Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1962 poll

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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