Year
1961 in music
60 albums released in 1961 are catalogued on Riffiter, ranked by popularity and community ratings.
At Last!
Etta James
★ 4.0 · 2
My Favorite Things
John Coltrane
Blue Hawaii
Elvis Presley
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Olé Coltrane
John Coltrane
The Nat King Cole Story
Nat King Cole
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Something for Everybody
Elvis Presley
Forbidden Fruit
Nina Simone
The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
My Kind of Blues
Sam Cooke
Nat King Cole Sings / George Shearing Plays
Nat King Cole
Royal Flush
Donald Byrd
Spanish Harlem
Ben E. King
★ 3.0 · 1
The Genius After Hours
Ray Charles
New Juke Box Hits
Chuck Berry
King of the Delta Blues Singers
Robert Johnson
Joan Baez, Vol. 2
Joan Baez
Come Swing With Me!
Frank Sinatra
That'll Be the Day
Buddy Holly
I Remember Tommy
Frank Sinatra
Free Form
Donald Byrd
Viva a Brotolândia
Elis Regina
So Much Guitar!
Wes Montgomery
The Divine One
Sarah Vaughan
Goin' Up
Freddie Hubbard
The Shadows
The Shadows
The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
Pre Bird
Charles Mingus
The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
If You Go
Peggy Lee
Gooden's Corner
Grant Green
Shirley Bassey
Shirley Bassey
Listen to Cliff
Cliff Richard
Eastern Sounds
Yusef Lateef
My Heart Sings
Tony Bennett
Blues on Highway 49
Big Joe Williams
Bo Diddley Is a Lover
Bo Diddley
Rick Is 21
Ricky Nelson
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
The Staple Singers
Tears and Laughter
Dinah Washington
Otello
Giuseppe Verdi
Sure Things
Little Willie John
Cannonball Enroute
Cannonball Adderley
Bye, Bye Baby, I Don't Want to Take a Chance
Mary Wells
Grantstand
Grant Green
Ya! Ya!
Lee Dorsey
Buck Owens
Buck Owens
Grant's First Stand
Grant Green
Christmas With the Louvin Brothers
The Louvin Brothers
Here 'Tis
Lou Donaldson
Encore
The Louvin Brothers
Gee Whiz
Carla Thomas
The Duke of Earl
Gene Chandler
The Versatile Burl Ives
Burl Ives
Symphony no. 6
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen & West Side Story
Cal Tjader
Cellokonzert / Rokoko Variationen
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Kenton's West Side Story
Stan Kenton
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald
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