2nd July 1966

1

(1)

Paperback Writer

The Beatles

Parlophone R 5452

2

(2)

Strangers In The Night

Frank Sinatra

Reprise R 23052

3

(4)

Sunny Afternoon

The Kinks

Pye 7N 17125

4

(7)

Nobody Needs Your Love

Gene Pitney

Stateside SS 518

5

(6)

River Deep, Mountain High

Ike & Tina Turner

London HL 10046

6

(19)

Bus Stop

The Hollies

Parlophone R 5469

7

(5)

Don't Answer Me

Cilla Black

Parlophone R 5463

8

(8)

When A Man Loves A Woman

Percy Sledge

Atlantic 584 001

9

(18)

Get Away

Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames

Columbia DB 7946

10

(3)

Monday, Monday

The Mamas & The Papas

RCA 1516

11

(14)

Hideaway

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Fontana TF 711

12

(9)

Promises

Ken Dodd

Columbia DB 7914

13

(13)

Over Under Sideways Down

The Yardbirds

Columbia DB 7928

14

(12)

Don't Bring Me Down

The Animals

Decca F 12407

15

(10)

Sorrow

The Merseys

Fontana TF 694

16

(20)

Lana

Roy Orbison

London HL 10051

17

(17)

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

James Brown

Pye International 7N 25371

18

(11)

Paint It Black

The Rolling Stones

Decca F 12395

19

(-)

I Couln't Live Without Your Love

Petula Clark

Pye 7N 17133

20

(16)

Sloop John B

The Beach Boys

Capitol CL 15441

21

(21)

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

The Four Seasons

Philips BF 1493

22

(23)

I Need You (EP)

The Walker Brothers

Philips

23

(-)

Out Of Time

Chris Farlowe

Immediate IM 035

24

(15)

Wild Thing

The Troggs

Fontana TF 689

25

(-)

This Door Swings Both Ways

Herman's Hermits

Columbia DB 7947

26

(26)

I Am A Rock

Simon & Garfunkel

CBS 202303

27

(-)

Black Is Black

Los Bravos

Decca F 22419

28

(-)

Mama

Dave Berry

Decca F 12435

29

(-)

The More I See You

Chris Montez

Pye International 7N 25369

30

(28)

Shotgun Wedding

Roy C

Island WI 273

 

 

 

It happened this week...

Saturday 2nd... At Wimbledon, Manuel Santana and Billie-Jean King won the men's and ladies singles titles respectively

Sunday 3rd... Minister of Technology Frank Cousins resigned and was replaced by Anthony Wedgewood-Benn

Sunday 3rd... 31 people were arrested during anti-Vietnam war protests in Grosvenor Square, London

Monday 4th... The government published the Prices and Incomes Bill

Thursday 7th... Warsaw pact states offered to send volunteers to North Vietnam if Hanoi wanted them