'60s Gold playlist

We can also add this #4 hit from June 1967. It's a remake of a 1954 #5 country hit by Jimmy Heap & The Melody Masters. The song was also a top-ten country hit for both Ray Price and Kitty Wells in 1954 and a top-ten pop hit for Esther Phillips in 1962.

 
I've already posted the Def Leppard wild remake of "Release Me" and I've already posted Eddie Izzard talking about the process of choosing Englebert Humperdinck as a stage name. So.... nothing to add, I suppose.
 
What the ding-dong?!? I found another big hit that was not on the list. The Edsels, a doo-wop quintet from Campbell, Ohio, released 11 singles between 1958 and 1965. Rama Lama Ding Dong was their only chart hit. Written by lead singer George Jones Jr., it was released in June 1958 and failed to chart. It was reissued in April 1961 and got to #21 in June.

 
Another addition. Joe Barry was born Josef Barrios in Cut Off, Louisiana. He released 24 singles between 1960 and 1977. I'm A Fool To Care was his only top-40 hit, peaking at #24 in June 1961. The song was written by, and first recorded by, Ted Daffan in 1940. Under his real name, Barry also recorded a French/Cajun version, Je Suis Bête Pour T'aimer.

 
Here are five more big hits from June 1961 that were played on a countdown show and are not on the list. This one reached #9:




This one reached #12:




This one, set to the tune of the Olympics' 1960 hit Hully Gully, got to #20:




This one, the title song of an Elvis Presley movie and the B-side of his #5 hit I Feel So Bad, peaked at #24:




And this one, a remake of a 1950 #4 hit by Ray Anthony & His Orchestra, got to #35:

 
"Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip
Who was that man
I'd like to shake his hand
He made my baby fall in love with me"
 
One of my favorite singers.....and one of my favorite songs of his.....and a #5 hit in September 1962.....and it wasn't on the list. Once again, I is embarrassed.

 
Now I'm even more embarraseder. A number-one hit was not on the list! This topped the Hot 100 for four weeks in January 1964 and spent five weeks at number one on the adult contemporay chart. It's a remake of a 1945 number-one hit by Vaughn Monroe.

 
Concrete & Clay by Unit Four Plus Two is on the list. Now we can add this version, which reached #35 in June 1965. Eddie Rambeau's real name is Edward Cletus Fluri. This was his only top-40 hit but he co-wrote several hits for another artists, including Diane Renay's Navy Blue and Kiss Me Sailor.

 
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Eventually I will have to repost this entire list. Here are several more additions, played during countdown shows. Three were top-ten hits and one was a number one and they weren't on the list! How embarrassing!

A Rockin’ Good Way – Dinah Washington/Brook Benton (7/1960)
All I Could Do Was Cry – Etta James (33/1960)
Bad Man’s Blunder – Kingston Trio (37/1960)
Dutchman's Gold - Walter Brennan (30/1960)
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool – Connie Francis (1/1960)
Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones (3/1960)
Heartbreak (It’s Hurtin’ Me) – Little Willie John (38/1960)
Jump Over - Freddy Cannon (28/1960)
Mack The Knife – Ella Fitzgerald (27/1960)
Mama Sang A Song - Walter Brennan/Johnny Mann Singers (38/1962)
Pennies From Heaven - Skyliners (24/1960)
Respect – Otis Redding (35/1965)
Sticks & Stones - Ray Charles (40/1960)
Theme For Young Lovers – Percy Faith (35/1960)
Twist It Up – Chubby Checker (25/1963)
Young Emotions – Ricky Nelson (12/1960)

Sticks & Stones was written by Georgia-born R&B singer Titus Turner. He recorded the song too but his version was not released until 1990, six years after his death, when it appeared on Collectables Records' compilation CD Soulville: Golden Classics. Here is Ray Charles' version:

 
Two more additions, heard during a countdown show. The Horse, an instrumental by Cliff Nobles & Co., reached #2 in June 1968 and was not on the list. How embarrassing! And this Supremes song reached #30 in July 1968. It was written by Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, who also sang background vocals on the song.

 
Another embarrassment: Claude King's Wolverton Mountain is missing from the list. It reached #6 on the Hot 100 in July 1962 and spent nine weeks at number one on the country chart. The song was written in 1959 by Merle Kilgore about his uncle Clifton Clowers, who was born in 1891 and lived on Woolverton Mountain in Arkansas. (The spelling was changed for the song.) In the song, Clowers uses his "gun and a knife" to protect his "pretty young daughter" from would-be suitors. In truth, Clowers had three daughters – and he used his knife for whittling and his gun for hunting. Kilgore sang the song for his uncle – and Clowers told him, "I think you've got yourself a hit." Kilgore offered the song to George Jones and then to Johnny Horton. They turned it down.

After making some minor changes to the lyrics, Claude King recorded Wolverton Mountain on January 26, 1962 in Nashville with the Anita Kerr Singers. After it became a hit and word got out that Clifton Clowers was a real person, many people hiked up the mountain so they could meet him. He enjoyed his notoriety. Clowers died in 1994. He was 102.

 
Yes, I found another big hit that was not on the list. Ahab The Arab by Ray Stevens & The Merry Melody Singers reached #5 in August 1962. It was cut to 2:47 for release as a single. Here is the 3:45 album version:

 
A few more additions, heard during a countdown show:

Limbo Rock – Champs (40/1962)
Little Diane – Dion & The Del-Satins (8/1962)
Stop The Music - Shirelles (36/1962)
Stranger On The Shore – Andy Williams (38/1962)
Summertime Summertime – Jamies (26/1958, 38/1962)
Welcome Home Baby - Shirelles (22/1962)
Where Are You – Dinah Washington (36/1962)

Little Diane is one of two 1962 hits featuring a kazoo. The other is Joanie Sommers' Johnny Get Angry.

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I personally think you should exclude songs only heard during countdowns. It gives an unfair impression that the playlists are deeper than they actually are.
 
On the now-defunct XMFan site I posted one list that included every song ever played on the '60s channel and another list that included only songs played regularly, i.e,, at least once a week. The latter list had around 1,200 songs – and I didn't keep a copy on my lil' computer. Unlike the DRC site, XMFan allowed me to make unlimited edits. Every time I heard a song that was not on either list, I could add it. I wish I could do that here.

Maybe one of these days I will post a list that shows only the 1960s songs played regularly. And I'm referring to the '60s channel. I have never liked the idea of '60s songs being played on the '50s channel.

I found another error on the list. SSgt Barry Sadler's The "A" Team got to #28 in May 1966, not number one. His earlier hit, The Ballad Of The Green Berets, went to number one.
 
Stand By Me was a #4 hit for former Drifters lead singer Ben E. King in 1961. In 1986, it was re-released as the title song of a movie starring Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix and reached #9. Today on the '60s channel, Shotgun Tom Kelly played a remake by Cassius Clay. It got to #102 on the Bubbling Under chart in April 1964.
Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1966 and released two more singles, The Best Ever in 1975 and I'm The Greatest in 1975.




Kelly also played a version of Proud Mary by Sonny Charles & The Checkmates Ltd. which got to #69 in November 1969. They had reached #13 in July with Black Pearl.
 
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