Compared to the best list, the 1962 worst list was not quite as tough to fill out. #10: Dee Dee Sharp- Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes) Dee Dee Sharp scored big this year with “Mashed Potato Time”, a frivolous little dance tune that shot all the way to #2 on the charts. In the briefContinue reading “The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1962”
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The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1962
I listened to most of the 1962 year-end list with my roommate, and after twenty or so songs he turned to me and said, and I quote, “Jesus dude, I thought ‘60s music was supposed to be good”. I can’t say I disagree with the sentiment. As bad a year as 1961 was for pop,Continue reading “The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1962”
The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1961
Well, with the good songs out of the way, I’ve no choice but to bite the bullet of wading through the heaps of sub-par pop 1961 had to offer. ‘61 continued the trend of eschewing the truly repugnant in favor of the mind-numbingly dull, and so many of this year’s hits were so thoroughly drabContinue reading “The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1961”
The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1961
Okay, now we’re really in the thick of the pre-Beatles dry spell, and make no mistake folks, this year was rough. The 1960 Year-End Hot 100 is a veritable ocean of mediocrity, with precious few islands of quality to speak of. I can’t even write much here, I just want to get this over with.Continue reading “The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1961”
The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1960
In the intro to this year’s best list, I said 1960 was overall a bit better than the years surrounding it- particularly the doldrums of 1961-63. While I do think it’s true that the rot hadn’t fully set in at this point, it’s definitely getting there, and despite the standout cuts my overall impression ofContinue reading “The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1960”
The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1960
The start of the 1960s was a pretty far cry from what our collective memory of what the capital-S Sixties were. Pop music took its sweet time dragging itself groggily out of bed to face the dawn of the new decade, and in the meantime the listening public had to subsist on the dregs ofContinue reading “The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1960”
The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1959
I said in the intro to my best list that 1959-63 wasn’t a great time for pop music, and while 1959 certainly had its highlights, the bottom-of-the-barrel stuff was indeed pretty damn rancid, and it’s only grown moldier and more rotten in the intervening decades. From teen idols somehow even more insipid and trite thanContinue reading “The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1959”
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