30th July 1966

1

(1)

Out Of Time

Chris Farlowe

Immediate IM 035

2

(8)

With A Girl Like You

The Troggs

Fontana TF 717

3

(4)

Black Is Black

Los Bravos

Decca F 22419

4

(3)

Get Away

Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames

Columbia DB 7946

5

(9)

The More I See You

Chris Montez

Pye International 7N 25369

6

(2)

Sunny Afternoon

The Kinks

Pye 7N 17125

7

(7)

I Couldn't Live Without Your Love

Petula Clark

Pye 7N 17133

8

(11)

Love Letters

Elvis Presley

RCA 1526

9

(6)

Nobody Needs Your Love

Gene Pitney

Stateside SS 518

10

(5)

River Deep, Mountain High

Ike & Tina Turner

London HL 10046

11

(12)

Goin' Back

Dusty Springfield

Philips BF 1502

12

(10)

Bus Stop

The Hollies

Parlophone R 5469

13

(17)

Mama

Dave Berry

Decca F 12435

14

(14)

(Baby) You Don't Have To Tell Me

The Walker Brothers

Philips BF 1497

15

(19)

Summer In The City

The Lovin' Spoonful

Kama Sutra KAS 200

16

(13)

Strangers In The Night

Frank Sinatra

Reprise R 23052

17

(21)

Visions

Cliff Richard

Columbia DB 7968

18

(26)

Hi Lili Hi Lo

The Alan Price Set

Decca F 12442

19

(-)

God Only Knows

The Beach Boys

Capitol CL 15459

20

(15)

Hideaway

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Fontana TF 711

21

(-)

I Want You

Bob Dylan

CBS 202258

22

(-)

I Love How You Love Me

Paul & Barry Ryan

Decca F 12445

23

(16)

Paperback Writer

The Beatles

Parlophone R 5452

24

(18)

Lana

Roy Orbison

London HL 10051

25

(-)

Can I Trust You

The Bachelors

Decca F 12417

26

(-)

Lovers Of The World Unite

David & Jonathan

Columbia DB 7950

27

(22)

When A Man Loves A Woman

Percy Sledge

Atlantic 584 001

28

(30)

Promises

Ken Dodd

Columbia DB 7914

29

(27)

This Door Swings Both Ways

Herman's Hermits

Columbia DB 7947

30

(28)

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

James Brown

Pye International 7N 25371

 

 

 

It happened this week...

Saturday 30th... US planes bombed the demilitarised zone between North and South Vietnam

Saturday 30th... England defeated West Germany 4-2 after extra time to win the World Cup

Sunday 31st... Race riots flared in Chicago, New York and Cleveland

Monday August 1st... 31 people were lost off the Cornish coast in the pleasure boat Darlwyne

Monday 1st... 25 year-old Charles Whitman shot 12 people dead at Texas University in Austin before being killed by a policeman

Monday 1st... Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu Gowon seized power in a coup in Nigeria

Tuesday 2nd... Johnson urged firearms curbs to prevent further tragedies like the Austin massacre

Wednesday 3rd... Comedian Lenny Bruce died from a drug overdose, aged 39

Thursday 4th... The Kray twins were taken in for questioning by police conducting a murder investigation