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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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