25th June 1966

1

(2)

Paperback Writer

The Beatles

Parlophone R 5452

2

(1)

Strangers In The Night

Frank Sinatra

Reprise R 23052

3

(3)

Monday, Monday

The Mamas & The Papas

RCA 1516

4

(10)

Sunny Afternoon

The Kinks

Pye 7N 17125

5

(9)

Don't Answer Me

Cilla Black

Parlophone R 5463

6

(12)

River Deep, Mountain High

Ike & Tina Turner

London 10046

7

(15)

Nobody Needs Your Love

Gene Pitney

Stateside SS 518

8

(7)

When A Man Loves A Woman

Percy Sledge

Atlantic 584 001

9

(11)

Promises

Ken Dodd

Columbia DB 7914

10

(5)

Sorrow

The Merseys

Fontana TF 694

11

(4)

Paint It Black

The Rolling Stones

Decca F 12395

12

(6)

Don't Bring Me Down

The Animals

Decca F 12407

13

(14)

Over Under Sideways Down

The Yardbirds

Columbia DB 7928

14

(22)

Hideaway

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Fontana TF 711

15

(8)

Wild Thing

The Troggs

Fontana TF 689

16

(13)

Sloop John B

The Beach Boys

Capitol CL 15441

17

(26)

It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World

James Brown

Pye International 7N 25371

18

(-)

Get Away

Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames

Columbia DB 7946

19

(-)

Bus Stop

The Hollies

Parlophone R 5469

20

(29)

Lana

Roy Orbison

London HL 10051

21

(25)

Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me)

The Four Seasons

Philips BF 1493

22

(17)

Nothing Comes Easy

Sandie Shaw

Pye 7N 17086

23

(-)

I Need You (EP)

The Walker Brothers

Philips

24

(30)

Lady Jane

David Garrick

Piccadilly 7N 35317

25

(23)

Not Responsible

Tom Jones

Decca F 12390

26

(-)

I Am A Rock

Simon & Garfunkel

CBS 202303

27

(21)

Come On Home

Wayne Fontana

Fontana TF 684

28

(19)

Shotgun Wedding

Roy C

Island WI 273

29

(20)

Pretty Flamingo

Manfred Mann

HMV POP 1523

30

(-)

Sittin' On A Fence

Twice As Much

Immediate IM 033

 

 

 

It happened this week...

Saturday 25th... Wounded James Meredith rejoined civil rights marchers near Jackson, Mississippi

Tuesday 28th... Wilson named communists who, he claimed, were using the seaman's strike to gain power in the NUS

Wednesday 29th... Barclays Bank introduced Barclaycard, the first British credit card

Thursday 30th... Leopoldville, the capital of the Congo, was renamed Kinshasa

Thursday 30th... France formally left NATO