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- Artist
- Buzz Clifford
- Year
- 1961
- Song
- Baby Sittin' Boogie
- Chart
- 6
Buzz Clifford was a singer/songwriter from the 1960s whose songs have been recorded by many artists. Despite his songwriting skill, he could not found success on his own until 1961, when his funny song about music-maniac baby-sitter "Baby Sittin' Boogie" became no.6 hit on the chart. However, he could not follow this success and quietly withdrew from the spotlight.
- Artist
- The Halos
- Year
- 1961
- Song
- Nag
- Chart
- 25
The Halos was an American doo wop group formed by session vocalists in the early 1960s. They found success with their second singles "Nag" in 1960. This scarcastic song became no.25 hit on Billboard chart in 1961. The group tried to carry on this success with more singles but none of them worked out as they hoped. They soon gave up and returned to their studio works.
- Artist
- Barry Mann
- Year
- 1961
- Song
- Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)
- Chart
- 7
Barry Mann was a successful songwriter from Brooklyn during the '60s and '70s period. Despite his songwriting skill, Mann only had one hit that he could claim for himself. The rocking, novelty tune "Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" was a Top10 hit in US back in 1961 and the only time his name was ever appeared on the music chart.
- Artist
- Jack Ross
- Year
- 1962
- Song
- Cinderella
- Chart
- 16
Jack Ross was a nightclub entertainer and trumpet player from West Coast in the early '60s. He cut some singles in the 1962 and one of them really brought him out of the obscurity. The hiralious story-telling "Cenderella" became a fluke Top20 hit that year. However, this first hit singles also turned out to be his last chart appearance. Ross died in 1982 at the age of 66.
- Artist
- Bunker Hill
- Year
- 1962
- Song
- Hide & Go Seek, Part 1
- Chart
- 33
Bunker Hill (born David Walker) was a professional boxer from Washington D.C., who used to be a lead singer in a gospel group called Mighty Clouds of Joy. His only successs in music career came in 1962 when his cheerful debut singles "Hide & Go Seek, Part1" cracked the Top40 territory. A couple more singles soon followed but unable to maintain this newfound success.
- Artist
- Jo Ann Campbell
- Year
- 1962
- Song
- (I'm the Girl On) Wolverton Mountain
- Chart
- 38
Jo Ann Campbell was an American singer/sonwriter in the late '50s and '60s. Her biggest chance came in 1962 when her answer-song to Claude King's 1962 hit "Wolverton Mountain" became a Top40 hit and stayed on the chart for seven weeks. Unfortunately, she could not carry on with this success and retired in the mid '60s.
- Artist
- Bobby "Boris" Pickett
- Year
- 1962
- Song
- Monster Mash
- Chart
- 1
Robert George Pickett was an American singer who was famous for his Boris Karloff impersonations. In 1962, he recorded a novelty song "Monster Mash" under the name Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & the Cryptkickers. The song went straight to no.1 shortly before Halloween that year. Although most of his works go unrecognized but he will be forever remembered for this one monster hit.
- Artist
- Charlie Drake
- Year
- 1962
- Song
- My Boomerang Won't Come Back
- Chart
- 21
Charlie Drake was a famous British comedian since the 1950s. However, in US, he was known for only one lone hit. The novelty song about a young Aborigine trying to master the art of boomerang throwing "My Boomerang Won't Come Back" became a surprised Top40 hit on Billboard pop chart. Although he had more hits in his homeland, none made it into the US chart ever again.
- Artist
- Phil McLean
- Year
- 1962
- Song
- Small Sad Sam
- Chart
- 21
The success of Jimmy Dean's monster hit "Big Bad John" had spawned many imitations - and only one of them actually became a hit. The story of a rude, cowardly midget by a Cleveland's DJ, Phil McLean, "Small Sad Sam" became a hit in 1962. It was the only time his name ever appeared on the chart.
- Artist
- Ray Barretto
- Year
- 1963
- Song
- El Watusi
- Chart
- 17
The Grammy Awarding-winning Puerto Rican jazz musician Ray Barretto was famous for his unique conga playing. During the latin craze in the early 1960s, Barretto scored a biggest hit of his life with the Cuba dance song "El Watusi" in 1963. This funny groove became the first Latin song to enter Billboard chart. He continued to produce many more Latin jazz music but he never broke the Top40 chart again.
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