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Framed Birthday Number One Records from 1955
Find out what was top of the UK charts in 1955 in the list below.
We'll find and frame an original copy of the vinyl record or sheet music, with your own personal message printed and mounted beneath.
It's the perfect birthday gift idea for music lovers. From including delivery.
No.1 from:
Song title & artist:
December 3rd 1954
Let's Have Another Party
Winifred Atwell
Number One for 5 weeks
January 7th 1955
Finger of Suspicion
Dickie Valentine
Number One for 1 week
January 14th 1955
Mambo Italiano
Rosemary Clooney
Number One for 1 week
January 21st 1955
Finger of Suspicion
Dickie Valentine
Number One for 2 weeks
February 4th 1955
Mambo Italiano
Rosemary Clooney
Number One for 2 weeks
February 18th 1955
Softly, Softly
Ruby Murray
Number One for 3 weeks
March 11th 1955
Give Me Your Word
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Number One for 7 weeks
April 29th 1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
Perez "Prez" Prado & His Orchestra
Number One for 2 weeks
May 13th 1955
Stranger in Paradise
Tony Bennett
Number One for 2 weeks
May 27th 1955
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
Eddie Calvert
Number One for 4 weeks
June 24th 1955
Unchained Melody
Jimmy Young
Number One for 3 weeks
July 15th 1955
Dreamboat
Alma Cogan
Number One for 2 weeks
July 29th 1955
Rose Marie
Slim Whitman
Number One for 11 weeks
October 14th 1955
The Man From Laramie
Jimmy Young
Number One for 4 weeks
November 11th 1955
Hernando's Hideaway
The Johnston Brothers
Number One for 2 weeks
November 25th 1955
Rock Around the Clock
Bill Haley and his Comets
Number One for 3 weeks
December 16th 1955
Christmas Alphabet
Dickie Valentine
Number One for 3 weeks
See Number One songs for a different year
The charts we use from November 1952 onwards are compiled by the Official Charts Company which produces the UK Singles Chart for the music industry, including the BBC. Their information can differ from that shown in reference guides such as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles (now The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles). We explain this more fully here and you can find even more detail on the history of the charts on the Official Charts Company website.

The official UK pop charts based on record sales did not start until 14th November 1952. For earlier dates than this, we have used the weekly pop chart based on the sales of sheet music, which was published by Melody Maker and broadcast by Radio Luxembourg from May 1947. (Sheet music outsold records in the United Kingdom until the early 1950s.)