November 1952 - 'Singing in the rain' - Gene Kelly

4 November 1952 - Revista do Radio 165

1. Ninguém me ama - Nora Ney (Continental)
2. A place in the sun - Roberto Inglez (Odeon)
3. Senhora (Señora) - Gilberto Milfont (RCA)
4. Mambo caçula - Chiquinho (Continental)
5. Kalu - Dalva de Oliveira (Odeon)

6. Nunca te direi - Doris Monteiro (Todamerica)
7. India - Cascatinha & Inhana (Todamerica)
8. Alguém como tu - Dick Farney (Continental)

11 November 1952 - RR 166

18 November 1952 - RR 167

25 November 1952 - RR 158

1. Singing in the rain - Gene Kelly (MGM)
2. Mambo caçula - Chiquinho (Continental)
3. Ninguém me ama - Nora Ney (Continental)
4. Chico Viola - Linda Baptista (RCA)
5. India - Cascatinha & Inhana (Todamerica)

6. A meia luz (A media luz) - Nelson Gonçalves (RCA)
7. Quantas vezes - Doris Monteiro (Todamerica)
8. Meu rouxinol - Dalva de Oliveira (Odeon)

November 1952 - best selling singles according to columnist Daniel Taylor for 'Carioca'

1. Canção da criança - Francisco Alves, Lucia Helena & Crianças da Casa de Lázaro (Odeon)
2. Cinco letras que choram - Francisco Alves (Odeon)
3. Ninguém me ama - Nora Ney (Continental)
4. Mambo caçula - Chiquinho (Continental)
5. Singing in the rain - Gene Kelly (MGM)

6. Mandolins of moonlight - Philip Green & Orchestra (MGM)
7. Senhora (Señora) - Nelson Gonçalves (RCA)
8. Chico Viola - Linda Baptista (RCA)
9. Everything happens to me - Dick Haymes & Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (Odeon)
10. Tenderly - Rosemary Clooney (Columbia)

'Singing in the rain' (Cantando na chuva) premiered in Rio on 25 September 1952, only 2 days before Chico Alves died in an automobile crash in Pindamonhangaba-SP; a few weeks later Gene Kelly was #1 in the charts with the single from the sound-track. 

besides Francisco Alves own records going up the charts there were those by Linda Baptista and Dalva de Oliveira who sang about him like 'Chico Viola', 'Prece de um sambista' and 'Meu rouxinol' (Homenagem póstuma).

poor suave Doris Monteiro was buried under the weight of so many Francisco Alves-related records. Even so Miss Monteiro charted for the the 3rd straight time with 'Nunca te direi' written by Jose Maria de Abreu & Jair Amorim b/w 'Sou tão feliz' (Roberto Mario-Mauricio de Lima).