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Song
of the Year 1962
The Beach Boys come on the music scene as one of the first rock and roll bands.
No front man named and a cohesive group who played their own instruments. Surfin USA was their first hit. Members were brothers and cousins Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson
Billboard Top 40
of 1962
0. Stranger on the Shore -
Acker Bilk
1.
Miserlou - Dick Dale
2. Twist and Shout - Isley Brothers
3. Do You Love Me - Contours
4. Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley
5. You Belong To Me - Duprees
6. The Loco-motion - Little Eva
7. Let's Dance - Chris Montez
8. Return To Sender - Elvis Presley
9. Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker
10. Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons
11. Party Lights - Claudine Clark
12. Twistin' The Night Away - Sam Cooke
13. The Wah Watusi - the Orlons
14. Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
15. Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka
16. Surfin' USA - Beach Boys
17. Good Luck Charm - Elvis Presley
18. Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel
19. Alley Cat - Bent Fabric
20. Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out) - Ernie
Maresca
21. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) - Roy
Orbison
22. The Stripper - David Rose
23. Desafinado - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
24. Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles
25. The Wanderer - Dion
26. Town Without Pity - Gene Pitney
27. Green Onions - Booker T. and the MG's
28. Sherry - Four Seasons
29. Having A Party - Sam Cooke
30. I Can't Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
31. Soldier Boy - Shirelles
32. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka
33. Mashed Potato Time - Dee Dee Sharp
34. Roses are Red (My Love) - Bobby Vinton
35. Surfin' - Beach Boys
36. Don't Hang Up - the Orlons
37. Baby Its Cold Outside - Ray Charles & Betty
Carter
38. 409 - Beach Boys
39. Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares
40. Baby, It's You - the Shirelles
Top Albums of 1962
1. West Side Story - Soundtrack
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Henry
Mancini
3. Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley
4. Camelot - Original Cast
5. The Sound of Music - Original
Cast
The Grammy's 1962
Record of the
Year - I Left My Heart in
San Francisco, Tony
Bennett
Album of the Year - The First Family, Vaughn
Meader
Song of the Year - What
Kind of Fool Am I,
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony
Newley, songwriters
Best New Artist of 1962 - Robert Goulet
Best Solo Vocal Performance,
Male - I Left My Heart in San
Francisco, Tony Bennett
Best Solo Vocal Performance, female- Ella Fitzgerald
Best Rock and Roll Recording - Alley Cat, Bent
Fabric
Best Rhythm and Blues Recording
- I Can't Stop Loving You,
Ray Charles
Best Country and Western
Recording - Funny Way of
Laughin', Burl Ives
Best Folk Recording - If I
Had a Hammer, Peter,
Paul and Mary
Best Album Cover - Judy at Carnegie Hall
The Tony's
(Musicals) 1962
Outstanding Musical - How
to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Actor Musical - Robert Morse, How
to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Actress Musical - Anna Marie Alberghetti,
Carnival and Diane Carroll, No
Strings
Actor Musical Supporting - Charles Nelson
Reilly, How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying
Actress Musical Supporting - Phyllis
Newman, Subways are for Sleeping
Outstanding Director Musical - Abe
Burrows, How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying
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Music News 1962
 Frankie Valli
and The Four Seasons release their first hits, Sherry and Big Girls Don't Cry. Subsequent hits
followed: Dawn, Walk Like a Man, Let's
Hang On, Working My Way Back To You, and Can't Take My Eyes Off You. The Four Seasons were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1990
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards meet Brian
Jones at The Ealing Club in
London.
Bob
Marley releases his first record, Judge Not. It is also the year Jamaica becomes an independent nation
Ringo Starr joins
the Beatles after they fire Pete
Best. They release their first single, Love
Me Do in the UK.
Rock & Roll 1962
Dick Dale and
the Del-Tones
Dick Dale invented surf music in the 1950's and was soon given the title King of the Surf Guitar. He was the first to test and use the new Stratocaster guitar from Fender. He was also the first to jump concert volume from the standard 4
setting of the time, to 10. Though infamous in Southern California
drawing large crowds for years, it wasn't until 1962 that Miserlou became a national hit. Dale greatly influenced not only the Beach Boys and the Chantays (Pipline) but Jimi Hendriks as well.
Rhythm
& Blues 1962
Howling
Wolf, one of the mighty
of the Chicago Bluesmen has a
hit with this album that
includes Little Red Rooster made famous by The
Rolling Stones and Back Door Man by The Doors.
Jazz 1962
Acker
Bilt, Stranger on the Shore. Grammy Hall of Fame Album for 1962.
The Lonely Bull by Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass crosses over from Jazz
to Pop.
Country & Western
1962
 Thinking Ray Charles is nuts for wanting to do a
C&W album, his handlers produce it
expecting a flop. Ray Charles
Modern Sounds in Country and Western
Music is not only a hit, but in
the top 100 of albums of all time and #2 album of all time on the
Country Charts
Folk Music 1962
New
kid on the block Bob Dylan gets
good reviews for his first Album
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