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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 ...
The Miracles were the Motown Record Corporation's first group and its first million-selling recording artists. During their nineteen-year run on the American music charts, the Miracles charted over fifty hits and recorded in the genres of doo-wop, soul, disco, and R&B. Twenty-six Miracles songs reached the top 10 of the Billboard R&B singles chart, including four R&B number ones.
Released by Jamie Records, it was a number 1 US Billboard R&B chart hit and Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1962. [2] The song was later recorded by Aretha Franklin and became a country hit record for Freddy Fender. Lynn released an album, also titled You'll Lose A Good Thing, which featured ten of her compositions. [7] [8]
"Get a Job" is a song by The Silhouettes released in November 1957. It reached the number one spot on the Billboard pop and R&B singles charts in February 1958, [ 1 ] and was later included in Robert Christgau 's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). [ 2 ]
The Silhouettes were formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1956, at first using the name The Thunderbirds. [1] Their classic hit "Get a Job" – originally the B-side to "I Am Lonely" – was issued by their manager, Kae Williams, on his own Junior Records label [1] before being sold to the nationally distributed Ember label in late 1957. [4]
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).