SiriusXM '60s Gold playlist

Upon realizing yet another top-ten hit is missing from the list, I broke out in a cold sweat. (Believe me, that isn't as enjoyable as it might sound.) Cold Sweat, which James Brown co-wrote this with his saxophonist, Pee Wee Ellis (real name: Alfred James Rogers), went to number one on the R&B chart and #7 on the Hot 100 in September 1967. The song was cut into two parts for release as a single.

 
We can add the Miracles' What's So Good About Goodbye to the list. (The original Tamla single spelled the word as "Good-by." The UK release on the Fontana label and a 1972 reissue on Motown spelled it "Good Bye." A 1998 reissue on the Collectables label spelled it "Goodbye.") Written by Smokey Robinson, the song reached #16 on the R&B chart and #35 on the Hot 100 in February 1962. In Los Angeles, What's So Good About Goodbye got to #9 on the KRLA Tune-dex and #11 on the KFWB Fabulous Forty.

 
When will I stop finding songs that are missing from the list? The Everly Brothers' When Will I Be Loved, written by Phil Everly, reached #8 on the Hot 100 in July 1960. (A remake by Linda Ronstadt (with harmony vocals by Andrew Gold and Kenny Edwards) went to number one on the country chart and #2 on the Hot 100 in June 1975.)

 
Please don't mock me – but Mockingbird is missing from the list. The 1974 remake by Carly Simon and James Taylor is on the '70s On 7 list but the original version written and sung by Inez and Charlie Foxx is not on the '60s On 6 list. It reached #7 on the Hot 100 in September 1963. Mockingbird is adapted from the early 20th-century lullaby Hush Little Baby (author unknown).

 
To be perfectly honest, I don't even know what this list is anymore. I know it has something to do with 60s songs, but beyond that, no clue. So if you think it needs to be complete for people like me, it doesn't. In fact, I'd be hard pressed to think of another DRC member who would notice either way.
 
So I probably should not post an updated list. When I started this list in 2004, I intended to include every song ever played on XM's 1960s channel. Twenty-one years later, I continue to find songs that should be on the list but are not. I've compiled lists for more than 70 channels. Hey, it keeps me off the streets!
 
You can do whatever you want. I'm just saying that the only reason I know the list in incomplete, is that you have declared it so about 80 times.
 
Do whatever ya want man.
Like Scotch said, I don't keep track of the accuracy of lists, but the ones fit in a single post are interesting to skim through.
 
Oh, I get it – like this list of Scotch songs. By the way, Two Ton Baker – singer/pianist Richard Baker (1916-75) – didn't really weigh two tons. He weighed 350 pounds.

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer – Glee Cast (LP/2012)
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer – John Lee Hooker (LP/1966)
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer – George Thorogood (LP/1977)
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (Live) – John Lee Hooker (LP/1967)
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer – Amos Milburn (2rb/1953)
Riffin' The Scotch – Billie Holiday/Benny Goodman (--/1933)
Scotch & Soda – Two Ton Baker (--/1975)
Scotch & Soda – Johnnie Ray (--/1951)
Scotch & Soda – Kingston Trio (81/1962)
Scotch & Soda – Mac Wiseman (--/1979)
Scotch & Soda (Live) – Kingston Trio (124/1969)
Scotch Highs – Chantays (--/1963)
Scotch On The Rocks – Band Of The Black Watch (75/1976)
 
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I had to make a dreaded edit. I neglected to note that the Kingston Trio's 1969 version of Scotch & Soda was a live recording. It was one of 24 songs recorded in July 1966 during a series of concerts at the Sahara-Tahoe Hotel in Nevada and included on the double album Once Upon A Time, released in 1969 by Tetragrammaton Records. The label was co-founded by Bill Cosby in 1968 and went out of business in 1970.

 
Connie Francis, who had 36 top-40 hits, 17 top tens and three number ones, 1958-64, died yesterday at 87. SiriusXM's 1950s and '60s channels play many of her songs. Vacation, which reached #9 on the Hot 100 in September 1962, is played on both channels – but it isn't on this list. Until now. I am officially adding it. The uncredited background vocalists are the Jordanaires. This was Connie's final top-ten hit.

 
I have a dream.....that some day this list will be complete. We can add A Fool In Love by Ike & Tina Turner & The Ikettes. It was their first hit, reaching #2 on the R&B chart and #27 on the Hot 100 in October 1960. Ike had written the song for R&B singer Art Lassiter, who led a trio called the Artettes, but Lassiter failed to show up for the recording session so Ike recorded the song with Tina singing lead.

 
"Oh no, don't tell me another big song is missing from the list!" Yep, it's Tell Me, a #22 hit for Dick & Dee Dee (Richard Gosting and Mary Sperling) in May 1962. The duo is best known for The Mountain's High, which reached #2 in September 1961 behind Bobby Vee's Take Good Care Of My Baby. Both songs were written by Gosting (as Dick St. John).

 
Here is another.....ummm.....lost song to add. Lesley Gore, best known for It's My Party, Judy's Turn To Cry, Maybe I Know, She's A Fool, You Don't Own Me, That's The Way Boys Are and Sunshine Lollipops & Rainbows, reached #37 on the June 20 1964 Hot 100 with I Don't Wanna Be A Loser. This was written by Mark Barkan and Ben Raleigh, who also wrote She's A Fool and That's The Way Boys Are.

 
It is never sweet when I find another hit song is missing from the list. The Sweet Inspirations – Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney Houston), Estelle Brown, Mynra Smith and Sylvia Shemwell – had nine top-50 R&B hits, 1967-71. Sweet Inspiration, their biggest hit, reached #5 in April 1968 and was their only top-40 pop hit, peaking at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #20 on the Cash Box Top 100. Derek "Spooner" Oldham, who co-wrote the song with Dan Penn, plays lead guitar. Penn and Oldham also wrote James & Bobby Purify's I'm Your Puppet and the Box Tops' Cry Like A Baby.

The Memphis Music Hall Of Fame website explains Oldham's nickname: "When he was four years old, while reaching for a pan on the kitchen stove, he dislodged a spoon that struck him in the face, damaged his retina and ultimately cost him the sight in his right eye. Years later he told the story to a fifth-grade friend, who began calling him Spooner, and the nickname stuck."

 
People, get ready for another missing song that should be on the list. People Get Ready, written by Curtis Mayfield, was a #14 pop hit and #3 R&B hit for the Impressions in March 1965. (A remake by Jeff Beck & Rod Stewart got to #48 on the Hot 100 in July 1985. A version by Ziggy Marley stalled at #118 on the Bubbling Under chart in August 1997.)

 
Another song to add: the Temptations' Please Return Your Love To Me, written by Barrett Strong (best known for his 1960 hit Money) and Norman Whitfield. This peaked at #26 on the August 31 1968 Hot 100 and got to #4 on the R&B chart. Eddie Kendricks is lead singer.

 
I have to do something. "What? Add another song?" Yes. Tommy James & The Shondells' Do Something To Me peaked at #38 on the November 23 1968 Billboard Hot 100. Two weeks later, the song reached #24 on the Cash Box Top 100.

 
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