AUSTRALIAN CHART BOOK’S (Barry Kowal) TOP SINGLES FOR 1953*
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No.Song-Artist-Peak Month 1-SONG FROM MOULIN ROUGE-PERCY FAITH-SEPTEMBER 1126 2-I'M WALKING BEHIND YOU-EDDIE FISHER;FRANK SINATRA-October 1112 3-YOU BELONG TO ME-JO STAFFORD;DEAN MARTIN-January 1072 4-YOU'RE JUST IN LOVE-ETHEL MERMAN & DICK HAYMES-July 998 4-YOU'RE JUST IN LOVE-PERRY COMO & FONTANE SISTERS-July 998 5-HALF AS MUCH-ROSEMARY CLOONEY-January 996 6-ANNA-SILVANO MANGANO-December 976 7-TERRY'S THEME FROM LIMELIGHT-FRANK CHACKSFIELD-October 922 8-VAYA CON DIOS-Les Paul & Mary Ford-November 918 9-TILL I WALTZ AGAIN WITH YOU-Teresa Brewer-June 872 10-I WENT TO YOUR WEDDING-Patti Page;Sammy Kaye-April 862 11-Because You're Mine-Mario Lanza;Nat "King" Cole-February 838 12-Keep It A Secret-Jo Stafford-May 812 13-Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes-Perry Como;Red Foley-May 796 14-Tell Me A Story-Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd-July 784 15-Hi-Lili,Hi-Lo-Dinah Shore;Les Welch-June 774 16-April In Portugal-Les Baxter-September 720 17-Lady Of Spain-Eddie Fisher;Winifred Atwell-March 702 18-Takes Two To Tango-Louis Armstrong;Pearl Bailey-April 688 19-Feet Up (Pat Him On The Po-Pop)-Guy Mitchell-February 686 20-(Poor Little Robin) Walkin' To Missouri-Sammy Kaye-March 650 21-Seven Lonely Days-Georgia Gibbs;Bonnie Lou-November 648 22-Doggie In The Window-Patti Page-August 646 23-Mister Tap Toe-Doris Day-December 646 24-I Believe-Frankie Laine;Jane Froman-July 642 25-The Rock Of Gibralter-Frankie Laine-February 638 26-I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus-Jimmy Boyd-December 604 27-Outside Of Heaven-Eddie Fisher-April 572 28-Glow Worm-Mills Brothers-March 544 29-Hold Me,Thrill Me,Kiss Me-Karen Chandler-September 538 30-Oh,Happy Day-Lawrence Welk;Les Welch-July 530 31-Say You're Mine Again-Perry Como;June Hutton-October 510 32-Faith Can Move Mountains-Nat "King" Cole-May 484 33-Tell Me You're Mine-Gaylords;Mindy Carson-August 442 34 Swedish Rhapsody-Mantovani;Percy Faith November 422 35-Ruby-Les Baxter-September 410 36-Botch A Me-Rosemary Clooney-January 400 37-Jambalaya-Jo Stafford-March 396 38-Gomen Nasai-Gordon Jenkins;Eddy Howard-July 364 39-She Wears Red Feathers (And A Huly Huly Skirt)-Guy Mitchell-August 360 40-Zing A Little Zong-Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman-March 356 41-The Day Of Jubilo-Guy Mitchell-February 356 42-Just Another Polka-Jo Stafford;Eddie Fisher-October 348 43-China Doll-Slim Whitman-November 346 44-St.George & Dragonet-Stan Freberg-December 312 45-Why Don't You Believe Me-Joni James;Patti Page-August 304 46-Heart And Soul-Four Aces-June 288 47-Your Cheatin' Heart-Hank Williams;Frankie Laine-August 272 48-Little Red Monkey-Joy Nichols,Dick Bentley & Jimmy Edwards-October 254 49-I Confess-Sarah Vaughan;Perry Como-December 240 50-I Wanna Say Hello-Sir Hubert Pimm & Ellen Sutton-May 236 51-Padam Padam-Vera Lynn;Edith Piaf-February 228 52-Gambella (The Gamblin' Lady)-Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford-March 224 53-Side By Side-Kay Starr-June 222 54-(Cause I Love You) That's Why-Guy Mitchell & Mindy Carson-October 212 55-Yours-Vera Lynn-February 202 56-It's A Lovely Day-Perry Como & Fontane Sisters-June 198 57-The Isle Of Innisfree-Bing Crosby-July 190 58-Have You Heard-Joni James-July 186 59-Ma Says Pa Says-Doris Day & Johnnie Ray-June 164 60-Wild Horses-Perry Como;David Hughes-December 158 61-Waltzing Bugle Boy-Ray Martin;Frank Chacksfield-November 152 62-A Full Time Job-Doris Day & Johnnie Ray-June 152 63-Indian Love Call-Slim Whitman-September 148 64-Trying-Ella Fitzgerald;Les Welch-May 148 65-Wonderful Copenhagen-Danny Kaye-July 140 66-The Homing Waltz-Vera Lynn-March 70 67-The Continental-Rosemary Clooney & Harry James-June 42 68-Somebody Stole My Gal-Johnnie Ray;Frank Petty Trio-July 38 69-I Waited A Little Too Long-Kay Starr-February 36 70-The Big Mamou-Pete Hanley;Dolores Gray-October 34 71-I'm Just A Poor Bachelor-Frankie Laine-July 34 72-The Ruby And The Pearl-Nat 'King' Cole;Frankie Laine-May 34 * The data used in compilation of this list are the charts found in The Australian Top 20 Book (1940-2006) by David Kent.