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

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