It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).

* 1961 – Eva O, American musician, singer / song writer ( Christian Death, Shadow Project and Super Heroines )

" Meet the Mets " is the Mets ' signature song, written in 1961, one year before the first season, by Bill Katz and Ruth Roberts.

" Crying " followed in July 1961 and reached number 2 ; it was coupled with an R & B up-tempo song titled " Candy Man " written by Fred Neil and Beverley Ross, which reached the Billboard Top 30, staying on the charts for two months.

Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in Jack L. Warner's Brushfire ( 1961 ), and Marshall Thompson's A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and To the Shores of Hell ( 1966 ), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of John Wayne's The Green Berets based on the best-selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song " Ballad of the Green Berets ".

His most famous recording is Music of the Rainforest Pygmies, recorded in 1961, now released on CD by Lyrichord Discs, Inc. His recording of a Zaire pygmy girls ' initiation song was used on the Voyager Golden Record.

In 1961, Jaap Valkhoff wrote the lyrics which became popular among Feyenoord supporters who adopted the song as their unofficial hymn.

The song also was featured in the movie The Eddie Cantor Story and was the theme of the television series of the same name in 1961 – 1962.

The 1961 doo-wop arrangement of the Rodgers and Hart song " Blue Moon " by The Marcels so incensed Rodgers that he wanted to litigate.

* Etta James recorded the song in 1961 on her debut album At Last !.

* 15 year-old Gitte Haenning recorded the song in 1961 on the Danish HMV Label ( X 8439 )

In 1961, French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg paid tribute to " Les feuilles mortes " in his own song " La chanson de Prévert.

In 1961 Eddie offered Sylvie to record the song " Panne d ' essence " with the French rocker Frankie Jordan.

By the beginning of December 1961 the EP with the title song " Quand le film est triste ", covering Sue Thompson's " Sad Movies ( Make Me Cry )" was on sale.

He was an American singer, who performed with Count Basie's band from 1961 to 1965 and sang on the 1969 Grammy Award-winning recording of the song " Little Green Apples ".

In 1961, Bristol gained national attention when the song " Bristol Stomp ", by The Dovells hit # 2 on the Billboard pop chart.

In 1961, Bristol gained national attention when the song " Bristol Stomp ", by The Dovells hit # 2 on the Billboard pop chart.

The song cycle La courte paille was written for her ( and her child ) in 1960, and La dame de Monte Carlo in 1961.

* " Surrender " ( Elvis Presley song ), 1961

* In 1961, the 7094 became the first computer to sing, singing the song Daisy Bell.

However, many Japanese music critics complained about rockabilly, and Hideo Murata's 1961 " pure Japanese style "- like song " Ōsho ," composed by Toru Funamura, became a million-selling single in Japan.

When Kyu Sakamoto took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen for the first time with the song " Ue o Muite Arukō " ( aka " Sukiyaki ") in 1961, Hideo Murata also made his debut with the song " Ōsho " at the same show.

In early 1961, James released what was to become her signature song, " At Last ", which reached number two on the R & B chart and number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100.

* Top Cat ( 1961 – 1962, ABC )

From 1959 to 1960 series Loopy De Loop and The Flintstones, softly orchestrated themes, some of them almost sounding concrete music and some played only by accordion, were used in other H-B cartons between 1961 and 1963 – like Top Cat, Snagglepuss, Touché Turtle, Wally Gator and the Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound 1961 seasons and all of its segments – and eventually between 1964 and 1967, and rarely then until the eighties.

Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest ( 1937 ), Algiers ( 1938 ), Gaslight ( 1944 ) and Fanny ( 1961 ), the latter also winning him a nomination for the Laurel Awards for Top Male Dramatic Performance.

Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network.

The trio had six songs on the US Top 100 between 1961 and 1963.

Among her Top Ten hits on the Hot 100 were " Breakin ' in a Brand New Broken Heart " ( 1961, # 7 ), " When the Boy in Your Arms ( Is the Boy in Your Heart )" ( 1961, # 10 ), " Second Hand Love " ( 1962, # 9 ), and " Where the Boys Are " ( 1961, # 4 ).

By the late 1950s, increasingly explicit films began to appear, such as Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 ), and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs ( 1961 ).

* Reach for the Top premieres on CBC ( 1961 – 1984 ).

Some of his noteworthy films include The Front Page ( 1931 ), Trouble in Paradise ( 1932 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Top Hat ( 1935, one of several Astaire / Rogers films in which Horton appeared ), Danger-Love at Work ( 1937 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

It was followed up, successfully, by " Don't Worry ", which reached No. 3 on the pop chart in 1961, becoming his third, and last, Top 10 pop hit.

Her 1961 recording of Sailor became her first No. 1 hit in the U. K., while such follow-up recordings as Romeo and My Friend the Sea landed her in the British Top Ten later that year.

* Top Secret ( TV series ), a 1961 British series starring William Franklyn

In 1961, Top Rank was taken over by EMI, and in 1962 they replaced it with Stateside Records.

Wells became the first Motown female artist to have a Top 40 pop single after the Mickey Stevenson-penned doo-wop song, " I Don't Want to Take a Chance ", hit No. 33 in June, 1961.

The televised Reach for the Top series was first shown on CBC Television affiliate CBUT in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1961, based on the BBC series Top of the Form.

Lindsay, on the strength of their Top 40 single, toured the U. S. in summer 1961 with a band that featured Leon Russell filling in for Revere on piano.

His flow of Top 30 hits during this period included: " Stairway to Heaven " ( No. 9, 1960 ); " You Mean Everything to Me " ( No. 17, 1960 ); " Run, Samson, Run " ( No. 27, 1960 ); " Calendar Girl " ( No. 4, 1961 ; also reached No. 1 on the Japanese pop charts ); " Little Devil " ( No. 11, 1961 ); " Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen " ( No. 6, 1961 ); his signature song, " Breaking Up Is Hard To Do " ( No. 1, two weeks: August 11 and 18, 1962 ); and " Next Door to an Angel " ( No. 5, 1962 ).

* Forty Shades of Green is a visual term for rural Ireland, Johnny Cash popularised it with his 1961 song of the name.

His essay, " The Passing of the Church: Forty Variations on an Unpopular Theme ," which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Church History, touched off a short but furious debate within the journal's pages in 1961.