NEW ZEALAND’S WEEKLY (Lever Hit Parade/NZ PLAYDATE MAGAZINE CHART) SINGLE CHARTS FROM 1960
NEW ZEALAND'S (NZ PLAYDATE MAGAZINE CHART) SINGLE CHART FOR MAY,1960 TM LM Song-Artist 1 - RUNNING BEAR-JOHNNY PRESTON 2 - What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?-Emile Ford 3 - Robbin' the Cradle-Red Hewitt 4 - Way Down Yonder In New Orleans-Freddy Cannon 5 - Teen Angel-Mark Dinning 6 - Battle Of Waikato-The Howard Morrison Quartet 7 - El Paso-Marty Robbins 8 - Heartaches By The Number-Guy Mitchell 9 - In the Mood-Ernie Fields 10 - Among My Souvenirs-Connie Francis 11 - Morgen-Billy Vaughn 12 - Why-Frankie Avalon 13 - What Do You Want-Adam Faith 14 - We Got Love-Bobby Rydell 15 - Handy Man-Jimmy Jones 16 - The Big Hurt-Toni Fisher 17 - Slow Boat To China-Emile Ford 18 - Hound Dog Man-Fabian 19 - Seven Little Girls-Paul Evans 20 - It's Time to Cry-Paul Anka NEW ZEALAND'S (NZ PLAYDATE MAGAZINE CHART) SINGLE CHART FOR JUNE,1960 TM LM Song-Artist 1 - MY OLD MAN'S A DUSTMAN-LONNIE DONEGAN 2 - He'll Have to Go-Jim Reeves 3 3 Robbin' the Cradle-Red Hewitt 4 6 Battle Of Waikato-The Howard Morrison Quartet 5 1 Running Bear-Johnny Preston 6 5 Teen Angel-Mark Dinning 7 15 Handy Man-Jimmy Jones 8 - Wild One-Bobby Rydell 9 - What In The World's Come Over You-Jack Scott 10 - Starry Eyed-Michael Holliday 11 - Voice In the Wilderness-Cliff Richard 12 7 El Paso-Marty Robbins 13 17 Slow Boat To China-Emile Ford 14 2 What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?-Emile Ford 15 8 Heartaches By The Number-Guy Mitchell 16 - Pretty Blue Eyes-Craig Douglas 17 19 Seven Little Girls-Paul Evans 18 16 The Big Hurt-Toni Fisher 19 11 Morgen-Billy Vaughn 20 - Be My Guest-Fats Domino NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JULY 21,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 - CATHY'S CLOWN-BILL AND BOYD 2 - Theme from A Summer Place-Billy Vaughn 3 - Do You Mind-Anthony Newley 4 - Someone Else's Baby-Adam Faith 5 - Good Timin'-Jimmy Jones 6 - Three Steps to Heaven-Eddie Cochran 7 - Everybody's Somebody's Fool-Connie Francis 8 - Burning Bridges-Jack Scott NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR JULY 28,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 1 CATHY'S CLOWN-BILL AND BOYD 2 2 Theme from A Summer Place-Billy Vaughn 3 3 Do You Mind-Anthony Newley 4 4 Someone Else's Baby-Adam Faith 5 5 Good Timin'-Jimmy Jones 6 6 Three Steps to Heaven-Eddie Cochran 7 7 Everybody's Somebody's Fool-Connie Francis 8 8 Burning Bridges-Jack Scott NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR AUGUST 4,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 7 EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL-CONNIE FRANCIS 2 1 Cathy's Clown-Bill and Boyd 3 - Alley-Oop-The Hollywood Argyles 4 - Theme from A Summer Place'-Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra 5 3 Do You Mind-Anthony Newley 6 - Paper Roses-Anita Bryant 7 8 Burning Bridges-Jack Scott 8 - I Wanna Go Home-Lonnie Donegan NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR AUGUST 11,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 7 EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOL-CONNIE FRANCIS 2 3 Alley-Oop-The Hollywood Argyles 3 6 Paper Roses-Anita Bryant 4 - Theme from A Summer Place'-Percy Faith Orchestra 5 - Cathy's Clown-Dick Jordan 6 - Ain't Misbehavin'-Tommy Bruce 7 8 I Wanna Go Home-Lonnie Donegan 8 - Sixteen Reasons-Barbara Saleo NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR AUGUST 18,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 2 ALLEY-OOP-THE HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES 2 1 Everybody's Somebody's Fool-Connie Francis 3 6 Ain't Misbehavin'-Tommy Bruce 4 - Sixteen Reasons-Marion Ryan 5 - I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee 6 4 Theme from A Summer Place'-Percy Faith Orchestra 7 3 Paper Roses-Anita Bryant 8 - Because They're Young-Duane Eddy NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR AUGUST 25,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 1 ALLEY-OOP-THE HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES 2 3 Ain't Misbehavin'-Tommy Bruce 3 5 I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee 4 2 Everybody's Somebody's Fool-Connie Francis 5 - Sixteen Reasons-Esme Stephens 6 8 Because They're Young-Duane Eddy 7 - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini-Brian Hyland 8 - Made You-John Barry NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR SEPTEMBER 1,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 3 I'M SORRY-BRENDA LEE 2 1 Alley-Oop-Dante & Evergreens 3 6 Because They're Young-Duane Eddy 4 7 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini-Brian Hyland 5 - Sixteen Reasons-Sheila Buxton 6 2 Ain't Misbehavin'-Tommy Bruce 7 - Made You-Adam Faith 8 - Please Don't Tease-Cliff Richard NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR SEPTEMBER 8,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 2 ALLEY-OOP-DANTE & EVERGREENS 2 1 I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee 3 - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini-Buddy Hackett 4 - Because They're Young-James Darren 5 8 Please Don't Tease-Cliff Richard 6 RE Sixteen Reasons-Barbara Saleo 7 - Look For A Star-Garry Mills 8 - What A Mouth-Tommy Steele NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR SEPTEMBER 15,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 RE ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE YELLOW POLKADOT BIKINI-BRIAN HYLAND 2 5 Please Don't Tease-Cliff Richard 3 2 I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee 4 RE Alley-Oop-The Hollywood Argyles 5 7 Look For A Star-Garry Mills 6 RE Because They're Young-Duane Eddy 7 8 What A Mouth-Tommy Steele 8 - Mule Skinner Blues-Fendermen NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR SEPTEMBER 22,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 RE ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE YELLOW POLKADOT BIKINI-BRIAN HYLAND 2 5 Please Don't Tease-Cliff Richard 3 2 I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee 4 RE Alley-Oop-The Hollywood Argyles 5 7 Look For A Star-Garry Mills 6 RE Because They're Young-Duane Eddy 7 8 What A Mouth-Tommy Steele 8 - Mule Skinner Blues-Fendermen NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR SEPTEMBER 29,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 2 PLEASE DON'T TEASE-CLIFF RICHARD 2 - Only The Lonely-Roy Orbison 3 1 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini-Brian Hyland 4 - Shakin' All Over-Johnny Kidd 5 - Look For A Star-Billy Vaughn 6 3 I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee 7 8 Mule Skinner Blues-Fendermen 8 - Robot Man-Connie Francis NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR OCTOBER 6,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 1 PLEASE DON'T TEASE-CLIFF RICHARD 2 2 Only The Lonely-Roy Orbison 3 3 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini-Brian Hyland 4 4 Shakin' All Over-Johnny Kidd 5 5 Look For A Star-Billy Vaughn 6 6 I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee 7 7 Mule Skinner Blues-Fendermen 8 8 Robot Man-Connie Francis NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR OCTOBER 13,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 1 PLEASE DON'T TEASE-CLIFF RICHARD 2 2 Only The Lonely-Roy Orbison 3 3 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini-Brian Hyland 4 4 Shakin' All Over-Johnny Kidd 5 5 Look For A Star-Billy Vaughn 6 6 I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee 7 7 Mule Skinner Blues-Fendermen 8 8 Robot Man-Connie Francis NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR OCTOBER 20,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 1 PLEASE DON'T TEASE-CLIFF RICHARD 2 2 Only The Lonely-Roy Orbison 3 3 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini-Brian Hyland 4 4 Shakin' All Over-Johnny Kidd 5 5 Look For A Star-Billy Vaughn 6 6 I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee 7 7 Mule Skinner Blues-Fendermen 8 8 Robot Man-Connie Francis NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR OCTOBER 27,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 - APACHE-THE SHADOWS 2 - It's Now Or Never-Elvis Presley 3 - Walk Don't Run-The Ventures 4 8 Robot Man-Connie Francis 5 - Tell Laura I Love Her-Rickey Valance 6 - A Mess Of Blues-Elvis Presley 7 - Volare-Bobby Rydell 8 2 Only The Lonely-Roy Orbison NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR NOVEMBER 3,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 1 APACHE-THE SHADOWS 2 2 It's Now Or Never-Elvis Presley 3 5 Tell Laura I Love Her-Rickey Valance 4 3 Walk Don't Run-The Ventures 5 7 Volare-Bobby Rydell 6 - Chain Gang-Sam Cooke 7 - So Sad-The Everly Brothers 8 6 A Mess Of Blues-Elvis Presley NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR NOVEMBER 10,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 2 IT'S NOW OR NEVER-ELVIS PRESLEY 2 1 Apache-The Shadows 3 3 Tell Laura I Love Her-Rickey Valance 4 6 Chain Gang-Sam Cooke 5 - So Sad-Bill and Boyd 6 - My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own-Connie Francis 7 - Mr Custer-Charlie Drake 8 4 Walk Don't Run-The Ventures NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR NOVEMBER 17,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 - LIVELY-LONNIE DONEGAN 2 1 It's Now Or Never-Elvis Presley 3 - Tell Laura I Love Her-Eddie Howell 4 - Nine Times Out Of Ten-Cliff Richard 5 2 Apache-The Shadows 6 6 My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own-Connie Francis 7 - Chain Gang-Ronnie Carroll 8 7 Mr Custer-Charlie Drake NEW ZEALAND'S (LEVER HIT PARADE) SINGLE CHART FOR NOVEMBER 24,1960 TW LW Song-Artist 1 2 IT'S NOW OR NEVER-ELVIS PRESLEY 2 1 Lively-Lonnie Donegan 3 6 My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own-Connie Francis 4 8 Mr Custer-Ted Lune 5 4 Nine Times Out Of Ten-Cliff Richard 6 RE Tell Laura I Love Her-Rickey Valance 7 RE Chain Gang-Sam Cooke 8 5 Apache-The Shadows NO CHARTS POSTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR