Britain's Top 50, 25th August 1966

Britain's Top 50, 25th August 1966

Thanks to Brian Long for this Record Retailer Top 50 from 25th August 1966, listing which offshore stations were playing each record. The Radio London, Caroline, City, England and 270 charts are all those broadcast over the weekend 20/21 August. We assume the Radio Scotland chart is from the same week.

BRITAIN'S TOP 50 25th August 1966
T H I S	L A S T	TITLE	ARTIST
1	1	Eleanor Rigby / Yellow Submarine	The Beatles	3	1	1	1	1	1
2	3	God Only Knows	The Beach Boys	11	2	3	2	13	2
3	2	With A Girl Like You	The Troggs	19	7	10	6	7	4
4	10	They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!	Napoleon XIV	4	-	2	-	15	-
5	5	Mama	Dave Berry	-	8	7	9	23	24
6	4	Black Is Black	Los Bravos	-	5	13	-	27	7
7	7	Visions	Cliff Richard	S	21	23	18	11	5
8	6	The More I See You	Chris Montez	-	12	8	-	22	19
9	20	All Or Nothing	The Small Faces	1	9	4	10	2	11
10	14	Lovers Of The World Unite	David & Jonathan	S	-	14	-	-	28
11	12	Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo	The Alan Price Set	12	11	11	5	12	3
12	8	Summer In The City	The Lovin' Spoonful	30	3	6	4	9	14
13	15	I Saw Her Again	The Mamas & the Papas	20	4	5	3	3	6
14	16	More Than Love	Ken Dodd	2	14	-	-	4	-
15	9	Out Of Time	Chris Farlowe	-	33	19	19	40	13
16	18	Just Like A Woman	Manfred Mann	8	6	12	20	17	8
17	25	Too Soon To Know	Roy Orbison	10	10	-	25	6	12
18	17	I Want You	Bob Dylan	23	27	9	8	20	-
19	11	Love Letters	Elvis Presley	-	22	20	16	25	29
20	13	I Couldn't Live Without Your Love	Petula Clark	-	47	-	-	31	-
21	19	Goin' Back	Dusty Springfield	-	31	31	-	38	-
22	33	Distant Drums	Jim Reeves	29	-	-	31	-	32
23	35	Got To Get You Into My Life	Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers	5	26	17	22	19	22
24	29	Ain't Too Proud To Beg	The Temptations	-	2	-	-	16	30
25	27	Barefootin'	Robert Parker	6	13	15	-	26	15
26	26	Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever	The Four Tops	-	-	-	17	21	-
27	23	Strangers In The Night	Frank Sinatra	-	-	-	-	-	-
28	21	Get Away	Georgie Fame	-	24	38	-	-	-
29	34	Working In The Coalmine	Lee Dorsey	13	23	-	27	24	27
30	28	Give Me Your Word	Billy Fury	25	17	21	21	10	17
31	22	Sunny Afternoon	The Kinks	-	37	-	-	-	-
32	41	Big Time Operator	Zoot Money & the Big Roll Band	9	16	24	7	-	-
33	24	Nobody Needs Your Love	Gene Pitney	-	42	-	-	-	18
34	39	Warm And Tender Love	Percy Sledge	16	20	36	14	14	33
35	31	River Deep Mountain High	Ike & Tina Turner	-	-	20	-	-	-
36	32	I Love How You Love Me	Paul & Barry Ryan	S	-	-	-	-	-
37	30	(Baby) You Don't Have To Tell Me	The Walker Brothers	-	38	34	-	-	-
38	42	Blowin' In The Wind	Stevie Wonder	-	-	29	-	33	10
39	43	Headline News	Edwin Starr	7	48	-	38	18	21
40	38	Hanky Panky	Tommy James & The Shondells	-	28	28	-	-	16
41	36	When A Man Loves A Woman	Percy Sledge	-	-	-	-	-	-
42	-	I Can't Turn You Loose	Otis Redding	21	-	-	-	-	-
43	48	How Sweet It Is	Junior Walker & the All-Stars	36	-	47	35	34	35
44	45	This And That	Tom Jones	-	15	22	11	8	36
45	-	Ashes To Ashes	The Mindbenders	33	-	42	-	30	-
46	49	Lil' Red Riding Hood	Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs	-	-	-	-	-	-
47	-	Stop That Girl	Chris Andrews	22	19	41	24	28	-
48	-	Hi Hi Hazel	Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band	-	39	32	-	-	-
49	-	Goodbye Bluebird	Wayne Fontana	S	-	26	-	-	-
50	44	Paperback Writer	The Beatles	-	-	-	-	-	-

S indicates a Radio London Slipper - a record which has dropped out of their Fab 40.

These new releases, which weren't in the Top 50, were being played on two or more offshore stations:

RECORD PROMOTIONS
TITLE	ARTIST
Good Day Sunshine	Glen Dale	X		X	X		X
Step Out Of Line	Twice As Much	X		X	X		X
So Fine	The Santells				X	X	X
Cast Your Fate to the Wind	Shelby Flint	X		X	X
My Heart's Symphony	Gary Lewis & the Playboys	X		X		X
See You In September	The Symbols	X		X		X
So Sad About Us	The Merseys		X	X
Sweet Dreams	Tommy McLain			X			X
Just Like A Woman	Jonathan King			X			X
I Feel Something In The Air	Cher				X		X
The Kids Are Alright	The Who			X			X
Just A Dream	Chris Farlowe		X				X
Tell Her	Dean Parrish	X		X
Just Once In My Life	The Righteous Brothers	X	X
Summertime	Billy Stewart	X		X
Here, There and Everywhere	The Fourmost		X		X
I've Been Wrong Before	The Everly Brothers				X	X

There are a number of other offshore charts listed on The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. Full details here.

The links from the songs on this page lead to the Amazon MP3 Store where you can hear short audio clips of the tracks and customers in the UK can buy downloads. Please see this note.

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