Number 1 Singles in Ireland 1964 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of singles which reached number-one on the Irish Singles Chart

Irish Singles Chart

The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...

in 1964.

Issue Date	Song	Artist
3 January	There's Always Me There's Always Me Selected for an Elvis Presley recording session held March 12, 1961, "There's Always Me" was a ballad included on the Presley album Something for Everybody....	Dickie Rock Dickie Rock Dickie Rock is an Irish singer. He experienced much success on the Irish charts during the 1960s, but has continued on as a popular live act as well as occasionally hitting the charts ever since.-Early fame:...
10 January	There's Always Me	Dickie Rock
17 January	There's Always Me	Dickie Rock
24 January	There's Always Me	Dickie Rock
31 January	Glad All Over Glad All Over "Glad All Over" is a song written by Mike Smith and recorded by The Dave Clark Five. In January 1964, it became the British group's first big hit, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart. In April 1964, it reached number 6 on the American U.S. pop singles chart, becoming the first British...	The Dave Clark Five The Dave Clark Five The Dave Clark Five were an English pop rock group. Their single "Glad All Over" knocked The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the UK singles charts in January 1964: it eventually peaked at No.6 in the United States in April 1964.They were the second group of the British Invasion,...
7 February	Glad All Over	The Dave Clark Five
14 February	Needles and Pins	The Searchers The Searchers (band) The Searchers are an English beat group, who emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with The Beatles, The Fourmost, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry & The Pacemakers....
21 February	Needles and Pins	The Searchers
28 February	Needles and Pins	The Searchers
6 March	Needles and Pins	The Searchers
13 March	Bits and Pieces Bits and Pieces "Bits and Pieces" is a song by 1960s quintet The Dave Clark Five. The single hit number two in the UK and number four in the US. The song was a success in other countries too. It was number two in Australia and number one in Canada and Ireland. It reached number four in the Netherlands. In Germany...	The Dave Clark 5
20 March	Anyone Who Had a Heart	Cilla Black Cilla Black Cilla Black OBE is an English singer, actress, entertainer and media personality, who has been consistently popular as a light entertainment figure since 1963. She is most famous for her singles Anyone Who Had A Heart, You're My World, and Alfie...
27 March	I Love You Because I Love You Because (song) "I Love You Because" is a 1949 song written and originally recorded by Leon Payne. The single went to number four on the Billboard Country & Western Best Seller lists and spent two weeks at number one on the Country & Western Disk Jockey List, spending a total of thirty-two weeks on the chart...	Jim Reeves Jim Reeves James Travis Reeves , better known as Jim Reeves, was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well-known for being a practitioner of the Nashville sound...
3 April	I Love You Because	Jim Reeves
10 April	I Love You Because	Jim Reeves
17 April	Can't Buy Me Love Can't Buy Me Love "Can't Buy Me Love" is a song composed by Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles on the A-side of their sixth British single, "Can't Buy Me Love"/"You Can't Do That".-Interpretation:...	The Beatles The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
24 April	Can't Buy Me Love	The Beatles
1 May	Can't Buy Me Love	The Beatles
8 May	A World Without Love A World Without Love "A World Without Love" is a song recorded by the English duo Peter and Gordon and released as their first single in February 1964, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart in April. The song was written by Paul McCartney and attributed to Lennon–McCartney. The B-side was "If I Were You" written...	Peter & Gordon Peter & Gordon Peter and Gordon were a British Invasion-era duo and formed by Peter Asher and Gordon Waller, who achieved fame in 1964 with "A World Without Love", and had several subsequent hits in that era.-History:...
15 May	A World Without Love	Peter & Gordon
22 May	Don't Throw Your Love Away Don't Throw Your Love Away "Don't Throw Your Love Away" is a song that was originally released in 1963 by The Orlons. It was the B-side to "Bon-Doo-Wah", which peaked at No. 55 in the US charts.The song was covered by The Searchers and released in April 1964. It went to No...	The Searchers
29 May	Fallen Star	Eileen Reid (joint No.1)
	I'm Yours	Dickie Rock (joint No.1)
5 June	My Boy Lollipop My Boy Lollipop "My Boy Lollipop" is a song written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs, and usually credited to Spencer, Morris Levy, and Johnny Roberts. It was first recorded in New York in 1956 by Barbie Gaye...	Millie Millie Millie may refer to:* A diminutive of the female given names "Emily", "Millicent", "Mildred", "Camilla" or sometimes "Amelia"* millie, an affectionate or pejorative term for a young working-class womanMillie may specifically refer to:...
12 June	It's Over	Roy Orbison Roy Orbison Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
19 June	My Boy Lollipop	Millie
26 June	It's Over	Roy Orbison
3 July	Bless You	Brendan Bowyer Brendan Bowyer Brendan Bowyer, born 12 October 1938 in Waterford, Ireland, is an Irish singer best known for fronting The Royal Showband, who had five number one hits in Ireland, and The Big Eight. He is also renowned for having The Beatles open for him at a concert in 1962 at the Liverpool Empire Theatre, and...
10 July	Bless You	Brendan Bowyer
17 July	It's Over	Roy Orbison
24 July	I Won't Forget You I Won't Forget You (Jim Reeves song) "I Won't Forget You" is a single by American singer Jim Reeves. It was released in 1964 by RCA Victor and peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart. It was the 56th biggest-selling single in the United Kingdom during the 1960s.-Chart performance:...	Jim Reeves
31 July	I Won't Forget You	Jim Reeves
7 August	A Hard Day's Night A Hard Day's Night (song) "A Hard Day's Night" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles. Written by John Lennon, and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was released on the movie soundtrack of the same name in 1964...	The Beatles
14 August	Hard Days Night	The Beatles
21 August	Hard Days Night	The Beatles
28 August	I Won't Forget You	Jim Reeves
4 September	I Won't Forget You	Jim Reeves
11 September	I Won't Forget You	Jim Reeves
18 September	I Won't Forget You	Jim Reeves
25 September	I Won't Forget You	Jim Reeves
2 October	I Won't Forget You	Jim Reeves
9 October	I Wouldn't Trade You For The World	The Bachelors The Bachelors The Bachelors are a popular music group, originating from Dublin, Ireland.-Career:The founding members of the group were Conleth Cluskey , Declan Cluskey , and John Stokes...
16 October	I Wouldn't Trade You For The World	The Bachelors
23 October	Oh, Pretty Woman Oh, Pretty Woman "Oh, Pretty Woman" is a song, released in August 1964, which was a worldwide success for Roy Orbison. Recorded on the Monument Records label in Nashville, Tennessee, it was written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees. The song spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100...	Roy Orbison
30 October	Candy Store	Dickie Rock
6 November	Candy Store	Dickie Rock
13 November	Candy Store	Dickie Rock
20 November	Candy Store	Dickie Rock
27 November	Candy Store	Dickie Rock
4 December	Candy Store	Dickie Rock
11 December	Down Came The Rain	Butch Moore Butch Moore Butch Moore was born James Augustine Moore in Dublin and was a showband icon during the 1960s. He achieved celebrity status as Ireland's first contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965 and attracted huge crowds with the Capitol Showband in the State's many ballrooms.Butch Moore was at the...
18 December	I Feel Fine I Feel Fine "I Feel Fine" is a riff-driven rock song written by John Lennon and released in 1964 by The Beatles as the A-side of their eighth British single. The song is notable for the use of feedback on a recording for the first time by any musician...	The Beatles
25 December	I Feel Fine	The Beatles

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