UNITED KINGDOM'S TOP (OLD CHARTS WEBSITE) SINGLES OF 1961
No.-Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 A SCOTTISH SOLDIER-ANDY STEWART-JANUARY 2 WOODEN HEART-ELVIS PRESLEY-April 3 HALFWAY TO PARADISE-BILLY FURY-August 4 YOU DON'T KNOW-HELEN SHAPIRO-August 5 RUNAWAY-DEL SHANNON-July 6 WELL I ASK YOU-EDEN KANE-July 7 FRIGHTENED CITY-SHADOWS-June 8 HELLO MARY LOU-Rick Nelson-July 9 F.B.I.-Shadows-February 10 BUT I DO-Clarence "Frogman" Henry-June 11 Don't Treat Me Like A Child-Helen Shapiro-May 12 African Waltz-Johnny Dankworth-April 13 Reach For The Stars-Shirley Bassey-September 14 Walk Right Back-Everly Brothers-March 15 Pasadena-Temperance Seven-July 16 Are You Sure-Allisons-April 17 Johnny Remember Me-John Leyton-September 18 Wheels Cha Cha-Joe Loss-April 19 Marcheta-Karl Denver-September 20 Walking back to happiness-Helen Shapiro-October 21 Theme From "Exodus"-Ferrate & Teicher-April 22 You're Driving Me Crazy-Temperance Seven-May 23 Temptation-Everly Brothers-July 24 More Than I Can Say-Bobby Vee-May 25 Are You Lonesome Tonight?-Elvis Presley-February 26 Surrender-Elvis Presley-June 27 That's My Home-Mr.Acker Bilk-September 28 Sailor-Petula Clark-February 29 You'll Never Know-Shirley Bassey-June 30 Will You Love Me Tomorrow-Shirelles-March 31 Romeo-Petula Clark-August 32 A Girl Like You-Cliff Richard-July 33 Running Scared-Roy Orbison-June 34 Theme For A Dream-Cliff Richard-March 35 Who Am I?-Adam Faith-February 36 Michael-Highwaymen-October 37 Blue Moon-Marcels-May 38 Weekend-Eddie Cochran-July 39 On The Rebound-Floyd Cramer-May 40 Pepe-Duane Eddy-January 41 Samantha-Kenny Ball-March 42 Gee Whiz It's You-Cliff Richard-April 43 Wheels-String-A-Longs-March 44 Have A Drink On Me-Lonnie Donegan-June 45 You'll Answer To Me-Cleo Laine-October 46 Time-Craig Douglas-August 47 War Paint-Brook Brothers-April 48 Buona Sera-Mr.Acker Bilk-February 49 Portrait Of My Love-Matt Monro-January 50 Where The Boys Are-Connie Francis-April 51 Cupid-Sam Cooke-September 52 Kon-Tiki-The Shadows-October 53 Baby I Don't Care-Buddy Holly-August 54 Lazy River-Bobby Darin-April 55 Calendar Girl-Neil Sedaka-Ferbruary 56 Let's Jump The Broomstick-Brenda Lee-February 57 Quarter To Three-Gary US Bonds-August 58 You're Sixteen-Johnny Burnette-February 59 What'd I Say-Jerry Lee Lewis-June 60 Hats Off To Larry-Del Shannon-October 61 When The Girl In Your Arms...Girl In Your Heart-Cliff Richard-November 62 Jealousy-Billy Fury-October 63 Wild In The Country-Elvis Presley-September 64 Riders In The Sky-Ramrods-March 65 My Kind Of Girl-Matt Monro-March 66 You Always Hurt The One You Love-Clarence "Frogman" Henry-August 67 Sucu Sucu-Laurie Johnson Orchestra-October 68 Once In Every Lifetime-Ken Dodd-July 69 I've Told Every Little Star-Linda Scott-June 70 How Many Tears-Bobby Vee-September 71 And The Heavens Cried-Anthony Newley-April 72 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean-November 73 Sea Of Heartbreak-Don Gibson-October 74 Poetry In Motion-Johnny Tillotson-January 75 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee-December 76 Baby Sittin' Boogie-Buzz Clifford-April 77 I Love You-Cliff Richard-January 78 (Marie's The Name)His Latest Flame-Elvis Presley-November 79 Wild Wind-John Leyton-October 80 Bless You-Tony Orlando-October 81 The Time Has Come-Adam Faith-November 82 Together-Connie Francis-October 83 Mexicali Rose-Karl Denver-October 84 Take Five-Dave Brubeck Quartet-November 85 Rubber Ball-Bobby Vee-February 86 Little Devil-Neil Sedaka-June 87 Little Boy Sad-Johnny Burnette-May 88 Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles-November 89 My Boomerang Won?t Come Back-Charlie Drake-November 90 Michael Row The Boat-Lonnie Donegan-September 91 Get Lost-Eden Kane-October 92 Breakin' In A Brand New Heart-Connie Francis-July 93 Theme From Dixie-Duane Eddy-May 94 Moon River-Danny Williams-December 95 Don't You Know It?-Adam Faith-August 96 Sucu Sucu-Nina & Frederick-October 97 It's Now Or Never-Elvis Presley-January 98 You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby-Bobby Darin-November 99 Easy Going Me-Adam Faith-May 100 Tower Of Strength-Frankie Vaughan-December 101 Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week-Brook Brothers-September 102 Counting Teardrops- Emile Ford & Checkmates-January 103 Sway-Bobby Rydell-January 104 Save The Last Dance For Me-Drifters-January 105 Moody River-Pat Boone-July 106 New Orleans-Gary U.S. Bonds-February 107 Marry Me-Mike Preston-March 108 Let's Get Together-Hayley Mills-November 109 Piltdown Rides Again-Piltdown Men-February 110 76 Trombones-King Brothers-April 111 A Hundred Pounds Of Clay-Craig Douglas-May 112 Runaround Sue-Dion-November 113 Ring Of Fire-Duane Eddy-July 114 A Thousand Stars-Billy Fury-February 115 The Battles O'er-Andy Stewart-July 116 Pop Goes The Weasel-Anthony Newley-July 117 How wonderful To Know-Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson-July 118 Rubber Ball-Marty Wilde-February 119 Perfidia-Ventures-January 120 Midnight In Moscow-Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen-December 121 Many Tears Ago-Connie Francis-January 122 Stay-Marice Williams & Zodiacs-January 123 She Little Sheila-Gene Vincent-July 124 (I Wanna) Love My Life Away-Gene Pitney-Aptil 125 Ja-Da-Johnny & Hurricanes-March 126 Pepe-Russ Conway-February 127 First Taste Of Love-Ben E King-February 128 Who Put The Bomp-Viscounts-August 129 You Don't Know What You've Got-Ral Donner-September 130 Sailor-Anne Shelton-February 131 North To Alaska-Johnny Horton-January 132 The Savage-The Shadows-November 133 This Time-Troy Shondell-November 134 Cryin'-Roy Orbison-October 135 Say It With Flowers-Dorothy Squires & Russ Conway-July 136 Mystery Girl-Jess Conrad-February 137 Stars And Stripes-Acker Bilk-October 138 Gather In The Mushrooms-Benny Hill-February 139 Granada-Frank Sinatra-October 140 Why Not Now-Matt Monro-July 141 Dum Dum-Brenda Lee-August 142 Like Strangers-Everly Brothers-January 143 Doll House-King Brothers-July 144 I'm A Moody Guy-Shane Fenton-July 145 My Friend The Sea-Petula Clark-December 146 The Boll Wweevil Song-Brook Benton-July