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Date Posted:Mon May 12, 2008 00:13:23 In reply to:
Roddy Jordan
's message, "Re: A DOUBLE SIDED HIT FOR HOLLY" on Sun May 11, 2008 15:33:10
In the UK, I think charts were compiled from returns submitted by a sample of record stores across the country. Thus, if you knew which these stores were, you could trigger a chart entry by contriving to buy many copies in some of these stores. That could get you into the chart, thus leading to more air play etc. etc.
I may be wrong but I always thought that returns were made based on the side named by the customer on purchase and this is how we came to have some double sided hits. I'm talking about the late 1950s here. A big such hit here was Ricky Nelson's It's late/There'll Never Be Anyone Else But You. There were various others that currently escape my ageing memory.
