Songs · UK Singles Chart

The Happy Whistler

Don Robertson

Entered May 11, 1956 · peaked at #8 on May 18, 1956 · 9 weeks on the chart, last seen Jul 6, 1956

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Record Power
20.7
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
3
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
9
May 1956 – July 1956

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what the song earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Don Robertsonprimary100%21.4

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 18, 1956 on the timeline →
  1. #1No Other LoveRonnie Hilton
  2. #2The Poor People of ParisWinifred Atwell
  3. #3My September LoveDavid Whitfield
  4. #4A Tear FellTeresa Brewer
  5. #5Rock and Roll WaltzKay Starr
  6. #6It's Almost TomorrowDreamweavers
  7. #7I'll Be HomePat Boone
  8. #8The Happy WhistlerDon Robertson
  9. #9Main Title Theme from 'Man with the Golden ArmBilly May
  10. #10Lost John/StewballLonnie Donegan

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