The 10 Worst Charting Hits from May 12th, 1962

[@TheCHR83]

Be sure to participate in our Grab Bag! The voting ends on Memorial Day, so there's still time! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaGxZH9pZZl0hK8

[@bigredradish]

my biggest takeaway is "wait, people were named Hayley before like 2002???"

[@joemonkeyman4675]

That entire subgenre of "The Twist" is one of the most absurd things I've seen all month to the point that I kind of ironically appreciate everyone's shamelessness in capitalizing off of its success.

[@MikeNicholsonThomas]

Fun fact: Before Blinding Lights, The Twist was considered the Greatest Song of All Time according to Billboard. If Tiktok were a thing in those days, I guarantee you would see just as many people doing the Twist challenge back then as you would see them doing the In My Feelings challenge in 2018. Heck, prolly even more, who knows?

[@matthewvulpe3302]

So nice of you to feature Neil Sedaka (aka, the "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" guy) as your bumper music; that was a nice touch (mainly because I enjoyed that reference). Also, I was thoroughly entertained by the cigarette ads that equated smoking pleasure with saccharine 1950s romance and 1950s and 'Camelot' 1960s Stepford Housewivery (I'm pretty sure the comparison was not intentional!). Also, speaking of "Birthday Sex"...can't wait to see you talk about it when you inevitably get to 2009's music.

[@Fluteboy]

0:00 - _"Because life's too short to give up smoking."_

[@bobparker8294]

I was born in 1954, so 1962 was when I was first becoming aware of music. My older sister had a lot of these records, including "My Daddy is President" (B-side: "Macaroni the Little Pony"). Listening to the stuff here, I am a bit amazed that I not only maintained an interest in music, but actually nurtured it, and went on to become a musician myself (I currently play in an avant/improvisational//electronic/noise/ambient/drug music band). Of course, the advent of The Beatles in 1964 helped things along, as did copious amounts of "vitamin-L" in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Anyway, I enjoy your videos. It’s interesting to see what someone so much younger than I am thinks of the music that I grew up with, and I must say your assessments of that music are pretty much spot-on (which is to say you and I agree on a lot of things). I hope you’ll cover more music from the ‘70s and ‘80s, but it’s your channel, so do what you want to. In any case, keep up the good work. And don't forget to slop your dripper!

[@gikem4882]

I should note that your #1 is actually a fairly popular jazz tune that was originally written in the '50s. It's been covered by the likes of Dinah Washington, Amy Winehouse, James Taylor, Al Jarreau, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, and many others. I do suggest you check out one of those covers, most of which are honestly way better than the version you had on this list. However, I completely understand your criticisms of the lyrics (written by Sammy Cahn, who also wrote the lyrics to Let It Snow and Come Fly With Me) - in this day and age, they have not aged well at all.

[@elizabethanderson4909]

It's a song that aged like Baby, It's Cold Outside. It isn't as bad as it sounds, but it also isn't as innocent as it sounds. The Mary Kay Lettourneau info interspersed made me laugh. RIP

[@Betta66]

Remember sixty years ago when countries were getting invaded and women didn’t have rights? Would be a shame if we regressed back to that time.

[@dragonpullman23]

I'm surprised Pat Boone wasn't on the Hot 100 that week. He would likely have been guaranteed a spot on the list if he was.

[@hankcyrus9776]

Moody river is still great

[@michelled701]

He would be on the following week

[@seed_drill7135]

His last hit, Speedy Gonzalez, was in 1962. By today’s standards, a not very PC novelty song. but it featured Mel Blanc, so I wouldn’t put it on any worst list.

[@frankly7761]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was one of my favorite songs as a small tyke, because I loved westerns. It still is way better as a song than The Green Berets song from another John Wayne, er classic? For the record Fortune Teller with the visual is absolutely surreal, as he looks like fat Pat Sajak.

[@magicalmysteryperson]

Jack Ross's Cinderella is like Ninja Sex Party's "Dig Ol' Bick" ...except "Dig Ol' Bick" is actually good.

[@gunclemark8440]

Have to point out one glaring mistake: you have Good Luck Charm peaking at #42, when it actually was a #1 hit. Hope you can correct that. Thank you for including Cindy's Birthday which I have loathed from the first time I heard it on SiriusXM's 50's station. I look forward to the top 10 list for the next week!

[@TheCHR83]

Oh shi, thanks for catching that. Thought I put in the right info but I just copied and pasted the info from the last entry and forgot to change it (it was at number 5 that week, peaked at number 1, and was on for 13 weeks.) I guess that's what lack of sleep does to a youtuber >.< Only way I can correct that is if I just delete the whole thing and reupload it. It's times like this I wish KZbin had a method where I can just upload a new video over an existing one, but what can ya do?

[@gunclemark8440]

@@TheCHR83 Good to know if I make any mistakes on my future videos. And I really enjoyed seeing you choose a list from a year even before I was born (there's a reason why my first lists are from 1965, ahem). Thanks again!

[@Avrysatos]

The Man who Shot Liberty Valence was a movie, isn't the song for the movie? A lot of movie music is just awful by default. Ahahaha great pick for most of these especially #1.

[@Avrysatos]

@Sonny Oliver Cortez I wasn't really meaning stuff from the past even 40 years really. More thinking how the movie songs from the 60s and 70s were uhm INTERESTING.

[@Avrysatos]

@Sonny Oliver Cortez (into the unknown isn't bad music tho)

[@Fluteboy]

60 years (and two weeks) ago, a song my dad co-wrote made it to the lofty height of number 41 in the UK chart. Before the Beatles, it was the Shadows that everyone was trying to imitate, and the Fentones were just one of many. They were the backing band for Shane Fenton, who would later be known as Alvin Stardust. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJzKp6N7m6uam80

[@RobbieLugos]

I’d love to see top 10 worst/best #1 singles of the 1950s!

[@lesbukashka]

Not only Letourneau case is remembered, but also a liaison between Oleg Sokolov and his student-turned-mistress Anastasia Yeshchenko ended with murder and dismembering young woman, and he tried to throw her remains into the Moyka River in Saint Petersburg until he was found. Truly disgusting.

[@katemaloney4296]

Pardon me! You seem to be confusing Elvis with Jerry Lee Lewis. Priscilla was going on 22, not 14, when she and Elvis married. Even then, she was almost 17 when she became Elvis' ward.

[@jennyknopps1291]

I think number 5 is rip-off of Sam Cooke's, "What a Wonderful World."

[@michelled701]

My mom was in high school in 1962, so this video was strangely educational. My guess is that Ray Charles will be on your best list. Also, did you see the current chart? Bad Bunny with four songs debuting the top ten, that's nuts

[@bigguys45s29]

Nice list. MY DADDY IZZ PRES SUHH DENT!!!

[@accam6734]

Just remember: You can't take the country out of Salem. Wheeze.

[@rockisheaven]

Good Luck Charm, what a wet fart of a song. And it was Elvis’ next-to-last number 1, too. At least he got to finish his chart run strong with Suspicious Minds.

[@Cris43130]

So, you're saying that Elvis didn't want a good luck charm, he wanted a full charm bracelet.

[@AskDrannik]

Brought to you by cigarettes: betcha can't smoke just one.

[@Cris43130]

If you thought the twist craze was bad, go back and review the mid 70s. Disco songs about being at a disco.

[@JamesJimmaHarding]

I'm legit triggered by the way you pronounced "Caw-COUGH-ony" 😂

[@rockinremnants510]

A little historical perspective on "The Twist". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twist_(song)

[@pandaeyes42]

1962. Amd you're all on dope!

[@Xabia18]

Ha ha ha superb.