Yes indeed, no malice intended, just trying to set the record straight (if you’ll pardon the pun). The book First Hits by Brian Henson & Colin Morgan covers sheet music sales from 1946 to 1959. Sheet music charts were published in the press from 1937 to 1965 (with gaps in the war). After 1965, the Music Publishers’ Association continued to compile the charts until the early 1980s.

I wonder what your specialist subject on Mastermind was, Mike.

That’s interesting. Funnily enough, the author of Pop Music Hits 1939-1945, KL John (aka John Kobylecky), has also published books on football. You might find this book of interest: Pop Music Hits 1939-1945 https://amzn.eu/d/aBfdtms

Just to clarify, I have no interest in sport myself!

I’m struggling to think of a song which starts with “Wurlitzer”!

Blue Suede Shoes........Wurlitzer one for the money, one for the show !!!!!!!

1. Goodnight Children Everywhere - Phyllis Robins Parlophone F 1643
2. My Daddy - Phyllis Robins Parlophone F 1703
3. If Tears Could Bring You Back - The Organ, The Dance Band & Me Parlophone F1786
4. By Candlelight - Turner Layton Columbia FB 2771
5. Dreaming -Beryl Davis Decca F 7472
6. Do You Care - Geraldo & His Orchestra Parlophone F 1889

Many have shown me these mentioned in listings and adverts but no 100% proof of anyone saying they have any of them, heard them or a photo of any of them.....Again I really would love to be wrong

So are these listed in the CLPGS label discographies? I do have a draft of the Parlophone listing, but not the other ones.

The book is NOT based on either sheet music sales or record sales. It is based on the amounts of records sent out to record shops. Or shipping figures. For example all the Christmas records, some of which show as top, ALL vanish from the chart after Christmas. The shops stopped ordering them! Or the record companies stopped sending them out. Records were issued in the first week or second week of each month. So the chart fills up with hits those weeks. The book is good for telling you when a record was issued. It tells you how many records were ordered by shops, it doesn't tell you how many each shop sold. Or what the public were buying. Though there is a link between orders and sales. It's not very good at listing the most popular side. And if you look at the record listed in the book, it was clearly the other side of the record that the public were after and the song in the sheet music chart at the time. It has an advantage over the Sheet Music charts in that it features tunes that would not have Sheet Music, such as orchestral tunes, like The Dick Barton Theme!

The Shops would have had record company reps telling them, plus most shops were dealers and like car dealers they only sold that record company products. There would be customer feedback too, people asking for a a record or tune. They would also know the sheet music charts and I suspect they would base it also on how many sheet music they sold too.
It's interesting to know that Woolworth's orders were included and no chart had their sales till 1975.

That may be why Embassy records weren’t included in the charts!