AUSTRALIAN MUSIC CHARTS – COMPILED BY NOSTALGIA RADIO

As played on Australian radio stations

TOP 60 1950-1954 TOP 60 SONGS 1955-1959

1: Too young - 1: Smoke gets in your eyes - Platters 2: Quicksilver - and 2: Just walking in the rain - 3: Happy wanderer - Frank Weir 3: Whatever will be, will be (que sera sera) - 4: Music music music - Donald Peers 4: Round and round - 5: Auf wiedersehen, sweetheart - Vera Lynn 5: Around the world - Bing Crosby 6: Pretend - Nat King Cole 6: Diana - Paul Anka 7: Lavender blue (dilly dilly) - 7: - Perry Como 8: Goodnight Irene - and 8: Tom Dooley - Kingston Trio 9: Because of you - 9: Joeys - a/ h Comets 10: A kiss to build a dream on - 10: Volare - Domenico Modueno 11: You belong to me - 11: Hold my hand - Don Cornell 12: Song from Moulin Rouge - 12: Melody of love - Four Aces 13: Mona Lisa - Dennis Day 13: - Bill Haley and his Comets 14: Bewitched - Gordon Jenkins 14: Yellow rose of - 15: Slowcoach - 15: Sixteen tons - 16: Cry - Johnnie Ray 16: Singing the - 17: Til I waltz again with you - 17: April love - 18: Rags to riches - Tony Bennett 18: Purple people eater - Sheb Wooley 19: - 19: A fool such as I - 20: “A” you’re adorable - Perry Como a/t Fontaine Sist. 20: Battle of - 21: My foolish heart - Gordon Jenkins 21: - Al Hibler 22: Aba daba honeymoon - Debbie Reynolds & Carleton 22: Memories are made of this - Carpenter. 23: waltz - 23: - Guy Mitchell 24: Love letters in the sand - Pat Boone 24: Sweet violets - 25: Personality - Lloyd Price 25: My truly truly fair - Guy Mitchell 26: Three bells - Browns 26: Ay-round the corner - Weavers 27: Mister sandman - Four Aces 27: - 28: of Davy Crockett - Tennessee Ernie Ford 28: - 29: - Louis Armstrong 29: I’m walking behind you - 30: Hot diggity - Perry Como 30: Vaya con dios - & 31: - 31: Oh! my papa - Eddie Fisher 32: White sports coat - Marty Robbins 32: Answer me - Nat King Cole 33: He’s got the whole world in His hands - Laurie 33: Answer me Lord above - 34: Sh-boom - Crewcuts 34: Twilight time - Platters 35: Forever and ever - Perry Como 35: Oh yeah, uh uh - Col Joye and the Joy Boys 36: Four winds and the seven seas - Bing Crosby 36: I need you now - Eddie Fisher 37: I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts - 37: High and the mighty - 38: You’re breaking my heart - 38: Cherry pink and apple blossom white - Les Baxter 39: Thing - Phil Harris 39: Stranger in paradise - Tony Bennett 40: Nevertheless - Paul Weston a/t Norman Luboff Choir 40: Great - Platters 41: - Pee Wee King 41: Portuguese washer woman - Joe “Fingers” Carr 42: - Perry Como 42: Young love - Tab Hunter 43: Anytime - Eddie Fisher 43: Marianne - and 44: Some enchanted evening - Ezio 44: Bird dog - Everly Brothers 45: I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus - 45: Venus - Frankie Laine 46: That’s amore - Dean Martin 46: He - Al Hibler 47: Young at heart - Frank Sinatra 47: Naughty lady of shady lane - Dean Martin 48: Ebb tide - Frank Chacksfield 48: Let me go, lover - Joan Weber 49: Little shoemaker - The Gaylords 49: Skokian - Four Lads 50: You’re just in love - & 50: Mona Lisa - Conway Twitty 51: Harry Lime (Third man) theme - Anton Karas 51: Poor people of - Les Baxter 52: That’s all right - Elvis Presley 52: Twelfth of never - 53: God bless the child - 53: A pub with no beer - Slim Dusty 54: Shake, rattle, and roll - Big Joe Turner 54: I’ll never fall in love again - Johnnie Ray 55: Your cheatin’ heart - 55: Tammy - Debbie Reynolds 56: Misty - Errol Garner trio 56: It’s all in the game - Tommy Edwards 57: - The Penguins 57: Petite Fleur - Chris Barber’s band 58: Money honey - The Drifters 58: Bye bye baby - Col Joye and the Joy Boys 59: On top of old Smokey - The Weavers 59: Patricia - Perez Prado 60: - Les Paul & Mary Ford 60: It’s not for me to say - Johnny Mathis

From the book “Australian Radio History” by Bruce Carty Ph.D. - ([email protected])