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THURSDAY BACKTRACK: Music and news from 60 years ago - week ending 30 September 1961

Thursday, September 30, 2021 2:22

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At #6 this week is Billy Fury’s ‘Jealousy’:

Some memorable events (via Wikipedia):

25 September: “Wisconsin became the first state in the United States to require the installation of seat belts as standard equipment in motor vehicles, as Governor Gaylord Nelson signed into law a bill directing that all 1962 and later model cars and trucks were required to include the safety belts before they could be sold. In the first six months that the law was in effect, all but one belt wearer had survived a car accident in the state.”
See also: https://www.wpr.org/surprisingly-controversial-history-seat-belts and the invention of the modern three-point seat belt by Volvo’s Nils Bohlin: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/three-point-seatbelt-inventor-nils-bohlin-born

26 September: The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) came into being, per the Arms Control and Disarmament Act, Pub.L. 87–297, 75 Stat. 631. Its mission was to strengthen United States national security by “formulating, advocating, negotiating, implementing and verifying effective arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policies, strategies, and agreements.”
As of April 1, 1999, ACDA was abolished and its functions merged into the Department of State.

27 September: The first episode of cartoon series Top Cat airs on USA’s ABC network TV. See it here:

https://archive.org/details/SinTtulo1640x3600.49Mbps20190607003657

29 September: “Minutes after Fidel Castro announced that he was going to “clean up” Havana, the last casinos in Cuba were closed. At the time of the revolution, there had been 25 gambling casinos. Five were left, all in government operated hotels, at the time of the order.”

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UK chart hits, week ending 30 September 1961 (tracks in italics have been played in earlier posts)

Htp: Clint’s labour-of love compilation https://www.sixtiescity.net/charts/61chart.htm

Kon-Tiki

The Shadows

Columbia

Johnny Remember Me

John Leyton

Top Rank

Wild In The Country / I Feel So Bad

Elvis Presley

RCA

Michael Row The Boat

The Highwaymen

HMV

You Don’t Know

Helen Shapiro

Columbia

Jealousy

Billy Fury

Decca

Get Lost

Eden Kane

Decca

Reach For The Stars / Climb Every Mountain

Shirley Bassey

Columbia

Hats Off To Larry

Del Shannon

London

Together

Connie Francis

MGM

You’ll Answer To Me

Cleo Laine

Fontana

Michael Row The Boat / Lumbered

Lonnie Donegan

Pye

Walkin’ Back To Happiness

Helen Shapiro

Columbia

Cupid

Sam Cooke

RCA

Sea Of Heartbreak

Don Gibson

RCA

Granada

Frank Sinatra

Reprise

Halfway To Paradise

Billy Fury

Decca

Ain’t Gonna Wash For A Week

The Brook Brothers

Pye

That’s My Home

Acker Bilk

Columbia

I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door

Eddie Hodges

London

Source: http://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2021/09/thursday-backtrack-music-and-news-from_01060483703.html

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