Peak
2
Weeks
14
Score
3,021
Chart Year
1962
Scores & Rankings
Chart Performance
Peak Position2
Peak DateMar 17, 1962
Weeks at Peak1
Weeks Charted14
Weeks in Top 4012
Weeks in Top 107
Weeks at #21
Weeks at #10
Scoring
Summary Calc1,548
Weekly Calc1,473
Total Score3,021
Rankings
Year Ranking#26
Decade Ranking#307
Billboard Year#27
Top 5000#3,829
Details
- Album
- Single
- Label
- Kapp Records
- Genre
- Dixieland
- Media Type
- 45s
- Composer(s)
- Kenneth Ball (based on a song by Vassili Soloviev-Sedoi & M. Matusovosky)
- Entered Chart
- Feb 3, 1962
- Peak Date
- Mar 17, 1962
- Released
- October 1961 (UK) January 1962 (US)
- Recorded
- Unknown
- Catalog #
- Kapp K-442X
- B-Side
- American Patrol
Music Video
Notes
The Dutch jazz group New Orleans Syncopators recorded the arrangement of the song under the title 'Midnight in Moscow', arranged by its leader Jan Burgers on January 4, 1961. The arrangement of Jan Burgers was published by Les Editions Int. Basart N.V. and was also used by Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, who recorded the song in November 1961, also under the title "Midnight in Moscow". This version peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in January 1962. "Midnight in Moscow" also reached number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in March that year, kept out of the number one spot by "Hey! Baby" by Bruce Channel,and it spent three weeks at number one on the American Easy Listening chart
Instrumental
Chart History (14 weeks)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feb 3, 1962 | 79 | 47 |
| 2 | Feb 10, 1962 | 47 | 79 |
| 3 | Feb 17, 1962 | 29 | 97 |
| 4 | Feb 24, 1962 | 16 | 110 |
| 5 | Mar 3, 1962 | 8 | 118 |
| 6 | Mar 10, 1962 | 3 | 123 |
| 7 | Mar 17, 1962 | 2 | 124 |
| 8 | Mar 24, 1962 | 3 | 123 |
| 9 | Mar 31, 1962 | 5 | 121 |
| 10 | Apr 7, 1962 | 7 | 119 |
| 11 | Apr 14, 1962 | 9 | 117 |
| 12 | Apr 21, 1962 | 16 | 110 |
| 13 | Apr 28, 1962 | 28 | 98 |
| 14 | May 5, 1962 | 39 | 87 |