitzgerald's How High The Moon. The song was also a #33 hit for Gloria Gaynor in 1976. -cHYXaMCCIo or watch this slightly longer live version: Moving forward 3 weeks to w/e 27th October 1960 at #50 we find the lowest ranked of 5 versions of Never On Sunday to chart this year, by Chaquito, real name Johnny Gregory, which was at #50. There were also versions by Lynn Cornell (peaking at #30), Don Costa (#27), Makadopoulos and his Greek Serenaders(#36), and Manuel and his Music of the Mountains (#29). The song was the theme from the Greek rom-com film of the same name. x0NL_S8WLAQ We follow that with a posthumous one week wonder for rock and roll icon Eddie Cochran, with a week at #41 on w/e 3rd November 1960 with Lonely. Eddie had been trying to limit the amount of travel he untook for his work, following the fatal plane crash in 1959 that had claim three of his rock and roll friends, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, but had nonetheless accepted a UK tour. On the night of Easter Saturday April 1960 he had performed at Bristol Hipperdrome and was travelling through Chippenham (just up the road from where I am actually) in a taxi with his fiancee, songwriter Sharon Shelley, as well as tour manager Pat Thompson and fellow rock and roll star Gene Vincent. Just before midnight the taxi driver, David Harman, lost control at excessive speed and the vehicle crashed. At the moment of impact Eddie threw himself in front of his fiancee to protect her, she survived as a result, but when the door of the car popped open in the impact the momentum threw him out the door and he sustained fatal brain injuries. He was just 21. A couple of months later he reached number one for the only time, with Three Steps To Heaven. YNoWi-eMHMw Next up the only week of UK action for Italian singer Umberto Bindi, with Il Nostro Concerto at #47 on w/e 10th October 1960. Although this was his only charting single in the UK, one of his biggest singles elsewhere was Il Mio Mondo, which was covered by Cilla Black, as You're My World, and reached #1 in that version. grDlxUTKQt8 A week later Jimmy Jones, who had topped the charts earlier in the year with Good Timin', had a single week at #46 with Ready For Love. peJNnoOQgVQ And finally today at #47 in w/e 24th October 1960 was Joan Regan with One Of The Lucky Ones, her 10th of 11 singles to chart in the UK. CpqwUep7rbA

The One Week Wonders - Episodes 61, 62 and 63 We start with 'Uncle' Max Bygraves having a go at the Oliver! song Consider Yourself, which spent a week at #50 on w/e 28th July 1960 2uvDFWZWv84 Next up is Steve Perry's on week of UK chart action, with Step By Step at #41 in w/e 4th August 1960 Usy5fvYJzmM And on another week to w/e 11th August 1960 at #43 we have Craig Douglas with Oh! What A Day, the only one of his 11 singles to miss the top 40. zDn_Xz_55kc Then staying with the same week, and moving down to #50, we have some early Motown in the form of Marv Johnson's Ain't Gonna Be That Way. Marv wouldn't reach the UK charts again until January 1969, when he took I'll Pick A Rose For My Rose to #10. mrwlRqJDTs0 We then take an instumental interlude with the theme from The Apartment, by Ferrante and Teicher, which was #44 on w/e 18th August 1960. The Apartment was a romantic film starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Ferrante and Teicher would have a much bigger hit in spring 1961, reaching #6 with theme from The Exodus. HVvw2ewFHrc In the same week, at #47 was Keith Kelly, real name Michael Pailthorpe, with his second and final Uk charting single, Listen Little Girl. GaGkgtlq_0g And also in the same week, at #49, was Steve Lawrence, real name Sidney Leibowitz, with Girls Girls Girls. I notice their have been at least 6 different singles in the UK charts with that name, all completely different songs. Steve was following up the #4 hit Footsteps, from earlier in 1960, and would go on to have a #3 hit in 1963, as part of Steve and Eydie, with I Want To Stay Here. FU_ifKnV13o Next up we have Hal Paige and The Whalers only week of UK chart action at #50 on w/e 25th August 1960. GXj1Tx4xxSU And we end today's triple episode with the last of ten singles for Michael Holliday, with Little Boy Lost at #50 in w/e 1st September 1960. 5f2bcGrXSLU

Let's have a triple episode to get things restarted as we return to the summer of 1960... Episodes 58, 59 and 60 We start with the fifth and final appearance on the list of Sammy Davis Jr, this time in duet with Carmen McRae. Happy To Make Your acquaintance spent a week at #46 on w/e 16th June 1960. p7IyXkbT4i4 Staying at #46, but moving forward a week to w/e 23rd June 1960, we have the only week of UK chart action for Jerry Wallace, with You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else. GRIlkOWCQNA And forward another week to w/e 30th June 1960, Jess Conard is debuting on the chart with a week at #39 with Cherry Pie. h3usTueYUrk And at #44 the same week was Bobby Rydell with Swinging School. DCQz6lehS9M Spending one week at #48 in w/e 7th July 1960 was Ricky Nelson with Young Emotions. The next time he would hit the UK charts would be in a years time, with the UK #2, and US #1, Hello Mary Lou. by7s9i9rKQ And at #49 on w/e 14th July 1960 was the John Barry Orchestra with Never Let Go, the theme to the movie of the same name, in cinemas at the time, about a stolen Ford Anglia, and featuring Peter Sellers in a rare straight role as a villain. UNTPl3flfQA Reaching #50 on w/e 21st July 1960 was Jimmy Clanton, who was experiencing his only week on the UK charts, with Another Sleepless Night. Nh_H7aSYYvc What to you get if you fuse a French singer, arabic culture, and early 60s pop music? You get this tripfest of a song. Spending their only UK chart week, at #43 on w/e 28th July 1960 were Staiffi and his Mustafas with Mustafa Cha Cha Cha. OucIFOpEbdI And to end this triple episode today we move 6 places down to #49 the same week, to find Johnny Preston singing I'm Starting To Go Steady. The song is actually the other side of Feel So Fine which entered the charts on w/e 11th August 1960 and peaked at #18, but the two sides weren't listed on the chart together so this side has but one week. b47Lkf8PAFw

Sorry, a couple of day's break from the thread for Xmas turned into a fortnight, but yes I do want to resume the thread soon. Perhaps later today. Part of me wants to catch up to where we would have been had I not taken an extended break, but that means either double episodes for a fortnight, or else one or two days in the next week or so where I churn out loads of episodes, and either way could be overkill I suppose. But at least one episode should appear this evening, I think, unless something unforseen gets in the way.

Firstly I'm not sure where you get the 10 pence figure for one stream of a track from (I assume that's what you mean), as streaming a single track once will earn the record company/artist etc far less than 10 pence. Secondly the 1/100 is the fraction of one sale that it counts as (i.e. they need 100 of those 1/100ths to be able to count as one sale) so it is not counting as one sale.

The One Christmas Week Wonders – The 2019 Xmas Special Christmas is coming, you've been preparing for it for a week, time for a xmas special from this amateur chart geek. Hope you’ve finished the xmas shopping, wrapped all your gifts, and remembered to defrost the turkey. Now pour your choice of festive spirit, grab a mince pie and enjoy a look at, and listen, to singles that spent a solitary week in the charts on the week of the Xmas chart (or sometimes the week before or after). We’ve already reached early 1960 on the thread, so I’ll start with Xmas 1960 and Tommy Steele’s Must Be Santa, which charted at #40 on w/e 29th December 1960. There was also a version by Joan Regan which had a single week on chart the following week at #42. kegSOr2FRlo Also from that week is Cleo Laine Let’s Slip Away which charted at #42. HXRJfOxlSb0 On w/e 20th December 1962, one week before the xmas chart, we find Connie Francis’ Warm This Winter charting at #48. I’ve heard this one on the radio quite a bit this year, and it turns out to be the xmas classic I didn’t know that I knew. H79-7rytoMI Charting for one week at #50 on w/e 31st December 1964 was Mrs Mills Party Medley, but I can’t find that precise recording on youtube, so here she is performing a rendition of the first song featured in that medley, You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want To Do It). ycwZCeeXwls Hitting the chart at #46 on w/e 29th December 1966 was Welsh singer Donald Peers, with Games That Lovers Play. Is it me or is this the same tune as Demis Roussos’ Ever And Ever? lcVf-byv6DQ At #47 on w/e 27th December 1967 was Gladys Knight and The Pips version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine. WWvwP72FuVg 1969 was the year of the first Official Christmas chart, compiled by BMRB, and on that w/e 27th December 1969 there was a one week hit for Moira Anderson with Holy City at #43. This week is typically repeated by chartologists to fill the gap caused by the following week’s chart not being compiled, so most chart books will say she had two weeks on chart. eC6p5L_WUZc We move forward now to w/e 1st January 1972, and to a somewhat forgotten Christmas classic, The Carpenters Merry Christmas Darling at #45. It went on to be included on a double a-side reissue with Close To You at Christmas 1990, reaching #25, but otherwise it would have remained a one week wonder as it has never returned to the chart in the download and streaming eras. lV5ENWOQ6d8 And on to w/e 23rd Deecember 1972. The following week was not compiled, and the w/e 6th January was a top 30 only, though the OCC has artificially filled in the 31-50 section on their website, so these two singles have ended up with three chart weeks for the price of one sales week, so to speak. The first will be something of a surprise I suspect, as #43 was The Jackson Five with Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town. It finally returned to the chart for a second genuine week on the w/e 4th January 2018, and then reached a new peak of #30 at xmas 2018, but prior to that it had only charted in one genuine sales week and only ever reached #43. e0LyEXXkqPE And down to #48 for Vicki Leandros’ The Love In Your Eyes. joQ5ofW2cSY Then we jump forward five years to w/e 24th December 1977. As with 1972 the following week was not compiled, and the week after that has an artificial 31-50, so again this single gets three weeks for the price of one. It’s Debbie Boone – You Light Up My Life at #48. b07-yKnKRMQ On 24th August 1980 Slade found themselves unexpectedly playing the 20th Reading Festival, after Gary Moore’s G-Force and Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard Of Oz had both pulled out of the line-up. It proved to be the stimulus for a revival of the band’s fortunes. The performance was recorded by the BBC, and Tommy Vance began to play the recordings on his show, creating a demand for them, so they were soon released on EPs. The first, Alive At Reading, entered the charts on w/e 18th October 1980, and peaked at #44. The second one was called The Xmas Ear Bender, which charted for one week on w/e 27th December 1980 at #70, and contained three more tracks, Merry Xmas Everybody, Okey Cokey and Get Down And Get On It. The third of those tracks was a genuine Reading performance, but Okey Cokey was their 1979 studio recording with an audience noise added to fit the other two tracks on the EP. Merry Xmas Everybody was a mere 40 seconds long, and was the result of the band challenging the crowd at Reading to sing the song. Yes they literally recorded their audience then sold the recording back to them! Anyway the chart books don’t bother to mention the EP, and merely list the entry as ‘Merry Xmas Everybody (re-recording)’, albeit credited to Slade and The Reading Choir (the latter being a jokey name for the crowd). ZMcoe-TKJfo We move onto w/e 24th December 1983, and a whole slew of new entries in the sub 75 portion of the first ever Christmas top 100. The w/e 31st December 1983 was the last time the chart went uncompiled, and so chartologists repeat this chart, making the next few singles technically two week wonders. First up we have Joe Fagin’s Breaking Away at #77. He would go on to have a #3 hit in 1984 with That’s Livin’ Alright. Both singles were taken from the TV series Auf Wiedersehen Pet. X6kzegfNzqc Next at #78 is Brendan Shine with Thank God For Kids. m6giBTtaLSM Bing Crosby was at #95 with White Christmas 1983, but I’m assuming that it’s still the same familiar recording, and that the chart company have tacked on the year for this particular reissue for some reason. So onto #97 and The Damned with There Ain’t No Sanity Clause. hhf2UAPYF2w At #98 was Slade with Cum On Feel The Noize 1983, but again that’s just a reissue of an old hit, so on to #99 and Men Without Hats – I Got The Message. oQ6gk0ka2IE And finally for the 1983 Christmas chart we have Hooray and The Henry’s All Stuck Up at #100, which is a comedy parody of Elvis’ All Shook Up, and many other songs, so see how many you can spot. soSdcYZ9Igg On w/e 29th December 1984 there was a one week wonder for Bouncing Czecks with I’m A Little Christmas Cracker at #72. 6aG682rd9qE Another comedy record spent it’s one week on chart on w/e 28th December 1985. It’s the papier mache headed Frank Sidebottom with Oh Blimey It’s Christmas. 8Ct-jO9Hvuo And the final one Christmas week wonder of the eighties is from Michael Crawford and the London Symphony Orchestra with their version of When You Wish Upon A Star at #97 on w/e 26th December 1987. b4cRh6A8RQ0 I’ve covered three decades worth of xmas one weekers now, and there’re three decades more to go, so I might do a second special just after xmas, or I might save it for next year’s special, assuming I’m still going with this project next year, as I should be somewhere in the 90s (I think?) by then if I am. Thank you everyone who has interacted in this thread so far, and also all of those who are content to read the episode without interacting. Hopefully as we move through time the singles will start to become more familiar and more people will have more to say about them, but I’ll probably plod on through them anyway even if not. May you all have a very cool Yule whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whoever you’re with, whatever you’re eating, and most importantly whatever music you are listening to. Merry Christmas!

Sorry meant to put a note about that somewhere. I've followed later editions of Guinness by using a black triangle to denote a US number one (though I may have missed one or more possibly).

The One Week Wonders - Episodes 56 and 57 We start where we left off last time, with w/e 12th May 1960, and drop to #48, where we find Alma Cogan's Dream Talk. Alma would have two more UK chart hits after this, with her final one in April 1961. CmhGURIBFp4 The other two in this episode are both men called Marty! The first being Marty Wilde, who charted at #47 on 19th May 1960 with The Fight. His biggest hit was Teenager In Love, which reached #2 in summer 1959. cLmPVOHu-vs And the other Marty is Marty Robbins. He previously had a #19 hit (and US #1) with El Paso, and was now charting at #48 on 26th May 1960 with Big Iron. He would nearly two and half years, until September 1962, for his next UK chart hit, Devil Woman, but it would be his biggest, peaking at #5. -NuX79Ud8zI On to episode 57, and we begin with George Chakiris, who was charting at #49 on 2nd June 1960 with his version of Heart Of A Teenage Girl, which was also a #10 hit for Craig Douglas at around this time. This was George's only week on the UK singles chart. lO9yYJ5QXFs Next up at #47 on 9th June 1960 is Jerry Lee Lewis' Baby, Baby, Bye Bye. bIErsPjtEGk And finally for this episode we drop to #50 in the same week to find Mr Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band performing Goodnight Sweet Prince. j8tyYeaTn_E That's it for today, but look out for a feature length Xmas special tomorrow evening in place of the normal scheduled episode.

The One Week Wonders - Episode 55 We start today with the same week we ended on yesterday, w/e 21st April 1960, and drop to #47, where we find Russ Conway, with his version of the Max Bygraves #5 hit, Fings Ain't What They Used To Be. gCS0wOXDWdU Next we move on to w/e 12th May 1960, and to #40, which was comedian Stan Freburg's single Old Payola Blues. Stan had previously charted at #15 in 1954 with his version of Sh-Boom, and at #24 in 1956 with his versions of Rock Island Line and Heartbreak Hotel, but this third single would be his last time in the UK charts. ED-5TXTckrU And we stick with the same week for our last one today, at #42, and it's a pretty well known song too, More Than I Can Say by The Crickets. The song would also be taken to #4 by Bobby Vee in 1961, and #2 by Leo Sayer in 1980. tF95p6406-E

My understanding is it came out several years ago, and that this year's version was a remix? Or perhaps the original wasn't a campaign as such?

Did Merry Chris Moyles Everyone miss the chart both times then?

Totally not timing today's episode for when the board is busy with potential readers due to the Christmas chart thread..... The One Week Wonders - Episode 54 Today's episode starts where we left off yesterday, on w/e 31st March 1960, but dropping to #50, where we find Santo And Johnny and Teardrop. Guitar duo Santo and Johnny Farino had already had a #22 hit with Sleep Walk, a US #1. Teardrop would be their only other hit. OPDr1kVRQFw Moving on to w/e 14th April 1960 we find Pat Suzuki at #49 with I Enjoy Being A Girl, her only UK charting single. The song is taken from Roger and Hammerstein's Drum Flower Song, in which Pat was the Broadway lead. gGHVaUsJaM0 And finally for today we go forward one more week to w/e 21st April 1960, and to #45, to find Lloyd Price's fifth and final charting single in the UK, Lady Luck. His biggest hits were Stagger Lee (#7 and a US #1) and Personality (#9). QMUU_VNNHng

To update this to the end of the year: 27th September 2019 Scott Mills 4th October 2019 Scott Mills 11th October 2019 Scott Mills 18th October 2019 Scott Mills 25th October 2019 Jordan North 1st November 2019 Scott Mills 8th November 2019 Scott Mills 15th November 2019 Scott Mills 22nd November 2019 Scott Mills 29th November 2019 Scott Mills 6th December 2019 Scott Mills 13th December 2019 Scott Mills 20th December 2019 Scott Mills 27th December 2019 Joel Mitchell & Hannah Sackville-Bryant So assuming the last two are as planned the chart of Radio 1 chart show presenters, up to the end of 2019 is: 1. Mark Goodier 470 1988-2002 2. Bruno Brookes 358 1986-1990 & 1992-1995 3. Tom Browne 278 1972-1978 4. Alan Freeman 258 1967-1972 5. Reggie Yates 237 2007-2012 6. Scott Mills 153 1999-2019+ 7. Simon Bates 130 1976-1977, 1982-1985, 1987 & 1992 8. Tony Blackburn 123 1979-1982 9. Joel 122 (121 with JK, 1 solo) 2005-2007 10. JK 121 (121 with Joel) 2005-2007 11. Greg James 114 2010-2012, 2015-2018 12. Tommy Vance 103 1982-1987 & 1991-1992 13. Wes Butters 102 2003-2005 14. Jameela Jamil (1 with Clara Amfo) 97 2013-2015 15. Fearne Cotton (75 with Reggie Yates, 3 solo) 78 2007-2009 16. Richard Skinner 71 1984-1986 17. Dev 28 2009-2010, 2015-2018 18. Clara Amfo (1 with Jameela Jamil) 18 2015 19. Mista Jam 16 2017-2018 20. Clive Warren 12 1995-1998 21. Jordan North 10 2017-2019+ 22. Andy Peebles 4 1979 & 1983 23=. Pete Murray 2 1968 23=. Neale James 2 1994 23=. Dave Pearce 2 1995 23=. Jo Wiley 2 2002 & 2005 23=. Nemone 2 (1 with Scott Mills, 1 solo) 2002 & 2005 28=. (18 other DJs with one guest presenting appearance)

The One Week Wonders - Episode 53 Today's three are from w/e 31st March 1960, and we start at #41 with Paul Evans and Midnight Special, the chart followup to Seven Little Girls, although The Curls seem to have parted company with him. Paul would then wait just over 18 years for his third and final charting single, Hello This Is Joanie (The Telephone Answering Machine Song), which became his biggest hit, peaking at #6. dNvxsxGUgKM Next up, at #44, is the only week on the UK chart for Carl Dobkins Jr, with Lucky Devil. He had a #3 hit in the US in 1959 with My Heart Is An Open Book. Lucky Devil was also available in a version by Frank Ifield, which was his debut single, and peaked at #22. p7LoIC2NHZg Finally for today we drop to #49 for the one week return to the chart of the first charttopper, Al Martino. The single is Summertime, which is a very familiar song, having apparently been recorded 25,000 times! It is a George Gershwin song from the 1935 opera Porgy And Bess, and is his first appearance on the chart since his third week on chart with The Man From Laramie in October 1955. He has switched labels by this point too, as this is on Top Rank, whereas his previous single in 1952-1955 where on Capitol. Other versions of Summertime to reach the UK chart were by The Marcels (#46 in 1961), Billy Stewart (#39 in 1966) and Fun Boy Three (#18 in 1982). H6fNo35BNYM

Just when you thought I'd given up daily episodes... The One Week Wonders - Episode 52 We're still on the w/e 24th March 1960 for all of today's singles, and have first dropped to #43 (as per KingOfSkiffle's research) to find Richard Allan's As Time Goes By. The song had originally been sung in 1942 in Casablanca by Dooley Wilson, the infamous Sam who 'played it'. Dooley's version eventually charted in December 1977, and peaked at #15. The song also reached #26 in 1992 by Jason Donovan. Richard's version was his only UK chart hit. Yh1mxchSIaI Next up is Joe 'Mr Piano' Henderson's fifth and final UK charting single, Ooh! La! La! at #44. _4s-xBKoOOk Our last single today is Answer Me, last seen/heard topping the charts in two different versions by Frankie Laine and David Whitfield at the end of 1953. This version, at #47, is a second charting single, and second one week wonder, for Ray Peterson, who would go on to have one more charting single, Corinna Corinna, in 1961, which was third time lucky as it wasn't a one week wonder, albeit that it only got as far as #41. OhRwUcSAILA

Time for another double edition... The One Week Wonders - Episodes 50 and 51 This double episode moves forward one week from where we were last time, to w/e 17th March 1960, where the new chart source quickly reveals how different it is by throwing up 5 one week wonders in one week. First up, at #33. we have the England Sisters, real names Betty, Hazel and Julie Dunderdale, who later changed the group name to the Dale Sisters. The song is a cover of Buddy Holly's Heartbeat, which may explain why his version was reissued in April 1960. Technically Heartbeat was the B-side of Little Child, but it was Heartbeat that was listed in the chart. Other versions of Heartbeat to have charted since included Showaddywaddy who reached #7 in 1975, and Nick Berry who peaked at #2. NQy-vae-ogE Down to #42, and something a bit strange is going on. The previous week Freddy Cannon had a new entry at #33 with California Here I Come, the follow up to his #3 hit Way Down Yonder In New Orleans. This week that disappears, and its B-side, Indiana, charts instead, at #42. Next week California Here I Come returns at #45, for the disc's third and final week overall. Did the popularity of the sides genuinely flip-flip over those three weeks? Or was it a case of error by the chart compilers, or a lack of knowledge of which side was causing the sales? Whatever caused this the two sides are never shown together on any of the three charts, so no side is continuously present throughout the run (unlike a couple of previous instances where I excluded the 'other side' from being on this list since it was only listed on the chart in one week in conjunction with the main ever-present side). I have therefore chosen to include it on the list. TvacOnn7ceE Episode 50 ends with the #44 single, Love Kisses And Heartaches by Maureen Evans. Maureen had previously charted with a version of The Big Hurt, which peaked at #26, marginally higher than Toni Fisher's version, which we saw in Episode 48. Maureen would then have to wait until late 1962 to have another hit, Like I Do, which would reached #3. 9mg3Hfg6BUE Episode 51 begins by dropping to #47, to find Dick Jordan's version of Hallelujah (I Love Her So), which was also available by Eddie Cochran, whose version peaked at #22. Dick would have one more minor hit with Little Christine, which peaked at #39. 0xgKULUY75w Finally for this chart week we move down again to #49, where The Champs strike themselves off of the UK's one hit wonder list. They originally had a #5 hit in the UK, and #1 in the US, with Tequila in 1958. Other versions of Tequila that charted were by Ted Heath, who peaked at #21 in 1958, and No Way Jose who peaked at #47 in 1985. The Champs waited until 1960 to release the sequel, Too Much Tequila, which peaked at #30 in the US, but just the one week at #49 here. QLn1GXDppxg And to round off this double edition we move to the w/e 24th March 1960. I should say at this point that there's different version of this particular week's chart, with the sub 40 positions having their new entries (mostly one week wonders) placed in different orders in different sources. I am going to go with the positions that my chart advisor for the 60's, KingOfSkiffle, has in his database, and therefore I start the week-ending 24th March 1960's one week wonders with Shaye Cogan at #40 with Mean To Me, which represents Shaye's only week on the UK chart. jAzYdH6bGLo

I only really mentioned them as they are now a Disney property.

Just had a look. It's definitely before the parties get started given that appears to be on December 30th!

Presumably the warm up act for The Queen will now be this year's Disney/Disney Pixar/Disney BlueSky/(Not yet Disney) Dreamworks movie premiere.

Presumably their native countries either still have a version of Top Of The Pops, or else some sort of similar show. In which case they could just licence a performance from that show. Or else licence a performance direct from the artist in question (who could film alive show, or stage a performance wherever they happened to be, like the Spice Girls did years ago when they were in Japan). The problem there, I assume, is the budget doesn't stretch to anyone who would wouldn't do it for goodwill/prestige/kudos and a standard bbc token fee.

Yet another double episode. I'm going to either make an increased effort to have the time to do this daily as originally settled on, or else perhaps switch to an 'every other day' basis instead. Not sure which yet. The One Week Wonders - Episodes 48 and 49 We start this episode on the same week as we ended last time, 16th January 1960, and drop to #29 for the only week in the UK chart for Bill Forbes, whose single was Too Young. NkjmcR_kmUU Next up stay with the same chart week for a third One Week Wonder, which is only the second time we've done that. The first time was 06/06/1953. This single is by Ricky Nelson and is called I Wanna Be Loved. It charted at #30 S_RQ7aVbSHA At this point I'm skipping over the Strictly Elvis EP by Elvis Presley, as one of the four tracks was Paralyzed, which had been a #8 hit in 1957. The EP was released by RCA and charted at 26 on 13th February 1960. The original 1957 hit was released on HMV, but as far as I can tell it was the same recording on both labels' releases. We end this episode on the same week, but at #30 with Toni Fisher's The Big Hurt. It's Toni's only week of UK chart action. PIukZsRS5r8 Episode 49 marks the point where we change our chart source. The NME chart is used by most chart books, and by the OCC, up to the week dated 4th March 1960 (or sometimes this week is referred to as the 3rd rather than 4th), though Guinness originally stopped with the previous week and left a week's gap in their data. The chart week-ending 10th March 1960 is the first one most sources take from the Record Retailer (now Music Week) who launched a Top 50 that week, the first weekly singles chart of its size in the UK. From 1962 the chart was also printed in rival title Record Mirror, and from 1969 it carried the new Official chart compiled by BMRB and used by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops. It's because of this later adoption of the Official charts (which Music Week have continued to publish to this day) and the larger size of the early 60s charts. that various chart publications, most notably the first Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles, adopted it as their choice of chart for the sixties, and because of that it was then also adopted by Chart Information Network who then became the Official Chart Company. It is however important to remember that there was no Official chart prior to the BMRB chart launched in February 1969. NME continued on into the sxites with its chart, which lasted until 1988, as did Melody Maker's, both of which were more widely reported in newspapers and record shops than the Record Retailer's chart. There was also a Disc and Music Echo chart, and several shorter lived charts, such as Merseybeat's. The BBC for their part took the charts of several papers (the exact number depending on which chart week you are looking at) and created an averaged chart to use for Pick Of The Pops and Top Of The Pops (rumour has it this chart was compiled by the young daughter of POTP's producer), although they now seem to almost exclusively ignore their old POTP/TOTP charts for the 50s and 60s, in favour of those which the OCC and many chart books deem to have been Official in that era. The effect of this change of chart on this thread is that the One Week Wonders from now on are further down the chart and more obscure. Arguements could also be made that in the first few years of the 60s they could also be more dubious, in terms of the accuracy of the original charts, since there was a smaller sample size despite the large size of the chart, and therefore with each return shop having larger weight it means that hyping, and other localised differences in music taste, could have played a bigger factor in the final chart positions. We start episode 49 then with Don Lang, real name Gordon Langhorn, and Sink The Bismarck, which charted at #43 on the first Record Retailer chart, w/e 10th March 1960. Don had reached #5 in 1958 with Witch Doctor. HvTIcsApIg0 Staying with the same week we drop to #45 for Ken Mackintosh and No Hiding Place, the theme from the Associated Rediffusion cop series of the same name, which had started in September 1959 and was the sequel to its previous series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet. I5sICb0mlCY Finally for episode 49 we stay with the same week for a third One Week Wonder (again), and move down to #46 for Hound Dog Man by Fabian. Hound Dog Man is the theme from the Fabiano Forte movie of the same name, in which Fabian stars as Clint McKinney. The film was based on a 1947 novel by Fred Gipson, who had also written Old Yeller, which was adapted into film by Walt Disney in 1957. Fabian sang several other songs in the movie, but this was to be his only week on the UK chart. 3Tq_4pMXJdg Before I finished I wanted to just let you know that I have added a list of all featured One Week Wonders (both the singles, and the act whose week was their entire UK chart career) in my first post on page one, and intended to keep this up to date. I'm also open to suggestion for other lists and stats that could be compiled and maintained there.

I take it the Youtube Music option doesn't include video streaming? I generally stream music videos first on youtube, to count as little to the charts as possible, in case I don't like it, and then when/if I find I something I want to assist the chart performance of in a given week I'd then go to spotify to stream it, and/or itunes to download it. Also how would people who use smart speakers vote here? My friend always asks Alexa for anything she wants to hear, so did she have to link Alexa to one of the listed streaming sites first for that to work, or does it count as a separate thing in and of itself? Just curious.

And another double... The One Week Wonders - Episodes 46 and 47 First off we skip over Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars charting at #24 on 7th November 1959 with Mack The Knife, since it was a reissue of his Theme from a Threepenny Opera, which had been a #8 hit in 1956. That means we begin instead with Anne Shelton with The Village Of St Bernadette. She last entered the charts with her charttopper Lay Down Your Arms. The Village Of St Bernadette charted at #27 on 21st November 1959. QbFZOdXOIek Next up we have Paul Evans and the Curls, with Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat, which charted at #25 on 28th November 1959. The hit version was by British vocal group the Avons and reached #3. Us vocalist Paul Evans' version was the original one. Here's a nice performance of it at the Little Theatre in New York City in January 1960, complete with puppet little girls, but there's only six of them! u1cjaheraq8 Finally for this episode we move down to #30 in the same week, where we have The Best Of Everything by Johnny Mathis. jhKn4NTnBJY We start episode 47 with the Kingston Trio, who had previously had a #5 hit in the UK, and #1 in the US, called Tom Dooley, which was a #3 hit here for Lonnie Donegan. The sing is called San Miguel, and was also released by Lonnie Donegan, who peaked at #16 with it. The Kingston Trio version charted at #29 on 5th December 1959. 3t5knRANfMY We follow that with Baron Frederik von Pallandt, and his then soon to be wife Nina, who debuted in the chart as Nina and Frederik on 19th December 1959 at #26 with Mary's Boy Child, whc had of course been Xmas number one in 1957 for Harry Belafonte, and would go on to be xmas number one again, in disco form, for Boney M in 1978. YfdsOwBf7UQ And that concludes the 1950s! As we head into the sixties I'd like to thank King Of Skiffle for generously providing me with chart data for the decade, so I could sort out a few discrepancies between the various sources I had already consulted. We enter the sixties, and end this episode, with the Crickets and When You Ask About Love, which charted at #27 on 16th January 1960. The song was later covered by Matchbox, who took it to #4 in 1980. M23-dK9gn4s