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Slim Whitman

Slim Whitman held the record for 36 years for the longest stay at Number One in the UK charts.rn

Rose Marie held the top spot for eleven weeks in 1955 and was finally knocked off the top by Britain's own Jimmy Young and his recording of The Man From Laramie.