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The One Week Wonders - Episode 17 In this week of remembrance we have an appropriate record to start with today. 1955 was the year the film The Dam Busters was released, and the a version of the theme tune, entiled 'Dambusters March, was released by the Central Band Of The Royal Air Force. Dambuster March was composed by Eric Coates, who had previously played in the orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, who happens to be a distant cousin of mine! This version of Dambusters March charted on #18 on 22nd October 1955. f4u1ZgTh6Dw Yesterday I promised you a third version of Blue Star, and here it is. It's by Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra and it charted at #20 on 29th October 1955 xPd4aMoSM48 Our final song today is by Frankie Laine and is called Humming Bird. It charted at #16 on 12th November 1955. yxdXH_c6AgA

I agree that the intro is extremely familiar and I can't put my finger on it. The drums remind of this ident for ATV though... yQi80PvvJis I'm wondering if the fast bit of the intro might have been used as background music for chase scenes on cartoons, or in films, as I can sort of imagine Road Runner or some such being chased to that music.

The One Week Wonders - Episode 16 We carry on where we left off yesterday, on 24th September 1955. Our first song was charting that week at #20. It's a version of Blue Star (The Medic Theme), which as it's title suggests was the theme tune to Medic, which was a US television series that wasn't actually broadcast in the UK at the time. The big hit version, which reached #2 was by Cyril Stapleton, whilst this version was by Charlie Applewhite with Victor Young and Chorus. Victor Young was actually the original composer of the song. There was also a third version that would chart, but more of that tomorrow... HSFuRvV5IKo Our next song was originally released by Glenn Miller in 1942, and is That Old Black Magic by Sammy Davis Jr, which charted at #16 on 1st October 1955. MuGqDEn59KQ Our final song today was one of four charting versions of Hey There. The most succesful versions chartwise were by Rosemary Clooney and Johnnie Ray, which peaked at #4 and #5 respectively. Another version, by Lita Roza, charted at #17 on 8th October 1955, but managed to just about cling on in the chart the following week, at a tied 20th place. The version we're interested in also charted on 8th October 1955, but at #19, and is also by Sammy Davis Jr. And no, even though these two Sammy Davis Jr songs charted within a week of each other they aren't two sides of the same disc this time. Za4TJ3eCfKA

The One Week Wonders - Episode 15 First up today, after a run of 5 top ten hits, including one charttopper, it's a one week entry into the charts at #20 on 10th September 1955 for Doris Day with Love Me Or Leave Me. Here she is performing it in the film of the same name. eBtvCHKn_oU Next up it's Tony Bennett's first charting single since Stranger In Paradise. Charting at #18 on 17th September 1955 is Close Your Eyes. F8AZk-2oO00 Finally this last song is actually the other side of a single called Go On By, which spent four weeks in the chart and peaked at #16. The side we're interested in charted first for one week at #17 on 24th September 1955, before the disc dropped out for two weeks, before returning on 15th Sept as Go On By. It's The Banjo's Back In Town by Alma Cogan. tpC0lXWZbEI

The One Week Wonders - Episode 14 Sorry, it's rather a late one tonight, but better late than never I guess. We start today with one of the 50's most iconic songs, Unchained Melody. The song began life in January 1955 as the theme song for an obscure prison film called Unchained. The film's version was performed by Todd Duncan, but his version didn't trouble our charts, in fact I can't be sure it even got a release here. By summer 1955 there were however four other versions in the charts. The two big versions were by housewives' favourite Jimmy Young, and US singer Al Hibbler. NME says Jimmy's version was the one topping the charts, whilst Record Mirror says it was Al, but either way both were at the upper end of the charts. Another US singer, Les Baxter, had a version slightly further down the charts, peaking at #10. Les' version stands out to me, as it begins with the words "unchain me, unchain me" being sung, when the song in most of it's version is normally seen as being a song that doesn't reference any part of its title. Neither Les nor Al would have another hit in this country, whilst Jimmy still had a fair few to come, as well as a later careeer in DJing. But the version of Unchained Melody we're interested in charted for one week at #20 on 18th June 1955, and was by flamboyant pianist Liberace. 7qNLIOIx_zw [Edited on 11th September 2021 to fix a dead link. Original link was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03z59EpPxRI] Next up we have the Five Smith Brothers. Originally they were five actual brothers, Alfred, Harold, Martin, Royston and Stanley, and had been singing together since 1932. Having all served in WWII they then lost one brother, Martin, in a car accident in 1946. They then brought in an outsider, Ronnie Culbertson, who apparently then became Ronnie Smith. Anyway their UK chart career extended to just this one single week, 23rd July 1955, when they charted at #20 with I'm In Favour Of Friendship. I have to say that I'm in favour of this song! YSYwO8kkLLo Finally for today it's ol' blue eyes himself, Frank Sinatra. He charted at #18 on 3rd September 1955 with Not As A Stranger, from the film of the same name, in which Frank starred. wJzN7qxaFSw

The One Week Wonders - Episode 13 We start off where we left off yesterday, with Tweedle Dee. The second version getting it's sole week in the charts, at #20, was by Georgia Gibbs, real name Frieda Lipschitz. Here's a short clip of her performing the song, but with a link to the full single underneath. rdh8SM23Tk8 Full version: Our next song is a duet between an established singer and a small boy. It's Open Your Heart by Joan and Rusty Regan, which charted at #19 on 7th May 1955. I assume Rusty was her son, though I've not been able to verify this anywhere. Certainly Joan went on to record a song called Papa Loves Mama with her then two year old daughter, Donna. I'm not sure why Rusty is surnamed Regan though, considering that Joan Regan is a stage name and Regan is neither her maiden name, nor her married name at that time, so Rusty must also be using a stage name, meaning he could be anyone and therefore not neccessarily her son. Another odd thing about this single is that it is not shown in the NME chart book, which has a Ray Burns single at #19 this week instead, whilst Guinness and the OCC say that Ray was actually joint 20th and that Joan and Rusty had a single week at #19. YZTMvHcl100 Our final song today is Paths of Paradise by Johnnie Ray, which charted at #20 on 21st May 1955. rVn0SIvakFU

The One Week Wonders - Episode 12 We start today with an appropriately titled track, In The Beginning. It's by Frankie Laine, and is his 15th chart hit, in a period of less than 3 years. It reached #20 on 12th March 1955. nLP4FpXYVUg [Edited on 11th September 2021 to fix a dead link. Original link was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S0h3_7LGXA] Next up is a chart debut for the McGuire Sisters. The single we're interested in is the other side of Sincerely, which was a US number one, but here only got as far as #14. This side, No More, spent one week at #20 on 2nd April 1955. g-LwkKkN3RA [Edited on 11th September 2021 to fix a dead link. Original link was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXeQqiNsKyU] Finally we move on to the 23rd April 1955, when two versions of the same song were both having their one and only week on chart. We'll hear the higher placed one now, and cover the other one as our first song tomorrow. The song is Tweedle Dee, and the version charting at #17 was by Frankie Vaughan, as his first release on Philips (having previously released two singles on the HMV label). D782niI72CA

Nevermind. Immediately after I wrote this I suddenly thought to try editing the first post, and low and behold when you 'full edit' said first post you also have the ability to edit the title and subtitle. For some reason I had previously assumed that the titles were a separate entity to the first post, and had never therefore never though to try that.

Sorry to ressurrect an really old thread, but I'm looking for help with this, and couldn't find any newer references to it. I'm hoping to slightly rephrase the topic title for my One Week Wonders thread, and can't seem to find any way of doing so. Or is the ability to edit the topic title of your threads a privilege that only some accounts are allowed?

The One Week Wonders - Episode 11 Our first song this week is by a trio of sisters, Peggy, Cherie and Babette (although later on a cousin, Olgita sometimes stood in for the latter of those). The song, Teach Me Tonight, charted in five different versions in the U.S. (Janet Brace, Jo Stafford, Dinah Washington and Helen Grayco being the other four), but this version, which hit #2 in the US, was the only version to chart here, and even then for only one week at #20 on the 12th February 1955. They are the DeCastro Sisters, and this was their only charting single in the UK. The footage I've found here was from 1957 and also features them performing a comic version of Heartbreak Hotel! I'll add a link underneath to the actual single though, for those who want to hear it in full. JMoL11pFOeo The full single: Our second song is another one that was available in many versions, in this instance four. Teresa Brewer was who I would associate the song with, but that only got to #9, compared to #5 for the Ruby Murray version, and #3 for the Dean Martin version. As well as those three there was also this version, which was the one that topped the US chart. The song is Let Me Go Lover, and the artist is Joan Weber. The song charted at #16 on 19th February 1955, and was Joan's only week on chart here. h29qW_uONs8 [Edited on 11th September 2021 to fix a dead link. Original link was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hyLRbRCCLU] Finally Jade will be glad to know our third song today is by the Stargazers! By now they were on their 5th charting single, of which three had topped the charts, and we have already seen the other exception, The Happy Wanderer. This one is called Somebody, and it charted at #20 on 5th March 1955. AY_LVuKjM3E

The One Week Wonders - Episode 10 We have a particularly 'sing-a-long' episode in store today... Well I promised you a surprise in this episode, and I think this particular song really is that. The artist in question had already had three previous singles enter the UK charts when this charted for one week at #16 on 11th December 1954. The song has since appeared in loads of films, commercials and so on, and is thus a really familiar song to most of us, but amazingly this song has never managed a second week in the UK charts at any time. Seen here performing it on his own show it's Perry Como's Papa Loves Mambo. ER17aQTklPE Our second one today will also seem quite a familiar song, even if you don't necessarily know this version. Mr Sandman was charting in four versions around this time, the one that charted highest was by Dickie Valentine, who peaked at #5. There was a Four Aces version that peaked at #9. And probably the most familiar version was by the Chordettes, which peaked at #11. They were joined by this fourth version, which charted for one week only at #16 on 22 January 1955, and was by Mr Sing-A-Long himself, Max Bygraves. B43vLVZbs3Q Our final song today, which charted at #13 on 5th February 1955, is taken from 'The Student Prince', a film that was originally meant to star Mario Lanza in the lead, but he either was fired, or voluntarily walked off the project, depending on who you believe. Whilst he didn't appear on screen, the music he recorded for the film was already contracted to be used, and so the new lead, Edmund Purdom, had to perform the songs within the scene, only to then be overdubbed with Mario's original recording. The song we are interested in was the 'other side' of Serenade, which charted later in 1955 for a few weeks and should not be confused with a completely different song also called Serenade that Mario released and charted in 1956. The other side of the first Serenade, and the song we are concerned with here, was Drink, Drink, Drink (The Drinking Song), and is shown here as seen in the film, Edmund in vision, Mario's vocal, and in full colour, but somewhat shortened compared to the actual single (which I will post a link to underneath for anyone who wants to listen to the full song). OI3Bcgh4Jko The full version:

The One Week Wonders - Episode 9 We left off in July 1954, but there is quite a big gap before the next one. In the mean time, on 2nd October 1954, the chart was extended from a top 12 to a top 20, so we are now, for the most part, mining slightly deeper for our one week wonders than we were before. Our first two are both from 6th November 1954, so we are within 65 years of the current date now! The first is a duet between the Johnston Brothers, who have just had a hit with Oh Happy Day and Joan Regan, who had had three top ten hits at this stage. The song charted at #18 and is Wait For Me, Darling. 9pFH5vAZwNI Next up Dickie Valentine makes a third appearance on our list, charting in the same week at #19 with Endless. Don't feel too sorry for him though as he's only a couple of months away from the first of his two number ones. BYaTtbp_0mU Finally we have a Canadian singer, Norman Brooks, whose real name was Norman Arie. His main claim to fame was being able to impersonate Al Jolson, most notably in the 1956 film 'The Best Things In Life Are Free'. He also played himself in the 1960 film 'Oceans Eleven'. This single entered at #13 on 13th November 1954, and represents the only week of UK chart action this singer ever had. The song is A Sky Blue Shirt And A Rainbow Tie. UgaxSe9oyf0 Thats it for today, but I'm looking forward to tomorrow's three, which include, I think, a big suprise that no-one would guess was on this list...

As a big Victoria Wood fan I'm suitably embarrassed that I forgot that!

The One Week Wonders - Episode 8 We start today's episode by having to go backwards in time again, something I wasn't banking on, but I'm afraid there was a little cock up in the research department. Our first song today charted at #12 on 24/01/1953, in a tied position with two other singles. My source for the 50s, The Complete NME Singles Charts, listed those other two singles, but failed to list this one, and for my part I failed to corroborate the 50s list I compiled against a second source before starting this thread, and only uncovered the omission when I finally did do that last night. Better late than never though I guess. The song is by Tony Brent and is called Got You On My Mind. m2blAvv-2KA And having put that right we magically fast forward over a year to where we were before, in time to find our second song for today. This one was a US number one, but here it managed only one week at #8 on 8th May 1954. It's by Jo Stafford and is rather candidly for the 50s entitled Make Love To Me. xzufXRPf-hQ Finally today we have the UK chart debut of one of music's great legends, Frank Sinatra. This particular song had one week at #12 on 10th July 1954 here, but in the US it hit number two and was a million seller there. Indeed this song was such a hit there that a movie already in production, featuring Frank Sinatra and Doris Day, was renamed to match this song so that they could use it on the opening and closing credits. The song is Young At Heart. aZRn4auk4PQ

Are you a fan of the Fast Show? It features fairly prominently in one of their sketches, so that could be what you're thinking of.

Ok, I'm going to try a daily post of one trio of one week wonders. I've already done 6 such trios over my previous posts, so here is Episode 7 of The One Week Wonders. Our first one this time is another case of the other side of a disc charting in its own right. Guy Mitchell was having quite a big hit (peaking at #2) with Cloud Lucky Seven, but on 27th February 1954 the other side, Sippin' Soda, joined it in the charts for one week at #11 (Cloud Lucky Seven stayed put at #4 that same week). d7gSybYrZsU Our second one week wonder today is an alternative version of a song that was much more successful by another act. The song is The Happy Wanderer, which was a big hit for the Obernkirchen Children's Choir, who I believe John Peel claimed were the first live gig he ever saw. Their version stayed in the charts for an impressive 26 weeks, and spent five consecutive weeks at number 2. On the fourth of those weeks, 10th April 1954, the second version, by the Stargazers, charted at number #12. I wonder if some sales being lost to the Stargazers version contributed to the Obenkirchen Children's Choir missing out on number one, despite that version's chart longevity? iVmu0PLalZE And lastly for today a one week wonder for Nat 'King' Cole. Charting for one week at #10 on 17th April 1954 was Tenderly. His next single in the charts would be the #2 hit Smile, perhaps his best-known song. I could have linked to the original recording, but instead I found a video of the great man in action, performing Tenderly on his own show in 1957. r1EXQY2UVsE And before I end for today, there's another bonus to add. On 13th March 1954 a recording from 1946 managed to chart in the NME chart for a single week at #12. It would have been one of our trio today, had it not returned to the charts in early 1976 as part of a triple a-side which would peak at #13. The other two 'sides' on that occasion were In The Mood and Little Brown Jug, and this is Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade. rjq1aTLjrOE

One more trio for tonight, even if it is well after 3am now.... Our next one is from 11th July 1953, and charted at #12. It's by Vivian Blaine, and is a song from the musical 'Guys and Dolls', called 'Bushel and a Peck'. There was another version by Doris Day that was quite well known in the US, but that didn't chart here in the UK. Vivian was the actress and singer who had originally performed in the Guys and Dolls stage show on Broadway, as Miss Adelaide, back in 1950. She had been reprising the role at the London Coliseum since the 28th May 1953. This song was dropped from the film version of Guys and Dolls and replaced with Pet Me Poppa. C5BKa8xGlzo Quite a big gap now, until 3rd October 1953, and the chart debut of a tenor from Hull called David Whitfield. David was fresh from having won a radio version of Opportunity Knocks on Radio Luxembourg. His first couple of singles failed to chart, but this, his third release, was a one week wonder at #9, his next release, which charted just a fortnight later, was Answer Me, which would hit number one, making the second Brit (after Lita Roza, who was Liverpudlian) and the first British talent show winner to do so. YHsD-de7YgE And on to 30th January 1954 and another future charttopper's chart debut, this time Frankie Vaughan. It's a slightly novelty offering called Istanbul (Not Constantinople). There's also a sped up version from June 1990 by They Might Be Giants, but that managed 3 weeks in the lower reaches of the chart, and so won't bother us on this list. Sqxs6ZeQER4 Finally, for the same reasons as the 1952 bonuses, here's a 1953 bonus. For, I think, the only time Xmas 1953 saw two weeks in a row where a new chart was not compiled, 26th December 1953 and 2nd January 1953, and consequently chartologists plug both gaps with the chart from 19th December 1953. On the 19th December 1953 there were three versions of I Saw Mommy Kisisng Santa Claus in the chart. The Jimmy Boyd version on Columbia was at number 8, but had already peaked at number 3, whilst the Beverly Sisters version, on Philips, was now at #7 having already peaked one place higher at #6. The third version was entering at #12, was on Decca, and was by Billy Cotton and his Band. By the time normal chart service had been resumed, for the 9th January 1954, there was no further trace of any of the three versions, meaning that Billy's version has three chart weeks in most chartologists databases even though all three weeks derive from a single compiled chart. 34 years later, in December 1987, one other version of the song, by Michael Jackson, troubled the lower reaches of the chart peaking at #91, though managing 4 weeks in the 91-100 range. Again no version of this Xmas song has reappeared in the Official Top 100 in the download and streaming era, and checking the Spotfy Daily UK Top 200 for Xmas Day 2018 shows only two versions of the song, a Jackson 5 version at 42 (I'm not sure if this is the same as the Michael Jackson version that charted in 1987) and a version by the Ronettes at 195. Anyway here's the Billy Cotton version. PtcIvhSKrg8 And that's it for 1953. Not sure when I'll carry on again with 1954, but I'm thinking maybe doing this twice a week on Tuesday and Friday, with a larger number run through on each day, or else doing a trio of tracks each evening from now on, I'm not sure which people would prefer, so let me know what you think.

I'm glad you're enjoying it. I agree that Joni James has a lovely voice, and I do love I See The Moon by the Stargazers. Don't worry that you're discovering pretty much everything in this thread so far, that was sort of the very concept behind it, as I figured that the shorter the time spent in the chart the more obscure the tracks, and the more likely it would be that I (and other buzzjackers) hadn't heard them before, yet at the same time the fact they charted at all should ensure some level of quality, at least at first when the chart was still relatively short. Although I do have a ton of chart trivia in my head for the 50s (and am enjoying researching quite a lot more as I go along), I'm not necessarily familiar with the recordings either, other than those that reached the top 2 or 3 and a handful of others, so I'm on a voyage of discovery here myself.

Yes I think I remember seeing a thread about 76-100 positions over at ukmix, but please do point me (and anyone else who's interested) to it (or are we not supposed to link to rival chart forums here?).

Our next trio of one week wonders are, for the first time, all from the same chart week, 6th June 1953, the week of the Queen's coronation. I think it's amazing that although this thread will (if it gets that far) span a fairly huge number of minor hits, over a period of nearly 70 years, nonetheless all of them have happened during the reign of just one monarch.... But on with our trio. The first one was at #7, and was a second chart version of In A Golden Coach, a song directly about the Coronation, which was already charting in a version by Billy Cotton and his band. Again the one week wonder version is by Dickie Valentine, and again Decca are for some reason competing with themselves by releasing both versions. Possibly the in-house competition had more effect this time, as Billy had dropped to #7 in the week that Dickie entered at #8, but then the following week Dickie's version vanished from the charts, whilst Billy's shot up to #3. The Dickie version achieves the highest peak so far for a one week wonder, and despite my research having already reached the 60s I haven't yet found one with a higher peak. HJ-8qeh_hwo The second one is the fourth single to chart for forces sweetheart Vera Lynn, The Windsor Waltz, which spent it's one chart week at #11. I suspect, from the Windsor connection, that this was also related in some way to the Coronation, but I can't find any mention of this anywhere, so perhaps any such connection was just in the mind of the sudden (comparative) rush of purchasers in that week? 3jKvSE3F9qQ Finally at number 12 is an alternative version of I'm Walking Behind You by Dorothy Squires, on the Polygon label, which was set up by Leslie Clark so he could control the distribution of his daughter, Petula's, recordings. The more well known version on HMV, by Eddie Fisher and Sally Sweetland, was at #6 in that same week, and would go on to top the charts. _9T4pbAECtE

Ha! I thought the same thing for a long time too!

Staying with 21st March 1953, and moving down to #12, we find a tune with it's roots in 1940, in a piece by Duke Ellington sideman Johnny Hodges. Apparently this particular track, Night Train, by trombonist Buddy Morrow, was sometimes the soundtrack for burlesque striptease! pcs7FAH63Fg On 4th April 1953 a duet charted at #12, between two future chart toppers, Doris Day and Johnnie Ray. The song was 'Ma Says, Pa Says'. rNsNXDDdXbc [Edited on 11th September 2021 to fix a dead link. Old link was ] Two weeks later, 18th April 1953, the same two artists charted another one week wonder, this time at #11. There something a little odd going on here though, as on closer inspection both duets have the same catalogue number, as they were in fact different sides of the same disc! Chart rules at the time meant that each sale in any of NME's chart return shops had to be logged under the side that was actually requested at the counter, and that both sides could thus chart separately of each other. Since the chart saw these singles as being separate, then so do I, and thus this duo achieve two one week wonders in a fortnight with either side of the same disc. The side that achieved it second was called A Full Time Job. BM_TPl6hyt8 [Edited on 11th September 2021 to fix a dead link. Old link was ]

On to the 20th February 1953, and to the chart debut of an artist who would go on to top the charts. This single, which charted at #12, was the third version of Broken Wings to hit the charts. The most sucessful version was a charttopper for the Stargazers on the Decca label, and there was also a version on HMV's label, by Art and Dotty Todd, which peaked at number 6. But the version which joins our list is strangely also on the Decca label, which seems a bit bizarre as the label is essentially competing with itself, and potentially transferring some sales from the charttopping version to the minor version, but these were different times, and I guess the label was making money either way. This third version introduced the UK chart watching (and listening) public to Dickie Valentine. 6OB4Me06a0w Charting at #11 on 7th March 1953 is Joni James, with a song called Why Don't You Believe Me?. She escapes being the second act on our list to have a UK chart career of only one week, as she managed to gain one more week in 1959, with another single. W_Zxlop6_cE Also at #11, but on 21st March 1953, is Frankie Laine, with a song called the Girl In The Wood. I can see from Steve Waters' Missing Charts book that it must have been released around about September 1951, so I'm not quite sure how it came to trouble the NME chart in March 1953. It was the last of only two Columbia releases by Frankie Laine to chart on the NME chart. His next chart entry, now on the Phillips label, was the chart busting hit I Believe, which broke records for the length of time it spent at the top of the charts. Mrzp5L9zN_o

And on with 1953 The first one week wonder of 1953 was called Glow Worm, and was by the Mills Brothers. It charted at number 10 on 10/01/1953. The Mills Brothers were originally four actual brothers, but one of them, John Jr, had passed away aged just 25 in 1936, and was then replaced by his father, John Sr. Apparently their recordings have since been lost in the fire in 2008 that destroyed a vast number of masters by a large number of artists. The Mills Brothers entire chart career in the UK is literally just this one week, though in the US they were much more successful. 2zOoAPn3OjQ You wait for a one week wonder to occur, then two come along at once! It's strange how they have been mostly happening in pairs so far, with a particular chart either containing two one-week wonders, or none. Anyway we go down one place to number 11 on the same chart and find an alternative version of a more successful hit, a common occurence in the early years of the charts. In fact there were two versions that charted higher at around the same time. The song in question is 'Faith Can Move Mountains', which peaked highest, at #7, for Johnnie Ray and the Four Lads, on the Columbia label. The second versions was Capitol's version, by Nat 'King' Cole, which peaked at #10. These versions had 3 and 4 weeks on chart respectively. The version we are interested in here is on the Decca label (which seems to be something of a recurring theme for 1953 one week wonders), and is by one-time Radio 2 favourite Jimmy Young. EXD1XgIz6lk One week later, on 17th January 1953, again at #11 we have bandleader Ted Heath and his music, with a tune called Vanessa. 2l03bQ2OJ4s

Well Steve there are actually five versions of Silent Night that have charted over the years, so by way of a bonus feature, here is a Silent Night top 5 pop pickers, though only the Bing Crosby version above is potentially elligible for our main list. At 5th place is this sublime version by Sinead O'Connor which peaked at number 60 in December 1991 eq5FAbdkZg4 For 4th place we go from the sublime to, if not the ridiculous at least to the very different, with this punk version by The Dickies in December 1978, which peaked at number 47. 9BkkvvbgTrk Up to 3rd place and we find a rather chilling version by Simon and Garfunkel, which was released as part of a double a side for xmas 1991, having been tracks from one of their albums. This Simon and Garfunkel version feature them singing the carol whilst a news bulletin from 3rd August 1966 fades up. WgYFXCUEL4Y Number 2 is the Bing Crosby version mentioned and linked above, which, as mentioned, peaked at number 8 for just the two weeks, one of which was a repeated chart rather than a newly calculated chart. That just leaves number one in your Silent Night chart, which is another double A side, this time paired with a track called Cat Among The Pigeons. I entered the chart at number two in w/e 3rd December 1988 and was by Bros. NPUCpj_da0E I'm actually suprised that no version of Silent Night has reentered the Official Top 100 in the download/streaming era. Looking at the UK Spotfy Top 200 chart for xmas day 2018, which was almost exclusively Xmas songs, I can find three versions of Silent Night, in the following order, Michael Buble at #117, Mariah Carey at #153 and Bing Crosby at #190. The first two are probably helping their respective Xmas albums in the albums chart, even if they have not charted as an indidivual track in the Official Top 100 Singles Chart. Again, as a reminder, only Bing's version is potentially elligible for our main list, the others having indisputably spent additional weeks in the chart.