Number 1 Singles in Ireland 1966 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of singles which topped 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 1966.

Note that prior to 1992, the Irish singles chart was compiled from trade shipments from the labels to record stores, rather than on consumer sales.

Issue Date	Song	Artist
3 January	Day Tripper Day Tripper "Day Tripper" is a song by The Beatles, released as a double A-side single with "We Can Work It Out". Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rubber Soul album...	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...
10 January	Day Tripper	The Beatles
17 January	Day Tripper	The Beatles
24 January	Lovely Leitrim	Larry Cunningham Larry Cunningham Larry Cunningham is an Irish country music singer, who was one of the leading figures of the showband scene in the 1960s and 1970s.-Life and career:...
31 January	Lovely Leitrim	Larry Cunningham
7 February	Old Man Trouble	Doc Carroll and the Royal Blues
14 February	Old Man Trouble	Doc Carroll and the Royal Blues
21 February	These Boots Are Made For Walkin' These Boots Are Made for Walkin' Jessica Simpson recorded her own version of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" for the soundtrack to the film The Dukes of Hazzard . Simpson's cover was co-produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and was released as the soundtrack's first single in 2005)...	Nancy Sinatra Nancy Sinatra Nancy Sandra Sinatra is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"....
28 February	Come Back To Stay Come Back To Stay "Come Back to Stay" was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966, performed in English by Dickie Rock.The song is a ballad, with Rock pleading with a former lover to return to him...	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:...
7 March	Come Back To Stay	Dickie Rock
14 March	Come Back To Stay	Dickie Rock
21 March	Come Back To Stay	Dickie Rock
28 March	Sea Around Us	The Ludlows The Ludlows The Ludlows were a popular Irish folk band in the 1960s. Their name was derived from Woody Guthrie's "Ludlow Massacre".Formed in 1964, and originally called the Ludlows Ballad Group, then the Ludlow Trio, they consisted of Sean Loughran, from Carrick-on-Suir, Paddy Roche and Margaret O'Brien....
4 April	Sea Around Us	The Ludlows
11 April	Sea Around Us	The Ludlows
18 April	Sea Around Us	The Ludlows
25 April	Black & Tan Gun	Pat Smith & The Johnny Flynn Showband
2 May	Black & Tan Gun	Pat Smith & The Johnny Flynn Showband
9 May	Pretty Flamingo Pretty Flamingo "Pretty Flamingo" is a song written by Mark Barkan, which became a hit in 1966 when Manfred Mann's recording of it was released as a single. The single reached number one in the UK singles chart on 5 May 1966....	Manfred Mann Manfred Mann Manfred Mann was a British beat, rhythm and blues and pop band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboardist, Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann's Earth Band...
16 May	Pretty Flamingo	Manfred Mann
23 May	Pretty Flamingo	Manfred Mann
30 May	Pretty Flamingo	Manfred Mann
6 June	Strangers in the Night Strangers in the Night "Strangers in the Night" is a popular song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. It was originally created under the title Beddy Bye as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed...	Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
13 June	Strangers in the Night	Frank Sinatra
20 June	Paperback Writer Paperback Writer "Paperback Writer" is a 1966 song recorded and released by The Beatles. Written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, the song was released as the A-side of their eleventh single...	The Beatles
27 June	Paperback Writer	The Beatles
4 July	Paperback Writer	The Beatles
11 July	Paperback Writer	The Beatles
18 July	Sunny Afternoon Sunny Afternoon "Sunny Afternoon" is a song by The Kinks, written by chief songwriter Ray Davies. Like its contemporary "Taxman" by The Beatles, the song references the high levels of progressive tax taken by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson. The track later featured on the Face to Face album as well...	The Kinks The Kinks The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...
25 July	More Than Yesterday	Gregory & The Cadets
1 August	More Than Yesterday	Gregory & The Cadets
8 August	More Than Yesterday	Gregory & The Cadets
15 August	Travelling People	The Johnstons The Johnstons The Johnstons were an Irish close-harmony folk band, originally founded in Slane, County Meath, Ireland, consisting of Adrienne, Lucy and Michael Johnston. They began performing in the early 1960s in Slane....
22 August	Yellow Submarine Yellow Submarine (song) "Yellow Submarine" is a 1966 song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney , with lead vocals by Ringo Starr. It was included on the Revolver album and issued as a single, coupled with "Eleanor Rigby". The single went to number 1 on every major British chart, remained at number 1 for four weeks...	The Beatles
29 August	Yellow Submarine	The Beatles
5 September	Pretty Brown Eyes	Joe Dolan Joe Dolan Joseph "Joe" Francis Robert Dolan was an Irish entertainer, recorder and singer of easy listening songs...
12 September	Pretty Brown Eyes	Joe Dolan
19 September	Pretty Brown Eyes	Joe Dolan
26 September	Merry Ploughboy	Dermot O'Brien Dermot O'Brien Dermot O'Brien was an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club St. Mary's and was a member of the Louth senior inter-county team from the 1950s until the 1960s. O'Brien captained Louth to the All-Ireland title in 1957. O'Brien was also a renowned musician and singer and...
2 October	Merry Ploughboy	Dermot O'Brien
9 October	Merry Ploughboy	Dermot O'Brien
16 October	Merry Ploughboy	Dermot O'Brien
23 October	Merry Ploughboy	Dermot O'Brien
30 October	Merry Ploughboy	Dermot O'Brien
7 November	Somewhere My Love	Charlie Matthews & The Royal Showband
14 November	Mursheen Durkin Mursheen Durkin To the alehouse and the playhouse and many's the house besides,But I told me brother Seamus I'd go off and go right famousAnd before I'd return again I'd roam the whole world wide.ChorusSo goodbye, Muirsheen Durkin, I'm sick and tired of working,...	Johnny McEvoy Johnny McEvoy Johnny McEvoy is an Irish singer of Country and Irish genre born in Banagher, County Offaly, Ireland.He was part of a duo called "Ramblers 2", and has been in the entertainment circuit since the 1960s.-Hits:...
21 November	Mursheen Durkin	Johnny McEvoy
28 November	Mursheen Durkin	Johnny McEvoy
5 December	Green, Green Grass of Home	Tom Jones Tom Jones (singer) Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
12 December	Green, Green Grass of Home	Tom Jones
19 December	Green, Green Grass of Home	Tom Jones
26 December	Green, Green Grass of Home	Tom Jones

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