Crazy (Patsy Cline)Patsy Cline
Crazy (Patsy Cline)
1962 · From Patsy Cline Showcase
Willie Nelson wrote it; Cline, back after a car wreck bruised her ribs, nailed the vocal in one take.
★ 8.8
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1962
Showing 12 songs from 1962
Green Onions
1962
Seventeen years old, filling a Sunday when the booked singer's session collapsed, Jones cut the Hammond vamp that defined Stax.
★ 7.7
Misirlou
1962
A fan bet Dale he could not play on one string, so he sped up a Mediterranean folk tune.
★ 7.7
I Can't Stop Loving You
1962 · From Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
A Don Gibson country weepie, Marty Paich's strings behind it, and five weeks at number one in 1962.
★ 7.5
Boom Boom
1962
A bartender's scolding at Detroit's Apex Bar became the hook, and Motown's future Funk Brothers played the session.
★ 7.0
One Fine Day
1962
Goffin and King built it for Little Eva; the Chiffons got the track, King's piano intro intact.
★ 6.5
He's a Rebel
1962
Darlene Love sang lead at Gold Star, Hal Blaine drummed, and the Crystals got the credit for a number one.
★ 6.5
Sherry
1962
Gaudio wrote it in fifteen minutes by his account, and Valli's falsetto carried it to five weeks at number one.
★ 6.1
She Thinks I Still CareGeorge Jones
She Thinks I Still Care
1962
His biographer says Jones grumbled about all the 'just becauses'; Jones denied it, then sat six weeks at country number one.
★ 6.1
She's Got YouPatsy Cline
She's Got You
1962 · From Sentimentally Yours
Owen Bradley produced the December 1961 session; Cline works through an inventory of keepsakes while Floyd Cramer's piano answers.
★ 5.9
The LocomotionLittle Eva
The Locomotion
1962
Top three in America across three decades, three different singers, and Eva Boyd invented the dance after the hit.
★ 5.4
Surfin' SafariThe Beach Boys
Surfin' Safari
1962 · From Surfin' Safari
Brian Wilson chased Chuck Berry on the piano into a C-F-G pattern; a surfing friend supplied the beach names.
★ 4.7