Adam's Hit Parade
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Adam's Hit Parade is an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by Adam Faith
Adam Faith
Terence "Terry" Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith was a Teen idol English singer, actor and later financial journalist. He was one of the most charted acts of the 1960s. He became the first UK artist to lodge his initial seven hits in the Top 5...

, released in December 1960. The EP is a 7-inch vinyl record and released in mono
Monaural
Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or channels are fed from a common signal path...

 with the catalogue number Parlophone Company, Ltd.
Parlophone
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 GEP 8811. Adams Hit Parade has the distinction of being the UK's number-one EP Number 1 EP on three different occasions. It first reached the number on spot on December 17, 1960, but was bumped out a week later by Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....

 and The Shadows
The Shadows
The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...

's Cliff's Silver Discs.. On January 21, 1961 Faith reclaimed the top spot, only to be evicted a week later by the Shadows' The Shadows (EP)
The Shadows (EP)
The Shadows is an EP by The Shadows, released in January 1961. The EP is a 7-inch vinyl record and released in mono with the catalogue number Columbia SEG 8061 and in stereo with the catalogue number Columbia ESG 7834. The Shadows was the UK number-one EP for 20 weeks, having two separate stints at...

 EP which held the top slot until Faith regained it for a week on May 27, 1961.

Track listing

Side A
  1. " What Do You Want
    What Do You Want
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     (Vandyke), a #1 in the UK
  2. " Poor Me (Vandyke), also a #1 in the UK


Side B
  1. Someone Else's Baby (Vandyke-Ford) #2 in the UK
  2. Johnny Comes Marching Home
    When Johnny Comes Marching Home
    "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" is a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.-Origins:...

     (from the film Never Let Go
    Never Let Go
    Never Let Go is a 1960 British thriller film starring Peter Sellers and Richard Todd. It concerns a man's purchase, loss of, and attempt to recover a Ford Anglia car. Sellers played a London villain, in one of his rare straight roles.-Plot:...

    ) (trad. arr. Barry-Maitland), reached #5 in the UK.


None of these songs charted in the United States
United States
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