Top Adult Contemporary Songs of 1961 Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

19th century folk song
[United Artists 258]
written by traditional

[spoken]
[Columbia 4-42175]
written by Jimmy Dean

with The Leon Young String Chorale
instrumental
[Atco 6217]
written by Acker Bilk & Robert Mellin

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #394] charted as Rock-A-Hula Baby/Can't Help Falling in Love in UK charts
[RCA Victor 47-7968]
written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore & George David Weiss

instrumental
[Kapp 442]
written by Vasilii Petrovich Soloviev-Sedoy & Kenny Ball

charted as His Latest Flame / Little Sister in UK charts
[RCA Victor 47-7908]
written by Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman

[Dot 16209]
written by Gary Daniel Bruce

[novelty]
[Mercury 71820]
written by traditional

#1 hit for Paul Whiteman in 1928
[MGM 13019]
written by Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown

based on german folk song Muss I Denn
[Smash 1708]
written by Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey & Bert Kaempfert

[Decca 9-31330]
written by Hank Cochran

[Liberty 55343]
written by Al Jacobs & Jimmie Crane

[Dot 16284]
written by Paul Evans & Fred Tobias

instrumental
[Columbia 41479]
written by Paul Desmond

instrumental
[Hi Fi 5024]
written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith & Norman Luboff

[Hickory 1153]
written by John D. Loudermilk

[Coed 550]
written by Mark Barkan, Sandy Baron & George Eddy

instrumental
[RCA Victor 47-7893]
written by Bob Wills

as Bob Moore and his Orchestra
instrumental
[Monument 446]
written by Boudleaux Bryant

[Warwick 636]
written by Leslie Bricusse

hit for Doris Day in 1952
[Capitol 4658]
written by Victor Young & Edward Heyman

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #85]
[Decca 31317]
written by Willie Nelson

[Canadian American 127]
written by Linda Scott

Grammy Award for Record of the Year 1962
[RCA 47-7916]
written by Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer

instrumental
[United Artists 373]
written by Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim

#1 hit for Fred Astaire in 1936
[Capitol 4586]
written by Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #238]
[Decca 31205]
written by Hank Cochran & Harlan Howard

[Coed 553]
written by Scott David & Larry Kusik

[Vee-Jay 405]
written by Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer

[Capitol 4533]
written by Willie Nelson

[MGM 13051]
written by Sid Tepper & Roy Bennett

#1 hit for Guy Lombardo in 1937
[Mercury 71876]
written by Harry Warren & Al Dubin

hit for Wayne King in 1931
[Canadian American 129]
written by Roy Turk & Fred E. Ahlert

live [novelty] [mr. blue, alley oop, smoke gets in your eyes, in this whole wide world, a worried man, tom dooley, a teenager in love]
[Capitol 4599]
written by various

R Christmas
[Decca 23778]
written by Irving Berlin

traditional american ballad, copyrighted in 1850
[United Artists 370]
written by Lead Belly

[Cadence 1402]
written by Manos Hadjidakis & Billy Towne

[novelty] [spoken] parody of "big bad john"
[Versatile 107]
written by Eddie Deane & Sunny Skylar

with Billy May & His Orchestra
[Reprise 20010]
written by Dorothy Dodd & Agustín Lara

Christmas US B side to When the Boy in Your Arms (Is the Boy in Your Heart)
[MGM 13051]
written by Benny Davis & Ted Murry

[Mercury 71859]
written by traditional

[Atlantic 2114]
written by Virgil Stewart

[comedy] live
[Kapp 409]
written by Vinnie Bogert, Bill Dana, Joe Hamilton, Don Hinckley, Coleman Jacoby, Arne Rosen & Neil Simon

[Dot 16244]
written by Bob Elgin & Robert Mosely

#1 hit for Tommy Dorsey in 1940
[Mercury 71847]
written by Ruth Lowe

R Christmas
[20th Century Fox 121]
written by Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati & Harry Simeone

[RCA Victor 47-7959]
written by Don Gibson

[Capitol 4553]
written by Wanda Jackson

[Capitol 4623]
written by Mark Barkan, Sandy Baron & George Eddy

[United Artists 370]
written by Leo Maguire

[Dunes 2006]
written by Dale Noe & Red Sovine

[Columbia 42065]
written by Marty Robbins

[Mercury 71906]
written by Hank Cochran

[Reprise 20040]
written by Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen

[Amazon 1003]
written by Richard Berry

[RCA Victor 47-7950]
written by Bill Anderson & Buddy Killen

instrumental
[Cadence 1392]
written by Avery Robinson

R instrumental
[United Artists 234]
written by Manos Hadjidakis & Billy Towne

[Liberty 55375]
written by Charlie Chaplin, John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons

as David Seville and The Chipmunks
R Christmas
[Liberty 55168]
written by Ross Bagdasarian Sr.

US B side to Frankie and Johnny
[Mercury 71859]
written by Teddy Randazzo, Cirino Colacrai, Brook Benton & Clyde Otis

instrumental
[Warwick 654]
written by Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed

instrumental
[Liberty 55374]
written by Hoagy Carmichael & Sidney Arodin

[7 Arts 719]
written by Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim

[Mercury 71823]
written by Sherman Edwards & Hal David

[Mercury 71823]
written by Lefty Frizzell

instrumental
[Kapp 364]
written by Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim

[Smash 1717]
written by Fred Wise & Ben Weisman

instrumental
[Decca 31279]
written by Bert Kaempfert & Milt Gabler

as David Seville and The Chipmunks
R Christmas
[Liberty 55289]
written by Johnny Marks

[Reprise 20023]
written by Sammy Fain & Irving Kahal

[Dot 16255]
written by John D. Loudermilk

[Coral 62276]
written by Gene Autry & Fred Rose

[Coed 556]
written by Arthur Kent & Ed Warren

[Crest 1087]
written by Jerry Capehart

[Everest 19418]
written by Bernie Friedman & Ollie Jones

instrumental
[Dot 16262]
written by Heino Gaze

[Columbia 42199]
written by Frederick Weatherly

[United Artists 335]
written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

[United Artists 364]
written by Kurt Adams & Sammy Gallop

[Capitol 4582]
written by Charles Singleton

instrumental
[Landa 674]
written by Dimitri Tiomkin & Paul Francis Webster

[spoken]
[Roulette 4384]
written by Eddie Deane & Al Dredick

instrumental from the movie Come September
[Dot 16262]
written by Bobby Darin

US B side to Hurt
[Liberty 55343]
written by Al Hoffman, Ed Nelson & Al Goodhart

as Ray Ellis and His Orchestra
instrumental
[RCA 7888]
written by Dino Verde & Nino Rota

instrumental
[Mercury 71869]
written by Oscar Washington, Lewis P. Simpkins & Jimmy Forrest

[Columbia 42246]
written by Marty Robbins

R [re-recording]
[Capitol 4593]
written by Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson & Bill Borrelli

B side to Danny Boy
[Columbia 42199]
written by Ritchie Adams & Neval Nader

US B side to My Claire De Lune
[United Artists 335]
written by Lynn Paul

[Mercury 71854]
written by Cowboy Copas & Lois Mann

live
[Verve 10237]
written by Sam Coslow