1 "Mambo Italiano"         ** 2 "Softly softly"   ** 3 "Cherry pink and apple blossom white"

   Rosemary Clooney       Ruby Murray                  Perez Prado

4 "Stranger in Paradise" ** 5 "Unchained melody" ** 6 "Dreamboat" ** 7 "Rose Marie"

   Tony Bennett                       Al Hibbler                   Alma Cogan       Slim Whitman

8 " The man from Laramie" ** 9 "Rock around the clock" ** 10 "Christmas Alphabet"

   Jimmy Young                       Bill Haley & his Comets           Dickie Valentine

Ten other big sellers: "Give me your word" Tennessee Ernie Ford" ** "Earth angel" Crewcuts 

"Hernando's hideaway" Johnston Brothers ** "Love is a many splendored thing" Four Aces

"Shake rattle & roll" Bill Haley & Comets ** "Naughty lady of Shady Lane" Dean Martin

"Yellow Rose of Texas" Mitch Miller ** "Hey there" Rosemary Clooney 

"Learnin' the blues" Frank Sinatra ** "Under the bridges of Paris" Eartha Kitt