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1963 Music Hits: Surf Rock, Motown, Girl Groups, Novelty Songs, and Early ’60s Pop 1963 music hits captured a lively pre-Beatles pop world filled with surf rock, girl groups, Motown, teen idols, dance records, novelty songs, country crossover, and polished adult pop. It was the kind of year where Yakety Sax, Louie Louie, Up on […]

1962 Music Hits: Twist Records, Surf Rock, Girl Groups, Soul, Teen Idols, and Early ’60s Pop1962 music hits caught pop music in motion. The Twist was still going strong, surf rock was starting to rise, girl groups were moving toward their golden age, country and folk crossed into pop, and instrumental records could still become

1961 Music Hits: Soul, Doo-Wop, Teen Pop, Country Crossover, Dance Crazes, and Early Rock Classics1961 music hits captured pop music right before the British Invasion changed the whole conversation. American radio was packed with doo-wop groups, teen idols, early Motown, soul singers, country crossover hits, jazz instrumentals, novelty records, and dance songs that kept teenagers

1960 Music Hits: Top Songs, Radio Favorites, and Pop Classics 1960 music sat right at the crossroads between the 1950s rock-and-roll era and the smoother pop, soul, dance, and teen-idol sounds of the early 1960s. Chubby Checker, Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee, Sam Cooke, The Drifters, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Bobby Rydell, Connie Francis, and The

1959 Music Hits: Rock and Roll, Doo-Wop, R&B, Teen Idols, Instrumentals, and the Last Big Blast of the 1950s 1959 music hits closed out the 1950s with a jukebox full of rock and roll, doo-wop, R&B, teen idols, country crossover, jazz-pop, novelty songs, and instrumentals. The year had Bobby Darin’s stylish Mack the Knife, Ray

1958 Music Hits: Rock and Roll, Doo-Wop, Teen Pop, R&B, Instrumentals, and Sock Hop Chaos1958 music hits caught rock and roll in full swing, with Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard’s influence, and a whole lot of teenage energy still shaking the walls. This was the year of

1957 Music Hits: Elvis, Rock and Roll, Doo-Wop, R&B, Country-Pop, Calypso, and Teenage Radio Fever1957 music hits were loud, lively, romantic, and wonderfully overstuffed with early rock and roll energy. Elvis Presley was everywhere with Jailhouse Rock, All Shook Up, (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear, Treat Me Nice, Too Much, and Loving You, while

1956 Music Hits: Top Songs, Radio Favorites, and Pop Classics Top 10 Songs of 1956 Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley Hound Dog – Elvis Presley My Prayer – The Platters Long Tall Sally – Little Richard Why Do Fools Fall in Love – Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers Mack the Knife – Louis Armstrong

1955 Music Hits: The First Big Rock Era Year, Doo-Wop, R&B, Crooners, Standards, and Jukebox Culture 1955 music hits marked the first big year of the rock era, at least as most pop culture fans remember it. Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets helped bring rock and roll into the mainstream,