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This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1962. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 29, 1962, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January 1 through October 31, 1962. №
Dee Dee Sharp (born Dione LaRue; September 9, 1945) [1] is an American R&B singer.. After beginning her career as a backing vocalist, Sharp had a string of hit records as a solo artist in the 1960s: "Mashed Potato Time" (1962), "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)" (1962), "Ride!" (1962), and "Do the Bird" (1963).
Despite Tormé's reservations, his version of the song, with an arrangement by Claus Ogerman, rose to no.36 on the Billboard pop chart in November 1962, becoming his biggest hit since the early 1950s; [5] it reached no.13 on the UK singles chart. [6] It was also the title track of his album Comin' Home Baby! (with added exclamation mark). [7]
Barbara Lynn (born Barbara Lynn Ozen, later Barbara Lynn Cumby, January 16, 1942) [2] is an American rhythm and blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. [1] She is best known for her R&B chart -topping hit, " You'll Lose a Good Thing " (1962).
Boyd was born in Belhaven, North Carolina in 1943 and had twelve siblings. At the age of fifteen, she moved to the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York. [1] [2] As a teenager, Boyd worked as a maid and earned extra money as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin (including for the young Louise Goffin).
Baby" inspired Lennon's playing on the Beatles' first single, 1962's "Love Me Do", as well as later Beatles records, [1] and the harmonica break on Frank Ifield's "I Remember You." Channel's only other top 40 recording in the UK Singles Chart was "Keep On" (June 1968), which reached number 12; it was written by Wayne Carson Thompson and ...
Shortly thereafter, "Sherry" became the band's first nationally released single and their first number one hit, reaching the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on September 15, 1962. It remained at number one for five consecutive weeks, and number one on the R&B charts for one week. [17] "Sherry" became the first single by The Four Seasons to go ...
1962 If You Believe: 77 — Singing the Blues – Lie to Me: 40 — 1963 Golden Hits, Volume 2: 82 — Best Ballads of Broadway — — 1964 Born to Sing the Blues — — Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got) 156 — 1969 Do Your Own Thing: 189 — 1970 Brook Benton Today: 27 4 Brook Benton I Wanna Be With You — — Homestyle: 199 — 1971 ...