Britain's Top 50, 22nd December 1966

Britain's Top 50, 22nd December 1966

Thanks to Brian Long for this Record Retailer Top 50 from 22nd December 1966, listing which offshore stations were playing each record. The Radio London, Radio 270 and Radio Scotland charts are all from 11th December (the last two being the same as published in last week's issue). The Caroline and City charts are from the weekend of 17/18 December.

The 'Record Promotions' table of non-chart releases which were being played on the pirates is missing from this week's issue.

BRITAIN'S TOP 50 22nd December 1966
T H I S	L A S T	TITLE	ARTIST
1	1	Green, Green Grass Of Home	Tom Jones	17	5	-	1	1
2	3	Morningtown Ride	The Seekers	1	2	11	4	6
3	2	What Would I Be	Val Doonican	20	7	-	7	3
4	13	Sunshine Superman	Donovan	7	1	1	13	C
5	7	Dead End Street	The Kinks	2	12	22	3	7
6	17	Save Me	Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich	8	4	2	15	18
7	6	Friday On My Mind	The Easybeats	-	11	-	2	32
8	9	You Keep Me Hangin' On	The Supremes	4	3	5	6	5
9	5	Good Vibrations	The Beach Boys	-	14	-	12	10
10	4	My Mind's Eye	The Small Faces	16	16	49	8	16
11	8	Gimme Some Lovin'	The Spencer Davis Group	S	40	-	14	-
12	10	What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted	Jimmy Ruffin	S	9	-	10	15
13	16	If Every Day Was Like Christmas	Elvis Presley	5	8	4	9	4
14	14	Distant Drums	Jim Reeves	-	-	-	-	-
15	12	Semi-detached Suburban Mr. James	Manfred Mann	-	43	-	19	43
16	11	Just One Smile	Gene Pitney	-	17	-	5	2
17	30	Happy Jack	The Who	23	15	13	-	C
18	19	There Won't Be Many Coming Home	Roy Orbison	6	18	-	11	8
19	15	Holy Cow	Lee Dorsey	-	-	-	18	-
20	21	Under New Management	The Barron Knights	-	-	34	34	25
21	36	In The Country	Cliff Richard & the Shadows	24	10	9	41	29
22	18	Reach Out I'll Be There	The Four Tops	-	49	-	30	22
23	22	Walk With Faith In Your Heart	The Bachelors	9	6	-	20	30
24	20	High Time	Paul Jones	-	-	-	-	40
25	39	Anyway That You Want Me	The Troggs	12	25	3	43	48
26	25	Somewhere My Love	The Mike Sammes Singers	-	-	-	-	-
27	27	Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa, Fa (Sad Song)	Otis Redding	S	31	-	16	59
28	23	If I Were A Carpenter	Bobby Darin	-	-	-	38	-
29	32	I'm Ready For Love	Martha & the Vandellas	3	26	50	23	20
30	29	Winchester Cathedral	The New Vaudeville Band	-	-	-	-	-
31	24	The White Cliffs Of Dover	The Righteous Brothers	-	-	-	40	-
32	47	(I Know) I'm Losing You	The Temptations	29	36	25	46	C
33	28	A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Every Day)	Ike & Tina Turner	-	-	-	-	31
34	31	Guantanamera	The Sandpipers	-	-	-	-	-
35	34	Pamela, Pamela	Wayne Fontana	10	13	-	26	38
36	40	Deadlier Than The Male	The Walker Brothers	32	24	8	42	C
37	41	East West	Herman's Hermits	13	27	30	22	11
38	49	Mustang Sally	Wilson Pickett	33	29	7	36	-
39	-	Island In The Sun	The Righteous Brothers	19	35	-	40	14
40	50	I Feel Free	Cream	25	22	53	-	-
41	45	Call Her Your Sweetheart	Frank Ifield	-	19	-	32	46
42	26	Stop, Stop, Stop	The Hollies	-	-	-	-	-
43	-	Sitting In The Park	Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames	C	-	21	-	C
44	48	Heart	Rita Pavone	-	21	-	-	23
45	-	(Come 'Round Here) I'm The One You Need	Smokey Robinson & the Miracles	-	-	46	-	-
46	44	Missy Missy	Paul & Barry Ryan	31	23	16	25	-
47	33	Help Me Girl	Eric Burdon & the Animals	-	-	-	-	-
48	46	That's Life	Frank Sinatra	-	48	-	29	-
49	37	Time Drags By	Cliff Richard and the Shadows	-	-	-	-	-
50	35	I Can't Control Myself	The Troggs	-	-	-	-	-

C indicates a Radio London or Radio Scotland Climber; S is a Radio London Slipper - a record which has dropped out of their Fab 40.

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.

Back to last week's Record Retailer Top 50. The chart published in the following week's issue was identical to this one due to delays with the Christmas post. The chart from two weeks later is over the page.

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