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