Acclaimed Music Top 20 Songs of 1960

This is a kind of "history of music" project, based on aggregated charts found on Acclaimed Music. It features Top 20 playlists for decades 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and yearly Top 20 playlists (both songs and albums) for each year from 1960 to 2010. It's a weekly project.

Let's start the year-by-year songs playlists with 1960. While in albums jazz still ruled, singles are more rock'n'roll, pop, soul and blues oriented. With a strong preference for ballads, wonderful voices and slow romantic tunes. How many young American people, 50 years ago, danced, kissed and dreamed over this soundtrack? Enjoy!

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TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 1960
Source: Acclaimed Music
Missing from Spotify: 0 songs

(legenda: the number preceding the artist name is the ranking in Acclaimed Music Top 3000 chart)

1 (101) The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
2 (133) Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely
3 (212) Chubby Checker - The Twist
4 (255) The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown
5 (341) Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind
6 (477) The Shadows - Apache
7 (494) Etta James - At Last
8 (694) The Drifters - Save the Last Dance for Me
9 (813) The Ventures - Walk, Don't Run
10 (837) Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)
11 (864) Sam Cooke - Wonderful World
12 (910) Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry
13 (956) Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs - Stay
14 (1043) Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - Shop Around
15 (1140) Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight?
16 (1205) Wanda Jackson - Let's Have a Party
17 (1268) Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful
18 (1390) Johnny Kidd and The Pirates - Shakin' All Over
19 (1398) The Stanley Brothers - Rank Strangers
20 (1826) Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Do

Listen to it on Spotify: HTTP, URI. (SR0609)

The Complete Acclaimed Music Series

SONGS:
- Top 20 Songs of 1920s
- Top 20 Songs of 1930s
- Top 20 Songs of 1940s
- Top 20 Songs of 1950s
- Top 20 Songs of 1960

ALBUMS:
- Top 20 Albums of 1950s
- Top 20 Albums of 1960

Acclaimed Music Top 20 Albums of 1960

John Coltrane: very giant steps

This is a kind of "history of music" project, based on aggregated charts found on Acclaimed Music. It features Top 20 playlists for decades 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and yearly Top 20 playlists (both songs and albums) for each year from 1960 to 2010. It's a weekly project.

After have quickly travelled through the first sixty years of twentieth century, it's time to start with the year playlists. Nothing better than a 1960 full of incredible jazz masters: Coltrane, Miles, Montgomery, Mingus, Coleman, Fitzgerald... Non-jazz inclusions are very few, beginning with Muddy live at Newport and Elvis back from the army. Enjoy!

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TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 1960
Missing from Spotify: 5 albums
(legenda: the number preceding the artist name is the ranking in Acclaimed Music Top 3000 chart)

1 (369) John Coltrane - Giant Steps
2 (393) Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
3 (541) Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport 1960
4 (606) Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back!
5 (823) Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
6 (885) Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots
= (947) Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
7 (950) Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
8 (1180) Hank Mobley - Soul Station
9 (1528) Etta James - At Last!
= (1533) Joan Baez - Joan Baez
10 (1626) Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
11 (1647) Charles Mingus - Mingus at Antibes
12 (1831) Frank Sinatra - Nice 'N' Easy
== (2106) Mel Tormé - Swings Shubert Alley
13 (2113) Art Pepper - Smack-Up
14 (2116) Ray Charles - Ray Charles in Person
15 (2126) Ella Fitzgerald - Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife
== (2296) Billy Fury - The Sound of Fury
== (2392) Chuck Berry - Rockin' at the Hops
16 (2400) Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
17 (2430) Eric Dolphy - Out There
18 (2529) Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound
19 (2584) Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz
20 (2590) Dizzy Gillespie - Gillespiana

Listen to it on Spotify:
Mammoth (full albums): HTTP, URI. (SR0596)
Lite (3 tracks each album): HTTP, URI. (SR0597)

The Complete Acclaimed Music Series

SONGS:
- Top 20 Songs of 1920s
- Top 20 Songs of 1930s
- Top 20 Songs of 1940s
- Top 20 Songs of 1950s

ALBUMS:
- Top 20 Albums of 1950s
- Top 20 Albums of 1960