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1960: Easter Sunday 17th April: Chart Published 14th April Jimmy Jones' Handy Man leaps from 12 to 3, and Cliff Richard and the Shadows climb one place to 2 with Fall In Love With You, but neither had what it took to dethrone the number one from the previous two weeks, My Old Man's A Dustman, which makes Lonnie Donegan the first artist to have two easter number ones later (somebody later has three, see if you can guess who). 0CEXiVppWYk

More or less Danny, there was a live action film version was released in the cinema around that time and the B52s (of Love Shack fame) appeared in it as stone age band the BC52s (see what they did there?). They also recorded a version of the normal theme tune, but I think it was a bit longer and poppier/dancier than the normal one from memory.

As the groups released different numbers of albums and singles each, and therefore direct comparison could be misleading with total sales figures, I thought I'd calculate the average single, album and combined sales for each group, based on the sales figures given above. Average Single Sales 1. B*Witched 330k 2. 5ive 250k 3. Atomic Kitten 210k 4. Honeyz 160k 5. Blue 150k 6.= Liberty X 110k 6.= 911 110k Average Album Sales 1. Blue 938k 2. Atomic Kitten 580k 3. B*Witched 500k 4. 5ive 430k 5. Liberty X 350k 6. Honeyz 100k 7. 911 50k Average release sales (singles and albums combined) 1. B*Witched 360k 2. Blue 330k 3. 5ive 300k 4. Atomic Kitten 290k 5.= Honeyz 150k 5.= Liberty X 150k 7. 911 94k

1959: Easter Sunday 29th March: Chart Published 27th March The previous weeks top 2, Shirley Bassey's As I love You and The Platters Smoke Gets In your Eyes, each drop a place to allow one Trevor Stanford to climb from 3 to the top spot with an instrumental hit. wZ_tDn-LC40

1958: Easter Sunday 6th April: Chart Published 4th April Tommy Steele climbed a place into the top 3 with Nairobi, and Marvin Rainwater climbed from 5 to 2 with Whole Lotta Woman, but nothing could stop Perry Como from claiming a 6th week at number one. Marvin did eventually oust him after two additional weeks. OJORyoM4rQ0

1957: Easter Sunday 21st April: Chart published 19th April The week before Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat Song and Tab Hunter's Young Love had shared number two, but now Tab pulled slightly ahead relegating Harry to number 3. It wasn't enough, however, to edge out the king of skiffle Lonnie Donegan from the top spot. jWA997xM9MI Can I add at this point my thanks to Mart!n for bringing me up to speed with inserting youtube videos into my messages. Also I'd like to say please feel free to discuss the easter charttoppers already revealed here so far, and of course let me know if I have made any errors.

1956: Easter Sunday 1st April: Chart Published 30th March Winifred Atwell's Poor People Of Paris was climbing 5 to 3, whilst the previous week's number one It's Almost Tomorrow was deplaced to number 2 for one week only, by Kay Starr's Rock And Roll Waltz, the first mention of Rock and Roll at the top of the charts, though the track was far from rock and roll itself. 6aTRzsJb3-4

1955: Easter Sunday 10th April: Chart published 8th April In 1955 the top 3 were unchanged from the week before, Perez Prado's Cherry Pink at 3 (whilst Eddie Calvert's version was debuting at 11), Ruby Murray singing Softly, Softly at 2 and Tennessee Ernie Ford retaining the top spot with Give Me Your Word. hdJ1UAzms9g

1954: Easter Sunday 18th April: Chart published 16th April The Stargazers once again miss out, as having been number one the week before with I See The Moon, and returning to the top spot the following week, they drop inexplicably to number three, behind the fairly long running number two The Happy Wanderer, by the Obernkirchen Children's Choir. At the same time Doris Day sends her Secret Love climbing from 5 to easter number one, only to drop to number two for two weeks before returning to the top and spending 8 more weeks there. FL87sHjXlVU

We all know about all the xmas number ones, the classics, the novelty and the x factor, but what about the easter number ones? We're currently getting ready to rumble with this year's easter chart, but I thought it would be interesting to take at look at easter charttoppers gone by. I have found out the date of Easter Sunday for every year since 1953 and done my best to understand chart dates and publication dates to identify the correct chart in each case. From 1988 onwards it's easier in that a new chart was announced on the day, but before that date I've chosen the last chart announced or published prior to the day. 1953: Easter Sunday 5th April: Chart published 3rd April The Stargazers - Broken Wings had made a strong climb from 8 to 2, but it wasn't enough to knock Guy Mitchell's She Wears Red Feathers off the top spot. To modern ears at least a bit of a novelty to start us off. mtv_SJQHamw

It's with sadness that I saw my local store in Swindon has now closed it's doors. Is it one of the first to go, or have other stores now closed too?

Well I've downloaded it and am supporting the campaign. I was just thinking last week why do we build up the xmas number one and ignore the easter number one? So I say let's start a new tradition of fun easter number ones!

@Thermometer I doubt "I know him so well" is the actual lowest selling comic relief single, for a start they missed Chris Jarvis - Glasses, which was apparently the CBBC Comic Relief Single of 1997. I only discovered this single last year in a 99p type shop in Minehead that had a whole box of new copies of it, some 12 years after it's release. How many other long forgotten flops are missing from the list? Also 'Sit down' could well sell even less as it has only bobbed into the itunes top 30 briefly and dropped out again already, although I don't know what sales it had to start with.

If you mean red nose day, no, the first red nose day was in 1988. But comic relief, the actual charity, exists and functions continously even when it isn't red nose day, so it was just another fund raising idea rather than a tie-in to one of the days.

Ok then, here is the full list of my chart related quizzes so far The Chart Of Chartoppers http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...charttoppers-uk The first new number one of every year http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...ne-of-each-year UK Number Twos Part 1 1952-60 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...ber-two-singles UK Number Twos Part 2 1960-4 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...ler-number-twos UK Number Twos Part 3 1965-9 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...r-twos-part-two UK Number Twos Part 4 1969-72 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...r-twos-part-one UK Number Twos Part 5 1972-6 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...r-twos-part-two UK Number Twos Part 6 1977-80 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...twos-part-three UK Number Twos Part 7 1980-2 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...-twos-part-four UK Number Twos Part 8 1983-6 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...r-twos-part-one UK Number Twos Part 9 1986-9 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...r-twos-part-two UK Number Twos Part 10 1990-4 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...twos-part-three UK Number Twos Part 11 1994-7 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...r-twos-part-one UK Number Twos Part 12 1997-9 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...r-twos-part-two UK Number Twos Part 13 2000-2 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...twos-part-three UK Number Twos Part 14 2003-4 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...-twos-part-four UK Number Twos Part 15 2005-7 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...-twos-part-five UK Number Twos Part 16 2008-11 http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...r-twos-part-six I will continue to add a new part to the series as and when there are enough new number twos to do so, and I am working on a number threes series that I will post the links to when I've done it. I'm not sure if I'll bother going beyond number threes.

It's good to know I'm not the only buzjacker who's also a sporcler :-) I have many quizzes on sporcle but have just completed a series which may be my magnificent octopus. I have created a series of 16 quizzes about UK number twos, covering every single pop music era from 1952 to 2012, roughly 3 years/60 number twos in each quiz but obviously varies. I appreciate comments on my quizzes too, particularly if I have made mistakes or accidentally missed something, so feel free to let me know once you've played. The first of my series is here: http://www.sporcle.com/games/mrdannydoodah...ber-two-singles I can link all 16 here if you want but they all follow the same title format with just the compiler and years changing on each one so should be easy to find.

Did Bodyshakin really outsell 911'S two higher placed singles, more than a woman and a little bit more? It suprised me to see that as their biggest seller as I can't remember it that well compared to many of their others.

Already got them all on my ipod so although I voted for Atomic Kitten as one of my favourite songs ever it'd have to be a new physical release, ideally vinyl, not just a repromotion of the already available download. Am I understanding right that the Kerry version hasn't ever been available in the UK (just Japan?)? If so there is a clear reason to download/buy it again if that became available, it'd finally become a million seller then too.

We have two EE's in Swindon with one small shop in between, where we once had an orange and a t-mobile, so makes sense they'd be shutting a fair few down now. "This thread makes me want to tear my eyes out, delusional idiots who can't see six feet in front of them. CDs will survive as long as people are willing to pay a little extra to have a physical copy of an album. If they're not then so be it, digital albums will take over if download stores are clever enough to undercut the physical by enough to make it worthwhile. In an age when even ignoring illegal downloads music is cheaper than ever I cannot see how the idea of paying for an album is going to disappear." While he might not fully understand business concepts, and probably doesn't claim to, I can't see why Big Mistake is getting so much abuse on here. I completely see where he is coming from when he says that download albums will never replace physical ones. I think that even if the vast majority of physical purchasers can be wooed over to the download format they just won't buy whole albums in the same way online, but cherry pick things, which is why the singles market is somewhat artificially buoyant, if you only counted the sales of products actually marketed or planned as singles then the singles market probably wouldn't be anywhere near as healthy looking. And he said something about there being no difference between a legal and illegal download, I agree that since the result is virtually the same file on your computer either way there isn't really a strong incentive to want the legal version, whereas with physicals an illegal cd would always look wrong in some way and a legal one somehow more real and satisfying. Probably the overall question for the health of the music industry is whether the continually increasing back catalogue track sales can compensate for the loss of sales in complete albums.

Interesting to note the ones they completely ignored 1953 Frankie Laine - I Believe 1954 Winifred Atwell - Let's Have Another Party 1956 Johnny Ray - Just Walkin' In The Rain 1958 Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe 1959 Emile Ford and the Checkmates - What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For 1960 Cliff Richard and the Shadows - I Love You 1961 Danny Williams - Moon River 1962 Elvis Presley - Return To Sender 1966 Tom Jones - Green Green Grass Of Home 1970 Dave Edmund's Rockpile - I Hear You Knockin' 1971 Benny Hill - Ernie The Fastest Milkman In The West 1972 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool 1975 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 1977 Wings - Mull Of Kintyre/Girls' School 1979 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2 1980 St. Winifred's School Choir - There's No One Quite Like Grandma 1983 Flying Pickets - Only You 1986 Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite 1987 Pet Shop Boys - Always On Your Mind 1989 Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas 1991 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 1999 Westlife - I Have A Dream/Seasons In The Sun 2002 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid 2003 Gary Jules and Michael Andres - Mad World 2004 Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? 2010 Matt Cardle - When We Collide So they skip two of the biggest sellers of all time, and some of the biggest cheese. Personally I would have thought that Winifred would have been highlighted as supplying the first novelty xmas number one (or at least 'fun' xmas number one) and far from the lights going out in the early seventies I'd say that those three skipped #1s were pretty colouful, I think 1970 was a very close battle with MacGuinness Flint and I really couldn't believe they skipped Benny Hill's epic. I can however understand them skipping some early 60s and later-mid eighties #1s as they are slightly more debatable due to the chart and anouncement dates for the later dates and of course the multiple magazines for the late fifties and early sixties. Someone questioned the bit about Spice Girls - Goodbye, they said they used the xmas #1 to bid us farewell, well I think at the time it *was* the last single as they hadn't expected at that point to do a third album or another single a couple of years later, certainly that's how I remember it as a fan at the time anyway.

Did I hear somewhere that this years xmas specials have more or less been confirmed as the last ever new editions of TOTP due to the BBC basically seeing TOTP as a tainted brand now due to the obvious? Do we know if the BBC4 reruns will continue into 1978 next year?

I see to remember at the time of Woolworths demise that there were two suppliers of physical media, a Woolworths owned company and one within HMV. Since the death of the woolworths one doesn't that mean the HMV supply chain has been supplying all the other retailers (supermarkets & online etc), so won't the death of HMV mean that there'll be no supply chain left to supply anyone else? I hope I'm wrong though.

Just noticed I used the wrong week's chart for 1952 (20th December 1952 instead of 29th November 1952), but if you scrub out Louis Armstrong, Johnnie Ray and Tony Brent, but add in Ray Martin (11/10/1918-07/02/1988) who was at that time 34, and you get the correct list for exactly 60 years ago, and a revised average age of around 37.1 (increasing despite dropping the old chart star of 1952 Louis Armstrong off the list).

Very nearly Steve201, I think I've seen Mantovani's birth quoted before as being in 1900 or 1899, but I can't find the source for that off-hand, and every where I consulted today says 1905 so maybe I'm imagining that. I've now done the list for this week in 1962 (1st December): Joe Loss 22/06/1909 53 died 06/06/1990 Nat 'King' Cole 17/03/1919 43 died 15/02/1965 Marty Robbins 26/09/1925 37 died 08/12/1982 Nick Massi (Four Seasons) 19/09/1927 35 died 24/12/2000 Tommy DeVito (Four Seasons) 19/06/1928 34 Now aged 84 Mr Acker Bilk 28/01/1929 33 Now aged 83 Rolf Harris 30/03/1930 32 Now aged 82 Kenny Ball 22/05/1930 32 Now aged 82 Ray Charles 23/09/1930 32 died 10/06/2004 Frankie Valli (Four Seasons) 03/05/1934 28 Now aged 78 Pat Boone 01/06/1934 28 Now aged 78 Ronnie Carroll 18/08/1934 28 Now aged 78 Del Shannon 30/12/1934 27 died 08/02/1990 Elvis Presley 08/01/1935 27 died 16/08/1977 Bobby Darin 13/05/1936 26 died 20/12/1973 Buddy Holly 07/09/1936 died aged 22, would have been 26 died 03/02/1959 Shirley Bassey 08/01/1937 25 Now aged 75 Don Everly (Everly Brothers) 01/02/1937 25 Now aged 75 Paddy Lightfoot (Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen) Sept Quarter 1937 Frank Ifield 30/11/1937 25/26 Now aged 75/76 Susan Maughan 01/07/1938 24 Now aged 74 Roger LaVern (Tornados) 11/11/1938 24 Now aged 74 Liquorice Locking (Shadows) 22/12/1938 23 Now aged 73 Phil Everly (Everly Brothers) 19/01/1939 23 Now aged 73 Marty Wilde 15/04/1939 23 Now aged 73 Johnny Tillotson 20/04/1939 23 Now aged 73 Heinz Burt (Tornados) 28/08/1939 23 Now aged 73 Jimmy Justice 15/12/1939 23 Now aged 73 Alan Caddy (Tornados) 02/02/1940 22 died 16/08/2000 Brian Bennett (Shadows) 09/02/1940 22 Now aged 72 Billy Fury 17/04/1940 22 died 28/01/1983 Adam Faith 23/06/1940 22 died 08/03/2003 Ringo Starr 07/07/1940 22 Now aged 72 Mike Sarne 06/08/1940 22 Now aged 72 John Lennon 09/10/1940 22 died 08/12/1980 Cliff Richard 14/10/1940 22 Now aged 72 Maureen Kennedy (Vernon Girls) ??/??/1940 Frances Lee (Vernon Girls) ??/??/1940 Craig Douglas 12/08/1941 21 Now aged 71 George Bellamy (Tornados) 08/10/1941 21 Now aged 71 Hank Marvin (Shadows) 28/10/1941 21 Now aged 71 Bruce Welch (Shadows) 02/11/1941 21 Now aged 71 Carole King 09/02/1942 20 Now aged 70 Tommy Roe 09/05/1942 20 Now aged 70 Paul McCartney 18/06/1942 20 Now aged 70 Clem Cattini (Tornados) 25/07/1942 20 died 07/04/2000 Bob Gaudio (Four Seasons) 17/11/1942 20 Now aged 70 Chris Montez 17/01/1943 19 Now aged 69 Mark Wynter 29/01/1943 19 Now aged 69 George Harrison 25/02/1943 19 died 29/11/2001 Little Eva 29/06/1943 19 died 10/04/2003 Brian Hyland 12/11/1943 19 Now aged 69 Jean Owen (Vernon Girls) 17/11/1943 19 Brenda Lee 11/12/1944 17 Now aged 67 Billie Davis 22/12/1945 16 Now aged 66 John Bennett (Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen) Dave Jones (Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen) Ron Weatherburn (Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen) Ron Bowden (Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen) Vic Pitt (Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen) Dickie Bishop (Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen) As you can see I've struggled for complete info for Kenny Ball's Jazzmen and the Vernon Girls and didn't even find names for Joe Loss' Orchestra

Col1967 mentioned that the pre rock n roll era was likely to have an older average age, which got me researching. Here are all the artists from the chart of 60 years ago (29th Nov 1952) and their birthdates and ages, the average age for the whole chart is around 36.5. Louis Armstrong 04/08/1901 51 died 06/07/1971 Bing Crosby 03/05/1903 49 died 14/10/1977 Mantovani 15/11/1905 47 died 29/03/1980 Frankie Laine 30/03/1913 39 died 06/02/2007 Jo Stafford 12/11/1917 35 died 16/07/2008 Vera Lynn 20/03/1917 35 Now aged 95 Nat "King" Cole 17/03/1919 33 died 15/02/1965 Mario Lanza 31/01/1921 31 died 07/10/1959 Doris Day 03/04/1922 30 Now aged 90 Al Martino 07/10/1927 25 died 13/10/2009 Guy Mitchell 27/02/1927 25 died 01/07/1999 Johnnie Ray 10/01/1927 25 died 24/02/1990 Tony Brent 26/08/1927 25 died 19/06/1993 Rosemary Clooney 23/05/1928 24 died 29/06/2002