Best #1 pop hit, 1960-1964?

[NightTrain]

Thankfully, there were so many great #1 hits in the '60s, I decided to break this poll up into two parts.

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. Georgia, of course.

Almost as good as the Michael Bolton version. :evilgrin:

[truthseeker1]

2. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield

Followed closely by
Apache by The Shadows and
Baby I Need Your Lovin' by The Four Tops

and anything by The Ventures

And if you're talking Motown....Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes

And if you're talking funky one-offs....Ahab The Arab by Ray Stevens

[Faygo Kid]

7. 1967 (or 1966 - not 60-64)

Good choice, wrong timing.

[ButterflyBlood]

3. what, music existed before 1980?

n/t

[CShine]

4. "Cryin" by Roy Orbison

[NightTrain]

6. Great record, but it just missed #1.

"Crying" peaked at #2 in 1961.

[geniph]

5. I Feel Fine was way ahead of its time

one of the first deliberate uses of feedback in a rock & roll song, and a hook to die for.

Bit of trivia for you: look up who the songwriters were for Locomotion.

[Norbert]

10. Bet it's the same ones that wrote "Blame it on the Bossa Nova"

BTW I voted for I Wanna Hold Your Hand.

[populistmom]

8. She Loves You

My first love was a Beatles connoisseur, and I'll always have a soft spot for the early ones especially.

Especially this one. :loveya:

[MrBenchley]

9. Yip yip yip yip wurp a wurp wurp bom didda bom didda bom

Blue Moon....

By the way, that was a racially mixed group that ran into trouble touring in Jim Crow America...

[Zinfandel]

11. Shout!

Isley Bros.

[Whitacre D_WI]

12. Just because he doesn't do

What everybody else does,
That's no reason why
We can't share a love.

He's not a rebel, no-no-no,
He's not a rebel, no-no-no,
to MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[Whitacre D_WI]

13. Actually, the real answer is "Leader of the Pack," by the Shangri-Las.

But only because "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" never made it past #5.



If I had been born twenty-five years earlier... ROWRRR! I am SO in love with Mary Weiss.

[jpgray]

14. Beach Boys "I Get Around" / "Don't Worry Baby"

Brilliant, genius single.

[NightTrain]

19. Damn! Forgot about that one.

Sorry.... :(

[jpgray]

20. No worries--this poll reminded me to put it on. :-) (nt)

[Terwilliger]

15. whichever the choose by the Beatles

that was the sea change

[HereSince1628]

16. WHAT? No Tellstar by the Tornadoes??????????????

You couldn't have been there and not remember....

[joeybee12]

17. Meant to vote for I wanna Hold Your hand, but my mouse slipped!

I wanted to vote for it simply because I remember them singing it on the Ed Sullivan show.

[bubblesby2002]

18. I love them all, still.

nt