Lucky's 60's corner....

[Matt308]

Yea... I had started the car and turned on the gasoline heater to warm up
the car, going back into the house to finish my coffee. Something happened
and the heater exploded. Chevrolet refunded every bit of my money.

Charles

Mr. C I have fond memories of lying in the upper rear window deck as a 4yo of my Dad's powder blue Chevy Corvair. We lived in Dublin, CA, at the time and he commuted to San Francisco over the Bay Bridge. Well I guess his time was up. The engine (located in the rear) caught fire on the way home one afternoon. He stopped, got out, and ran away only to realize he forgot his briefcase. Putting his priorities in perspective, he ran back, managed to grab it and run yet again. The car blew up as he ran away with his papers in his briefcase and his balls in the back of his throat.

Nothing ever said about Chevy giving him a check though. Might have been prior to Nader making a name for himself.

 

[Lucky13]

January
January 1 - The farthing, used since the 13th century, ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
January 3
President Dwight Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
At the National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho, SL-1, an atomic reactor explodes, killing 3 military technicians.
January
January 5 - Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
January 7 - Following a 4-day conference in Casablanca, 5 African chiefs of state announce plans for a NATO-type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves the Casablanca Group - Morocco, the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea, and Mali.
January 8 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
January 9 - British authorities announce that they have discovered a large Soviet spy ring in London.
January 17
President Dwight Eisenhower gives his final State of the Union Address to Congress. In a Farewell Address the same day, he warns of the increasing power of a "military-industrial complex".
Patrice Lumumba is assassinated.

Jan. 20: John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President of the U.S.January 20 - John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the United States.
January 24
A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress, with two roughly 2.4 megaton nuclear bombs, crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Musician Bob Dylan reportedly makes his way to New York City after bumming a ride in Madison, Wisconsin. Dylan is likely on his way to visit his idol Woody Guthrie. He later finds fame in the Greenwich Village protest folk music scene.
January 25 - In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference. In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the 2 surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea July 1, 1960. (see RB-47H shot down)
January 25 - Acting to halt 'leftist excesses,' a junta composed of 2 army officers and 4 civilians takes over El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for 3 months.
January 26 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician, the first woman to hold this appointment.
January 30 - President John F. Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union Address.
January 31 - Ham, a 37 pound male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry United States astronauts into space.

February

February 3 - China buys grain from Canada for $60 million.
February 4 - The Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola.
February 5 - February 9 - In Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu names Joseph Ileo as the new Prime Minister.
February 9 - The Beatles perform for their first time at the Cavern Club.
February 12 - U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
February 13 - The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba.
February 14 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized in Berkeley, California.
February 15 - A Sabena Boeing 707 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.
February 25 - The last public tram operates in Sydney, Australia, bringing to an end the Southern Hemisphere's largest tramway network.
February 26 - Hassan II is pronounced King of Morocco.

March

March 1
President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
Uganda becomes self-governing by holding its first general elections.
March 3 - Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco.
March 8
Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.
The first U.S. Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch.
March 13
Black and white £5 notes cease to be legal tender in the UK.
A dam bursts on the Dnieper River in the USSR, killing 145.
USA delegate to the UNSC Adlai Stevenson votes against Portuguese policies in Africa.
March 15
South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
The Union of Peoples of Angola, led by Holden Roberto, attacks strategic locations in the north of Angola. These events result in the beginning of the colonial war with Portugal.
March 18 - A ceasefire takes effect in the Algerian War of Independence.
March 18 - Nous les amoureux by Jean-Claude Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, text by Maurice Vidalin) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 for Luxembourg.
March 29 - The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, DC to vote in presidential elections.
March 30 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.

April

April 5 - The New Guinea Council of Western Papua is installed.
April 11 - The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
April 12
Vostok 1: Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, becomes the first human in space.
Albert Kalonji takes the title Emperor Albert I Kalonji of South Kasai.
April 13 - Portugal: failed coup attempt against Salazar.
April 17
The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins; it fails by April 19.
33rd Academy Awards ceremony
April 18 - Portugal sends to Angola the first military reinforcement.
April 20 - Fidel Castro announces that the Bay of Pigs invasion has been defeated.
April 22 - Algiers putsch: Four French generals who oppose de Gaulle's policies in Algeria fail in a coup attempt.
April 23 - Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
April 24 - Regalskeppet Vasa is removed from the water after being sunk 333 years earlier.

May

May 3 - French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty dies, age 53, of a stroke, apparently while preparing for a class on Descartes.
May 4 - Freedom Riders: 13 black and white students with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leave Washington DC on 2 buses, to test integration laws in bus stations throughout the deep South.
May 5 - Mercury program: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
May 6 - Tottenham Hotspur F.C. become the first team in the 20th century to win the league and cup double.
May 8 - Briton George Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying.
May 14 - American civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
May 16 - A military coup in South Korea - Park Chung Hee takes over.
May 19 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however, the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
May 21 - American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
May 24 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
May 25 - Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
May 27 - Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaya, holds a press conference in Singapore, announcing his idea to form the Federation of Malaysia, comprising Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo (Sabah).
May 28 - Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
May 30 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, totalitarian despot of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush, putting an end to the second longest-running dictatorship in Latin American history.
May 31
In France, rebel generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zelelr are sentenced to 15 years in prison.
South Africa officially leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.
President John F. Kennedy and Charles De Gaulle meet in Paris.

 

[Lucky13]

June

1 June - Ethiopia experiences her most devastating earthquake of the 20th century, with a magnitude of 6.7. The town of Majete is destroyed, 45% of the houses in Karakore collapsed, 17 kilometers of the main road north of Karakore were damaged by landslides and fissures, and 5,000 inhabitants in the area are left homeless.
June 4 - Vienna summit: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev meet during 2 days in Vienna. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament and Germany.
June 17 - A Paris-to-Strasbourg train derails near Vitry-le-François; 24 are killed, 109 injured.
June 17 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
June 19 - The British protectorate ends in Kuwait and it becomes an emirate.
June 21 - Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in France while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet.
June 22 - Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
June 24 - The Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry, a British Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment is presented its first Guidon by General Sir Horatius Murray KBE CB DSO at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire.
June 25
U.S. philanthropist George Washington Vanderbilt III is found dead at the base of a San Francisco skyscraper.
Iraqi president Abdul Karim Kassem announces he is going to annex Kuwait.
June 27 - Kuwait requests British help; the United Kingdom sends in troops.

July

July 2 - Ernest Hemingway commits suicide by gunshot in Ketchum, Idaho.
July 4 - The Soviet submarine K-19 reactor leak occurs in the North Atlantic.
July 5 - The first Israeli rocket, Shavit 2, is launched.[1][2]
July 8 - A mine explosion in Czechoslovakia leaves 108 dead.
July 13 - Charlie Brown successfully flies his kite
July 21 - Mercury program: Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). Upon splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the capsule sinks (it will be recovered in 1999).
July 31
At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain. It will be the only tie (until 2002) in MLB All-Star Game history.
Ireland submits the first ever application to join the then European Economic Community.

August

August 5 - The Six Flags over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.
August 10 - Britain applies for membership in the European Economic Community.
August 13 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
August 21 - Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.

September

September 10 - During the F1 Italian Grand Prix on the circuit of Monza, the German driver Wolfgang Von Trips in a Ferrari crashes into a stand killing 14 spectators and himself.
September 14 - The new military government of Turkey sentences 15 members of the previous government to death.
September 17 - Military rulers in Turkey hang former president Adnan Menderes.
September 17 - September 18 - UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash en route to Katanga, Congo.
September 19 - The first Grey alien is reported.
September 21 - In France, OAS slips an anti-de Gaulle message into TV programming.
September 24 - The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
September 28 - A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

October

October 1 - Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, beating the 34-year-old record held by Babe Ruth.
October 9 - Digital photography invented by Eugene F. Lally presented in a technical paper at the American Rocket Society's Space Flight Report to the Nation in New York.
October 10 - A volcanic eruption on Tristan da Cunha causes the whole population to be evacuated.
October 12 - The death penalty is abolished in New Zealand.
October 17 - Paris massacre of 1961: French police attack in Paris about 30,000 protesting a curfew applied solely to Algerians. The official death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead.
October 19 - The Arab League takes over protecting Kuwait; the last British troops leave.
October 25 - The first edition of Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, is published.
October 27
An armistice begins in Katanga, Congo.
Mongolia and Mauritania join the United Nations.
A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in Berlin, Germany heightens Cold War tensions.
October 29 - RBS Channel 7, the Philippines' third TV station, is launched.
October 30 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58 megaton yield hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. It remains the largest ever (man-made) explosion.
October 31
Hurricane Hattie devastates Belize City, Belize killing over 270. After the hurricane, the capital moves to the inland city of Belmopan.
Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin Mausoleum.

November

November - The Fantastic Four #1 debuts, launching the Marvel Universe and revolutionizing the American comic book industry.
November 1 - The Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect.
November 2 - Kean opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 92 performances.
November 3 - The UN General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General.
November 6 - The U.S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith.
November 9 - Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587km/h flying a X-15.
November 10 - Catch-22 is first published by Joseph Heller.
November 11
Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots.
Stalingrad is renamed Volgograd.
November 17 - Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor, and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.
November 18 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
November 20 - The funeral of longtime House Speaker Sam Rayburn is held in Washington, DC. Two former Presidents (Truman, Eisenhower) and one future one (Lyndon B. Johnson) join President Kennedy in paying their respects.
November 30 - The Soviet Union vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations membership.

December

December 1 - Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag and changes its name to West Papua.
December 2 - Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares he is a Marxist-Leninist, and that Cuba will adopt Communism.
December 5 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives support to the Volta Dam project in Ghana.
December 9
Tanganyika gains independence and declares itself a republic, with Julius Nyerere as its first President.
The Australian government of Robert Menzies is re-elected for a sixth term.
December 10
The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Albania.
Nobel Prize: Melvin Calvin is awarded the Nobel Prize for the process of photosynthesis.
December 11
The Vietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon along with 400 U.S. personnel.
Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity by a panel of 3 Israeli judges.
December 15 - An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentences Adolf Eichmann to die for his part in the Jewish Holocaust.
December 17
India occupies Goa.
Circus tent fire in Niteroi, Brazil kills 323.
December 18 - India occupies Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu
December 19
Goa is officially ceded to India after 400 years of Portuguese rule.
Sukarno announces that he will take West Irian by force if necessary.
December 21 - In Congo, Katangan prime minister Moise Tshombe recognizes the Congolese constitution.
December 23 - Luxembourg's national holiday, the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, is set on June 23 by Grand Ducal decree.
December 30 - Congolese troops capture Albert Kalonji of South Kasai (who soon escapes).
December 31
The Marshall Plan expires, after having distributed more than $12 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
Ireland's first national television station, Telefís Éireann (later RTÉ), begins broadcasting.

 

[Lucky13]

Academy Awards:
Best Picture: West Side Story - Mirisch-B&P Enterprises, United Artists
Best Director: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg
Best Actress: Sophia Loren - Two Women
Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris - West Side Story
Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno - West Side Story
Best Foreign Language Film: Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel), directed by Ingmar Bergman, Sweden

Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: The Guns of Navarone
Best Actor: Maximilian Schell - Judgement at Nuremberg
Best Actress: Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke

Musical or comedy:
Best Picture (tie): A Majority of One
Best Picture (tie): West Side Story
Best Actor: Glenn Ford - Pocketful of Miracles
Best Actress: Rosalind Russell - A Majority of One

Other
Best Director: Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence), directed by Henri Colpi, France
Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel, Spain
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad), directed by Alain Resnais, France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

La Notte (The Night), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy

Films released in 1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
Atlantis, the Lost Continent
Babes in Toyland
Back Street
Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley (his biggest box-office success)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bridge to the Sun
The Children's Hour, nominated for five Academy Awards
The Comancheros
Come September
The Devil at 4 O'Clock, starring Frank Sinatra and Spencer Tracy, and Gregoire Aslan
El Cid, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren
The Errand Boy, starring Jerry Lewis
Fanny
Flower Drum Song
The Fruit Is Ripe (Les Filles sèment le vent)
Goodbye Again
The Guns of Navarone
Hoodlum Priest
The Hustler
Judgment at Nuremberg
King of Kings
Khovanshchina
La dolce vita (U.S. release)
La Notte Golden Bear winner
The Ladies Man, starring Jerry Lewis
The Last Sunset
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Last Year at Marienbad, Golden Lion winner
The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) - Palme d'Or winner
Lover Come Back
A Majority of One
The Mark
The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable
Mothra
One-Eyed Jacks
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
One, Two, Three', starring James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, and Arlene Francis
The Outsider, a biography starring Tony Curtis as famous WWII marine, Ira Hayes
The Parent Trap
Paris Blues
The Pit and the Pendulum with Vincent Price
Pocketful of Miracles
Il Posto
Question 7
A Raisin in the Sun
Return to Peyton Place (film mentioned in article)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Sennin Buraku
Scarlet Sails (Алые Паруса)
Splendor in the Grass
Summer and Smoke
Teen Kanya
Through a Glass Darkly - (Såsom i en spegel)
Town Without Pity
Two Rode Together, starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark
Victim
Viridiana - Palme d'Or winner
West Side Story
Wild in the Country starring Elvis Presley
Two Women (U.S. release)
Yojimbo

 

[Lucky13]

January 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. Poetry In Motion - Johnny Tilotson
02. I Love You - Cliff Richard
03. Save The Last Dance For Me - Drifters
04. Portrait Of My Love - Matt Monroe
05. It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley
06. Perfidia - The Ventures
07. Counting Teardrops - Emile Ford the Checkmates
08. Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley
09. Goodness Gracious Me - Peter Sellers Sophia Loren
10. Biona Sera - Acker Bilk

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Wonerland By Night - Bert Kaempfert
02. Exodus - Ferrante Teicher
03. Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley
04. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles
05. Angel Baby - Rosie the Originals
06. Last Date - Floyd Cramer
07. Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee
08. Calcutta - Lawrence Welk
09. North To Alaska - Johnny Horton
10. Corinna Corinna - Ray Peterson

 

[DBII]

I still have my copy of Royal Guardsmen's LP with Snoopy Vs The Red Baron. I guess that I am a pack rat.

DBII

 

[Njaco]

I don't know DB, I do too, as a 45 vinyl.

 

[Lucky13]

February 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley
02. Sailor - Petula Clarke
03. Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee
04. Your Sixteen - Johnny Burnette
05. Pepe - Duane Eddy

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Calcutta - Lawrence Welk
02. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles
03. Shop Around - Miracles
04. Pony Time - Chubby Checker
05. Exodus - Ferrante Teicher

March 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. Walk Right Back - Everley Brothers
02. Are You Sure - Allisons
03. Theme For A Dream - Cliff Richard
04. Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles
05. Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Pony Time - Chubby Checker
02. Surrender - Elvis Presley
03. Dont Worry - Marty Robbins
04. Wheels - String-A-Long
05. Dedicated To The One I Love - Shirelles

April 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley
02. Are You Sure - Allisons
03. LAzy River - Bobby Darin
04. Your Driving Me Crazy - Temperance Seven
05. Exodus - Ferrante Teicher

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Blue Moon - Marcels
02. Runaway - Del Shannon
03. Apache - Jorgen Ingmann
04. On The Rebound - Floyd Cramer
05. But I Do - Clarence "Frogman" Henry

May 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. Blue Moon - Marcels
02. Your Driving Me Crazy - Temperance Seven
03. On The Rebound - Floyd Cramer
04. Runaway - Del Shannon
05. More Than I Can Say - Bobby Vee

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Runaway - Del Shannon
02. Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe
03. A Hundred Pounds Of Clay - Gene McMcDaniels
04. Daddy's Home - Shep the Limelites
05. I've Told Every Little Star - Linda Scott

June 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. Runaway - Del Shannon
02. Surrender - Elvis Presley
03. But I Do - Clarence Frogman Henry
04. Frightened City - The Shadows
05. You'll Never Know - Shirley Bassey

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Travelin' Man - Ricky Nelson
02. Moody River Pat Boone
03. Raindrops - Dee Clark
04. Stand By Me - Ben E. King
05. Running Scared - Roy Orbison

July 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. Temptation - Everley Brothers
02. Runaway - Del Shannon
03. Well I Ask You - Eden Kane
04. Hello Mary Lou/Travellin' Man - Ricky Nelson
05. A Girl Like You - Cliff Richard

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Tossin' Turnin' - Bobby Lewis
02. The Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton
03. Quarter To Three - Gary US Bond
04. Raindrops - Dee Clark
05. Yellow Bird - Arthur Lyman

August 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro
02. Well I Ask You - Eden Kane
03. Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton
04. Half Way To Paradise -Billy Fury
05. Romeo - Petula Clarke

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Tossin' Turnin' - Bobby Lewis
02. Last Nighrt - Mar-Keys
03. I Like It Like That (Pt.1) - Chris Kenner
04. Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell
05. Michael - Highwayman

September 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Positions / Title / Artist
01. Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton
02. You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro
03. Reach For The Stars/Climb Every Mountain - Shirley Bassey
04. Wild In The Country -Elvis Presly
05. Kon-Tiki - Shadows

USA ~ Top Singles
Positions / Title / Artist
01. Michael - Highwayman
02. Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee
03. My True Story - Jive Five
04. Does Your Chewing Gum Loose It's Flavour .. - Lonnie Donegan
05. Crying - Roy Orbison

October 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro
02. Michael - Highwayman
03. Wild Wind - John Leyton
04. You'll Answer To Me - Cleo Laine
05. Jealousy - Billy Fury

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles
02. Bristol Stomp - Dovells
03. Runaround Sue - Dion
04. Crying - Roy Orbison
05. Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Rydell

November 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley
02. Walking Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro
03. Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Rydell
04. Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
05. When The Girl In Your Arms Is The Girl In Your Heart - Cliff Richard

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
02. Runaround Sue - Dion
03. Fool No. 1 - Brenda Lee
04. Bristol Stomp - Dovells
05. Tower Of Strength - Gene McDaneils

December 1961
UK ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artist
01. Tower Of Strength - Frankie Vaughan
02. Moon River - Danny Williams
03. Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Rydell
04. Midnight In Moscow - Kenny Ball
05. Stranger On The Shore -Acker Bilk

USA ~ Top Singles
Position / Title / Artists
01. Please Mr Postman - Marvelettes
02. Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren
03. The Twist - Chubby Checker
04. Walk On By - Leroy Van Dyke
05. Run To Him - Bobby Vee