Song artist 555 - Lonnie Donegan

This page lists the song chart entries of Lonnie Donegan. The songs are listed with the most widely successful first.

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Lonnie Donegan	My Old Man's a Dustman (Ballad of a Refuse Disposal Officer)	1960	UK 1 - Mar 1960 (13 weeks), Canada 1 - May 1960 (12 weeks), Record Mirror 1 for 5 weeks - Mar 1960, Australia 1 for 2 weeks - May 1960, Australia 10 of 1960, South Africa 16 of 1960, UKMIX 704, RYM 40 of 1960
2	Lonnie Donegan	Rock Island Line	1955	US CashBox 6 - Mar 1956 (12 weeks), UK 8 - Jan 1956 (22 weeks), US Billboard 8 - Mar 1956 (17 weeks), DDD 21 of 1955, US BB 50 of 1956, UKMIX 438, Acclaimed 1096 (1954), RYM 14 of 1955, Guardian Folk/ World 27, one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500
3	Lonnie Donegan	Lost John	1956	Peel list 1 of 1956, UK 2 - Apr 1956 (17 weeks), US CashBox 45 - Jun 1956 (2 weeks), US Billboard 58 - Jun 1956 (2 weeks), RYM 193 of 1956
4	Lonnie Donegan	Gamblin' Man	1957	UK 1 - Jun 1957 (19 weeks), Record Mirror 1 for 1 week - Jul 1957, UKMIX 128, RYM 72 of 1957
5	Lonnie Donegan	Cumberland Gap	1957	UK 1 - Apr 1957 (12 weeks), Record Mirror 1 for 4 weeks - Apr 1957, UKMIX 620, RYM 28 of 1957
6	Lonnie Donegan	Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)	1961	UK 3 - Feb 1959 (12 weeks), US Billboard 5 - Aug 1961 (11 weeks), Canada 20 - Jul 1961 (7 weeks), WABC NY 52 of 1961, US Radio 68 of 1961 (peak 5 6 weeks), US BB 79 of 1961, US CashBox 85 of 1961, RYM 80 of 1959
7	Lonnie Donegan	Michael Row the Boat	1961	Germany 4 - Jan 1962 (4 months), UK 6 - Sep 1961 (11 weeks), Norway 10 - Oct 1961 (1 week), Germany 175 of the 1960s (peak 4 17 weeks), RYM 184 of 1961
8	Lonnie Donegan	Putting On the Style	1957	UK 1 - Jun 1957 (19 weeks), RYM 72 of 1957
9	Lonnie Donegan	I Wanna Go Home	1960	UK 5 - May 1960 (17 weeks), NZ Lever 7 - Aug 1960 (2 weeks), UKMIX 736
10	Lonnie Donegan	Lively	1960	NZ Lever 1 - Nov 1960 (2 weeks), UK 13 - Nov 1960 (9 weeks)
11	Lonnie Donegan	Tom Dooley	1958	UK 3 - Nov 1958 (14 weeks), UKMIX 668, RYM 84 of 1958
12	Lonnie Donegan	Battle of New Orleans	1959	UK 2 - Jun 1959 (16 weeks), UKMIX 294
13	Lonnie Donegan	Stewball	1956	UK 27 - Apr 1956 (18 weeks), UKMIX 311, RYM 193 of 1956
14	Lonnie Donegan	Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O	1957	UK 4 - Jan 1957 (17 weeks), UKMIX 626
15	Lonnie Donegan	Have a Drink On Me	1961	Canada 7 - Jul 1961 (9 weeks), UK 8 - May 1961 (15 weeks), RYM 183 of 1961
16	Lonnie Donegan	Betty Betty Betty	1958	UK 11 - Jul 1958 (7 weeks), RYM 156 of 1958
17	Lonnie Donegan	Sally Don't You Grieve	1958	UK 11 - Jul 1958 (7 weeks), RYM 156 of 1958
18	Lonnie Donegan	Bring A Little Water Sylvie/Dead Or Alive	1956	UK 7 - Sep 1956 (13 weeks)
19	Lonnie Donegan	Skiffle Session	1956	UK 20 - Jul 1956 (2 weeks)
20	Lonnie Donegan	Lonnie Donegan Showcase LP	1956	UK 26 - Dec 1956 (3 weeks)
21	Lonnie Donegan	Grand Coolie Dam	1958	UK 6 - Apr 1958 (15 weeks)
22	Lonnie Donegan	My Dixie Darling	1957	UK 10 - Oct 1957 (15 weeks)
23	Lonnie Donegan	Jack O' Diamonds	1957	UK 14 - Dec 1957 (7 weeks)
24	Lonnie Donegan	Sal's Got a Sugar Lip	1959	UK 13 - Sep 1959 (4 weeks)
25	Lonnie Donegan	Fort Worth Jail	1959	UK 14 - May 1959 (5 weeks)
26	Lonnie Donegan	Lonnie's Skiffle Party	1958	UK 23 - Nov 1958 (5 weeks)
27	Lonnie Donegan	San Miguel	1959	UK 19 - Dec 1959 (4 weeks)
28	Lonnie Donegan	Lonesome Traveller	1958	UK 28 - Sep 1958 (1 week)
29	Lonnie Donegan	Lorelei	1960	UK 10 - Aug 1960 (8 weeks)
30	Lonnie Donegan	Virgin Mary	1960	UK 27 - Dec 1960 (5 weeks)
31	Lonnie Donegan	The Party's Over	1962	UK 9 - Apr 1962 (12 weeks)
32	Lonnie Donegan	Pick a Bale of Cotton	1962	UK 11 - Aug 1962 (10 weeks)
33	Lonnie Donegan	The Comancheros	1962	UK 14 - Jan 1962 (10 weeks)
34	Lonnie Donegan	John Henry	1955	RYM 14 of 1955
35	Lonnie Donegan	Rock o' My Soul	1958	RYM 84 of 1958
36	Lonnie Donegan	The Midnight Special	1958	RYM 199 of 1958
37	Lonnie Donegan	When the Sun Goes Down	1958	RYM 199 of 1958
38	Lonnie Donegan	Love is Strange	1957	RYM 28 of 1957
39	Lonnie Donegan	Aunt Rhody	1959	RYM 80 of 1959
40	Lonnie Donegan	The Golden Vanity	1960	RYM 40 of 1960
41	Lonnie Donegan	Seven Daffodils	1961	RYM 183 of 1961
42	Lonnie Donegan	Lumbered	1961	RYM 184 of 1961

In addition to the above listed songs Lonnie Donegan also contributed to the following entries:

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Lonnie Donegan & Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen	Samantha	1961	UK 13 - Feb 1961 (15 weeks)

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7 Mar 2016

Double Listing - I Wanna Go Home

#15 & #43 are the same.

Data fixed, thanks

10 Jul 2011

Lonnie Donegan

Could you please provide info as to where Lonnie Donegan's Rock Island Line placed on the Billboard charts.

Thanks.

There is a page for Lonnie Donegan that has that information on it, "Rock Island Line" was song number 40 of 1955. It reached number 8 in the Billboard charts (its run there was 17 weeks starting Mar 1956).

We suspect that the year of 1954 on the Acclaimed music site is incorrect, since it entered both the US and UK charts in 1956. Our calculation places it in 1955, as do the RYM and DDD sites, because that is between the Acclaimed and Billboard dates.

Lonnie Donegan's version was the most successful although Leadbelly had a version of the song in 1944. Following Lonnie Donegan's hit it was a hit for Don Cornell in the US and Stan Freberg in the UK. Johnny Cash's version was number 93 in the Billboard chart in Feb 1970.