Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1962 poll

this is getting harder for me to pick just one.

It'll probably come down to either Booker T. & the MGs or the Miracles for me, but I kind of want to throw a vote to Solomon Burke.

I expected to keep posting "impossible to choose one" for all these polls but the mono mix of "The Loco-Motion" is just such an outstanding record to me. It wins over everything.

Shout out to The Four Seasons though, "Big Girls Don't Cry" used to fascinate me & freak me out as a toddler because I thought it was sung by monsters

Haha. OTM.

Not as good a year as '61. Dominated by solid instrumental numbers that have stood the test of time. I think number one might be the correct one.

Sam Cooke's year: three of my four favourite songs by him (only "Sad Mood" from 1960 not on the list). I'll vote for "Having a Party." I like the Shirelles' "It's Love That Really Counts" better than "Soldier Boy." Another great '62 song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUgUTjj4Ycs

Original version of "Fortune Teller" also from '62.

Bring It On Home To Me.

^^ yep

Skeeter Davis -- love the song, love the hair.

http://a.images.blip.tv/Noisevox-MusicVideoSkeeterDavisTheEndOfTheWorld381.png

OK, after some fairly serious thought...I'm gonna go with "Duke of Earl." Hard not to vote for Sam Cooke. If "Duke" hadn't been there I would have voted "Twisting the Night Away."

Someone told me that, if the speedometer in your car is broken, you'll know you're at 55mph if the dotted highway lines pass at the same tempo as "Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl..." I've never tried it, though.

'telstar.'

a smaller list of favorites this time

The Drifters - Up on the Roof
Skeeter Davis - The End of the World
The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
Peter, Paul and Mary - If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)

The Miracles - You Really Got A Hold On Me

the pennies and lipstick stains make me a little sad.

I voted John Lee Hooker

Miracles

Skeeter was my #2 pick.
My father had a mad crush on her.

George > Skeeter > Bring It On Home as a top 3 for me, but lots of others close.

He's a Rebel

"I Left My Heart in San Francisco"

voting for that for a couple of reasons. first is the Giants are world champions and it is there theme song. the main reason is i did live in San Francisco for seven years and was probably the best time of my life. it is America's most beautiful city, though it can't compare to some city's like Paris, it is unique for a bunch of reason and the air so fresh and clean.

there their

sorry about my Friday night drunkenness, got a bit nostalgic.

"Party Lights" is worth a vote, for sure!

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since ILX went down for maintenance on Friday it seems like you can vote for a second time. so for my second choice, which is my actual choice in this poll, is going to be "You've Really Got a Hold on Me."

Oh, I didn't see "Party Lights"! Yeah, good tune.

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I have no problem with that top 3.

just so the board knows, taking off this week for Thanksgiving holiday. will return with 1963 (which looking at is going to be a great set) a week from Wednesday.

My mom would have been happy with Green Onions winning, she turned that song up every time it came on. (Would have been 92 this year...Love you mom).

Hey, I think my favorite would have been "Let Me In" by The Sensations (not on the list). "I thought you were my friend.....wee-ooo, wee-ooo, ooo-wee-ooo." The lyrical theme - the party looks & sounds fabulous & why can't I go too? - is the same as Party Lights, so this is quite the pair of 62 hits. Here's something cool I just found out: both Party Lights and Let Me In were written by the very women who sang them: Claudine Clark & Yvonne Mills Baker, respectively. Very unusual for the singer, male or female, to have written the song in early 60s pop.

oh, and "Love Letters" by Ketty Lester, obsession doesn't get more obsessive

Barbara Lynn wrote hers too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoaLCc2jR_g

just found out that "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" by Marvin Gaye was a 62 as well. That's what I would pick. Marvin Gaye unbound.

Argh, missed this. Would have voted for 'Telstar'.

George Jones, but really Night Train or anything else from Live at the Apollo