At #4 this week is Shirley Bassey's 'I Reach For the Stars' (the B side is 'Climb Every Mountain':
Some memorable events (via Wikipedia):
Report in Montreal's 'The Gazette,' 21 August 1961 |
22 August: soldiers at the Antifaschistischer Schutzwall (the 'Anti-Fascist Protection Wall') are ordered to shoot people trying to flee East Berlin. The first such casualty comes two days later.
1 |
Johnny Remember Me |
John Leyton |
Top Rank |
2 |
You Don't Know |
Helen Shapiro |
Columbia |
3 |
Well I Ask You |
Eden Kane |
Decca |
4 |
Reach For The Stars / Climb Every Mountain |
Shirley Bassey |
Columbia |
5 |
Halfway To Paradise |
Billy Fury |
Decca |
6 |
Romeo |
Petula Clark |
Pye |
7 |
A Girl Like You |
Cliff Richard and The Shadows |
Columbia |
8 |
Time |
Craig Douglas |
Top Rank |
9 |
Hello Mary Lou / Travellin' Man |
Ricky Nelson |
London |
10 |
You Always Hurt The One You Love |
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry |
Pye |
11 |
Temptation |
The Everly Brothers |
Warner Brothers |
12 |
Don't You Know It |
Adam Faith |
Parlophone |
13 |
Quarter To Three |
The U.S. Bonds |
Top Rank |
14 |
Baby I Don't Care / Valley Of Tears |
Buddy Holly |
Coral |
15 |
Pasadena |
The Temperance Seven |
Parlophone |
16 |
Marcheta |
Karl Denver |
Decca |
17 |
Runaway |
Del Shannon |
London |
18 |
Cupid |
Sam Cooke |
RCA |
19 |
Weekend |
Eddie Cochran |
London |
20 |
Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week |
The Brook Brothers |
Pye |
20 |
Too Many Beautiful Girls |
Clinton Ford |
Oriole |
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