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ZebedyZak 12th Jan 2025		78 RPM Winifred Atwell - "Let's Have Another Party"-1 / "Let's Have Another Party"-2 (1954)	@mister_tmg: It was listed as May 1954 presumably because PB 267 is also listed as May 1954. Note that PB 336 was at number one just before PB 268, so there must have been a delay in the release of PB 268.
ZebedyZak 14th Aug 2021		78 RPM Perry Como And Betty Hutton - A Bushel And A Peck / She's A Lady (1950)	United States or anywhere else, how many people are going to believe that a record was released on a Sunday? It seems even less believable for a 1950s release than it does for something more recent. Why are some people so obsessed with saying everything is released on a Sunday? If they'd put Monday, October 2nd I'd have accepted it and not commented.
ZebedyZak 13th Aug 2021		78 RPM Perry Como And Betty Hutton - A Bushel And A Peck / She's A Lady (1950)	I don't believe it. Another record claiming to be released on a Sunday? And in 1950? How many shops were open on a Sunday in 1950?
ZebedyZak 16th Apr 2019		78 RPM Al Martino - Here In My Heart / I Cried Myself To Sleep (1952)	Why was this famous single not on Capitol in the USA?
ZebedyZak 30th Mar 2016		78 RPM Vera Lynn - I Had The Craziest Dream / Really And Truly (1943)	No release date given for this one but from the catalogue number alone it would have to be some time in 1943. [Mod Edit: Year entered as 1943.]
ZebedyZak 29th Mar 2016		78 RPM Winifred Atwell - "Let's Have Another Party"-1 / "Let's Have Another Party"-2 (1954)	Why did this one take 6 months to become a hit, and what made it such a big hit after all that time? I did notice from the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles that this single, on Philips PB 268, overtook Rosemary Clooney's "This Ole House" (also on Philips, number PB 336) at the top. What took this Winifred Atwell medley so long to be a smash?
ZebedyZak 29th Mar 2016		78 RPM Guy Mitchell - She Wears Red Feathers / Why Should I Go Home (1953)	Actually, it reached Number 1 in the NME charts on 13 Mar 1953. It entered the charts on 13 Feb 1953 but it did not go straight in at Number 1, it took another month to go all the way. That release date of March 1953 is wrong, however. The latest it could have been released was 6 February 1953, but since the chart was only a Top 12 in those days it was probably released in January 1953. I heard this song in a movie soundtrack once (I can't remember which movie it was). The song was released some nine years before I was born. Oddly enough, Guy Mitchell's two British chart-toppers in 1953 were not his biggest successes in the States. This one only got to number 19 in the USA, while his other UK smash in 1953, "Look At That Girl", did nothing at all over there. His only transatlantic chart-topper was "Singing The Blues", although he did hit the top in both countries with different singles.
ZebedyZak 29th Nov 2015		78 RPM Ted Heath And His Music - Vanessa / The Pipers' Patrol (1953)	I know from the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles that this single reached number 11 in January 1953, but wasn't it released earlier? The catalogue number F 9983 suggests an October 1952 release. After all, Decca had already reached F 9985 by then.
ZebedyZak 29th Nov 2015		78 RPM Vera Lynn - Forget-Me-Not / When Swallows Say Goodbye (1952)	Vera Lynn had three singles in the first UK chart. "Forget Me Not" was her latest single at the time, while her two previous singles, "Auf Wiedersehen" and "Homing Waltz" were both still selling enough to keep them in the Top 10. Those two would have been number one hits had there been charts for the entire year of 1952.
ZebedyZak 29th Nov 2015		78 RPM Guy Mitchell - Look At That Girl / Wise Man Or Fool (1953)	Guy Mitchell had his first two UK number ones in 1953, but they were not his biggest hits in the USA. His first UK chart-topper, "She Wears Red Feathers", reached only 19 in the USA. His second UK number one, "Look At That Girl", failed to make the Top 40 in his homeland. Very odd, although he did later have a transatlantic chart-topper with "Singing The Blues".
ZebedyZak 29th Nov 2015		78 RPM Frankie Laine - I Believe / Your Cheatin' Heart (1953)	It wasn't number one for 18 consecutive weeks, it was number one for a total of 18 weeks spread out over a 20-week period. Two other singles interrupted its run at the top (Eddie Fisher's "I'm Walking Behind You" and Mantovani's "Moulin Rouge"). "I Believe" was never number one for more than 9 consecutive weeks without being interrupted by something else. It was there for 9 consecutive weeks before Eddie Fisher got a look in, then it returned for another 6 weeks before Mantovani interrupted it, after which it returned for its final 3 weeks at the top. "I Believe" was also by far the biggest seller of 1953, and it had the longest chart run of the year (36 weeks altogether). With a chart run like that, one would expect it to have been a million seller, yet it is not marked as one in the Guinness Book of British Hit singles. Its sales must have been well over 900,000.
ZebedyZak 29th Nov 2015		78 RPM The Stargazers - Broken Wings / Make It Soon (1953)	I think he made a typo. I think he meant to say it reached number 1.
ZebedyZak 23rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Jimmy Shand - Bluebell Polka / The Veleta (1952)	Thanks for posting that, Jack. I am now going to try to get that book myself.