Thursday, July 06, 2006

Yet more top tens

Here they are: my personal top tens from around this date 1960-65:
July 6, 1960: 1. Alley oop - Hollywood Argylls; 2. Wonderful world - Sam Cooke; 3. Love you so - Ron Holden; 4. Only the lonely - Roy Orbison; 5. Jellied eels - Joe Brown; 6. What a mouth - Tommy Steele; 7. Please don't tease - Cliff Richard; 8= Pistol packin' mama - Gene Vincent, and Another sleepless night - Jimmy Clanton; 10= I love the way you love - Marv Johnson, and He'll have to go - Jim Reeves.
July 6, 1961: 1. Baby I don't care - Buddy Holly; 2= Cupid - Sam Cooke, Nature boy - Bobby Darin, and Old smokey - Johnny & the Hurricanes; 5. High voltage - Johnny & the Hurricanes; 6. It keeps rainin' - Fats Domino; 7. I say love - Jimmy Jones; 8. Weekend - Eddie Cochran; 9. Those oldies but goodies - Nino & the Ebbtides; 10. I feel so bad - Elvis Presley.
July 6, 1962: 1. Lipstick traces - Benny Spellman; 2. Havin' a party - Sam Cooke; 3= The crowd - Roy Orbison, Breaking up is hard to do - Neil Sedaka, and Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon; 6. Ya ya - Lee Dorsey; 7. Little bitty pretty one - Clyde McPhatter; 8. Speedy Gonzales - Pat Boone; 9. Down in the valley - Solomon Burke; 10. Oh you beautiful doll -Donnie Brooks.
July 9, 1963: 1. Go go go - Chuck Berry; 2. Patti baby - Freddy Cannon; 3. One fine day - The Chiffons; 4. Da doo ron ron - The Crystals; 5. Easier said than done - The Essex; 6. Shake a hand - Jackie Wilson & Linda Hopkins; 7. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley; 8. The bird's the word - The Rivingtons; 9. Get him - The Exciters; 10. Surfin' USA -The Beach Boys.
July 8, 1964: 1. I get around - The Beach Boys; 2. When you walk in the room - Jackie DeShannon; 3. Evenin' - Jimmy Witherspoon; 4. Every little bit hurts - Brenda Holloway; 5= Good times - Sam Cooke, and What's the matter with you baby - Mary Wells & Marvin Gaye; 7. Black night - Arthur Alexander; 8. Lonely heart - Carl Perkins; 9. It hurts me - Elvis Presley; 10. Tennessee Waltz - Sam Cooke.
July 8, 1965: 1. It's wonderful to be in love - The Ovations; 2. Woolly bully - Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs; 3. Woman's got soul - The Impressions; 4. I can't help myself - The Four Tops; 5. Nothing can stop me - Gene Chandler; 6. Incense - The Anglos; 7. Help me Rhonda- The Beach Boys; 8. Pride and joy - Marvin Gaye; 9. I do - The Marvelows; 10= Tonight's the night - Solomon Burke, Voodoo woman - Bobby Goldsboro, and Mr Pitiful - Otis Redding.

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