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Top 100 Songs during the Vietnam Era by Year

(1962)

            Artists

Dee Dee Sharp

Ray Charles

The Isley Brothers

Gene Chandler

The Four Seasons

Bobby Vinton

Chubby Checker

The Shirelles

Little Eva

The Contours

Bruce Channel

David Rose and Orchestra

The Four Seasons

The Orlons

The Crystals

Bobby Boris Picket

Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen

Mary Wells

The Marvelettes

Booker T. and the MG's

Mr. Acker Bilk

Barbara George

Joey Dee and the Starliters

Shelley Fabares

Freddy Cannon

The Orlons

Chubby Checker and Dee Dee Sharp

Brenda Lee

Nat King Cole

Dion

The Duprees

Jay and the Americans

Marcie Blane

Tommy Roe

Brian Hyland

Neil Sedaka

The Sensations

The Volume's

Chubby Checker

Don and Juan

The Shirelles

The Corsairs

Chris Montez

The Crystals

The Beach Boys

Elvis Presley

Sam Cooke

Barbara Lynn

Bert Kaempfert

The Tokens

Emilio Pericoli

The Marvelettes

Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd

Sue Thompson

onnie and the Hi-lites

Chubby Checker

Ketty Lester

Ben E. King

Claudine Clark

Mary Wells

Gary U.S. Bonds

Elvis Presley

The Blue-Belles (Starlets)

Chuck Jackson

Lou Monte

Joey Dee and the Starliters

Ray Charles

Bobby Vee E

lvis Presley

Larry Finnegan

Dee Dee Sharp

Clyde McPhatter

Pat Boone

The Majors

Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls

Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls

Dickey Lee

The Emotions

Connie Francis

The Exciters

Neil Sedaka

The Earls

Don Gardner and Dee Dee Ford

Nathaniel Mayer and the Fabulous Twilights

Richard Chamberlain

Dee Dee Sharp

The Tornadoes

Joey Dee

The Marvelettes

James Darren

King Curtis and His Noble Knights

Joe Henderson

Gene Pitney

The Duprees

Dion

Johnny

Tillotson

Gene Pitney

Gary U.S. Bonds

Claude King Shep and the Limelites

            Title

"Mashed Potato Time"

"I Can't Stop Loving You"

"Twist and Shout"

"Duke of Earl"

"Sherry"

"Roses Are Red"

"The Twist"

"Soldier Boy"

"The Loco Motion"

"Do You Love Me"

"Hey! Baby"

"The Stripper"

"Big Girls Don't Cry"

"The Wah Watus!"

"He's a Rebel"

"Monster Mash"

"Midnight in Moscow"

"The One Who Really Loves You"

"Playboy"

"Green Onions"

"Stanger on the Shore"

"I Know"

"Peppermint Twist"

"Johnny Angel"

"Palisades Park"

"Don't Hang Up"

"Slow Twistin'"

"All Alone Am I"

"Ramblin' Rose"

"The Wanderer"

"You Belong to Me"

"She Cried"

"Bobby's Girl"

"Sheila"

"Sealed With a Kiss"

"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"

"Let Me In"

"I Love You"

"Limbo Rock"

"What's Your Name"

"Baby It's You"

"Smoky Places"

"Let's Dance"

"Uptown"

"Surfin' Safari"

"Return To Sender"

"Twistin' The Night Away"

"You'll Lose a Good Thing"

"Afrikaan Beat"

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"T

"Al Di La"E

"Beechwood 4-5789"

"Desafinado"S

"Norman"

"I Wish That We Were Married"

"Popeye the Hitchhiker"

"Love Letters"

"Don't Play That Song"

"Party Lights"

"You Beat Me to the Punch"

"Dear Lady Twist"

"Can't Help Falling In Love"

"I Sold My Heart to the Junkman"

"Any Day Now"

"Pepino the Italian Mouse"

"Shout Part 1"

"You Don't Know Me"

"Run To Him"

"Good Luck Charm"

"Dear One"

"Gravy"

"Lover Please"

"Speedy Gonzales"

"A Wonderful Dream"

"Bring It On Home To Me"

"Having a Party"

"Patches"

"Echo"

"Don't Break the Heart That Loves You"

"Tell Him"

"Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen"

"Remember Then"

"I Need Your Loving"

"Village of Love"

"Theme from Dr. Kildare"

"Ride!"

"Telstar"

"What Kind of Love Is This"

"Please Mr. Postman"

"Good bye Cruel World"

"Soul Twist"

"Snap Your Fingers"

"A Town Without Pity"

"My Own True Love"

"Lovers Who Wander"

"It Keeps Right On a Hurtin"

"Only Love Can Break a Heart"

"Twist, Twist Senora"

"Wolverton Mountain"

"Our Anniversary"