POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 27, 1961
1

Pony Time

Chubby Checker

↑ 3

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 4

2

Calcutta

Lawrence Welk And His Orchestra

↓ 1

Peak: 1 • 17 wks • Prev: 1

3

There's A Moon Out Tonight

The Capris

↑ 2

Peak: 3 • 14 wks • Prev: 5

4

Surrender

Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires

↑ 20

Peak: 1 • 12 wks • Prev: 24

5

Don't Worry

Marty Robbins

↑ 10

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 15

6

Dedicated To The One I Love

The Shirelles

↑ 3

Peak: 3 • 20 wks • Prev: 9

7

Where The Boys Are

Connie Francis

↑ 4

Peak: 4 • 15 wks • Prev: 11

8

Shop Around

The Miracles (featuring Bill "Smokey" Robinson)

↓ 6

Peak: 2 • 16 wks • Prev: 2

9

Ebony Eyes

The Everly Brothers

↑ 9

Peak: 8 • 12 wks • Prev: 18

10

Wheels

The String-A-Longs

—

Peak: 3 • 16 wks • Prev: 10

11

Will You Love Me Tomorrow

The Shirelles

↓ 8

Peak: 1 • 19 wks • Prev: 3

12

Baby Sittin' Boogie

Buzz Clifford

—

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 12

13

Good Time Baby

Bobby Rydell

↑ 1

Peak: 11 • 11 wks • Prev: 14

14

Exodus

Ferrante & Teicher

↓ 6

Peak: 2 • 21 wks • Prev: 8

15

Calendar Girl

Neil Sedaka

↓ 9

Peak: 4 • 15 wks • Prev: 6

16

Emotions

Brenda Lee

↓ 9

Peak: 7 • 12 wks • Prev: 7

17

Wings Of A Dove

Ferlin Husky

↓ 4

Peak: 12 • 18 wks • Prev: 13

18

Spanish Harlem

Ben E. King

↑ 3

Peak: 10 • 16 wks • Prev: 21

19

All In My Mind

Maxine Brown

—

Peak: 19 • 12 wks • Prev: 19

20

Apache

Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar

↑ 6

Peak: 2 • 17 wks • Prev: 26

21

Little Boy Sad

Johnny Burnette

↑ 4

Peak: 17 • 9 wks • Prev: 25

22

Angel On My Shoulder

Shelby Flint

↑ 6

Peak: 22 • 12 wks • Prev: 28

23

The Story Of My Love

Paul Anka

↓ 7

Peak: 16 • 8 wks • Prev: 16

24

You Can Have Her

Roy Hamilton

↑ 7

Peak: 12 • 10 wks • Prev: 31

25

Jimmy's Girl

Johnny Tillotson

↑ 2

Peak: 25 • 11 wks • Prev: 27

26

Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes)

Carla Thomas

↑ 14

Peak: 10 • 14 wks • Prev: 40

27

What A Price

Fats Domino

↓ 5

Peak: 22 • 9 wks • Prev: 22

28

Walk Right Back

The Everly Brothers

↑ 11

Peak: 7 • 13 wks • Prev: 39

29

Think Twice

Brook Benton

↑ 27

Peak: 11 • 12 wks • Prev: 56

30

Angel Baby

Rosie And The Originals

↓ 13

Peak: 5 • 13 wks • Prev: 17

31

Ram-Bunk-Shush

The Ventures

↑ 1

Peak: 29 • 9 wks • Prev: 32

32

Utopia

Frank Gari

↑ 2

Peak: 27 • 14 wks • Prev: 34

33

Ain't That Just Like A Woman

Fats Domino

↑ 2

Peak: 33 • 8 wks • Prev: 35

34

No One

Connie Francis

↑ 4

Peak: 34 • 8 wks • Prev: 38

35

Lazy River

Bobby Darin

↑ 2

Peak: 14 • 10 wks • Prev: 37

36

Wonderland By Night

Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra

↓ 16

Peak: 1 • 17 wks • Prev: 20

37

Wait A Minute

The Coasters

↑ 4

Peak: 37 • 8 wks • Prev: 41

38

Stayin' In

Bobby Vee

↑ 7

Peak: 33 • 7 wks • Prev: 45

39

(I Wanna) Love My Life Away

Gene Pitney

↑ 4

Peak: 39 • 8 wks • Prev: 43

40

Pepe

Duane Eddy His Twangy Guitar And The Rebels

↓ 7

Peak: 18 • 12 wks • Prev: 33

41

My Empty Arms

Jackie Wilson

↓ 18

Peak: 9 • 9 wks • Prev: 23

42

Your Friends

Dee Clark

↑ 11

Peak: 34 • 9 wks • Prev: 53

43

Wheels

Billy Vaughn And His Orchestra

↑ 12

Peak: 28 • 8 wks • Prev: 55

44

Hearts Of Stone

Bill Black's Combo

↑ 26

Peak: 20 • 8 wks • Prev: 70

45

Rubber Ball

Bobby Vee

↓ 9

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 36

46

Asia Minor

Kokomo

↑ 29

Peak: 8 • 14 wks • Prev: 75

47

Once In Awhile

The Chimes

↓ 18

Peak: 11 • 18 wks • Prev: 29

48

(Ghost) Riders In The Sky

Ramrods

↓ 18

Peak: 30 • 9 wks • Prev: 30

49

Havin' Fun

Dion

↑ 5

Peak: 42 • 6 wks • Prev: 54

50

For My Baby

Brook Benton

↑ 18

Peak: 28 • 8 wks • Prev: 68

51

At Last

Etta James

↑ 11

Peak: 47 • 8 wks • Prev: 62

52

The Tear Of The Year

Jackie Wilson

↑ 9

Peak: 44 • 7 wks • Prev: 61

53

I Count The Tears

The Drifters

↓ 9

Peak: 17 • 11 wks • Prev: 44

55

C'est Si Bon (It's So Good)

Conway Twitty

↓ 3

Peak: 22 • 10 wks • Prev: 52

56

There She Goes

Jerry Wallace

↓ 8

Peak: 26 • 10 wks • Prev: 48

57

Once Upon A Time

Rochell And The Candles With Johnny Wyatt

↑ 12

Peak: 26 • 13 wks • Prev: 69

58

Happy Birthday Blues

Kathy Young With The Innocents

↑ 21

Peak: 30 • 10 wks • Prev: 79

59

The Age For Love

Jimmy Charles

↓ 12

Peak: 47 • 12 wks • Prev: 47

60

The Watusi

The Vibrations

↑ 20

Peak: 25 • 8 wks • Prev: 80

61

I Don't Want To Cry

Chuck Jackson

↑ 15

Peak: 36 • 7 wks • Prev: 76

62

Are You Lonesome To-night?

Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires

↓ 4

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 58

63

Pony Express

Danny & The Juniors

↑ 34

Peak: 60 • 7 wks • Prev: 97

64

What Would I Do

Mickey & Sylvia

↓ 18

Peak: 46 • 9 wks • Prev: 46

65

When I Fall In Love

Etta Jones

↑ 2

Peak: 65 • 8 wks • Prev: 67

66

Corinna, Corinna

Ray Peterson

↓ 24

Peak: 9 • 15 wks • Prev: 42

67

The Most Beautiful Words

Della Reese

↑ 4

Peak: 67 • 5 wks • Prev: 71

68

Model Girl

Johnny Maestro

↓ 9

Peak: 20 • 12 wks • Prev: 59

69

Ginnie Bell

Paul Dino

↓ 6

Peak: 38 • 12 wks • Prev: 63

70

Bye Bye Baby

Mary Wells

↑ 2

Peak: 45 • 11 wks • Prev: 72

71

Please Love Me Forever

Cathy Jean and The Roommates

★ NEW

Peak: 12 • 12 wks

72

The Touchables

Dickie Goodman

↑ 11

Peak: 60 • 7 wks • Prev: 83

73

Pony Time

The Goodtimers

↑ 1

Peak: 60 • 9 wks • Prev: 74

74

Theme from Tunes Of Glory

The Cambridge Strings And Singers

↑ 21

Peak: 60 • 6 wks • Prev: 95

75

Keep Your Hands Off Of Him

Damita Jo

↑ 2

Peak: 75 • 5 wks • Prev: 77

76

To Be Loved (Forever)

The Pentagons

↑ 8

Peak: 48 • 10 wks • Prev: 84

77

But I Do

Clarence Henry

↑ 13

Peak: 4 • 16 wks • Prev: 90

78

Leave My Kitten Alone

Little Willie John

↓ 18

Peak: 60 • 15 wks • Prev: 60

80

Honky Tonk (Part 2)

Bill Doggett

↓ 2

Peak: 57 • 10 wks • Prev: 78

81

You're The Boss

LaVern Baker & Jimmy Ricks

↑ 5

Peak: 81 • 3 wks • Prev: 86

82

Let's Go Again (Where We Went Last Night)

Hank Ballard And The Midnighters

↑ 7

Peak: 39 • 6 wks • Prev: 89

83

Orange Blossom Special

Billy Vaughn And His Orchestra

↑ 13

Peak: 63 • 6 wks • Prev: 96

84

Lonely Man

Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires

★ NEW

Peak: 32 • 5 wks

85

A Texan And A Girl From Mexico

Anita Bryant

↑ 6

Peak: 85 • 4 wks • Prev: 91

86

Ja-Da

Johnny And The Hurricanes

★ NEW

Peak: 86 • 2 wks

87

Dream Boy

Annette With The Afterbeats

↑ 13

Peak: 87 • 2 wks • Prev: 100

88

If I Didn't Care

The Platters

↓ 23

Peak: 30 • 8 wks • Prev: 65

89

Cerveza

Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra

↑ 3

Peak: 73 • 6 wks • Prev: 92

90

Top Forty, News, Weather And Sports

Mark Dinning

↑ 9

Peak: 81 • 6 wks • Prev: 99

91

All Of Everything

Frankie Avalon

★ NEW

Peak: 70 • 4 wks

92

Leave My Kitten Alone

Johnny Preston

↓ 19

Peak: 73 • 5 wks • Prev: 73

93

The Exodus Song (This Land Is Mine)

Pat Boone

↓ 27

Peak: 64 • 6 wks • Prev: 66

94

Bewildered

James Brown And The Famous Flames

★ NEW

Peak: 40 • 8 wks

95

Won't Be Long

Aretha Franklin With The Ray Bryant Combo

★ NEW

Peak: 76 • 3 wks

96

More Than I Can Say

Bobby Vee

★ NEW

Peak: 61 • 5 wks

97

Tunes Of Glory

Mitch Miller With Orchestra And Chorus

★ NEW

Peak: 88 • 2 wks

98

A Lover's Question

Ernestine Anderson

★ NEW

Peak: 98 • 1 wks

99

Cherry Berry Wine

Charlie Mccoy

★ NEW

Peak: 99 • 1 wks

100

Battle Of Gettysburg

Fred Darian

★ NEW

Peak: 100 • 1 wks

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