Your favorite music from 1962

It can be a single, album, a later compilation focusing on the year . . . whatever.

Doesn't have to be a list, though of course you can post a list if you want. You can also just post one title at a time as you think of it/run across it (which is what I do in these threads).

 

Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Vols. 1 & 2

 

Here’s something kind of obscure.

The Real Ambassadors - Wikipedia

The Real Ambassadors - YouTube

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^
I almost went with the Ray!

 

I was nine years old at the time but totally into music from the cradle.
First name that comes to mind is Gene Pitney.

 

I vividly recall hearing this on the radio when I was five; it's the first rock record that I recall.

 

An excellent blues compilation from that year.

Howlin Wolf - Self titled

 

Peter, Paul, and Mary - 500 Miles

 

The Drifters - Up On The Roof
The melody, vocals, the orchestra, the lyrics... such a perfect song

 

I pick The Sound of Johnny Cash

 

Until I think of something else, The Young Ones by Cliff Richard is my favourite song of the year:

 

The year Bob Dylan wrote "hard rain's gonna fall' and 'blowin in the wind' , two songs that will live for a long time. you could sorta loosely say that '62 was kind of the 'birth year' of both dylan and the beatles, in a way? then again, as another post above mentions, some great frank sinatra albums were done that year , ray charles' modern sounds in country, .... and not mentioned yet, i think (tho i could be wrong?) that great duke ellington-charles mingus-max roach trio album.... (was it max roach or art blakey? was it '62? hmm, i forget now)

 

Bill Evans Trio─Waltz for Debby
Charles Mingus─Epitaph
Joe Harriott─Abstract
Sheila Jordan─Portrait of Sheila

 

Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Vince Guaraldi

 

'Night Train' - James Brown & band

 

Songs:


“(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance” -- Gene Pitney

“Palisades Park” -- Freddy Cannon

“She’s Got You” -- Patsy Cline


And one of my Absolute Favorite Songs of All Time:

“Stranger on the Shore” -- Mr. Acker Bilk

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Smoky Places - Corsairs

 

1962, the year that I turned 11 years old and the year that I started buying records. I started with 45s and the first one that I ever bought was "She Cried" by Jay and the Americans.

 

'I'm Blue (the Gong-Gong Song)' - the Ikettes


Early version of the group - Delores Johnson aka Flora Williams - lead
with Eloise Hester aka Eloise Faye; Josephine 'Joshie Armstead; Tina Turner