16th March 1963

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(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

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