Your favorite music from 1962

Made in Philly but went down well in good old Liverpool I believe... Amazing song.

 

In terms of billboard top 100, I loved every single record released that year. Truly a wonderful year for radio. Right up there with 1959 for me.

 

Telstar by The Tornados, as a kid I loved listening to this on my transistor radio....happy days

 

The Duke of Earl

 

It Might As Well Rain Until September / Carole King

 

It always sounded to me like the drummer on this recording couldn’t quite keep up during the drum fills in the middle part. I’m surprised James would allow this!

Unless it’s so painstakingly funky that I’m not hearing it!

 

Bill Evans - Moonbeams
Coltrane Plays the Blues
Coltrane (Impulse)

 

'Uptown' - the Crystals


Barbara Alston - lead

 

The drummer was James his bad self ..

From Alan Leeds' notes with "The Singles Volume Two" it appears that Nat Kendrick, the drummer on the session was on a "bathroom break" and James "impatiently climbed behind the drums and counted it off" - the session tape indicates that James recorded the vocal simultaneously with the instrumental track

 

Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions

 

here's a few I like from '62

You Don't Miss Your Water - William Bell
No More Auction Block (live at gaslight) - Bob Dylan
Day Dream - Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn
Mama - Roy Orbison
Only Love Can Break A Heart - Gene Pitney
Silhouettes - The Ronettes
It's Love That Really Counts (In The End) - The Shirelles
September Song - Frank Sinatra
Crying In The Rain - the Everly Brothers

 

GET OUT! I did NOT know that!

Now I get it!

 

I've always felt 1962 was lacking in the number of great records.
Not so much! Thanks everyone for posting these!

I do think 1963 was a better classic year for hit records, though, and still do.

 

He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) - The Crystals

 

Here is a few (not my favorite year):

Good Luck Charm – Elvis Presley
Surfin’ Safari – The Beach Boys
Dream Baby (How long Must I Dream?) – Roy Orbison
Green Onions – Booker T. & The MG’S
Do You Love Me? - The Contours

 

'Love Letters' - Ketty Lester


Lincoln Mayogra - piano

 

'Success' - Loretta Lynn

 

And one from the UK -

'I Can Tell' - Johnny Kidd & the Pirates


Mick Green - guitar

 

Bobby Vinton -Roses Are Red

 

Tell Him - The Exciters

 

Another vote for:

 

Hmmm.lemme think real hard about this one

 

Bacharach & Daivd were a presence that year. The 2nd and 4th verses of this have different lyrics than what everyone's used to:



The Fairmount Singers / The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

 

'Don't Make Me Over' - Dionne Warwick - released at the end of 1962 (and here lip-synced by Dionne a year or two later)