Date Entered UK Chart Artist Title UK Highest Chart Position Label Producer Guitar Rating Comments Did BJS Play Main Guitar ?
22/11/1957 Southlanders Alone 17 Decca .
05/06/1959 Marty Wilde A Teenager In Love 2 Phillips Johnny Franz BJS was a member of the Wildcats. YES
25/09/1959 Marty Wilde Sea Of Love 3 Phillips Johnny Franz No Comment YES
11/12/1959 Marty Wilde Bad Boy 7 Phillips Johnny Franz Example of brilliant guitar playing YES
08/01/1960 Jerry Lordan Ill Stay Single 26 Parlophone .
19/02/1960 Lance Fortune Be Mine 4 Pye Joe Meek Frantic plucking. YES
26/02/1960 Jerry Lordan Who Could Be Bluer 17 Parlophone . Did Jim play the main guitar or is he in the background ? STILL RESEARCHING
10/03/1960 Marty Wilde Johnny Rocco 30 Phillips Johnny Franz No Comment YES
10/03/1960 Billy Fury Colette 9 Decca A Knownman I was always in the belief Joe Brown did this Session (true - they were both present) STILL RESEARCHING
05/05/1960 Lance Fortune This Love I Have For You 26 Pye Joe Meek
19/05/1960 Flee-Rekkers Green Jeans 23 RGM Joe Meek Based on Greensleeves STILL RESEARCHING
19/05/1960 Marty Wilde The Fight 47 Phillips Johnny Franz No Comment YES
23/05/1960 Little Tony Too Good 19 Decca Jack Good
26/05/1960 Tommy Bruce Ain’t Misbehavin 3 Columbia A Knownman Early Rockney YES
26/05/1960 Billy Fury That’s Love 19 Decca A Knownman Dramatic piano STILL RESEARCHING
02/06/1960 Jerry Lordan Sing Like An Angel 36 Parlophone .
04/06/1960 Billy Fury The Sound Of Fury 18 Decca .
30/06/1960 Adam Faith When Johnny Comes Marching Home 5 Parlophone John Burgess Nice flute and horn YES
07/07/1960 Gary Mills Look For A Star 7 Top Rank Bunny Lewis Average YES
25/08/1960 Nelson Keene Image Of A Girl 37 HMV .
08/09/1960 Tommy Bruce Broken Doll 36 Columbia A Knownman

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15/09/1960 Adam Faith How About That 4 Parlophone John Burgess Strings YES
22/09/1960 Billy Fury Wondrous Place 25 Decca A Knownman Toyota Yaris TV Commercial YES
06/10/1960 Johnny Kidd Restless 22 HMV Walter Ridley Joe Moretti played lead - Alan Caddy rhythm - Jim WAS NOT on this session (comment by unknown person) NO
13/10/1960 Manuel And His Music Of The Mountains Never On A Sunday 29 Columbia .
20/10/1960 Gary Mills Top Teen Baby 24 Top Rank Bunny Lewis Dated YES
20/10/1960 Lynn Cornell Never On A Sunday 30 Decca .
27/10/1960 Frankie Vaughn Milord 34 Phillips Johnny Franz
09/11/1960 Frankie Vaughn Tower Of Strength 1 Phillips Johnny Franz A very generous man YES
10/11/1960 Peter Sellers And Sophia Loren Goodness Gracious Me 4 Parlophone George Martin No Comment YES
17/11/1960 Adam Faith Lonely Pup 4 Parlophone John Burgess Bells and strings. YES
03/12/1960 Peter Sellers And Sophia Loren Peter And Sophia 5 Parlophone George Martin
22/12/1960 Marty Wilde Little Girl 16 Phillips Johnny Franz Energetic guitar playing. YES
22/12/1960 Mike Preston Togetherness 41 Decca .
12/01/1961 Danny Rivers Can’t You Hear My Heart 36 Decca . Another great BJS guitar break. YES
12/01/1961 Peter Sellers And Sophia Loren Bangers And Mash 22 Parlophone George Martin No Comment YES
19/01/1961 Billy Fury A Thousand Stars 14 Decca A Knownman No Comment YES
26/01/1961 Anne Shelton Sailor 10 Phillips Johnny Franz
26/01/1961 Marty Wilde Rubber Ball 9 Phillips Johnny Franz No Comment YES
26/01/1961 Petula Clark Sailor 1 Pye Alan Freeman Vic Flick was also on this record. YES
09/02/1961 Adam Faith Who Am I 5 Parlophone John Burgess

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09/03/1961 Mike Preston Marry Me 14 Decca .
09/03/1961 Krew-Kats Trambone 33 HMV . The Wildcats take time off to have a hit single. Guitar ruined by Norrie Paramours production. YES
13/04/1961 Johnny Kidd Linda Lou 47 HMV Walter Ridley No Comment YES
13/04/1961 Petula Clark Something Missing 44 Pye Alan Freeman
20/04/1961 Craig Douglas A Hundred Pounds Of Clay 9 Top Rank Bunny Lewis

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27/04/1961 Billy Fury Don’t Worry 40 Decca . amazing brass brake ! YES
27/04/1961 Adam Faith Easy Going Me 12 Parlophone John Burgess

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29/04/1961 Nina And Frederick Nina And Frederick 9 Columbia .
11/05/1961 Billy Fury Halfway To Paradise 3 Decca Dick Rowe No Comment YES
18/05/1961 Allisons Words 34 Fontana Jack Baverstock
25/05/1961 Russ Conway Always You And Me 33 Columbia Norman Newell
01/06/1961 Eden Kane Well I Ask You 1 Decca Bunny Lewis Vic Flick was also on this record. YES
08/06/1961 Jimmy Crawford Love Or Money 49 Polydor Norman Newell
29/06/1961 Joe Loss Wheels Cha Cha 21 HMV . No Comment YES
29/06/1961 Tommy Cooper Dont Jump Off The Roof Dad 40 Palette . No Comment YES
29/06/1961 Craig Douglas Time 9 Top Rank Bunny Lewis Strings YES
13/07/1961 Petula Clark Romeo 3 Pye Alan Freeman No Comment YES
20/07/1961 Adam Faith Dont You Know It 12 Parlophone John Burgess

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27/07/1961 Marty Wilde Hide And Seek 47 Phillips Johnny Franz No Comment YES
03/08/1961 John Leyton Johnny Remember Me 1 Top Rank Joe Meek Jim did not play on this record but Vic Flick did. NO
17/08/1961 Clinton Ford Too Many Beautiful Girls 48 Oriole John Schroeder
17/08/1961 Tommy Steele Writing On The Wall 30 Decca A Knownman
23/08/1961 Billy Fury Halfway To Paradise 5 Ace of Clubs .
24/08/1961 Russ Conway Toy Ballons 7 Columbia Norman Newell Sweet YES
31/08/1961 Springfields Breakaway 31 Phillips Johnny Franz
07/09/1961 Billy Fury Jealousy 2 Decca Dick Rowe Nice Electric Guitar In The Background STILL RESEARCHING
14/09/1961 Eden Kane Get Lost 10 Decca Bunny Lewis Mainly drums and piano YES
28/09/1961 Nina And Frederick Longtime Boy 43 Columbia .

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28/09/1961 Matt Monro Gonna Build A Mountain 44 Parlophone Norman Newell No Comment YES
05/10/1961 Nina And Frederick Sucu Sucu 23 Columbia .

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05/10/1961 John Leyton Wild Wind 2 Top Rank Joe Meek Vic Flick was also on this record. YES
12/10/1961 Mike Berry Tribute To Buddy Holly 24 HMV Joe Meek No Comment STILL RESEARCHING
19/10/1961 Hayley Mills Lets Get Together 17 Decca . Thankfully short ! YES
19/10/1961 Joe Loss Sucu Sucu 48 HMV .
02/11/1961 Danny Williams Moon River 1 HMV Norman Newell Vic Flick was also on this record. YES
09/11/1961 Marty Wilde Tomorrows Clown 33 Phillips Johnny Franz No Comment YES
09/11/1961 Doug Sheldon Runaround Sue 36 Decca Shel Talmy

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16/11/1961 Jimmy Crawford I Love How You Love Me 18 Columbia Norman Newell
16/11/1961 Springfields Bambino 16 Phillips Johnny Franz
16/11/1961 Petula Clark My Friend The Sea 7 Pye Alan Freeman No Comment YES
14/12/1961 Billy Fury I’d Never Find Another You 5 Decca A Knownman No Comment YES
14/12/1961 Mrs Mills Mrs Mills Medley 18 Parlophone Norman Newell Mrs Piano YES
21/12/1961 Gary Miller There Goes That Song Again 29 Pye .
28/12/1961 John Leyton Son This Is She 15 HMV Joe Meek Similar to the previous 2 hits. YES
04/01/1962 Doug Sheldon Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Las 29 Decca . Inspiration for Dave Clark YES
18/01/1962 Danny Williams Jeannie 14 HMV Norman Newell

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18/01/1962 Eden Kane Forget Me Not 3 Decca Bunny Lewis Pleasant guitar playing YES
18/01/1962 Adam Faith Lonesome 12 Parlophone John Burgess

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01/02/1962 Miki And Griff Little Bitty Tear 16 Pye Tony Hatch Written by Burl Ives. Nice electric guitar in the background. YES
01/02/1962 Frankie Vaughn Don’t Stop Twist 22 Phillips Johnny Franz
08/02/1962 Petula Clark Im Counting On You 41 Pye Alan Freeman

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08/02/1962 Matt Monro Softly As I Leave You 10 Parlophone Norman Newell No Comment YES
15/02/1962 Allisons Lessons In Love 30 Fontana Jack Baverstock

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17/02/1962 Shirley Bassey Shirley Bassey 14 Columbia Norman Newell
22/02/1962 Tommy Bruce Babette 50 Columbia A Knownman

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22/02/1962 Russ Conway Lesson One 21 Columbia Norman Newell
01/03/1962 Johnnie Spence Theme From Dr Kildare 15 Parlophone A Knownman
01/03/1962 Johnny Keating Theme From Z Cars 8 Piccadilly A Knownman Based on a Northumberland tune YES
08/03/1962 Clinton Ford Fanlight Fanny 22 Oriole John Schroeder

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10/03/1962 Helen Shapiro Tops With Me 2 Columbia Norrie Paramor
15/03/1962 John Leyton Lone Rider 40 HMV Joe Meek

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22/03/1962 Craig Douglas When My Little Girl Is Smiling 9 Top Rank Bunny Lewis The singing milkman. YES
29/03/1962 Jimmy Justice When My Little Girl Is Smiling 9 Pye Tony Hatch

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29/03/1962 Joe Loss The Maigret Theme 20 HMV .
05/04/1962 Shane Fenton Its All Over Now 29 Parlophone A Knownman Great guitar YES
03/05/1962 John Leyton Lonely City 14 HMV Joe Meek Constant strumming. YES
03/05/1962 Billy Fury Last Night Was Made For Love 4 Decca . No Comment YES
03/05/1962 Adam Faith As You Like It 5 Parlophone John Burgess Usual Faith stuff. YES
10/05/1962 Mike Sarne Come Outside 1 Parlophone Charles Blackwell With Wendy Richard. YES
10/05/1962 Eden Kane I Dont Know Why 7 Decca Bunny Lewis A delightful guitar break. There is also a deep sounding guitar. STILL RESEARCHING
24/05/1962 Marty Wilde Jezebel 19 Phillips Johnny Franz No Comment YES
24/05/1962 Jet Harris Besame Mucho 22 Decca Jack Good BJS suggested that the Fender VI six-string bass could be used as a lead Duane Eddy style YES
07/06/1962 Vince Hill The Rivers Run Dry 41 Piccadilly . Vince in a mean mood ! YES
14/06/1962 Matt Monro When Love Comes Along 46 Parlophone Norman Newell
14/06/1962 Jimmy Justice Ain’t That Funny 8 Pye Tony Hatch Good YES
28/06/1962 Craig Douglas Our Favourite Melodies 9 Columbia Bunny Lewis A Gary Criss original YES
28/06/1962 Petula Clark Ya Ya Twist 14 Pye Alan Freeman

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05/07/1962 Frank Ifield I Remember You 1 Columbia Norrie Paramor First million seller in the UK YES
05/07/1962 Carol Deene Johnny Get Angry 32 HMV Walter Ridley No Comment YES
19/07/1962 Billy Fury Once Upon A Dream 7 Decca Mike Smith No Comment YES
02/08/1962 Ronnie Carroll Roses Are Red 3 Phillips Johnny Frank

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16/08/1962 Jet Harris Man With The Golden Gun 12 Decca Jack Good No Comment YES
23/08/1962 Carol Deene Some People 25 HMV Walter Ridley

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23/08/1962 Jimmy Justice Spanish Harlem 20 Pye Tony Hatch

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23/08/1962 John Leyton Down The River Nile 42 HMV Joe Meek

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30/08/1962 Adam Faith Dont That Beat All 8 Parlophone John Burgess Impressive violin YES
30/08/1962 Shirley Bassey What Now My Love 5 Columbia Norman Newell Becaud. Ravels Bolero. Disciplined strumming. YES
30/08/1962 Mike Sarne Will I What 18 Parlophone Charles Blackwell With Billie Davis. YES
06/09/1962 Vernon Girls Loco-Motion 47 Decca Jack Good

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27/09/1962 Frankie Vaughn Hercules 42 Phillips Johnny Franz
04/10/1962 Tony Hatch Out Of This World 50 Pye .
11/10/1962 Jess Conrad Pretty Jenny 50 Decca . No Comment YES
11/10/1962 Susan Maughn Bobbys Girl 3 Phillips Johnny Franz No Comment YES
18/10/1962 Craig Douglas Oh Lonesome Me 15 Decca Bunny Lewis Energetic strumming. Excellent guitar break but did BJS play it. STILL RESEARCHING
25/10/1962 Billy Fury Because Of Love 18 Decca A Knownman
25/10/1962 Frank Ifield Lovesick Blues 1 Columbia Norrie Paramor No Comment YES
25/10/1962 Rolf Harris Sun Arise 3 Columbia George Martin Struth ! YES
01/11/1962 John Barry James Bond Theme 13 Columbia John Burgess Vic Flick played the lead guitar. Jim played acoustic. NO
01/11/1962 Joe Loss Must Be Madison 20 HMV .
08/11/1962 Peter Jay Can Can 62 31 Decca Joe Meek
08/11/1962 Matt Monro My Love And Devotion 29 Parlophone Norman Newell Standard stuff. YES
15/11/1962 Ronnie Carroll If Only Tomorrow 33 Phillips Johnny Franz

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06/12/1962 Kenny Lynch Up On The Roof 10 HMV Walter Ridley
13/12/1962 Mark Wynter Go Away Little Girl 6 Pye Tony Hatch Steady strumming. YES
13/12/1962 Springfields Island Of Dreams 5 Phillips Johnny Franz No Comment YES
03/01/1963 Julie Grant Up On The Roof 33 Pye Tony Hatch
03/01/1963 Mike Berry Dont You Think Its Time 6 HMV Joe Meek No Comment YES
03/01/1963 Vernon Girls Funny All Over 31 Decca Jack Good

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10/01/1963 Mike Sarne Just For Kicks 22 Parlophone Charles Blackwell Wroom Wroom YES
10/01/1963 Johnny Kidd Shot Of Rhythm And Blues 48 HMV Walter Ridley Was Jims overdub ever used ? STILL RESEARCHING
10/01/1963 Jet And Tony Diamonds 1 Decca Dick Rowe Does Jim play the main part ? Joe Moretti was not on this record. First real session by Jimmy Page. STILL RESEARCHING
24/01/1963 Bachelors Charmaine 6 Decca Shel Talmy Great guitar backing. STILL RESEARCHING
24/01/1963 Frankie Vaughn Loop-De-Loop 5 Phillips Johnny Franz