Top 100 Music Albums of 1961
by Moondance 
In 1961, I was 5 and had started kindergarden. Our family (2 parents & 6 kids) had moved to Blacktown (western suburbs of Sydney, Australia). We had our first TV - black & white, with only 3 channels. The TV also housed a radio & a record player.
The songs I remember most vividly from that year are: The Lion Sleeps Tonight (& I still love that song!); Runaway; Wooden Heart; My Boomerang Won't Come Back; Baby Face: Hit The Road Jack.
I get the sense that I was already forging a tight connection to modern music by this age as I would sing songs I heard on the radio as I went about the business of being 5 - walking to/from school; hanging out with neighbourhood friends.
In terms of ranking the year (1961) from the 63 years between 1960 - 2022, it is not going to get above #62 of 63. Apart from a few songs, there is not much that connects me the the artists, the albums, the era.
- Chart updated: 04/21/2025 23:45
- (Created: 09/14/2020 04:28).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1961 composition
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| Ray Charles | 3 | 3% | |
| Lightnin' Hopkins | 3 | 3% | |
| Jimmy Reed | 2 | 2% | |
| Sarah Vaughan | 2 | 2% | |
| The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem | 2 | 2% | |
| The Miracles | 2 | 2% | |
| Sam Cooke | 2 | 2% | |
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75 | 75% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1961 chart changes
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| Up 9 from 24th to 15th King Of The Delta Blues Singers by Robert Johnson |
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| Down 2 from 23rd to 25th Two Steps From The Blues by Bobby Bland |
| Down 1 from 15th to 16th Take Good Care Of My Baby by Bobby Vee |
| Down 1 from 16th to 17th Songs To Grow On By Woody Guthrie by Ramblin' Jack Elliott |
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