1961-05-18 — 3DB 1030 AM ( Melbourne, Victoria )

3DB - 1030 AM - MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
ELVIS IS STILL TOPS
3DB'S TOP FORTY
MAY 18, 1961

TW	LW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS
1	1	Elvis Presley	Wooden Heart	10
3	2	The String-A-Longs	Wheels	9
4	3	Elvis Presley	Surrender	9
6	4	The Marcels	Blue Moon	6
5	5	Ferrante & Teicher	Exodus	9
2	6	Del Shannon	Runaway	5
11	7	Chubby Checker	Pony Time	6
8	8	Ramrods	(Ghost) Riders In The Sky	11
13	9	Kokomo	Asia Minor	8
12	10	Roy Hamilton	You Can Have Her	5
9	11	Ferlin Husky	Wings Of A Dove	8
18	12	Crash Craddock	One Last Kiss	13
7	13	Clarence Henry	But I Do (some 45s show title as "I Don't Know Why")	5
16	14	The Thunderbirds	New Orleans Beat	3
19	15	Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra	Wonderland By Night	21
10	16	Gene McDaniels	A Hundred Pounds Of Clay	3
30	17	Connie Francis	Where The Boys Are	11
14	18	Duane Eddy	Theme From Dixie	2
32	19	Wanda Jackson	Mean, Mean Man	6
36	20	Bobby Vee	Stayin' In	8
26	21	The Ventures	Ram-Bunk-Shush	7
28	23	Lolita	Sailor (Your Home Is The Sea)	22
37	24	Duane Eddy	Pepe	11
39	25	Jerry Vale	Thirteen Girls Too Much	3
20	26	The Playmates	Little Miss Stuck-Up	3
22	28	The Everly Brothers	Walk Right Back	7
23	30	Floyd Cramer	On The Rebound	4
40	31	Lawrence Welk And His Orchestra	Calcutta	15
17	32	Col Joye With The Joy Boys	Goin' Steady	2
21	33	Ernie K-Doe	Mother-In-Law	2
24	34	Johnny Burnette	Little Boy Sad	9
35	35	The Shirelles	Will You Love Me Tomorrow	14
34	36	Adam Wade	Take Good Care Of Her	4
15	37	Andy Stewart	A Scottish Soldier (Green Hills Of Tyrol)	2
27	38	Donnie Brooks	Memphis	2
PH		Andy Williams	The Bilbao Song
PH		Tony Orlando	Halfway To Paradise
PH		The Marathons	Peanut Butter
38	--	Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar	Apache	1
29	--	Elvis Presley	Flaming Star	1
25	--	Roy Orbison	Running Scared	1
31	--	Johnny Chester With The Thunderbirds	The Hokey-Pokey	1
33	--	The String-A-Longs	Brass Buttons	1

NOTE: With the exception of the Predictions, the survey does not list 
artists. The artists shown above are a best-guess by Australian survey
collector, Ray Sinclair, based on his knowledge and research of the 
Australian radio charts of the artists who released these singles at 
the time of this survey.  Several of the songs listed may have been 
recorded by multiple artists which was a common practice at the time
of this survey. 

3DB PERSONALITY PREDICTIONS
JOHN EDEN:       Bilbao Song - Andy Williams
ROD MCLENNAN:    Peanut Butter - Marathons
ROLAND REDSHAW:  Halfway To Paradise - Tony Orlando

HITS DROPPED OUT THIS WEEK
(I Wanna) Love My Life Away
The Hucklebuck
Ja-Da
Never On Sunday
Wild Weekend

HITS IN THIS WEEK
Running Scared
Flaming Star
Hokey Pokey
Brass Buttons
Apache

Survey courtesy of Ray Sinclair