Britain's Top 50, 8th December 1966

Britain's Top 50, 8th December 1966

Thanks to Brian Long for this Record Retailer Top 50 from 8th December 1966, listing which offshore stations were playing each record. The Radio London, Radio 270 and Radio Scotland charts are from 27th November. The Radio Caroline and Radio City charts are from the following weekend - 3/4 December.

BRITAIN'S TOP 50 8th December 1966
T H I S	L A S T	TITLE	ARTIST
1	1	Green, Green Grass Of Home	Tom Jones	1	2	10	1	2
2	2	Good Vibrations	The Beach Boys	-	10	54	3	1
3	4	What Would I Be	Val Doonican	3	7	12	4	9
4	8	My Mind's Eye	The Small Faces	2	1	3	5	5
5	3	Gimme Some Lovin'	The Spencer Davis Group	9	13	18	2	3
6	18	Morningtown Ride	The Seekers	7	3	9	22	23
7	5	Semi-detached Suburban Mr. James	Manfred Mann	25	14	37	8	8
8	9	Just One Smile	Gene Pitney	14	5	7	6	4
9	11	Friday On My Mind	The Easybeats	S	9	-	7	-
10	6	Holy Cow	Lee Dorsey	19	12	38	9	13
11	16	Dead End Street	The Kinks	8	4	1	19	27
12	14	What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted	Jimmy Ruffin	4	6	5	-	12
13	7	Reach Out I'll Be There	The Four Tops	-	16	-	10	6
14	12	Distant Drums	Jim Reeves	-	-	-	-	-
15	29	You Keep Me Hangin' On	The Supremes	27	8	2	HP	18
16	10	High Time	Paul Jones	-	-	-	25	10
17	15	If I Were A Carpenter	Bobby Darin	-	29	-	15	35
18	17	A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Every Day)	Ike & Tina Turner	-	-	27	13	7
19	13	Stop, Stop, Stop	The Hollies	-	27	-	12	41
20	40	If Every Day Was Like Christmas	Elvis Presley	33	22	-	HP	-
21	25	The White Cliffs Of Dover	The Righteous Brothers	-	37	58	17	37
22	22	Somewhere My Love	The Mike Sammes Singers	-	-	-	-	-
23	28	Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa (Sad Song)	Otis Redding	11	15	-	21	33
24	20	Help Me Girl	Eric Burdon & the Animals	S	-	46	11	49
25	19	I Can't Control Myself	The Troggs	-	-	-	-	-
26	39	There Won't Be Many Coming Home	Roy Orbison	39	11	-	HP	32
27	21	A Fool Am I	Cilla Black	-	33	-	14	30
28	24	Guantanamera	The Sandpipers	-	-	-	-	-
29	26	Winchester Cathedral	The New Vaudeville Band	-	-	-	-	-
30	42	Walk With Faith In Your Heart	The Bachelors	27	24	-	HP	-
31	-	Sunshine Superman	Donovan	C	SS	-	-	-
32	-	Save Me	Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich	C	49	24	-	-
33	23	No Milk Today	Herman's Hermits	-	-	-	16	-
34	46	Under New Management	The Barron Knights	-	-	25	HP	46
35	32	Think Sometimes About Me	Sandie Shaw	6	18	8	18	19
36	30	Beauty Is Only Skin Deep	The Temptations	-	-	-	35	45
37	27	Time Drags By	Cliff Richard and the Shadows	-	-	-	28	24
38	47	I'm Ready For Love	Martha & the Vandellas	23	28	4	38	25
39	31	Ride On Baby	Chris Farlowe	S	-	-	-	-
40	37	96 Tears	? & The Mysterians	-	-	-	-	-
41	36	It's Love	Ken Dodd	-	47	-	-	-
42	49	Heart	Rita Pavone	-	23	-	36	14
43	-	Missy Missy	Paul & Barry Ryan	12	30	11	30	34
44	34	I've Got You Under My Skin	The Four Seasons	-	-	-	-	-
45	-	Pamela, Pamela	Wayne Fontana	13	31	14	34	60
46	38	Too Soon To Know	Roy Orbison	-	-	-	-	-
47	50	East West	Herman's Hermits	22	25	16	HP	22
48	45	Living For You	Sonny & Cher	10	39	34	20	16
49	44	The Dreams I Dream	The Shadows	22	21	-	27	21
50	-	Call Her Your Sweetheart	Frank Ifield	-	-	-	HP	53

HP indicates a Radio 270 Hit Pick, C is a Radio London Climber, SS is a Caroline Sure Shot. 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
Picture Me Gone	Dave Berry	X		X	X	X
Willow Weep For Me	The Alan Price Set	X		X	X	X
True Story	Twice As Much	X	X	X		X
That's What She Said	Chris Andrews	X		X	X	X
I Got The Feelin' (Oh No, No)	Neil Diamond	X	X		X	X
The Knight In Rusty Armour	Peter & Gordon	X		X	X	X
Time After Time	Chris Montez	X	X	X	X
Colour My World	Petula Clark	X	X	X	X
Mustang Sally	Wilson Pickett	X	X	X	X
Nineteen Days	The Dave Clark Five	X			X	X
Whispers (Getting Louder)	Jackie Wilson	X			X	X
La, La, La, Lies	The Who	X			X	X
Canadian Sunset	The Symbols	X			X	X
It's Only Love (Trying To Get Through)	Tommy James & the Shondells	X			X	X
(Come 'Round Here) I'm The One You Need	Smokey Robinson & the Miracles	X	X		X
Another Night	Dionne Warwick	X		X	X
Cuckoo	Long John Baldry	X		X	X
Knight In Rusty Armour	The Magic Lanterns		X	X	X
Up and Down	Eyes Of Blue	X	X			X
A Hazy Shade Of Winter	Simon & Garfunkel		X	X	X
Heart Of A Child	Percy Sledge			X	X	X
Island In The Sun	The Righteous Brothers	X	X		X
Seek And Find	The Washington D.C.'s	X	X	X
Girl On A Swing	Gerry & the Pacemakers				X	X
I Need Love	Little Richard	X		X
Stop, Look and Listen	The Chiffons			X	X
Run, Run, Look and See	Brian Hyland	X				X
Dandy	The Rockin' Vickers		X		X
Wednesday's Child	Matt Monro		X		X
Never Knew Lovin' Could Be So Doggone Good	Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers				X	X
Candy	C-Jam Blues	X		X
It's Not Easy	Normie Rowe	X			X
Your Ever-Changin' Mind *	Crispian St.Peters	X			X
I've Got To Hold On	The Peddlers	X		X
That's Life	Frank Sinatra		X		X
Anyway That You Want Me	The Troggs		X	X
Louie, Louie	The Sandpipers			X	X
Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies	The Association	X				X
Money (That's What I Want)	Junior Walker & the All Stars	X		X
Can I Get To Know You Better	The Turtles	X				X
The Star Of The Show	The Zoot Money Big Roll Band			X	X
Rhythm Of Love	The Merseys	X		X
The Proud One	Frankie Valli	X	X

* This track was the B-side of “But She's Untrue”.

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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