GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME
by TOM JONES


The second UK Official Singles Chart Number 1, following his 1965 chart debut It’s Not Unusual, for the Welsh-born Tom Jones, Green, Green Grass Of Home was written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrell in 1965, as a country song made popular by Porter Wagoner the same year, when it reached No. 4 on the Country chart. Tom Jones released his version in November 1966 where it entered the Top 40 at Number 35 before catapulting up the list to hit Number 1 in its fourth week at the beginning of December and taking roost there for seven weeks making it the year’s UK Official Singles Chart Christmas Number 1. It’s the tenth biggest-seller of the decade with 1.27 million sales. 

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Chart facts

  • Peak position1
  • LabelDECCA
  • Catalogue numberF22511
  • First Chart Date

Weeks on chart

  1. 7No1
  2. 13Top 10
  3. 15Top 20
  4. 21Top 40
  5. 22Top 75
  6. 22Top 100

Chart run

= Peak position = This week

22 weeks - 16/11/1966 to 12/04/1967

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