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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. №
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 ...
"Baby It's You" The Shirelles: 8 February 3 2 February 3 "Duke of Earl" Gene Chandler: 1 February 17 8 "Break It to Me Gently" Brenda Lee: 4 March 3 7 February 10 "A Little Bitty Tear" Burl Ives: 9 February 10 2 "Dear Lady Twist" Gary U.S. Bonds: 9 February 24 3 February 17 "Crying in the Rain" The Everly Brothers: 6 March 3 5 February 24 "Hey ...
It featured the chart hits, "Can You Do It", "Can You Jerk Like Me", and several other tracks. It was released under legal license from, and with the full approval of, the owners of the Motown catalogue. [7] The Contours 2017 Front L to R: Gary Grier, Al Chisholm, Back L to R: Dwjuan Brock, Joe Billingslea, Lyall Hoggart
A 2011 New York Times article reported that there was no hit toy that year, although the piece did note that these gals were "sold out or hard to find in some parts of the country." The plastic ...
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).
The Four Seasons were the only act to have more than one song hit number one that year. NOTE: Billboard changed its issue dates from a Monday back to a Saturday schedule on January 6, thus fixing the previous one-week inconsistency. The issue dates were originally changed from a Saturday to a Monday schedule on April 29, 1957.
"Soldier Boy" is a song written by Luther Dixon and Florence Greenberg and made famous by the girl group the Shirelles. Released as a single in 1962, it met with great success, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks. [1]