THURSDAY BACKTRACK: Music and news from 60 years ago - week ending 30 September 1961

  At #6 this week is Billy Fury's 'Jealousy':

Some memorable events (via Wikipedia):

25 September: "Wisconsin became the first state in the United States to require the installation of seat belts as standard equipment in motor vehicles, as Governor Gaylord Nelson signed into law a bill directing that all 1962 and later model cars and trucks were required to include the safety belts before they could be sold. In the first six months that the law was in effect, all but one belt wearer had survived a car accident in the state." 
    See also: https://www.wpr.org/surprisingly-controversial-history-seat-belts and the invention of the modern three-point seat belt by Volvo's Nils Bohlin: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/three-point-seatbelt-inventor-nils-bohlin-born

26 September: The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) came into being, per the Arms Control and Disarmament Act, Pub.L. 87–297, 75 Stat. 631. Its mission was to strengthen United States national security by "formulating, advocating, negotiating, implementing and verifying effective arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policies, strategies, and agreements."
    As of April 1, 1999, ACDA was abolished and its functions merged into the Department of State.

27 September: The first episode of cartoon series Top Cat airs on USA's ABC network TV. See it here:

https://archive.org/details/SinTtulo1640x3600.49Mbps20190607003657

29 September: "Minutes after Fidel Castro announced that he was going to "clean up" Havana, the last casinos in Cuba were closed. At the time of the revolution, there had been 25 gambling casinos. Five were left, all in government operated hotels, at the time of the order."

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UK chart hits, week ending 30 September 1961 (tracks in italics have been played in earlier posts)

Htp: Clint's labour-of love compilation https://www.sixtiescity.net/charts/61chart.htm

1	Kon-Tiki	The Shadows	Columbia
2	Johnny Remember Me	John Leyton	Top Rank
3	Wild In The Country / I Feel So Bad	Elvis Presley	RCA
4	Michael Row The Boat	The Highwaymen	HMV
5	You Don't Know	Helen Shapiro	Columbia
6	Jealousy	Billy Fury	Decca
7	Get Lost	Eden Kane	Decca
8	Reach For The Stars / Climb Every Mountain	Shirley Bassey	Columbia
9	Hats Off To Larry	Del Shannon	London
10	Together	Connie Francis	MGM
11	You'll Answer To Me	Cleo Laine	Fontana
12	Michael Row The Boat / Lumbered	Lonnie Donegan	Pye
13	Walkin' Back To Happiness	Helen Shapiro	Columbia
14	Cupid	Sam Cooke	RCA
15	Sea Of Heartbreak	Don Gibson	RCA
16	Granada	Frank Sinatra	Reprise
17	Halfway To Paradise	Billy Fury	Decca
18	Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week	The Brook Brothers	Pye
19	That's My Home	Acker Bilk	Columbia
20	I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door	Eddie Hodges	London