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bigyella 12th Feb 2017		78 RPM Don Cornell - Hold My Hand / I'm Blessed (1954)	Cornell's biggest UK hit by some distance, spending a total of five weeks at #1 and thirteen weeks in the top five.
bigyella 12th Feb 2017		78 RPM Doris Day - The Black Hills Of Dakota / Just Blew In From The Windy City (1954)	'The Black Hills of Dakota' spent several weeks in the top ten but was overshadowed by her previous mega-hit 'Secret Love' which was still around at the time.
bigyella 12th Feb 2017		78 RPM Frankie Laine - My Friend / The Lord Don't Treat His Chillun That Way (1954)	Yet another big hit for Frankie Laine in the early years of the UK chart, this was his seventh single to reach the top 3 or higher.
bigyella 12th Feb 2017		78 RPM The Four Aces Featuring Al Alberts - Three Coins In The Fountain / Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine) (1954)	The first UK hit single for the Four Aces followed Frank Sinatra's version up the charts as far as the #5 spot.
bigyella 12th Feb 2017		78 RPM Frank Sinatra - Three Coins In The Fountain / I Could Have Told You (1954)	The first of Sinatra's three #1 hit singles in the UK, and the last for over a decade. Took a full ten weeks to climb to the top spot, where it stayed for three weeks.
bigyella 12th Feb 2017		78 RPM Frank Sinatra - Young At Heart / Take A Chance (1954)	Sinatra's first entry after nearly two years of the UK (NME) singles chart, spending a single week at the bottom rung of #12. His second chart hit would be the following week.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean A Lot / I Don't Think You Love Me Anymore (1954)	Kitty Kallen had to wait a long time for her only UK hit to reach the top. It spent 10 weeks in the top five, including seven at #2, before it finally squeezed past David Whitfield's 'Cara Mia' for its only week at #1.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Perry Como - Idle Gossip / Look Out The Window (And See How I'm Standing In The Rain) (1954)	This was released within a month of Como's hit 'Wanted' and at one point he had both singles in the UK top five at the same time.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM David Whitfield - Cara Mia / Love, Tears And Kisses (1954)	Whitfield's second and final #1 hit single in the UK. This was one of the biggest hits of 1954, topping the charts for ten consecutive weeks.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Petula Clark - The Little Shoemaker (Le Petit Cordonnier) / Helpless (1954)	Petula Clark's breakthrough hit single and the first of a dozen UK top ten hits over the course of her career.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM The Four Knights - I Get So Lonely (When I Dream About You) / Till Then (1954)	This record was the Four Knights' only UK singles chart hit, and is listed by the Official Charts Company as (Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely for some reason.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Perry Como - Wanted / Give Me Your Hand (1954)	Spent much of its chart life alongside Al Martino's version of the song. Both peaked at #4. This was only Como's second hit since the start of the NME charts.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Al Martino - Wanted / There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight (1954)	Martino's version of 'Wanted' first charted alongside Perry Como's rendition, and the two records would remain close for most of their runs, with both peaking at #4. It would be nearly 20 years before Martino would reach the UK top five again.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Joan Regan - Someone Else's Roses / The Love I Have For You (1954)	Second consecutive hit single for Regan, spending a couple of weeks inside the top five in June 1954.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Max Bygraves And The Tanner Sisters - Once She's Got You Up The Aisle / (The Gang That Sang) Heart Of My Heart (1954)	The 'B' side here was the second in a steady string of hit singles for Bygraves, and this would be the closest the Tanner Sisters would get to one.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Jo Stafford - Make Love To Me! / Adi-Adios Amigo (Il Passerotto) (1954)	Stafford's second and last UK top ten hit spent just a single week at #8.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Guy Mitchell - A Dime And A Dollar / Tear Down The Mountains (1954)	Mitchell's singles success in 1954 continued to pale in comparison to the previous year, and this would be his last UK chart appearance for two and half years, until the release of the huge 'Singing the Blues'.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Billy Cotton - Friends And Neighbours / The Kid's Last Fight (1954)	Billy Cotton's third hit in the space of a year, and his last in the UK. Frankie Laine's version of the B side was in the charts at the same time.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Frankie Laine - The Kid's Last Fight / Long Distance Love (1954)	Frankie Laine's tenth top ten hit since the UK charts inception less than 18 months earlier.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Nat "King" Cole - Tenderly / Why (1954)	This was Nat's seventh UK top ten hit since the NME chart's inception less than 18 months earlier.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Ruby Wright - Bimbo / Boy, You Got Yourself A Girl (1954)	One of only two Ruby Wright hits in the UK, and her only single to make the top ten.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Johnnie Ray - Such A Night / An Orchid For The Lady (1954)	This was the first of three Johnnie Ray UK #1 hits, although it was only there for one week. The following eight weeks were spent sitting at #2, behind his former collaborator Doris Day's 'Secret Love'.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM The Stargazers - The Happy Wanderer / Till We Two Are One (1954)	The Stargazers' first two singles had both reached #1, but their third, 'The Happy Wanderer' only spent one week at #12, in April 1954. #2 in that week's chart was the Obernkirchen Children's Choir's version of this very song, while at #1 was the Stargazer's previous single, 'I See The Moon'.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Doris Day - Secret Love / The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!) (1954)	The first of Doris Day's two massive UK #1 hits, this spent a total of nine weeks at #1, another four weeks at #2, and over half of 1954 inside the top ten!
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Kay Starr - Changing Partners / I'll Always Be In Love With You (1954)	One of Starr's biggest hits, this spent three months inside the UK top ten.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Bing Crosby - Changing Partners / Y'All Come (1954)	'Changing Partners' was Bing Crosby's only UK hit single in 1954. Even 'White Christmas' didn't chart!
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Alma Cogan - Bell Bottom Blues / Love Me Again (1954)	Alma's first UK chart hit, and one of only two top five hits.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Duke Ellington - Skin Deep (1954)	This was Duke Ellington's only UK singles chart hit, reaching #7.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Norman Wisdom - Don't Laugh At Me ('Cause I'm A Fool) / Once In Love With Amy (1952)	This was Wisdom's first and biggest UK hit, peaking at #3 in April 1954.
bigyella 11th Feb 2017		78 RPM Guy Mitchell - The Cuff Of My Shirt / Strollin' Blues (1954)	Although not nearly as big a hit as his previous six, this was Mitchell's seventh UK top ten single in the 15 months since the chart's inception.

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