List of Top 25 singles for 1960 in Australia
Table:
#	Title	Artist	Highest pos . reached	weeks at No . 1

1	It 's Now or Never	Elvis Presley	1	7

2	Boom Boom Baby	Crash Craddock	1	4

3	He 'll Have to Go	Jim Reeves	1	4

4	Are You Lonesome Tonight ? / I Got ta Know	Elvis Presley	1	6

5	Clap Your Hands	The Beau Marks	1	4

6	Just a Closer Walk with Thee	Jimmie Rodgers	1	2

7	Save the Last Dance for Me	The Drifters	1	4

8	Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport	Rolf Harris	1	3

9	What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For ?	Emile Ford and The Checkmates	1	4

10	My Old Man 's a Dustman	Lonnie Donegan	1	2

11	North to Alaska	Johnny Horton	2

12	Everybody 's Somebody 's Fool	Connie Francis	1	3

13	She 's My Baby / Own True Self	Johnny O'Keefe	1	1

14	Swingin ' School / Ding-A-Ling	Bobby Rydell	1	2

15	Peter Gunn	Duane Eddy	2

16	Walk Do n't Run	The Ventures	1	2

17	Beatnik Fly	Johnny and the Hurricanes	1	2

18	I Found a New Love / Defenceless	Lonnie Lee	2

19	Running Bear	Johnny Preston	2

20	Little Boy Lost	Johnny Ashcroft	3

Consulting the following table as well as the supporting evidence provided at the end.

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It 's Now or Never is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and released as a single in 1960 . The song is the best-selling single by Presley ( 20 million copies ) , and one of the best-selling singles of all time . It was recorded by Bill Porter at RCA Studio B in Nashville . It is written in E major and has a tempo of 80 BPM . In 1960 , It 's Now or Never was a number-one record in the U.S. for Elvis Presley , spending five weeks at number one and the UK , where it spent eight weeks at the top in 1960 and an additional week at number one in 2005 as a re-issue , and numerous other countries , selling in excess of 25 million copies worldwide , Elvis Presley 's biggest international single ever . Its British release was delayed for some time because of rights issues , allowing the song to build up massive advance orders and to enter the UK Singles Chart at number one , a very rare occurrence at the time . It 's Now or Never peaked at number seven on the R & B charts .
Elvis Aaron Presley [ a ] ( January 8 , 1935 - August 16 , 1977 ) , also known simply as Elvis , was an American singer and actor . Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century , he is often referred to as the King of Rock and Roll or simply The King . Presley was born in Tupelo , Mississippi , and relocated to Memphis , Tennessee , with his family when he was 13 years old . His music career began there in 1954 , recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips , who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience . Presley , on rhythm acoustic guitar , and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black , was a pioneer of rockabilly , an uptempo , backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues . In 1955 , drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley 's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker , who would manage him for more than two decades . Presley 's first RCA single , Heartbreak Hotel , was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States . With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records , he became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll . His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style , combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations , made him enormously popular - and controversial . In November 1956 , Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender . Drafted into military service in 1958 , Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work . He held few concerts however , and guided by Parker , proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums , most of them critically derided .
Boom Boom Baby is a song written by Dave Burgess . It became a number one hit in Australia when it was recorded by Crash Craddock in 1959 . It was released on the Columbia label in the United States and was released on the Coronet label in Australia . The flip side of the record , Do n't Destroy Me , reached # 94 on the charts in the U.S. A music video recorded for Boom Boom Baby was released in 1960 . [ citation needed ]
Billy Wayne Crash Craddock ( born June 16 , 1939 ) is an American country and rockabilly singer . He first gained popularity in Australia in the 1950s with a string of rockabilly hits , including the Australian number one hit Boom Boom Baby . Switching to country music , he gained popularity in United States in the 1970s with a string of top ten country hits , several of which were number one hits , including Rub It In , Broken Down in Tiny Pieces , and Ruby Baby . Craddock is known to his fans as The King Of Country Rock Music and Mr. Country Rock for his uptempo rock-influenced style of country music .
He 'll Have to Go is an American country and pop hit recorded on October 15 , 1959 , by Jim Reeves . The song , released in the fall of 1959 , went on to become a hit in both genres early in 1960 .
James Travis Reeves ( August 20 , 1923 - July 31 , 1964 ) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter . With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s , he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville sound ( a mixture of older country-style music with elements of popular music ) . Known as Gentleman Jim , his songs continued to chart for years after his death . Reeves died in the crash of his private airplane . He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame .
Are You Lonesome Tonight ? is a song written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926 . It was recorded several times in 1927 - first by Charles Hart , with successful versions by Vaughn De Leath , Henry Burr , and the duet of Jerry Macy and John Ryan . In 1950 the Blue Barron Orchestra version reached the top twenty on the Billboard 's Pop Singles chart . In April 1960 , after Elvis Presley 's two-year service in the United States Army , he recorded the song at the suggestion of manager Colonel Tom Parker ; Are You Lonesome Tonight ? was Parker 's wife , Marie Mott 's , favorite song . Its release was delayed by RCA Victor executives , who thought the song did not fit Presley 's new ( and publicized ) style . When Are You Lonesome Tonight ? was released in November 1960 it was an immediate success in the U.S. , topping Billboard 's Pop Singles chart and reaching number three on the R & B chart . A month after the song 's release , it topped the UK Singles Chart . Presley 's version was certified by the Recording Industry Association of America for a Gold Record Award for 1,000,000 copies sold in the United States in 1983 . It was upgraded by the RIAA to a 2xPlatinum Record Award for 2,000,000 sales in 1992 .
I Got ta Know is a song recorded by Cliff Richard in September 1959 and Elvis Presley on 4 April 1960 . The composer was Paul Evans ; lyrics are by Matt Williams . Originally released by Presley as the B-side of Are You Lonesome Tonight ? , it nevertheless reached number 14 on the charts . It was engineered by Nashville sound pioneer Bill Porter . The single with I Got ta Know on the B-side went on to be one of the biggest-selling singles of 1960 , peaking at number one on the Billboard pop chart from November 28 for six weeks and peaking at number three on the R & B charts . I Got ta Know is a love song in G major , described as a mild rocker . It is in the Doo-wop rhythm and blues style , progressing from G to C to D7 . Billboard published a list of the RCA Victor chartmakers of 1960 in the 19 December 1960 edition , which included the hit with other successful recordings made at the famous RCA Victor Studios in Nashville that year .
The Beau Marks were a Canadian rock music group formed in 1958 in Montreal , Quebec . Their first release , the April 1959 single Rockin ' Blues b/w Moonlight Party , came out under the name The Del-Tones , but the group changed their name soon afterward in a nod to the Bomarc missile . Their breakthrough hit was Clap Your Hands , which hit # 1 in Canada and Australia , peaked at # 45 on the US Billboard pop charts , and # 40 on Cashbox . The tune was also released in French as Frappe Tes Mains and a Quebec version as Tape des mains , lyrics by late Michel A. Lebel , as one of Rock n ' Roll Queen Lucie Marotte 's finale favorites . Their debut , ten-track full-length came out in 1960 ; they appeared on American Bandstand and at a charity concert at Carnegie Hall soon afterwards . Two more albums followed before the group broke up in 1963 ; a 1968 reunion saw Clap Your Hands get a re-release . The first Canadian band to be headliners at the Peppermint Lounge in N-Y and to be invited at the Ed Sullivan Show .
Just a Closer Walk with Thee is a traditional gospel song that has been performed and recorded by many artists . Performed as either an instrumental or vocal , A Closer Walk is perhaps the most frequently played number in the hymn and dirge section of traditional New Orleans jazz funerals . The title and lyrics of the song allude to the Biblical passage from 2 Corinthians 5:7 which states , We walk by faith , not by sight and James 4:8 , Come near to God and he will come near to you .
James Frederick Rodgers ( born September 18 , 1933 in Camas , Washington ) is an American singer . Rodgers had a run of hits and mainstream popularity in the 1950s and 1960s . His string of crossover singles ranked highly on the Billboard Pop Singles , Hot Country and Western Sides and Hot Rhythm and Blues Sides charts ; in the 1960s , Rodgers had more modest successes with adult contemporary music . He is not related to the earlier country singer Jimmie C. Rodgers , who coincidentally died the same year the younger Rodgers was born . Among country audiences , the younger Rodgers is often known as Jimmie F. Rodgers to differentiate the two .
Save the Last Dance for Me is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman , first recorded in 1960 by the Drifters , with Ben E. King on lead vocals .
The Drifters are an American doo-wop and R & B/soul vocal group . They were originally formed as a backing group for Clyde McPhatter , formerly the lead tenor of Billy Ward and his Dominoes in 1953 . According to Rolling Stone magazine , the Drifters were the least stable of the great vocal groups , as they were low-paid musicians hired by George Treadwell , who owned the Drifters ' name from 1955 , after McPhatter left . There have been 60 vocalists in the history of the Treadwell Drifters line , including several splinter groups by former Drifters members ( not under Treadwell 's management ) . These groups are usually identified with a possessive credit such as Bill Pinkney 's Original Drifters , Charlie Thomas ' Drifters . There were three golden eras of the Drifters ; the early 1950s , the 1960s , and the early 1970s ( post-Atlantic period ) . From these , the first Drifters , formed by Clyde McPhatter , was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as The Drifters . The second Drifters , featuring Ben E. King , was separately inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as Ben E. King and the Drifters . In their induction , the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame selected four members from the first Drifters , two from the second Drifters , and one from the post-Atlantic Drifters . According to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame : Through turmoil and changes , the ( original ) Drifters managed to set musical trends and give the public 13 chart hits , most of which are legendary recordings today . Matching that feat , subsequent formations of the Drifters recorded 13 Billboard Hot 100 top 30 chart hits . The 1950s and 60s incarnations of the group were also a force on the US R & B charts , notching six number one R & B hits : Money Honey ( 1953 ) , Honey Love ( 1954 ) , Adorable ( 1955 ) , There Goes My Baby ( 1959 ) , Save The Last Dance For Me ( 1960 ) and Under The Boardwalk ( 1964 ) .
Tie Me Kangaroo Down , Sport is a song written by Australian singer Rolf Harris in 1957 which became a hit around the world in the 1960s in two recordings ( 1960 in Australia , New Zealand and the United Kingdom for the original , and 1963 with a re-recording of his song in the United States ) . Inspired by Harry Belafonte 's calypsos , most noticeably The Jack-Ass Song , it is about an Australian stockman on his deathbed . The song is one of the best-known and most successful Australian songs . Harris originally offered four unknown Australian backing musicians 10% of the royalties for the song in 1960 , but they decided to take a recording fee of £28 among them because they thought the song would be a flop . The recording peaked at No . 1 in the Australian charts and was a Top 10 hit in the UK in 1960 . In 1963 , Harris re-recorded the song in the UK with George Martin as producer , and this remake of the song reached No . 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and spent three weeks atop the easy listening chart in 1963 . Harris re-recorded his song a second time along with The Wiggles in 2000 with the introductory verse and the verse mentioning the stockman 's death omitted . It is still popular today as a children 's song . The distinctive sound of Harris 's original recording was achieved by the use of an instrument of his own design called the wobble board - a two-by-three-foot piece of hardboard . Other versions were recorded by Connie Francis ( for her album Connie Francis and The Kids Next Door 1966 ) and by Pat Boone .
Rolf Harris ( born 30 March 1930 ) is an Australian entertainer whose career has encompassed work as a musician , singer-songwriter , composer , comedian , actor , painter and television personality . He was convicted in 2014 of the sexual assault of four underage girls , which effectively ended his career . Harris is known for his songs Tie Me Kangaroo Down , Sport ( a Top 10 hit in Australia , the UK , and the United States ) and Jake the Peg and his recording of Two Little Boys ( which reached number 1 in the UK ) . He often used unusual instruments in his performances : he played the didgeridoo ; is credited with the invention of the wobble board ; and is associated with the Stylophone . During the 1960s and 1970s , Harris became a successful television personality in the UK , later presenting shows such as Rolf 's Cartoon Club and Animal Hospital . In 2005 , he painted an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II . He lived in Bray , Berkshire , England , for more than six decades . In July 2014 , at the age of 84 , Harris was jailed for five years and nine months in prison on twelve counts of indecent assault on four teenage female victims during the 1970s and 1980s . He was released on licence in 2017 after serving nearly three years . Following his conviction , he was stripped of many of the honours that he had been awarded during his career , including the AO and CBE .
What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For ? is a song written by Joseph McCarthy , Howard Johnson and James V. Monaco in 1916 . It was released in 1917 by Ada Jones and Billy Murray on Victor Records ( catalogue number 18224 ) .
Michael Emile Telford Miller ( 16 October 1937 - 11 April 2016 ) , known professionally as Emile Ford , was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia . He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates , who had a number one hit in late 1959 with What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For ? . He was also a pioneering sound engineer .
My Old Man 's a Dustman is a song first recorded by the British skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan . It reached number one in the British , Irish , Australian , Canadian , and New Zealand singles charts in 1960 . The chorus of the song is : .
Anthony James Donegan MBE ( 29 April 1931 - 3 November 2002 ) , known as Lonnie Donegan , was a British skiffle singer , songwriter and musician , referred to as the King of Skiffle , who influenced 1960s British pop and rock musicians . Born in Scotland and raised in England , he was Britain 's most successful and influential recording artist before The Beatles . Donegan had 31 UK Top 30 single hits , 24 being successive and three at number one . He was the first British male singer with two US Top 10 hits . Donegan received an Ivor Novello lifetime achievement award in 1995 and , in 2000 , he was made an MBE .
North to Alaska is a 1960 comedic Western/Northern film directed by Henry Hathaway and John Wayne ( uncredited ) . The picture stars Wayne along with Stewart Granger , Ernie Kovacs , Fabian , and Capucine . The script is based on the play Birthday Gift by Ladislas Fodor and is set during the Nome gold rush . The movie featured Johnny Horton 's song North to Alaska , sung during the opening titles , setting up an introduction to the story .
John LaGale Horton ( April 30 , 1925 - November 5 , 1960 ) was an American country music , honky tonk and rockabilly singer and musician , during the 1950s and early 1960s , best known for his international hits beginning with the 1959 single The Battle of New Orleans , which was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording . The song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award and in 2001 ranked No . 333 of the Recording Industry Association of America 's Songs of the Century . His first No . 1 country song was in 1959 , When It 's Springtime in Alaska ( It 's Forty Below ) . Horton 's music usually encompassed folk ballads based on American historic themes and legend . He had two successes in 1960 with both Sink the Bismarck and North to Alaska utilized over the opening credits for the John Wayne film of the same name . Horton died in November 1960 at the peak of his fame in a traffic collision , less than two years after his breakthrough . Horton is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame .
Everybody 's Somebody 's Fool is a song written by Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield that was a No . 1 hit for Connie Francis in 1960 . A polka-style version in German , Die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel , was the first German single recorded and released by Connie Francis , and it reached No . 1 on the single chart in 1960 in West Germany .
Connie Francis ( born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero ) is an American pop singer , former actress , and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s . Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s , Francis remained a top concert draw . Despite several severe interruptions in her career , she is still active as a recording and performing artist .
John Michael O'Keefe ( 19 January 1935 - 6 October 1978 ) was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s . Some of his hits include Wild One ( 1958 ) , Shout ! and She 's My Baby . In his twenty-year career , O'Keefe released over fifty singles , 50 EPs and 100 albums . O'Keefe was also a radio and television entertainer and presenter Often referred to by his initials J.O.K . or by his nickname The Wild One , O'Keefe was the first Australian rock n ' roll performer to tour the United States , and the first Australian artist to make the local Top 40 charts . He had twenty-nine Top 40 hits in Australia between 1958 and 1973 . O'Keefe was the younger brother of Australian jurist Barry O'Keefe ( a former head of the New South Wales ICAC ) . His father , Alderman Ray O'Keefe , was Mayor of Waverley Council in the early 1960s . Through Barry , O'Keefe was the uncle of Australian television personality Andrew O'Keefe . O'Keefe died in 1978 from a drug overdose .
Swingin ' School is a song released in 1960 by Bobby Rydell . The song was from the film Because They 're Young . Swingin ' School spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart , peaking at No . 5 , while reaching No . 11 in Flanders , No . 18 in Wallonia , and No . 44 in the UK 's Record Retailer chart . Paired with its flip-side , Ding-A-Ling , Swingin ' School reached No . 1 in Australia and No . 2 on Canada 's CHUM Hit Parade .
Ding-A-Ling is a song released by Bobby Rydell in 1960 . The song spent 11 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart , peaking at No . 18 . Paired with its flip-side , Swingin ' School , Ding-A-Ling reached No . 1 in Australia and No . 2 on Canada 's CHUM Hit Parade .
Bobby Rydell ( born Robert Louis Ridarelli ; April 26 , 1942 ) is an American singer , mainly of rock and roll music . In the early 1960s , he was considered a teen idol . His most well known songs include Wild One and Volare ( cover ) , and he appeared in the movie Bye Bye Birdie in 1963 .
Peter Gunn is the theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the television show of the same name . The song was the opening track on the original soundtrack album , The Music from Peter Gunn , released in 1959 . Mancini won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Arrangement .
Duane Eddy ( born April 26 , 1938 ) is an American guitarist . In the late 1950s and early 1960s , he had a string of hit records produced by Lee Hazlewood , which were noted for their characteristically twangy sound , including Rebel-'Rouser , Peter Gunn , and Because They 're Young . He had sold 12 million records by 1963 . He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 , and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008 .
Walk , Do n't Run is a 1966 Technicolor comedy film directed by Charles Walters , and starring Cary Grant in his final film role , Samantha Eggar and Jim Hutton . The film is a remake of the 1943 film The More the Merrier and is set during the Olympic Games .
The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band , formed in 1958 in Tacoma , Washington , by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle . The band , a quartet for most of its existence , helped to popularize the electric guitar in the United States and across the world during the 1960s . While their popularity in the United States waned in the 1970s , the group remains especially revered in Japan , where they tour regularly to this day . The classic lineup of the band consisted of Wilson ( rhythm guitar ) , Bogle ( initially lead guitar , switched to bass ) , Nokie Edwards ( initially bass , switched to lead guitar ) , and Mel Taylor ( drums ) . Their first wide-release single , Walk , Do n't Run , brought international fame to the group , and is often cited as one of the top songs ever recorded for guitar . In the 1960s and early 1970s , 38 of the band 's albums charted in the US , ranking them as the 6th best album chart performer during the 1960s , and the band had 14 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 . With over 100 million records sold , the Ventures are the best-selling instrumental band of all time . The Ventures have had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide . The band was among the first to employ and popularize fuzz and flanging guitar effects , concept albums , and twelve-string guitars in rock music . Their instrumental virtuosity , innovation , and unique sound influenced many musicians and bands , earning the group the moniker The Band that Launched a Thousand Bands . Their recording of Walk , Do n't Run was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for its lasting impact , and in 2008 the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
Jimmy Crack Corn or Blue Tail Fly is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels . It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children 's song . Over the years , several variants have appeared . Most versions include some idiomatic African English , although sanitized General American versions now predominate . The basic narrative remains intact . On the surface , the song is a black slave 's lament over his white master 's death in a horseriding accident . The song , however , can be - and is - interpreted as having a subtext of celebration about that death and of the slave 's having contributed to it through deliberate negligence or even deniable action .
Johnny and the Hurricanes were an American instrumental rock and roll band from Toledo , Ohio , United States . They specialized in adapting popular traditional melodies into the rock idiom , using organ and saxophone as their featured instruments . Between 1959 and 1961 , the group had a number of hits in both the US and the UK , and the band developed a following in Europe . In 1962 , they played at the Star-Club in Hamburg , where the Beatles , then a little-known band , served as an opening act . The band continued as a live act through 2005 ; leader Johnny Paris died in 2006 .
Walls is the debut album by English singer and songwriter Louis Tomlinson , released on 31 January 2020 throughout Arista Records . It has spawned five singles : Two of Us , Kill My Mind , We Made It , Do n't Let It Break Your Heart and Walls . The album was met with mixed reviews but was also commercially successful .
Lonnie Lee is the stage name of David Laurence Rix ( born 18 September 1940 ) , an Australian singer , who has fronted Lonnie Lee and the Leeman and Lonnie Lee and the Leedons . He is a pioneer of Australian rockabilly music and has worked in the industry for 60 years . At the peak of his career , Lee had eight top 100 singles , which included three top 20s , Ai n't It So ( November 1959 ) , Starlight Star Bright ( January 1960 ) and I Found a New Love ( September ) . He achieved five gold records . His last single , Sad Over Someone , was in 1969 , and he continued to tour and perform into the 2000s .
Running Bear is a song written by Jiles Perry Richardson ( a.k.a . The Big Bopper ) and sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959 . The 1959 recording featured background vocals by Richardson , George Jones , and the session 's producer Bill Hall , who provided the Indian chanting of uga-uga during the three verses , as well as the Indian war cries at the start and end of the record . It was No . 1 for three weeks in January 1960 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States . The song also reached No . 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1960 . Coincidentally , Running Bear was immediately preceded in the Hot 100 No . 1 position by Marty Robbins ' El Paso , another song in which the protagonist dies . Billboard ranked Running Bear as the No . 4 song of 1960 . Richardson was a friend of Preston and offered Running Bear to him after hearing him perform in a club .
Johnny Preston ( August 18 , 1939 - March 4 , 2011 ) was an American pop singer , best known for his international number one hit in 1960 , Running Bear .
Little Boy Lost is an Australian single released by Johnny Ashcroft in early 1960 . He composed the song from a lyric idea put forward by the disc jockey Tony Withers . It is based on the successful search for Steven Walls , a four-year-old boy from a farm in the New England Ranges in February 1960 .
Johnny Ashcroft OAM FAIHA ( born 1 February 1927 ) in North Sydney , Australia ) is a retired Australian country music and folk entertainer , singer , songwriter , and musician , who has also recorded both skiffle and jazz music . He is married to fellow performer Gay Kayler , whom he has recorded with on numerous occasions .