15th October 1966

1

(1)

Distant Drums

Jim Reeves

RCA 1537

2

(3)

Bend It

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Fontana TF 746

3

(2)

I'm A Boy

The Who

Reaction 591 004

4

(5)

Winchester Cathedral

The New Vaudeville Band

Fontana TF 741

5

(7)

Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow

The Rolling Stones

Decca F 12497

6

(16)

I Can't Control Myself

The Troggs

Page One POF 001

7

(4)

You Can't Hurry Love

The Supremes

Tamla Motown TMG 575

8

(12)

Guantanamera

The Sandpipers

Pye International 7N 25380

9

(6)

Little Man

Sonny & Cher

Atlantic 584 040

10

(-)

Reach Out I'll Be There

The Four Tops

Tamla Motown TMG 579

11

(9)

All I See Is You

Dusty Springfield

Philips BF 1510

12

(14)

Sunny

Georgie Fame

Columbia DB 8015

13

(8)

Too Soon To Know

Roy Orbison

London HLU 10067

14

(10)

Walk With Me

The Seekers

Columbia DB 8000

15

(11)

Sunny

Bobby Hebb

Philips BF 1503

16

(-)

Stop, Stop, Stop

The Hollies

Parlophone R 5508

17

(13)

Another Tear Falls

The Walker Brothers

Philips BF 1514

18

(17)

I Don't Care

Los Bravos

Decca F 22484

19

(20)

I've Got You Under My Skin

The Four Seasons

Philips BF 1511

20

(18)

Lady Godiva

Peter & Gordon

Columbia DB 8003

21

(-)

No Milk Today

Herman's Hermits

Columbia DB 8012

22

(-)

High Time

Paul Jones

HMV POP 1554

23

(28)

Somewhere My Love

The Mike Sammes Singers

HMV POP 1546

24

(-)

Time Drags By

Cliff Richard & The Shadows

Columbia DB 8017

25

(-)

All That I Am

Elvis Presley

RCA 1545

26

(23)

Born A Woman

Sandy Posey

MGM 1321

27

(19)

Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby

The Beatles

Parlophone R 5493

28

(29)

Dear Mrs Applebee

David Garrick

Piccadilly 7N 35335

29

(-)

Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

The Temptations

Tamla Motown TMG 578

30

(-)

If I Were A Carpenter

Bobby Darin

Atlantic 584 051

 

 

 

It happened this week...

Tuesday 18th... French cosmetics expert Elizabeth Arden died, aged 81

Tuesday 18th... The Queen granted a pardon to Timothy Evans who was hanged in 1950 for murdering his wife and daughter in a house occupied by mass murderer John Reginald Christie

Thursday 20th... Figures showed British unemployment standing at 437,229 - up 100,000 on last month

Friday 21st... Over 130 people, mainly children, were buried by a coal slag heap at Aberfan, Wales