September 18, 1982. I can peg my fascination with music charts to that date. After listening to a local radio station’s countdown of the hits of the summer, I decided to make my own list of favorites (see original list here). I ended up revising it every few days, eventually developing my own charts which I maintained into the ‘90s.
I’ve also projected before and after those lists to create speculative lists of #1 songs for eras not covered by those original charts. You can check out those links here, but this page is focused on the #1 songs that might have been for me in the 1970s.
1960:
- May 7: Sam Cooke “Wonderful World” (4 wks)
- June 4: Roy Orbison “Only the Lonely” (4 wks)
- July 2: The Everly Brothers “When Will I Be Loved’ (3 wks)
- July 23: Elvis Presley “It’s Now or Never” (2 wks)
- Aug. 6: Chubby Checker “The Twist” (8 wks)
- Oct. 1: Sam Cooke “Chain Gang” (2 wks)
- Oct. 15: Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (4 wks)
- Nov. 12: Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs “Stay” (5 wks)
- Dec. 17: The Miracles “Shop Around” (3 wks)
1961:
- Jan. 7: Elvis Presley “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” (4 wks)
- Feb. 4: The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (2 wks)
- Feb. 18: Etta James “At Last” (3 wks)
- Mar. 11: The Marcels “Blue Moon” (5 wks)
- Apr. 15: Del Shannon “Runaway” (2 wks)
- Apr. 29: Bobby Lewis “Tossin’ and Turnin’” (5 wks)
- June 3: Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (5 wks)
- July 8: Sam Cooke “Cupid” (3 wks)
- July 29: Ray Charles “Hit the Road Jack” (4 wks)
- Aug. 26: Roy Orbison “Crying” (2 wks)
- Sept. 9: The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman” (2 wks)
- Sept. 23: Dion “Runaround Sue” (2 wks)
- Oct. 7: Elvis Presley “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (4 wks)
- Nov. 4: Jimmy Dean “Big Bad John” (3 wks)
- Nov. 25: Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn “Moon River” (2 wks)
- Dec. 9: Patsy Cline “Crazy” (3 wks)
- Dec. 30: The Tokens “The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)” (4 wks)
1962:
- Jan. 27: Dion “The Wanderer” (2 wks)
- Feb. 10: Gene Chandler “Duke of Earl” (3 wks)
- Mar. 3: Sam Cooke “Twistin’ the Night Away” (4 wks)
- Mar. 31: Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (3 wks)
- Apr. 21: The Shirelles “Soldier Boy” (2 wks)
- May 5: Ray Charles and “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (3 wks)
- May 26: Sam Cooke “Having a Party” (2 wks)
- June 9: John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” (2 wks)
- June 23: Sam Cooke “Bring It on Home to Me” (2 wks)
- July 7: Bobby Vinton “Roses Are Red My Love” (2 wks)
- July 21: The Isley Brothers “Twist and Shout” (2 wks)
- Aug. 4: The Beach Boys “Surfin’ Safari” (3 wks)
- Aug. 25: Little Eva “The Loco-Motion” (4 wks)
- Sept. 22: The Contours “Do You Love Me?” (4 wks)
- Oct. 20: The Four Seasons “Sherry” (3 wks)
- Nov. 10: Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers “Monster Mash” (2 wks)
- Nov. 24: The Four Seasons “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (4 wks)
- Dec. 22: The Drifters “Up on the Roof” (3 wks)
1963:
- Jan. 12: The Exciters “Tell Him” (2 wks)
- Jan. 26: The Four Seasons “Walk Like a Man” (3 wks)
- Feb. 16: Peter, Paul & Mary “500 Miles” (3 wks)
- Mar. 9: The Chiffons “He’s So Fine” (3 wks)
- Mar. 30: The Drifters “On Broadway” (3 wks)
- Apr. 20: Little Peggy March “I Will Follow Him” (2 wks)
- May 4: The Beach Boys “Surfin’ U.S.A.” (3 wks)
- May 25: Lesley Gore “It’s My Party” (3 wks)
- June 15: Bob Dylan “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (2 wks)
- June 29: Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (4 wks)
- July 27: The Surfaris “Wipe Out” (3 wks)
- Aug. 17: The Angels “My Boyfriend’s Back” (3 wks)
- Sept. 7: The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (3 wks)
- Sept. 28: Bob Dylan “Blowin’ in the Wind” (2 wks)
- Oct. 12: The Beatles “She Loves You” (5 wks)
- Nov. 16: The Ronetttes “Be My Baby” (4 wks)
- Dec. 14: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (7 wks)
1964:
- Feb. 1: Louis Armstrong “Hello, Dolly!” (3 wks)
- Feb. 22: The Beatles “Twist and Shout” (4 wks)
- Mar. 21: The Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love” (3 wks)
- Apr. 4: Mary Wells “My Guy” (1 wk)
- Apr. 18: The Beatles “All My Loving” (2 wks)
- May 2: Disneyland Chorus “It’s a Small World After All” (4 wks)
- May 30: The Dixie Cups “Chapel of Love” (3 wks)
- June 20: The Beach Boys “I Get Around” (2 wks)
- July 4: The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (4 wks)
- Aug. 1: The Drifters “Under the Boardwalk” (3 wks)
- Aug. 22: The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” (3 wks)
- Sept. 12: Martha & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” (4 wks)
- Oct. 10: The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (4 wks)
- Nov. 7: Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (2 wks)
- Nov. 21: The Supremes “Baby Love” (2 wks)
- Dec. 5: The Shangri-La’s “Leader of the Pack” (1 wk)
- Dec. 12: Zero Mostel “Sunrise, Sunset” (1 wk)
- Dec. 19: Burl Ives “A Holly Jolly Christmas” (1 wk)
- Dec. 26: The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (4 wks)
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1965:
- Jan. 23: The Temptations “My Girl” (4 wks)
- Feb. 20: Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” (1 wk)
- Feb. 27: The Supremes “Stop! In the Name of Love” (2 wks)
- Mar. 13: The Impressions “People Get Ready” (1 wk)
- Mar. 20: The Beatles “Eight Days a Week” (2 wks)
- Apr. 3: The Yardbirds “For Your Love” (1 wk)
- Apr. 10: Bob Dylan “The Times They Are A-Changin’” (2 wks)
- Apr. 24: The Dixie Cups “Iko Iko” (2 wks)
- May 8: The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (2 wks)
- May 29: Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke with the Pearlie Chorus “Supercalifragilisticexpalidocious” (2 wks)
- June 12: Them “Gloria” (1 wk)
- June 19: Four Tops “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” (2 wks)
- July 3: The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (4 wks)
- July 31: The Beach Boys “California Girls” (2 wks)
- Aug. 14: The Beatles “Help!” (3 wks)
- Sept. 4: Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (3 wks)
- Sept. 25: The Beatles “Yesterday” (4 wks)
- Oct. 23: The Rolling Stones “Get Off of My Cloud” (1 wk)
- Oct. 30: The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (3 wks)
- Nov. 20: The Who “My Generation” (3 wks)
- Dec. 11: James Brown “I Got You (I Feel Good)” (3 wks)
1966:
- Jan. 1: The Beatles “Michelle” (1 wk)
- Jan. 8: The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin’” (2 wks)
- Jan. 22: The Beach Boys “Barbara Ann” (3 wks)
- Feb. 12: Nancy Sinatra “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” (2 wks)
- Feb. 26: The Isley Brothers “This Old Heart of Mine” (2 wks)
- Mar. 12: The Young Rascals “Good Lovin’” (2 wks)
- Mar. 26: Percy Sledge When a Man Loves a Woman” (4 wks)
- Apr. 23: The Rolling Stones “Under My Thumb” (2 wks)
- May 7: The Troggs “Wild Thing” (3 wks)
- May 28: The Rolling Stones “Paint It, Black” (1 wk)
- June 4: The Beatles “Paperback Writer” (4 wks)
- July 2: The Rolling Stones “Mother’s Little Helper” (3 wks)
- July 23: The Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love” (2 wks)
- Aug. 6: The Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” (5 wks)
- Sept. 10: The Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (5 wks)
- Oct. 15: The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (4 wks)
- Nov. 12: The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (2 wks)
- Nov. 26: Spencer Davis Group “Gimme Some Lovin’” (3 wks)
- Dec. 17: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Hey Joe” (2 wks)
- Dec. 31: Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (3 wks)
1967:
- Jan. 21: The Doors “Break on Through” (3 wks)
- Feb. 11: The Rolling Stones “Ruby Tuesday” (1 wk)
- Feb. 18: The Turtles “Happy Together” (3 wks)
- Mar. 11: The Beatles “Penny Lane” (4 wks)
- Apr. 8: Aretha Franklin “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You” (2 wks)
- Apr. 22: Aretha Franklin “Respect” (5 wks)
- May 27: The Doors “Light My Fire” (2 wks)
- June 10: Procol Harum “A A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1 wk)
- June 17: The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (4 wks)
- July 15: The Beatles “With a Little Help from My Friends” (3 wks)
- Aug. 5: Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit” Jefferson Airplane (2 wks)
- Aug. 19: Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl” (1 wk)
- Aug. 26: The Beatles “All You Need Is Love” (3 wks)
- Sept. 23: The Doors “People Are Strange” (3 wks)
- Oct. 14: Aretha Franklin “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” (2 wks)
- Oct. 28: Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World’ (3 wks)
- Nov. 18: The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin” (4 wks)
- Dec. 16: The Monkees “Daydream Believer” (2 wks)
- Dec. 30: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Little Wing” (3 wks)
1968:
- Jan. 20: Cream “Sunshine of Your Love’ (2 wks)
- Feb. 3: Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (9 wks)
- Apr. 6: Sam & Dave “I Thank You” (2 wks)
- Apr. 20: Simon & Garfunkel “Scarborough Fair” (2 wks)
- May 4: Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson” (4 wks)
- June 1: Tommy James & the Shondells “Mony Mony” (2 wks)
- June 15: Deep Purple “Hush” (2 wks)
- June 29: The Rolling Stones “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (2 wks)
- July 13: The Doors “Hello, I Love You” (3 wks)
- Aug. 3: Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild” (4 wks)
li>Aug. 31: The Beatles “Hey Jude” (4 wks)
- Sept. 28: Big Brother & The Holding Company “Piece of My Heart” (2 wks)
- Oct. 12: The Jimi Hendrix Experience All Along the Watchtower (3 wks)
- Nov. 2: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Suzie Q” (2 wks)
- Nov. 16: Cream “White Room” (1 wk)
- Nov. 23: Joe Cocker “With a Little Help from My Friends” (2 wks)
- Dec. 7: Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (4 wks)
1969:
- Jan. 4: Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1 wk)
- Jan. 11: Sly & the Family Stone “Everyday People” (3 wks)
- Feb. 1: The Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil” (3 wks)
- Feb. 22: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary” (3 wks)
- Mar. 15: The Who “Pinball Wizard” (4 wks)
- Apr. 12: Frank Sinatra “My Way” (3 wks)
- May 3: Cream “Badge” (1 wk)
- May 10: The Beatles with Billy Preston “Get Back” (3 wks)
- May 31: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Bad Moon Rising” (3 wks)
- June 21: Elvis Presley “In the Ghetto” (3 wks)
- July 12: The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (4 wks)
- Aug. 9: the Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women” (1 wk)
- Aug. 16: David Bowie “Space Oddity” (3 wks)
- Sept. 6: The Archies “Sugar Sugar” (2 wks)
- Sept. 20: Blind Faith “Can’t Find My Way Home” (2 wks)
- Oct. 4: Steam “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” (2 wks)
- Oct. 18: The Hollies “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” (1 wk)
- Oct. 25: The Beatles “Something” (1 wk)
- Nov. 1: The Beatles “Come Together” (1 wk)
- Nov. 8: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son” (3 wks)
- Dec. 6: B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” (1 wk)
- Dec. 13: Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (3 wks)
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