78 RPM - Frankie Laine - I Believe / Your Cheatin' Heart - Philips - UK

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Frankie Laine
Label:	Philips
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	P.B.117 / B21009H
Date:	Mar 1953
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	62 Own, 2 Want
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Frankie Laine	I Believe	Drake, Graham, Shirl, Stillman	9.5 Rate
B	Frankie Laine	Your Cheatin' Heart	Williams	9.0 Rate

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with Paul Weston and His Orchestra (Side B - And The Norman Luboff Choir).

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MrPasta SUBS 28th Nov 2021



MrPasta SUBS 28th Nov 2021



Redpunk SUBS 10th Mar 2019		Added B side scan without raised edge.



mister_tmg 25th Aug 2017		It was the second - the numerical first was in March 1953 (the same month as this one) PB. 111 Jo Stafford - A Fool Such As I / Just Because You're You



Maxonian 17th Jul 2017		Is this one of the earliest 78s on Philips from US Columbia?



Redpunk SUBS 11th Mar 2017		Added further variant side A label scan.



swbcfc 9th Nov 2016		"Your Cheatin' Heart" With Paul Weston & His Orchestra And The Norman Luboff Choir.



RadnaNotions 24th Feb 2016		(It could just be that Cool Water was massively popular in and around Hull. It still is with me.)



mister_tmg 22nd Feb 2016		Interesting. Record Mirror listed that as a #1. It was the year the first official million seller (Rock Around the Clock) was released so perhaps sales were up across the board? I think it was also the year record sales overtook those of sheet music. I'm sure I've seen lists of UK singles sales for each year - maybe in an old Guinness book? Must try to find it!



RadnaNotions 22nd Feb 2016		I've no idea what the relative sales were (and I know they're from different years) but if the boxes I sift through are anything to go by, Laine's version of Cool Water must have significantly outsold this.



mister_tmg 22nd Feb 2016		Of course, I forgot that technically it was the "b"-side. Wonder how it got 'flipped'. Zak, I think the sales were much lower - 500-600,000? I'm sure I once read sales figures for it somewhere. Long-running #1s can be a misnomer, especially in the early 50s, before record sales overtook those of sheet music. Undoubtedly it was popular, but that doesn't mean sales were particularly strong. It's funny that the #1s with more than 10 weeks on top are from either the 50s or 90s and beyond. By the 90s there was a lot more competition and record sales were very high (including multiple formats). The three 50s hits which stayed at #1 10+ weeks by Laine, David Whitfield and Slim Whitman weren't million-sellers. DW wasn't even the bestseller that year - it was Doris Day's 'Secret Love'.



ZebedyZak 29th Nov 2015		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.



Redpunk SUBS 15th Jan 2015		Added label scans with changes to music publishers layout.



mikey405 5th May 2014		Another B side variation added.



Alan Warby 26th Jun 2013		"I Believe" was the B side, but reached number 1 in the NME charts (3 Apr 1953), where it remained for 18 consecutive weeks. It also was awarded a Gold Disc.