Alternative UK Chart Hits from 1962
Remembering some alternative Top Ten hits from 60 years ago
Alongside Mini cars and mini skirts, some memorable novelty songs hit the UK charts 60 years ago. Here are just a selection to transport us back to simpler times.
Come Outside – Mike Sarne with Wendy Richard
Right Said Fred – Bernard Cribbins
March of the Siamese Children – Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
English Country Garden – Jimmie Rodgers
Multiplication – Bobby Darin
Hole in the Ground – Bernard Cribbins
Theme from Z Cars – Johnny Keating
Speedy Gonzales – Pat Boone
Share your memories of these songs with us. Is there a song that instantly transports you back to a certain time and place in your life? Where any of the above the first record you bought?

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