Elvis leaps straight in at #3 with 'Wild In The Country':
Some memorable events (via Wikipedia):
Also 3 September: the UK and USA propose to the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev a ban on atmospheric testing of atom bombs; Khrushchev rejects the proposal and two days later President Kennedy announces that America will end its own moratorium on such tests. The three countries will come to agree the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in August 1963.
UK chart hits, week ending 9 September 1961 (tracks in italics have been played in earlier posts)
1 |
Johnny Remember Me |
John Leyton |
Top Rank |
2 |
You Don't Know |
Helen Shapiro |
Columbia |
3 |
Wild In The Country / I Feel So Bad |
Elvis Presley |
RCA |
4 |
Reach For The Stars / Climb Every
Mountain |
Shirley Bassey |
Columbia |
5 |
Well I Ask You |
Eden Kane |
Decca |
6 |
Halfway To Paradise |
Billy Fury |
Decca |
7 |
Kon*Tiki |
The Shadows |
Columbia |
8 |
Romeo |
Petula Clark |
Pye |
9 |
Michael Row The Boat / Lumbered |
Lonnie Donegan |
Pye |
10 |
Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week |
The Brook Brothers |
Pye |
11 |
That's My Home |
Acker Bilk |
Columbia |
12 |
Cupid |
Sam Cooke |
RCA |
13 |
Quarter To Three |
The U.S. Bonds |
Top Rank |
14 |
Sea Of Heartbreak |
Don Gibson |
RCA |
15 |
Time |
Craig Douglas |
Top Rank |
16 |
Hats Off To Larry |
Del Shannon |
London |
17 |
How Many Tears |
Bobby Vee |
London |
18 |
Drivin' Home |
Duane Eddy and The Rebels |
London |
19 |
Pepito |
Los Machucambos |
Decca |
20 |
You Always Hurt The One You Love |
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry |
Pye |
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