I was just being born...so I had to look up both the chart hits for the Uk and the USA for that year... and my favourites from that year in the UK was Cherry pink and apple blossom , which I heard on the wireless when I was growing up..
Incidentally I was always told by my father that when I was a bbay asleep in my cot..if Tennessee Ernie Ford came on the radio singing Sixteen tons, I would wake up , haul myself up and hold onto the cot rail and shake my booty...then lie down and go back to sleep...lol.... yet when I grew up I never liked that song..how odd...
The song I like best from the US was... this one... , it eventually became a hit in the Uk for various singers.. and I always loved it...