NEW ZEALAND’S WEEKLY (Lever Hit Parade) SINGLE CHARTS FROM 1961
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JANUARY 5,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 – SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME-THE DRIFTERS
2 - How About That-Adam Faith 3 - Theme from The Apartment-Ferrante And Teicher 4 - Dreamin'-Johnny Burnett 5 - Devil Or Angel-Bobby Vee 6 - Milord-Edith Piaf 7 - Poetry In Motion-Johnny Tillotson 8 - Stay-Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JANUARY 12,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME-THE DRIFTERS
2 2 How About That-Adam Faith 3 7 Poetry In Motion-Johnny Tillotson 4 6 Milord-Edith Piaf 5 8 Stay-Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs 6 - Ramona-The Blue Diamonds 7 3 Theme from The Apartment-Ferrante And Teicher 8 - You Talk Too Much-Teddy Bennett
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JANUARY 19,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME-THE DRIFTERS
2 3 Poetry In Motion-Johnny Tillotson 3 2 How About That-Adam Faith 4 5 Stay-Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs 5 6 Ramona-The Blue Diamonds 6 - Goodness Gracious Me-Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren 7 - North To Alaska-Johnny Horton 8 7 Theme from The Apartment-Ferrante And Teicher
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JANUARY 26,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 POETRY IN MOTION-JOHNNY TILLOTSON
2 1 Save The Last Dance For Me-The Drifters 3 6 Goodness Gracious Me-Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren 4 - As Long As He Needs Me-Shirley Bassey 5 5 Ramona-The Blue Diamonds 6 7 North To Alaska-Johnny Horton 7 - Are You Lonesome Tonight-Elvis Presley 8 3 How About That-Adam Faith
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR FEBRUARY 2,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 4 AS LONG AS HE NEEDS ME-SHIRLEY BASSEY
2 7 Are You Lonesome Tonight-Elvis Presley 3 3 Goodness Gracious Me-Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren 4 1 Poetry In Motion-Johnny Tillotson 5 2 Save The Last Dance For Me-The Drifters 6 - Last Date-Floyd Cramer 7 6 North To Alaska-Johnny Horton
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR FEBRUARY 9,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT-ELVIS PRESLEY
2 1 As Long As He Needs Me-Shirley Bassey 3 6 Last Date-Floyd Cramer 4 - I'll Save the Last Dance for You-Damita Jo 5 3 Goodness Gracious Me-Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren 6 - Wonderland By Night-Bert Kaempfert 7 4 Poetry In Motion-Johnny Tillotson 8 - Sailor-Lolita
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR FEBRUARY 16,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 3 LAST DATE-FLOYD CRAMER
2 1 Are You Lonesome Tonight-Elvis Presley 3 6 Wonderland By Night-Bert Kaempfert 4 2 As Long As He Needs Me-Shirley Bassey 5 8 Sailor-Lolita 6 - New Orleans-Gary U.S. Bonds 7 - Rocking Goose-Johnny and the Hurricanes 8 5 Goodness Gracious Me-Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR FEBRUARY 23,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 LAST DATE-FLOYD CRAMER
2 3 Wonderland By Night-Bert Kaempfert 3 4 As Long As He Needs Me-Shirley Bassey 4 7 Rocking Goose-Johnny and the Hurricanes 5 6 New Orleans-Gary U.S. Bonds 6 - Strawberry Fair-Anthony Newley 7 - Sailor-Petula Clark
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR MARCH 2,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 WONDERLAND BY NIGHT-BERT KAEMPFERT
2 1 Last Date-Floyd Cramer 3 RE Are You Lonesome Tonight-Elvis Presley 4 4 Rocking Goose-Johnny and the Hurricanes 5 6 Strawberry Fair-Anthony Newley 6 - I Love You-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 7 5 New Orleans-Gary U.S. Bonds 8 - C'est Si Bon-Conway Twitty
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR MARCH 9,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 WONDERLAND BY NIGHT-BERT KAEMPFERT
2 6 I Love You-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 3 2 Last Date-Floyd Cramer 4 3 Are You Lonesome Tonight-Elvis Presley 5 4 Rocking Goose-Johnny and the Hurricanes 6 - Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be-Max Bygraves 7 5 Strawberry Fair-Anthony Newley 8 RE Sailor-Petula Clark
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR MARCH 16,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 I LOVE YOU-CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS
2 1 Wonderland By Night-Bert Kaempfert 3 8 Sailor-Petula Clark 4 - Rubber Ball-Bobby Vee 5 - You're Sixteen-Johnny Burnett 6 - Perfidia-The Ventures 7 - My Last Date (With You)-Skeeter Davis 8 - Calendar Girl-Neil Sedaka
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR MARCH 23,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 3 SAILOR-PETULA CLARK
2 - Surrender-Elvis Presley 3 1 I Love You-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 4 5 You're Sixteen-Johnny Burnett 5 4 Rubber Ball-Bobby Vee 6 - Will You Love Me Tomorrow-The Shirelles 7 8 Calendar Girl-Neil Sedaka 8 6 Perfidia-The Ventures
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR MARCH 30,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 SURRENDER-ELVIS PRESLEY
2 1 Sailor-Petula Clark 3 - Walk Right Back-The Everly Brothers 4 6 Will You Love Me Tomorrow-The Shirelles 5 4 You're Sixteen-Johnny Burnett 6 - Are You Sure-The Allisons 7 - Pepe-Duane Eddy 8 3 I Love You-Cliff Richard & The Shadows
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR APRIL 6,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 SURRENDER-ELVIS PRESLEY
2 3 Walk Right Back-The Everly Brothers 3 4 Will You Love Me Tomorrow-The Shirelles 4 6 Are You Sure-The Allisons 5 7 Pepe-Duane Eddy 6 - Where the Boys Are-Connie Francis 7 2 Sailor-Petula Clark 8 - Lazy River-Bobby Darin
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR APRIL 13,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 WALK RIGHT BACK-THE EVERLY BROTHERS
2 1 Surrender-Elvis Presley 3 4 Are You Sure-The Allisons 4 6 Where the Boys Are-Connie Francis 5 3 Will You Love Me Tomorrow-The Shirelles 6 8 Lazy River-Bobby Darin 7 - Don't Worry-Marty Robbins 8 5 Pepe-Duane Eddy
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR APRIL 20,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 WALK RIGHT BACK-THE EVERLY BROTHERS
2 3 Are You Sure-The Allisons 3 - Exodus-Ferrante And Teicher 4 2 Surrender-Elvis Presley 5 4 Where the Boys Are-Connie Francis 6 6 Lazy River-Bobby Darin 7 - F.B.I.-The Shadows 8 7 Don't Worry-Marty Robbins
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR APRIL 27,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 ARE YOU SURE-THE ALLISONS
2 3 Exodus-Ferrante And Teicher 3 1 Walk Right Back-The Everly Brothers 4 6 Lazy River-Bobby Darin 5 5 Where the Boys Are-Connie Francis 6 7 F.B.I.-The Shadows 7 - Blue Moon-The Marcels 8 - Portrait of My Love-Matt Monro
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR MAY 4,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 ARE YOU SURE-THE ALLISONS
2 2 Exodus-Ferrante And Teicher 3 6 F.B.I.-The Shadows 4 7 Blue Moon-The Marcels 5 3 Walk Right Back-The Everly Brothers 6 - Wooden Heart-Elvis Presley 7 8 Portrait of My Love-Matt Monro 8 4 Lazy River-Bobby Darin
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR MAY 11,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 EXODUS-FERRANTE AND TEICHER
2 4 Blue Moon-The Marcels 3 1 Are You Sure-The Allisons 4 6 Wooden Heart-Elvis Presley 5 7 Portrait of My Love-Matt Monro 6 - Calcutta-Lawrence Welk 7 3 F.B.I.-The Shadows 8 - Wheels-The String-a-Longs 9 - More Than I Can Say-Bobby Vee
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR MAY 18,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 BLUE MOON-THE MARCELS
2 1 Exodus-Ferrante And Teicher 3 4 Wooden Heart-Elvis Presley 4 6 Calcutta-Lawrence Welk 5 - Theme For A Dream-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 6 8 Wheels-The String-a-Longs 7 - But I Do-Clarence "Frogman" Henry 8 9 More Than I Can Say-Bobby Vee
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR MAY 25,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 EXODUS-FERRANTE AND TEICHER
2 1 Blue Moon-The Marcels 3 4 Calcutta-Lawrence Welk 4 5 Theme For A Dream-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 5 6 Wheels-The String-a-Longs 6 7 But I Do-Clarence "Frogman" Henry 7 3 Wooden Heart-Elvis Presley 8 - On the Rebound-Floyd Cramer
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JUNE 1,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 BLUE MOON-THE MARCELS
2 3 Calcutta-Lawrence Welk 3 4 Theme For A Dream-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 4 1 Exodus-Ferrante And Teicher 5 5 Wheels-The String--a-Longs 6 - Runaway-Del Shannon 7 8 On the Rebound-Floyd Cramer 8 6 But I Do-Clarence "Frogman" Henry 9 - Goodnight Mrs. Flintstone-The Piltdown Men
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JUNE 8,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 CALCUTTA-LAWRENCE WELK
2 6 Runaway-Del Shannon 3 5 Wheels-The String-a-Longs 4 1 Blue Moon-The Marcels 5 4 Exodus-Ferrante And Teicher 6 7 On the Rebound-Floyd Cramer 7 - A Pounds of Clay-Gene McDaniels 8 3 Theme For A Dream-Cliff Richard & The Shadows
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JUNE 15,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 RUNAWAY-DEL SHANNON
2 1 Calcutta-Lawrence Welk 3 7 A Pounds of Clay-Gene McDaniels 4 - Running Scared-Roy Orbison 5 3 Wheels-The String-a-Longs 6 - Breakin' In A Brand New Broken Heart-Connie Francis 7 4 Blue Moon-The Marcels 8 - You Can Depend On Me-Brenda Lee
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JUNE 22,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 RUNAWAY-DEL SHANNON
2 - You're Driving Me Crazy-The Temperance Seven 3 4 Running Scared-Roy Orbison 4 2 Calcutta-Lawrence Welk 5 6 Breakin' In A Brand New Broken Heart-Connie Francis 6 3 A Pounds of Clay-Gene McDaniels 7 - I've Told Every Little Star-Linda Scott 8 8 You Can Depend On Me-Brenda Lee
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JUNE 29,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 3 RUNNING SCARED-ROY ORBISON
2 1 Runaway-Del Shannon 3 2 You're Driving Me Crazy-The Temperance Seven 4 7 I've Told Every Little Star-Linda Scott 5 4 Calcutta-Lawrence Welk 6 - The Green Leaves of Summer-The Brothers Four
7 5 Breakin’ In A Brand New Broken Heart-Connie Francis
8 - Frightened City-The Shadows
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JULY 6,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 RUNNING SCARED-ROY ORBISON
2 4 I've Told Every Little Star-Linda Scott 3 - Travellin' Man-Ricky Nelson
4 3 You’re Driving Me Crazy-The Temperance Seven
5 - Moody River-Pat Boone
6 6 The Green Leaves of Summer-The Brothers Four
7 8 Frightened City-The Shadows 8 - A Scottish Soldier-Andy Stewart
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JULY 13,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 3 TRAVELLIN’ MAN-RICKY NELSON
2 5 Moody River-Pat Boone 3 2 I've Told Every Little Star-Linda Scott 4 1 Running Scared-Roy Orbison 5 8 A Scottish Soldier-Andy Stewart 6 - John Brown's Baby-Jimmy Rodgers 7 7 Frightened City-The Shadows 8 - Don't Treat Me Like a Child-Helen Shapiro
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JULY 20,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 MOODY RIVER-PAT BOONE
2 1 Travellin' Man-Ricky Nelson 3 - The Boll Weevil Song-Brook Benton 4 8 Don't Treat Me Like A Child-Helen Shapiro 5 - The Writing On The Wall-Adam Wade 6 - You'll Never Know-Shirley Bassey 7 3 I've Told Every Little Star-Linda Scott 8 4 Running Scared-Roy Orbison
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JULY 27,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 TRAVELLIN’ MAN-RICKY NELSON
2 1 Moody River-Pat Boone 3 3 The Boll Weevil Song-Brook Benton 4 6 You'll Never Know-Shirley Bassey 5 5 The Writing On The Wall-Adam Wade 6 - Theme From Dixie-Duane Eddy 7 4 Don't Treat Me Like A Child-Helen Shapiro 8 - I Love To Dance (But Never On Sunday)-Eydie Gorme
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR AUGUST 3,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 3 THE BOLL WEEVIL SONG-BROOK BENTON
2 1 Travellin' Man-Ricky Nelson 3 2 Moody River-Pat Boone 4 5 The Writing On The Wall-Adam Wade 5 8 I Love To Dance (But Never On Sunday)-Eydie Gorme 6 4 You'll Never Know-Shirley Bassey 7 6 Theme From Dixie-Duane Eddy 8 - Halfway To Paradise-Billy Fury
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR AUGUST 10,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 THE BOLL WEEVIL SONG-BROOK BENTON
2 4 The Writing On The Wall-Adam Wade 3 - Raindrops-Dee Clark 4 2 Travellin' Man-Ricky Nelson 5 - My Kind 0f Girl-Matt Monro 6 5 I Love To Dance (But Never On Sunday)-Eydie Gorme 7 - Pasadena-The Temperance Seven 8 8 Halfway To Paradise-Billy Fury
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR AUGUST 17,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 3 RAINDROPS-DEE CLARK
2 1 The Boll Weevil Song-Brook Benton 3 2 The Writing On The Wall-Adam Wade 4 7 Pasadena-The Temperance Seven 5 6 I Love To Dance (But Never On Sunday)-Eydie Gorme 6 - Hats Off To Larry-Del Shannon 7 5 My Kind 0f Girl-Matt Monro 8 - Dum Dum-Brenda Lee 9 - Theme from the Magnificent Seven-Al Caiola
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR AUGUST 24,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 RAINDROPS-DEE CLARK
2 5 I Love To Dance (But Never On Sunday)-Eydie Gorme 3 6 Hats Off To Larry-Del Shannon 4 8 Dum Dum-Brenda Lee 5 2 The Boll Weevil Song-Brook Benton 6 - Well I Ask You-Eden Kane 7 4 Pasadena-The Temperance Seven 8 - I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door-Eddie Hodges
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR AUGUST 31,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 4 DUM DUM-BRENDA LEE
2 3 Hats Off To Larry-Del Shannon 3 6 Well I Ask You-Eden Kane 4 1 Raindrops-Dee Clark 5 2 I Love To Dance (But Never On Sunday)-Eydie Gorme 6 - A Girl Like You-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 7 8 I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door-Eddie Hodges 8 - Hello Mary Lou-Ricky Nelson
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR SEPTEMBER 7,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 3 WELL I ASK YOU-EDEN KANE
2 1 Dum Dum-Brenda Lee 3 6 A Girl Like You-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 4 8 Hello Mary Lou-Ricky Nelson 5 2 Hats Off To Larry-Del Shannon 6 - Together-Connie Francis 7 7 I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door-Eddie Hodges 8 - Romeo-Petula Clark
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR SEPTEMBER 14,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 WELL I ASK YOU-EDEN KANE
2 - Michael-The Highwaymen 3 3 A Girl Like You-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 4 2 Dum Dum-Brenda Lee 5 4 Hello Mary Lou-Ricky Nelson 6 8 Romeo-Petula Clark 7 6 Together-Connie Francis 8 - Last Night-The Mar-Keys
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR SEPTEMBER 21,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 MICHAEL-THE HIGHWAYMEN
2 1 Well I Ask You-Eden Kane 3 - You Don't Know-Helen Shapiro 4 8 Last Night-The Mar-Keys 5 6 Romeo-Petula Clark 6 - Quarter to Three-U.S. Bonds 7 3 A Girl Like You-Cliff Richard & The Shadows 8 - Muskrat-The Everly Brothers
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR SEPTEMBER 28,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 MICHAEL-THE HIGHWAYMEN
2 3 You Don't Know-Helen Shapiro 3 6 Quarter to Three-U.S. Bonds 4 5 Romeo-Petula Clark 5 2 Well I Ask You-Eden Kane 6 - I Like It Like That,Part I-Chris Kenner 7 - Pretty Little Angel Eyes-Curtis Lee 8 4 Last Night-The Mar-Keys
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR OCTOBER 5,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 YOU DON’T KNOW-HELEN SHAPIRO
2 1 Michael-The Highwaymen 3 3 Quarter to Three-U.S. Bonds 4 - Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee 5 7 Pretty Little Angel Eyes-Curtis Lee 6 - Johnny Remember Me-John Leyton 7 6 I Like It Like That,Part I-Chris Kenner 8 - Wild In the Country-Elvis Presley 9 - Hurt-Timi Yuro
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR OCTOBER 12,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 YOU DON’T KNOW-HELEN SHAPIRO
2 2 Michael-The Highwaymen 3 4 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee 4 6 Johnny Remember Me-John Leyton 5 8 Wild In the Country-Elvis Presley 6 3 Quarter to Three-U.S. Bonds
7 – You Don’t Know What You’ve Got (Until You Lose It)-Ral Donner
8 9 Hurt-Timi Yuro 9 - Yellow Bird-Arthur Lyman
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR OCTOBER 19,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 MICHAEL-THE HIGHWAYMEN
2 3 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee 3 4 Johnny Remember Me-John Leyton 4 1 You Don't Know-Helen Shapiro 5 - Little Sister-Elvis Presley 6 9 Yellow Bird-Arthur Lyman 7 - Crying-Roy Orbison 8 - His Latest Flame-Elvis Presley
9 7 You Don’t Know What You’ve Got (Until You Lose It)-Ral Donner
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR OCTOBER 26,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY BABY-BOBBY VEE
2 3 Johnny Remember Me-John Leyton 3 7 Crying-Roy Orbison 4 1 Michael-The Highwaymen 5 5 Little Sister-Elvis Presley 6 - Kon-Tiki-The Shadows 7 - The Mountain's High-Dick and Deedee 8 8 His Latest Flame-Elvis Presley
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR NOVEMBER 2,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY BABY-BOBBY VEE
2 2 Johnny Remember Me-John Leyton 3 3 Crying-Roy Orbison 4 - Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean 5 6 Kon-Tiki-The Shadows 6 7 The Mountain's High-Dick and Deedee 7 5 Little Sister-Elvis Presley 8 4 Michael-The Highwaymen
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR NOVEMBER 9,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 JOHNNY REMEMBER ME-JOHN LEYTON
2 3 Crying-Roy Orbison 3 4 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean 4 1 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee 5 - Have A Drink On Me-Lonnie Donegan 6 - Reach For The Stars-Shirley Bassey 7 - As If I Didn't Know-Adam Wade 8 6 The Mountain's High-Dick and Deedee
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR NOVEMBER 16,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 3 BIG BAD JOHN-JIMMY DEAN
2 2 Crying-Roy Orbison 3 - Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles 4 - More Money For You And Me Medley-The Four Preps 5 - Walkin' Back To Happiness-Helen Shapiro 6 7 As If I Didn't Know-Adam Wade 7 6 Reach For The Stars-Shirley Bassey 8 - Weep No More My Baby-Brenda Lee
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR NOVEMBER 23,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 5 WALKIN’ BACK TO HAPPINESS-HELEN SHAPIRO
2 3 Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles 3 1 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean 4 - I'm Counting On You-Johnny O'Keefe 5 - You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby-Bobby Darin 6 8 Weep No More My Baby-Brenda Lee 7 - Jealousy-Billy Fury
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR NOVEMBER 30,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 HIT THE ROAD JACK-RAY CHARLES
2 1 Walkin' Back To Happiness-Helen Shapiro 3 3 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean 4 5 You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby-Bobby Darin 5 - Fool Number One-Brenda Lee 6 4 I'm Counting On You-Johnny O'Keefe 7 - Every Beat Of My Heart-Glady's Knight 8 - Moon River-Jerry Butler
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR DECEMBER 7,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 3 BIG BAD JOHN-JIMMY DEAN
2 2 Walkin' Back To Happiness-Helen Shapiro 3 1 Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles 4 - Granada-Frank Sinatra 5 6 I'm Counting On You-Johnny O'Keefe 6 - Mexico-Bob Moore 7 RE Surrender-Elvis Presley 8 RE Jealousy-Billy Fury
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR DECEMBER 14,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 2 WALKIN’ BACK TO HAPPINESS-HELEN SHAPIRO
2 1 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean 3 3 Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles 4 RE Fool Number One-Brenda Lee 5 RE Moon River-Jerry Butler 6 - The Twist-The Keil Isles 7 - You'll Answer to Me-Cleo Laine 8 RE Every Beat Of My Heart-Glady's Knight
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR DECEMBER 21,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 5 MOON RIVER-JERRY BUTLER
2 1 Walkin' Back To Happiness-Helen Shapiro 3 2 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean 4 - Tower Of Strength-Gene McDaniels 5 3 Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles 6 6 The Twist-The Keil Isles 7 - I Love How You Love Me-The Paris Sisters 8 4 Fool Number One-Brenda Lee
NEW ZEALAND’S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR DECEMBER 28,1961
TW LW Song-Artist
1 1 MOON RIVER-JERRY BUTLER
2 4 Tower Of Strength-Gene McDaniels 3 2 Walkin' Back To Happiness-Helen Shapiro 4 - The Twist-Chubby Checker 5 - You're the Reason I'm Living-Bobby Edwards 6 7 I Love How You Love Me-The Paris Sisters 7 3 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean 8 - Runaround Sue-Dion