I Love #1s - 1954

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last week's titanic fight between those late-eighties pop ladies was right down to the wire, with Belinda just pipping Tiffany and Kylie to the top spot, making Heaven Is A Place On Earth your favourite number one of 1988 with a monstrous 44 ticks. This week the poll boxes might be a little less fruitful as we wind our way right back to 1954, when record sales were still counted on the fingers of two hands and rock and roll was but a glint in Bill Haley's eye.

[Poll #819053]

Comments

OK, so let's compare:

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Courtesy Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_R&B_hits_(United_States)), the records that reached #1 in the US R&B chart in 1954.

1954
30 January: "The Things That I Used to Do" — Guitar Slim
6 February: "I'll Be True" — Faye Adams
27 March: "You'll Never Walk Alone" — Roy Hamilton
22 May: "Work with Me Annie" — The Midnighters
12 June: "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" — Big Joe Turner
10 July: "Honey Love" — The Drifters
4 September: "Oh What a Dream" — Ruth Brown
25 September: "Annie Had a Baby" — The Midnighters
16 October: "Hurts Me to My Heart" — Faye Adams
20 November: "Mambo Baby" — Ruth Brown
27 November: "Hearts of Stone" — The Charms
25 December: "You Upset Me Baby" — B.B. King

Re: OK, so let's compare:

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a hell of a list. What about the Billboard #1s for the year?

Billboard #1s

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number-one_hits_of_1954_%28USA%29

Re: Billboard #1s

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty similar to the UK list.