THE RECORD MIRROR Singles Charts 1954 to 1961 - Revised Re-Calculated And Extended

[Satchmo76]

32 act is 'Ken Colyer's Jazzmen' (not Kolyer)

40 title and artist is 'From The Sound Track "Love Me Or Leave Me", Doris Day, Orchestra conducted by Percy Faith.' It is Doris Day's second soundtrack entry (following Young At Heart, with Frank Sinatra)

Percy Faith has had four entries on the same chart as orchestra leader (20/08/1955).

[MrTibbs]

32 act is 'Ken Colyer's Jazzmen' (not Kolyer)
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I had taken the spelling from the original printed chart in the Record Mirror which it seems is erroneous. I have amended it above and on the original spreadsheet Satchmo.

[SharonMawer]

one of the #40s this week - Why Oh Why - MGM Various Artists, what is this? Is it an album or a single medley or an EP, the colour indicates it's a single

[MrTibbs]

one of the #40s this week - Why Oh Why - MGM Various Artists, what is this? Is it an album or a single medley or an EP, the colour indicates it's a single

It's listed as a single by Tony Martin, Vic Damone, Russ Tamblyn, Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds and Ann Miller.

[Robbie]

It's listed as a single by Tony Martin, Vic Damone, Russ Tamblyn, Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds and Ann Miller.

According to the label 'Why Oh Why' is taken from the film "Hit The Deck" which, based on the synopsis on IMDB, I can vaguely recall seeing years ago on TV, probably in the 1980s when BBC2 used to show this type of musical.

https://www.discogs.com/release/1199...hiribiribee-Ci

[MrTibbs]

I can't believe how records' appearances on the dealer charts falls away relatively high up the chart.

Appearances are good to around the Top Ten area but below that placings fall away rapidly to the point that every record below No 30 (and a few inside it ) place on just one dealer chart.

I wonder if NME experienced a similar fall away below the Top Ten.

[Splodj]

If a polling company has asked thousands of representative people to rate current records out of 10 I think it would have produced a similar result - just a few records achieving high scores. RM readers would rate lots of records, but not most people.

[kingofskiffle]

Years ago (2006) I got sent some odd midweek sales files. What was interesting is that the sales file shows the percentage sales of records across areas of the country. Not the actual sales, but their percentage. At the time, the UK chart was a Top 250, and this chart is the physical only version - so no downloads, etc. I'm also not going to state the week - and to be honest as it's mid week data it's not the entire sales picture. Figures are rounded, so sometimes adding up the row gets 99.99% or 100.01%, but it serves the purpose I'm going for here.

RANK	LONDON	SOUTH	SOUTH WEST	WALES & WEST	MIDLANDS	EAST	YORKSHIRE	NORTH EAST	LANCASHIRE	BORDER	C. SCOTLAND	N. SCOTLAND	N. IRELAND
1	15.62	12.02	3.12	7.86	15.44	9.34	8.53	4.74	13.32	1.15	5.82	2	1.03
2	25.13	11.68	2.19	7.78	15.95	10.71	7.55	2.48	9.3	0.38	4.02	1.2	1.64
3	25.32	11.67	1.96	6.3	15.17	7.66	6.89	3.01	13.03	0.45	6.04	1.23	1.26
4	22.84	11.54	3.48	5.48	14.15	8.06	8.39	5.01	8.29	0.89	6.45	3.05	2.35
5	17.83	10.2	3.11	8.54	13.83	7.87	9.36	4.51	10.13	0.87	8.22	2.72	2.83
6	11.31	11.44	2.9	8.82	21.73	9.57	10.59	5.47	8.14	1.42	5.55	1.97	1.1
7	20.36	12.23	2.18	9.21	14.99	8.85	7.38	2.95	10.23	0.85	6.54	1.76	2.47
8	20.95	10.71	2.69	6.19	17.97	7.01	8.3	3.42	11.56	1.21	5.91	2.13	1.94
9	19.71	8.76	2.43	7.91	13.66	6.02	8.35	4.47	12.8	0.76	8.59	3.37	3.16
10	10.6	7.74	1.31	15.38	17.83	8.46	8.05	3.79	14.9	0.41	10.73	0.35	0.48

In the Top 10, you can see that there is a relatively consistent distribution of the records being sold. Roughly - very roughly - Northern Irelands accounts for about 2% of record sales. London about 20%. And this is - very roughly - consistent across the board.

Now we go down to positions 75 and 85. Look at the record at 75. Bought in London, and clearly Lancashire, but zilch anywhere else. It was also a limited edition of 500 copies (99 of which had been sold to secure the 75 position over the early few days of the week)

RANK	LONDON	SOUTH	SOUTH WEST	WALES & WEST	MIDLANDS	EAST	YORKSHIRE	NORTH EAST	LANCASHIRE	BORDER	C. SCOTLAND	N. SCOTLAND	N. IRELAND
75	21.23	0	0	2.02	0	0	16.75	0	60.1	0	0	0	0
76	17.45	15.31	2.04	7.14	19.39	6.12	6.12	4.08	5.12	1.02	7.24	6.12	3.06
77	34.84	8.06	1.04	6.18	12.09	5.21	16.17	6.77	0	0	4.57	3.33	2.08
78	24.6	8.88	1.08	9.91	20.22	5.38	4.3	5.09	10.75	2.15	7.63	0	0
79	33.57	17.9	1.11	5.56	8.03	6.67	7.78	3.62	5.56	1.11	2.22	4.44	2.22
80	22.27	9.4	1.12	0	21.13	4.49	12.36	4.79	22.47	1.12	1.12	0	0
81	27.44	11.76	1.16	7.51	9.21	6.98	16.35	3.47	1.16	1.16	13.69	0	0
82	44.35	12.02	0	1.18	9.68	5.88	9.41	4.71	7.06	2.35	2.35	0	1.18
83	31.15	8.6	0	1.18	8.38	13.46	14.12	1.18	10.79	1.18	7.06	1.18	1.18
84	18.6	29.81	1.23	6.21	11.11	7.41	11.11	2.47	7.41	0	1.23	3.7	0
85	26.98	5.03	2.5	18.75	12.5	2.5	1.25	0	22.59	0	5	2.5	0

And now the final positions.

RANK	LONDON	SOUTH	SOUTH WEST	WALES & WEST	MIDLANDS	EAST	YORKSHIRE	NORTH EAST	LANCASHIRE	BORDER	C. SCOTLAND	N. SCOTLAND	N. IRELAND
240	64	0	0	9.09	0	18.18	0	0	0	0	10	0	0
241	27.55	9.09	9.64	9.09	9.09	18.18	0	9.09	0	0	0	9.09	0
242	64.27	18.18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9.09	0	9.09
243	64.27	9.09	0	18.18	0	0	9.09	0	0	0	0	0	0
244	45.91	0	9.09	9.09	0	9.09	9.09	0	9.09	0	9.09	0	0
245	45.91	0	9.09	0	9.09	18.18	9.09	0	9.09	0	0	0	0
246	36.73	18.18	0	0	9.09	0	18.18	0	9.09	0	9.09	0	0
247	36.73	9.09	0	9.09	18.18	0	0	0	18.18	0	0	9.09	0
248	27.55	27.27	0	18.18	0	0	0	0	18.18	0	0	0	9.09
249	45.45	9.27	0	0	0	0	9.09	0	9.09	0	9.09	18.18	0
250	18.36	9.09	0	0	27.27	9.09	9.09	0	27.27	0	0	0	0

For interest - all of the above (240-250) sold 11 copies. So you can work out the rough sales per region. And incase you want it as numbers...

RANK	LONDON	SOUTH	SOUTH WEST	WALES & WEST	MIDLANDS	EAST	YORKSHIRE	NORTH EAST	LANCASHIRE	BORDER	C. SCOTLAND	N. SCOTLAND	N. IRELAND
240	7			1		2					1
241	3	1	1	1	1	2		1				1
242	7	2									1		1
243	7	1		2			1
244	5		1	1		1	1		1		1
245	5		1		1	2	1		1
246	4	2			1		2		1		1
247	4	1		1	2				2			1
248	3	3		2					2				1
249	5	1					1		1		1	2
250	2	1			3	1	1		3

There was one record that only sold in Wales,

RANK	LONDON	SOUTH	SOUTH WEST	WALES & WEST	MIDLANDS	EAST	YORKSHIRE	NORTH EAST	LANCASHIRE	BORDER	C. SCOTLAND	N. SCOTLAND	N. IRELAND
136	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

My point with this though is to illustrate that a drop off the lower down is quite reasonable.

NOTE: Some will know not to ask, but others may not. I do not post whatever sales info I have as largely it's incomplete - like the mid week file here. They are also largely irrelevant, stating as they do partial data which may or may not have been checked for consistency. I will not be posting or sharing, but as the above file is now 17 years old, it's probably far enough back to not be an issue, given how I have presented the data.

[Splodj]

On regional sales, there was the strange case of 'Move Your Body' by Gene Farrow at number 29 on Gallup 12-May-78 selling only in the North West and the Midlands. OCC had it at 67, so their 'selling across the regions' policy may not have excluded records but just affected position.

Disc magazine reported that in early 1967 Adge Cutler's 'Drink Up Thy Zider' was number one in Bristol shops for 8 weeks. Very big in the South West. First time I heard the song was when I went to the Gilette cricket cup final in 67 and there were all these Somerset supporters in smocks singing it.

[MrTibbs]

The above tables amply highlight that rapidly declining sales figures became almost negligible at the bottom end of the chart and that this was not just restricted to the early and mid fifties. So it is entirely reasonable that this also applied to NME, MM, Disc and RR.

This would also explain why some records appeared in the lower regions of one of these charts and not the others. Simply because each of these probably only registered on one dealer return to the individual paper.

[kjell]

You really disclosed the facts behind the rankings there Lonnie. Amazing how few records it took to chart near the bottom, laying the field wide open to tamper with the lower chart by making some employee get out and by their own company’s records.

[Satchmo76]

Wouldn't irregular patterns immediately show up?

[kingofskiffle]

They would. And I think this was Sunday and Monday sales only (so one day for new releases at that stage) and likely released without the checks that would usually be made for hyping etc as these where meant to be internal industry not for general release info.

[braindeadpj]

27/08/1955 overview has been added back at #797.

Below is the RM Chart Talk for 3/9/1955
"A very uneventful week for those of you who like to see drastic changes every week on the record Hit Parade. Once again it’s Slim Whitman and Rose Marie in the lead. By a long chalk, too.
There’s been a reversal of positions for Cool Water and Learnin’ the Blues. Though only a small number of points separates them, Laine returns to the top 2 spot he occupied a couple of weeks ago. [Note the Extended chart does have Rose Marie with a reasonably large lead of 48.93 (32) over Learnin' the Blues and this is 14.59 (3) ahead of Cool Water] Sinatra had a substantial lead over Everywhere [80.28 (107] in the inverse chart]. The flipside, Mama is in 13^th place.
Caterina Valente and Indian Love call are on the way up, while Strange Lady in Town and Evermore are on the way down.
Welcome to the charts for last week’s spotlight record- Eddie Calvert’s John and Julia. This could become a very important record."

"N.B. to the record companies: Several dealers inform us they are having trouble getting Cool Water and Learnin’ the Blues from their factors. Over to you, gentlemen."

Spotlight: Love Me or Leave Me – Sammy Davis Jr.
"This disc didn’t quite make the top 10 but it seems to be selling in many areas. How good to see an artiste of Sammy’s calibre with a commercial hit. Of interest is the fact that this record was originally selling for the coupling, “Something’s Gotta Give (from Daddy Long Legs). Love Me is of course the title of the new Doris Day picture, now in London’s West End."

[Graham76man]

Interesting to see how London takes loads of sales, but this is simply down to the massive population London has. This map demonstrates the difference.
maps that quantify exactly how rammed London is.jpg

[MrTibbs]

Graham it's great to have you back on my thread

[braindeadpj]

3/9/1955
Note: weeks without charts have been excluded from any week counts.

This week the number of dealers declines by 4 to 36, but the number of records increases by 3 to 62, meaning that disparity increases to 1.44 and 54.84% (34) of records are from 1 dealer. There are 8 no.1s (though note that 1 – Everywhere/Mama is due to both sides appearing on the same dealer chart) with an average of 4.625 (or 5.078 if you exclude the dual-sided no.1). Rose Marie’s score has declined by 47.56 (53) points due to a 5 dealer decrease to 33 (92% of the dealers) and a decline of 3 in the number of no.1s (54.5% of its dealers remained as no.1s). Average score/dealer has declined by 0.15 (0.186) to 8.354 (9.18). As already mentioned, Rose Marie’s lead over the no.2 is still reasonably sized - 48.93 (32) or 21% of the no.2’s score. Frank Sinatra declined by 2 dealers and 1 no.1 (to 50% of that for Rose Marie), resulting in a 11.96 (13) point decline. The average score/dealer actually increased slightly by 0.05 (0.098) to 6.87 (8.21). Cool Water is now on the most dealers (94%) declining by 2, but increasing no.1s by 2, though overall points declined by 7.61 (15). Its average score/dealer actually increased to 0.135 (0.02) to 6.24 (7.88). David Whitfield declines by 3 dealers, and 12.94 (17) points. Its average also increases slightly by 0.038 (0.008) to 4.71 (5.75). Caterina Valente increased by 3 dealers and 9.16 (10) points to reach no. 5, though its average score/dealer actually declined slightly by 0.17 (0.227) to 4.36 (5.08).

The highest record on a single dealer chart is at 24 Unchained Melody - The Crew Cuts with Orchestra directed by David Carroll which is no.2 on 1 dealer. First tied position is at 28.

The record on the chart the longest is 36 weeks for Drinking Song/Serenade - Mario Lanza (orchestra conducted by Constantine Callinicos) with 34 consecutive weeks for Drinking Song (31 nonconsecutively shared with Serenade and an additional 2 weeks nonconsecutive for Serenade) or 24 weeks consecutively for Perez "Prez" Prado & his Orchestra (The King of the Mambo) - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White (Cerezo Rosa) Trumpet solo, Billy Regis.) and Eddie Calvert (The Man with the Golden Trumpet) with Norrie Paramor and His Orchestra - Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White) – 1 week shared with Roses of Picardy.

Re-entries:
25 That's How A Love Song Was Born (from the Ice Show "Wildfire") - Ray Burns with Eric Jupp and his Orchestra and the Coronets
46 Tiger Rag - Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band
46 Crazy Otto Rag -The Big Ben Banjo Band with the Coronets
54 Stowaway - Barbara Lyon with Ray Martin and his Orchestra
54 Elephant Tango - Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra

Flipside:
3 Cool Water - Frankie Laine with Paul Weston and his Orchestra and the Mellomen lost its flipside Bubbles after only 1 week
24 Unchained Melody – The Crew Cuts with Orchestra directed by David Carroll recharts this week, 6 weeks after the flipside Two Hearts, Two Kisses was on the chart at 47.
46 Lazy Gondolier - Dickie Valentine with Johnny Douglas and his orchestra enters this week, 9 weeks after its flipside Hello Mrs Jones (Is Mary There?) was at 44 for 1 week.
54 Razzle Dazzle – Bill Haley and his Comets re-enters this week for its 4^th week in total (1 prior week was shared with flipside Two Hound Dogs)
54 You My Love – Doris Day with Percy Faith and his Orchestra re-enters this week without flipside Ready Willing and Able (Doris Day with Buddy Cole and His Orchestra )

Full credit for 17 Close The Door is The Stargazers with Johnnie Gray and his Band of the Day
Full credit for 32 Red Wing is Ken Colyer's Jazzmen – who are: Ken Colyer-tpt; Mac Duncan-trom; Ian Wheeler-clar; John Bastable-banjo; Dick Smith-bass; Stan Grieg-dms.
Full credit for 40 Love Me or Leave Me (OST) is Doris Day, Orchestra conducted by Percy Faith
Full credit for 40 Why Oh Why (recorded directly from the Perspecta Stereophonic soundtrack of the MGM film Hit The Deck) is ‘as portrayed in the film by Tony Martin, Vic Damone & Russ Tamblin & by Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds & Ann Miller with the MGM Studio Orchestra conducted by George Stoll’
Full credit for 54 That Old Black Magic is Sammy Davis Jr. with Orchestra directed by Morty Stevens
Full credit for 54 Love Me or Leave Me (from the Soundtrack of the MGM film "Love Me or Leave Me") is Doris Day, Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Percy Faith

There are again 10 new entries, 1 is a soundtrack album which actually features one of the other records; Doris Day Orchestra conducted by Percy Faith - Love Me or Leave Me (OST) which of course features Doris Day, Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Percy Faith - Love Me or Leave Me (from the Soundtrack of the MGM film "Love Me or Leave Me"). Six records are new to the charts, and three are from new artists; Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, Muggsy Spanier's Dixieland Band, and John Feeney.
There are now 3 albums on the chart, but again 2 are cast albums and the other is a soundtrack album (as already mentioned). There are currently only 4 records with both sides charting.

There are only 5 songs with 12 multiple versions
3 Love Me Or Leave Me (Sammy Davis Jr with Orchestra directed by Sy Oliver, [flipside to Something's Gotta Give (from film "Daddy Long Legs")], Doris Day Orchestra conducted by Percy Faith, Doris Day Orchestra and chorus conducted by Percy Faith)
3 Unchained Melody (Jimmy Young with Bob Sharples and his Music, Al Hibbler with Orchestra directed by Jack Pleis, The Crew Cuts with Orchestra directed by David Carroll)
2 Alabama Jubilee (The Big Ben Banjo Band, The Ferko String Band)
2 Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White ( Eddie Calvert (The Man with the Golden Trumpet) with Norrie Paramor and His Orchestra, Perez "Prez" Prado & his Orchestra (The King of the Mambo))
2 You My Love (Frank Sinatra with orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle, Doris Day with Percy Faith and His Orchestra)
meaning there are 55 unique songs

There are 12 artists with 31 multiple records
5 Slim Whitman (Rose Marie, Indian Love Call/China Doll, Roll on Silvery Moon, Cattle Call, Bandera Waltz)
3 Frank Sinatra with orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle (Learnin’ the Blues, Not As a Stranger, You My Love)
3 Sammy Davis Jr. (Love Me or Leave Me/Something’s Gotta Give, Because of You, That Old Black Magic)
3 Alma Cogan with Orchestra conducted by Frank Cordell (Dreamboat, The Banjo’s Back in Town, Give A Fool a Chance)
3 Doris Day with Orchestra conducted by Percy Faith (Love Me or Leave Me (OST), Love Me or Leave Me, You My Love)
2 Frankie Laine (Cool Water/Bubbles, Strange Lady in Town)
2 David Whitfield (Everywhere/Mama, The Lady)
2 Eddie Calvert (The Man with the Golden Trumpet) with Norrie Paramor and His Orchestra (John and Julia, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White)
2 Dickie Valentine with Johnny Douglas and his orchestra (I Wonder, Lazy Gondolier)
2 Mario Lanza orchestra conducted by Constantine Callinicos (Drinking Song, I’ll Walk With God)
2 The Big Ben Banjo Band (Alabama Jubilee, Crazy Otto Rag)
2 The Crew Cuts (Unchained Melody, Earth Angel)
meaning that there are 43 different artists

[MrTibbs]

I'm out all day today but will post the next chart for September 10th tomorrow guys.

[MrTibbs]

The Record Mirror Chart Re-Calculated Re-Worked Extended.

This chart is compiled from all the dealers charts printed for this week in the Record Mirror.
It is not in competition with Record Mirror's own compiled chart but a chart in it's own right compiled to include every record that appeared on these dealers charts back in the day, thus identifying many hits and artists that would have been acknowledged and credited with a chart hit if Record Mirror had compiled a Top Fifty back in the day, but have until now gone without due credit. So here is the Record Mirror role of honour and the most extensive record chart of the fifties.

The Chart For Week Ending Saturday 10th September 1955

POS	POS	RECORD MIRROR CHART Re-Calculated					RM	Total	Total	Total	Inv	Inv
LAST	THIS	TOP 60 (Based On 40 Dealers Returns)					Own	Gallup	Dealer	Dealer	Points	Points
WEEK	WEEK	(Chart For Week Ending Saturday 10th September 1955)					Chart	Points	Charts	No 1's	Rank	Scored
1	1	Rose Marie - Slim Whitman					1	320.49	39	20	1	356
3	2	Cool Water - Frankie Laine					2	248.93	36	9	2	297
2	3	Learnin' The Blues - Frank Sinatra					3	240.66	36	10	3	285
4	4	Everywhere / Mama - David Whitfield					4	156.85	35		4	192
6	5	Indian Love Call / China Doll - Slim Whitman					7	114.85	25		5	146
5	6	The Breeze And I - Caterina Valente					5	103.88	24		6	127
7	7	Strange Lady In Town - Frankie Laine					6	97.09	24		7	114
9	8	Evermore - Ruby Murray					9	89.53	21	1	8	96
11	9	Love Me Or Leave Me / Something's Gotta Give - Sammy Davis Jnr.					10	82.19	21		9	88
8	10	Every Day Of My Life - Malcolm Vaughan					8	72.27	19		10	83
10	11	John And Julie - Eddie Calvert						40.47	10		11	49
12	12	Unchained Melody - Jimmy Young						28.04	7		12	31
17	13	Close The Door - The Stargazers						26.66	8		14	24
27	14	Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White - Eddie Calvert						22.53	7		16	18
14	15	Unchained Melody - Al Hibbler						21.83	5		13	25
13	16	I Wonder - Dickie Valentine						21.55	6		15	23
20	17	Too Late - Guy Mitchell						18.11	5		17	17
19	18	His Hands / I'm A Pilgrim - Tennessee Ernie Ford						17.51	5		20	14
46	19	Good And Lonesome - Kay Starr						14.48	4		19	15
15	20	Stars Shine In Your Eyes - Ronnie Hilton						13.96	4		20	14
18	21	Caribbean - Mitchell Torok						12.32	3		18	16
21	22	Serenade / Drinking Song - Mario Lanza						12.23	3		20	14
54	23	Close Your Eyes - Tony Bennett						11.64	3		23	13
37	24	Roll On Silvery Moon - Slim Whitman						11.07	3		24	12
54	24	That Old Black Magic - Sammy Davis Jnr						11.07	3		24	12
46	26	My One Sin - Nat King Cole						10.30	3		27	10
#	27	Danny Boy - Slim Whitman						9.34	2		24	12
28	28	Popular Medley No 4 - Vera Lynn						7.04	1		28	9
16	29	Dreamboat - Alma Cogan						5.88	2		38	3
32	29	Earth Angel - The Crew Cuts						5.88	2		38	3
		THE NEXT POSITIONS
23	31	Not As A Stranger - Frank Sinatra						5.65	2		44	2
36	32	Three Galleons - Robert Earl						4.99	1		29	7
30	33	Because Of You - Sammy Davis Jnr						4.42	1		30	6
32	33	Salad Days (LP) - The Original Cast						4.42	1		30	6
#	33	I Wonder - Jane Froman						4.42	1		30	6
40	36	Love Me Or Leave Me (LP) - The Original Soundtrack						3.95	1		33	5
32	37	Cattle Call - Slim Whitman						3.59	1		34	4
37	37	You My Love - Frank Sinatra						3.59	1		34	4
#	37	Stranger In Paradise - Tony Bennett						3.59	1		34	4
#	37	Malaguena - Jane Forrest						3.59	1		34	4
28	41	The Lady - David Whitfield						3.29	1		38	3
40	41	Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado						3.29	1		38	3
46	41	Sing It Again With Joe - Joe 'Mr Piano' Henderson						3.29	1		38	3
54	41	Love Me Or Leave Me - Doris Day						3.29	1		38	3
46	45	I'll Walk With God - Mario Lanza						3.06	1		44	2
46	45	Kismet (LP) - Original Broadway Cast						3.06	1		44	2
#	45	When The Saints Go Marching In - The Dutch Swing College Band						3.06	1		44	2
#	45	Love Me Or Leave Me - Lena Horne						3.06	1		44	2
#	45	You Made Me Love You - Doris Day						3.06	1		44	2
#	45	Session With Sinatra (EP) - Frank Sinatra						3.06	1		44	2
#	45	It's A Sin - Billy Valentine						3.06	1		44	2
#	45	Scotland The Brave - The Bowhill Pipe Band						3.06	1		44	2
22	53	Alabama Jubilee - The Big Ben Banjo Band						2.83	1		53	1
26	53	The Dam Busters March - The Band Of The R.A.F.						2.83	1		53	1
40	53	Bandera Waltz - Slim Whitman						2.83	1		53	1
#	53	The Entertainer - Ken Colyer						2.83	1		53	1
#	53	Humming Bird - The Chordettes						2.83	1		53	1
#	53	Blue Star - Cyril Stapleton						2.83	1		53	1
#	53	Doonaree - Carmel Quinn						2.83	1		53	1
30	53	Alabama Jubilee - The Ferko String Band						2.83	1		53	1
		* On Imhofs Dealer Return they listed No 5 as being Blue Star by Tony Bennett on Philips. Tony did not record this and as it is therefore uncertain who else this belongs to these points for No 5 have not been allocated.

[Robbie]

Even by the standards of the mid 1950s that is a very static top 10 / 12. The good thing about the extended RM chart is that we can see there is movement with a potential number 1 making a big climb into the top 20.

[MrTibbs]

Even by the standards of the mid 1950s that is a very static top 10 / 12. The good thing about the extended RM chart is that we can see there is movement with a potential number 1 making a big climb into the top 20.

The Top Ten stays that way for a few more weeks yet with most of the big moves between 11 and 20. Once we get to 22nd October when RM moves to a Top Twenty I think it will get more interesting to see what appears unexpectedly in the lower part of the chart.

[Robbie]

It's just occured to me that Eddie Calvert has already been at number 1 with 'Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White'! So the record is in fact reboundinmg into the top 20 part of the RM extended chart.

[MrTibbs]

It's just occured to me that Eddie Calvert has already been at number 1 with 'Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White'! So the record is in fact reboundinmg into the top 20 part of the RM extended chart.

That was one of these strange rebounds we see from time to time when a record is dropping then out of the blue soars back up into the Top 20 then plummets again. Eddie will follow this pattern too. It occurs when a rogue dealer or two unexpectedly charts it high in their return.

You actually see this same pattern in the all the fifties charts. It wasn't unusual for reappearances like this out of the blue. The difference is though that because the extended chart is deeper you actually see the lower chart position for the week before when they rebound. We have always assumed that when we previously saw this then the record must have been just outside the chart the week before to re-appear, but obviously not always the case as an appearance on one or two rogue dealer returns was all it took.

[Satchmo76]

Blue Star is a cover of a TV theme (Medic). Vocal by Julie Dawn, later a Radio 2 presenter.

The 3 LPs are very static.

[MrTibbs]

The chart is soon going to have Blue Stars shining everywhere, Yellow Roses springing up all over the place, and lots of Hideaways to shelter in.