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Vera Lynn - "My Son, My Son"
5 November for 2 weeks Can't find this song on youtube. unfortunately, i like vera Lynn. oh well...... |
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Don Cornell - "Hold My Hand"
19 November for 1 week again... |
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Rosemary Clooney - "This Ole House"
26 November for 1 week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-RO4tWXwhQ I love this song, shakin stevens eat your heart out. Was this the first rock n roll song? probably not, but a bit more rocking than the earlier turgid efforts. |
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Winifred Atwell - "Let's Have Another Party"
3 December for 5 weeks Sounds like an american version of "roll out the barrells". A pre Chas and Dave version of Chas and Dave. It is difficult to lambast Mr Blobby getting to no.1 when this sh.it was top of the hit parade back in the day. |
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Winifred Atwell - "Let's Have Another Party"
3 December for 5 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wriSEEJl3c Sounds like an american version of "roll out the barrells". A pre Chas and Dave version of Chas and Dave. It is difficult to lambast Mr Blobby getting to no.1 when this sh.it was top of the hit parade back in the day. |
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Somebody posted that Winifred looks like Emily Howard from "Little Britain", and hes spot on.
Made me chuckle :) |
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Dickie Valentine - "Finger Of Suspicion"
NME: 7 January for 1 week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnmqWoM_h4 I want everyone to listen to this. Is this the most awful song to ever reach No.1 in the UK singles chart? awful, awful, awful. |
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Rosemary Clooney - "Mambo Italiano"
NME: 14 January for 1 week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JoyjncxGc A decent tune, a famous tune, I presume everyone at leastn recognises this tune, and I apologise for posting a pretty sh.tty link to the song. overaall still only 4/10 for me. |
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just gone back to that madmadmoon. was emily howard the laaaady? if so then yes, i agree.
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Dickie Valentine - "The Finger Of Suspicion"
NME: 21 January for 2 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnmqWoM_h4 alright, I admit it has been pretty boring so far, and this song just takes the biscuit. I beg you not to look at the above link, it is an awful song, but I am expecting some action soon - 1955 now. |
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Rosemary Clooney- "Mambo Italiano"
NME: 4 February for 2 weeks RM: 22 January for 2 weeks as before.. |
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e l if your struggling for links
try mp3ify.com |
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thanks cleverclogs.
Dean Martin - "The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane" RM: 12 February for 1 week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBhdh95xyE I don't like this song, boring. |
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Ruby Murray - "Softly, Softly"
NME: 18 February for 3 weeks RM: 12 March for 1 week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnClIipUPMw poor mans vera lynn. and a cra.p song to boot. I like a vindaloo mind. |
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Tennessee Ernie Ford - "Give Me Your Word"
NME: 11 March for 7 weeks RM: 19 February for 3 weeks and 19 March for 7 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or22VCozQAY booooooring. |
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Perez Prado - "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)"
NME: 29 April for 2 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDjAN8sKb1A video better than the song imo. |
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Tony Bennett - "Stranger in Paradise"
NME: 13 May for 2 weeks RM: 7 May for 5 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzA8gwfJr9I Marmite? for me it is arsenic. |
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this could be the greatest thread in the history of betfair...
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E L Wisty 06 Mar 04:54
Ruby Murray - "Softly, Softly" NME: 18 February for 3 weeks RM: 12 March for 1 week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnClIipUPMw poor mans vera lynn. and a cra.p song to boot. I like a vindaloo mind. lol fkin quality |
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Eddie Calvert - "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)"
NME: 27 May for 4 weeks same song was no 1. a few weeks ago by a different artist/singer/band/group ffs. How sh.it is that? Not long to go before the chuck berry brigade hit town. |
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i may join in when you hit the good stuff and the 60s mate
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Al Hibbler - "Unchained Melody"
RM: 11 June for 4 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7obNtXLYU well this is news to me. One of the most famous songs of all time, surely by anyones standards. I'm as cynical as the next man, but as romantic songs go this is one of the best. Not only was it not originally by the Righteous brothers, it was by a black man no less. Fair playh to Al Hibbler, I had never heard of him, but I have now. |
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Jimmy Young - "Unchained Melody"
NME:24 June for 3 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIrFIZ1vqYs I honestly didn't know this was the next number one when I posted my last post. What a joke, he just copied the guy before him. And did a worse version of it to boot. I really shouldn't give him the satisfaction of a link, but in the interests of consistency I shall. |
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you're welcome big game player.
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Alma Cogan - "Dreamboat"
NME:15 July for 2 weeks RM: 9 July for 2 weeks I just typed a long sentence about how sh.it this song is and accidentally deleted, can't be bothered to do the same. Besides I won't get the words right again. |
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Slim Whitman - "Rose Marie"
NME:29 July for 11 weeks RM: 23 July for 9 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZJF0-GUNQ0 A classic country song. Decent. That's all |
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rose marie was no 1 on my birthday
sorry to butt in but could you put the year in when it changes |
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Frankie Laine - "Cool Water"
RM: 1 October 1955 for 1 week One of the greatest western songs ever written. Sorry I just copied it from the blurb, a decent song nonetheless. Rock and Roll is imminent |
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Frankie Laine - "Cool Water"
RM: 1 October 1955 for 1 week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jj7qab6KC4 One of the greatest western songs ever written. Sorry I just copied it from the blurb, a decent song nonetheless. Rock and Roll is imminent |
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Jimmy Young - "The Man From Laramie"
NME:14 October for 4 weeks RM: 8 October for 5 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GPhXhEocw4 A touch of Elvis Presley about this, but at the end of the day he isn't Elvis. a pale imitation imo. Not for the first time this ... is.... Decent |
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Johnston Brothers - "Hernando's Hideaway"
NME:11 November for 2 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYeCFkyJR5c A strange song, this really is an education regards the mindset of my ancestors in 1955. |
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Are you ready for this? Well tbh it is five thirty in the morning, but this is where it all kicks off......
Interesting sh.it imminent.... |
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Bill Haley & His Comets - "Rock Around the Clock"
NME:25 November for 3 weeks RM: 12 November for 9 weeks [b][/b] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5fsqYctXgM And On the eighth day god created rock and roll. Not the best song of all time, but I think this thread has shown that rock and roll hadn't really hit the UK until this was released. |
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Dickie Valentine - "Christmas Alphabet"
NME:16 December for 3 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQZU6RPnNXw Well we took a step or two backwards. alert Show Do not look at the above link it is 'orrible. Unless of course you were there at the time in which case you might find it nostalgically comforting. |
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1956
Bill Haley and his Comets - "Rock Around the Clock" 6 January for 2 weeks again.... |
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Tennessee Ernie Ford - "Sixteen Tons"
20 January for 4 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0 surprising to see how we let half ar.sed american country circus acts reach the conscience of the 45 buying uk public. average at best, but probably not at best... |
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Dean Martin - "Memories Are Made of This"
17 February for 4 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MWN_duZfIs Why is this song so well known? Because it is a pretty good song. Can't argue with this being number one when you look at some of the sh.te that has gone before. When you loook at some of the songs that have only made number two at best it is a tragedy though. All in all, it is a fair enough song. |
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Dreamweavers - "It's Almost Tomorrow"
16 March for 2 weeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAe6uImyrr8 Not too keen on this... |
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Kay Starr with the Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra - "Rock And Roll Waltz"
30 March for 1 week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMxy_TZRP3o&feature=PlayList&p=755671C7357765A6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=12 from the name I was expecting something better than this. Don't bother looking at the link. In fact fk it I shalln't post a link. OK I will just because i like to be consistent. But don't look/listen to/at it. It is sh.it. |
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Dreamweavers - "It's Almost Tomorrow"
6 April for 1 week as before, they weren't shy of repeat number ones back in the day |