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These pages are dedicated to the music, artists, groups and hits
of the Swingin' Sixties and list EVERY entry into the British Singles
Top 50 chart, LP Album chart and Extended Play EP chart during the
60s, alphabetically by artist.
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information listed includes artist, title, label, year and chart
position )
Not only that, but I now also have some of the most comprehensive
60s chart listing on the internet with the Top 20 singles chart
for EVERY WEEK of the entire decade so you can find what was 'Top
Of The Pops' on any date.
THETOP
20 CHARTS
OF THE ENTIRE SIXTIES - WEEK BY WEEK
There are lots of lists, statistics and trivia for you to play with
- facts that may interest and surprise you such as:
"Who was
the most successful singles chart artist of the Sixties?"
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 The
Story of Mersey
Beat - the
60s Liverpool music newspaper -
by founder Bill Harry
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A
mis-spent youth...? Well, some (including
my parents, bless 'em) might call it that, but I had a really rockin'
good time - nearly every song holds a memory of some sort for me!
Not
because I was around much in the Sixties, well I was there of course,
just not quite old enough to get the best out of it (as the saying
goes, if you can remember it, you weren't there!) but as motorbikin'
people in the Seventies we ate, drank, danced and dreamed Sixties
music and Rock'n'Roll !
By the way - if you think you remember me from then and we've
lost touch over the years, see my home page - Kyndamagic
- for personal pics, some info and contact details. Sixties chart
listings seem to be quite rare on the net. If you know of another,
not linked, please e-mail me to tell me where it is ! You will find
periodic updating of the pages with the intention of eventually relating
each artist to a relevant web site or page as I find them ( if they
exist! - maybe you can help?) and a picture.
Inevitably, there are many copyright issues here and I hope,
in the interests of Sixties music fandom, that there will be no objection
to anything used on this site. Of course, if there is, please let
me know and I will do my best to change it or negotiate something
or other. Eventually I hope to collect every single track that hit
the top 50 charts - I have about 75% of them at the moment. If you
see someone with his head in a box of old scratched plastic at a car
boot sale it'll probably be me - take pity!
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The Price Of Records
in The Sixties
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(ever
wonder where your pocket money went?)
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7"
45 r.p.m.
singles
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7"
45 r.p.m.
extended play EPs
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12"
long-play
pop LPs
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12"
long-play
classical LPs
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1960
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6s
3d ( 31p )
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10s
11d ( 54.5p )
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£1
14s 3d ( £1.71 )
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£1
18s 3d ( £1.91 )
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1961
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6s
4d
( 31.5p )
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10s
11d ( 54.5p )
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£1
14s 3d ( £1.71 )
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£1
19s 11d ( £1.99.5 )
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1962
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6s
6d ( 33p )
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11s
3d ( 56p )
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£1
14s 6d ( £1.72.5 )
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£1
19s 11d ( £1.99.5 )
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1963
1 January 1963 Purchase Tax on discs cut from
45% to 25%
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6s
3d ( 31.5p )
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10s
1d ( 50.5p )
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£1
10s 11d ( £1.54.5 )
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£1
15s 11d ( £1.79.5 )
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1964
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6s
8d ( 33.5p )
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11s
6d ( 57.5p )
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£1
12s 3d ( £1.61 )
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£1
15s 11d ( £1.79.5 )
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1965
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6s
8d ( 33.5p )
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11s
6d ( 57.5p )
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£1
12s 3d ( £1.61 )
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£1
15s 11d ( £1.79.5 )
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1966
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7s
2d ( 36p )
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11s
6d ( 57.5p )
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£1
12s 3d ( £1.61 )
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£1
15s 11d ( £1.79.5 )
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1967
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7s
3d ( 36.5p )
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11s
6d ( 57.5p )
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£1
12s 6d ( £1.62.5)
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£1
17s 6d ( £1.87.5 )
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1968
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8s
0d ( 40p )
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12s
11d ( 64.5p )
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£1
16s 9d ( £1.83.5 )
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£2
2s 9d ( £2.14 )
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1969
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8s
6d ( 42.5p )
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13s
3d ( 66p )
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£1
17s 6d ( £1.87.5 )
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£2
3s 11d ( £2.19.5 )
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SixtiesCity 2009