PLAYBACK.FM (Website) TOP SINGLES FOR 1961*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh8eb_ACLl8
https://playback.fm/year/1961 No. Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 LET'S TWIST AGAIN-CHUBBY CHECKER-AUGUST 2 STAND BY ME-BEN E. KING-June 3 SURRENDER-ELVIS PRESLEY-March 4 RUNAWAY-DEL SHANNON-April 5 HELLO MARY LOU-RICK NELSON-May 6 WOODEN HEART-ELVIS PRESLEY-April 7 BLUE MOON-MARCELS-April 8 MICHAEL-Highwaymen-September 9 CRYING-Roy Orbison-October 10 RUNAROUND SUE-Dion-October 11 Hit The Road Jack-Ray Charles-October 12 Mexico-Bob Moore-October 13 Little Sister-Elvis Presley-October 14 Baby Sittin' Boogie-Buzz Clifford-March 15 Wheels-Billy Vaughn & Orchestra-March 16 (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame-Elvis Presley-September 17 Crazy-Patsy Cline-November 18 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean-November 19 Moon River-Henry Mancini-December 20 Wonderland By Night-Bert Kaempfert-January 21 Pepito-Los Machucambos-July 22 Tossin' & Turnin'-Bobby Lewis-August 23 Walkin' Back To Happiness-Helen Shapiro-October 24 Lion Sleeps Tonight-Tokens-December 25 Travelin' Man-Ricky Nelson-May 26 Please,Mr.Postman-Marvelettes-December 27 Take Five-Dave Brubeck-November 28 Running Scared-Roy Orbison-June 29 Wheels-String Alongs-March 30 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee-October 31 Walk Right Back-Everly Brothers-April 32 At Last-Etta James-February 33 Where The Boys Are-Connie Francis-March 34 I Fall To Pieces-Patsy Cline-August 35 Quarter To Three-Gary U.S.Bonds-July 36 You Don't Know-Helen Shapiro-October 37 Calcutta-Lawrence Welk-February 38 But I Do-Clarence Frogman Henry-April 39 Pony Time-Chubby Checker-March 40 I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door-Eddie Hodges-August 41 Johnny Will-Pat Boone-December 42 Spanish Harlem-Ben E.King-March 43 La Paloma-Freddy Quinn-July 44 Are You Sure?-Allisons-April 45 Raindrops-Dee Clark-July 46 Mother-In-Law-Ernie K.Doe-May 47 Theme From "Exodus"-Ferrante & Teicher-February 48 Non,Je Ne Regrette Rien-Edith Piaf-July 49 Daddy's Home-Shep & Limelights-May 50 Moody River-Pat Poone-June 51 Calendar Girl-Neil Sedaka-February 52 Hurt-Timi Yuro-September 53 Weisse Rosen Aus Athen-Nana Mouskouri 54 Bristol Stomp-Dovells-November 55 Romeo-Petula Clark-September 56 Hats Off To Larry-Del Shannon-August 57 Walk On By-Leroy Van Dyke-December 58 Der Mann Im Mond-Gus Backus-July 59 Tower Of Strength-Frankie Vaughan-December 60 La Novia-Tony Dallara-July 61 Dedicated To The One I Love-Shirelles-March 62 Johnny Remember Me-John Leyton-November 63 Good bye Cruel World-James Darren-December 64 Let There Be Drums-Sandy Nelson-December 65 Pretty Little Angel Eyes-Curtis Lee-August 66 There's A Moon Out Tonight-Capris-February 67 When The Girl In Your Arms,Is The Girl In Your Heart-Cliff Richard-December 68 Et Maintenant (What Now My Love)-Gilbert Becaud-July 69 Dum Dum-Brenda Lee-August 70 On The Rebound-Floyd Cramer-April 71 Mit 17 Faengt Das Leben Erst An-Ivo Robic-July 72 Legata A Un Granello Di Sabbia-Nico Fidenco-July 73 Nous Les Amoureux-Jean Claude Pascal-July 74 Boll Weevil Song-Brook Benton-July 75 Baby Sittin' Boogie-Ralph Bendix-December 76 Cupid-Sam Cooke-July 77 Rubber Ball-Bobby Vee-January 78 This Time-Troy Shondell-October 79 The Mountain's High-Dick & Dee Dee-September 80 Who Put The Bomp (In the Bomp-A-Bomp-A-Bomp)-Barry Mann-September 81 I Feel So Bad-Elvis Presley-June 82 Last Night-Mar keys-August 83 My True Story-Jive Five-September 84 Pepe-Duane Eddy-January 85 Pigalle-Bill Ramsey-July 86 Hello Walls-Faron Young-June 87 Corinna,Corinna-Ray Peterson-January 88 Apache-Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar-March 89 I Like It Like That-Chris Kenner-August 90 Ya Ya-Lee Dorsey-October 91 I've Told Every Little Star-Linda Scott-May 92 Run To Him-Bobby Vee-December 93 Il Mondo Di Suzie Wong-Nico Fidenco 94 Temptation-The Everly Brothers-June 95 Barbara Ann-The Regents-June 96 Mama Said-Shirelles-May 97 Let The Four Winds Blow-Fats Domino-August 98 Dance On Little Girl-Paul Anka-July 99 A Scottish Soldier (Green Hills Of Tyrol)-Andy Stewart-February 100 Ebony Eyes-Everly Brothers-March *This list was compiled with charts from various western industrialized nations (primarily the USA,UK and Australia).