Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1964

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1964
Compilation album by various artists
Released 1988
1993 (re-release)
Genre Pop, rock
Length 24:38 (original 1988 release)
24:44 (1993 re-release)
Label Rhino Records
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits chronology
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1963
(1988)
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1964
(1990)
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1965
(1990)

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1964 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring ten hit recordings from 1964.

The album includes four songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The remaining six tracks each reached the Hot 100's Top 5. In 1993, the album was re-issued and replaced two chart toppers ("Do Wah Diddy Diddy" & "Rag Doll") with two other songs, "Chapel of Love" (another Hot 100 chart topper) and the Top 5 hit "Under the Boardwalk."

Absent from the track lineup were songs by The Beatles, which had the year's No. 1 song of the year, "I Want to Hold Your Hand". A disclaimer on the back of the album stated that licensing restrictions made the Beatles' tracks unavailable for inclusion on the album. A similar licensing restriction would preclude songs by The Rolling Stones from being included on other volumes in the Rhino "Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits" and "Billboard Top Hits" series.

Track listing

1989 original release

No. TitleWriter(s)Artist Length
1. "Bread and Butter" (Billboard peak No. 2 in September)Parks/TurnbowThe Newbeats 2:00
2. "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" (Billboard peak No. 1 in October)Barry/GreenwichManfred Mann 2:23
3. "I Get Around" (Billboard peak No. 1 in July)Wilson/LoveThe Beach Boys 2:15
4. "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (Billboard peak No. 3 in August)Altfeld/Berry/ChristianJan & Dean 2:25
5. "Out of Limits" (Billboard peak No. 3 in February)GordonThe Marketts 2:09
6. "Suspicion" (Billboard peak No. 3 in April)Pomus/ShumanTerry Stafford 2:32
7. "Rag Doll" (Billboard peak No. 1 in July)Crewe/GaudioThe Four Seasons 3:04
8. "She's Not There" (Billboard peak No. 2 in December)ArgentThe Zombies 2:24
9. "Last Kiss" (Billboard peak No. 2 in November)Cochran/Carpenter/Hoyal/McGlonJ. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers 2:27
10. "Leader of the Pack" (Billboard peak No. 1 in November)Morton/Barry/GreenwichThe Shangri-Las 2:53

1993 re-release, replacement tracks

No. TitleWriter(s)Artist Length
2. "Under the Boardwalk" (Billboard peak No. 4 in August)Resnick/YoungThe Drifters 2:39
7. "Chapel of Love" (Billboard peak No. 1 in June)Greenwich/Barry/SpectorThe Dixie Cups 2:47


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