Various – Popular Music's Golden Hit Parade
Label:Reader's Digest – DRDS 2224 to DRDS 2231
Format:8 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo
Released:1976
Style:Rock & Roll, Skiffle
Tracklist Show Credits
| The Fifties | |||
| A1 | –Johnny Ray* | Just Walkin' In The Rain | |
| A2 | –Guy Mitchell | Singing The Blues | |
| A3 | –Lonnie Donegan | Cumberland Gap | |
| A4 | –Russ Hamilton | We Will Make Love | |
| A5 | –Jerry Lee Lewis | Great Balls Of Fire | |
| A6 | –Tommy Steele | Nairobi | |
| A7 | –The Everly Brothers* | All I Have To Do Is Dream | |
| B1 | –Tommy Edwards | It's All In The Game | |
| B2 | –Lord Rockingham's XI | Hoots Mon | |
| B3 | –The Platters | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | |
| B4 | –Marty Wilde | Teenager In Love | |
| B5 | –The Browns (3) | Three Bells | |
| B6 | –Emile Ford And The Checkmates* | What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? | |
| B7 | –Neil Sedaka | Oh! Carol | |
| 1960 | |||
| C1 | –Anthony Newley | Why? | |
| C2 | –Perry Como | Delaware | |
| C3 | –Johnny Preston | Running Bear | |
| C4 | –Lonnie Donegan | My Old Man's A Dustman | |
| C5 | –Jimmy Jones | Good Timin' | |
| C6 | –Duane Eddie* | Because They're Young | |
| C7 | –Johnny Tillotson | Poetry In Motion | |
| 1961 | |||
| D1 | –Petula Clark | Sailor | |
| D2 | –The Allisons | Are You Sure? | |
| D3 | –The Marcels | Blue Moon | |
| D4 | –Floyd Cramer | On The Rebound | |
| D5 | –Billy Fury | Halfway To Paradise | |
| D6 | –Eden Kane | Well, I Ask You | |
| D7 | –Jimmy Dean | Big Bad John | |
| 1962 | |||
| E1 | –Karl Denver | Wimoweh | |
| E2 | –Bruce Channel | Hey! Baby | |
| E3 | –Joe Brown | Picture Of You | |
| E4 | –The Tornados | Telstar | |
| E5 | –Little Eva | The Locomotion | |
| E6 | –Carole King | It Might As Well Rain Until September | |
| E7 | –Mark Wynter | Venus In Blue Jeans | |
| 1963 | |||
| F1 | –The Springfields | Island Of Dreams | |
| F2 | –Jet Harris And Tony Meehan | Diamonds | |
| F3 | –Brian Poole and The Tremeloes* | Twist And Shout | |
| F4 | –The Searchers | Sweets For My Sweet | |
| F5 | –Heinz | Just Like Eddie | |
| F6 | –Chuck Berry | Memphis Tennessee | |
| F7 | –Dusty Springfield | I Only Want To Be With You | |
| 1964 | |||
| G1 | –The Searchers | Needles And Pins | |
| G2 | –The Bachelors | Diane | |
| G3 | –The Four Pennies | Juliet | |
| G4 | –Jim Reeves | I Won't Forget You | |
| G5 | –The Kinks | You Really Got Me | |
| G6 | –Sandie Shaw | Always Something There To Remind Me | |
| G7 | –The Rockin' Berries | He's In Town | |
| 1965 | |||
| H1 | –The Kinks | Tired Of Waiting For You | |
| H2 | –Unit 4+2* | Contrete And Clay | |
| H3 | –Them (3) | Here Comes The Night | |
| H4 | –Roger Miller | King Of The Road | |
| H5 | –Jackie Trent | Where Are You Now My Love? | |
| H6 | –The Byrds | Mr. Tambourine Man | |
| H7 | –The Ivy League | Tossing And Turning | |
| 1966 | |||
| I1 | –Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass* | Spanish Flea | |
| I2 | –The Overlanders | Michelle | |
| I3 | –Crispian St. Peters | You Are On My Mind | |
| I4 | –The Mindbenders | A Groovy Kind Of Love | |
| I5 | –The Walker Brothers | The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore | |
| I6 | –Dusty Springfield | You Don't Have To Say You Love Me | |
| I7 | –Los Bravos | Black Is Black | |
| 1967 | |||
| J1 | –Sandie Shaw | Puppet On A String | |
| J2 | –Procul Harum* | A Whiter Shade Of Pale | |
| J3 | –The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Hey Joe | |
| J4 | –Scott Mackenzie* | San Fransisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) | |
| J5 | –Bee Gees | Massachussetts | |
| J6 | –The Foundations | Baby Now That I've Found You | |
| J7 | –Long John Baldry | Let The Heartaches Begin | |
| 1968 | |||
| K1 | –Manfred Mann | The Mighty Quinn | |
| K2 | –Ester And Abi Ofarim* | Cinderalla Rockerfella | |
| K3 | –Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich | The Legend Of Xanadu | |
| K4 | –Gary Puckett And The Union Gap* | Young Girl | |
| K5 | –The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown | Fire | |
| K6 | –Joe Cocker | With A Little Help From My Friends | |
| K7 | –Georgie Fame | The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde | |
| 1969 | |||
| L1 | –Fleetwood Mac | Albertross | |
| L2 | –Marmalade* | Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da | |
| L3 | –The Move | Blackberry Way | |
| L4 | –Thunderclap Newman | Something In The Air | |
| L5 | –Zager And Evans* | In The Year 2525 | |
| L6 | –Johnny Cash | A Boy Named Sue | |
| L7 | –The Tremaloes* | Call Me Number One | |
| 1970 | |||
| M1 | –Pickettywitch | That Same Old Feeling | |
| M2 | –Frijid Pink | House Of The Rising Sun | |
| M3 | –Christie | Yellow River | |
| M4 | –Mr. Bloe | Groovin' With Mr. Bloe | |
| M5 | –Mungo Jerry | In The Summertime | |
| M6 | –Hotlegs | Neanderthal Man | |
| M7 | –The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Voodoo Chile | |
| 1971 | |||
| N1 | –The Mixtures | The Pushbike Song | |
| N2 | –T. Rex | Hot Love | |
| N3 | –Lynn Anderson | Rose Garden | |
| N4 | –The New Seekers | Never-Ending Song Of Love | |
| N5 | –Rod Stewart | Maggie May | |
| N6 | –Slade | Coz I Love You | |
| N7 | –John Kongos | Togoloshe Man | |
| 1972 | |||
| O1 | –Chicory Tip | Son Of My Father | |
| O2 | –Harry Nilsson | Without You | |
| O3 | –Vicky Leandros | Come What May | |
| O4 | –Elton John | Rocket Man | |
| O5 | –Lieutenant Pigeon | Mouldy Old Dough | |
| O6 | –Peter Skellern | You're A Lady | |
| O7 | –The New Seekers | I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing | |
| 1973 | |||
| P1 | –The Strawbs* | Part Of The Union | |
| P2 | –Focus (2) | Sylvia | |
| P3 | –Peters And Lee* | Welcome Home | |
| P4 | –The Carpenters* | Yesterday Once More | |
| P5 | –Bobby Picket And The Crypt Kickers* | Monster Mash | |
| P6 | –The Sweet | Ballroom Blitz | |
| P7 | –Status Quo | Caroline | |
