| No. 734 | 3 February 1961 | |
| Johnson, Derek | America's 'Big Six' Ready to Invade London's Pigalle | 2 |
| n.a. | Life-lines of Johnny Burnette | 3 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Buddy Holly: A Name to Remember | 3 |
| n.a. | From Us to You | 3 |
| Fordyce, Keith | Review of the Singles Faith and Barry Team Have a New Winner [John Barry and Adam Faith, "Who Am I?"] Everly Brothers Produce Usual Rhythm ["Walk Right Back"] Friendly Warning from Johnny Preston Paul Anka, "The Story of My Love" Helen Shapiro, "Don't Treat Me Like a Child" Benny Hill, "Pepys Diary" Tommy Bruce, "You Make Love So Well" Bobby Day, "Over and Over" Vernons Girls, "Ten Little Lonely Boys" |
4 |
| Evans, Allen | LP's Pat Boone, This and That Sammy Davis, Pepe Perry Como, Dreamers' Holiday Sam Cooke, Cooke's Tour Johnny Burnette, Dreamin' |
4 |
| n.a. | NME Top 30 Charts 1. "Are You Lonesome Tonight," Elvis Presley; 2. "Sailor," Petula Clark 3. "Poetry in Motion," Johnny Tillotson; 4. "Pepe," Duane Eddie; 5. "Portrait of My Love," Matt Monroe |
5 |
| n.a. | LPs of the Week The Edge of Shelly Berman Hello Love [Ella Fitzgerald] Shirley [Bassey] |
5 |
| n.a. | Top Sheet Music 1. "Sailor" (Leeds) 2. "Portrait of My Love" (Lennox) 3. "Are You Lonesome Tonight" (F.D. & H) 4. "Pepe" (Kassner-Schaeffers) 5. "Poetry in Motion" (Morris) |
5 |
| n.a. | Donegan Sought for
Four Big TV and Stage Projects Presley's 'Flaming Star' Next Week Jo Stafford Label Change Joan Regan Flies to U.S. Oriole Radio Artist on Lps Elvis, Cliff, Adam Talk about Rock Last R&H Musical for London in May Peters Sisters on 75th Billy Cotton BBC-TV Show Mark Wynter's Variety Debut Craig Douglas in Both Events American Sisters for TV Variety "High, High, High" Man Writes Preston's Song |
6 |
| n.a. | Schoolmaster Pens
Two EMI "Hopes" Lena Horne, Louis Prima, Keely Smith Visits Likely Top Speed Tour for Cliff Richard The Vera Lynn Story Cliff Adams Show Replaces "Cool" Betty Hutton on Palladium TV Ford, Faith Dates for Next Month Frankie Plants a Tree in Film Cleo Laine Film Part Bourne Music Ends Musical Comedy Stars on ATV Take-Over Bids for Decca Denied in All Quarters |
7 |
| Johnson, Derek | Variations on those TV Themes | 8 |
| n.a. | Meet the Manager- Cyril Berlin | 8 |
| n.a. | U.S. Bonds Helps Teenagers Save | 8 |
| n.a. | Teenage Color Problems in Johnny Nash's First Film | 9 |
| n.a. | Max Bygraves Plays It Safe at Talk of Town | 9 |
| Hentoff, Nat | American Airmail | 9 |
| Savile, Jimmy | "Fabulous!" Exclaimed Elvis to Me as I Gave Him His Gold Disk | 10 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Conway Twitty Rocks a Surprising Tune | 10 |
| n.a. | Classified Adds | 11 |
| n.a. | Sinatra Gives Kennedy a Starry Start-Off | 12 |
| Lee Assoulin, March 2005 | ||
| No. 735 | 10 February 1961 | |
| Goodwin, Keith | Big: That's the Word for Duane Eddy | 2 |
| n.a. | Life Lines of Petula Clark | 2 |
| n.a. | Should the Shadows Part from Cliff? | 3 |
| Evans, Allen | EP's Donegan Lonnie, Hit Parade Frankie Vaughan, Favorites Chisholm, George Crazy Party Time Billy May, Makin Whoopee, Lets Put Out the lights, Top Hat, Cheek to Cheek Ernie Field, Saxy! The Viscounts, Hit Parade |
3 |
| Evans, Allen | LP's Shirley Bassey, Shirley Nat King Cole, Wild Is Love Winifred Atwell, A Further Fifty All Time Favorites Juliette Greco Patachou, Les Grandes Chan. Sons Mario Lanza, The Desert Song New Abby Light Symphony Orchestra, Music Hour with Simprini Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Gospel Truth Jules London, Around Midnight Yogi Bear and the Missing Eley-Phint Spike Jones, 60 Years of Music America Hates Best Billy Cotton, Kathie Kay, Bill and Kate Contributions, Great Love Themes for Hollywood |
4 |
| Fordyce, Keith | Singles Artists with Singles on the Disc "Music Man": "Till There Was You" Anita Bryant, "Love-till-death-do-us-part," "A Texan and a Girl from Mexico" Johnnie Spence, "Wheels" Glenda Collins, "Oh How I Miss You Tonight" Jan and Keld, "I Cant Give You Anything but Love Baby" Jeff Rowena, "Peanut Vendor" Don Arrol, "Everyone Likes It" Jim Reeves, "Whispering Hope" Ramrods, "Riders in the Sky" |
4 |
| NME | NME Best
Selling Records in Britain 1. Presley, Elvis, "Are You Lonesome Tonight" 2. Clark, Petula, "Sailor" 3. Yee, Bobby, "Rubber Ball" 4. Burnette, Johnny, "You're Sixteen" 5. Eddy, Duane, "Pepe" |
5 |
| NME | Best Selling
Pop Records in U.S 1. Shirelles, "Will You Love Still Me Tomorrow" 2. Walk, Lawrence, "Calcutta" 3. Soundtrack, "Exodus" 4. Miracles, "Hop Around" 5. Sedaka, Neil, "Calendar Girl" |
5 |
| NME | Best-selling
Sheet Music 1. "Sailor" (Leeds) 2. "Are you Lonesome Tonight" (F.D & H.) 3. "Portrait of My Love" ( Kassner) 4. "Pepe" ( Kassner-Schaeffers) 5. "Poetry in Motion" (Morris) |
5 |
| n.a. | Adam Faith
to Star in Film-As Comedy Actor Barry Seven Filming Bobby Rydell: three concert dates named Ray Ellington to open club To Top Bill Again 1960 Biggest Disc Sale Year Ever Crosbys, Mathis, Ella, Everlys, Horne, Likely Summer Visitors Two Ray Charles on Future Como Show |
6 |
| n.a. | Cliff
Richard and Shadows Together in Super Musical Movie Silver Hearts for Three Disc men Alma Changes Her Label but Stays with EMI Vaughan Palladium Variety Topper Donegan at Albert Hall Sinatra Clan in New Picture Tony Newly Stars in TV 'Spectacular' Bourne Music Development Dave King Returns to Palladium TV |
7 |
| n.a. | Norman Newell's Fantastic Double | 8 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Welcome June Christy | 8 |
| n.a. | Meet the Manager | 8 |
| Johnson, Derek | The Shirelles Put a Prize Question | 9 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Andy Stewart Marches in! | 9 |
| Johnson, Derek | Marty Wilde Comes Back—And How | 10 |
| n.a. | Classifieds | 11 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Elvis Really Acts in 'Flaming Star' | 12 |
| n.a. | Climb on the 'Kookie' Caravan | 12 |
| Meredith Atkinson, 8 February 2005 | ||
| No. 736 | 17 February 1961 | |
| Johnson, Derek | This Letter Brought an Avalanche of Post and Started the Great Cliff, Adam, and Elvis Debate | 2 |
| n.a. | Important Backing? [What is this about?] | 2 |
| n.a. | This week's From You to Us | 2 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Our Latest 'Welcome' Visitor from the States Is Champion of Music: Bobby Rydell Says, "Rock Curbs Crime" | 3 |
| Johnson, Derek | At Last! Britain Gives Alma Cogan a Cabaret Break | 3 |
| Evans, Allen | LP's May, Billy, Bing and Satchmo Francis, Connie, Jewish Favorites Madel Johnny, Jo Plus Jazz Martin, Dean, This time I'm Swinging Avalon, Francis, Summer Scene |
4 |
| n.a. | Lonnie—minus his group Eurovison Song Discs Mark Wynter Scores |
4 |
| NME | Best-selling
Records in Britain 1. Elvis Presley, "Are You Lonesome Tonight" 2. Petula Clark, "Sailor" 3. Bobby Yee, "Rubber Ball" 4. Johnny Brunette, "You're Sixteen" 5. Shadows, "FBI" |
5 |
| NME | Best-selling
Records in U.S 1. Lawrence Welk, "Calcutta" 2. Shirelles, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" 3. Miracles, "Shop Around" 4. Nell Sedaka, "Calander Girl" 5. Ferrante & Teicher, "Exodus" |
5 |
| n.a. | Best-selling
Sheet Music 1. "Are you Lonesome Tonight" (K.D. & H.) 2. "Sailor" (Leeds) 3. "Portait of My Love" (Kassner) 4. "Pepe" (Kassner-Schaeffers) 5. "Poetry in Motion" (Morris) |
5 |
| n.a. | Presley,
Day, Mathis, Boone film plans Connie Francis to sing NME Concert PYE plan new label shortly American honours two British Song Writers Barber on Radio Sells Sisters in America Jess Conrad Tour |
6 |
| n.a. | Jimmy
Young to Make 'Juke Box Jury' Debut Unknown Londoners Going to Cannes Monro, Mann, Preston Win Final Places Shirley Bassey to Play Japan Cliff Richard May Play Half a Season ABC-TV Plan New Saturday Show |
7 |
| Johnson, Derek | A Great Day in the Sedaka Diary | 8 |
| Hellicar, Mike | Meet the Manager : Bernard Lee | |
| n.a. | Wakey Wakey! With Billy Cotton | |
| n.a. | Freshman k.o. audience with their versatility | 9 |
| Marks, Stan | Beatnik Winnie Wows Aussies: Winifred Atwell | |
| Hentoff, Nat | American Airmail Darin Won't Sing in His Latest Movie | |
| Hellicar, Mike | Drowned: Gene Vincent | |
| n.a. | NME Exclusive: We Teenagers Have Every Right to Form Our Own Ideas | 10 |
| Life lines of Annie Shelton | ||
| Evans, Allen | EP's Martins, Johnny, Four Show Hits," "It's Love" Plus Four, John Barry Sound Nellie Lutcher, Real Gone Jimmy 'Handyman' Jones, Itchin' for Love Dean Martin, You Belong to Me Ernie Ford, Tennessee Ernie Ford Anticipation Blues Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bless this House Elaine Delmar, A Swingin' Chick Shirley Bassey, S Wonderful Frankie Vaughan, Lets Make Love Tommy Reilly, Harmonica Magic |
10 |
| n.a. | Classifieds | 11 |
| n.a. | 'Kookie Korpoation' Kontribution' from Our Readers | 12 |
| n.a. | More British Gold for Elvis | 12 |
| Meredith Atkinson, 9 February 2005 | ||
| No. 737 | 24 February 1961 | |
| Conway, Russ | My Holiday in America | 2 |
| N/A | Big Week: The Allisons are Truly Overnight Sensations | 2 |
| Carlton, Bruce | For New Comers to the Charts | 3 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Benny Hill gags about him | 3 |
| Wynn, James | String-A-Longs have fast moving 'Wheels' | 3 |
| Evans, Allen | LP's The Crosby Brothers, "Pardon my Pride" The Checkmates, "Honky Tonk" Christy, June, "The Cool School" Winstofle, Eric, "Happy Beat for Happy Feet" Miller, Mitch, "Sentimental Sing Along with Mitch" Napoleon, Phil, "In the Land of Dixie" |
4 |
| N.A. | Cliff Richard Finds
Dream Theme Ricky Valance is Developing Craig Douglas Sings About Girl Next Door |
4 |
| NME | Best-selling Records
in Britain 1. Elvis Presley, "Are you Lonesome Tonight" 2. Petula Clark, "Sailor" 3. Everly Bros, "Walk Right Back" 4. Shadows, "FBI" 5. Bobby Yee, "Rubber Ball" |
5 |
| NME | Best-selling Records
in U.S 1. Lawrence Welk, "Calcutta" 2. Miracles, "Shop Around" 3. Shirelles, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" 4. Chubby Checker, "Pony Time" 5. Capris, "There's a Moon out Tonight" |
5 |
| N/A | Best-selling Sheet
Music 1. "Sailor" (leeds) 2. "Are you Lonesome Tonight" (K.D. & H.) 3. "Portait of My Love" (Kassner) 4. "Pepe" (Kassner-Schaeffers) 5. "Rubber Ball" (Feldman) |
5 |
| N.A. | Anthony Newley writes
musical film part for Adam Faith Matt Monro in Conrad Show Shadows' new label in U.S. launches "Kon-Tiki" Top Radio Shows get Concert Spots Petula Clark will head Palladium TV Alma Cogan to Spain: Then Manchester D-J Switches in Radio Shuffle Dinah Shore May Visit in Summer Barry Asked to MD VEE Albums Magazine to sell Discs |
6 |
| N.A. | Russ Conway back
to TV, Radio concerts next month Tommy Steele Provincial Variety Dates Revealed Allisons break disc sales speed record Brian Mathew joins 'Jury' Bobby Rydell to return here in Autumn Philips may buy Mercury for Six Million Dollars British stars named for summer seasons |
7 |
| Johnson, Derek | Frankie Vaughan says it's risky to build stardom just through discs | 8 |
| Hellicar, Mike | Meet the Manager: Ray Mackender | |
| N.A. | From You to Us | |
| N.A. | Who's Where | |
| Goodwin, Keith | Van Johnson's dream comes true | 9 |
| Wedge, Don | Fury Quit Wriggling | |
| Hentoff, Nat | Boone waxes Anka | |
| Goodwin, Keith | The Whole Wide World is Now Saying to Little Miss Lee | 10 |
| Goodwin, Keith | Jazz Records | |
| N.A. | Alma Cogan Shows US What We've Been Missing | |
| N.A. | Life Lines of Jess Conrad | |
| N.A. | Classifieds | 11 |
| N.A. | "Kookie Korp" Good By | 12 |
| D.W. | Princess Margaret tells Adam Faith: "I Like Your Records" | |
| N.A. | Cliff's Huge Advance | |
| Meredith Atkinson, 11 February 2005 | ||
| Initial February 1961 contents by Mike Valinski, March 1999 | ||
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