List of number one hits in the UK charts (1954)

This list of 12 number one hits in the British charts of the year 1954 . They were the front runners in the weekly Top 20 of the British music magazine New Musical Express . With the chart edition of October 1, 1954, the NME began to publish a top 25 hit parade instead of the top 20 .

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← 1953 ←	List of number one hits in the UK charts			1955 →
Period Where. total Interpreter Title Author (s) Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , author [s], additional information) January 1, 1954 - January 7, 1954 1 week (8 in total) 8th Frankie Laine (with Paul Weston & His Orchestra and the Norman Luboff Choir ) Answer Me Music: Gerhard Winkler ; Original text: Fred Rauch ; English text: Carl Sigman - January 8, 1954 - March 11, 1954 9 weeks 9 Eddie Calvert (with Norrie Paramor & His Orchestra ) Oh, my papa Paul Burkhard - March 12, 1954 - April 15, 1954 5 weeks (6 in total) 6th The Stargazers (with Syd Dean and His Orchestra) I See the Moon Meredith Wilson - April 16, 1954 - April 22, 1954 1 week (9 in total) 9 Doris Day Secret Love Paul Francis Webster , Sammy Fain The song comes from the movie Calamity Jane with Doris Day in the title role. April 23, 1954 - April 29, 1954 1 week (6 in total) 6th The Stargazers (with Syd Dean and His Orchestra) I See the Moon Meredith Wilson - April 30, 1954 - May 6, 1954 1 week 1 Johnnie Ray Find a Night Lincoln Chase The BBC found Johnnie Ray's breathing sounds too suggestive and telling, and so refused to play the single. Which did not detract from the success. Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters thus had a number 2 hit on the R&B charts in the USA . In the US pop charts, Johnnie Ray's version only came in at number 19, in England it was his first top position after 3 top 10 hits. May 7, 1954 - July 1, 1954 8 weeks (9 in total) 9 Doris Day Secret Love Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain - July 2, 1954 - September 9, 1954 10 weeks 10 David Whitfield (with Mantovani , His Orchestra and Chorus) Cara mia Lee Lange, Tulio Trapini - September 10, 1954 - September 16, 1954 1 week 1 Kitty Kallen Little Things Mean a Lot Carl Stutz, Edith Lindeman - September 17, 1954 - October 7, 1954 3 weeks 3 Frank Sinatra Three Coins in the Fountain Jule Styne , Sammy Cahn - October 8, 1954 - November 4, 1954 4 weeks (total 5) 5 Don Cornell Hold My Hand Jack Lawrence, Richard Myers - November 5, 1954 - November 18, 1954 2 weeks 2 Vera Lynn and Frank Weir and His Saxophone with His Chorus and Orchestra My Son, My Son Bob Howard , Eddie Calvert , Melville Farley - November 19, 1954 - November 25, 1954 1 week (total 5) 5 Don Cornell Hold My Hand Jack Lawrence, Richard Myers - November 26, 1954 - December 2, 1954 1 week 1 Rosemary Clooney This Ole House Stuart Hamblen - December 3, 1954 - January 6, 1955 5 weeks 5 Winifred Atwell Let's Have Another Party Nat D. Ayer, Clifford Gray, James W. Tate, Ray Henderson, Mort Dison, Albert Fitz, William Penn, Gus Cahn, Walter Donaldson , Leslie Stuart, Harry Armstrong, Ted Snyder, Leo Wood, Harry Woods Christmas number one hit of 1954
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* The data are based on the date of issue of the NME (always on Fridays)

Annual hit parade

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Single hits of the year in the UK charts

1955 →

space		Interpreter		Title Author (s)
1		Doris Day		Secret Love Paul Francis Webster , Sammy Fain
2		David Whitfield (with Mantovani , His Orchestra and Chorus)		Cara mia Lee Lange, Tulio Trapini
3		Eddie Calvert (with Norrie Paramor & His Orchestra )		Oh, my papa Paul Burkhard
4th		The Stargazers (with Syd Dean and His Orchestra)		I See the Moon Meredith Wilson
5		Winifred Atwell		Let's Have Another Party Nat D. Ayer, Clifford Gray, James W. Tate, Ray Henderson, Mort Dison, Albert Fitz, William Penn, Gus Cahn, Walter Donaldson , Leslie Stuart, Harry Armstrong, Ted Snyder, Leo Wood, Harry Woods
6th		Don Cornell		Hold My Hand Jack Lawrence, Richard Myers
7th		Frank Sinatra		Three Coins in the Fountain Jule Styne , Sammy Cahn
8th		Oberkirchen Children's Choir		Happy Wanderer Music: Friedrich Wilhelm Möller; Text: Friedrich Sigismund
9		Johnnie Ray		Find a Night Lincoln Chase
10		Rosemary Clooney		This Ole House Stuart Hamblen

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1955 →

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frankie Laine - Answer Me at Discogs.
2. ↑ Eddie Calvert - Oh, my papa at Discogs.
3. ↑ The Stargazers - I See The Moon at Discogs.
4. ↑ Doris Day - Secret Love at Discogs.
5. ↑ Johnnie Ray - Such A Night at Discogs.
6. ^ The songs censored by the BBC , The Telegraph, December 17, 2007.
7. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Singles 1942-2010. 6th Edition, Record Research 2010, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4 .
8. ↑ David Whitfield with Mantovani - Cara mia at Discogs.
9. ↑ Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean A Lot at Discogs.
10. ↑ Frank Sinatra - Three Coins In The Fountain at Discogs.
11. ↑ Don Cornell - Hold My Hand at Discogs.
12. ↑ Vera Lynn - My Son, My Son at Discogs.
13. ↑ Rosemary Clooney - This Ole House at Discogs.
14. ↑ Winifred Atwell - Let's Have Another Party at Discogs.

literature

• British Hit Singles & Albums. 18th Edition, Guinness World Records Limited 2005, ISBN 978-1-904994-00-8 .

Web links

• Official Charts: All The Number 1 Singles
• Chart Surfer: Number 1 - Hits UK 1954
• everyhit: Top Hits of 1954

See also: Number one hits in 1954 in Australia , Belgium , Germany, and the United States .