Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1962

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1962
Compilation album by various artists
Released 1988 (original release)
1993 (re-release)
Genre Pop, Rock
Length 23:48 (original 1988 release)
24:13 (1993 re-release)
Label Rhino Records
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits chronology
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1961
(1988)
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1962
(1990)
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1963
(1990)

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1962 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1962.

The album includes eight songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The remaining two tracks both reached the Hot 100's Top 5. The 1993 re-issue replaced the track "Big Girls Don't Cry" by the 4 Seasons with "Green Onions" by Booker T & the M.G.'s, thus bringing the number of chart toppers down to seven on this release. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on July 16, 1996.[1]

Track listing

1988 original release

No. TitleWriter(s)Artist Length
1. "Big Girls Don't Cry" (Billboard peak No. 1 in November)Crewe/GaudioThe Four Seasons 2:29
2. "Duke of Earl" (Billboard peak No. 1 in February)Edwards/Williams/DixonGene Chandler 2:27
3. "Soldier Boy" (Billboard peak No. 1 in May)Green/DixonThe Shirelles 2:44
4. "Sheila" (Billboard peak No. 1 in September)RoeTommy Roe 2:03
5. "Peppermint Twist – Part 1" (Billboard peak No. 1 in January)Dee/GloverJoey Dee & the Starliters 2:02
6. "The Loco-Motion" (Billboard peak No. 1 in August)Goffin/KingLittle Eva 2:29
7. "The Wanderer" (Billboard peak No. 2 in February)MarescaDion 2:50
8. "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (Billboard peak No. 1 in August)Sedaka/GreenfieldNeil Sedaka 2:18
9. "Johnny Angel" (Billboard peak No. 1 in April)Duddy/PockrissShelley Fabares 2:24
10. "Palisades Park" (Billboard peak No. 3 in June)BarrisFreddy Cannon 1:52

1993 re-release, replacement tracks

No. TitleWriter(s)Artist Length
1. "Green Onions" (Billboard peak No. 3 in September)Jones/Cropper/Jackson/SteinbergBooker T. & the M.G.'s 2:55

References


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