'60s Gold playlist

Woman Of The World – Loretta Lynn (--/1969)
Woman Woman – Gary Puckett & The Union Gap (4/1967)
Woman's Got Soul – Impressions (29/1965)
Wonderful Land – Shadows (--/1962)
Wonderful Summer – Robin Ward (14/1963)
Wonderful Wonderful – Tymes (7/1963)
Wonderful World – Sam Cooke (12/1960)
Wonderful World – Herman's Hermits (4/1965)
Wonderful World, Beautiful People – Jimmy Cliff (25/1969)
Wonderland By Night – Anita Bryant (18/1960)
Wonderland By Night – Bert Kaempfert/Charly Tabor (1/1960)
Wonderland By Night – Louis Prima (15/1960)
Wooden Heart – Joe Dowell (1/1961)
Wooden Heart – Elvis Presley (LP/1960, 107/1964, 110/1965)
Wooly Bully – Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs (2/1965)
Words – Bee Gees (15/1968)
Words – Monkees (11/1967)
Words Of Love – The Mamas & The Papas (5/1966)
Workin' For The Man – Roy Orbison (33/1962)
Workin' On A Groovy Thing – Patti Drew (62/1968)
Workin' On A Groovy Thing – 5th Dimension (20/1969)
Working In The Coal Mine – Lee Dorsey/Meters (8/1966)
Working My Way Back To You – Four Seasons (9/1966)
Workout, Stevie, Workout – Stevie Wonder (33/1963)
Worst That Could Happen – Brooklyn Bridge (3/1968)
Wouldn't It Be Nice – Beach Boys (8/1966)
Wow Wow Wee, He's The Boy For Me – Angels (41/1964)
Wrong For Each Other – Andy Williams (34/1964)
Ya Ya – Lee Dorsey (7/1961)
Yakety Sax – Boots Randolph (35/1963)
Yeh Yeh – Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames (21/1965)
Yellow Balloon – Yellow Balloon (25/1967)
Yellow Bird – Arthur Lyman Group (4/1961)
Yellow Submarine – Beatles (2/1966)
Yes I'm Ready – Barbara Mason (5/1965)
Yes It Is – Beatles (46/1965)
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Ricky Nelson (34/1960)
Yester Love – Miracles (31/1968)
Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday – Stevie Wonder (7/1969)
Yesterday – Beatles (1/1965)
Yesterday – Ray Charles (25/1967)
Yesterday Man – Chris Andrews (94/1966)
Yesterday When I Was Young – Roy Clark (19/1969)
Yesterday's Gone – Chad & Jeremy (21/1964)
Yesterday's Gone – Overlanders (75/1964)
Yogi – Ivy Three (8/1960)
You – Marvin Gaye (34/1968)
You Always Hurt The One You Love – Clarence Henry (12/1961)
You Are Mine – Frankie Avalon (26/1962)
You Are My Sunshine – Ray Charles (7/1962)
You Are She – Chad & Jeremy (87/1966)
You Are The Only One – Ricky Nelson (25/1960)
You Baby – Turtles (20/1966)
You Beat Me To The Punch – Mary Wells (9/1962)
You Belong To Me – Duprees (7/1962)
You Better Move On – Arthur Alexander (24/1962)
You Better Run – Young Rascals (20/1966)
You Better Sit Down Kids – Cher (9/1966)
You Can Depend On Me – Brenda Lee (6/1961)
You Can Have Her – Roy Hamilton (12/1961)
You Can't Always Get What You Want – Rolling Stones (B/1969)
You Can't Do That – Beatles (48/1964)
You Can't Hurry Love – Supremes (1/1966)
You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd – Roger Miller (40/1966)
You Can't Sit Down – Dovells (3/1963)
You Can't Sit Down – Philip Upchurch Combo (29/1961)
You Didn't Have To Be So Nice – Lovin' Spoonful (10/1965)
You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry – Caravelles (3/1963)
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield (4/1966)
You Don't Have To Walk In The Rain – Turtles (51/1969)
You Don't Know – Helen Shapiro (--/1961)
You Don't Know Like I Know – Sam & Dave (90/1966)
You Don't Know Me – Ray Charles (2/1962)
You Don't Know What You Mean To Me – Sam & Dave (48/1968)
You Don't Know What You've Got – Ral Donner (4/1961)
You Don't Own Me – Lesley Gore (2/1963)
You Gave Me A Mountain – Frankie Laine (24/1969)
You Got To Me – Neil Diamond (18/1967)
You Got What It Takes – Dave Clark Five (7/1967)
You Got What It Takes – Marv Johnson (10/1959)
You, I – Rugbys (24/1969)
You Keep Me Hangin' On – Supremes (1/1966)
You Keep Me Hangin' On – Vanilla Fudge (67/1967, 6/1968)
You Keep Running Away – Four Tops (19/1967)
You Know What I Mean – Turtles (12/1967)
You Left The Water Running – Otis Redding (--/1966)
You Like Me Too Much – Beatles (LP/1965)
You Lost The Sweetest Boy – Mary Wells (22/1963)
You Mean Everything To Me – Neil Sedaka (17/1960)
You Met Your Match – Stevie Wonder (35/1968)
You Must Believe Me – Impressions (15/1964)
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby – Dave Clark Five (35/1967)
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby – Bobby Darin (5/1961)
You Never Can Tell – Chuck Berry (14/1964)
You Only Live Twice – Nancy Sinatra (44/1967)
You Really Got Me – Kinks (7/1964)
You Really Know How To Hurt A Guy – Jan & Dean (27/1965)
You Should Have Seen The Way He Looked At Me – Dixie Cups (39/1964)
You Showed Me – Byrds (--/1964)
You Showed Me – Turtles (6/1969)
You Talk Too Much – Joe Jones (3/1960)
You Tell Me Why – Beau Brummels (38/1965)
You Turn Me On – Ian Whitcomb & Bluesville (8/1965)
You Were Made For Me – Freddie & The Dreamers (21/1965)
You Were On My Mind – We Five (3/1965)
You Were Only Fooling – Vic Damone (30/1965)
You Win Again – Fats Domino (22/1962)
You Won't See Me – Beatles (LP/1965)
 
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You'll Lose A Good Thing – Barbara Lynn (8/1962)
You'll Never Get To Heaven – Dionne Warwick (34/1964)
You'll Never Walk Alone – Brooklyn Bridge (51/1969)
You'll Never Walk Alone – Gerry & The Pacemakers (48/1965)
You're A Wonderful One – Marvin Gaye (15/1964)
You're All I Need To Get By – Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell (7/1968)
You're Going To Lose That Girl – Beatles (LP/1965)
You're Gonna Hurt Yourself – Frankie Valli (39/1966)
You're Gonna Miss Me – 13th Floor Elevators (55/1966)
You're My Everything – Temptations (6/1967)
You're My Remedy – Marvelettes (48/1964)
You're My World – Cilla Black (26/1964)
You're No Good – Betty Everett (51/1963)
You're No Good – Swinging Blue Jeans (97/1964)
You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You – Dean Martin (25/1964)
You're Sixteen – Johnny Burnette (8/1960)
You're So Good To Me – Beach Boys (B/1966)
You're The One – Petula Clark (LP/1965)
You're The One – Vogues (4/1965)
You're The Only World I Know – Sonny James (91/1964)
You're The Reason – Bobby Edwards (11/1961)
You’re The Reason I'm Living – Bobby Darin (3/1963)
You’ve Been Cheatin’ – Impressions (33/1965)
You’ve Been In Love Too Long – Martha & The Vandellas (36/1965)
You've Got My Mind Messed Up – James Carr (63/1966)
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away – Beatles (LP/1965)
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away – Silkie (10/1965)
You've Got To Move Two Mountains – Marv Johnson (20/1960)
You've Got To Pay The Price – Al Kent (19/1967)
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling – Righteous Brothers (1/1964)
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling – Dionne Warwick (16/1969)
You've Made Me So Very Happy – Blood Sweat & Tears (2/1969)
You've Made Me So Very Happy – Brenda Holloway (39/1967)
You've Really Got A Hold On Me – Beatles (LP/1964)
You've Really Got A Hold On Me – Miracles (8/1962)
Young Girl – Gary Puckett & The Union Gap (2/1968)
Young & In Love – Dick & DeeDee (17/1963)
Young Love – Lesley Gore (50/1966)
Young Lovers – Paul & Paula (6/1963)
Young World – Rick Nelson (5/1962)
Younger Girl – Critters (42/1966)
Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore – Ruby & The Romantics (108/1965)
Your Boyfriend's Back – Bobby Comstock (98/1963)
Your Cheating Heart – Ray Charles (29/1962)
Your Friends – Dee Clark (34/1961)
Your Husband, My Wife – Brooklyn Bridge (46/1969)
Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night – Kenny Dino (24/1961)
Your Mother Should Know – Beatles (LP/1967)
Your Nose Is Gonna Grow – Johnny Crawford (14/1962)
Your Other Love – Connie Francis (28/1963)
Your Precious Love – Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell (5/1967)
Your Unchanging Love – Marvin Gaye (33/1967)
Your Used To Be – Brenda Lee (32/1963)
Yummy Yummy Yummy – Ohio Express (4/1968)
Zabadak – Dave Dee, Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich (52/1968)
Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah – Bobb B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans (8/1962)
Zip Code – Five Americans (36/1967)
Zorba The Greek – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass (11/1965)
1-2-3 – Len Barry (2/1965)
1 2 3 Red Light – 1910 Fruitgum Co. (5/1968)
5 D (Fifth Dimension) – Byrds (44/1966)
7 & 7 Is – Love (33/1966)
7 Rooms Of Gloom – Four Tops (14/1967)
10 Little Bottles – Johnny Bond (43/1965)
18 Yellow Roses – Bobby Darin (10/1963)
19th Nervous Breakdown – Rolling Stones (2/1966)
20-75 – Willie Mitchell (31/1964)
31 Flavors – Shirelles (97/1963)
96 Tears – ? & The Mysterians (1/1966)
98.6 – Keith & The Tokens (7/1966)
409 – Beach Boys (76/1962)
442 Glenwood Avenue – Pixies Three (56/1964)
500 Miles Away From Home – Bobby Bare (10/1963)
500 Miles Away From Home – Peter Paul & Mary (LP/1962)
634-5789 – Wilson Pickett (13/1966)
1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero – Bobby Russell (36/1968)
2000 Light Years From Home – Rolling Stones (B/1967)
2120 South Michigan Avenue – Rolling Stones (LP/1964)
 
Christmas songs

Baby’s First Christmas – Connie Francis (7/1961)
Blue Christmas - Beach Boys (LP/1964)
Children’s Christmas Song – Supremes/Gordys/Chico Ross (7/1965)
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love (LP/1963)
Christmas Is For Children – Glen Campbell (7/1968)
Christmas Tears – Four Seasons (B/1962)
Frosty The Snowman – Beach Boys (LP/1964)
Frosty The Snowman – Ronettes (LP/1963)
Here Comes Santa Claus – Bob B. Soxx & Blue Jeans (LP/1963)
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Ronettes (LP/1963)
If Every Day Was Like Christmas – Elvis Presley/Imperials (2/1966)
Jingle Bell Rock – Bobby Helms/Anita Kerr Singers (1/1957, 1/1969)
Jingle Bell Rock – Bobby Rydell/Chubby Checker (11/1961)
Little Altar Boy – Vic Dana (13/1961)
Little Saint Nick – Beach Boys (3/1963)
Merry Christmas Baby – Otis Redding (9/1968)
My Favorite Things – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass (4/1968)
Nut Rocker – B. Bumble & The Stingers (23/1962)
Pretty Paper – Roy Orbison (10/1963)
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee (--/1958, 1/1960)
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer – Seville/Chipmunks (7/1960)
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer – Temptations (12/1968)
Santa & The Touchables – Dickie Goodman (42/1961)
Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto – James Brown (4/1968)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town – Crystals (LP/1963)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town – Four Seasons (1/1962)
Santa Claus Is Watching You – Ray Stevens (25/1962)
Sleigh Ride – Ronettes (LP/1967)
Snoopy's Christmas – Royal Guardsmen (1/1967)
Some Day At Christmas – Stevie Wonder (24/1966)
The Bell That Couldn't Jingle – Burt Bacharach (--/1968)
The Christmas Song – Herb Alpert (1/1968)
The Man With All The Toys – Beach Boys (3/1964)
The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas – Allen Sherman (5/1963)
Toyland – Alan Bown (--/1967)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Me – Supremes (5/1965)
Twistin’ Bells – Santo & Johnny (19/1960)
What Christmas Means To Me – Stevie Wonder (LP/1967)
Winter Wonderland – Darlene Love (LP/1963)
 
I need to make a clarification – and you all know I'm not the clarifier I used to be. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 1955-2018 book (available from his Record Research website) credits the Statler Brothers as the backing vocalists on Daddy Sang Bass, a 1968 number-one country hit and #42 pop hit by Johnny Cash. On this list I show the artists as "Johnny Cash/Statler Brothers." Actually, only two of the Statler Brothers are featured. Cash sings "Daddy sang bass," then Jan Howard sings "Mama sang tenor" and Don Reid and Lew DeWitt sing "Me and little brother would join right in there," a reference to Johnny's brother Jack, who died when Johnny was 12. You can find the details online. It's gruesome.

Here is a live performance from the January 28 1970 episode of The Johnny Cash Show:

 
Woman by Peter & Gordon was written by Paul McCartney and reached #14 in March 1966. When I was doing all the copying and pasting of the list, it was at the top of a section and I somehow cut it. Oops! Here are four more additions:

Born Free - Hesitations (39/1968)
I Can’t Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree – Just Us (34/1966)
I’m Comin’ Home Cindy – Trini Lopez (39/1966)
If A Woman Answers – Leroy Van Dyke (35/1962)

Just Us was Chip Taylor and Al Gorgoni. Taylor, born James Wesley Voight, wrote Wild Thing, Angel Of The Morning, I Can't Let Go, Make Me Belong To You, Son Of A Rotten Gambler and many other hits and had five country hits in the 1970s. Gorgoni was a session guitarist who played on Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, I'm A Believer, Sugar Sugar, Leader Of The Pack and several other 1960s hits.

 
We can add this one by Bettye Swann. She is best known for her 1967 #21 hit Make Me Yours. Her remake of Jeannie Seely's 1966 #2 country hit Don't Touch Me reached #38 on the Hot 100 in April 1969.

 
Today I heard Bobby Darin's Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey. It reached #19 in July 1960 – and it wasn't on the list. The song, originally titled Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?, was written by Hugh Cannon and has been recorded by more than 340 artists including Brenda Lee, Jimmy Durante, Pearl Bailey, Teresa Brewer, Julie London, Eydie Gormé, Della Reese, James Brown, Connie Francis, Wayne Newton, Sarah Vaughan and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Here is the original version by Arthur Collins from 1902:

 
Another addition: Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes), Dee Dee Sharp's follow-up to Mashed Potato Time, reached #9 on the Hot 100 in July 1962. Both songs, as well as five other Dee Dee Sharp chart hits, were co-written by Dave Appell and Kal Mann. They also co-wrote Chubby Checker's Let's Twist Again, the Dovells' Bristol Stomp and the Orlons' South Street.

 
Dave and Kal wrote "Gravy For My Mashed Potatoes" and "Let's Twist Again", both follow-ups to big hits. Here's a list of some other songs they wrote:

"I Wanna Hold Your Hand Again Tomorrow"
"This Grapevine Has More Grapes On It Today"
"I Finally Got Some Satisfaction"
"Are You Still Lonesome?"
"It's Tomorrow, So You Do Still Love Me?"
"In The Year 2526"
 
Another song to add. Don't Give Up was Petula Clark's 15th consecutive – and final – top-40 US hit. It reached #37 on the Hot 100 in August 1968.

 
Here is another addition. Just A Little, the B-side of Brenda Lee's number-one hit I Want To Be Wanted, reached #40 in October 1960. It was written by Betty Logan, who released 14 singles between 1953 and 1967, including three as half of the duo Chuck [Simmons] & Betty and two with her sister Christine (as The Logan Sisters).

 
Actually I said I can't guarantee there are no missing songs – and I continue to hear songs during countdown shows and on Peter Noone's Something Good program which are not on the list. It will never be complete. I need to find somebody willing to maintain the list after I die. I don't want it to die with me.

I have no idea why this one was not on the list. It reached #21 in September 1965 and is played several times a week:

 
This is embarrassing. The Doors' 1968 #3 hit Touch Me is not on the list. Maybe I subconsciously omitted it because I don't like the bad grammar: "Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I." Yikes! We can also add Tony Bennett's 1963 #18 hit The Good Life. Here is audio of a 1969 live performance of Touch Me by the Doors. Morrison sings "Till the stars fall from the sky, you and I." I guess that's one way to avoid the bad grammar.

The Doors - Touch Me Live In Hollywood, CA. 1969 - Aquarius Theater - YouTube
 
Seven more additions, all from April-May 1964 and heard on a countdown show. I can see I will eventually have to post an expanded version of the list.

Charade - Sammy Keye (36/1964)
I Don't Want To Be Hurt Anymore - Nat "King" Cole (22/1964)
I'm So Proud - Impressions (14/1964)
Shangri-La - Vic Dana (27/1964)
Shangri-La – Robert Maxwell (15/1964)
Whenever He Holds You - Bobby Goldsboro (39/1964)
Wish Someone Would Care - Irma Thomas (17/1964)
 
Another addition. Jessie Hill released 15 singles between 1960 and 1973. The first, Ooh Poo Pah Doo, reached #28 in May 1960. His second single, Whip It On Me was on the Hot 100 for only one week, at #91. He never had another hit. In April 1962, he released Can't Get Enough Of That Ooh Poo Pah Doo. As it turns out, people did have enough of it.

 
"Oh no! Don't tell me!" Yes, I found another big hit missing from the list. Black Is Black reached #4 in September 1966 and was Los Bravos' only top-40 hit.
In June 1968, Bring A Little Lovin' peaked at #51 nationally but got to #13 on the Boss 30 of KHJ in Los Angeles.

 
Los Bravos formed in 1965 in Madrid. Lead singer Mike Kogel was born in Germany. The other members were Miguel Danus, Pablo Gómez, Manuel Fernández and Antonio Martínez. In 1972, calling himself Mike Kennedy, Kogel had a #62 hit with Louisianna. The song got to #10 on the KHJ Boss 30 – and yes, the name of the state was misspelled on the label.

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