Also lost in 2009 were jazz composer George Russell, saxophonists Hank Crawford, David "Fathead" Newman and Johnny Almond, blues singer Koko Taylor, drummer Eddie Locke, vocalists Al Martino,Kenny Rankin, and Blossom Dearie, and 101-year-old guitarist Lawrence Lucie, who recorded with everyone from Jelly Roll Morton and Coleman Hawkins to Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong.

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The first number one, Al Martino's Here in My Heart, was published in the NME on 14 November 1952.

BBC: to mark 60 years of the British singles chart

The singles chart has been a weekly fixture in the UK since 1952, when Al Martino claimed the first number one with Here In My Heart.

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