Top R&B Songs of 1962 Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #161]
[ABC-Paramount 10330]
written by Don Gibson

instrumental
[London 9561]
written by Joe Meek

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #350]
[Dimension 1000]
written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King

harmonica-player is delbert mcclinton
[Smash 1731]
written by Margaret Cobb & Bruce Channel

[RCA Victor 47-8100]
written by Winfield Scott & Otis Blackwell

[ABC-Paramount 10329]
written by Tommy Roe

[RCA Victor 47-8041]
written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller & Doc Pomus

[Capitol 4804]
written by Noel Sherman & Joe Sherman

[Liberty 55521]
written by Benjamin Weisman, Dorothy Wayne & Marilynn Garrett

[Vee-Jay 456]
written by Bob Gaudio

[Philips 40084]
written by Ray Hildebrand

[Monogram 505]
written by Jim Lee

[RCA Victor 8046]
written by Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield

[Epic 9509]
written by Paul Evans & Al Byron

[ABC-Paramount 10345]
written by Cindy Walker & Eddy Arnold

[Vee-Jay 465]
written by Bob Crewe & Bob Gaudio

[RCA Victor 8098]
written by Arthur Kent & Sylvia Dee

hit for Dick Haymes in 1945
[Era 3068]
written by Victor Young & Edward Heyman

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #263]
[Philles 106]
written by Gene Pitney

[Scepter 1228]
written by Luther Dixon, Florence Green, Bob Elgin & Kay Rogers

instrumental
[MGM 13064]
written by David Rose

[Columbia 42601]
written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King

[Vee-Jay 416]
written by Eugene Dixon, Earl Edwards & Bernice Williams

[RCA Victor 7983]
written by Sam Cooke

[Parkway 849]
written by Jon Sheldon & Billy Strange

[novelty]
[Garpax 45-44167]
written by Bobby Pickett & Leonard L. Capizzi

B side to If I Didn't Have a Dime ; charted as If I Didn't Have a Dime (To Play the Jukebox) / Only Love Can Break a Heart in Australia charts
[Musicor 1022]
written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David

with Dee Dee Sharp
[Parkway 835]
written by Jon Sheldon

[Cadence 1418]
written by Johnny Tillotson

[Cameo 212]
written by Jon Sheldon & Harry Land

[Swan 4106]
written by Chuck Barris

[Cameo 218]
written by Kal Mann & Dave Appell

as Rick Nelson
[Imperial 5901]
written by Jerry Fuller

[Cameo 231]
written by Dave Appell & Kal Mann

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #181] instrumental
[Stax 127]
written by Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Lewie Steinberg & Al Jackson Jr.

[Gordy 7005]
written by Berry Gordy

[United Artists 544]
written by Bert Berns

[Mercury 72055]
written by Leon Carr & Earl Shuman

[RCA Victor 8086]
written by Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield

[Argo 5405]
written by Yvonne Baker

[Seville 45-120]
written by Gary Klein & Henry Hoffman

[Laurie 3123]
written by Dion DiMucci & Ernie Maresca

[Diamond 129]
written by Teddy Vann

[Colpix 663]
written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil

[Chancellor 1113]
written by Claudine Clark

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #113]
[Atlantic 2162]
written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King

[Cameo 230]
written by Jon Sheldon & David Leon

[Mercury 71966]
written by Harold Ragsdale

[Todd 1072]
written by Grady Martin & Alex Zanetis

[Motown 1035]
written by William "Smokey" Robinson

[ABC-Paramount 10375]
written by Jimmie Davis & Charles Mitchell

[Smash 1758]
written by Barry Mann & Larry Kolber

[Tamla 54060]
written by Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, Gladys Horton & Mickey Stevenson

as Little Esther Phillips
[Lenox 5555]
written by Eddie Miller, James Pebworth & Robert Yount

US B side to Happy Landing
[Tamla 54073]
written by Smokey Robinson

[Capitol 4870]
written by Emil Anton & Bob Halley

[Jamie 1220]
written by Huey P. Meaux & Barbara Lynn Ozen

[Seville 117]
written by Ernie Maresca & Thomas F. Bogdany

[Motown 1024]
written by William "Smokey" Robinson

with The Jack Halloran Singers
hit for Hank Williams in 1953; B side to You Are My Sunshine
[ABC-Paramount 10375]
written by Hank Williams

[Dimension 1003]
written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King

[Motown 1032]
written by William "Smokey" Robinson & Ronald White

[RCA Victor 8088]
written by Sam Cooke

[Philles 107]
written by Allie Wrubel & Ray Gilbert

instrumental
[Swan 4125]
written by Phil Todaro & Tom Shannon

[Atco 6222]
written by Ahmet Ertegun & Betty Nelson

[Wand 124]
written by Phil Medley & Bert Russell

[Cameo 219]
written by Kal Mann & Dave Appell

backing vocals by Lou Rawls
[RCA Victor 8036]
written by Sam Cooke

instrumental
[Julia/Chess 1829]
written by David Clowney & Paul Winley

US B side to Limbo Rock
[Parkway 849]
written by Dave Appell & Kal Mann

[Mercury 72024]
written by Margie Singleton & Brook Benton

as Dion Di Muci
[Laurie 3145]
written by Dion DiMucci & John Falbo

[RCA Victor 8036]
written by Sam Cooke

and the Noble Knights
instrumental
[Enjoy 1000]
written by Curtis Ousley

[Philles 109]
written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil

[Liberty 55469]
written by Clyde Otis & Joy Byers

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #218]
[Vee-Jay 438]
written by John Lee Hooker

[Philles 102]
written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil

[Smash 1791]
written by Allen Reynolds & Dickey Lee

backing vocals by Tina Turner
[Atco 6212]
written by Ike Turner

as The Blue-Belles
written by Otis J. Rene & Leon T. Rene

as the Bluebelles
[Newtown 5000]
written by Otis J. Rene & Leon T. Rene

[Dimension 1002]
written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King

[Tamla 54065]
written by Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson & George Gordy

[Fire 508]
written by Don Gardner, Bobby Robinson, James McDougal & Clarence Lewis

[Wand 122]
written by Burt Bacharach & Bob Hilliard

instrumental
[Verve 10255]
written by Elmer Bernstein & Mack David

instrumental
[Sue 770]
written by Ray Charles & Renald Richard

[Scepter 1239]
written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David

US B side to At the Club
[ABC-Paramount 10314]
written by Percy Mayfield

[Scepter 1243]
written by Robert Allen & Richard Adler

[Vee-Jay 451]
written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David

instrumental
[Everlast 5019]
written by Les Cooper

[Fortune 449]
written by Nathaniel Mayer

[Liberty 55480]
written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King

[S.P.Q.R. 3300]
written by Norman Span

[Scepter 1234]
written by Luther Dixon

[Imperial 5855]
written by Norman Margolies

as Eddie Holland
[Motown 1021]
written by William "Mickey" Stevenson & Barrett Strong