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No Such Thing As A Fish

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The U.K. Pop Charts

Pop charts were originally compiled by phoning around 20 record sand asking what their best selling songs were that ptic. So we're talking fifties. Awa was november 50, twotir to the queen's er jubilee, 52 s. That means for the first few months of her reign there was a different way of assessing the music chartes. They had the bill boards. But in the u.K., they didn't have a charts based on music sales. And so records was sort of like an obscure, you know, why bang a record? You could just buy the sheet music and pan and singevas o, ok?

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