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