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1960s Number Ones

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Number 1's of the 1960's
Date Reached Number. 1	Artist	Song Title	Wks at No.1
1960
17th January	Anthony Newley	Why?	6
28th February	Adam Faith	Poor Me	1
6th March	Johnny Preston	Running Bear	2
20th March	Lonnie Donegan	My Old Man's a Dustman	5
24th April	Everly Brothers	Cathy's Clown	9
26th June	Jimmy Jones	Good Timin'	4
24th July	Cliff Richard	Please Don't Tease	3
14th August	The Shadows	Apache	6
25th September	Ricky Valance	Tell Laura I Love Her	2
9th October	Roy Orbison	Only the Lonely	3
30th October	Elvis Presley	It's Now or Never	9
1961
1st January	Johnny Tilliston	Poetry in Motion	3
22nd January	Elvis Presley	Are You Lonesome Tonight	4
19th February	Everly Brothers	Walk Right Back	4
19th March	Elvis Presley	Wooden Heart	3
9th April	The Allisons	Are You Sure?	2
23rd April	Elvis Presley	Wooden Heart	1
30th April	The Temperance Seven	You're Driving Me Crazy	1
7th May	Marcels	Blue Moon	2
21st May	Del Shannon	Runaway	1
28th May	Elvis Presley	Surrender	4
25th June	Del Shannon	Runaway	1
2nd July	Everly Brothers	Temptation	4
30th July	Eden Kane	Well I Ask You	1
6th August	Helen Shapiro	You Don't Know	2
20th August	John Leyton	Johnny Remember Me	5
24th September	The Shadows	Kon-Tiki	1
1st October	The Highwaymen	Michael Row the Boat	1
8th October	Helen Shapiro	Walkin' Back to Happiness	4
5th November	Elvis Presley	His Latest Flame	3
26th November	Bobby Vee	Take Good Care of my Baby	1
3rd December	Frankie Vaughan	Tower of Strength	4
31st December	Acker Bilk	Stranger on the Shore	2
1962
14th January	Cliff Richard	The Young Ones	5
18th February	Bobby Darin	Multiplication	1
25th February	Elvis Presley	Rock-A-Hula Baby / Can't Help Falling In Love	3
18th March	The Shadows	Wonderful Land	8
13th May	B Bumble & The Stingers	Nut Rocker	1
20th May	Elvis Presley	Good Luck Charm	5
24th June	Mike Sarne	Come Outside	2
8th July	Ray Charles	I Can't Stop Loving You	2
22nd July	Frank Ifield	I Remember You	7
9th September	Elvis Presley	She's Not For You	3
30th September	The Tornados	Telstar	5
4th November	Frank Ifield	Lovesick Blues	5
9th December	Elvis Presley	Return To Sender	3
30th December	Cliff Richard	Next Time	3
1963
20th January	The Shadows	Dance On	1
27th January	Jet Harris & Tony Meehan	Diamonds	3
17th February	Frank Ifield	Wayward Wind	3
10th March	Cliff Richard	Summer Holiday	2
24th March	The Shadows	Foot Tapper	1
31st March	Gerry & the Pacemakers	How Do You Do It?	4
28th April	The Beatles	From Me To You	7
16th June	Gerry & the Pacemakers	I Like It	4
14th July	Frank Ifield	Confessin'	2
4th August	Elvis Presley	Devil in Disguise	1
28th July	The Searchers	Sweets for my Sweet	2
18th August	Billy J Kramer	Bad To Me	3
8th September	The Beatles	She Loves You	4
6th October	Brian Poole & The Tremeloes	Do You Love Me?	3
27th October	Gerry & The Pacemakers	You'll Never Walk Alone	4
24th November	The Beatles	She Loves You	2
8th December	The Beatles	I Wanna Hold Your Hand	5
1964
12th January	Dave Clark Five	Glad All Over	2
26th January	The Searchers	Needles & Pins	3
16th February	The Bachelors	Diane	2
1st March	Cilla Black	Anyone Who Had A Heart	2
15th March	Billy J Kramer	Little Children	2
29th March	The Beatles	Can't Buy Me Love	3
19th April	Peter & Gordon	World Without Love	2
3rd May	The Searchers	Don't Throw Your Love Away	2
17th May	The Four Pennies	Juliet	1
24th May	Cilla Black	You're My World	4
21st June	Roy Orbison	It's Over	2
5th July	The Animals	House of the Rising Sun	1
12th July	The Rolling Stones	It's All Over Now	1
19th July	The Beatles	A Hard Days Night	3
9th August	Manfred Mann	Doo Wah Diddy Diddy	2
23rd August	The Honeycombs	Have I the Right	2
5th September	The Kinks	You Really Got Me	2
19th September	Hermans Hermits	I'm Into Something Good	2
4th October	Roy Orbison	Oh Pretty Woman	2
18th October	Sandie Shaw	Always Something There to Remind Me	3
8th November	Roy Orbison	Oh Pretty Woman	1
15th November	The Supremes	Baby Love	2
29th November	The Rolling Stones	Little Red Rooster	1
6th December	The Beatles	I Feel Fine	5
1965
10th January	Georgie Fame	Yeh Yeh	2
24th January	The Moody Blues	Go Now	1
31st January	The Righteous Brothers	You've Lost That Loving Feeling	2
14th February	The Kinks	Tired of Waiting for You	1
21st February	The Seekers	I'll Never Find Another You	2
7th March	Tom Jones	It's Not Unusual	1
14th March	The Rolling Stones	The Last Time	3
4th April	Unit 4 Plus 2	Concrete & Clay	1
11th April	Cliff Richard	The Minute You're Gone	1
18th April	The Beatles	Ticket To Ride	3
9th May	Roger Miller	King of the Road	1
16th May	Jackie Trent	Where Are You Now My Love	1
23rd May	Sandie Shaw	Long Live Love	3
13th June	Elvis Presley	Crying in the Chapel	1
20th June	The Hollies	I'm Alive	1
27th June	Elvis Presley	Crying in the Chapel	1
4th July	The Hollies	I'm Alive	2
18th July	The Byrds	Mr Tambourine Man	2
1st August	The Beatles	Help	3
22nd August	Sonny & Cher	I Got You Babe	2
5th September	The Rolling Stones	Satisfaction	2
19th September	The Walker Brothers	Make It Easy On Yourself	1
26th September	Ken Dodd	Tears	5
31st October	The Rolling Stones	Get Off Of My Cloud	3
21st November	The Seekers	The Carnival is Over	3
12th December	The Beatles	Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out	5
1966
16th January	The Spencer Davis Group	Keep On Runnin'	1
23rd January	The Overlanders	Michelle	3
13th February	Nancy Sinatra	These Boots Are Made For Walking	4
13th March	The Walker Brothers	The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore	4
10th April	The Spencer Davis Group	Somebody Help Me	2
24th April	Dusty Springfield	You Don't Have To Say You Love Me	1
1st May	Manfred Mann	Pretty Flamingo	3
22nd May	The Rolling Stones	Paint It Black	1
29th May	Frank Sinatra	Strangers In The Night	3
19th June	The Beatles	Paperback Writer	2
3rd July	The Kinks	Sunny Afternoon	2
17th July	Georgie Fame	Get Away	1
24th July	Chris Farlowe	Out Of Time	1
31st July	The Troggs	With A Girl Like You	2
14th August	The Beatles	Yellow Submarine	4
11th September	The Small Faces	All Or Nothing	1
18th September	Jim Reeves	Distant Drums	5
23rd October	The Four Tops	Reach Out I'll Be There	3
13th November	The Beach Boys	Good Vibrations	2
27th November	Tom Jones	Green, Green Grass Of Home	7
1967
15th January	The Monkees	I'm A Believer	4
12th February	Petula Clark	This Is My Song	2
26th February	Engelbert Humperdinck	Release Me	6
9th April	Frank & Nancy Sinatra	Somethin' Stupid	2
23rd April	Sandie Shaw	Puppet On A String	3
14th May	The Tremoloes	Silence is Golden	3
4th June	Procol Harum	A Whiter Shade Of Pale	6
16th July	The Beatles	All You Need Is Love	3
6th August	Scott McKenzie	San Francisco (Flowers In Your Hair)	4
3rd September	Engelbert Humperdinck	Last Waltz	5
8th October	The Bee Gees	Massachusetts	4
5th November	The Foundations	Baby Now That I've Found You	2
19th November	Long John Baldry	Let The Heartaches Begin	2
3rd December	The Beatles	Hello, Goodbye	7
1968
21st January	Georgie Fame	Ballard Of Bonnie & Clyde	1
28th January	The Love Affair	Everlasting Love	2
11th February	Manfred Mann	The Mighty Quinn	2
25th February	Esther & Abi Ofarim	Cinderella Rockafella	3
17th March	Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich	Legend Of Xanadu	1
24th March	The Beatles	Lady Madonna	2
7th April	Cliff Richard	Congratulations	2
21st April	Louis Armstrong	Wonderful World	4
19th May	The Union Gap	Young Girl	4
16th June	The Rolling Stones	Jumping Jack Flash	2
30th June	The Equals	Baby Come Back	3
21st July	Des O'Connor	I Pretend	1
28th July	Tommy James & The Shondells	Mony Mony	2
11th August	The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown	Fire	1
18th August	Tommy James & The Shondells	Mony Mony	1
25th August	The Beach Boys	Do It Again	1
1st September	The Bee Gees	I Gotta Get A Message To You	1
8th September	The Beatles	Hey Jude	2
22nd September	Mary Hopkin	Those Were The Days	6
3rd November	Joe Cocker	With A Little Help From My Friends	1
10th November	Hugo Montenegro	The Good, The Bad, The Ugly	4
8th December	The Scaffold	Lily The Pink	3
29th December	The Marmalade	Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da	1
1969
5th January	The Scaffold	Lily The Pink	1
12th January	The Marmalade	Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da	2
26th January	Fleetwood Mac	Albatross	1
2nd February	The Move	Blackberry Way	1
9th February	Amen Corner	(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice	2
23rd February	Peter Starstedt	Where Do You Go To My Lovely	4
23rd March	Marvin Gaye	I Heard It Through The Grapevine	3
13th April	Desmond Dekker & The Aces	The Israelites	1
20th April	The Beatles	Get Back	6
1st June	Tommy Roe	Dizzy	1
8th June	The Beatles	The Ballad Of John & Yoko	3
29th June	Thunderclap Newman	Something In The Air	3
20th July	The Rolling Stones	Honky Tonk Woman	5
24th August	Zager & Evans	In The Year 2525	3
14th September	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Bad Moon Rising	3
5th October	Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg	Je T'aime, Moi Non Plus	1
12th October	Bobby Gentry	I'll Never Fall In Love Again	1
19th October	The Archies	Sugar Sugar	8
14th December	Rolf Harris	Two Little Boys	6

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