Saturday, October 23, 2021

BACKTRACK: Featured hits of 1961

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1961

Kenny BALL - Midnight In Moscow
Shirley BASSEY - Reach For The Stars
Dave BRUBECK - Take Five
Petula CLARK - Romeo
Jimmy DEAN - Big Bad John
EVERLY Brothers - Temptation
Billy FURY - Halfway To Paradise
Billy FURY - Jealousy
Eden KANE - Well I Ask You
Cleo LAINE - You'll Answer To Me
John LEYTON - Johnny Remember Me
John LEYTON - Wild Wind
Ricky NELSON - Hello Mary Lou
Sandy NELSON - Let There Be Drums
Elvis PRESLEY - Are You Lonesome Tonight
Elvis PRESLEY - His Latest Flame
Elvis PRESLEY - Surrender
Elvis PRESLEY - Wild In The Country
Cliff RICHARD - A Girl Like You
Cliff RICHARD - I Love You
The SHADOWS - Kon-Tiki
Del SHANNON - Runaway
Helen SHAPIRO - Walking Back To Happiness
Helen SHAPIRO - You Don't Know
Johnny TILLOTSON - Poetry In Motion
Frankie VAUGHAN - Tower Of Strength
Danny WILLIAMS - Moon River

1962

Kenny BALL and His Jazzmen - March of the Siamese Children
Pat BOONE - Johnny Will
Chubby CHECKER - Let's Twist Again
Bobby DARIN - Multiplication
Eden Kane - Forget Me Not
Elvis PRESLEY - Rock-A-Hula Baby
Cliff RICHARD - The Young Ones
Cliff RICHARD - Wonderful Land
Leroy VAN DYKE - Walk On By

1 comment:

Scrobs. said...

Many years ago, I was a pleasant chum with a lovely lady who was a singer in a jazz cklub in Hastings.

She was great fun, and began to make some vibes in London, with some sort of 'agent' who turned out to be useless!

But there is a plot to this, as another pal told me that when 'Big spender' was written, she was pencilled in for the song, but the 'agent' found that Shirley Bassey might want it, and so she did!

My old lovely friend is unwell, in another country on her own, so I heard.

Bummer really...