"""Billboard"" magazine ranked the song as the 27th biggest song of all time that charted on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the chart. It is one of only six songs from the 1960s to spend at least seven weeks in the number one position on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Tossin' and Turnin' ""Tossin' and Turnin'"" is a song written by Ritchie Adams and Malou Rene, and originally recorded by Bobby Lewis in the fall of 1960. The record was released in December 1960,and it reached number one on both the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on July 10,"
"""Tossin' and Turnin'"" went to No.1 for seven weeks on the ""Billboard"" chart. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. Later that year, he had a second Top Ten song, ""One Track Mind"", his only other major hit record, at No. 9. ""Tossin' And Turnin'"", composed by Ritchie Adams and Malou Rene, was featured on the soundtrack for the 1978 film ""Animal House"". The song was also covered by Steve Goodman, the Replacements, the Guess Who, Peter Criss, and Jimmy Sturr, among others. (The Ivy League's UK hit ""Tossin' And Turnin"", however, is a completely"
"Ritchie Adams Richard Adam Ziegler (December 15, 1938 – March 6, 2017), known professionally as Ritchie Adams, was an American singer and songwriter. Born in New York City, by 1959 he joined The Fireflies, and sang lead vocals on their hit record ""You Were Mine"", as well as on their follow-ups including ""I Can't Say Goodbye"". He released a string of solo singles during the early 1960s on the Ribbon, Imperial, Beltone and Congress record labels, but with little success. He developed a more successful career as a songwriter, co-writing ""Tossin' and Turnin'"", a hit in the US in 1961"
"original 1988 release reached the top of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, which included the number one song of 1961, ""Tossin' and Turnin'"", while the 1993 re-issue only contained six chart toppers. However, the remaining four tracks reached the Hot 100's Top 10. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 16, 1995. 1988 original release 1993 re-release, replacement tracks Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1961 Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1961 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1961. Two versions of this volume in the """"Billboard"" Top Hits"" series were"
"number 1 in two different hit parade runs when it resurfaced and topped the popular hit parade again for two weeks starting on January 13, 1962. In 1988, ""The Twist"" again became popular due to a new recording of the song by The Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checker. This version reached number 2 in the United Kingdom and number 1 in Germany. In 2014, ""Billboard"" magazine declared the song the ""biggest hit"" of the 1960s. Songs about doing the Twist went back to nineteenth-century minstrelsy, including ""Grape Vine Twist"" from around 1844. In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton, in ""Winin' Boy"
"No. 1 hit. The follow-up, ""Day Into Night"" was a Top 10 hit the same year. Owen Bradley took over as Wells' producer in the 1960s. While Bradley did produce some of the biggest-selling country crossover singers of the time period, including Patsy Cline, he did have to record some of what Nashville then called ""The Old-Timers,"" or the ""Honky-Tonkers"" from the 1950s, including Webb Pierce, Ernest Tubb, and Wells. With these singers, including Wells, he steered them all into the new contemporary sound without pushing them out of their limits. Wells' sound changed slightly due to Bradley's influence, incorporating"
"and was also a regular performer on the ""Sing Along"" television show, presented by Jim Lowe. By 1960, she was managed by Don Kirshner and Al Nevins of Aldon Music, and she began releasing singles on the Mercury label. Her only chart success came in 1961, when her recording ""Play It Again"", written by Gerry Goffin, Carole King and Howard Greenfield, reached #95 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. She also worked as a session singer on many of Goffin and King's demo recordings in the early 1960s. Robin continued to sing and perform comedy and impressions in clubs in New"
"Ryan Melcher, and his mother, Doris Day. Terry Melcher Terrence Paul Melcher (born Terrence Paul Jorden, February 8, 1942 – November 19, 2004) was an American musician and record producer who was instrumental in shaping the 1960s California Sound and folk rock movements, particularly during the nascent counterculture era. His best known contributions were producing the Byrds' first two albums ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" (1965) and ""Turn! Turn! Turn!"" (1965), as well as most of the hit recordings of Paul Revere & the Raiders and Gentle Soul. He is also known for his brief association with Charles Manson, a songwriter and"
"Tom Brown shared the vocals with Kidd. Kidd and the Pirates' finest moment was the powerful song ""Shakin' All Over"", which features memorable opening guitars and solo from Joe Moretti, and reached number one in the UK singles charts in 1960. The song was recorded and released in 1961 by Vince Taylor And His Play-Boys. The song and the group's proto-power trio line-up both made a strong impression on the Who, who would cover it in their 1970 album ""Live at Leeds"", whose CD liner notes proclaim the original to be the UK's best pre-Beatles rock single. Canada's The Guess"
"Terry Teene Terry Teene (February 1942 – March 9, 2012) [sometimes alternatively spelled as ""Terry Teen""] was an American musician, vocalist, songwriter, and entertainer, most commonly known for the early 1960s novelty hit ""Curse of the Hearse"". According to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, he recorded over 300 distinct songs and played on 100 or more released recordings, performing as a ""major artist"" on 25 of them. He has recorded under 70 names and appeared in over 500 nightclubs, by his own count. Born Terence Blaine Knutson to Kermit and June Knutson, Terry Teene began taking piano lessons at four"
"group Dancer, Prancer and Nervous. In 1960, 16-year-old Brian Hyland had a novelty hit with the song ""Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"", by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, which topped the ""Billboard"" single chart. The Trashmen reached the top 5 with ""Surfin' Bird"", a surf rock medley of two novelty songs originally recorded by The Rivingtons. In 1964, the Grammy for Best Country and Western Album was awarded to Roger Miller. Miller was known to sing novelty songs. In 1965, ""A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"", a song written by Ted Dicks and Myles Rudge, became a UK"
"and 1966, The Ivy League scored four UK chart hits, including ""Tossing and Turning"", which reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. Other songs were penned for Brenda Lee – ""Is It True?"", the Music Explosion – ""Little Bit O' Soul"", Dana Gillespie – ""Thank You Boy"" and Peter and Gordon – ""Sunday for Tea"". In early 1966 Carter decided he had enough of touring and was replaced by Tony Burrows from The Kestrels. In 1967, Lewis left the Ivy League and was replaced by Neil Landon. Lewis started writing and recording again with Carter. One of the first"
"Tuff Gong cat# 314 548 894-2 CD liner notes: Burnin' (The Wailers album) Burnin' is the sixth studio album by the reggae band The Wailers, released in October 1973. The sixth album by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer (the last before Tosh and Bunny departed for solo careers and the band became known as Bob Marley and the Wailers), ""Burnin"" opens with a signature song, the call to action ""Get Up, Stand Up"" and includes a more confrontational and militant tone than previous records, such as in another Marley standard turned into a number one hit by Eric"
"Zoom / Big Feet 1960 5017 Marsha Renay (with The Don Juans?) It's Nice / Our Cha-Lypso Of Love 1960 5018 John Lee Hooker Big Fine Woman / Blues For Christmas 1960 5019 Dave Hamilton and his Peppers Cooter Bug / Donna's Cha-Cha 1961 5020 Tino Cairo Wow Baby Sitter / Love In Portofino 1961 5021 The Creators Wear My Ring / Booga Bear 1961 5022 Karol Jackman Sometimes I Get Lonely / I Wanna Cry 1962 5023 Bobby Allen I Sent You Roses / You're My Love 1962 5024 Dave Kirk Oh, Baby / Those Lonely Blue Nights 1962"
"Alive N Kickin' Alive N Kickin’ (known originally as Alive and Kicking, and sometimes spelled Alive 'N Kickin’) is a Brooklyn band, led by singers Pepe Cardona and Sandy Toder, known mainly for their 1970 hit single ""Tighter, Tighter"" which reached number seven on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. The six original members formed the band when they were teenagers in 1968 in guitarist Dave Shearer's basement. The group included Sandy Toder and Pepe Cardona (vocals) Bruce Sudano (keyboards), Rich Luisi aka Woody Wilson (bass guitar), Dave Shearer (guitar), and Jeff Miller (drums). They gained some popularity when they"
"roughly looked like a guitar and ""play-synked"" popular early-1960s instrumental tunes like ""Scratchy"" by Travis Wammack and various The Ventures and Link Wray guitar songs. ""The Lloyd Thaxton Show,"" with its mix of new music and comedy skits, immediately shot to Number One in the time period, with a viewership of at least 350,000 homes, including those on the East Coast. Many leading rock 'n' roll acts of the time, like The Byrds, Sonny & Cher, The Kinks, The Bobby Fuller Four, The Challengers and others appeared on the program. Thaxton would end each show by saying, ""I'm Lloyd Thaxton,"""
"Tommy Turrentine Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. (April 22, 1928 – May 15, 1997) was a swing and hard bop trumpeter of the 1940s to 1960s. He rarely worked as a bandleader, and was known for his work as a sideman with drummer Max Roach and his younger brother, the saxophonist Stanley Turrentine. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Turrentine played in the bands of Benny Carter, Earl Bostic, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie. He later recorded with Sonny Clark, Lou Donaldson, and his brother's bands. His working relationship with Max Roach was spawned in part when he joined"
"other artists including Alexis Korner, Long John Baldry, and Duster Bennett in the late 1960s, and with Bryan Ferry, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Elton John in the 1970s. Her other project work the following decade encompassed Vivian Stanshall, Kevin Coyne, John Cale, Daevid Allen, Tom Robinson and Whitesnake. Her work continued into the early 1990s with Squeeze and Jorge Ben Jor. Barry St. John Elizabeth Thompson (born c.1943), who recorded as Barry St. John, is a Scottish female singer who had a No. 47 hit in the UK Singles Chart in December 1965 with ""Come Away Melinda"". It"
"1960s included the Byrds, Sonny & Cher, the Hollies, Peter, Paul and Mary, the Association, Manfred Mann and the Turtles. Most attempted a pop feel and rhythm, while Dylan and Baez performed them mostly as sparse folk songs. The covers became so ubiquitous that CBS promoted him with the slogan ""Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan"". ""Mixed-Up Confusion"", recorded during the ""Freewheelin""' sessions with a backing band, was released as a single and then quickly withdrawn. In contrast to the mostly solo acoustic performances on the album, the single showed a willingness to experiment with a rockabilly sound. Cameron Crowe described"
"with jazz and symphonic music, is often taken as the key recording in progressive rock, helping the widespread adoption of the genre in the early 1970s among existing blues-rock and psychedelic bands, as well as newly formed acts. Chubby Checker during the early 1960s popularizes the enduring dance craze the Twist with his hit cover of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters' R&B hit ""The Twist"". Gerry Goffin and Carole King become a very influential duo in pop music, writing numerous number one hits including the first song to ever reach number one by a girl group, the Shirelles ""Will You"
"Tyrone Davis Tyrone Davis (born Tyrone D. Fettson or Tyrone D. Branch, May 4, 1938 – February 9, 2005) was an American blues and soul singer with a long list of hit records over more than 20 years. Davis had three number 1 hits on the ""Billboard"" R&B chart: ""Can I Change My Mind"" (1968), ""Turn Back The Hands Of Time"" (1970), and ""Turning Point"" (1975). Tyrone Fettson was born in Greenville, Mississippi to Willie Branch and Ora Lee Jones. Some sources give his date of birth as May 4, 1938, but researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc state that"
"first No. 1 hit. The Beatles later recorded a cover of it in 1965, with Ringo Starr as lead singer. Ringo Starr later re-recorded the song as a duet with Owens in 1988. The 1966 album ""Carnegie Hall Concert"" was a smash hit and further cemented Buck Owens and the Buckaroos as more than just another honky tonk country band. They achieved crossover success on to the pop charts. During that year, R&B singer Ray Charles released cover versions of two of Owens' songs that became pop hits: ""Crying Time"" and ""Together Again"". In 1967, Owens and the Buckaroos toured"
"a former member of the MFSB band of session musicians. The song quickly became a number 1 chart topper on both the US ""Billboard"" Pop and R&B charts. It also became only the second single to go platinum, after the RIAA introduced the award in 1976. Taylor left in 1976 to concentrate on his conversion to Islam. He died in 1987 after a long illness. The group continued as a quartet, and found further success in March 1980 with the release of ""Shining Star,"" which reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 4 on the R&B Chart."
"stars who died during the 1960s included A.P. Carter, Gid Tanner, Moon Mullican, Ernest ""Pop"" Stoneman, Red Foley, Leon Payne and Spade Cooley. The 1960s began a trend toward a proliferation of No. 1 hits on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart, thanks to ever-changing data collecting methods. When the 1960s decade opened, there were but four No. 1 songs topping the chart (five, if one counts Marty Robbins' ""El Paso""), but by the mid-1960s, there were always at least a dozen songs topping the chart annually. In 1967, there were more than 20 songs reaching the top spot for"
"The Trashmen The Trashmen were a rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962. The group's original lineup was Tony Andreason on lead guitar and vocals, Dal Winslow on guitar and vocals, Steve Wahrer on drums and vocals, and Bob Reed on bass guitar. The group played surf rock which included elements from garage rock. They have been described as being, along with Colorado-based band the Astronauts, ""the premier landlocked Midwestern surf group of the '60s."" The Trashmen's biggest hit was 1963's ""Surfin' Bird"", which reached No. 4 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the latter part of that year."
"Turner's ""All Around the World"", was a hit, reaching number 5 on the ""Billboard"" R&B chart. He followed up with a string of R&B hits, including the original version of ""Need Your Love So Bad"", written by his elder brother Mertis John Jr. One of his biggest hits, ""Fever"" (1956) (Pop number 24, R&B number 1), was made famous in a cover version recorded by Peggy Lee in 1958, but John's version sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. Another song, ""Talk to Me, Talk to Me"", recorded in 1958, reached number 5 on the R&B"
"number 25 on the U.S. pop chart. The 1958 follow-up was ""This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'"", written by Bobby Darin and Mann Curtis. It reached number 7 on the R&B chart and number 24 on the pop chart. She had further hits with ""I Don't Know"" in 1959 and ""Don't Deceive Me"" in 1960, which were more successful on the R&B chart than on the pop chart. During the 1960s, Brown faded from public view and lived as a housewife and mother. She returned to music in 1975 at the urging of the comedian Redd Foxx, followed by a series"
"in 1960, by becoming the first group in ""history"" to place 3 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 at the ""same time"": Finger Poppin' Time"", ""Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go"" and ""The Twist"" in mid-July, 1960. The Midnighters held this record until it was finally broken by The Beatles in 1964. Credited to Hank Ballard and the Midnighters unless stated otherwise The Midnighters The Midnighters were an American R&B group from Detroit, Michigan. They were an influential group in the 1950s and early 1960s, with many R&B hit records. They were also notable for launching the career of lead"
"Terry Melcher Terrence Paul Melcher (born Terrence Paul Jorden, February 8, 1942 – November 19, 2004) was an American musician and record producer who was instrumental in shaping the 1960s California Sound and folk rock movements, particularly during the nascent counterculture era. His best known contributions were producing the Byrds' first two albums ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" (1965) and ""Turn! Turn! Turn!"" (1965), as well as most of the hit recordings of Paul Revere & the Raiders and Gentle Soul. He is also known for his brief association with Charles Manson, a songwriter and cult leader that was later convicted of"
"hit the stage just to get a glimpse of Cooke. Cooke had 30 U.S. top 40 hits between 1957 and 1964, plus three more posthumously. Major hits like ""You Send Me"", ""A Change Is Gonna Come"", ""Cupid"", ""Chain Gang"", ""Wonderful World"", ""Another Saturday Night"", and ""Twistin' the Night Away"" are some of his most popular songs. ""Twistin' the Night Away"" was one of his biggest selling albums. Cooke was also among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of his musical career. He founded both a record label and a publishing company as an"
"Buckinghams, the Cowsills, the Grass Roots, and the Association. The Turtles The Turtles were an American rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, later known as Flo & Eddie. The band had several Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's ""It Ain't Me Babe"" in 1965. They scored their biggest and best-known hit in 1967 with the song ""Happy Together"". The band broke up in 1970. Kaylan and Volman later found long-lasting success as session musicians, billed as the comedic vocal duo Flo & Eddie. In 2010, a reconstituted version of the band,"
"""Sixteen Tons"" in 1955. His reputation as a folk-inspired singer-composer and guitarist grew after the appearance of the album ""The Merle Travis Guitar"" in 1956, the reissue of ""Folk Songs of the Hills"" with four additional tracks under the title ""Back Home"" in 1957, and ""Walkin' the Strings"" in 1960, the latter two of which won 5-star ratings from ""Rolling Stone Magazine"". His career acquired a second wind during the American folk music revival in the late 1950s and early 1960s, leading to appearances at clubs, folk festivals and at Carnegie Hall as a guest of Lester Flatt and Earl"
"(mid-1950s to mid-1960s), before the British Invasion. One notable early instrumental was ""Honky Tonk"" by the Bill Doggett Combo, with its slinky beat and sinuous saxophone-organ lead. And bluesman Jimmy Reed charted with ""Boogie in the Dark"" and ""Roll and Rhumba"". Jazz saxophonist Earl Bostic revived his career with instrumentals like ""Harlem Nocturne"" and ""Earl's Rhumboogie""; other jazz musicians who scored pop hits include Tab Smith and Arnett Cobb. Several rhythm and blues sax players had hit instrumental songs, including Big Jay McNeeley, Red Prysock, and Lee Allen, whose ""Walking with Mr. Lee"" was quite popular. There were several notable"