1960 Top 100

[daddytodd]

Swiped from danthered

Top 100 songs the year I was born.

Directions: Go to Musicoutfitters and put your birth year into the search field. The first link is likely the top 100 songs of that year. Cut and paste that list here.

I had to change the rest of the rules, because I don't like a single song on the list, so I'm gonna bold the ones I've even ever heard.  Oh alright, I probably can admit I like Phil & Don's stuff (The Everly Brothers).

Some others I know from later cover versions, so I'll italicize those.

The tectonic shift in popular music sparked by Beatlemaina in 1964 swept most of this worthless crap into the dustbin of history. NONE of this stuff ever got played any more by the time I started recognizing music in about 1964 or '65. It's all simply gone.

I bet I couldn't buy more than 10 or 15 of these songs any more. It's sad to think that the music of my birth year was, by and large, such utter drek.


1. Cathy's Clown, Everly Brothers
2. He'll Have To Go, Jim Reeves
3. Theme From "A Summer Place", Percy Faith
4. It's Now Or Never, Elvis Presley
5. Teen Angel, Mark Dinning
6. I'm Sorry, Brenda Lee
7. Running Bear, Johnny Preston
8. Handy Man, Jimmy Jones
9. Stuck On You, Elvis Presley
10. The Twist, Chubby Checker
11. Everybody's Somebody's Fool, Connie Francis
12. Alley-oop, Hollywood Argyles
13. Greenfields, Brothers Four
14. What In The World's Come Over You, Jack Scott
15. El Paso, Marty Robbins
16. Weld One, Bobby Rydell
17. My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own, Connie Francis
18. Sweet Nothin's, Brenda Lee
19. Only The Lonely, Roy Orbison
20. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini, Brian Hyland
21. Where Or When, Dion and The Belmonts
22. Sixteen Reasons, Connie Stevens
23. Puppy Love, Paul Anka
24. Why, Frankie Avalon
25. Walk, Dont Run, Ventures
26. Save The Last Dance For Me, Drifters
27. Baby (You Got What It Takes), Brook Benton and Dinah Washington
28. Sink The Bismark, Johnny Horton
29. Chain Gang, Sam Cooke
30. Let It Be Me, Everly Brothers
31. Good Timin', Jimmy Jones
32. Beyond The Sea, Bobby Darin
33. Go Jimmy Go, Jimmy Clanton
34. Night, Jackie Wilson
35. Burning Bridges, Jack Scott
36. Because They're Young, Duane Eddy
37. Lonely Blue Boy, Conway Twitty
38. The Big Hurt, Toni Fisher
39. Pretty Blue Eyes, Steve Lawrence
40. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans, Freddie Cannon
41. Paper Roses, Anita Bryant
42. Mr. Custer, Larry Verne
43. I Want To Be Wanted, Brenda Lee
44. Mule Skinner Blues, Fendermen
45. Cradle Of Love, Johnny Preston
46. Please Help Me, I'm Falling, Hank Locklin
47. You've Got What It Takes, Marv Johnson
48. Love You So, Rod Holden
49. Finger Poppin' Time, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters
50. Harbor Lights, Platters
51. Let The Little Girl Dance, Bobby Bland
52. He'll Have To Stay, Jeanne Black
53. Theme From The Apartment, Ferrante and Teicher
54. Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu), Bobby Rydell
55. A Million To One, Jimmy Charles
56. The Village Of St. Bernadette, Andy Williams
57. White Silver Sands, Bill Black's Combo
58. The Old Lamplighter, Browns
59. Devil Or Angel, Bobby Vee
60. Down By The Station, Four Preps
61. Forever, Little Dippers
62. Image Of A Girl, Safaris and The Phantom's Band
63. Kiddio, Brook Benton
64. Mission Bell, Donnie Brooks
65. I Love The Way You Love, Marv Johnson
66. It's Time To Cry, Paul Anka
67. Tell Laura I Love Her, Ray Peterson
68. Mama, Connie Francis
69. Footsteps, Steve Lawrence
70. So Sad, Everly Brothers
71. That's All You Gotta Do, Brenda Lee
72. Walking To New Orleans, Fats Domino
73. Among My Souvenirs, Connie Francis
74. Swingin' School, Bobby Rydell
75. A Rockin' Good Way, Dinah Washington and Brook Benton
76. Stairway To Heaven, Neil Sedaka
77. My Home Town, Paul Anka
78. Georgia On My Mind, Ray Charles
79. Cherry Pie, Skip and Flip
80. Wonderful World, Sam Cooke
81. O Dio Mio, Annette
82. Lady Luck, Lloyd Price
83. Step By Step, Crests
84. Beatnik Fly, Johnny and The Hurricanes
85. Young Emotions, Ricky Nelson
86. Dreamin', Johnny Burnette
87. Mule Bitty Girl, Bobby Rydell
88.Tracy's Theme, Spencer Ross
89. You Talk Too Much, Joe Jones
90. Happy-Go-Lucky Me, Paul Evans
91. When Will I Be Loved, Everly Brothers
92. Let's Think About Livin', Bob Luman
93. Heartaches By The Number, Guy Mitchell
94. In My Little Corner Of The World, Anita Bryant
95. Sandy, Larry Hall
96. Poetry In Motion, Johnny Tillotson
97. Money, Barret Strong
98. Stay, Maurice Williams
99. Lonely Weekends, Charlie Rich
100. Doggin' Around, Jackie Wilson

Comments

[shake-it-up.livejournal.com]

I dont' get to play this, cuz I'm TOO OLD. Isn't that discrimination?

I knew a lot of the hit parade of that time, though I really started listening after the Beatles came out (ok, after Herman's Hermits came out, we were all teenyboppers once).

I do like some of the songs on this list- it was a pretty bad year for pop, but there was a lot hidden in all that schlock.

Good songs:
6. "I'm Sorry", Brenda Lee
12. "Alley Oop", Hollywood Argyles (Kim Fowley!)
27. You got what it takes
49 Finger Poppin' Time
73 "Walkin to New Orleans", Fats Domino
78 "Georgia on My Mind", Ray Charles
80 "Wonderful World" Sam Cooke (also covered later by the same Herman's Hermits)
89. "You Talk Too Much" Joe Jones
90. "Money". The first national pop Motown hit, financed the revolution
100. "Doggin' Around". Jackie Wilson.

There are other Jackie Wilson songs on the list I don't know

I won't argue with your taste, but in your bolded songs there are a few that I really can't stand-- I remember "Itsy Bitsy.... Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" by Brian Hyland was HUGE in Grand Junction that year. I hate "Volare" too.

Cathy's Clown is classic, though, and the Roy Orbison tunes.

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

PLEASE NOTE: Bolded songs on my list just means I've HEARD the song, not that I like it. The only ones I like are the Everly's stuff. 1960 was a crappy year for pop music.

[2ndbanana.livejournal.com]

You've never heard "Running Bear"? Or "Sink the Bismark"? Heck, I'm afraid to even look at the list from my birth year.

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

If I ever heard them, I wasn't impressed enough to remember them by name.

I grew up in a family that didn't listen to music, apart from the obligatory Mormon Tabernacle Choir recording of Handel's Messiah that got dragged out every Christmas.

I think I was the first one to instigate the purchase of a record (when I was 6 or 7) (Roger Miller's Greatest Hits for "You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd") since the end of my dad's swinging bachelor days a decade earlier.

My mom's records were thick 10" singles that my brothers and I discovered in a box in the garage and turned into frisbees in about 1965. We were duly punished, but I could never figured out why: if she CARED about them, why didn't she ever PLAY them?

[brutusbuffalo.livejournal.com]

I looked at the top 100 from 1963... there are a few "classics" sprinkled in there, but nothing i couldn't bear to never hear again.

Here's my theory: the music we love is usually anchored in our experineces and many songs are tied to events. I'm not one of those people who claims to remember being born - I think my earliest recollection is around 3 or 4 years old.

Not being a big fan of the Beach Boys or Bobby Vinton, I'm in the same boat as you.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

Iduno, I’ll vouch for the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Ray Charles, The Drifters, Fats Domino and Maurice Williams. And I’m not the biggest country fan in the world, but I won’t spin the dial away when Marty Robbins is on. And “The Big Hurt” is notable as the first pop single to use the production technique known as “phase shifting”. Where would psychedelic music be without it?

Other than that, thank God the Beatles swooped in and burned all this useless slag away. Way too much Connie Francis for comfort. The only version of “Volare” that matters is Domenico Modugno’s; Bobby Rydell was a useless, prefabricated teen-magazine idol—no better than any of those horrible boy-bands we were plagued with a few years back—and truly deserves his current obscurity. And the rest...painfully white-bread! Steve Lawrence? Frankie Avalon? Ferrante & Teicher? Andy Williams? Paul Anka, Annette? Anita Fucking Bryant?!?!! It looks like all those “anti-rock” old farts must have thought they’d won a great victory. Even Elvis had been tamed into doing sappy covers of “O Sole Mio” and the like.

Oh, what a great idea...

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

I'm making this in mine, hehehehehehe... Let's see what happened in 1975 besides the historical events in Spain

[vamapper.livejournal.com]

I'll agree it was a sucky year for music. Can't do my birth year. 1956 makes me too old also. However, I have to dispute the Ventures. Walk, Don't Run is one of the three greatest instrumental surf tunes (the others being Miserlou by Dick Dale and the Chantays Pipeline). Along with progbear's list, Brooks Benton and Johnny "Train Kept a-Rollin'" Burnette are pretty decent artists. But any year that Anita "Bitch" Bryant had two hits has got to suck.

Top 100 songs the year I was born.

[stoutpilsner.livejournal.com]

I guess we kinda get an idea of what your parents were listening to when they were gettin' it on after 'Family Home Evening' heheh.