AUSTRALIAN CHART BOOK’S (Barry Kowal) TOP SINGLES FOR 1954*
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No.Song-Artist-Peak Month 1-PRETEND-NAT "KING" COLE-JANUARY 1126 2-HAPPY WANDERER-FRANK WEIR;OBENIKIRCHEN CHILDREN'S CHOIR-August 1080 3-LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT-KITTY KALLEN-November 1072 4-SECRET LOVE-DORIS DAY-November 1016 5-ANSWER ME MY LOVE-NAT "KING" COLE-June 1014 6-ANSWER ME,LORD ABOVE-FRANKIE LAINE-June 1014 7-SH-BOOM-CREW CUTS-December 966 8-CRYING IN THE CHAPEL-Rex Allen-January 930 9-EBB TIDE-Frank Chacksfield-April 914 10-YOUNG AT HEART-Frank Sinatra-July 900 11-That's Amore-Dean Martin-April 862 12-Oh!My Pa Pa (O Mein Papa)-Eddie Fisher;Eddie Calvert-May 860 13-Cara Mia-Dave Whitfield-December 856 14-Face To Face-Gordon MacRae-October 824 15-Sway-Dean Martin-November 812 16-Rags To Riches-Tony Bennett-February 802 17-I See The Moon-Stargazers-July 802 18-A Dear John Letter-Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky-January 796 19-The Man With A Banjo-Ames Brothers-August 772 20-Three Coins In A Fountain-Four Aces:Frank Sinatra-September 766 21-(The Gang That Sang)Heart Of My Hearts-Alan Dale,Johnny Desmond & Don Cornell-May 746 22-Changing Partners-Patti Page;Kay Starr-April 746 23-Istanbul-Four Lads-February 730 24-You,You,You-Ames Brothers-February 726 25-Theme From "Story Of Three Loves"-Jack Pleis-April 684 26-Bimbo-Pee Wee King;Jim Reeves-July 674 27-Many Times-Eddie Fisher;Ross Higgins-March 640 28-Wanted-Perry Como-July 634 29-The Little Shoemaker-Gaylords;Frank Weir-October 624 30-P.S. I Love You-Hilltoppers;Brigadiers-January 620 31-Friends & Neighbours-Billy Cotton Band;Donald Peers-November 602 32-Ricochet-Teresa Brewer-April 584 33-Sippin' Soda-Guy Mitchell-February 558 34-Down By The Riverside-Bing Crosby;Four Lads-May 538 35-River Of No Return-Tennessee Ernie Ford;Marilyn Monroe-October 536 36-From The Vine Came The Grape-The Gaylords-July 528 37-Bell Bottom Blues-Teresa Brewer-June 500 38-In The Chapel In The Moonlight-Kitty Kallen-December 472 39 Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea Four Lads October 472 40-The Jones Boy-Mills Brothers-May 458 41-Such A Night-Johnnie Ray-October 446 42-I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas-Gayla Peevey-January 414 43-I Understand-Sandy Stewart-October 408 44-Never Never Land-Frank Weir & Maureen Childs-October 388 45 Make Love To Me-Jo Stafford-July 366 46-Here-Tony Martin-September 364 47-Eh,Cumpari-Julius La Rosa-February 336 48-Basin Street Blues-Louis Armstrong & All Stars-July 334 49-I Get So Lonely Four Knights-August 320 50-Dragnet-Ray Anthony-January 302 51-A Girl,A Girl-Eddie Fisher-September 278 52-A Purple Cow-Doris Day-February 272 53-Queen Of Ev'ryone's Heart-Vera Lynn-March 214 54 Granada-Frankie Laine-April 150 55-Let's Do It-Eartha Kitt-June 146 56-Open Up Your Heart-Bing Crosby-May 144 57-Cross Over The Bridge-Patti Page-August 130 58-Half A Photograph-Kay Starr-January 114 59-Till We Are One-Georgie Shaw;Eddy Howard-July 84 60-If You Love Me (Really Love Me)-Kay Starr;Vera Lynn-September 70 61-Hey Joe-Frankie Laine-January 68 62-Moonlight Serenade-Glenn Miller-August (1939) 34 63-Tennessee Wig Walk-Bonnie Lou-May 34 64-Chick-A-Boom-Guy Mitchell-April 34 * The data used in compilation of this list are the charts found in The Australian Top 20 Book (1940-2006) by David Kent.