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This is 1962, and Chubby Checker's "Twist" again hit the top spot two years after it did in 1960. This gives the song the distinction of being the only single in Billboard Chart history to hit number 1 during two different years.
So which of these songs do you like best enough to vote for?
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Now watching the video I also liked "Peppermint Twist" and the two instrumentals "Stranger on the Shore" and "The Stripper"(odd name for a song). These I had never heard of before.
I could have voted for Monster Mash, one of the few true Halloween songs out there, but I sadly forgot to vote for it.
A pretty bad year, all things told.. I know less than half the songs on the list, and even the ones that I do.. Few of them were great.. I had no problem picking only three..
I have none of these songs in my collection, but when The Locomotion, Duke of Earl and Telstar come on the radio I won't change the channel. The same generally holds true for "I Can't Stop Loving You", Peppermint Twist, The Stripper and(I suppose) The Twit (plus Monster Mash as favorite Halloween song!)
Otherwise…yawn, can't wait for the Beatles (and Motown) to shake things up!
The first 45 rpm record I ever bought was "Bristol Stomp" by the Dovells in 1961. I bought half of the above listed songs at the going rate-49 cents plus tax. The other half I bought as cut-outs, generally the price was 8 for a $1 at the local Woolworths.
Like Mpls Todd noted above, 1964 turned rock and roll upside down. In comes the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Animals, Chad and Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, Searchers, and more British Invasion artists. Out goes Chubby Checker, Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, Dovells, etc., etc.
The first 45 rpm record I ever bought was "Bristol Stomp" by the Dovells in 1961. I bought half of the above listed songs at the going rate-49 cents plus tax. The other half I bought as cut-outs, generally the price was 8 for a $1 at the local Woolworths.
Like Mpls Todd noted above, 1964 turned rock and roll upside down. In comes the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Animals, Chad and Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, Searchers, and more British Invasion artists. Out goes Chubby Checker, Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, Dovells, etc., etc.
Big time seismic change.
Indeed it was. And ushered in an era of great artists and hits never seen before or since. We were so fortunate, yet most didn't begin to realize how much so at the time.
My favorites from the poll list were were The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Johnny Angel, Sheila, and Telstar. Best instrumentals ever, IMO, were from those years.
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