Top R&B Songs of 1961 Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

[Colpix 186]
written by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #466]
[Big Top 3067]
written by Charles Westover & Max Crook

with The Leon Young String Chorale
instrumental
[Atco 6217]
written by Acker Bilk & Robert Mellin

instrumental
[RCA Victor 7840]
written by Floyd Cramer

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #377]
[ABC-Paramount 10244]
written by Percy Mayfield

as U.S. Bonds
[Legrand 1008]
written by Gene Barge, Frank Guida & Joseph Royster

charted as Walk Right Back / Ebony Eyes in UK charts
[Warner 5199]
written by John D. Loudermilk

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #342]
[Laurie 3110]
written by Dion DiMucci & Ernie Maresca

aka Wimoweh, a south african zulu song
[RCA Victor 47-7954]
written by Solomon Linda, Paul Campbell, Albert Stanton, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore & George David Weiss

R
[Parkway 811]
written by Hank Ballard

hit for Chuck Willis in 1954
[RCA Victor 47-7880]
written by Chuck Willis

[Parkway 818]
written by Don Covay & John Berry [John Bobby Berry]

[Minit 623]
written by Allen Toussaint

[novelty]
[Mercury 71820]
written by traditional

[Canadian American 123]
written by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II

instrumental
[Warwick 603]
written by Richard Stephens, Jimmy Torres & Norman Petty

as Joey Dee & The Starlighters
inspired by New York City's Peppermint Lounge Club
[Roulette 4401]
written by Joey Dee & Henry Glover

[Beltone 1002]
written by Ritchie Adams & Malou Rene

[Tamla 54046]
written by Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman & Freddie Gorman

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #121]
[Atco 6194]
written by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

[Instant 3229]
written by Chris Kenner & Allen Toussaint

[Vee-Jay 383]
written by Dee Clark

[Hull 740]
written by James Sheppard & William H. Miller

#1 hit for the Mills Brothers in 1944
[Argo 5388]
written by Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher

[Parkway 827]
written by Kal Mann & Dave Appell

instrumental
[Atco 6184]
written by Jerry Lordan

[novelty]
[Columbia 4-41876]
written by Johnny Parker

[AFO 302]
written by Barbara George

[Beltone 45-1006]
written by Eugene Pitt, Oscar Waltzer & Phil Belmonte

R
[Scepter 1203]
written by Ralph Bass & Lowman Pauling

instrumental
[Stax 107]
written by Charles Axton, Jerry Lee Smith, Floyd Newman, Chips Moman & Gil Caple

[Liberty 55343]
written by Al Jacobs & Jimmie Crane

[Scepter 1217]
written by Luther Dixon & Willie Denson

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #452]
[RCA Victor 7883]
written by Sam Cooke

[Liberty 55308]
written by Kay Rogers, Luther Dixon & Bob Elgin

[Coed 550]
written by Mark Barkan, Sandy Baron & George Eddy

[Liberty 55371]
written by Burt Bacharach & Bob Hilliard

as The Pips
[Vee-Jay 386]
written by Johnny Otis

as Bob Moore and his Orchestra
instrumental
[Monument 446]
written by Boudleaux Bryant

[Legrand 1009]
written by Gary Anderson & Gene Barge

[Fury 1053]
written by Lee Dorsey, Clarence Lewis, Morgan Robinson & Morris Levy

[Coed 546]
written by Arthur Kent & Ed Warren

[Impulse 200]
written by Rudy Toombs

[Decca 31231]
written by Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap & Earl Hines

[ABC-Paramount 10266]
written by Bobby Sharp & Teddy Powell

[Scepter 1227]
written by Burt Bacharach, Mack David & Barney Williams

[Parkway 830]
written by John Madara & David White

[Sun 356]
written by Ray Charles

#1 hit for Ted Weems in 1947
[Colpix 612]
written by Al Hoffman & John Klenner

[Coed 553]
written by Scott David & Larry Kusik

[Vee-Jay 405]
written by Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer

[Legrand 1015]
written by Frank J. Guida

[Parkway 824]
written by Kal Mann & Dave Appell

#1 hit for Guy Lombardo in 1937
[Mercury 71876]
written by Harry Warren & Al Dubin

[Beltone 1012]
written by Bobby Lewis & Malou Rene

[Atlantic 2086]
written by Carla Thomas

as Caesar & the Romans
[Del-Fi 4158]
written by Nick Curinga & Paul Politi

[Brunswick 55201]
written by Hank Hunter & Al Kasha

B side to For My Baby
[Mercury 71774]
written by Joe Shapiro, Jimmy Williams [Jimmy T. Williams] & Clyde Otis

[Sue 749]
written by Rose Marie McCoy & Sylvia McKinney

[Epic 9434]
written by Bill Cook

[Imperial 5764]
written by Antoine Domino & Dave Bartholomew

[Laurie 3098]
written by Bert Berns

[Atco 6203]
written by Gabriel Ruiz, Ricardo López Méndez & Sunny Skylar

featuring Jay "Bird" Uzzell
[Tuff 1808]
written by Abner Spector

[Gee 1065]
written by Fred Fassert

[Carlton 555]
written by Richard Barrett

answer-song to "stand by me"
[Mercury 71840]
written by Ben E. King, Ollie Jones, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

instrumental
[Hi 2040]
written by Ace Cannon

[Atlantic 2105]
written by Burt Bacharach & Bob Hilliard

[ABC-Paramount 10241]
written by Curtis Mayfield

[Mercury 71903]
written by Brook Benton, Oliver Hall & Marnie Ewald

[Mercury 71859]
written by traditional

[Fury 1054]
written by Don Covay

[Atlantic 2114]
written by Virgil Stewart

[Atlantic 2117]
written by Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman

[Scepter 1223]
written by John Patton & Amiel Sommers

[Philles 100]
written by Leroy Bates & Phil Spector

[Imperial 5753]
written by Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew & Bobby Charles

[Gee 1064]
written by Hoagy Carmichael & Frank Loesser

[Brunswick 55216]
written by Al Kasha & Horace Ott

#1 hit for Tommy Dorsey in 1940
[Mercury 71847]
written by Ruth Lowe

[Nomar 106]
written by S. W. Taylor & Maxine Brown

[Imperial 5723]
written by Antoine Domino, Jack Jessup & Pee Wee Maddux

[Brunswick 55208]
written by Joyce Lee

[Duke 344]
written by Deadric Malone & Joseph Scott

as Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
B side to The Float
[King 5510]
written by Al Kasha, Alonzo Tucker & Gordon Evans

[Mercury 71774]
written by Clyde Otis & Willie Dixon

[Caprice 110]
written by Rudy Clark

instrumental
[Hi 2028]
written by Rudy Jackson

as The Marathons
[Arvee 5027]
written by H.B. Barnum, Martin J. Cooper, Cliff Goldsmith & Fred Smith

[Tri-Phi 1001]
written by Harvey Fuqua & Gwen Gordy Fuqua

[Vee-Jay 390]
written by Jerry Butler & Curtis Mayfield

[novelty]
[Atco 6192]
written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

[Jin 144 / Smash 1702]
written by Ted Daffan

[Federal 12401]
written by Freddie King, Sonny Thompson & Hound Dog Taylor

[Argo 5385]
written by Ned Wever, Milton Ager & Jean Schwartz

[Checker 969]
written by James Johnson [James E. Johnson], Shirley Hall & Leslie Temple

[Felsted 45-8624]
written by Aaron Collins

[Vee-Jay 375]
written by Curtis Mayfield & Jerry Butler