One Hit Wonders
1962
- The Twist is the first and only record to become number 1 again!
- Stuart Sutcliffe an original Beatle dies of a Brain Haemorrhage at the age of 22.
- Female voices top the Charts, with as many as 13 single singers and 5 female groups.
- Peter Paul and Mary boost Folk Music and lay the ground work for a new type of music “The Protest Song”.
- In California a group called “The Beach Boys” is making it big with the new “Surfin’ Sound”.
- Original drummer Pete Best is asked to leave the group and is replaced by Ringo Starr and they record their first Original Song “Love Me Do”.
- School friend Keith Richards and Mick Jagger begin sitting in with a band called Korner’s Blues Incorporated and their drummer is a guy named Charlie Watts. The three meet Brian Jones and bill Wyman and the Stone’s are born.
- Finally “Soul” music gets some attention through, Sam Cooke, Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and Carla Thomas.
I know / January 1962 / Barbara George / #3 BB
Barbara left us in 2006.
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Hey Baby / March 1962 / Bruce Channel / #1 BB
Bruce is still with us and wrote Hey Baby with Margaret Cobb. The Harmonica Player is Delbert McClinton.
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Let Me In / March 1962 / The Sensations / #4 BB
For more about the Sensations, see this post:
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Love Letters / April 1962 / Ketty Lester / #5 BB
Ketty is still with us and gave up singing in the late sixties to concentrate on Movies and was very successful.
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Stranger on the Shore / May 1962 / Mr. Acker Bilk / #1 BB
Acker is an English Clarinettist and is still active.
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Shout, Shout / May 1962 / Ernie Maresca / #6 BB
He was friends with Dion, sang with the Regents, Barbara Ann, wrote No-One Knows, Runaround Sue, The Wanderer, Lovers who wonder & Donna, Prima Donna, then became and executive at Laurie Records.
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Snap Your Fingers / July 1962 / Joe Henderson / #8 BB
This song, written by Grady Martin, was a deft blend of R&B, Pop and Country that stayed on the R&B charts for 16 weeks. Joe was a Gospel singer wh0 left us way to soon, passing away prematurely in 1964 at only 27, from a heart attack.
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Johnny Get Angry / July 1962 / Joanie Sommers / #7 BB
From Buffalo New York she is still with us.
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Alley Cat (my dad loved the song, Gary) / September 1962 / Bent Fabric / #7 BB
A Danish Pianist who is still playing today.
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Party Lights / September 1962 / Claudine Clark / #5 BB
From Macon Georgia, she wrote Party Lights. For more about Claudine, see this post: http://strathdee.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/claudine-clark/
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Do you Love Me / October 1962 / The Contours . #3 BB
For more about The Contours and how they were part of the Motown movement, see this post:
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Pop Pop Pop-Pie / November 1962 / The Sherrys / #35
From Philadelphia, they faded fast and then toured in Europe, twice.
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I Got a Woman / November 1961 / Jimmy McGriff / #20 BB
One of the truly great Hard Bop soul jazz organists. Jimmy left us in 2008.
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Let’s Go (Pony) / December 1962 / The Routers / #19 BB
They really were just part of the Studio Musicians in Los Angles called the “Wrecking Crew”
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