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Official Singles Chart on 14/9/1956

14 September 1956 - 20 September 1956

The Official UK Singles Chart reflects the UK’s biggest songs of the week, based on audio and video streams, downloads, CDs and vinyl, compiled by the Official Charts Company. The UK Top 40 is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and MTV, the Top 100 is published exclusively on OfficialCharts.com. View the biggest songs of 2024 so far.

 

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Institute for Music Research

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No 9. The label of Decca F 10780 shows the artist is 'The Goons'.

No 25. Note: HMV DA 2085 and HMV DA 2065 are recordings of different compositions.

No 30. The label of London HLD 8298 shows the title is 'Trying'. The artist is 'The Hilltoppers'.

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Michael Javes

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Wrong chart

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Alan McKenna

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Serenade new entry at #25 should be a re-entry as first charted in 1955

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Phil Davis

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This was a reissue with a different catalogue number to the first - DA2065.

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Alan McKenna

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Take your point but if it is the same song by the same artiste it should count as a re-entry irrespective of the catalogue number in my opinion

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Phil Davis

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Hi Alan,

This is a valid point and is one which I've pondered several times when reissues are listed as if they were new releases. It's probably a case of how you define a 'new' entry. I think in this case the song was used in two separate musicals a year or so apart, but I don't know if the same recording was used or if it was a new recording. Presumably we should class a new recording as a different record. Or should we?

A good example of this potential confusion is Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock. Of the first release on Brunswick the OCC state the weeks on chart as 36, even though the record had 6 separate chart runs. There's an 11 week run in 1968 on MCA which may have been a different recording, then again in 1974 on MCA (but with a different catalogue number) a 10 week run which is definitely the same recording as the original Brunswick version.

So 8 chart runs in total, of 1 or maybe 2 recording(s), on 2 record labels, with 3 different catalogue numbers totalling 57 weeks on chart, but listed as 3 separate entries of 36, 11 and 10 weeks by OCC.

It would help if the OCC published what their criteria is regarding re-entries, reissues and re-recordings. But in regards to our original issue, I'm in full agreement with you Alan regarding Serenade's re-entry and I would class Haley's record as having 57 weeks on chart.

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Alan McKenna

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Hi Phil

It can get a bit confusing at times especially when they are on different labels. I picked up on the Bill Haley one. I have to class them all as re-entries for the project I am working on. Makes it hard work at times

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Nick Bellhouse

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The two recordings mentioned in this discussion are in fact two different songs.

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Alan McKenna

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Thanks I realise that now and don't know why I didn't pick it up. It didn't help that Slim Whitman also had an entry with a version of Serenade in 1956