Pickin’ A Chicken – Eve Boswell

This track by Eve Boswell spent one week in the UK top 10 in 1956.

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This week in 1956, Pickin’ a chicken by Eve Boswell entered the UK top 10 at its highest position of number 9, having entered the top 25 five weeks previously at number 25. After one week at its peak position , the song fell to number 15 for a week and then left the chart, although it returned on two occasions in 1956 for another six weeks in the top 30.

Pickin’ a chicken was released on the Parlophone record label. It was the only top 10 hit for Eve Boswell in the UK.

More music from Eve Boswell

UK singles chart for the week ending 4 February 1956

1. Sixteen tons – Tennessee Ernie Ford

2. The ballad of Davy Crockett – Bill Hayes

3. (Love is) the tender trap – Frank Sinatra

4. Love and marriage – Frank Sinatra

5. The ballad of Davy Crockett – Tennessee Ernie Ford

6. Rock-a-beatin’ boogie – Bill Haley and His Comets

7. Love is a many-splendored thing – Four Aces

8. Rock Island line – Lonnie Donegan

9. Pickin’ a chicken – Eve Boswell

10. Robin Hood – Gary Miller

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