Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1962 poll

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Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1960 poll
Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1961 poll

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1 136 Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions	6
5 720 The Tornados - Telstar	6
11 1247 Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home to Me	5
2 452 The Crystals - He's a Rebel	4
29 3111 Skeeter Davis - The End of the World	4
4 593 The Miracles - You've Really Got a Hold on Me	3
13 1416 Françoise Hardy - Tous les garçons et les filles	3
23 2368 Claudine Clark - Party Lights	2
10 1035 The Contours - Do You Love Me	2
20 2242 The Beatles - Love Me Do	2
8 921 Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl	2
34 3370 Peter, Paul and Mary - If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)	2
6 762 John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom	2
3 492 Little Eva - The Loco-Motion	2
40 4222 Sam Cooke - Twistin' the Night Away	1
22 2290 Sam Cooke - Having a Party	1
25 2474 Dionne Warwick - Don't Make Me Over	1
32 3361 Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby	1
33 3362 Barbara Lynn - You'll Lose a Good Thing	1
19 2144 Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco	1
12 1280 The Chantays - Pipeline	1
17 1729 The Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry	1
9 928 The Drifters - Up on the Roof	1
7 915 Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You	0
35 3562 Gene Pitney - (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance	0
36 3681 Elvis Presley - Return to Sender	0
37 4038 Bobby Vee - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes	0
38 4181 Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)	0
39 4185 The Crystals - He's Sure the Boy I Love	0
31 3331 The Shirelles - Soldier Boy	0
30 3217 Patsy Cline - She's Got You	0
18 1834 George Jones - She Thinks I Still Care	0
16 1726 Dick Dale - Miserlou	0
24 2473 James Brown - Night Train	0
15 1580 Ketty Lester - Love Letters	0
26 2738 Solomon Burke - Cry to Me	0
27 2842 The Rivingtons - Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow	0
28 2853 The Four Seasons - Sherry	0
14 1465 The Isley Brothers - Twist and Shout	0
21 2271 John Barry Orchestra - James Bond Theme	0

― 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 20 November 2014 02:36 (eleven years ago)

this is getting harder for me to pick just one.

― 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Thursday, 20 November 2014 02:36 (eleven years ago)

It'll probably come down to either Booker T. & the MGs or the Miracles for me, but I kind of want to throw a vote to Solomon Burke.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 20 November 2014 03:19 (eleven years ago)

I expected to keep posting "impossible to choose one" for all these polls but the mono mix of "The Loco-Motion" is just such an outstanding record to me. It wins over everything.

― nakh nakh nakhin on chivan's door (crüt), Thursday, 20 November 2014 03:37 (eleven years ago)

Shout out to The Four Seasons though, "Big Girls Don't Cry" used to fascinate me & freak me out as a toddler because I thought it was sung by monsters

― nakh nakh nakhin on chivan's door (crüt), Thursday, 20 November 2014 03:40 (eleven years ago)

Haha. OTM.

Not as good a year as '61. Dominated by solid instrumental numbers that have stood the test of time. I think number one might be the correct one.

― It's A Living! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 November 2014 04:10 (eleven years ago)

Sam Cooke's year: three of my four favourite songs by him (only "Sad Mood" from 1960 not on the list). I'll vote for "Having a Party." I like the Shirelles' "It's Love That Really Counts" better than "Soldier Boy." Another great '62 song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUgUTjj4Ycs

― clemenza, Thursday, 20 November 2014 04:16 (eleven years ago)

Original version of "Fortune Teller" also from '62.

― rushomancy, Thursday, 20 November 2014 04:26 (eleven years ago)

Bring It On Home To Me.

― that's not my post, Thursday, 20 November 2014 07:02 (eleven years ago)

^^ yep

― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Thursday, 20 November 2014 07:38 (eleven years ago)

Skeeter Davis -- love the song, love the hair.

http://a.images.blip.tv/Noisevox-MusicVideoSkeeterDavisTheEndOfTheWorld381.png

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:24 (eleven years ago)

OK, after some fairly serious thought...I'm gonna go with "Duke of Earl." Hard not to vote for Sam Cooke. If "Duke" hadn't been there I would have voted "Twisting the Night Away."

― timellison, Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)

Someone told me that, if the speedometer in your car is broken, you'll know you're at 55mph if the dotted highway lines pass at the same tempo as "Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl..." I've never tried it, though.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:28 (eleven years ago)

'telstar.'

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:33 (eleven years ago)

a smaller list of favorites this time

The Drifters - Up on the Roof
Skeeter Davis - The End of the World
The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
Peter, Paul and Mary - If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)

― g simmel, Thursday, 20 November 2014 18:57 (eleven years ago)

The Miracles - You Really Got A Hold On Me

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:06 (eleven years ago)

the pennies and lipstick stains make me a little sad.

I voted John Lee Hooker

― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:13 (eleven years ago)

Miracles

― Darin, Friday, 21 November 2014 03:37 (eleven years ago)

Skeeter was my #2 pick.
My father had a mad crush on her.

― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Friday, 21 November 2014 08:52 (eleven years ago)

George > Skeeter > Bring It On Home as a top 3 for me, but lots of others close.

― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Friday, 21 November 2014 12:01 (eleven years ago)

He's a Rebel

― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 November 2014 23:18 (eleven years ago)

"I Left My Heart in San Francisco"

voting for that for a couple of reasons. first is the Giants are world champions and it is there theme song. the main reason is i did live in San Francisco for seven years and was probably the best time of my life. it is America's most beautiful city, though it can't compare to some city's like Paris, it is unique for a bunch of reason and the air so fresh and clean.

― 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Saturday, 22 November 2014 03:39 (eleven years ago)

~~there~~ their

― 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Saturday, 22 November 2014 03:40 (eleven years ago)

sorry about my Friday night drunkenness, got a bit nostalgic.

― 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Sunday, 23 November 2014 01:27 (eleven years ago)

"Party Lights" is worth a vote, for sure!

― agincourtgirl, Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:21 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 24 November 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

since ILX went down for maintenance on Friday it seems like you can vote for a second time. so for my second choice, which is my actual choice in this poll, is going to be "You've Really Got a Hold on Me."

― 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:39 (eleven years ago)

Oh, I didn't see "Party Lights"! Yeah, good tune.

― for more fun visit www.combos.com (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:47 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

I have no problem with that top 3.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:13 (eleven years ago)

just so the board knows, taking off this week for Thanksgiving holiday. will return with 1963 (which looking at is going to be a great set) a week from Wednesday.

― 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 03:34 (eleven years ago)

My mom would have been happy with Green Onions winning, she turned that song up every time it came on. (Would have been 92 this year...Love you mom).

Hey, I think my favorite would have been "Let Me In" by The Sensations (not on the list). "I thought you were my friend.....wee-ooo, wee-ooo, ooo-wee-ooo." The lyrical theme - the party looks & sounds fabulous & why can't I go too? - is the same as Party Lights, so this is quite the pair of 62 hits. Here's something cool I just found out: both Party Lights and Let Me In were written by the very women who sang them: Claudine Clark & Yvonne Mills Baker, respectively. Very unusual for the singer, male or female, to have written the song in early 60s pop.

― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:20 (eleven years ago)

oh, and "Love Letters" by Ketty Lester, obsession doesn't get more obsessive

― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:30 (eleven years ago)

Barbara Lynn wrote hers too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoaLCc2jR_g

― Zachary Taylor, Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:23 (eleven years ago)

just found out that "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" by Marvin Gaye was a 62 as well. That's what I would pick. Marvin Gaye unbound.

― Vic Perry, Sunday, 7 December 2014 00:40 (eleven years ago)

Argh, missed this. Would have voted for 'Telstar'.

― Welcome To (Turrican), Thursday, 11 December 2014 04:24 (eleven years ago)

George Jones, but really Night Train or anything else from Live at the Apollo

― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Saturday, 20 December 2014 04:23 (eleven years ago)

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