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| Title | Artist |
| Puppy Love | Anka, Paul |
| First Name Initial | Annette |
| O Dio Mio | Annette |
| Pineapple Princess | Annette |
| Let the Little Girl Dance | Bland, Billy |
| New Orleans | Bonds, Gary U.S. |
| Mission Bell | Brooks, Donnie |
| Greenfields | Brothers Four |
| Paper Roses | Bryant, Anita |
| The Madison Time Pt. 1 | Bryant, Ray Combo |
| Tall Oak Tree, (There Was A) | Burnette, Dorsey |
| Dreamin' | Burnette, Johnny |
| You're Sixteen | Burnette, Johnny |
| You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful | Burnette, Johnny |
| Fannie Mae | Buster Brown |
| He Don't Love You | Butler, Jerry |
| Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy | Cannon, Freddie |
| A Million to One | Charles, Jimmy |
| Georgia On My Mind | Charles, Ray |
| Twist | Checker, Chubby |
| Magnificent Seven, the | Cincinnatti Pops Orchestra |
| The Christmas Song (Chestnuts) | Cole, Nat King |
| Chain Gang | Cooke, Sam |
| Wonderful World | Cooke, Sam |
| Last Date | Cramer, Floyd |
| Beyond the Sea | Darin, Bobby |
| Bill Bailey | Darin, Bobby |
| Save the Last Dance For Me | DeFranco Family |
| Teen Angel | Dinning, Mark |
| Lonely Teenager | Dion |
| Where or When | Dion & the Belmonts |
| Hello, Josephine | Domino, Fats |
| My Girl Josephine | Domino, Fats |
| Save the Last Dance For Me | Drifters |
| This Magic Moment | Drifters |
| Shout | Dynatones |
| I Really Don't Want to Know | Edwards, Tommy |
| Always It's You | Everly Brothers |
| Cathy's Clown | Everly Brothers |
| Let It Be Me | Everly Brothers |
| Like Strangers | Everly Brothers |
| Made to Love | Everly Brothers |
| When Will I be Loved? | Everly Brothers |
| Theme From 'A Summer Place' | Faith, Percy |
| Muleskinner Blues | Fendermen |
| Exodus | Ferante & Teicher |
| Theme from "The Apartment" | Ferrante & Teicher |
| Ev'rybody's Somebody's Fool | Francis, Connie |
| Everybody's Somebody's Fool | Francis, Connie |
| My Heart Has A Mind of It's Own | Francis, Connie |
| Just One Time | Gibson, Don |
| Fishin' Hole, "The Andy Griffith Theme" | Griffith, Andy |
| Finger Poppin' Time | Hank Ballard & the Midnight |
| Learning the Game | Holly, Buddy |
| True Love Ways | Holly, Buddy |
| Alley Oop | Hollywood Argyles |
| North to Alaska | Horton, Johnny |
| Sink the Bismark | Horton, Johnny |
| Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow... | Hyland, Brian |
| You Got What it Takes | Johnson, Marv |
| Good Timin' | Jones, Jimmie |
| Handy Man | Jones, Jimmy |
| You Talk Too Much | Jones, Joe |
| Wonderland by Night | Kaempfert, Bert |
| Footsteps | Lawrence, Steve |
| Pretty Blue Eyes | Lawrence, Steve |
| I Want to Be Wanted | Lee, Brenda |
| I Want to be Wanted | Lee, Brenda |
| I'm Sorry | Lee, Brenda |
| Sweet Nothin's | Lee, Brenda |
| That's All You Gotta' Do | Lee, Brenda |
| Please Help Me I'm Falling | Locklin, Hank |
| Stay | Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs |
| (Baby) Hully Gully | Olympics |
| Blue Angel | Orbison, Roy |
| Only the Lonely | Orbison, Roy |
| Corina, Corina | Peterson, Ray |
| Tell Laura I Love Her | Peterson, Ray |
| Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Presley, Elvis |
| Doin' the Best I Can | Presley, Elvis |
| G. I. Blues | Presley, Elvis |
| I Gotta Know | Presley, Elvis |
| It's Now Or Never | Presley, Elvis |
| Let's Have A Party | Presley, Elvis |
| Stuck On You | Presley, Elvis |
| Wooden Heart | Presley, Elvis |
| Feel So Fine | Preston, Johnny |
| Running Bear | Preston, Johnny |
| Baby What You Want Me to Do | Reed, Jimmy |
| He'll Have to Go | Reeves, Jim |
| Volare | Rydell, Bobby |
| Wild One | Rydell, Bobby |
| Burning Bridges | Scott, Jack |
| What in the World's Come Over You? | Scott, Jack |
| Stairway to Heaven | Sedaka, Neil |
| Boys | Shirelles |
| Tonight's the Night | Shirelles |
| Cherry Pie | Skip & Flip |
| Don't You Just Know It? | Smith, Huey "Piano" |
| Sixteen Reasons | Stevens, Connie |
| Money (That's What I Want) | Strong, Barrett |
| Poetry In Motion | Tillotson, Johnny |
| Lonely Blue Boy | Twitty, Conway |
| Devil Or Angel | Vee, Bobby |
| Walk, Don't Run | Ventures |
| Mr. Custer | Verne, Larry |
| Puppy Love | Anka, Paul |
| First Name Initial | Annette |
| O Dio Mio | Annette |
| Pineapple Princess | Annette |
| Let the Little Girl Dance | Bland, Billy |
| New Orleans | Bonds, Gary U.S. |
| Mission Bell | Brooks, Donnie |
| Greenfields | Brothers Four |
| Paper Roses | Bryant, Anita |
| The Madison Time Pt. 1 | Bryant, Ray Combo |
| Tall Oak Tree, (There Was A) | Burnette, Dorsey |
| Dreamin' | Burnette, Johnny |
| You're Sixteen | Burnette, Johnny |
| You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful | Burnette, Johnny |
| Fannie Mae | Buster Brown |
| He Don't Love You | Butler, Jerry |
| Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy | Cannon, Freddie |
| A Million to One | Charles, Jimmy |
| Georgia On My Mind | Charles, Ray |
| Twist | Checker, Chubby |
| Magnificent Seven, the | Cincinnatti Pops Orchestra |
| The Christmas Song (Chestnuts) | Cole, Nat King |
| Chain Gang | Cooke, Sam |
| Wonderful World | Cooke, Sam |
| Last Date | Cramer, Floyd |
| Beyond the Sea | Darin, Bobby |
| Bill Bailey | Darin, Bobby |
| Save the Last Dance For Me | DeFranco Family |
| Teen Angel | Dinning, Mark |
| Lonely Teenager | Dion |
| Where or When | Dion & the Belmonts |
| Hello, Josephine | Domino, Fats |
| My Girl Josephine | Domino, Fats |
| Save the Last Dance For Me | Drifters |
| This Magic Moment | Drifters |
| Shout | Dynatones |
| I Really Don't Want to Know | Edwards, Tommy |
| Always It's You | Everly Brothers |
| Cathy's Clown | Everly Brothers |
| Let It Be Me | Everly Brothers |
| Like Strangers | Everly Brothers |
| Made to Love | Everly Brothers |
| When Will I be Loved? | Everly Brothers |
| Theme From 'A Summer Place' | Faith, Percy |
| Muleskinner Blues | Fendermen |
| Exodus | Ferante & Teicher |
| Theme from "The Apartment" | Ferrante & Teicher |
| Ev'rybody's Somebody's Fool | Francis, Connie |
| Everybody's Somebody's Fool | Francis, Connie |
| My Heart Has A Mind of It's Own | Francis, Connie |
| Just One Time | Gibson, Don |
| Fishin' Hole, "The Andy Griffith Theme" | Griffith, Andy |
| Finger Poppin' Time | Hank Ballard & the Midnight |
| Learning the Game | Holly, Buddy |
| True Love Ways | Holly, Buddy |
| Alley Oop | Hollywood Argyles |
| North to Alaska | Horton, Johnny |
| Sink the Bismark | Horton, Johnny |
| Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow... | Hyland, Brian |
| You Got What it Takes | Johnson, Marv |
| Good Timin' | Jones, Jimmie |
| Handy Man | Jones, Jimmy |
| You Talk Too Much | Jones, Joe |
| Wonderland by Night | Kaempfert, Bert |
| Footsteps | Lawrence, Steve |
| Pretty Blue Eyes | Lawrence, Steve |
| I Want to Be Wanted | Lee, Brenda |
| I Want to be Wanted | Lee, Brenda |
| I'm Sorry | Lee, Brenda |
| Sweet Nothin's | Lee, Brenda |
| That's All You Gotta' Do | Lee, Brenda |
| Please Help Me I'm Falling | Locklin, Hank |
| Stay | Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs |
| (Baby) Hully Gully | Olympics |
| Blue Angel | Orbison, Roy |
| Only the Lonely | Orbison, Roy |
| Corina, Corina | Peterson, Ray |
| Tell Laura I Love Her | Peterson, Ray |
| Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Presley, Elvis |
| Doin' the Best I Can | Presley, Elvis |
| G. I. Blues | Presley, Elvis |
| I Gotta Know | Presley, Elvis |
| It's Now Or Never | Presley, Elvis |
| Let's Have A Party | Presley, Elvis |
| Stuck On You | Presley, Elvis |
| Wooden Heart | Presley, Elvis |
| Feel So Fine | Preston, Johnny |
| Running Bear | Preston, Johnny |
| Baby What You Want Me to Do | Reed, Jimmy |
| He'll Have to Go | Reeves, Jim |
| Volare | Rydell, Bobby |
| Wild One | Rydell, Bobby |
| Burning Bridges | Scott, Jack |
| What in the World's Come Over You? | Scott, Jack |
| Stairway to Heaven | Sedaka, Neil |
| Boys | Shirelles |
| Tonight's the Night | Shirelles |
| Cherry Pie | Skip & Flip |
| Don't You Just Know It? | Smith, Huey "Piano" |
| Sixteen Reasons | Stevens, Connie |
| Money (That's What I Want) | Strong, Barrett |
| Poetry In Motion | Tillotson, Johnny |
| Lonely Blue Boy | Twitty, Conway |
| Devil Or Angel | Vee, Bobby |
| Walk, Don't Run | Ventures |
| Mr. Custer | Verne, Larry |
Meanwhile, in 1960...
A Japanese company introduces the first felt-tip pen.
Xerox introduces the first production paper copier machine.
The U.S. launches Echo I, the world's first communication satellite.
The soviets shoot down a U.S. U-2 spy plane and capture the pilot, Capt. Gary Powers. The U.S. is thus forced to admit to spying on the Soviet Union. In response, Premier Khrushchev cancels a Paris summit meeting with President Eisenhower.
Television may have given Senator Kennedy the edge he needed to defeat Vice President Nixon in the first televised presidential debate. Kennedy wins by a margin of 113,000 votes (out of 69 million votes cast).
Outgoing-President Eisenhower warns against the "military-industrial-complex" that attempts to maintain high levels of defense spending.
95% of soft drinks sold in the U.S. are furnished in reusable bottles. But in 1960 aluminum cans are used for the first time.
In 1960 Howard Johnson had 607 independently owned restaurants, making it the largest private food distributor in the country.
Thomas S. Monaghan, borrows $500 to buy a pizza parlor in Detroit, and renames it "Domino's."
In February, U.S. blacks begin "sit-in" demonstrations at Greensboro, N.C., lunch counters. The city desegregates eating places in July.
Chubby Checker introduces The Twist at the Peppermint Lounge in New York.
"Camelot," "The Fantastics" and "Oliver" open in New York.
Castro nationalizes all banks and most industrial and commercial enterprises. This is Castro's communism.
The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Yankees to win the 1960 World Series.
Floyd Patterson defeats Ingemar Johansson to regain the heavyweight championship.
2,000 computers are delivered in the U.S.
The Academy award for Best Picture goes to "The Apartment."
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