AUSTRALIAN MUSIC CHARTS – COMPILED BY NOSTALGIA RADIO As played on Australian radio stations TOP 60 SONGS 1950-1954 TOP 60 SONGS 1955-1959 1: Too young - Nat King Cole 1: Smoke gets in your eyes - Platters 2: Quicksilver - Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters 2: Just walking in the rain - Johnnie Ray 3: Happy wanderer - Frank Weir 3: Whatever will be, will be (que sera sera) - Doris Day 4: Music music music - Donald Peers 4: Round and round - Perry Como 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) - Burl Ives 7: Catch a falling star - Perry Como 8: Goodnight Irene - Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers 8: Tom Dooley - Kingston Trio 9: Because of you - Tony Bennett 9: Joeys song - Bill Haley a/ h Comets 10: A kiss to build a dream on - Louis Armstrong 10: Volare - Domenico Modueno 11: You belong to me - Jo Stafford 11: Hold my hand - Don Cornell 12: Song from Moulin Rouge - Percy Faith 12: Melody of love - Four Aces 13: Mona Lisa - Dennis Day 13: Rock around the clock - Bill Haley and his Comets 14: Bewitched - Gordon Jenkins 14: Yellow rose of Texas - Mitch Miller 15: Slowcoach - Pee Wee King 15: Sixteen tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford 16: Cry - Johnnie Ray 16: Singing the blues - Guy Mitchell 17: Til I waltz again with you - Teresa Brewer 17: April love - Pat Boone 18: Rags to riches - Tony Bennett 18: Purple people eater - Sheb Wooley 19: Little things mean a lot - Kitty Kallen 19: A fool such as I - Elvis Presley 20: “A” you’re adorable - Perry Como a/t Fontaine Sist. 20: Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton 21: My foolish heart - Gordon Jenkins 21: Unchained melody - Al Hibler 22: Aba daba honeymoon - Debbie Reynolds & Carleton 22: Memories are made of this - Dean Martin Carpenter. 23: Rock and roll waltz - Kay Starr 23: My heart cries for you - Guy Mitchell 24: Love letters in the sand - Pat Boone 24: Sweet violets - Dinah Shore 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: Here in my heart - Al Martino 28: Ballad of Davy Crockett - Tennessee Ernie Ford 28: I went to your wedding - Patti Page 29: Mack the knife - Louis Armstrong 29: I’m walking behind you - Frank Sinatra 30: Hot diggity - Perry Como 30: Vaya con dios - Les Paul & Mary Ford 31: Hey there - Rosemary Clooney 31: Oh! my papa - Eddie Fisher 32: White sports coat - Marty Robbins 32: Answer me my love - Nat King Cole 33: He’s got the whole world in His hands - Laurie 33: Answer me Lord above - Frankie Laine London 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 - Freddy Martin 37: High and the mighty - Victor Young 38: You’re breaking my heart - Buddy Clark 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 pretender - Platters 41: Tennessee waltz - Pee Wee King 41: Portuguese washer woman - Joe “Fingers” Carr 42: If - Perry Como 42: Young love - Tab Hunter 43: Anytime - Eddie Fisher 43: Marianne - Terry Gilkyson and the Easy Riders 44: Some enchanted evening - Ezio Pinza 44: Bird dog - Everly Brothers 45: I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus - Jimmy Boyd 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 - Ethel Merman & Dick Haymes 50: Mona Lisa - Conway Twitty 51: Harry Lime (Third man) theme - Anton Karas 51: Poor people of Paris - Les Baxter 52: That’s all right - Elvis Presley 52: Twelfth of never - Johnny Mathis 53: God bless the child - Billie Holiday 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 - Hank Williams 55: Tammy - Debbie Reynolds 56: Misty - Errol Garner trio 56: It’s all in the game - Tommy Edwards 57: Earth angel - The Penguins 57: Petite Fleur - Chris Barber’s jazz 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: How high the moon - 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]) .