15th August 1964

1

(2)

Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Manfred Mann

HMV POP 1320

2

(1)

A Hard Day's Night

The Beatles

Parlophone R 5160

3

(3)

It's All Over Now

The Rolling Stones

Decca F 11934

4

(5)

Call Up The Groups

The Barron Knights

Columbia DB 7317

5

(4)

I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

Dusty Springfield

Philips BF1348

6

(6)

Tobacco Road

The Nashville Teens

Decca F 11930

7

(17)

Have I The Right

The Honeycombs

Pye 7N 15664

8

(7)

On The Beach

Cliff Richard & The Shadows

Columbia DB 7305

9

(8)

I Won't Forget You

Jim Reeves

RCA 1400

10

(9)

I Get Around

The Beach Boys

Capitol CL 15350

11

(13)

It's Only Make Believe

Billy Fury

Decca F 11939

12

(15)

It's For You

Cilla Black

Parlophone R 5162

13

(18)

From A Window

Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas

Parlophone R 5156

14

(20)

I Found Out The Hard Way

The Four Pennies

Philips BF 1349

15

(11)

Someday We're Gonna Love Again

The Searchers

7N 15670

16

(16)

Wishin' And Hopin'

The Merseybeats

Fontana TF 482

17

(14)

You'll Never Get To Heaven

Dionne Warwick

Pye International 7N 25256

18

(10)

House Of The Rising Sun

The Animals

Columbia DB 7301

19

(-)

You Really Got Me

The Kinks

Pye 7N 15673

20

(19)

Ferris Wheel

The Everly Brothers

Warner Brothers WB 135

21

(12)

Hold Me

P.J. Proby

Decca F 11904

22

(29)

The Girl From Ipanema

Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto

Verve VS 520

23

(26)

Thinking Of You Baby

The Dave Clark Five

Columbia DB 7335

24

(-)

I Wouldn't Trade You For The World

The Bachelors

Decca F 11949

25

(-)

The Wedding

Julie Rogers

Mercury MF 820

26

(23)

Kissin' Cousins

Elvis Presley

RCA 1404

27

(-)

Happiness

Ken Dodd

Columbia DB 7325

28

(21)

You're No Good

The Swinging Blue Jeans

HMV POP 1304

29

(28)

Hello Dolly

Louis Armstrong

London HLR 9878

30

(-)

How Can I Tell Her

The Fourmost

Parlophone R 5157

 

 

 

It happened this week...

Sunday 16th... 13 children were killed when a coach crashed over a ravine in St. Bernard Pass, France

Tuesday 18th... South Africa was banned from taking part in the Olympic Games for its apartheid policies

Tuesday 18th... Greece ended its food blockade of the Turkish community in Cyprus

Thursday 20th... President Johnson signed into law a $947.5 million anti-poverty bill

Friday 21st... In the Congo, government forces drove rebels out of Bukavi and discovered 300 bodies

Friday 21st... Three women in London were found guilty of indecency for wearing topless dresses