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   338    Saturday, 9 April 1960
Scotland 1 England 1 [1-0]
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The Top Fifty UK Music Chart by Record Retailer 
   

On Friday, 15 November 1952, The New Musical Express published the first ever singles chart in the UK, comprising the twelve highest selling singles of the week, it increased to twenty on Friday, 1 October 1954, and thirty on Friday, 13 April 1956. On 10 March 1960, the chart increased to fifty singles and now published by The Record Retailer. When England drew with Scotland, Lonnie Donegan's My Old Man's a Dustman was the best selling single for its second of four weeks. When the Top Fifty chart of Thursday, 7 April 1960 was published, there were two surviving songs from the last chart when England played twenty weeks ago. The Top Forty is thus:-

1. (=) My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan (Pye)
2. (11) Do You Mind? - Anthony Newley (Decca)
3. (6) Fall In Love With You - Cliff Richard and The Shadows (Columbia)
4. (2) Running Bear - Johnny Preston (Mercury)
5. (4) Delaware - Perry Como (RCA)
6. (3) Theme From 'A Summer Place' - Percy Faith (Philips)
7. (=) Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be - Max Bygraves (Decca)
8. (9) You Got What It Takes - Marv Johnson (London)
9. (12) Wild One - Bobby Rydell (Columbia)
10. Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (RCA)
11. (13) What In The World's Come Over You - Jack Scott (Coral)
12. (18) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones (MGM)
13. (25) Hit And Miss - John Barry Seven (Columbia)
14. (13) Beatnik Fly - Johnny and The Hurricanes (London)
15. (5) Poor Me - Adam Faith (Parlophone)
16. (8) Why - Anthony Newley (Decca)
17. (24) Clementine - Bobby Darin (London)
18. (10) On A Slow Boat To China - Emile Ford and The Checkmates (Pye)
19. (15) Summer Set - Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band (Columbia)
20. (17) Colette - Billy Fury (Decca)
21. (22) Looking High High High - Bryan Johnson (Decca)
22. (21) Voice In The Wilderness - Cliff Richard and The Shadows (Columbia)
23. (35) Royal Event - Russ Conway (Columbia)
24. (16) Be Mine - Lance Fortune (Pye)
25. (28) Country Boy - Fats Domino (London)
26. (32) Bonnie Came Back - Duane Eddy and The Rebels (London)
27. (19) Pretty Blue Eyes - Craig Douglas (Top Rank)
28. (20) Who Could Be Bluer - Jerry Lordan (Parlophone)
29. (=) My Heart - Gene Vincent (Capitol)
30. (27) La Mer (Beyond The Sea) - Bobby Darin (London)
31. (re) He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves (RCA)
32. (40) Valentino - Connie Francis (MGM)
33. (re) Lucky Devil - Frank Ifield (Columbia)
34. (23) Way Down Yonder In New Orleans - Freddie Cannon (Top Rank)
35. (31) What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? - Emile Ford and The Checkmates (Pye)
36. (34) Little White Bull - Tommy Steele (Decca)
37. (=) Harbour Lights - The Platters (Mercury)
38. (46) With These Hands - Shirley Bassey (Columbia)
39. (re) Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (Brunswick)
40. (38) Footsteps - Ronnie Carroll (Philips)
 
♪Most weeks at number one when England played:
Frankie Laine, six
Connie Francis and Doris Day, five
Ronnie Hilton, four
Lonnie Donegan, Buddy Holly and Guy Mitchell, three
Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Elvis Presley, Marvin Rainwater, Johnnie Ray and Jimmy Young, two
Paul Anka, Winifred Atwell, Harry Belafonte, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Russ Conway, The Crickets, Tommy Edwards, Bill Haley, Tab Hunter, Vera Lynn, Al Martino, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Lita Roza, Anne Shelton, Frank Sinatra, Stargazers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, David Whitfield and Slim Whitman, one each

 
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