Every Billboard #1 Song Of The Sixties Listed In Chronological Order
| El PasoMarty Robbins 1960 |
| Running BearJohnny Preston |
| Teen AngelMark Dinning |
| The Theme From "A Summer Place"Percy Faith and His Orchestra |
| Stuck On YouElvis Presley |
| Cathy's ClownThe Everly Brothers |
| Everybody's Somebody's FoolConnie Francis |
| Alley-OopHollywood Argyles |
| I'm SorryBrenda Lee |
| Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot BikiniBrian Hyland |
| It's Now Or NeverElvis Presley |
| The TwistChubby Checker |
| My Heart Has A Mind Of Its OwnConnie Francis |
| Mr. CusterLarry Verne |
| Save The Last Dance For MeThe Drifters |
| I Want To Be WantedBrenda Lee |
| Georgia On My MindRay Charles |
| StayMaurice Williams & The Zodiacs |
| Are You Lonesome TonightElvis Presley |
| Wonderland By NightBert Kaempfert And His Orchestra 1961 |
| Will You Love Me TomorrowThe Shirelles |
| CalcuttaLawrence Welk And His Orchestra |
| Pony TimeChubby Checker |
| SurrenderElvis Presley |
| Blue MoonThe Marcels |
| RunawayDel Shannon |
| Mother-In-LawErnie K-Doe |
| Travelin' ManRicky Nelson |
| Running ScaredRoy Orbison |
| Moody RiverPat Boone |
| Quarter To ThreeU.S. Bonds |
| Tossin' And Turnin'Bobby Lewis |
| Wooden HeartJoe Dowell |
| MichaelThe Highwaymen |
| Take Good Care Of My BabyBobby Vee |
| Hit The Road JackRay Charles and His Orchestra |
| Runaround SueDion |
| Big Bad JohnJimmy Dean |
| Please Mr. PostmanThe Marvelettes |
| The Lion Sleeps TonightThe Tokens |
| The Twist Chubby Checker 1962 |
| Peppermint Twist - Part IJoey Dee & the Starliters |
| Duke Of EarlGene Chandler |
| Hey! BabyBruce Channel |
| Don't Break The Heart That Loves YouConnie Francis |
| Johnny AngelShelley Fabares |
| Good Luck CharmElvis Presley |
| Soldier BoyThe Shirelles |
| Stranger On The ShoreMr. Acker Bilk |
| I Can't Stop Loving YouRay Charles |
| The StripperDavid Rose and His Orchestra |
| Roses Are Red (My Love)Bobby Vinton |
| Breaking Up Is Hard To DoNeil Sedaka |
| The Loco-MotionLittle Eva |
| SheilaTommy Roe |
| SherryThe 4 Seasons |
| Monster MashBobby "Boris" Pickett And The Crypt-Kickers |
| He's A RebelThe Crystals |
| Big Girls Don't CryThe 4 Seasons |
| TelstarThe Tornadoes |
| Go Away Little GirlSteve Lawrence 1963 |
| Walk Right InThe Rooftop Singers |
| Hey PaulaPaul and Paula |
| Walk Like A ManThe 4 Seasons |
| Our Day Will ComeRuby And The Romantics |
| He's So FineThe Chiffons |
| I Will Follow HimLittle Peggy March |
| If You Wanna Be HappyJimmy Soul |
| It's My PartyLesley Gore |
| SukiyakiKyu Sakamoto |
| Easier Said Than DoneThe Essex |
| Surf CityJan & Dean |
| So Much In LoveThe Tymes |
| Fingertips - Pt 2Little Stevie Wonder |
| My Boyfriend's BackThe Angels |
| Blue VelvetBobby Vinton |
| Sugar ShackJimmy Gilmer/Fireballs |
| Deep PurpleNino Tempo & April Stevens |
| I'm Leaving It Up To YouDale & Grace |
| DominiqueThe Singing Nun (Soeur Sourire) |
| There! I've Said It AgainBobby Vinton 1964 |
| I Want To Hold Your HandThe Beatles |
| She Loves YouThe Beatles |
| Can't Buy Me LoveThe Beatles |
| Hello, Dolly!Louis Armstrong And The All Stars |
| My GuyMary Wells |
| Love Me DoThe Beatles |
| Chapel Of LoveThe Dixie Cups |
| A World Without LovePeter And Gordon |
| I Get AroundThe Beach Boys |
| Rag DollThe 4 Seasons Featuring the "Sound of Frankie Valli" |
| A Hard Day's NightThe Beatles |
| Everybody Loves SomebodyDean Martin |
| Where Did Our Love GoThe Supremes |
| The House Of The Rising SunThe Animals |
| Oh, Pretty WomanRoy Orbison And The Candy Men |
| Do Wah Diddy DiddyManfred Mann |
| Baby LoveThe Supremes |
| Leader Of The PackThe Shangri-Las |
| RingoLorne Greene |
| Mr. LonelyBobby Vinton |
| Come See About MeThe Supremes |
| I Feel FineThe Beatles |
| DowntownPetula Clark 1965 |
| You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'The Righteous Brothers |
| This Diamond RingGary Lewis And The Playboys |
| My GirlThe Temptations |
| Eight Days A WeekThe Beatles |
| Stop! In The Name Of LoveThe Supremes |
| I'm Telling You NowFreddie And The Dreamers |
| Game Of LoveWayne Fontana & The Mindbenders |
| Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely DaughterHerman's Hermits |
| Ticket To RideThe Beatles |
| Help Me, RhondaThe Beach Boys |
| Back In My Arms AgainThe Supremes |
| I Can't Help MyselfFour Tops |
| Mr. Tambourine ManThe Byrds |
| (I Can't Get No) SatisfactionThe Rolling Stones |
| I'm Henry VIII, I AmHerman's Hermits |
| I Got You BabeSonny & Cher |
| Help!The Beatles |
| Eve Of DestructionBarry McGuire |
| Hang On SloopyThe McCoys |
| YesterdayThe Beatles |
| Get Off Of My CloudThe Rolling Stones |
| I Hear A SymphonyThe Supremes |
| Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)The Byrds |
| Over And OverThe Dave Clark Five |
| The Sound Of SilenceSimon & Garfunkel 1966 |
| We Can Work It OutThe Beatles |
| My LovePetula Clark |
| Lightnin' StrikesLou Christie |
| These Boots Are Made For Walkin'Nancy Sinatra |
| The Ballad Of The Green BeretsSSgt Barry Sadler |
| (You're My) Soul And InspirationThe Righteous Brothers |
| Good Lovin'The Young Rascals |
| Monday, MondayThe Mamas & The Papas |
| When A Man Loves A WomanPercy Sledge |
| Paint It, BlackThe Rolling Stones |
| Paperback WriterThe Beatles |
| Strangers In The NightFrank Sinatra |
| Hanky PankyTommy James And The Shondells |
| Wild ThingThe Troggs |
| Summer In The CityThe Lovin' Spoonful |
| Sunshine SupermanDonovan |
| You Can't Hurry LoveThe Supremes |
| CherishThe Association |
| Reach Out I'll Be ThereFour Tops |
| 96 Tears? (Question Mark) & The Mysterians |
| Last Train To ClarksvilleThe Monkees |
| Poor Side Of TownJohnny Rivers |
| You Keep Me Hangin' OnThe Supremes |
| Winchester CathedralThe New Vaudeville Band |
| Good VibrationsThe Beach Boys |
| I'm A BelieverThe Monkees |
| Kind Of A DragThe Buckinghams 1967 |
| Ruby TuesdayThe Rolling Stones |
| Love Is Here And Now You're GoneThe Supremes |
| Penny LaneThe Beatles |
| Happy TogetherThe Turtles |
| Somethin' StupidNancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra |
| The HappeningThe Supremes |
| Groovin'The Young Rascals |
| RespectAretha Franklin |
| WindyThe Association |
| Light My FireThe Doors |
| All You Need Is LoveThe Beatles |
| Ode To Billie JoeBobbie Gentry |
| The LetterThe Box Tops |
| To Sir With LoveLulu |
| Incense And PeppermintsStrawberry Alarm Clock |
| Daydream BelieverThe Monkees |
| Hello GoodbyeThe Beatles |
| Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)John Fred And The Playboys 1968 |
| Green TambourineThe Lemon Pipers |
| Love Is BluePaul Mauriat and His Orchestra |
| (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The BayOtis Redding |
| HoneyBobby Goldsboro |
| Tighten UpArchie Bell & The Drells |
| Mrs. RobinsonSimon & Garfunkel |
| This Guy's In Love With YouHerb Alpert |
| Grazing In The GrassHugh Masekela |
| Hello, I Love YouThe Doors |
| People Got To Be FreeThe Rascals |
| Harper Valley P.T.A.Jeannie C. Riley |
| Hey JudeThe Beatles |
| Love ChildDiana Ross And The Supremes |
| I Heard It Through The GrapevineMarvin Gaye |
| Crimson And CloverTommy James And The Shondells 1969 |
| Everyday PeopleSly & The Family Stone |
| DizzyTommy Roe |
| Aquarius/Let The Sunshine InThe 5th Dimension |
| Get BackThe Beatles With Billy Preston |
| Love Theme From Romeo & JulietHenry Mancini And His Orchestra |
| In The Year 2525Zager & Evans |
| Honky Tonk WomenThe Rolling Stones |
| Sugar, SugarThe Archies |
| I Can't Get Next To YouThe Temptations |
| Suspicious MindsElvis Presley |
| Wedding Bell BluesThe 5th Dimension |
| Come Together/SomethingThe Beatles |
| Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him GoodbyeSteam |
| Leaving On A Jet PlanePeter, Paul & Mary |
| Someday We'll Be TogetherDiana Ross And The Supremes |
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I know we have some people here who remember at least some of these songs.
I came across this list while looking up something else.
There were seven songs that were Number 1 on the Billboard chart for at least six weeks -
Theme From 'A Summer Place' - Percy Faith
Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley
I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
I'm A Believer - The Monkees
Hey Jude - The Beatles
In The Year 2525 - Zaeger and Evans
Aquarius Let The Sun Shine In - The Fifth Dimension
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I remember them all!
I remember the first time I heard the Beatles. It was at a party. Someone had just returned from England and mentioned the Beatles. At that time most of us never heard of them or weren't familiar with their music. That person brought a single to the party-- I Want to Hold Your Hand (I don't remember what was on the B side).
They mentioned that this was a new British group--and that after listening to them a few times their tunes were catchy.
At first playing it once it seemed sort of nice. Then we played it over and over again-- at full volume! Soon everyone was hooked!
(I also remember the first time I heard Bob Dylan-- at first I didn't like him because his voice seemed so harsh...later he became one of my all time favs. And the first time I heard The Moody Blues...their first album. Different from their more sophisticated later stuff, simpler but still good stuff).
Just googled it,The B side in the U.S. was "I Saw her Standing There"...now I remember that. Two incredible songs!!!
I like 'I saw her standing there' more than 'I want to hold your hand'. The first couple of years on the list remind me of the sock hops we had in grade school.
Surprised not to see even one Hollies song on the list.
You're right. I checked but there are none.
Bus Stop made it to #5 on Billboard, Stop Stop Stop was a #7, Carrie Anne was a #9, He Aint Heavy He's My Brother also made it to # 7 on Billboard, and Long Cool Woman With A Black Dress was their biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #2.
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Long Cool Woman and Bus Stop are my favorite Hollies songs
I like all of them . He Aint Heavy He's My Brother was probably my favorite though.
Ever hear the Hollies sing Bob Dylan ?
My Back Pages - The Hollies
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The Times That Are A Changin - The Hollies
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Thanks, John. That was quite good. I love the lead singer's voice
I can remember most of them. Not bad considering that most of the rest of the sixties is kind of blurry.
Some pretty good ones in there John.
Quarter To Three- Gary US Bonds
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Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakomoto
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Eve Of Destruction - Barry Mc Guire
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Tighten Up - Archie Bell and the Drells
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I love the song Sukiyaki. I even own the original single.
It has a very interesting history. The song was originally called "Tears that won't fall". Kyu Sakamot wrote it after a demonstration against a treaty between the US and Japan. When he went in to record it, they decided that to make it in the American market, they had to give it a name that the Americans would know, so they named the song after the popular dish Sukiyaki, which is kind of funny. It was a huge hit in 1961, selling over 13 million copies worldwide.
In 1980, A Taste of Honey re-recorded it, using the same title and tune, but changing the lyrics. It turned out to be their biggest hit ever.
It has been recorded by many since and even went into space as the first song from earth.
The sad part of this story is that Kyu Sakamot died in a plane crash which was the most deadliest crash in air history.
good songs
I'm going to sneak a number one song from 1959...The best of time, the worst of times.
El Paso - Marty Robbins
I remember as a kid hearing this song occasionally and wondering why they had a song that didnt have a happy ending.
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I love a lot of these old songs. I was a little young for some of them, being born in 1958, but my sister is 4 years older than I am, and she played many of these. She babysat some kids every week and I think she spent it all on 45's. My folks had an old portable turntable that looked like a suitcase. When you opened it up, the top was speakers that could be separated and the bottom was the turntable. She was really big into Motown so I am pretty familiar with that sound. I started picking my own music around 1970.
Eve of Destruction was one of my favorites from that list.
I always thought it would have been cool if Casey Kasem had done the top 40 for all of the 60's, too. Would be great to hear some of the stories associated with the songs and the artists.
Always play the B side, because sometimes it is better:
Love Is Blue
Groovin'
This Guy's In Love With You
Leaving On A Jet Plane
Save The Last Dance For Me
Theme from "A Summer's Place"
Stranger On The Shore
Mustang Sally
She's Not There
White Rabbit
Born To Be Wild
Wooden Ships
Oh, Pretty Woman
Blowin In The Wind
At Last Etta James
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Brown Eyed Girl
Piece Of My Heart
Time Of The Season
Purple Haze
For What It's Worth
The Weight
A Day In The Life
For what it's worth
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
50 years and nothings changed.
Yup.
The Supremes had eleven #1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1960's. (64-69). Only The Beatles with seventeen number one singles (also 64-69) had more.
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When I was on the About.com race relations forum in the 2000's, there was a black guy who always liked to pontificate. He was convinced that white people never supported black musical artists until Michael Jackson emerged as a solo artist in the early 80's. He was adamant even after I named many of the black acts that are on this Billboard list from the 60's. I count 49 songs by black artists on this list of the number one hits of the 1960's.
So many of my favorites. Thanks for doing this.
And here's to you, Mrs Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you can know
whoa, whoa, whao
I used to sing that to the boy when he was a baby
Someone told me
it's all happening at the zoo
i do believe it
I do believe it's true
,
cause I believe everything
Where's CCR?
Loved their version of Suzi-Q .... they had lots a great music that just didn't seem to climb all the way to the top.
Man we really were blessed with beau coup good music back then. Amazing!
Suzy Q peaked on the US Billboard chart at #11 , in September of 1968.
CCR had a bunch of #2's though. Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising, Green River, Lookin Out My Back Door, and Who'll Stop The Rain all reached #2 on the Hot 100. None of them made it to #1, which seems weird looking back at it.
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John Fogarty was doing some good shrooms or acid when he wrote Out My Backdoor
Yeah i know, there was just that much good music back then. CCR's greatest hits "Revival" is one of my all time favorite albums. I mean there is not really any mediocre songs on there like many greatest hits albums.
loosening up the rusted bolts on my neck,
or running through the jungle, cause there is a bathroom on the right
Love CCR.
Think how big they would have been in today's music world.
I think they would be a huge crossover band between country and rock.
Oh yeah, not to mention the bad split up they had which really hurt their futures.
Then Fogerty comes back and basically writes a new national anthem for MLB.
Center Field. Great song!
Thanks for the list.....brings back great memories.....hard to pick favorites but for me:
Runaway by Del Shannon Running Scared by Roy Orbison
Telstar by The Tornadoes So Much In Love by The Tymes
The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals My Girl by The Temptations
Eve of Destruction by Barry McGwire The Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkle
Soul and Inspiration by The Righteous Brothers Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
I'm surprised that two of my favorite groups of the sixties never had a number 1 hit. Gary Puckett and the Union Gap and Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane both had great hits in the late sixties. I would have thought for sure that songs like Young Girl or White Rabbit would have hit number 1.
Telstar was the communications satellite that first allowed intercontinental television transmissions. People were so naive they thought this would bring on an era of universal peace and brotherhood. The song has both a technological (for 1962) and a quasi spiritual feel to it. It was a big hit too , at a time when instrumentals would still sell a lot of records.
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Young Girl peaked at Number 2 , so that was as close as it gets
Young Girl
By: Gary Puckett
Date: 03/1968
From: Young Girl
Comment:
as The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett
[Columbia 44450]
written by Jerry Fuller
Date
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White Rabbit peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June of 1967.
② White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
from Surrealistic Pillowthanks for the info.