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
PH		The Marathons	Peanut Butter
PH		Andy Williams	The Bilbao Song
PH		Tony Orlando	Halfway To Paradise
33	--	The String-A-Longs	Brass Buttons	1
25	--	Roy Orbison	Running Scared	1
29	--	Elvis Presley	Flaming Star	1
38	--	Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar	Apache	1
31	--	Johnny Chester With The Thunderbirds	The Hokey-Pokey	1
27	38	Donnie Brooks	Memphis	2
21	33	Ernie K-Doe	Mother-In-Law	2
17	32	Col Joye With The Joy Boys	Goin' Steady	2
15	37	Andy Stewart	A Scottish Soldier (Green Hills Of Tyrol)	2
14	18	Duane Eddy	Theme From Dixie	2
20	26	The Playmates	Little Miss Stuck-Up	3
16	14	The Thunderbirds	New Orleans Beat	3
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
34	36	Adam Wade	Take Good Care Of Her	4
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
6	4	The Marcels	Blue Moon	6
32	19	Wanda Jackson	Mean, Mean Man	6
11	7	Chubby Checker	Pony Time	6
26	21	The Ventures	Ram-Bunk-Shush	7
22	28	The Everly Brothers	Walk Right Back	7
36	20	Bobby Vee	Stayin' In	8
13	9	Kokomo	Asia Minor	8
9	11	Ferlin Husky	Wings Of A Dove	8
5	5	Ferrante & Teicher	Exodus	9
24	34	Johnny Burnette	Little Boy Sad	9
4	3	Elvis Presley	Surrender	9
3	2	The String-A-Longs	Wheels	9
1	1	Elvis Presley	Wooden Heart	10
37	24	Duane Eddy	Pepe	11
8	8	Ramrods	(Ghost) Riders In The Sky	11
30	17	Connie Francis	Where The Boys Are	11
18	12	Crash Craddock	One Last Kiss	13
35	35	The Shirelles	Will You Love Me Tomorrow	14
40	31	Lawrence Welk And His Orchestra	Calcutta	15
19	15	Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra	Wonderland By Night	21
28	23	Lolita	Sailor (Your Home Is The Sea)	22

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