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Most Popular One Hit Wonders
Summary of the biggest one hit wonders
of 1960 in popularity order
1960 Number One Song Calendar
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1960 Top 40 Songs Of The Year
The Top Songs of 1960 in order
starting with the song of the year
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Tunecaster has one hit wonder pages for every year from 1960 through 2000, including 1960.
One Hit Wonders are songs which are the most popular by an artist.
There are different views on what qualifies a song for a One Hit Wonder.
A One Hit Wonder could be an artist that had only one song in the top 10, top 20, or even top 40.
On these pages, strictly speaking, an artist is a One Hit Wonder
if the artist had exactly one song make the pop or rock top 20.
No artist can be considered a One Hit Wonder who made the top 20 twice.
This strict definition may create some strange results where a supergoup
like Metallica makes the Pop Top 20 charts once, despite a long list of rock number one songs.
Superstar side projects with temporary or transient names may be technical One Hit Wonders.
Additionally, a One Hit Wonder listed on this 1960 page
may be a song that is significantly more popular than other songs by the same artist,
even though it did not make the top 20.
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1960 One Hit Wonders Page
One Hit Wonders from 1960 at Tunecaster
Here are the US 1960 one hit wonders.
All the one hit wonder songs by the artists you remember,
and maybe some one hit wonders you forgot. Find a one hit wonder.
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Complete Weekly Music Chart Archives:
Blue Peak Numbers take you to the weekly pop chart, from 1960;
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Sandy Larry Hall |
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| Sandy was the only top 20 song for Larry Hall. He did not receive noticeable airplay with any other song. | |
Feb 1960 |
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Darling Lorraine The Knockouts |
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| Darling Lorraine was the only top 20 hit for The Knockouts. The group followed-up with Please Be Mine, which received slight radio airplay. | |
Feb 1960 |
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Tracy's Theme Spencer Ross |
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| The instrumental song Tracy's Theme was the only top 20 song for Spencer Ross and a one hit wonder. He did not receive mentionable radio airplay with any other solo song. This song was written by Robert Ascher. | |
Mar 1960 |
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The Little Dippers |
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| Forever was the only top 20 song for The Little Dippers. The Little Dippers included group singing member Darrell McCall who became a popular country singer with songs like A Stranger Was Here, and Dreams Of A Dreamer which was a duet with Willie Nelson. | |
Mar 1960 |
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Come Dance With Me Eddie Quinteros |
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| Although Come Dance With Me was the only top 20 hit for Eddie Quinteros, he received minor regional radio airplay with other songs like Please Don't Go and Lindy Lou. This song was written by Eddie Quinteros. | |
| Greenfields was a number one song and the only top 20 hit for folk group The Brothers Four. | |
| Mountain Of Love was the only top 20 song for Harold Dorman. He received minor radio airplay with other songs too, like I'll Come Running. Many artists remade Mountain Of Love. The most popular version was the 1964 number 9 hit for Johnny Rivers. This song was written by Harold Dorman. | |
May 1960 |
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Let The Little Girl Dance Billy Bland |
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| Although Let The Little Girl Dance was the only top 20 hit for Bobby Bland, he had a long career in soul music. | |
May 1960 |
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The Madison Al Brown's Tunetoppers Featuring Cookie Brown |
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| The Madison was a top 20 dance craze song. Al Brown did not receive any noticeable airplay with any other song. | |
Jun 1960 |
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Love You So Ron Holden With The Thunderbirds |
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| Love You So was the only top 20 hit for its writer, Ron Holden. In 1974, he came back with Can You Talk, which received slight radio airplay. | |
| Alley-Oop was a number one song and the only top 20 hit for Hollywood Argyles. Alley-Oop featured Sandy Nelson on drums. Hollywood Argyles was actually the work of Gary Paxton, who was Skip in the duo Skip & Flip, which had a 1959 number 14 hit with It Was I. Alley-Oop was written by Dallas Frazier. | |
Jul 1960 |
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Mule Skinner Blues The Fendermen |
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| Jimmie Rodgers and George Vaughn wrote Mule Skinner Blues, and Jimmie performed it in the 30s. That Jimmie Rodgers was from Meridian, Mississippi, and apparently not related to the Jimmie Rodgers who was popular in the 50s. Mule Skinner Blues was later used in a Levi's jeans commercial. The Fendermen received little airplay with follow-up song Don't You Just Know It. | |
| There were four moderately popular versions of Look For A Star in the summer of 1960. The Statues With Gary Miles version was the most popular. Look For A Star was the greatest hit by Garry Miles. He also received minor airplay with other songs like Wishing Well. Look For A Star was written by Mark Anthony. | |
| The Demensions, with lead singer Lenny Dell, made the top 20 one time with this remake of Over The Rainbow. The group released many additional songs, but never hit the top 20 again. | |
Sep 1960 |
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Yogi The Ivy Three |
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| Yogi was based on the cartoon character Yogi The Bear. Yogi was the only top 20 hit for The Ivy Three, which did not receive noticeable radio airplay with any other song. | |
| Larry Verne had a novelty one hit wonder in 1961 with Mr. Custer. He spent the next few years releasing more novelty songs, including The Return Of Mr. Custer, a sequel. | |
| Diamonds And Pearls was the only top 20 hit for The Paradons. The group followed-up with Bells Ring which received minor radio airplay. | |
| Although Bob Luman never had another top 20 hit after Let's Think About Living, he had a long country music career with many popular songs like 1972 song When You Say Love which was most popular by Sonny And Cher that same year, and Neither One Of Us which was most popular when done by Gladys Knight & The Pips, also in the same year, 1973. | |
| Stay was the only top 20 hit for Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, who wrote the song. The song made the top 20 twice more, first number 12 in 1964 by The 4 Seasons, then number 8 in 1978 by Jackson Browne.
Previously, under the name The Gladiolas, Maurice Williams wrote and recorded the first popular version of Little Darlin', which hit number one for The Diamonds in 1957. | |
Nov 1960 |
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Ruby Duby Du Tobin Mathews & Co. |
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| Mostly instrumental song Ruby Duby Du was a top 20 near miss, and the only popular song by Tobin Mathews & Co. The song was from the movie Key Witness. | |
Dec 1960 |
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Sailor (Your Home Is The Sea) Lolita |
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| Although Sailor (Your Home Is The Sea) was the only top 20 hit for Lolita, she received airplay with other songs like the follow-up, Cowboy Jimmy Joe. | |
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