AUSTRALIAN (4BCTop40-Brisbane) WEEKLY SINGLE CHARTS FOR 1961
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR January 7,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 1 4 ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT-ELVIS PRESLEY 2 2 7 North To Alaska-Johnny Horton 3 3 9 Save The Last Dance For Me-Drifters 4 9 4 Last Date-Floyd Cramer 5 4 7 Poetry In Motion-Johnny Tillotson 6 6 8 You Talk Too Much-Joe Jones 7 7 8 Barefoot Boy-Noeleen Batley 8 13 4 Stay-Maurice Williams & Zodiacs 9 15 4 Perfidia-Ventures 10 16 3 New Orleans-Gary US Bonds 11 5 12 My Heart Has A Mind Of It's Own-Connie Francis 12 8 16 It's Now Or Never-Elvis Presley 13 14 7 Alone At Last-Jackie Wilson 14 19 5 I'll Save The Last Dance For You-Damita Jo 15 21 3 You're Sixteen-Johnny Burnette 16 28 3 Many Tears Ago-Connie Francis 17 29 3 Sway-Bobby Rydell 18 18 3 Sailor-Lolita 19 35 2 Istanbul-The Joy Boys 20 37 2 Lonely Teenager-Dion 21 10 9 Peter Gunn-Duane Eddy 22 11 14 Please,Don't Tease-Cliff Richard 23 12 14 Let's Think About Living-Bob Luman 24 17 13 Apache-Shadows
NO CHARTS AVAILABLE UNTIL JUNE
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR June 4,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 8 A HUNDRED POUNDS OF CLAY-GENE McDANIELS 2 8 Runaway-Del Shannon 3 4 On The Rebound-Floyd Cramer 4 7 Portrait Of My Love-Steve Lawrence 5 9 Blue Moon-Marcels 6 5 A Scottish Soldier (Green Hills Of Tyrol)-Andy Stewart 7 8 But I Do-Clarence "Frogman" Henry 8 14 Wooden Heart-Elvis Presley 9 11 Theme From "Exodus"-Ferrante & Teicher 10 3 Running Scared-Roy Orbison 11 14 Wheels-String-A-Longs 12 10 Asia Minor-Kokomo 13 6 Mother-In-Law-Ernie K.Doe 14 2 Flaming Star-Elvis Presley 15 7 Take Good Care Of Her-Adam Wade 16 3 Breakin' In A Brand New Heart-Connie Francis 17 2 I've Told Every Little Star-Linda Scott 18 3 Memphis-Donnie Brooks 19 2 Little Devil-Neil Sedaka 20 - 1 Goin' Steady-Col Joye & The Joy Boys
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR June 11,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 2 9 RUNAWAY-DEL SHANNON 2 1 9 A Hundred Pounds Of Clay-Gene McDaniels 3 3 5 On The Rebound-Floyd Cramer 4 4 8 Portrait Of My Love-Steve Lawrence 5 19 3 Little Devil-Neil Sedaka 6 11 15 Wheels-String-A-Longs 7 12 11 Asia Minor-Kokomo 8 6 6 A Scottish Soldier (Green Hills Of Tyrol)-Andy Stewart 9 5 10 Blue Moon-Marcels 10 7 9 But I Do-Clarence "Frogman" Henry 11 9 12 Theme From "Exodus"-Ferrante & Teicher 12 20 2 Goin' Steady-Col Joye & The Joy Boys 13 10 4 Running Scared-Roy Orbison 14 8 15 Wooden Heart-Elvis Presley 15 17 3 I've Told Every Little Star-Linda Scott 16 16 4 Breakin' In A Brand New Heart-Connie Francis 17 25 3 Hello,Mary Lou-Rick Nelson 18 14 3 Flaming Star-Elvis Presley 19 15 8 Take Good Care Of Her-Adam Wade 20 13 7 Mother-In-Law-Ernie K.Doe
NO CHARTS AVAILABLE UNTIL AUGUST
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR August 20,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 7 I?M GONNA KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR-EDDIE HODGES 2 7 Hats Off To Larry-Del Shannon 3 12 Travelin' Man-Rick Nelson 4 10 Moody River-Pat Boone 5 4 Dum Dum-Brenda Lee 6 10 Temptation-Everly Brothers 7 7 Dream Girl-Bryan Davies 8 7 Yellow Bird-Arthur Lyman Group 9 10 Baby Face-Bobby Vee 10 11 Hello,Mary Lou-Rick Nelson 11 7 Raindrops-Dee Clark 12 12 Little Devil-Neil Sedaka 13 8 Cupid-Sam Cooke 14 15 A Scottish Soldier (Green Hills Of Tyrol)-Andy Stewart 15 17 Take Good Care Of Her-Adam Wade 16 5 Tossin' & Turnin'-Bobby Lewis 17 4 Together-Connie Francis 18 5 San Antonio Rose-Floyd Cramer 19 6 Quarter To Three-Gary US Bonds 20 10 That Old Black Magic-Bobby Rydell
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR August 27,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 1 8 I?M GONNA KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR-EDDIE HODGES 2 2 8 Hats Off To Larry-Del Shannon 3 5 5 Dum Dum-Brenda Lee 4 3 13 Travelin' Man-Rick Nelson 5 17 5 Together-Connie Francis 6 16 6 Tossin' & Turnin'-Bobby Lewis 7 4 11 Moody River-Pat Boone 8 8 8 Yellow Bird-Arthur Lyman Group 9 7 8 Dream Girl-Bryan Davies 10 11 8 Raindrops-Dee Clark 11 13 9 Cupid-Sam Cooke 12 6 11 Temptation-Everly Brothers 13 10 12 Hello,Mary Lou-Rick Nelson 14 9 11 Baby Face-Bobby Vee 15 18 6 San Antonio Rose-Floyd Cramer 16 12 13 Little Devil-Neil Sedaka 17 - 1 Michael-Highwaymen 18 38 2 Pretty Little Angel Eyes-Curtis Lee 19 26 3 Let's Twist Again-Chubby Checker 20 19 7 Quarter To Three-Gary US Bonds
NO CHARTS UNTIL OCTOBER
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR October 6,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 7 MICHAEL-HIGHWAYMEN 2 5 (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame/Little Sister-Elvis Presley 3 6 Smokey Mokes-Joy Boys 4 3 I'm Counting On You/Right Now-Johnny O?Keefe 5 8 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee 6 5 I Fall To Pieces-Patsy Cline 7 10 Skip To My Lou-Dave Bridge 8 - 1 More Money For You And Me-Four Preps 9 3 Donald Where's Your Troosers?-Andy Stewart 10 5 Sea Of Heartbreak-Don Gibson 11 7 Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp,Bomp,Bomp)-Barry Mann 12 2 Mexico-Bob Moore 13 7 I Just Don't Understand-Ann Margret 14 11 Dum Dum-Brenda Lee 15 14 I?m Gonna Knock On Your Door-Eddie Hodges 16 6 Hurt-Timi Yuro 17 3 Crying-Roy Orbison 18 6 Wooden Heart-Joe Dowell 19 5 You're Driving Me Mad-Judy Stone 20 3 You Don't Know What You Got Until You Lose It-Ral Donner
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR October 13,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 2 6 (MARIE'S THE NAME) HIS LATEST FLAME/LITTLE SISTER-ELVIS PRESLEY 2 1 8 Michael-Highwaymen 3 8 2 More Money For You And Me-Four Preps 4 3 7 Smokey Mokes-Joy Boys 5 17 4 Crying-Roy Orbison 6 12 3 Mexico-Bob Moore 7 4 4 I'm Counting On You/Right Now-Johnny O?Keefe 8 5 9 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee 9 9 4 Donald Where's Your Troosers?-Andy Stewart 10 6 6 I Fall To Pieces-Patsy Cline 11 10 6 Sea Of Heartbreak-Don Gibson 12 14 12 Dum Dum-Brenda Lee 13 15 15 I?m Gonna Knock On Your Door-Eddie Hodges 14 11 8 Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp,Bomp,Bomp)-Barry Mann 15 7 11 Skip To My Lou-Dave Bridge 16 26 2 You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby-Bobby Darin 17 21 3 Sad Movies(Make Me Cry)-Sue Thompson 18 18 7 Wooden Heart-Joe Dowell 19 20 4 You Don't Know What You Got Until You Lose It-Ral Donner 20 13 8 I Just Don't Understand-Ann Margret
OCTOBER 20 MISSING
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR October 27,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 5 MEXICO-BOB MOORE 2 8 (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame/Little Sister-Elvis Presley 3 6 Crying-Roy Orbison 4 5 Sad Movies(Make Me Cry)-Sue Thompson 5 6 I'm Counting On You-Johnny O?Keefe 6 10 Michael-Highwaymen 7 4 Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles 8 4 More Money For You And Me-Four Preps 9 11 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee 10 9 Smokey Mokes-Joy Boys 11 6 Donald Where's Your Troosers?-Andy Stewart 12 8 Sea Of Heartbreak-Don Gibson 13 4 You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby-Bobby Darin 14 8 I Fall To Pieces-Patsy Cline 15 10 Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp,Bomp,Bomp)-Barry Mann 16 4 Without You-Johnny Tillotson 17 6 The Mountain's High-Dick & Dee Dee 18 5 Bless You-Tony Orlando 19 5 Lil' Ole Me-Warren Carr 20 17 I?m Gonna Knock On Your Door-Eddie Hodges
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR November 5,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 1 6 MEXICO-BOB MOORE 2 4 6 Sad Movies(Make Me Cry)-Sue Thompson 3 3 7 Crying-Roy Orbison 4 5 7 I'm Counting On You-Johnny O?Keefe 5 2 9 (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame/Little Sister-Elvis Presley 6 6 11 Michael-Highwaymen 7 7 5 Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles 8 8 5 More Money For You And Me-Four Preps 9 9 12 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee 10 28 2 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean 11 13 5 You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby-Bobby Darin 12 23 4 Kon-Tiki-The Shadows 13 11 7 Donald Where's Your Troosers?-Andy Stewart 14 21 2 Runaround Sue-Dion 15 10 10 Smokey Mokes-Joy Boys 16 24 10 This Time-Troy Shondell 17 19 6 Lil' Ole Me-Warren Carr 18 14 9 I Fall To Pieces-Patsy Cline 19 39 2 Good Looking Boy-Patsy Ann Noble 20 18 6 Bless You-Tony Orlando
AUSTRALIA'S (4BCTop40-Brisbane) TOP 20 SINGLES FOR November 12,1961 TW LW WKS. Song-Artist 1 2 7 SAD MOVIES(MAKE ME CRY)-SUE THOMPSON 2 3 8 Crying-Roy Orbison 3 1 7 Mexico-Bob Moore 4 4 8 I'm Counting On You-Johnny O?Keefe 5 5 10 (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame/Little Sister-Elvis Presley 6 7 6 Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles 7 10 3 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean 8 12 5 Kon-Tiki-The Shadows 9 14 3 Runaround Sue-Dion 10 9 13 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee 11 8 6 More Money For You And Me-Four Preps 12 11 6 You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby-Bobby Darin 13 7 12 Michael-Highwaymen 14 38 2 Five Foot-Two/Ladder Of Love-Bryan Davies 15 16 11 This Time-Troy Shondell 16 19 3 Good Looking Boy-Patsy Ann Noble 17 13 8 Donald Where's Your Troosers?-Andy Stewart 18 24 2 Fool #1-Brenda Lee 19 36 3 Tower Of Strength-Gene McDaniels 20 35 2 Right Now-Johnny O?Keefe
NO MORE CHARTS AVAILABLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR
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