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  • January 1 - The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
     and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes
    The Tremeloes

    The Tremeloes are an English people rock and roll musical ensemble, founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex. The Tremeloes are one of the longest surviving, still playing regularly more than 50 years after the group's founding....
     both audition at Decca Records
    Decca Records

    Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
    , a company which has the option of signing one group only. The Beatles are rejected, mainly as they come from Liverpool and the others are Dagenham-based nearer London.
  • January 24 - Brian Epstein
    Brian Epstein

    Brian Samuel Epstein was a United Kingdom music entrepeneur, and the music manager of The Beatles. Through his family's company, NEMS he also managed several other musical artists such as Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J....
     signs to manage the Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
    .
  • January 24 - Teenage star Danny Peppermint is nearly killed when he receives an electric shock from a microphone stand at the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
    Las Vegas, Nevada

    Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
    . Peppermint is rushed to a hospital where he recovers.
  • April 6 - Glenn Gould
    Glenn Gould

    Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, his remarkable technical proficiency, his unorthodox musical philosophy, and his eccentric personality and piano technique....
    's performance of Brahms's 1st piano concerto with Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
     conducting the New York Philharmonic
    New York Philharmonic

    The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall....
     for which Gould used unusually slow tempi, which Bernstein did not favour.
  • April 7 - Mick Jagger
    Mick Jagger

    Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
     and Keith Richards
    Keith Richards

    Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
     meet Brian Jones
    Brian Jones

    Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an England guitarist and founding member of the England rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, fashionable Mod image, Recreational drug use excesses and his 27 Club....
     at The Ealing Club
    Ealing Jazz Club

    The Ealing Jazz Club was opened in January 1959 in the basement of 42A Ealing Broadway Ealing. London, England initially as ?a backstairs session at the moist hoist?....
    , a blues club in London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  • April 10 - Former Beatle
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
     Stuart Sutcliffe
    Stuart Sutcliffe

    Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe was a painter, and the original bass guitar of The Beatles for eighteen months . Sutcliffe earned praise for his paintings, which mostly explored a style related to Abstract Expressionism....
     dies from cerebral paralysis caused by a brain hemorrhage in Hamburg
    Hamburg

    Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    .
  • April 12 - A recording is made of Bob Dylan's concert at the Town Hall, in New York City
    New York City

    The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
     by Columbia Records
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    . Columbia eventually release the recording of "Tomorrow is a Long Time
    Tomorrow Is a Long Time

    "Tomorrow Is a Long Time", is a song from the Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume II compilation first released in 1971. It was subsequently also added to the rare triple LP compilation, Masterpieces....
    " from this concert
  • August 16 - The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
     fire Pete Best
    Pete Best

    Pete Best is a United Kingdom musician, best known as the original drummer for The Beatles.After moving from India to Liverpool in 1945, Best's mother, Mona Best started The Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Best's house in Liverpool, which became very popular—the membership list grew to over a thousand—and where The Bea...
     and replace him with Ringo Starr
    Ringo Starr

    Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
    .
  • August 17 - Telstar
    Telstar (song)

    "Telstar" ? ? is a 1962 instrumental gramophone record performed by The Tornados. It was the first single by a United Kingdom band to reach number one on the U.S....
     is released in the UK. The song would eventually be the first song by an English group to ever reach the top spot on the Billboard Top 100, proving to be a precursor to the British Invasion.
  • August 23 - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
     marries Cynthia Powell.
  • Georges Auric
    Georges Auric

    Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lod?ve, H?rault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published....
     becomes director of the Opéra National de Paris
    Opéra National de Paris

    Op?ra National de Paris is the leading opera company of France. It stages performances at the Op?ra Bastille and Op?ra Garnier in Paris.Other opera houses in Paris are the Th??tre du Ch?telet, Op?ra-Comique and Th??tre des Champs-?lys?es....
    .
  • André Hodeir's book, Since Debussy, makes controversial claims about the importance of Jean Barraqué
    Jean Barraqué

    Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqu? was a France composer and writer on music who developed an individual form of serialism which is displayed in a small output of highly complex but passionate works....
     as a composer.
  • October 5 - Release of EMI's first Beatles single, "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You", in the United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    .
  • The Spokane Philharmonic orchestra becomes the Spokane Symphony
    Spokane Symphony

    The Spokane Symphony is a 70-piece orchestra based in Spokane, WA that performs more than 60 concerts per year for more than 150,000 listeners. It was originally incorporated in 1945 as the Spokane Philharmonic before being renamed the Spokane Symphony in 1962....
    .
  • Dalida
    Dalida

    Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
     is Named Calabrian Citizen of Honour and receives the Radio Monte Carlo Oscar with Johnny Hallyday
    Johnny Hallyday

    Johnny Hallyday is a France singer and actor. An icon in the French language-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he is considered by some to be the French superior of Elvis Presley....
    .
  • Otis Redding
    Otis Redding

    Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
    's musical career begins
  • Booker T. & the MG's' musical career begins
  • The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
     form in London.
  • Isaac Hayes
    Isaac Hayes

    Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an United Statesn Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s....
    ' recording career begins.
  • Paul & Paula
    Paul & Paula

    Paul & Paula were a pop music singing duo, best known for their 1963 #1 hit "Hey Paula ."...
     make their first appearance together while attending Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.


Albums released

  • Adam Faith - Adam Faith
    Adam Faith

    Terence Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith was an United Kingdom singer, actor and financial journalist. Teen idol turned top actor then financial wizard, Faith was one of the most record chart musician of the 1960s....
  • All Aboard the Blue Train
    All Aboard the Blue Train

    All Aboard the Blue Train is the fourteenth album by singer Johnny Cash. It was originally released on 15 November 1962 , but later re-issued in 2003 , under the label Varese Sarabande, with six bonus tracks....
     - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • All Alone
    All Alone (album)

    All Alone is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1962.Originally, All Alone was going to be called Come Waltz With Me. Although the title and the accompanying specially written title song were dropped before the album's release, the record remained a stately collection of waltzes, arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins....
     - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • All The Way - Brenda Lee
    Brenda Lee

    Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
  • The Best Of Ball, Barber And Bilk - Kenny Ball
    Kenny Ball

    Kenneth Daniel Ball is a United Kingdom jazz musician, best known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen....
    , Chris Barber
    Chris Barber

    Donald Christopher 'Chris' Barber is best known as a jazz trombonist....
    , and Acker Bilk
    Acker Bilk

    Acker Bilk Order of the British Empire , born Bernard Stanley Bilk , is a clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style....
  • The Best of Julie London
    The Best of Julie London

    The Best of Julie London was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number L-5501 in 1962 in music....
     - Julie London
    Julie London

    Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  • Big Band Percussion - Ted Heath
    Ted Heath (bandleader)

    George Edward 'Ted' Heath was the most famous England bandleader of the 40s, 50s and early 60s.Heath was born at 76 Atheldene Avenue, Wandsworth, South London; he started playing the trombone at the age of fourteen, and his early career involved stints with Bert Firman, Jack Hylton, Ambrose , Sid Lipton, and Gerald Bright....
     & His Music
  • Billy Rose's Jumbo
    Billy Rose's Jumbo (album)

    Billy Rose's Jumbo was the title of an album containing the music from the soundtrack of Billy Rose's Jumbo . The album featured the film's cast: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and Martha Raye....
     - Doris Day
    Doris Day

    Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  • Bobby Vee Meets The Crickets - Bobby Vee
    Bobby Vee

    Bobby Vee is an United States pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine Vee has had 38 Billboard Hot 100 record chart hit record, 10 of which hit the Top 20....
     and The Crickets
    The Crickets

    The Crickets were a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day," released in 1957....
  • Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan (album)

    Bob Dylan is the eponymous debut album from the highly influential American artist Bob Dylan. It was released on March 19, 1962 on Columbia Records, when Dylan was 20 years old....
     - Bob Dylan Debut Album
  • Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
    Bo Diddley

    Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
  • Bo Diddley & Company - Bo Diddley
  • Bo Diddley's A Twister - Bo Diddley
  • Caravan
    Caravan (Art Blakey album)

    Caravan is a jazz album released by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers in 1962 for Riverside records....
     - Art Blakey
    Art Blakey

    Arthur Blakey , born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an United States jazz drummer and bandleader....
  • Chuck Berry Twist
    Chuck Berry Twist

    Chuck Berry Twist is a Chuck Berry compilation of singles which was released in 1962 under Chess Records. The title was a bizarre attempt to cash in on the new Twist craze instiagted in 1960 by Chubby Checker....
     - Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry

    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  • Close Up In Swing - Erroll Garner
    Erroll Garner

    Erroll Louis Garner was an United States jazz pianist and composer known for his Swung note playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad Misty became a jazz standard with singers....
  • Coltrane
    Coltrane (Impulse! album)

    For the 1957 album of the same name by John Coltrane, see Coltrane Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by John Coltrane. When reissued on CD, it featured a Coltrane composition dedicated to his hero "Big Nick" Nicholas which Coltrane would record later the same year with his Ellington collaboration Duke Ellington & John Coltrane....
     - John Coltrane
    John Coltrane

    John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  • Come Swing With Me
    Come Swing with Me

    Come Swing with Me! is an album by United States singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1961.The album is Sinatra's final Swing session with Capitol Records, as his next album, Point of No Return , would be composed mainly of torch songs....
     - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Del Shannon - Del Shannon
    Del Shannon

    Del Shannon , was an United States rock and roller who had a Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1961 hit ,"Runaway ", in 1961....
  • Duet
    Duet (album)

    Duet was a collaborative album by Doris Day and the Andr? Previn Orchestra, with songs arranged by Previn. The album was issued by Columbia Records in both monaural and stereophonic versions on February 22, 1962 ....
     - Doris Day
    Doris Day

    Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  • Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
    Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson

    Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.This album is one of a pair, the other being Ella Swings Gently with Nelson, that were released in 1962....
     - Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • Ella Swings Gently with Nelson
    Ella Swings Gently with Nelson

    Ella Swings Gently with Nelson is a 1962 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.This album is one of a pair, the other being Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson, that were released in 1962....
     - Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • The First Family - Vaughn Meader
    Vaughn Meader

    Abbott Vaughn Meader was an United States comedian and impersonator whose achievement of fame with The First Family album spoofing President John F....
  • For Twisters Only - Chubby Checker
    Chubby Checker

    Chubby Checker is an United States singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the Twist with his 1960 hit record cover version of Hank Ballard's Rhythm and blues hit "The Twist "....
  • Girls! Girls! Girls!
    Girls! Girls! Girls!

    Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 in film Musical film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat....
     (OST) - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • Go
    Go (Dexter Gordon album)

    Go is a 1962 album by jazz musician Dexter Gordon.From the liner notes by Ira Gitler: "This session was not recorded in a nightclub performance but, in its informal symmetry, it matches the relaxed atmosphere that the best of those made in that manner engender....
     - Dexter Gordon
    Dexter Gordon

    Dexter Gordon was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist, and an Academy Award-nominated actor. He is considered one of the first bebop tenor players....
  • Golden Age of Donegan - Lonnie Donegan
    Lonnie Donegan

    Lonnie Donegan Order of the British Empire was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name....
  • Great Motion Picture Themes - Various Artists
  • Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain
    Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain

    Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain is an album by Frank Sinatra, arranged by Robert Farnon, recorded in London in 1962.It was released on LP in Great Britain, but not in the United States....
     - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Hancock - Tony Hancock
    Tony Hancock

    Anthony John "Tony" Hancock was a popular British actor and comedian....
  • Hits Of The Rockin' 50s - Bobby Vee
    Bobby Vee

    Bobby Vee is an United States pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine Vee has had 38 Billboard Hot 100 record chart hit record, 10 of which hit the Top 20....
  • How My Heart Sings - Bill Evans
    Bill Evans

    William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
  • Hymns from the Heart
    Hymns from the Heart

    Hymns from the Heart is the twelfth album by singer Johnny Cash, released in 1962 . It features a selection of gospel music songs, and is the second album of this type released by Cash, the first being Hymns by Johnny Cash....
     - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • I Left My Heart In San Francisco
    I Left My Heart in San Francisco (album)

    I Left My Heart in San Francisco is a 1962 album by Tony Bennett.At the Grammy Awards of 1963 Bennett won two Grammies for the title song, Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male....
     - Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett

    Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
  • Instant Party - Everly Brothers
  • It's Trad, Dad!
    It's Trad, Dad!

    It's Trad, Dad!, known in the U.S. as Ring-A-Ding Rhythm, is a musical comedy and one of the first films put out by predominantly horror company Amicus Productions....
     (OST) - Various Artists
  • Jerry Lee Lewis Volume 2 - Jerry Lee Lewis
    Jerry Lee Lewis

    Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  • Judy at Carnegie Hall
    Judy at Carnegie Hall

    Judy at Carnegie Hall is a legendary two-record live recording of a concert by Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall in New York City.This concert appearance, on the night of April 23, 1961, has been called "the greatest night in show business history"....
     - Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
  • Let's Face the Music - Shirley Bassey
    Shirley Bassey

    Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom singer. She performed the theme music to the James Bond films Goldfinger , Diamonds Are Forever , and Moonraker ....
     with the Nelson Riddle
    Nelson Riddle

    Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was a well-known United States bandleader, arrangement and Orchestration whose career spanned from the late 1940s, struggled with the advent of rock n roll, and saw a career revival in the early 1980s....
     Orchestra
  • Love Letters
    Love Letters (Julie London album)

    Love Letters was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3231 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7231 in stereo in 1962 in music....
     - Julie London
    Julie London

    Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  • A Million Dollars' Worth Of Twang Volume 2 - Duane Eddy
    Duane Eddy

    Duane Eddy is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he is acclaimed as the most successful rock and roll instrumentalist of all time....
  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
    Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

    Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by United States rhythm and blues and Soul music musician Ray Charles, released April 1962 on ABC Records, in both Monaural and Stereophonic format....
     - Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two
    Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two

    Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two is a 1962 album by Ray Charles. It is the second volume of country and western recordings by Ray Charles following his landmark Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music on ABC Records....
     - Ray Charles
  • Moon Beams
    Moon Beams

    Moon Beams is a 1962 album by jazz musician Bill Evans, and the first trio album recorded by Evans after the untimely death of Scott LaFaro....
     - Bill Evans
    Bill Evans

    William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
  • The Music Man
    The Music Man (1962 film)

    The Music Man is a 1962 film musical starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 The Music Man of the same name by Meredith Willson....
     (OST) - Various Artists
  • Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays
    Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays

    Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays is a 1962 album by Nat King Cole, featuring the pianist George Shearing....
     - Nat King Cole
    Nat King Cole

    Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
     and the George Shearing
    George Shearing

    Sir George Shearing Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom jazz pianist who, during the 1950s, had a popular Jazz group for MGM Records and Capitol Records....
     Quintet
  • On Stage with the George Mitchell Minstrels - George Mitchell
    George Mitchell

    George Mitchell may refer to:*George J. Mitchell , former Senator from Maine, special envoy to the Middle East for the Obama administration, former Senate majority leader and former chairman of Disney...
     Minstrels
  • Out of the Shadows - The Shadows
    The Shadows

    Nick-named: the Shads, The Shadows are the most successful United Kingdom instrumental and vocal group from the 1950s to the 2000s with an aggregate total of at least 64 UK hit singles....
  • A Picture of You - Joe Brown
    Joe Brown (singer)

    Joe Brown is a English people entertainer of the 1960s and beyond.Brown has now sustained a career as a rock and roll singing and guitarist for over five decades....
  • Point of No Return
    Point of No Return (Frank Sinatra album)

    Point of No Return is an album by United States singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1962.As the title reflects, the album contains Sinatra's final recorded songs with Capitol Records before permanently moving to his own Reprise Records label to achieve more artistic freedom with his recordings....
     - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Porgy and Bess
    Porgy and Bess

    Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward....
     - Original Soundtrack
  • Pot Luck
    Pot Luck (album)

    "Pot Luck with Elvis" is the fifteenth LP album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor in monaural and stereo, LPM/LSP 2523, in June of 1962....
     - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • The Real Ambassadors
    The Real Ambassadors

    The Real Ambassadors is a jazz musical developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Dave Brubeck, in collaboration with Louis Armstrong and his band....
     - Dave Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck

    David Warren Brubeck , better known as Dave Brubeck, is an United States Jazz piano. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke"....
    , Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
    , Carmen McRae
    Carmen McRae

    Carmen Mercedes McRae was an United States jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable....
    , and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross was a vocalese trio formed by jazz vocalists Dave Lambert , Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross....
  • Rock 'N' Roll No.2 - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     (re-issue)
  • Rhythm Is My Business
    Rhythm Is My Business

    Rhythm Is My Business is a 1962 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a band arranged and conducted by the American R&B organist Bill Doggett....
     - Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • S Wonderful 'S Marvellous - Ray Conniff
    Ray Conniff

    Joseph Raymond Conniff was an United States of America musician. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father....
  • Sacred Songs - Harry Secombe
    Harry Secombe

    Sir Harry Donald Secombe, Order of the British Empire was a Wales entertainer with a noted fine tenor singing voice and a talent for comedy. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, a major character on the Goon Show, a popular BBC radio comedy....
  • Sentimentally Yours
    Sentimentally Yours

    Sentimentally Yours is the third studio album by American country music singer, Patsy Cline, released August 7, 1962. The album was the final studio album Cline would record before her untimely death in a plane crash less than a year later....
     - Patsy Cline
    Patsy Cline

    Patsy Cline was an United States country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s....
  • Shirley Bassey - Shirley Bassey
    Shirley Bassey

    Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom singer. She performed the theme music to the James Bond films Goldfinger , Diamonds Are Forever , and Moonraker ....
  • Sinatra and Strings
    Sinatra and Strings

    Sinatra and Strings is a 1962 album by Frank Sinatra .This was Sinatra's first album with arranger Don Costa. Interestingly, Sinatra and Strings marks Sinatra's third recording of "Night and Day", his second recording of "Stardust" , as well as his second recording of "All or Nothing At All" ...
     - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Sinatra and Swingin' Brass
    Sinatra and Swingin' Brass

    Sinatra And Swingin' Brass is a 1962 album by Frank Sinatra.This is the first time Sinatra worked with arranger/composer Neal Hefti. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" and "I Get a Kick Out of You" Sinatra had recorded eight years earlier for the seminal Songs For Young Lovers, while "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" had been...
     - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Sing Something Simple - Cliff Adams Singers
    Cliff Adams Singers

    The Cliff Adams Singers was a United Kingdom male/female List of vocal groups, known for ballads and novelty songs....
  • Sophisticated Lady
    Sophisticated Lady (Julie London album)

    Sophisticated Lady was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3203 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7203 in stereo in 1962 in music....
     - Julie London
    Julie London

    Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  • The Sound of Johnny Cash
    The Sound of Johnny Cash

    The Sound of Johnny Cash is the thirteenth album by country music singer Johnny Cash, released in 1962 . Among other songs, it contains "In the Jailhouse Now", a Jimmie Rodgers cover version which reached No....
     - Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Stranger On The Shore - Acker Bilk
    Acker Bilk

    Acker Bilk Order of the British Empire , born Bernard Stanley Bilk , is a clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style....
  • Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee
    Bobby Vee

    Bobby Vee is an United States pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine Vee has had 38 Billboard Hot 100 record chart hit record, 10 of which hit the Top 20....
  • Takin' Off
    Takin' Off

    Takin' Off is the debut album of jazz pianist Herbie Hancock released in 1962 in music . The recording session included Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and veteran Dexter Gordon on tenor saxophone....
     - Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock

    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
  • 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds - Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard

    Sir Cliff Richard Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur.With his backing group The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during The Beatles' first year in the charts....
     and The Shadows
    The Shadows

    Nick-named: the Shads, The Shadows are the most successful United Kingdom instrumental and vocal group from the 1950s to the 2000s with an aggregate total of at least 64 UK hit singles....
  • Time Further Out - Dave Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck

    David Warren Brubeck , better known as Dave Brubeck, is an United States Jazz piano. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke"....
  • Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall
    Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall

    Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall is a 1962 live album by Tony Bennett.After the success of his single I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Bennett was invited to appear at Carnegie Hall ....
     - Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett

    Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
  • Tops with Me - Helen Shapiro
    Helen Shapiro

    Helen Shapiro is an English singer and actress. She is best known for her 1960s UK chart-toppers, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness"....
  • Twangy Guitar - Silky Strings - Duane Eddy
    Duane Eddy

    Duane Eddy is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he is acclaimed as the most successful rock and roll instrumentalist of all time....
  • Twist With Chubby Checker - Chubby Checker
    Chubby Checker

    Chubby Checker is an United States singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the Twist with his 1960 hit record cover version of Hank Ballard's Rhythm and blues hit "The Twist "....
  • Twistin' and Twangin' - Duane Eddy
    Duane Eddy

    Duane Eddy is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he is acclaimed as the most successful rock and roll instrumentalist of all time....
  • Twistin' Knights at the Roundtable - Bill Haley & His Comets
    Bill Haley & His Comets

    Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  • Vamp of the Roaring Twenties - Dorothy Provine
    Dorothy Provine

    Dorothy Provine is a singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne.Provine appeared in many professional and amateur stage productions while attending the University of Washington....
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Ray Conniff
    Ray Conniff

    Joseph Raymond Conniff was an United States of America musician. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father....
  • West Side Story - Original Soundtrack
  • West Side Story: Oscar Peterson Trio
    West Side Story: Oscar Peterson Trio

    West Side Story: Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1962 album featuring a jazz trio, led by the Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.The album featured seven interpretations of songs that had featured in the recent film, West Side Story ....
     - Oscar Peterson
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
  • Whispering Hope
    Whispering Hope (Jo Stafford album)

    Whispering Hope is a 1962 in music album by Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae....
     - Jo Stafford
    Jo Stafford

    Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s....
     and Gordon MacRae
    Gordon MacRae

    Albert Gordon MacRae was an USA actor and singer, best known for his appearances in musical theater of the 1950s.Born in East Orange, New Jersey, MacRae graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1940 and served as a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II....
  • You'll Never Walk Alone
    You'll Never Walk Alone (Doris Day album)

    You'll Never Walk Alone is a Columbia Records album number CS 8704, recorded by Doris Day with Jim Harbert's Orchestra. It was released on September 17, 1962....
     - Doris Day
    Doris Day

    Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....


Biggest hit singles

The following singles achieved the highest in 1962.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
 		 Return to Sender
Return to Sender (song)

"Return to Sender" is a 1962 rock and roll hit single by United States singer Elvis Presley. The song was written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell....
 		 1962 UK 1 - Nov 1962, Canada 1 - Oct 1962, Norway 1 - Dec 1962, Éire 1 - Dec 1962, Peel list 1 of 1961, US BB 2 - Oct 1962, RYM 6 of 1962, US BB 8 of 1962, POP 8 of 1962, US CashBox 10 of 1963, Germany 15 - Jan 1963, DDD 27 of 1962, Scrobulate 83 of rock & roll, Acclaimed 2154
2 Ray Charles
Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
 		 I Can't Stop Loving You
I Can't Stop Loving You

"I Can't Stop Loving You" is a popular song written and composed by country singer, songwriter and musician Don Gibson, who first recorded it on December 30, 1957, for RCA Victor Records....
 		 1962 UK 1 - Jun 1962, US BB 1 - May 1962, Canada 1 - May 1962, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Dec 1961, Norway 4 - Jul 1962, US CashBox 6 of 1962, DDD 6 of 1962, Germany 8 - Sep 1962, South Africa 11 of 1962, RYM 16 of 1962, US BB 30 of 1962, POP 30 of 1962, Italy 75 of 1963, Scrobulate 80 of r & b, Rolling Stone 161, Acclaimed 507
3 The Tornados
The Tornados

The Tornados were an England instrumental group of the 1960s who acted as in-house backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek's productions....
 		 Telstar
Telstar (song)

"Telstar" ? ? is a 1962 instrumental gramophone record performed by The Tornados. It was the first single by a United Kingdom band to reach number one on the U.S....
 		 1962 UK 1 - Aug 1962, US BB 1 - Nov 1962, Canada 1 - Nov 1962, Éire 1 - Nov 1962, South Africa 1 of 1962, RYM 2 of 1962, Norway 3 - Oct 1962, US CashBox 5 of 1963, Germany 6 - Jan 1963, Australia 8 of 1962, DDD 62 of 1962, Germany 224 of the 1960s, Acclaimed 739
4 Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
 		 Can't Help Falling in Love
Can't Help Falling in Love

"Can't Help Falling in Love", by George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, is a pop music song based on "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean Paul Egide Martini....
 		 1962 UK 1 - Feb 1962, Australia 1 for 4 weeks Aug 1961, US BB 2 - Dec 1961, US BB 4 of 1962, Canada 4 - Nov 1961, POP 4 of 1962, Australia 5 of 1962, South Africa 5 of 1962, RYM 11 of 1961, DDD 12 of 1961, US CashBox 28 of 1962, Party 33 of 2007, Scrobulate 64 of oldies, Italy 75 of 1962, Rolling Stone 394, WXPN 441, Acclaimed 1361
5 Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
 		 Good Luck Charm
Good Luck Charm

"Good Luck Charm" is a song performed by Elvis Presley that reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list in the week ending April 21, 1962. It remained at the top of the list for two weeks....
 		 1962 UK 1 - May 1962, US BB 1 - Mar 1962, Canada 1 - Mar 1962, Norway 1 - Apr 1962, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Oct 1961, Germany 6 - May 1962, US BB 10 of 1962, South Africa 13 of 1962, POP 17 of 1962, RYM 33 of 1962, US CashBox 42 of 1962, DDD 80 of 1962, Germany 203 of the 1960s


Singles released

  • "A Forever Kind of Love" - Bobby Vee
    Bobby Vee

    Bobby Vee is an United States pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine Vee has had 38 Billboard Hot 100 record chart hit record, 10 of which hit the Top 20....
  • "A Little Love a Little Kiss" - Karl Denver
    Karl Denver

    Karl Denver , was a Scottish people singer, who, with his Trio had a series of United Kingdom hit singles in the early 1960s. Most famous of these was a 1961 cover version of "Wimoweh" which showed off Denver's falsetto yodelling register....
  • "A Picture Of You" - Joe Brown
    Joe Brown (singer)

    Joe Brown is a English people entertainer of the 1960s and beyond.Brown has now sustained a career as a rock and roll singing and guitarist for over five decades....
  • "Adios Amigo" - Jim Reeves
    Jim Reeves

    James Travis "Jim" Reeves was an United States singer-songwriter of country western and pop music music....
  • "Ain't That Funny" - Jimmy Justice
    Jimmy Justice

    Jimmy Justice may refer to:* Jimmy Justice * Jimmy Justice ...
  • "Al Di La" - Emilio Pericoli
    Emilio Pericoli

    Emilio Pericoli was an Italy singer.Pericoli's success was closely tied to the San Remo Festival. He recorded a cover version of the song "Al di l?", by festival winner Betty Curtis....
  • "All Alone Am I
    All Alone Am I

    "All Alone Am I" is the title of a song from 1962 by the American singer Brenda Lee. The song was produced by noted music producer Owen Bradley and first appeared on Lee's album of the same name....
    " - Brenda Lee
    Brenda Lee

    Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
  • "Always You and Me" - Russ Conway
    Russ Conway

    For the Canada/United States actor of the same name, see Russ Conway .Russ Conway , was a popular music pianist. Conway's piano instrumentals dominated the UK Singles Chart during 1959, including two Chart-topper hit record....
  • "As You Like It" - Adam Faith
    Adam Faith

    Terence Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith was an United Kingdom singer, actor and financial journalist. Teen idol turned top actor then financial wizard, Faith was one of the most record chart musician of the 1960s....
  • "Ave Maria" - Shirley Bassey
    Shirley Bassey

    Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom singer. She performed the theme music to the James Bond films Goldfinger , Diamonds Are Forever , and Moonraker ....
  • "Baby Face" - Bobby Darin
    Bobby Darin

    Bobby Darin was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country....
  • "Baby Take a Bow" - Adam Faith
    Adam Faith

    Terence Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith was an United Kingdom singer, actor and financial journalist. Teen idol turned top actor then financial wizard, Faith was one of the most record chart musician of the 1960s....
  • "Ballad of Paladin" - Duane Eddy
    Duane Eddy

    Duane Eddy is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he is acclaimed as the most successful rock and roll instrumentalist of all time....
  • "Because of Love" - Billy Fury
    Billy Fury

    Billy Fury , was an internationally successful United Kingdom pop singer from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s....
  • "Besame Mucho
    Bésame Mucho

    "B?same Mucho" is a Spanish language song written in 1940 in music by Mexican Consuelo Vel?zquez before her sixteenth birthday. The phrase "b?same mucho" can be translated into English as "kiss me a lot"....
    " - Jet Harris
    Jet Harris

    Jet Harris was the bassist of The Shadows until April 1962 and had subsequent success as a soloist and as a duo with drummer Tony Meehan ....
  • "Big Man in a Big House" - Leroy Van Dyke
    Leroy Van Dyke

    Leroy Van Dyke is an United States country music singing, billed as 'The World's Most Famous Auctioneer.' He graduated from the University of Missouri majoring in agricultural journalism....
  • "Blue Weekend" - Karl Denver
    Karl Denver

    Karl Denver , was a Scottish people singer, who, with his Trio had a series of United Kingdom hit singles in the early 1960s. Most famous of these was a 1961 cover version of "Wimoweh" which showed off Denver's falsetto yodelling register....
  • "Bobby's Girl" - Marcie Blane
    Marcie Blane

    Marcie Blane was a female singer who recorded pop music. The Seville record label issued a demo put by the high school student as a favor for a friend....
  • "Bobby's Girl" - Susan Maughan
    Susan Maughan

    Susan Maughan is an English people singer who released a series of reasonably successful single in the 1960s....
  • "Breaking up Is Hard to Do" - Neil Sedaka
    Neil Sedaka

    Neil Sedaka is an United States pop music singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write hits for himself and others....
  • "Can Can '62" - Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
  • "Can't Help Falling in Love
    Can't Help Falling in Love

    "Can't Help Falling in Love", by George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, is a pop music song based on "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean Paul Egide Martini....
    /Rock-A-Hula Baby" - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • "Can't You Hear the Beat of a Broken Heart" - Iain Gregory
  • "Cindy's Birthday" - Shane Fenton and the Fentones
  • "Clown Shoes" - Johnny Burnette
    Johnny Burnette

    John Joseph "Johnny" Burnette was a Rockabilly pioneer. Along with his older brother Dorsey Burnette and a friend named Paul Burlison, Johnny Burnette was a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio....
  • "The Comancheros" - Lonnie Donegan
    Lonnie Donegan

    Lonnie Donegan Order of the British Empire was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name....
  • "Come Along Please" - Bob Wallis
    Bob Wallis

    Bob Wallis was a feisty British jazzman who had a handful of chart successes in the early 1960s during the "trad" boom that immediately preceded the coming of the Beatles and all the other Merseyside groups that decimated the number of jazz bands that were playing throughout the UK at that time....
     and His Storyville Jazzmen
  • "Come Outside" - Mike Sarne
    Mike Sarne

    Mike Sarne is a United Kingdom actor, film director and former pop music singer.Sarne was born Michael Scheuer in Paddington, London. Active in the 1960s as singer, he is best known for his 1962 United Kingdom comedy Chart-topper chart topper, "Come Outside " ....
     with Wendy Richard
    Wendy Richard

    Wendy Richard, Member of the Order of the British Empire was an England actor best known for playing List of Are You Being Served? characters#Miss Shirley Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders....
  • "Conscience" - James Darren
    James Darren

    James William Ercolani , best known as James Darren, is an United States television and film actor, television director, and singer....
  • "The Crowd" - Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  • "Cry Myself to Sleep" - Del Shannon
    Del Shannon

    Del Shannon , was an United States rock and roller who had a Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1961 hit ,"Runaway ", in 1961....
  • "Cryin' in the Rain" - Everly Brothers
  • "Cutty Sark" - John Barry Seven
    John Barry (composer)

    John Barry, Order of the British Empire is a renowned Golden Globe Award and five-time Academy Award-winning English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond movies and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style....
  • "D-Darling" - Anthony Newley
    Anthony Newley

    Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
  • "Dance On - The Shadows
    The Shadows

    Nick-named: the Shads, The Shadows are the most successful United Kingdom instrumental and vocal group from the 1950s to the 2000s with an aggregate total of at least 64 UK hit singles....
  • "Dance With The Guitar Man" - Duane Eddy
    Duane Eddy

    Duane Eddy is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he is acclaimed as the most successful rock and roll instrumentalist of all time....
  • "Dancin' Party" - Chubby Checker
    Chubby Checker

    Chubby Checker is an United States singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the Twist with his 1960 hit record cover version of Hank Ballard's Rhythm and blues hit "The Twist "....
  • "Deep in the Heart Of Texas" - Duane Eddy
    Duane Eddy

    Duane Eddy is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he is acclaimed as the most successful rock and roll instrumentalist of all time....
  • "Desafinado" - Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • "Desafinado" - Stan Getz
    Stan Getz

    Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
     and Charlie Byrd
    Charlie Byrd

    Charlie Lee Byrd was a famous American jazz and classical guitarist born in Suffolk, Virginia. Byrd collaborated on the famous 1962 album Jazz Samba with Stan Getz, a recording which pushed bossa nova into the mainstream of American music....
  • "Devil Woman" - Marty Robbins
    Marty Robbins

    Martin David Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.One of the most popular and successful United States Country music singers of his era, Robbins' songs were often eclectic, touching notably on an array of world music....
  • "Do You Want to Dance?/I'm Looking out the Window" - Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard

    Sir Cliff Richard Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur.With his backing group The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during The Beatles' first year in the charts....
  • "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" - Connie Francis
    Connie Francis

    Connie Francis is an United States pop singer best known for several international hit songs including "Who's Sorry Now?", "Where the Boys Are", and "Stupid Cupid"....
  • "Don't Ever Change
    Don't Ever Change (song)

    "Don't Ever Change" is a 1961 popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It is one of their lesser-known songs, although a version by The Crickets reached the top 5 in the United Kingdom....
    " - The Crickets
    The Crickets

    The Crickets were a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day," released in 1957....
  • "Don't Stop Twist" - Frankie Vaughan
    Frankie Vaughan

    Frankie Vaughan, Order of the British Empire Deputy Lieutenant was a singer of traditional pop music in the United Kingdom, who issued more than 80 sound recording and reproduction in his lifetime....
  • "Don't That Beat All" - Adam Faith
    Adam Faith

    Terence Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith was an United Kingdom singer, actor and financial journalist. Teen idol turned top actor then financial wizard, Faith was one of the most record chart musician of the 1960s....
  • "Dream Baby" - Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  • "Drummin' up a Storm" - Sandy Nelson
    Sandy Nelson

    Sandy Nelson is a drummer.His song "Teen Beat", on Original Sound Records, rose to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959. Subsequently he signed with the Imperial Records record label, and pounded out two more Top 40 hit record, "Let There Be Drums", which went to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Drums Are My Beat"....
  • "Drums Are My Beat" - Sandy Nelson
    Sandy Nelson

    Sandy Nelson is a drummer.His song "Teen Beat", on Original Sound Records, rose to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959. Subsequently he signed with the Imperial Records record label, and pounded out two more Top 40 hit record, "Let There Be Drums", which went to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Drums Are My Beat"....
  • "Duke of Earl
    Duke of Earl

    "Duke of Earl" is a 1962 in music chart-topper hit record song, originally by Gene Chandler. It is the best known of Chandler's songs, and he subsequently dubbed himself 'The Duke of Earl'....
    " - Gene Chandler
    Gene Chandler

    Gene Chandler is an United States singer. He is esteemed by soul music fan as one of the leading exponents of the 1960s Chicago soul scene, along with Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler ....
  • "English Country Garden" - Jimmie Rodgers
    Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)

    James Frederick Rodgers is an American singer, sometimes classified as a rock and roll singer, but with a style more typical of folk rock or traditional pop music....
  • "Ever Since You Said You Goodbye" - Marty Wilde
    Marty Wilde

    Marty Wilde is an English people singing and songwriter. He was among the first generation of United Kingdom popular music celebrity to emulate United States Rock and roll and is the father of pop singer Kim Wilde....
  • "Everybody's Twistin'" - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • "Fanlight Fanny" - Clinton Ford
    Clinton Ford

    Clinton Ford may refer to:*Clinton Ford , American artist*Clinton Ford , British singer who scored four UK hit singles between 1959 and 1967...
  • "Far Away" - Shirley Bassey
    Shirley Bassey

    Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom singer. She performed the theme music to the James Bond films Goldfinger , Diamonds Are Forever , and Moonraker ....
  • "Follow That Dream
    Follow that Dream

    Follow That Dream is a 1962 in film musical film starring Elvis Presley. The movie was based on the novel Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard P....
     (EP)" - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • "Forget Me Not" - Eden Kane
    Eden Kane

    Eden Kane was an early 1960s United Kingdom popular music singing....
  • "Funny Way Of Laughin'" - Burl Ives
    Burl Ives

    Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an United States actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice......
  • "Ginny Come Lately" - Brian Hyland
    Brian Hyland

    Brian Hyland is an United States pop music musician who was particularly successful during the early 1960s. He continued recording into the 1970s....
  • "Go Away Little Girl
    Go Away Little Girl

    "Go Away, Little Girl" is a popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.In late 1962, Steve Lawrence released the original recording of this song....
    " - Del Shannon
    Del Shannon

    Del Shannon , was an United States rock and roller who had a Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1961 hit ,"Runaway ", in 1961....
  • "Go Away Little Girl
    Go Away Little Girl

    "Go Away, Little Girl" is a popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.In late 1962, Steve Lawrence released the original recording of this song....
    " - Steve Lawrence
    Steve Lawrence

    Steve Lawrence is an United States singer, perhaps best known as a member of a Duet with his wife Eydie Gorm?, billed as Steve and Eydie. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen 's The Tonight Show in the mid-1950s....
  • "Good Luck Charm
    Good Luck Charm

    "Good Luck Charm" is a song performed by Elvis Presley that reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list in the week ending April 21, 1962. It remained at the top of the list for two weeks....
    " - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • "Goodbye Cruel World" - James Darren
    James Darren

    James William Ercolani , best known as James Darren, is an United States television and film actor, television director, and singer....
  • "Gossip Calypso" - Bernard Cribbins
    Bernard Cribbins

    Bernard Cribbins is an England character actor and musical comedian....
  • "Gotta See Baby Tonight" - Acker Bilk
    Acker Bilk

    Acker Bilk Order of the British Empire , born Bernard Stanley Bilk , is a clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style....
  • "Green Leaves Of Summer" - Kenny Ball
    Kenny Ball

    Kenneth Daniel Ball is a United Kingdom jazz musician, best known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen....
     and his Jazzmen
  • "Green Onions" - Booker T. & the M.G.s
  • "Guitar Tango" - The Shadows
    The Shadows

    Nick-named: the Shads, The Shadows are the most successful United Kingdom instrumental and vocal group from the 1950s to the 2000s with an aggregate total of at least 64 UK hit singles....
  • "He Got What He Wanted" - Little Richard
    Little Richard

    Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
  • "He's a Rebel
    He's a Rebel

    "He's a Rebel" is a pop song credited to the The Crystals, but actually recorded by The Blossoms which went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in November 1962....
    " - Crystals
  • "Her Royal Majesty" - James Darren
    James Darren

    James William Ercolani , best known as James Darren, is an United States television and film actor, television director, and singer....
  • "Here Comes That Feeling" - Brenda Lee
    Brenda Lee

    Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
  • "Hey! Baby
    Hey! Baby

    "Hey! Baby" is a song written by Margaret Cobb and Bruce Channel, who recorded the song in 1961. Channel co-produced the song with Major Bill Smith and released it on Mercury Records' Smash Records label....
    " - Bruce Channel
    Bruce Channel

    Bruce Channel is an United States singing, known for his 1962 chart-topper hit record, "Hey! Baby"....
  • "Hey Little Girl" - Del Shannon
    Del Shannon

    Del Shannon , was an United States rock and roller who had a Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1961 hit ,"Runaway ", in 1961....
  • "Hole in the Ground" - Bernard Cribbins
    Bernard Cribbins

    Bernard Cribbins is an England character actor and musical comedian....
  • "How Can I Meet Her?" - Everly Brothers
  • "I Can't Stop Loving You
    I Can't Stop Loving You

    "I Can't Stop Loving You" is a popular song written and composed by country singer, songwriter and musician Don Gibson, who first recorded it on December 30, 1957, for RCA Victor Records....
    " - Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  • "I Cried for You" - Ricky Stevens
  • "I Don't Know Why" - Eden Kane
    Eden Kane

    Eden Kane was an early 1960s United Kingdom popular music singing....
  • "I Remember You" - Frank Ifield
    Frank Ifield

    Frank Ifield is an Australian-English people easy listening and country music singing. An early 1960s superstar, this pop music singing/Yodeling had four chart-topper hit record in 12 months with revivals of United States Traditional pop music....
  • "I'll See You in My Dreams" - Pat Boone
    Pat Boone

    Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  • "I'm Counting on You" - Petula Clark
    Petula Clark

    Petula Clark, Order of the British Empire , is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II....
  • "I'm Just a Baby" - Louise Cordet
    Louise Cordet

    Louise Cordet was an English people pop music singing, best known as a one-hit wonder for her 1962 single , "I'm Just a Baby"....
  • "If a Man Answers" - Bobby Darin
    Bobby Darin

    Bobby Darin was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country....
  • "If Only Tomorrow" - Ronnie Carroll
    Ronnie Carroll

    Ronnie Carroll is a Northern Irish singer and entertainment....
  • "Island of Dreams" - Springfields
  • "It Keeps Right on a Hurtin' - Johnny Tillotson
    Johnny Tillotson

    Johnny Tillotson is an United States singing and songwriter. Tillotson enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s when he scored a series of Top 40 hit record including "Poetry in Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin'." In total, he placed 30 single and albums in the Billboard record chart between 1958 and 1984,...
  • "It Might As Well Rain Until September" - Carole King
    Carole King

    Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
  • "It Only Took a Minute" - Joe Brown
    Joe Brown (singer)

    Joe Brown is a English people entertainer of the 1960s and beyond.Brown has now sustained a career as a rock and roll singing and guitarist for over five decades....
  • "It Started All Over Again" - Brenda Lee
    Brenda Lee

    Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
  • "It'll Be Me" - Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard

    Sir Cliff Richard Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur.With his backing group The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during The Beatles' first year in the charts....
  • "It's a Raggy Waltz" - Dave Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck

    David Warren Brubeck , better known as Dave Brubeck, is an United States Jazz piano. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke"....
  • "It's All Over Now" - Shane Fenton and the Fentones
  • "The James Bond Theme" - John Barry
    John Barry (composer)

    John Barry, Order of the British Empire is a renowned Golden Globe Award and five-time Academy Award-winning English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond movies and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style....
     Orchestra
  • "Jeannie" - Danny Williams
    Danny Williams (musician)

    Danny Williams was a pop music singer....
  • "Jezebel" - Marty Wilde
    Marty Wilde

    Marty Wilde is an English people singing and songwriter. He was among the first generation of United Kingdom popular music celebrity to emulate United States Rock and roll and is the father of pop singer Kim Wilde....
  • "Johnny Angel" - Shelley Fabares
    Shelley Fabares

    Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares is an United States actress and singer, known primarily for her roles on movies, soap operas and television....
  • "Johnny Angel" - Patti Lynn
  • "Johnny Get Angry" - Joanie Sommers
    Joanie Sommers

    Joanie Sommers , is an United States singer and actor....
  • "King Kong" - Terry Lightfoot
    Terry Lightfoot

    Terry Lightfoot is a United Kingdom clarinettist and bandleader, and together with Chris Barber, Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball was one of the leading members of the trad generation of British jazzmen....
     and His New Orleans Jazzmen
  • "King of Clowns" - Neil Sedaka
    Neil Sedaka

    Neil Sedaka is an United States pop music singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write hits for himself and others....
  • "The Language of Love" - John D. Loudermilk
    John D. Loudermilk

    John D. Loudermilk is an United States singer and songwriter....
  • "Last Night Was Made for Love" - Billy Fury
    Billy Fury

    Billy Fury , was an internationally successful United Kingdom pop singer from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s....
  • "Lesson One" - Russ Conway
    Russ Conway

    For the Canada/United States actor of the same name, see Russ Conway .Russ Conway , was a popular music pianist. Conway's piano instrumentals dominated the UK Singles Chart during 1959, including two Chart-topper hit record....
  • "Lessons in Love" - Allisons
    Allisons

    The Allisons were an United Kingdom popular music duet consisting of:*Bob Day *John Alford .They were marketed as being sibling, using the same surname of Allison....
  • "Let's Dance" - Chris Montez
    Chris Montez

    Chris Montez , is a Mexican American singer....
  • "Let's Talk about Love" - Helen Shapiro
    Helen Shapiro

    Helen Shapiro is an English singer and actress. She is best known for her 1960s UK chart-toppers, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness"....
  • "Letter Full of Tears" - Billy Fury
    Billy Fury

    Billy Fury , was an internationally successful United Kingdom pop singer from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s....
  • "Let There Be Love
    Let There Be Love (1940 song)

    "Let There Be Love" is a popular music song with music by Lionel Rand and lyrics by Ian Grant , published in 1940 in music .The song is a well-known standard, recorded by many artists....
    " - Nat King Cole
    Nat King Cole

    Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
     and George Shearing
    George Shearing

    Sir George Shearing Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom jazz pianist who, during the 1950s, had a popular Jazz group for MGM Records and Capitol Records....
  • "Like I Do" - Maureen Evans
    Maureen Evans

    Maureen Evans is a Welsh people pop music singer who achieved fame briefly in the 1960s....
  • "Limbo Rock" - Chubby Checker
    Chubby Checker

    Chubby Checker is an United States singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the Twist with his 1960 hit record cover version of Hank Ballard's Rhythm and blues hit "The Twist "....
  • "Little Bitty Tear" - Burl Ives
    Burl Ives

    Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an United States actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice......
  • "Little Bitty Tear" - Miki & Griff
    Miki & Griff

    Miki & Griff were a United Kingdom country music duet , who had several hit singles on the UK Singles Chart in the late 1950s and early 1960s....
  • "Little Black Book" - Jimmy Dean
    Jimmy Dean

    Jimmy Dean is an United States country music singer, television Host , actor, and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the founder of the Jimmy Dean , he first rose to fame for his country crossover hits like "Big Bad John," and for his television appearances....
  • "Little Miss Lonely" - Helen Shapiro
    Helen Shapiro

    Helen Shapiro is an English singer and actress. She is best known for her 1960s UK chart-toppers, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness"....
  • "The Loco-Motion
    The Loco-Motion

    "The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop music written by United States songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song is notable for making the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade: for Little Eva in 1962 ; for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 ; and for Kylie Minogue in 1988 ....
    " - Little Eva
    Little Eva

    Eva Narcissus Boyd , known by the stage name of Little Eva , was an United States singer....
  • "Lone Rider" - John Leyton
    John Leyton

    John Leyton is a English people actor and singing. As a singer he is best known for his hit record song, "Johnny Remember Me" , which reached chart-topper in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961....
  • "Lonely City" - John Leyton
    John Leyton

    John Leyton is a English people actor and singing. As a singer he is best known for his hit record song, "Johnny Remember Me" , which reached chart-topper in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961....
  • "Lonesome" - Adam Faith
    Adam Faith

    Terence Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith was an United Kingdom singer, actor and financial journalist. Teen idol turned top actor then financial wizard, Faith was one of the most record chart musician of the 1960s....
  • "Lonely" - Acker Bilk
    Acker Bilk

    Acker Bilk Order of the British Empire , born Bernard Stanley Bilk , is a clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style....
  • "Love Me Warm and Tender" - Paul Anka
    Paul Anka

    Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
  • "Love Letters" - Ketty Lester
    Ketty Lester

    Ketty Lester is an United States singing and television actor, who is best known for her 1962 hit record single , "Love Letters ", which reached the Top 5 of the record chart in both the United States and the United Kingdom....
  • "Love Me Do
    Love Me Do

    "Love Me Do" is an early Lennon/McCartney song, principally written by Paul McCartney in 1958–59 while playing truant from school. John Lennon wrote the middle eight....
    " - The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  • "Love Me Tender" - Richard Chamberlain
  • "Lover Please/You Know What I Mean" - The Vernons Girls
    The Vernons Girls

    The Vernons Girls were an English people musical ensemble of female singing. They were formed at the football pools company in the 1950s in Liverpool, as a sixteen strong choir and sound recording and reproduction an album of traditional pop musics....
  • "Lovesick Blues" - Frank Ifield
    Frank Ifield

    Frank Ifield is an Australian-English people easy listening and country music singing. An early 1960s superstar, this pop music singing/Yodeling had four chart-topper hit record in 12 months with revivals of United States Traditional pop music....
  • "Made to Love (Girls Girls Girls)" - Eddie Hodges
    Eddie Hodges

    Eddie Hodges is a United States former child actor and recording artist who left show business as an adult....
  • "The Main Attraction" - Pat Boone
    Pat Boone

    Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  • "Main Title Theme from The Man with the Golden Arm" - Jet Harris
    Jet Harris

    Jet Harris was the bassist of The Shadows until April 1962 and had subsequent success as a soloist and as a duo with drummer Tony Meehan ....
  • "Mashed Potato Time" - Dee Dee Sharp
    Dee Dee Sharp

    Dee Dee Sharp is an Rhythm and blues singer who began her career sound recording and reproduction backing singer vocals in 1961.In 1962 she began a string of very successful Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 chart-topper: "Slow Twistin'" , "Mashed Potato Time" , "Gravy " , "Ride!" and "Do the Bird" ....
  • "March of the Siamese Children" - Kenny Ball
    Kenny Ball

    Kenneth Daniel Ball is a United Kingdom jazz musician, best known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen....
     and his Jazzmen
  • "Me and My Shadow
    Me and My Shadow

    "Me and My Shadow" is a 1927 in music popular music song by Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose, and Al Jolson.The song has become a standard, with many artists performing it....
    " - Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
     and Sammy Davis Jr.
  • "Must Be Madison" - Joe Loss
    Joe Loss

    Joshua Alexander Loss or Joe Loss OBE was an England musician and founder of The Joe Loss Orchestra, a light orchestra....
     Orchestra
  • "My Love and Devotion" - Matt Monro
    Matt Monro

    Matt Monro was an English people singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1960s. Throughout his 30-year career, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and stadiums in Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong to Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas....
  • "Never Goodbye" - Karl Denver
    Karl Denver

    Karl Denver , was a Scottish people singer, who, with his Trio had a series of United Kingdom hit singles in the early 1960s. Most famous of these was a 1961 cover version of "Wimoweh" which showed off Denver's falsetto yodelling register....
  • "Next Door to an Angel" - Neil Sedaka
    Neil Sedaka

    Neil Sedaka is an United States pop music singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write hits for himself and others....
  • "The Next Time/Bachelor Boy" - Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard

    Sir Cliff Richard Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur.With his backing group The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during The Beatles' first year in the charts....
  • "No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile" - Everly Brothers
  • "Norman" - Sue Thompson
    Sue Thompson

    Sue Thompson is an United States pop and country music singer. She is best known for the hits "Sad Movies " and "Norman", both Pop hits for her in the 1960s, featuring her breathy human voice....
  • "Nut Rocker
    Nut Rocker

    "Nut Rocker" was a single for USA instrumental ensemble B. Bumble and the Stingers which went to number 1 in the UK singles chart in May 1962....
    " - B. Bumble and the Stingers
    B. Bumble and the Stingers

    B. Bumble and the Stingers was an USA instrumental ensemble in the early 1960s, who specialized in making rock and roll arrangements of classical melodies....
  • "Oh Lonesome Me" - Craig Douglas
    Craig Douglas

    Craig Douglas is an English people pop music singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s....
  • "Old Rivers" - Walter Brennan
    Walter Brennan

    Walter Brennan was a three-time Academy Award winning United States actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history....
  • "Once Upon A Dream" - Billy Fury
    Billy Fury

    Billy Fury , was an internationally successful United Kingdom pop singer from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s....
  • "Onward Christian Soldiers" - Harry Simone Chorale
  • "Orange Blossom Special" - The Spotnicks
    The Spotnicks

    The Spotnicks is an instrumental rock band from Sweden, who were formed in 1961. They were famous for wearing "space suit" costumes on stage , and for their innovative electronic guitar sound....
  • "Our Favourite Melodies" - Craig Douglas
    Craig Douglas

    Craig Douglas is an English people pop music singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s....
  • "Palisades Park" - Freddy Cannon
    Freddy Cannon

    Freddy Cannon is an United States rock and roll singing....
  • "The Party's Over" - Lonnie Donegan
    Lonnie Donegan

    Lonnie Donegan Order of the British Empire was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name....
  • "The Pay Off" - Kenny Ball
    Kenny Ball

    Kenneth Daniel Ball is a United Kingdom jazz musician, best known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen....
     and his Jazzmen
  • "Peppermint Twist
    Peppermint Twist

    "Peppermint Twist" is a song written by Joey Dee and Henry Glover, recorded and released by Joey Dee and the Starliters in 1961. Capitalizing on the Twist dance craze and the nightclub in which Dee performed , the song hit number one on the U.S....
    " - Joey Dee and the Starliters
    Joey Dee and the Starliters

    Joey Dee and The Starliters are an United States popular music group from the 1960s. Best known for their 1961 hit recording "Peppermint Twist", the group was founded by Joey Dee, born Joseph DiNicola in Passaic, New Jersey on June 11, 1940....
  • "Peppermint Twist" - Danny Peppermint and the Jumping Jacks
  • "Peter and the Wolf" - Clyde Valley Stompers
  • "Pianissimo" - Ken Dodd
    Ken Dodd

    Kenneth Arthur Dodd Order of the British Empire is a veteran England comedian and singer songwriter, famous for selling over 100 million records, his buck teeth, frizzy hair, feather duster , and his catchphrases, often playing on the 'tickled' motif, ex: "How tickled I am!"....
  • "Pick A Bale Of Cotton" - Lonnie Donegan
    Lonnie Donegan

    Lonnie Donegan Order of the British Empire was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name....
  • "Please Don't Ask About Barbara" - Bobby Vee
    Bobby Vee

    Bobby Vee is an United States pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine Vee has had 38 Billboard Hot 100 record chart hit record, 10 of which hit the Top 20....
  • "Puff" - Kenny Lynch
    Kenny Lynch

    Kenny Lynch, Order of the British Empire is a English people singing, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London. Lynch appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s....
  • "Ramblin' Rose" - Nat King Cole
    Nat King Cole

    Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  • "Reminiscing" - Buddy Holly
    Buddy Holly

    Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  • "Return To Sender
    Return to Sender

    "Return to sender" is a common phrasing used when undeliverable mail is processed to be sent back to the indicated return address. It may also refer to:...
    " - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • "Right Said Fred" - Bernard Cribbins
    Bernard Cribbins

    Bernard Cribbins is an England character actor and musical comedian....
  • "Rocket Man" - The Spotnicks
    The Spotnicks

    The Spotnicks is an instrumental rock band from Sweden, who were formed in 1961. They were famous for wearing "space suit" costumes on stage , and for their innovative electronic guitar sound....
  • "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" - Brenda Lee
    Brenda Lee

    Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
  • "Roses Are Red (My Love)" - Ronnie Carroll
    Ronnie Carroll

    Ronnie Carroll is a Northern Irish singer and entertainment....
  • "Roses Are Red (My Love)" - Bobby Vinton
    Bobby Vinton

    Bobby Vinton...
  • "Sealed with a Kiss
    Sealed with a Kiss

    "Sealed with a Kiss" is the title of a song songwriter by Peter Udell and Gary Geld. It was first sound recording and reproduction in 1960 in music by The Four Voices....
    " - Brian Hyland
    Brian Hyland

    Brian Hyland is an United States pop music musician who was particularly successful during the early 1960s. He continued recording into the 1970s....
  • "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" - Johnny Tillotson
    Johnny Tillotson

    Johnny Tillotson is an United States singing and songwriter. Tillotson enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s when he scored a series of Top 40 hit record including "Poetry in Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin'." In total, he placed 30 single and albums in the Billboard record chart between 1958 and 1984,...
  • "Sharing You" - Bobby Vee
    Bobby Vee

    Bobby Vee is an United States pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine Vee has had 38 Billboard Hot 100 record chart hit record, 10 of which hit the Top 20....
  • "She's Got You
    She's Got You

    "She's Got You" is a famous pop music song written by Hank Cochran and was first recorded and released as a single by Patsy Cline in 1962. According to the Ellis Nassour Biography, Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline, writer Hank Cochran remembers calling Cline up telling her that he'd just written her next #1 hit....
    " - Patsy Cline
    Patsy Cline

    Patsy Cline was an United States country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s....
  • "She's Not You
    She's Not You

    "She's Not You" is a 1962 song written by Doc Pomus in collaboration with Leiber and Stoller, the song is in F major scale.that a single by Elvis Presley....
    " - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • "Shelia" - Tommy Roe
    Tommy Roe

    Tommy Roe is an United States pop music singer-songwriter.Best-remembered for his 1962 hit single "Sheila," critic Bill Dahl writes that Roe was "widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum pop artists of the late 1960s, but Roe cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his career."...
  • "Sherry
    Sherry (song)

    "Sherry" is a song written by Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by The Four Seasons . It was their first nationally-released single and also their first number one hit, initially reaching the top of the U.S....
    " - The Four Seasons
    The Four Seasons (group)

    The Four Seasons , is an United States popular music and rock music group. They also had a sound somewhat reminiscent of doo-wop, although they were not thought of as a doo wop quartet....
  • "Slow Twistin' - Chubby Checker
    Chubby Checker

    Chubby Checker is an United States singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the Twist with his 1960 hit record cover version of Hank Ballard's Rhythm and blues hit "The Twist "....
  • "Small Sad Sam" - Phil McLean
  • "So Do I" - Kenny Ball
    Kenny Ball

    Kenneth Daniel Ball is a United Kingdom jazz musician, best known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen....
     and his Jazzmen
  • "Softly, as I Leave You
    Softly, as I Leave You (song)

    "Softly, as I Leave You" is a popular music song composed by Antonio De Vita , with original Italian language lyrics by Giorgio Calabrese.It was originally an Italian success in 1960 by Mina , at the San Remo Music Festival, entitled "Piano" ....
    " - Matt Monro
    Matt Monro

    Matt Monro was an English people singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1960s. Throughout his 30-year career, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and stadiums in Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong to Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas....
  • "Soldier Boy" - Shirelles
  • "Some People" - Carol Deene
    Carol Deene

    Carol Deene was a English people pop music singing.Deene scored three Top 40 hit record on the UK Singles Chart in 1962. "Norman" reached #24 in January 1962, "Johnny Get Angry" reached #32 in July, and "Some People" hit #25 in August....
  • "Son This Is She" - John Leyton
    John Leyton

    John Leyton is a English people actor and singing. As a singer he is best known for his hit record song, "Johnny Remember Me" , which reached chart-topper in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961....
  • "Spanish Harlem" - Jimmy Justice
    Jimmy Justice

    Jimmy Justice may refer to:* Jimmy Justice * Jimmy Justice ...
  • "Speak To Me Pretty" - Brenda Lee
    Brenda Lee

    Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
  • "Speedy Gonzales
    Speedy Gonzales (song)

    Speedy Gonzales is a 1962 song and a single by Pat Boone about Speedy Gonzales, "the fastest mouse in all Mexico." It kept the #6 Billboard position in 1962 for 13 weeks....
    " - Pat Boone
    Pat Boone

    Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  • "Stranger on the Shore
    Stranger on the Shore

    "Stranger on the Shore" is a piece for clarinet written by Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named "Jenny" after her. It was subsequently used as the theme tune of a BBC TV drama serial for young people that was also called Stranger on the Shore ....
    " - Acker Bilk
    Acker Bilk

    Acker Bilk Order of the British Empire , born Bernard Stanley Bilk , is a clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style....
  • "Stranger on the Shore" - Andy Williams
    Andy Williams

    Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is a legendary American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 gold and three platinum certified albums. When Ronald Reagan was president, he declared Andy's voice to be "a national treasure"....
  • "Sun Arise" - Rolf Harris
    Rolf Harris

    Rolf Harris Order of the British Empire, Order of Australia , is an Australian musician, singer, composer, Painting, and Presenter....
  • "Susie Darlin'" - Tommy Roe
    Tommy Roe

    Tommy Roe is an United States pop music singer-songwriter.Best-remembered for his 1962 hit single "Sheila," critic Bill Dahl writes that Roe was "widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum pop artists of the late 1960s, but Roe cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his career."...
  • "Sweet Little Sixteen" - Jerry Lee Lewis
    Jerry Lee Lewis

    Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  • "Swinging in the Rain" - Norman Vaughan
    Norman Vaughan

    Norman Vaughan may refer to:*Norman D. Vaughan , American dogsled driver and explorer*Norman Vaughan , British comedian...
  • "Swiss Maid" - Del Shannon
    Del Shannon

    Del Shannon , was an United States rock and roller who had a Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1961 hit ,"Runaway ", in 1961....
  • "The Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
  • "Tall Dark Stranger" - Rose Brennan
  • "Tears" - Danny Williams
    Danny Williams (musician)

    Danny Williams was a pop music singer....
  • "Tell Me What He Said" - Helen Shapiro
    Helen Shapiro

    Helen Shapiro is an English singer and actress. She is best known for her 1960s UK chart-toppers, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness"....
  • "Telstar
    Telstar (song)

    "Telstar" ? ? is a 1962 instrumental gramophone record performed by The Tornados. It was the first single by a United Kingdom band to reach number one on the U.S....
     - The Tornados
    The Tornados

    The Tornados were an England instrumental group of the 1960s who acted as in-house backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek's productions....
  • "That Noise" - Anthony Newley
    Anthony Newley

    Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
  • "Theme From Dr. Kildare" - Johnnie Spence
  • "Theme from Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight)
    Theme From Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight)

    "'Theme From Dr. Kildare '" is the name of a song written by Jerry Goldsmith, Pete Rugolo, and Hal Winn.The song was the Theme music for the Television program Dr....
    " - Richard Chamberlain
  • "Theme from Maigret" - Joe Loss
    Joe Loss

    Joshua Alexander Loss or Joe Loss OBE was an England musician and founder of The Joe Loss Orchestra, a light orchestra....
  • "Theme from Z-Cars
    Theme from Z-Cars

    Theme from Z-Cars was the theme tune to the long running BBC television drama Z-Cars.Based on the traditional folk song Johnny Todd, which was in a collection of traditional tunes by Frank Kidson dated 1891 called Traditional Tunes: A Collection of Ballad Airs....
    " - Johnny Keating
    John Keating (musician)

    John Keating is a Scottish people musician, songwriter and arrangement. Keating, Scotland's greatest ever musical arranger, graduated from the back streets of Edinburgh to the neon-lit avenues of Los Angeles, California, California....
  • "Theme from Z-Cars" - Norrie Paramor
    Norrie Paramor

    Norrie Paramor is best known as a record producer, but was also a composer, arrangement, and Conducting. Paramor was one of EMI's top producers in pop music and rock and roll through to the end of the 1960s....
     and His Orchestra
  • "Things" - Bobby Darin
    Bobby Darin

    Bobby Darin was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country....
  • "Tonight" - Shirley Bassey
    Shirley Bassey

    Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom singer. She performed the theme music to the James Bond films Goldfinger , Diamonds Are Forever , and Moonraker ....
  • "Town Without Pity" - Gene Pitney
    Gene Pitney

    Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American singer-songwriter. He was also an accomplished guitarist, piano, drummer and skilled sound engineer. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
  • "The Twist
    The Twist (song)

    "The Twist" is a twelve bar blues song that gave birth to the Twist dance craze. The song was written and originally released in 1959 by Hank Ballard as a B-side but his version was only a minor 1960 hit, peaking at 28 on the Billboard Hot 100....
    " - Chubby Checker
    Chubby Checker

    Chubby Checker is an United States singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the Twist with his 1960 hit record cover version of Hank Ballard's Rhythm and blues hit "The Twist "....
  • "Twistin' the Night Away
    Twistin' the Night Away

    "Twistin' the Night Away" is the name of a song written and recorded by Sam Cooke. The song was released as a single in 1962 in music and became very popular, charting in the top ten of both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard's R&B chart , as well as the UK Singles Chart ....
    " - Sam Cooke
    Sam Cooke

    Samuel Cook, better known as Sam Cooke, was an United States gospel music, R&B, soul music, and popular music singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur....
  • "Unsquare Dance" - Dave Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck

    David Warren Brubeck , better known as Dave Brubeck, is an United States Jazz piano. Regarded as a jazz icon, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke"....
  • "Up on the Roof
    Up on the Roof (song)

    "Up on the Roof" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and recorded in 1962 by The Drifters. Released at the tail end of that year, the song became a big hit, reaching number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs....
    " - Kenny Lynch
    Kenny Lynch

    Kenny Lynch, Order of the British Empire is a English people singing, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London. Lynch appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s....
  • "Vacation" - Connie Francis
    Connie Francis

    Connie Francis is an United States pop singer best known for several international hit songs including "Who's Sorry Now?", "Where the Boys Are", and "Stupid Cupid"....
  • "Venus in Blue Jeans
    Venus In Blue Jeans

    "Venus In Blue Jeans" is a 1962 song written by Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller . It was recorded in the 1962 by Jimmy Clanton, peaking at #7 on the Billboard charts....
    " - Mark Wynter
    Mark Wynter

    Mark Wynter is an English people actor and former singer, who had four Top 20 single in the 1960s, including "Venus in Blue Jeans" and "Go Away Little Girl"....
  • "Walk Away" - Shane Fenton and the Fentones
  • "Walk On By" - Leroy Van Dyke
    Leroy Van Dyke

    Leroy Van Dyke is an United States country music singing, billed as 'The World's Most Famous Auctioneer.' He graduated from the University of Missouri majoring in agricultural journalism....
  • "Walk Right In
    Walk Right In

    "Walk Right In" is the title of a popular song from 1962 by the United States folk music trio The Rooftop Singers. The song was written by blues singer and musician Gus Cannon and originally recorded by Cannon and His Jug Stompers in the late 1920s....
    " - The Rooftop Singers
    The Rooftop Singers

    The Rooftop Singers were a progressive folk music singing trio in the early 1960s, best known for the hit "Walk Right In".The group was composed of Erik Darling and Bill Svanoe with former jazz singer Lynne Taylor ....
  • "The Wanderer
    The Wanderer (Dion song)

    "The Wanderer" is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion DiMucci. The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the story of a travelling man and his many loves....
    " - Dion
  • "Warmed Over Kisses" - Brian Hyland
    Brian Hyland

    Brian Hyland is an United States pop music musician who was particularly successful during the early 1960s. He continued recording into the 1970s....
  • "We're Gonna Go Fishin'" - Hank Locklin
    Hank Locklin

    Hank Locklin was an United States country music singer-songwriter....
  • "Welcome Home Baby" - The Brook Brothers
    The Brook Brothers

    The Brook Brothers were an English people pop music duet comprised of Geoff Brook and Ricky Brook .The Brook Brothers started out as a skiffle group in 1956, and after winning a local talent show, changed their look and sound to approximate the style of The Everly Brothers....
  • "Wonderful Land
    Wonderful Land

    "Wonderful Land" is UK #1 single by The Shadows. The song was released on the Atlantic Records label in the U.S., but did not reach the Billboard Top 100....
    " - The Shadows
    The Shadows

    Nick-named: the Shads, The Shadows are the most successful United Kingdom instrumental and vocal group from the 1950s to the 2000s with an aggregate total of at least 64 UK hit singles....
  • "What A Crazy World We're Living In" - Joe Brown
    Joe Brown (singer)

    Joe Brown is a English people entertainer of the 1960s and beyond.Brown has now sustained a career as a rock and roll singing and guitarist for over five decades....
  • "What Kind Of Fool Am I?/Gonna Build A Mountain" - Sammy Davis Jr.
  • "What Now My Love" - Shirley Bassey
    Shirley Bassey

    Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom singer. She performed the theme music to the James Bond films Goldfinger , Diamonds Are Forever , and Moonraker ....
  • "When My Little Girl Is Smiling" - Craig Douglas
    Craig Douglas

    Craig Douglas is an English people pop music singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s....
  • "When My Little Girl Is Smiling" - The Drifters
    The Drifters

    The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today....
  • "When My Little Girl Is Smiling" - Jimmy Justice
    Jimmy Justice

    Jimmy Justice may refer to:* Jimmy Justice * Jimmy Justice ...
  • "Will I What" - Mike Sarne
  • "Wimoweh" - Karl Denver
    Karl Denver

    Karl Denver , was a Scottish people singer, who, with his Trio had a series of United Kingdom hit singles in the early 1960s. Most famous of these was a 1961 cover version of "Wimoweh" which showed off Denver's falsetto yodelling register....
  • "Wonderful World of the Young" - Danny Williams
    Danny Williams (musician)

    Danny Williams was a pop music singer....
  • "Ya Ya Twist" - Petula Clark
    Petula Clark

    Petula Clark, Order of the British Empire , is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II....
  • "Yes My Darling Daughter" - Eydie Gorme
    Eydie Gormé

    Eydie Gorme is an United States singer credited heavily, along with husband Steve Lawrence, with helping to keep the classic Traditional pop music repertoire alive and well....
  • "You Don't Know Me" - Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  • "The Young Ones" - Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard

    Sir Cliff Richard Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur.With his backing group The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during The Beatles' first year in the charts....
  • "Young World" - Ricky Nelson
    Ricky Nelson

    Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson , was an United States singer, musician and actor. With more than 50 Billboard Hot 100 hits, Nelson was second to Elvis Presley as the most popular rock and roll artist of the late 1950s....
  • "Your Cheatin' Heart
    Your Cheatin' Heart

    "Your Cheatin' Heart" is a song written and recorded by the United States country music singer and songwriter Hank Williams in 1952, but released after his death in 1953....
    " - Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  • "Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night" - Doug Sheldon
    Doug Sheldon

    Doug Sheldon was an English people pop music singing, actor, and novel.Sheldon was born into a family of carnival businesspeople, and he worked as a barker while receiving training in acting....
  • "Your Tender Look" - Joe Brown
    Joe Brown (singer)

    Joe Brown is a English people entertainer of the 1960s and beyond.Brown has now sustained a career as a rock and roll singing and guitarist for over five decades....


See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1962 (USA)

Published popular music

  • "Ahab The Arab" w.m. Ray Stevens
    Ray Stevens

    Ray Stevens is an United States country music and pop music singer-songwriter known for his novelty songs as well as more serious works. He was born in Clarkdale, Georgia, Georgia , a small town west of Atlanta, Georgia....
  • "Blowin' in the Wind" w.m. Bob Dylan
  • "Bossa Nova Baby" w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
  • "The Boys' Night Out
    The Boys' Night Out

    "The Boys' Night Out" is a popular music song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn, the title song from Boys' Night Out .It was recorded by Patti Page, who also sang it in the movie, and reached #49 on the Billboard charts chart in 1962 in music....
    " w. Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn

    Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
     m. Jimmy Van Heusen from the film Boys' Night Out
    Boys' Night Out (film)

    Boys' Night Out is an American comedy film released in 1962 in film, starring Kim Novak, James Garner, and Tony Randall, and directed by Michael Gordon ....
  • "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" w.m. Neil Sedaka
    Neil Sedaka

    Neil Sedaka is an United States pop music singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write hits for himself and others....
     & Howard Greenfield
    Howard Greenfield

    Howard Greenfield was an United States lyricist and songwriter....
  • "Call Me Irresponsible" w. Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn

    Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
     m. Jimmy Van Heusen from the film Papa's Delicate Condition
    Papa's Delicate Condition

    Papa's Delicate Condition is a 1963 in film comedy film starring Jackie Gleason and Glynis Johns. It was an adaptation of the Corinne Griffith memoir of the same name....
  • "Can't Get Used To Losing You" w.m. Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman
  • "Can't Help Falling in Love" w.m. Luigi Creatore
    Luigi Creatore

    Luigi Creatore is a retired United States songwriter and record producer.From a musical family, Creatore began his career as a writer. After serving with the United States military during World War II, in the 1950s he became a writer then partnered with his cousin Hugo Peretti to form the songwriting team of Hugo & Luigi that evolved to pr...
    , Hugo Peretti
    Hugo Peretti

    Hugo Peretti was an United States songwriter and record producer.Born in New York City, Hugo Peretti began his career as a teenager, playing the trumpet in the Borscht Belt in upstate New York....
     & George David Weiss
    George David Weiss

    George David Weiss is an United States songwriter and President of the Songwriters Guild of America....
  • "Comedy Tonight"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  • "Danke Schoen" w. Milton Gabler & Kurt Schwabach m. Bert Kaempfert
    Bert Kaempfert

    Bert Kaempfert was a Germany orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records, and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, such as "Strangers in the Night" and "Spanish Eyes"....
  • "Days of Wine and Roses
    Days of Wine and Roses (song)

    "Days of Wine and Roses" is a popular music song, from the 1962 in film Days of Wine and Roses .The music was written by Henry Mancini, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer....
    " w. Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer

    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
     m. Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
     from the film Days of Wine and Roses
    Days of Wine and Roses (film)

    Days of Wine and Roses is a drama film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own critically acclaimed 1958 in television teleplay for Playhouse 90 of the same name ....
  • "Desafinado" w. Newton Mendonca
    Newton Mendonça

    Newton Ferreira de Mendon?a was a pianist and lyricist. He began in music as a pianist in 1950. In 1953 he started working with Antonio Carlos Jobim, something for which he is best known....
     m. Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Antônio Carlos Jobim

    Ant?nio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist....
  • "Devil Woman" w.m. Marty Robbins
    Marty Robbins

    Martin David Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.One of the most popular and successful United States Country music singers of his era, Robbins' songs were often eclectic, touching notably on an array of world music....
  • "Don't Make Me Over" w. Hal David
    Hal David

    Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
     m. Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  • "Dream Baby" w.m. Cindy Walker
    Cindy Walker

    Cindy Walker was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by many different artists....
  • "Everybody Ought To Have A Maid"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  • "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" w.m. Ewan MacColl
  • "Free"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  • "Go Away, Little Girl
    Go Away Little Girl

    "Go Away, Little Girl" is a popular song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.In late 1962, Steve Lawrence released the original recording of this song....
    " w.m. Gerry Goffin
    Gerry Goffin

    Gerry Goffin is an United States lyricist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with former songwriter partner and first wife, Carole King....
     & Carole King
    Carole King

    Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
  • "Gonna Build A Mountain" w.m. Leslie Bricusse
    Leslie Bricusse

    Leslie Bricusse is a United Kingdom lyricist and composer.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers....
     & Anthony Newley
    Anthony Newley

    Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
     from the musical Stop The World - I Want To Get Off
    Stop the World - I Want to Get Off

    Stop the World - I Want to Get Off is a musical theatre with a book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.Set against the backdrop of a circus, it focuses on Littlechap, whose first major step towards improving his lot is to marry Evie, his boss' daughter....
  • "Have A Dream"     w.Lee Adams
    Lee Adams

    Lee Adams is a Tony Award-winning United States lyricist best known for his musical theatre collaboration with Charles Strouse.Born in Mansfield, Ohio, Adams received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio State University and a Master's degree from Columbia University....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
  • "He's A Rebel"     w.m. Gene Pitney
    Gene Pitney

    Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American singer-songwriter. He was also an accomplished guitarist, piano, drummer and skilled sound engineer. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
  • "Her Royal Majesty"     w.m. Gerry Goffin
    Gerry Goffin

    Gerry Goffin is an United States lyricist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with former songwriter partner and first wife, Carole King....
     & Carole King
    Carole King

    Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
  • "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" w. Hal David
    Hal David

    Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
     m. Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  • "I'm Calm"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  • "I'm Not The Marrying Kind" w. Mack David
    Mack David

    Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television in the 1960s, particularly his work on the Walt Disney Pictures films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland ....
     m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • "I've Got Your Number"     w. Carolyn Leigh
    Carolyn Leigh

    Carolyn Leigh was an United States lyricist for Broadway theatre, movies, and popular songs....
     m. Cy Coleman
    Cy Coleman

    For the fictional principal Seymour Kaufman, see Room 222.Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist....
  • "Impossible"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  • "It's The Only Way To Travel" w. Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn

    Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
     m. Jimmy Van Heusen. Introduced by Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
     and Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
     in the film The Road to Hong Kong
    The Road to Hong Kong

    The Road to Hong Kong was the last in the long-running Road to... series and the only episode not Film production by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence....
  • "Johnny Get Angry" w. Mack David
    Mack David

    Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television in the 1960s, particularly his work on the Walt Disney Pictures films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland ....
     m. Sherman Edwards
    Sherman Edwards

    Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  • Let's Not Be Sensible w. Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn

    Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
     m. Jimmy Van Heusen. Introduced by Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
     and Dorothy Lamour
    Dorothy Lamour

    Dorothy Lamour was an United States film actor. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby....
     in the film The Road to Hong Kong
    The Road to Hong Kong

    The Road to Hong Kong was the last in the long-running Road to... series and the only episode not Film production by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence....
  • "Little Boxes
    Little Boxes

    |}"Little Boxes" is a song written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962 that lampoons the development of suburbia and what many consider its bourgeois conformist values....
    " w.m. Malvina Reynolds
    Malvina Reynolds

    Malvina Reynolds was an United States folk music/blues singer-songwriter and activism, probably best known for writing the song "Little Boxes"....
  • "Look No Further" w.m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
    . Introduced by Diahann Carroll
    Diahann Carroll

    Diahann Carroll is an American award-winning actress and Singing....
     and Richard Kiley
    Richard Kiley

    Richard Paul Kiley was an United States Theater, television, and film actor. He is best known for his voice acting work, as narrator of various Documentary film series, and for having played Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway theatre musical Man of La Mancha....
     in the musical No Strings
    No Strings

    No Strings is a musical theatre drama with a book by Samuel A. Taylor and words and music by Richard Rodgers, his only score written without a collaborator....
  • "Love I Hear"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  • "Lovely"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  • "Make It Easy On Yourself
    Make It Easy On Yourself

    "Make It Easy On Yourself" is a popular music song songwriter by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.Written in 1962 and originally intended for Dionne Warwick, it was instead offered to Jerry Butler whose version was a #20 hit record on the Billboard Hot 100....
    " w. Hal David
    Hal David

    Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
     m. Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  • "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" w. Hal David
    Hal David

    Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
     m. Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  • "More" w. Marcello Ciorciolini & Norman Newell m. Nino Oliviero & Riz Ortolani from the film Mondo Cane
    Mondo Cane

    Mondo Cane is a 1962 in film Cinema of Italy documentary film by Italy filmmakers Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, and Franco Prosperi. The film consists of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise the mostly Cinema of the United States audience, incl...
  • "Old Rivers" w.m. Cliff Crofford
  • "On The Other Side Of The Tracks" w. Carolyn Leigh
    Carolyn Leigh

    Carolyn Leigh was an United States lyricist for Broadway theatre, movies, and popular songs....
     m. Cy Coleman
    Cy Coleman

    For the fictional principal Seymour Kaufman, see Room 222.Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist....
     from the musical Little Me
    Little Me

    Little Me was the parody "confessional" self-indulgent autobiography of "Belle Poitrine" , subtitled The Intimate Memoirs of the Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with Auntie Mame....
  • "Once In A Lifetime" w.m. Leslie Bricusse
    Leslie Bricusse

    Leslie Bricusse is a United Kingdom lyricist and composer.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers....
     & Anthony Newley
    Anthony Newley

    Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
     from the musical Stop The World - I Want To Get Off
    Stop the World - I Want to Get Off

    Stop the World - I Want to Get Off is a musical theatre with a book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.Set against the backdrop of a circus, it focuses on Littlechap, whose first major step towards improving his lot is to marry Evie, his boss' daughter....
  • "Once Upon a Time" w. Lee Adams
    Lee Adams

    Lee Adams is a Tony Award-winning United States lyricist best known for his musical theatre collaboration with Charles Strouse.Born in Mansfield, Ohio, Adams received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio State University and a Master's degree from Columbia University....
     m. Charles Strouse
    Charles Strouse

    Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
    . Introduced by Ray Bolger
    Ray Bolger

    Ray Bolger was an United States entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hunk in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz ....
     and Eileen Herlie
    Eileen Herlie

    Eileen Herlie was a Scottish-American actress....
     in the musical All American
  • "One Note Samba" w. Jon Hendricks
    Jon Hendricks

    | Name = Jon Hendricks| Img = Jon_Hendricks_0157.jpg| Img_capt = Jazz singer Jon Hendricks| Background = solo_singer| Born = Newark, Ohio| Genre = Jazz...
     & Newton Mendonca
    Newton Mendonça

    Newton Ferreira de Mendon?a was a pianist and lyricist. He began in music as a pianist in 1950. In 1953 he started working with Antonio Carlos Jobim, something for which he is best known....
     m. Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Antônio Carlos Jobim

    Ant?nio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist....
  • "Only Love Can Break a Heart
    Only Love Can Break a Heart

    "Only Love Can Break a Heart" is the title of a popular song from 1962 by the United States singer-songwriter Gene Pitney. The song was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach and appears on Pitney's album Only Love Can Break a Heart....
    " w. Hal David
    Hal David

    Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
     m. Burt Bacharach
    Burt Bacharach

    Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  • "Patches" w.and m Barry Mann
    Barry Mann

    Barry Mann is an United States songwriter, and part of one of the most prolific songwriting partnerships in the world of rock and roll music....
     and Larry Kolber Dickey Lee
    Dickey Lee

    Royden Dickey Lipscomb , known professionally as Dickey Lee , is an United States pop music/country music singer and songwriter, best known for the 1960s teenage tragedy songs "Patches" and "Laurie ."...
  • "Pretty Little Picture"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  • "Quando, Quando, Quando" w. Pat Boone
    Pat Boone

    Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
     & Alberto Testa m. Elio Cesari
  • "Ramblin' Rose
    Rambling Rose (1962 song)

    "Ramblin' Rose" is a 1962 popular music song written by brothers Noel Sherman and Joe Sherman and popularized by Nat King Cole. Cole's recording of the song was released by Capitol Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 4804....
    " w.m. Noel Sherman & Joe Sherman
  • "Real Live Girl" w. Carolyn Leigh
    Carolyn Leigh

    Carolyn Leigh was an United States lyricist for Broadway theatre, movies, and popular songs....
     m. Cy Coleman
    Cy Coleman

    For the fictional principal Seymour Kaufman, see Room 222.Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist....
    . Introduced by Sid Caesar
    Sid Caesar

    Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy Award-winning United States comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2....
     in the musical Little Me
    Little Me

    Little Me was the parody "confessional" self-indulgent autobiography of "Belle Poitrine" , subtitled The Intimate Memoirs of the Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with Auntie Mame....
    .
  • "The Road to Hong Kong" w. Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn

    Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
     m. Jimmy Van Heusen from the film The Road to Hong Kong
    The Road to Hong Kong

    The Road to Hong Kong was the last in the long-running Road to... series and the only episode not Film production by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence....
  • "The Stripper" m. David Rose
    David Rose

    David Rose was a British-born United States songwriter, composer, arranger, and orchestra leader. His most famous compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and "Calypso Melody"....
  • "The Sweetest Sounds"     w.m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
     from the musical No Strings
    No Strings

    No Strings is a musical theatre drama with a book by Samuel A. Taylor and words and music by Richard Rodgers, his only score written without a collaborator....
  • "A Swingin' Safari" m. Bert Kaempfert
    Bert Kaempfert

    Bert Kaempfert was a Germany orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records, and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, such as "Strangers in the Night" and "Spanish Eyes"....
  • "Teamwork" w. Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn

    Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
     m. Jimmy Van Heusen. Introduced by Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
    , Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
     and Joan Collins
    Joan Collins

    Joan Henrietta Collins Order of the British Empire is a Golden Globe Award-winning English actress, bestselling author and columnist....
     in the film The Road to Hong Kong
    The Road to Hong Kong

    The Road to Hong Kong was the last in the long-running Road to... series and the only episode not Film production by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence....
  • "Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer" w. Charles Tobias
    Charles Tobias

    Charles Tobias was an American songwriter....
     m. Hans Carste
    Hans Carste

    Hans Friedrich August Carste was a Germany composer and Conducting. His most famous work is probably the opening theme of the German television news series Tagesschau ....
  • "Vacation" w.m. Connie Francis
    Connie Francis

    Connie Francis is an United States pop singer best known for several international hit songs including "Who's Sorry Now?", "Where the Boys Are", and "Stupid Cupid"....
    , Hank Hunter & Gary Weston
  • "A Walk In The Black Forest" m. Horst Jankowski
    Horst Jankowski

    Horst Jankowski was a classically trained pianist most famous for his easy listening music.Jankowski studied at the Berlin Music Conservatory and played jazz in Germany in the 1950s, serving as bandleader for singer Caterina Valente....
  • "Walk on the Wild Side
    Walk on the Wild Side (song)

    "Walk on the Wild Side" originated as the title song of the Walk on the Wild Side as performed by Brook Benton over the film's coda and closing credits....
    " w. Mack David
    Mack David

    Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television in the 1960s, particularly his work on the Walt Disney Pictures films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland ....
     m. Elmer Bernstein
    Elmer Bernstein

    'Elmer Bernstein' was an Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments , The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape , The Magnificent Seven, and To Kill a Mockingbird ....
     from the film Walk On The Wild Side
  • "Warmer Than a Whisper" w. Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn

    Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
     m. Jimmy Van Heusen. Introduced by Dorothy Lamour
    Dorothy Lamour

    Dorothy Lamour was an United States film actor. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby....
     in the film The Road to Hong Kong
    The Road to Hong Kong

    The Road to Hong Kong was the last in the long-running Road to... series and the only episode not Film production by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence....
  • "What Kind Of Fool Am I?
    What Kind of Fool Am I?

    "What Kind of Fool Am I?" is a popular music song written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley and published in 1962 in music. It was introduced by Anthony Newley in the musical Stop the World - I Want to Get Off....
    " w.m. Leslie Bricusse
    Leslie Bricusse

    Leslie Bricusse is a United Kingdom lyricist and composer.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers....
     & Anthony Newley
    Anthony Newley

    Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
    . Introduced by Anthony Newley
    Anthony Newley

    Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
     in the musical Stop The World - I Want To Get Off
    Stop the World - I Want to Get Off

    Stop the World - I Want to Get Off is a musical theatre with a book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.Set against the backdrop of a circus, it focuses on Littlechap, whose first major step towards improving his lot is to marry Evie, his boss' daughter....
  • "What Now, My Love?" w. Pierre Delanoë
    Pierre Delanoë

    Pierre Delano? , born Pierre Leroyer, was a France songwriter/lyricist who wrote for dozens of singers such as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and rocker Johnny Hallyday....
     & Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman

    Carl Sigman was a major United States songwriter....
     m. Gilbert Bécaud
    Gilbert Bécaud

    Gilbert B?caud was a France singer, composer and actor, known as Monsieur 100,000 Volts for his energetic performances. His best-known hit record are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love "....
  • "Wolverton Mountain" w.m. Merle Kilgore
    Merle Kilgore

    Wyatt Merle Kilgore was an United States singer, songwriter, and Talent manager....
     & Claude King
    Claude King

    Claude King is an United States country music singer and songwriter....


Classical music


  • George Barati - Chamber Concerto
  • Morley Calvert - Suite from the Montenegrin
    Montenegro

    Montenegro , Montenegrin language/Serbian language: ???? ????, Crna Gora , ) is a country located in Balkans. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south....
     Hills
  • George Crumb
    George Crumb

    George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
     - Five Pieces for piano
  • Mario Davidovsky
    Mario Davidovsky

    Mario Davidovsky is an Argentina-United States composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape....
    • Electronic Study No. 2
    • Synchronisms No. 1 for flute and electronic sound
    • Trio for Clarinet, Trumpet, and Viola
  • Ding Shande - Long March Symphony
  • Francis Jackson
    Francis Jackson

    Francis Alan Jackson Order of the British Empire is pre-eminent as a United Kingdom organist and composer.A popular figure in the musical profession, both nationally and internationally, Jackson was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and received his early education as a Chorister at York Minster under his precursor, the legendary...
     - Intrada for Organ, Op 84 no 6
  • Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki

    Krzysztof Penderecki is a Poland composer and conducting of European classical music....
     - Stabat Mater
  • Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc

    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
     - Sonata for Oboe
    Oboe Sonata (Poulenc)

    Francis Poulenc's Oboe Sonata for oboe and piano dates from 1962. According to many oboists, the last movement "D?ploration" was the last piece he wrote before he died....
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
     - Symphony No. 13 B flat minor, Op. 113 "Babi-Yar"
    Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)

    The Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed in Moscow on December 18, 1962 by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the basses of the Republican State and Gnessin Institute Choirs, under Kirill Kondrashin ....
  • Ezra Sims
    Ezra Sims

    Ezra Sims is one of the pioneers in the field of microtonal composition. He invented a system of music notation which was adopted by many microtonal composers after him, including Joseph Maneri....
     - Third Quartet
  • La Monte Young
    La Monte Young

    La Monte Thornton Young is an United States composer and musician.Young is generally recognized as the first minimalism composer, and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school, along with Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, despite having little in common formally with Glass or Reich....
     - The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer


Opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

  • Mozart Camargo Guarnieri
    Camargo Guarnieri

    Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian composer....
     - Um homem só (tragic opera in one act, libretto by Gianfrancesco Guarnieri
    Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

    Gianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri was a Brazilian actor and playwright.External links ...
    , premiered on November 29 at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro)
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italy List of composers. Born in Florence, he was descended from a prominent banking family that had lived in the city since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492....
     - The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Carlisle Floyd
    Carlisle Floyd

    Carlisle Floyd is an United States opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah , is based a story in the so-called Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect....
     - The Passion of Jonathan Wade
  • Michael Tippett
    Michael Tippett

    Sir Michael Kemp Tippett Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the British Empire was one of the foremost English composers of the 20th century....
     - King Priam
    King Priam

    King Priam is an opera by Michael Tippett, to his own libretto. The story is based on Homer's Iliad, except the birth and childhood of Paris, which are taken from the Fabulae of Hyginus....


Musical theater

  • All-American
    All-American (musical)

    All American is a musical theatre with a book by Mel Brooks, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.Based on the Robert Lewis Taylor novel Professor Fodorski, it is set on the campus of the fictional Southern Baptist Institute of Technology, where the worlds of science and sports collide when the principles of engineering...
         Broadway production
  • Blitz!
    Blitz!

    Blitz! is a musical theater by Lionel Bart. The play, described by Steven Suskin as "massive", was set in the East End of London of London during the Blitz ....
     (Lionel Bart
    Lionel Bart

    Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music & lyrics for Oliver!...
    ) - London production
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a Musical theatre with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart....
     (Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
    ) - Broadway production
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical theatre with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne. Based on the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Loos, it launched the career of Carol Channing....
         London production
  • The Golden Apple     Broadway revival
  • I Can Get It for You Wholesale
    I Can Get It for You Wholesale

    I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a 1962 Broadway musical that was the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical....
         Broadway production
  • Little Mary Sunshine
    Little Mary Sunshine

    Little Mary Sunshine is a Musical theatre that parodies old-fashioned operettas and musicals. The book, music, and lyrics are by Rick Besoyan....
         London production
  • Little Me
    Little Me

    Little Me was the parody "confessional" self-indulgent autobiography of "Belle Poitrine" , subtitled The Intimate Memoirs of the Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, by Patrick Dennis, who had achieved a great success with Auntie Mame....
         Broadway production opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
    Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

    The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 205 West 46th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings, it was built by producer Charles Dillingham and opened as the Globe Theatre, in honor of London's Shakespearean playhouse, on January 10 1910 with a musi...
     on November17 and ran for 257 performances
  • No Strings
    No Strings

    No Strings is a musical theatre drama with a book by Samuel A. Taylor and words and music by Richard Rodgers, his only score written without a collaborator....
     Broadway
    Broadway theatre

    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
     production opened at the 54th Street Theatre on March 15 and ran for 580 performances
  • Scapa
    Scapa

    Scapa is a Scotch whisky distillation situated on the The Mainland, Orkney of Orkney, Scotland on the shore of Scapa Flow near the town of Kirkwall....
     London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre
    Adelphi Theatre

    The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand, London in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site....
     on March 8 and ran for 44 performances
  • Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
    Stop the World - I Want to Get Off

    Stop the World - I Want to Get Off is a musical theatre with a book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.Set against the backdrop of a circus, it focuses on Littlechap, whose first major step towards improving his lot is to marry Evie, his boss' daughter....
     (Anthony Newley
    Anthony Newley

    Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
     and Leslie Bricusse
    Leslie Bricusse

    Leslie Bricusse is a United Kingdom lyricist and composer.Although best known for his partnership with Anthony Newley, Bricusse has worked with many other composers....
    ) - Broadway production


Musical film
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
s

  • Billy Rose's Jumbo
    Jumbo (musical)

    Jumbo is a musical theater produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and directed by John Murray Anderson and George Abbott....
     released December 6 starring Doris Day
    Doris Day

    Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
    , Jimmy Durante
    Jimmy Durante

    James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
    , Stephen Boyd
    Stephen Boyd

    Stephen Boyd , born William Millar, was an Ireland-born actor from Glengormley, Northern Ireland, who appeared in 60 films, most notably in the role of Messala in the 1959 film Ben-Hur ....
     and Martha Raye
    Martha Raye

    Martha Raye was an United States comic actress and traditional pop music singer who performed in film, and later on television.Biography...
  • Gypsy
    Gypsy (1962 film)

    Gypsy is a 1962 in film Musical film made by Warner Bros., about the life of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. It was produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy....
     starring Rosalind Russell
    Rosalind Russell

    Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
    , Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood

    Natalie Wood was an American actress.Following her film debut at the age of four, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street ....
     and Karl Malden
    Karl Malden

    Mladen George Sekulovich is an American actor, known for his expansive manner. In a career that spanned over seven decades, he was featured in classic films such as A Streetcar Named Desire , On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks, with Marlon Brando, and also starred in the blockbuster movie, Patton ....
    . Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
    Mervyn LeRoy

    Mervyn LeRoy was an Academy Award-winning United States film director, film producer and sometime actor....
    .
  • The Music Man
    The Music Man (1962 film)

    The Music Man is a 1962 film musical starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 The Music Man of the same name by Meredith Willson....
     starring Robert Preston
    Robert Preston (actor)

    Robert Preston was an award-winning United States stage and film actor....
    , Shirley Jones
    Shirley Jones

    Shirley Mae Jones is an United States singer and character actress of stage , film and television. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma , Carousel , and The Music Man ....
     and Hermione Gingold
    Hermione Gingold

    Hermione Gingold was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove....
    . Directed by Morton DaCosta
    Morton DaCosta

    Morton DaCosta was an United States theatre director and film director, film producer, writer, and actor.Born Morton Tecosky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, DaCosta began his career as an actor in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth in 1942....
    .
  • The Road to Hong Kong
    The Road to Hong Kong

    The Road to Hong Kong was the last in the long-running Road to... series and the only episode not Film production by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence....
  • State Fair
    State Fair (1962 film)

    State Fair is a 1962 in film directed by Jos? Ferrer. The film is a remake of the State Fair .It was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film....


Births

  • January 4 - Robin Guthrie
    Robin Guthrie

    Robin Guthrie is a musician best known as co-founder of the Cocteau Twins. During his career Guthrie has played guitar, bass guitar, keyboard instrument, drum kit and other musical instruments, in addition to programming, Sampling and sound processing....
    , The Cocteau Twins
  • January 13 - Tony Rebel
    Tony Rebel

    Tony Rebel is a Jamaican reggae deejay. He was initially a singer, appearing as Papa Tony or Tony Ranking in local talent contests and on Sound system including Sugar Minott's 'Youth Promotion'....
    , reggae/dancehall artist
  • January 16 - Paul Webb
    Paul Webb

    Paul Douglas Webb is an England musician.Webb attended secondary school with Lee Harris , and the two became good friends. They played in the reggae band Eskalator before being recruited to form Talk Talk in 1981....
    , Talk Talk
    Talk Talk

    Talk Talk were a popular British Rock music group that were active from 1981 to 1991. In mainstream circles, the group is most well known for their early synthpop singles, including the international hits "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life ", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It " and "Living in Another World"....
  • January 28 - Leslie Phillips/Sam Phillips
    Sam Phillips (singer)

    Leslie Ann Phillips, aka Sam Phillips is an United States singer and a songwriter....
    , singer
  • February 1 - Tomoyasu Hotei
    Tomoyasu Hotei

    is a Japanese musician, guitarist and actor....
    , Japanese guitarist (Boøwy
    Boøwy

    Bo?wy was a Japanese rock group consisting of Kyosuke Himuro , Tomoyasu Hotei , Tsunematsu Matsui and Makoto Takahashi . They were a rock band that reached legendary status in Japan during the 1980s....
    )
  • February 6 - Axl Rose
    Axl Rose

    W. Axl Rose is an United States musician, best known as the lead vocalist of hard rock rock band Guns N' Roses.Rose grew up in Indiana in a troubled family environment....
    , Guns N' Roses
    Guns N' Roses

    Guns N' Roses is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation....
  • February 7 - David Bryan
    David Bryan

    David Bryan is the keyboard player of the band Bon Jovi. Bryan also sings backing vocals and often at live shows sings part of or the whole of the song 'In These Arms', one of a handful of Bon Jovi songs credited to him....
    , keyboardist for the band Bon Jovi
    Bon Jovi

    Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
  • February 7 - Garth Brooks
    Garth Brooks

    Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989; it peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart....
    , country singer
  • February 10- Cliff Burton
    Cliff Burton

    Clifford Lee Burton was a bassist best known for his work with the American Heavy metal music band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986....
    , bassist for Metallica
    Metallica

    Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
     d.1986
  • February 11 - Sheryl Crow
    Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
    , American singer
  • February 19 - Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez, singer
  • February 22 - Michael Wilton
    Michael Wilton

    Michael Wilton is an American guitarist for the progressive metal band Queensr?che. Wilton attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where he met future Queensr?che drummer Scott Rockenfield and began recording in 1981....
    , Queensrÿche
    Queensrÿche

    Queensr?che is an United States heavy metal music / progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington. The band has released ten studio albums and several smaller releases including Extended plays and DVDs and continues to tour and record....
  • March 2 - Jon Bon Jovi
    Jon Bon Jovi

    John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. , better known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an United States musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi....
    , lead singer for the band Bon Jovi
    Bon Jovi

    Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
  • March 5 - Craig Reid
    Craig Reid

    Craig Reid may refer to:*Craig Reid, musician from The Proclaimers*Craig Reid , English footballer*Craig Reid , Scottish footballer...
    , The Proclaimers
    The Proclaimers

    The Proclaimers are a Scottish band composed of Twin#Monozygotic twins Charlie and Craig Reid . They are best known for the songs Letter from America , I'm on My Way , and I'm Gonna Be ....
  • March 5 - Charlie Reid, The Proclaimers
    The Proclaimers

    The Proclaimers are a Scottish band composed of Twin#Monozygotic twins Charlie and Craig Reid . They are best known for the songs Letter from America , I'm on My Way , and I'm Gonna Be ....
  • March 7 - Taylor Dayne
    Taylor Dayne

    Taylor Dayne is an United States Popular music vocalist, song-writer, dance music artist, and actress. Dayne's first seven singles hit the U.S....
  • March 30 - M.C. Hammer
  • April 3 - Mike Ness
    Mike Ness

    Michael James Ness is a prolific guitarist, singer, and chief songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion. As of Dennis Danell's death in 2000, he is the only remaining original member of the band....
    , Social Distortion
    Social Distortion

    Social Distortion is an United States rock music band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California, Orange County, California, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and Charlie Quintana ....
  • April 8 - Izzy Stradlin
    Izzy Stradlin

    Jeffery Dean Isbell , more widely known by his stage name Izzy Stradlin, is an United States musician, best known as one of the lead songwriters and rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses from 1985 to 1991....
     of Guns N' Roses
    Guns N' Roses

    Guns N' Roses is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation....
  • April 16 - Ian MacKaye
    Ian MacKaye

    Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye , is an United States singer and guitarist. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk band Minor Threat, and the alternative rock bands Embrace , Fugazi , and The Evens....
    , lead singer of Minor Threat
    Minor Threat

    Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite being so short-lived, the band had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene....
     and Fugazi
    Fugazi (band)

    Fugazi is an United States punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band's continual members were guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty....
  • May 9 - David Gahan
    David Gahan

    Dave Gahan is the baritone lead singer for the United Kingdom electronic band Depeche Mode, and is also an accomplished solo artist....
    , Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode

    Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
  • May 12 - Brett Gurewitz
    Brett Gurewitz

    Brett Gurewitz , nicknamed Mr. Brett, is the guitarist and a songwriter of Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records....
    , Bad Religion
    Bad Religion

    Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
  • May 31 - Corey Hart
    Corey Hart

    Corey Mitchell Hart is a Grammy Award-nominated List of Canadian musicians. He was raised in Montreal, Spain, Mexico City, Mexico, and Key Biscayne, Florida, and was raised solely by his mother from the age of 10 ....
  • June 8 - Nick Rhodes
    Nick Rhodes

    Nick Rhodes is the keyboardist for Duran Duran. Rhodes and singer Simon Le Bon are the only members to have been with the band throughout its 29-year professional career ....
    , Duran Duran
    Duran Duran

    Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
  • June 19 - Paula Abdul
    Paula Abdul

    Paula Julie Abdul is an United States Pop music singer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.In the 1980s, Abdul rose from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to being a sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a pop music-Contemporary R&B singer with a string of hits in...
    , pop vocalist
  • June 20 - Mark De Gli Antoni
    Mark De Gli Antoni

    Mark De Gli Antoni , often credited as Horse Tricks, is a New York / San Francisco composer, best known for his work as Keyboard instrument and sampler player for the band Soul Coughing from 1992 to 2000....
    , Soul Coughing
    Soul Coughing

    Soul Coughing is a New York City-based alternative rock band . The band found modest mainstream success during the mid-to-late 90's. Soul Coughing developed a devout fanbase and have garnered largely positive response from critics....
  • July 7 - Mark White, Spin Doctors
    Spin Doctors

    Spin Doctors are an American jam band/alternative rock group formed in New York City, best known for their 1993 hits, "Two Princes" and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", which charted at #7 & #17 respectively on the American pop chart....
  • July 21 - Lee Aaron
    Lee Aaron

    Lee Aaron is a Canada Rock music and jazz singer. She had several hits with titles such as "Metal Queen", "Whatcha Do to my Body", and "Sex with Love"....
  • July 22 - Steve Albini
    Steve Albini

    Steven Frank Albini is an United States audio engineer, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and Flour , and is currently a member of Shellac ....
    , guitarist
  • July 27 - Karl Mueller
    Karl Mueller

    Karl Mueller was a United States rock musician. He was the bass guitar player and a founding member of the Minneapolis rock music/grunge band Soul Asylum....
    , Soul Asylum
    Soul Asylum

    Soul Asylum is an United States alternative rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1983 in music.The band formed in 1981 under the name Loud Fast Rules, with the original line-up consisting of Dan Murphy, Dave Pirner, Karl Mueller and Pat Morley ....
  • August 4 - Paul Reynolds
    Paul Reynolds (musician)

    Paul Reynolds was the lead guitar and backing vocalist for the Liverpool band A Flock of Seagulls. He is commonly known for his large white glasses which he gave away to a fan who was going to fight in the Gulf War, and serious-mannered appearance....
    , A Flock of Seagulls
    A Flock of Seagulls

    A Flock of Seagulls are a British Grammy Award winning band originally formed by brothers Mike Score and Ali Score , with Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds ....
  • August 7 - Andrew Glover
    Andrew Glover

    Andrew Glover is a composer, born in Birmingham, UK. He studied in Nottingham and gained his Doctorate in 1994 from Keele University after studying with Dr George Nicholson....
    , Composer
  • August 25 - Vivian Campbell
    Vivian Campbell

    Vivian Patrick Campbell is a Northern Ireland Rock guitarist and a member of Def Leppard. Prior to joining the band in April 1992, he had been a member of the Ireland rock band Sweet Savage , and other bands, including Dio, Trinity , Whitesnake, Riverdogs, and Shadow King ....
    , Def Leppard
    Def Leppard

    Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
  • October 3 - Tommy Lee
    Tommy Lee

    Tommy Lee is an United States musician, and founding member of heavy metal music band M?tley Cr?e. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects....
    , Mötley Crüe
    Mötley Crüe

    M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
  • October 12 - Chris Botti
    Chris Botti

    Christopher Stephen Botti or Chris Botti [BOH-tee] is an American trumpeter and composer. Born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Corvallis, Oregon, Oregon, he spent two years of his childhood growing up in Italy....
    , trumpeter
  • October 15 - Mark Reznicek, Toadies
    Toadies

    Toadies are a Texan Band_ from Fort Worth, Texas. The Toadies are most well known for their famous song "Possum Kingdom" in August of 1994. The band's lineup consisted of Vaden Todd Lewis on Singing/guitar, Mark Reznicek on Drum kit, Lisa Umbarger on Bass guitar, and Clark Vogeler on guitar for most of the band's existence....
  • October 16 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
    Dmitri Hvorostovsky

    Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky , is a baritone opera singer from Russia.Hvorostovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. He studied at the Krasnoyarsk School of Arts under Yekatherina Yofel and made his debut at Krasnoyarsk Opera House, in the role of Marullo in Rigoletto....
    , baritone
  • October 16 - Flea
    Flea

    Flea is the common name for insects of the order Siphonaptera which are wingless insects whose mouthparts are adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood....
    , Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....
  • October 25 - Chad Smith
    Chad Smith

    Chadwick "Chad" Smith is the drummer of the rock bands Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chickenfoot ....
    , Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....
  • November 1 - Anthony Kiedis
    Anthony Kiedis

    Anthony Kiedis is an American musician and occasional actor best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his mother before moving to Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, California at the age of eight to be with his father....
    , lead singer of Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....
  • November 3 - Marilyn
    Marilyn (musician)

    Peter Robinson , better known as Marilyn, is a British Pop music Singing who achieved international fame in the 1980s with his hit song "Calling Your Name"....
    , pop vocalist
  • November 9 - Steve "Silk" Hurley, house-music producer and club DJ
  • November 18 - Kirk Hammett
    Kirk Hammett

    Kirk Lee Hammett is the lead guitarist and a songwriter in the band Metallica and has been a member of the band since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus ....
    , lead guitarist of Metallica
    Metallica

    Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
  • November 21 - Steven Curtis Chapman
    Steven Curtis Chapman

    Steven Curtis Chapman is a Contemporary Christian musician.After starting his career in the late 80s as a songwriter, Chapman has turned into one of the most prolific singers in the genre, releasing more than 20 albums to this date....
  • November 27 - Charlie Benante
    Charlie Benante

    Charlie Benante is the drummer for the heavy metal music band Anthrax . He has also performed in the band Stormtroopers of Death . Benante has also been one of the primary songwriters for both Anthrax and S.O.D.....
    , Anthrax
    Anthrax (band)

    Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....
  • November 28 - Matt Cameron
    Matt Cameron

    Matthew David Cameron is an American drummer. He is renowned for being the drummer, backing vocalist and occasional songwriter in the American Rock music bands Soundgarden and Pearl Jam ....
    , Soundgarden
    Soundgarden

    Soundgarden was an American Rock music band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto....
    , Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam

    Pearl Jam is an American rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready ....
  • November 27 - Mike Bordin
    Mike Bordin

    Mike Bordin is a drummer and co-founder of Faith No More. He now plays with Ozzy Osbourne. Notably for a left-handed drummer, he plays a right-handed kit with his ride cymbal on the left....
    , Faith No More
    Faith No More

    Faith No More is an American alternative metal band who formed in San Francisco, California, and were active between 1984 and 1998. Faith No More combined elements of heavy metal music, funk music, progressive rock, hip hop music, hardcore punk, thrash metal, and jazz, among many others, and have been hailed as an influential rock band....
  • December 4 - Vinnie Dombroski, Sponge
    Sponge (band)

    Sponge is a Detroit, Michigan, Michigan, post-grunge band formed in 1991 in music by Vinnie Dombroski, Mike Cross, and Joey Mazzola ? all formerly of hard-rock band Loudhouse....
  • December 8 - Marty Friedman
    Marty Friedman (guitarist)

    Marty Friedman is an American virtuoso guitarist. He is most widely recognized for his tenure as lead/rhythm guitarist for thrash metal band Megadeth for close to ten years....
    , Megadeth
    Megadeth

    Megadeth is an American Heavy metal music band led by founder, front man, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. Formed in 1983 by Mustaine and bass player David Ellefson following Mustaine's departure from Metallica, the band has since released eleven studio albums, six live albums, two Extended play, thirty single , thirty-two music video...


Deaths

  • January 29 - Fritz Kreisler
    Fritz Kreisler

    Fritz Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer; one of the most famous violinists of his day.He is noted for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing....
  • February 5 - Jacques Ibert
    Jacques Ibert

    Jacques Fran?ois Antoine Ibert was a French composer of european classical music....
    , composer
  • February 17 - Bruno Walter
    Bruno Walter

    Bruno Walter was a Germany-born Conducting and composer. He was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939....
    , conductor
  • February 22 - Attila the Hun
    Attila the Hun (calypsonian)

    Attila the Hun was a calypsonian from Trinidad....
    , calypso singer
  • March 24 - Jean Goldkette
    Jean Goldkette

    John Jean Goldkette was a jazz pianist and bandleader born in Patras, Greece. Goldkette spent his childhood in Greece and Russia, and emigrated to the United States in 1911....
    , jazz musician
  • April 10 - Stuart Sutcliffe
    Stuart Sutcliffe

    Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe was a painter, and the original bass guitar of The Beatles for eighteen months . Sutcliffe earned praise for his paintings, which mostly explored a style related to Abstract Expressionism....
    , former member of The Beatles
    The Beatles

    The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
    , cerebral paralysis caused by a brain hemorrhage
  • May 27 - Egon Petri
    Egon Petri

    Egon Petri was a European classical music pianist....
    , pianist
  • June 12 - John Ireland
    John Ireland (composer)

    John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer....
    , composer
  • June 13 - Sir Eugène Aynsley Goossens
    Eugène Aynsley Goossens

    Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conducting and composer....
    , conductor
  • June 15 - Alfred Cortot
    Alfred Cortot

    Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conducting. He is one of the most popular 20th century musicians, especially renowned for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Fr?d?ric Chopin and Robert Schumann....
    , pianist and conductor
  • July 12 - Roger Wolfe Kahn
    Roger Wolfe Kahn

    Roger Wolfe Kahn was an United States jazz and popular musician, composer, and bandleader .Roger Wolff Kahn was born in Morristown, New Jersey into a wealthy German Jewish banking family....
    , bandleader
  • July 25 - Christie MacDonald, actress and singer
  • September 6 - Hanns Eisler
    Hanns Eisler

    Hanns Eisler was a Germany and Austrian composer....
    , composer
  • October 6 - Solomon Linda
    Solomon Linda

    Solomon Popoli Linda was a South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube " which later became the pop hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", and gave its Mbube to a style of isicathamiya a cappella popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo....
    , Zulu musician
  • December 7 - Kirsten Flagstad
    Kirsten Flagstad

    Kirsten M?lfrid Flagstad was a Norway opera singer, one of the greatest Richard Wagner sopranos of the 20th century.A restrained and expressive stage performer, she was admired internationally for her voice's sheer tonal beauty, power, stamina, security and consistency of line and tone....
  • December 13 - Harry Barris
    Harry Barris

    Harry Barris was an American popular singer.Born in New York City, he was a member of the The Rhythm Boys, an early 1930s singing trio which included Al Rinker and Bing Crosby, and was Crosby's entry into show business....
    , US singer, composer and pianist
  • December 22 - Roy Palmer
    Roy Palmer

    Roy Palmer was a USA jazz trombone.Palmer was born in the Carrollton, Louisiana of uptown New Orleans, Louisiana. Early in his career he also played violin, guitar and trumpet....
    , jazz trombonist


Awards


Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....

  • Eurovision Song Contest 1962
    Eurovision Song Contest 1962

    The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 was the seventh in the series. To date, it is the only one to have been held on a Sunday. France's win was their third and marked the first time a country had won three contests....

Grammy Awards

  • Grammy Awards of 1962
    Grammy Awards of 1962

    The 4th Grammy Awards were held in 1962. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1961....

Ivor Novello Awards
Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the Cardiff born entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing. The "Ivors" are presented annually in London by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, and were first introduced in 1955....


See also

  • Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1962