Your favorite music from 1962

Plus:
Jack Teagarden | Think Well of Me
Andre Previn/ Doris Day | Duets

 

I wasn’t buying records (yet), but I’m reminded by many of the above posts what songs I actually remember from the time.

SHERRY was everywhere, and PALISADES PARK still excites me enough that I have a Freddie Cannon cd.

I remember hearing Soldier of Love on vinyl from England sometime in the early 1990s and wondering how that guy was not as well-known as Ben E King..

 

Loads of songs but if it's albums:

Bob Dylan - s/t
John Coltrane - Coltrane
Howlin' Wolf - s/t, Sings The Blues
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra And Strings
Aretha Franklin - The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin

 

As far as I'm concerned, there was simply no music before The Beatles, so let that be Love Me Do .

 

'Don't Hang Up' - the Orlons


lead - Rosetta Hightower

 

'These Arms of Mine' - Otis Redding


released October, 1962; became a hit in early 1963

 

'Le Temps de l'Amour' - Francoise Hardy


rowing boat clip appears to be from 1964, but lip-syncing track from her first LP, released in France in 1962

 

'Je N'suis Qu'un Baby' - Louise Cordet

 

'I Found a Love' - the Falcons & band (the Ohio Untouchables)


Wilson Pickett (lead), Eddie Floyd, Joe Stubbs, Mack Rice, Ben Knight
Robert Ward - guitar

"sometimes I call her in the midnight hour"

 

'Something's got a hold on me' - Etta James

 

'Miserlou' (aka 'Misirlou') - Dick Dale and the Del-Tones

 

'Oye Como Va' - Tito Puente

 

A lot of good Frank from '62. This is my favorite.

 

'What Time is It?' - the Jive Five with Eugene Pitt

 

'Catch that Teardrop' - the "5" Royales

 

'Untie Me' - the Tams


Joe South song

 

'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?' - Bette Davis



released single with Debbie Burton
Bette Davis - What Ever Happened To Baby Jane ?

 

I've always wanted to have a better cd collection for The Tams than is available. I did buy the single What Kind of Fool, though I think that may have been from 1963.

 

'Pop-Eye' - Huey Smith and his Clowns - "the originators of the popeye dance"


The Clowns - Curley Moore, Billy Brooks, Gerri Hall

 

New Orleans went a little Popeye crazy in '62 ...

'Check Mr. Popeye' - Eddie Bo



Part Two -
Eddie Bo - Now Let's Popeye