[dfwgator]

IIRC it was the first US Number One charting song from a British act. It wouldn’t be the last.

[Fiji Hill]

According to Joel Whitburn, Love Is the Sweetest Thing by Ray Noble & His New Mayfair Orchestra was the first British single to reach Number One in this country. However, Whitburn's chart, on which it spent five weeks in the late summer of 1933, was concocted by using computers to crunch data decades after the fact.

Vera Lynn was the first Britisher to top the actual charts in this country with Auf Wiedersehen (Goodbye) in 1952. But much as I love Vera Lynn, this is a knockoff, and I like the original better.

Auf Wiedersehen--Rudi Schuricke (1950)