List of number one hits in Australia (1950)

This list includes all of the number one hits in Australia in 1950 . 14 different songs reached number 1 this year.

Singles

← 1949 ←	List of number one hits in Australia			1951 →
Period Where. total Interpreter Title Author (s) Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , author [s], additional information) December 24, 1949 - February 3, 1950 6 weeks 6th Burl Ives ; Dinah Shore Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) Music: Eliot Daniel ; Text: Larry Morey - February 4, 1950 - March 3, 1950 4 weeks 4th Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters ; Tony Pastor "A" - You're Adorable Buddy Kaye, Sidney Lippman, Fred Wise - March 4, 1950 - March 24, 1950 3 weeks 3 Perry Como ; Russ Morgan Orchestra Forever and Ever Music: May Singhi Breen; Text: Franz Winkler - March 25, 1950 - April 14, 1950 3 weeks 3 Bing Crosby ; Sammy Kaye The Four Winds and the Seven Seas Hal David , Don Rodney - April 15, 1950 - May 5, 1950 3 weeks 3 Freddy Martin ; Sammy Kaye I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts Harold Elton Box, Desmond Cox, Irwin Dash - May 6, 1950 - May 26, 1950 3 weeks 3 Buddy Clark ; Vic Damone You're Breaking My Heart Music: Ruggiero Leoncavallo ; Text: Pat Genaro, Sunny Skylar Mattinata was the name of the Italian original recorded by Enrico Caruso in 1903, accompanied by the author Leoncavallo; Vic Damone was the first to publish the English version May 27, 1950 - June 9, 1950 2 weeks 2 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians ; Kind Mooney Hop Scotch Polka Billy Whitlock, Gene Rayburn, Carl Sigman - June 10, 1950 - June 23, 1950 2 weeks 2 Donald Peers I Told Them All About You Cliff Friend - June 24, 1950 - August 11, 1950 7 weeks 7th Donald Peers ; Freddy Martin ; Teresa Brewer Music! Music! Music! Bernie Baum, Stephan Weiss - August 12, 1950 - September 8, 1950 4 weeks 4th Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra ; Joe Loss Orchestra My Foolish Heart Music: Victor Popular Young; Text: Ned Washington - September 9, 1950 - November 3, 1950 8 weeks 8th Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters Quicksilver Edward Pola, Irving Taylor , George Wyle - November 4, 1950 - November 10, 1950 1 week 1 Sammy Kaye Hollywood Square Dance Music: Paul Weirick; Text: Charles R. Hayes - November 11, 1950 - December 15, 1950 5 weeks 5 Dennis Day ; Nat King Cole Mona Lisa Raymond B. Evans , Jay Livingston The song was the Oscar winner of the year. December 16, 1950 - January 26, 1951 6 weeks 6th Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers Goodnight Irene Huddie Ledbetter , John A. Lomax Sr. In 1933 Huddie Ledbetter aka Leadbelly recorded the song under the title Irene for the first time, after his death it became an international hit.
← 1949				→ 1951 →

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1. ↑ instead of Harold Elton Box, Desmond Cox, Irwin Dash, the common pseudonym Fred Heatherton can also be found; Irwin Dash is also under the name of Lewis Ilda known
2. ^ Mattinata at SecondHandSongs, accessed April 9, 2019
3. ↑ Goodnight Irene in the Songlexikon, author: Peter Wicke, April 2017

literature

• Australian Chart Book by David Kent

See also: Number one hits in the United States in 1950 .