Meanwhile, down here on earth we were listening to a plethora of musical hits from the USA; there was no competition when it came to the source of the vast majority of the records that were bought and received air-play here in Australia. America provided more than 90% of our popular music.
On the 20th. of May 1961 our transistor radios were blasting out the following hits (I have listed them in alphabetical order), and it is these that I will blasting forth during my program tomorrow morning:-
- A Hundred Pounds Of Clay - Gene McDaniels
- African Waltz - Johnny Dankworth
- Barbara Ann - the Regents
- Blue Moon - the Marcels
- Breakin' In A Brand New Broken Heart - Connie Francis
- I Don't Know Why I Love You (But I Do) - Clarence "Frogman" Henry
- Daddy's Home - Shep & the Limelites
- Funny - Maxine Brown
- Good Goodbye So So Long - the Bob Knight Four
- Heart And Soul - the Cleftones
- I Feel So Bad - Elvis Presley
- I've Told Every Little Star - Linda Scott
- Little Devil - Neil Sedaka
- Mama Said - the Shirelles
- Moody River - Pat Boone
- Mother-In-Law - Ernie K Doe
- On The Rebound - Floyd Cramer
- Portrait Of My Love - Steve Lawrence
- Quarter To Three - Gary "US" Bonds
- Raindrops - Dee Clark
- Rama Lama Ding Dong - the Edsels
- Runaway - Del Shannon
- Running Scared - Roy Orbison
- Some Kind Of Wonderful - the Drifters
- Stand By Me - Ben E King
- Take Good Care Of Her - Adam Wade
- That Old Black Magic - Bobby Rydell
- The Charanga - Merv Griffin
- Those Oldies But Goodies - Little Caesar & the Romans
- Tonight I Fell In Love - the Tokens
- Tossin' And Turnin' - Bobby Lewis
- Tragedy - the Fleetwoods
- Travelin' Man - Ricky Nelson
- Trust In Me - Etta James
- You Can Depend On Me - Brenda Lee
- You Always Hurt The One You Love - Clarence "Frogman" Henry
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