Acclaimed Music Top 20 Songs of 1962

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Sometimes they come back! 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 should be a weekly project, but it's almost two months from its latest chapter. Time to re-start it.

This playlist is dedicated to 1962. The year of Green Onions, The Loco-Motion, Isley Brothers' version of Twist and Shout and John Barry's immortal theme for Mr. Bond's movies. Enjoy!

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TOP 20 SONGS OF 1961
Source: Acclaimed Music
(legenda: the number preceding the artist name is the ranking in Acclaimed Music Top 3000 chart)

1 (85) Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
2 (325) The Crystals - He's a Rebel
3 (358) Little Eva - The Loco-Motion
4 (496) Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl
5 (551) The Miracles - You've Really Got a Hold on Me
6 (649) Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
7 (652) George Jones - She Thinks I Still Care
8 (742) The Tornados - Telstar
9 (783) John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom
10 (829) Ketty Lester - Love Letters
11 (896) The Drifters - Up on the Roof
12 (1038) The Isley Brothers - Twist and Shout
13 (1118) Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home to Me
-- (1308) The Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry
14 (1433) James Brown - Lost Someone
15 (1483) The Contours - Do You Love Me
16 (1606) John Barry Orchestra - James Bond Theme
17 (1656) Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco
-- (1694) The Beatles - Love Me Do
18 (1706) Patsy Cline - She's Got You
19 (1938) James Brown - Night Train
20 (2071) Dionne Warwick - Don't Make Me Over

Listen to it on Spotify: HTTP, URI. (SR0688)

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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
- Top 20 Songs of 1961

ALBUMS:
- Top 20 Albums of 1950s
- Top 20 Albums of 1960
- Top 20 Albums of 1961
- Top 20 Albums of 1962

Acclaimed Music Top 20 Albums of 1962

Country and Western Music?

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 should be a weekly project (though I'm not very good in being consistent with weekly projects). To keep track of it, I made the Acclaimed History of Music page.

Classic jazz rules this 1962 chart. The playlist include some absolute masters, like John Coltrane (three albums), the "brazilian" Stan Getz, the "mexican" Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Ornette Coleman and many others. #1, though, is for The Genius. Enjoy!

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TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 1962
Source: Acclaimed Music
Missing from Spotify: 3 albums
(legenda: the number preceding the artist name is the ranking in Acclaimed Music Top 3000 chart)

1 (246) Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
- (446) Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
2 (841) John Coltrane - Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard
3 (1010) Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
4 (1011) Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods/New Tijuana Moods
5 (1123) Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach - Money Jungle
6 (1250) Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
7 (1378) Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
8 (1431) Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
9 (1434) Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
10 (1476) Dexter Gordon - Go
11 (1844) John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays the Blues
-- (1908) Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
12 (2033) Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Undercurrent
13 (2037) Wes Montgomery - Full House: Recorded 'Live' at Tsubo - Berkeley, California
14 (2092) Benny Carter - Further Definitions
15 (2130) Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volume Two
-- (2176) Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon
16 (2196) Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery - Bags Meets Wes!
17 (2300) Ornette Coleman - Ornette on Tenor
18 (2342) Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
19 (2399) John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
20 (2459) Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley - Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley

Listen to it on Spotify:
Mammoth (full albums): HTTP, URI. (SR0679)
Lite (3 tracks each album): HTTP, URI. (SR0680)

The Complete Acclaimed Music Series