Top 20s - 1960/61

To complete the series, here are the top scoring singles in my personal top tens for the years 1960 and 1961. Not all classics I admit, but there are some great 45s nonetheless:

1960

1. Wonderful world - Sam Cooke

2. I just go for you - Jimmy Jones

3. Only the lonely - Roy Orbison

4. You gotta move two mountains - Marv Johnson

5. Alley oop - Hollywood Argylls

6. Learning the game - Buddy Holly

7. Perfidia - The Ventures

8= Please help me I'm falling - Hank Lochlin

8= MacDonald's cave - Piltdown Men

10. Devil or angel - Bobby Vee

11= Three steps to heaven - Eddie Cochran

11= It ain't gonna be that way - Marv Johnson

11= Last date - Floyd Cramer

14. Hushabye little guitar - Paul Evans

15. Poetry in motion - Johnny Tillotson

16. Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones

17. Got a girl - Four Preps

18. Robot man - Connie Francis

19. You're sixteen - Johnny Burnette

20. Let the little girl dance - Billy Bland

1961

1. Once in a while - The Chimes

2= Running scared - Roy Orbison

2= Cryin' - Roy Orbison

4. Girls - Johnny Burnette

5. Sad mood - Sam Cooke

6. So long baby - Del Shannon

7. Happy birthday sweet sixteen - Neil Sedaka

8. Calendar girl - Neil Sedaka

9. That old black magic - Bobby Rydell

10. On the rebound - Floyd Cramer

11. Hey little devil - Neil Sedaka

12. I like it like that - Chris Kenner (pictured)

13= I told you so - Jimmy Jones

13= Take good care of my baby - Bobby Vee

15= Cupid - Sam Cooke

15= Without you - Johnny Tillotson

15= Lonesome number one - Don Gibson

18. Sea of heartbreak - Don Gibson

19= Little boy sad - Johnny Burnette

19- Shop around - The Miracles