16th March 1963
1 |
(1) |
Summer Holiday |
Cliff Richard & The Shadows |
Columbia DB 4977 |
2 |
(2) |
Please Please Me |
The Beatles |
Parlophone R 4983 |
3 |
(5) |
Like I've Never Been Gone |
Billy Fury |
Decca F 11582 |
4 |
(11) |
Foot Tapper |
The Shadows |
Columbia DB 4984 |
5 |
(3) |
That's What Love Will Do |
Joe Brown & The Bruvvers |
Piccadilly 7N 35106 |
6 |
(4) |
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes |
Bobby Vee |
Liberty LIB 10069 |
7 |
(6) |
The Wayward Wind |
Frank Ifield |
Columbia DB 4960 |
8 |
(8) |
One Broken Heart For Sale |
Elvis Presley |
RCA 1337 |
9 |
(9) |
Island Of Dreams |
The Springfields |
Philips 326557 BF |
10 |
(13) |
Charmaine |
The Bachelors |
Decca F 11559 |
11 |
(14) |
Hey Paula |
Paul & Paula |
Philips 304012 BF |
12 |
(7) |
Loop-De-Loop |
Frankie Vaughan |
Philips 326566 BF |
13 |
(12) |
Tell Him |
Billie Davis |
Decca F 11572 |
14 |
(25) |
Say Wonderful Things |
Ronnie Carroll |
Philips 326574 BF |
15 |
(22) |
Rhythm Of The Rain |
The Cascades |
Warner Bros WB 88 |
16 |
(10) |
Diamonds |
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan |
Decca F 11563 |
17 |
(21) |
From A Jack To A King |
Ned Miller |
London HL 9658 |
18 |
(16) |
Hava Nagila |
The Spotnicks |
Oriole CB 1790 |
19 |
(-) |
Brown Eyed Handsome Man |
Buddy Holly |
Coral Q 72459 |
20 |
(18) |
Cupboard Love |
John Leyton |
HMV POP 1122 |
21 |
(15) |
Walk Right In |
The Rooftop Singers |
Fontana TF 271700 |
22 |
(20) |
Sukiyaki |
Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen |
Pye Jazz 7NJ 2062 |
23 |
(19) |
Little Town Flirt |
Del Shannon |
London HLX 9653 |
24 |
(24) |
Hi Lili Hi Lo |
Richard Chamberlain |
MGM 1189 |
25 |
(17) |
All Alone Am I |
Brenda Lee |
Brunswick05882 |
26 |
(23) |
Bachelor Boy |
Cliff Richard & The Shadows |
Columbia DB 4950 |
27 |
(-) |
In Dreams |
Roy Orbison |
London HLU 9676 |
28 |
(30) |
Old Smokey Locomotion |
Little Eva |
London HLU 9687 |
29 |
(-) |
My Kind Of Girl |
Frank Sinatra |
Reprise R 20148 |
30 |
(29) |
Globetrotter |
The Tornados |
Decca F 11562 |
It happened this week...
Saturday 16th... British pioneer of the welfare state, Lord Beveridge, died aged 84
Sunday 17th... 11,000 were killed in the eruption of the holy volcano Mount Agung in Bali
Thursday 21st... The last 27 prisoners left Alcatraz Island, San Francisco as the "Rock" closed
Thursday 21st... The first automatically controlled tube trains were introduced in London
Friday 22nd... In a personal statement, John Profumo told MPs that there was "no impropriety whatever" in his acquaintanceship with Christine Keeler