POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 10, 1962
1

Peppermint Twist - Part I

Joey Dee & the Starliters

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Peak: 1 • 18 wks • Prev: 1

2

Duke Of Earl

Gene Chandler

↑ 5

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 7

3

The Twist

Chubby Checker

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Peak: 1 • 39 wks • Prev: 3

4

Can't Help Falling In Love

Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires

↓ 2

Peak: 2 • 14 wks • Prev: 2

5

I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)

Barbara George

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Peak: 3 • 19 wks • Prev: 5

6

Norman

Sue Thompson

↓ 2

Peak: 3 • 16 wks • Prev: 4

7

The Wanderer

Dion

↓ 1

Peak: 2 • 18 wks • Prev: 6

8

Break It To Me Gently

Brenda Lee

↑ 1

Peak: 4 • 13 wks • Prev: 9

9

A Little Bitty Tear

Burl Ives

↑ 3

Peak: 9 • 14 wks • Prev: 12

10

Dear Lady Twist

Gary U.S. Bonds

↑ 1

Peak: 9 • 16 wks • Prev: 11

11

Baby It's You

The Shirelles

↓ 3

Peak: 8 • 14 wks • Prev: 8

12

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)

The Tokens

↓ 2

Peak: 51 • 13 wks • Prev: 10

12

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The Tokens

↓ 2

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 10

13

Cotton Fields

The Highwaymen

↑ 5

Peak: 13 • 18 wks • Prev: 18

14

Crying In The Rain

The Everly Brothers

↑ 6

Peak: 6 • 13 wks • Prev: 20

15

Irresistible You

Bobby Darin

↑ 2

Peak: 15 • 13 wks • Prev: 17

16

When I Fall In Love

The Lettermen

↓ 2

Peak: 7 • 14 wks • Prev: 14

17

Town Without Pity

Gene Pitney

↓ 4

Peak: 13 • 19 wks • Prev: 13

18

Run To Him

Bobby Vee

↓ 3

Peak: 2 • 15 wks • Prev: 15

19

Letter Full Of Tears

Gladys Knight And The Pips

↑ 6

Peak: 19 • 12 wks • Prev: 25

20

She's Everything (I Wanted You To Be)

Ral Donner

↑ 8

Peak: 18 • 11 wks • Prev: 28

21

Hey! Baby

Bruce Channel

↑ 31

Peak: 1 • 15 wks • Prev: 52

22

Shadrack

Brook Benton

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Peak: 19 • 9 wks • Prev: 22

23

Walk On By

Leroy Van Dyke

↓ 7

Peak: 5 • 16 wks • Prev: 16

24

Chip Chip

Gene McDaniels

↑ 22

Peak: 10 • 11 wks • Prev: 46

25

Smoky Places

The Corsairs Featuring Jay "Bird" Uzzell

↑ 8

Peak: 12 • 15 wks • Prev: 33

26

Tuff

Ace Cannon

↑ 11

Peak: 17 • 16 wks • Prev: 37

27

If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody

James Ray

↓ 3

Peak: 22 • 14 wks • Prev: 24

28

I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)

The Ikettes

↑ 6

Peak: 19 • 12 wks • Prev: 34

29

Twist-Her

Bill Black's Combo

↓ 3

Peak: 26 • 9 wks • Prev: 26

30

Moon River

Henry Mancini And His Orchestra

↓ 1

Peak: 11 • 26 wks • Prev: 29

31

Do-Re-Mi

Lee Dorsey

↓ 4

Peak: 27 • 9 wks • Prev: 27

32

Multiplication

Bobby Darin

↑ 3

Peak: 30 • 10 wks • Prev: 35

33

Let There Be Drums

Sandy Nelson

↓ 10

Peak: 7 • 16 wks • Prev: 23

34

The Cajun Queen

Jimmy Dean

↑ 7

Peak: 22 • 8 wks • Prev: 41

35

Let Me In

The Sensations

↑ 8

Peak: 4 • 18 wks • Prev: 43

36

Unchain My Heart

Ray Charles and his Orchestra

↓ 15

Peak: 9 • 12 wks • Prev: 21

37

The Greatest Hurt

Jackie Wilson

↑ 3

Peak: 34 • 9 wks • Prev: 40

38

Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen

Neil Sedaka

↓ 19

Peak: 6 • 14 wks • Prev: 19

39

Funny How Time Slips Away

Jimmy Elledge

↓ 3

Peak: 22 • 14 wks • Prev: 36

40

To A Sleeping Beauty

Jimmy Dean

↑ 7

Peak: 26 • 9 wks • Prev: 47

41

Surfer's Stomp

The Marketts

↑ 7

Peak: 31 • 9 wks • Prev: 48

42

My Boomerang Won't Come Back

Charlie Drake

↑ 16

Peak: 21 • 12 wks • Prev: 58

43

Dear Ivan

Jimmy Dean

↓ 12

Peak: 24 • 7 wks • Prev: 31

44

What's So Good About Good-by

The Miracles

↑ 18

Peak: 35 • 10 wks • Prev: 62

45

Percolator (Twist)

Billy Joe & The Checkmates

↑ 8

Peak: 10 • 13 wks • Prev: 53

46

Go On Home

Patti Page

↓ 4

Peak: 42 • 8 wks • Prev: 42

47

Midnight In Moscow

Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen

↑ 32

Peak: 2 • 14 wks • Prev: 79

48

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Floyd Cramer

↑ 8

Peak: 36 • 8 wks • Prev: 56

49

Twistin' The Night Away

Sam Cooke

↑ 21

Peak: 9 • 15 wks • Prev: 70

50

Her Royal Majesty

James Darren

↑ 16

Peak: 6 • 11 wks • Prev: 66

51

I'll See You In My Dreams

Pat Boone

↑ 8

Peak: 32 • 9 wks • Prev: 59

52

Goodbye Cruel World

James Darren

↓ 7

Peak: 3 • 17 wks • Prev: 45

53

Pocketful Of Miracles

Frank Sinatra

↓ 14

Peak: 34 • 8 wks • Prev: 39

54

Afrikaan Beat

Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra

↑ 7

Peak: 42 • 10 wks • Prev: 61

56

Twistin' Postman

The Marvelettes

↑ 17

Peak: 34 • 9 wks • Prev: 73

57

Happy Jose (Ching-Ching)

Jack Ross

↑ 3

Peak: 57 • 6 wks • Prev: 60

58

Poor Fool

Ike & Tina Turner

↓ 14

Peak: 38 • 11 wks • Prev: 44

59

Lost Someone

James Brown And The Famous Flames

↑ 4

Peak: 48 • 12 wks • Prev: 63

60

She's Got You

Patsy Cline

↑ 11

Peak: 14 • 13 wks • Prev: 71

61

When The Boy In Your Arms (Is The Boy In Your Heart)

Connie Francis

↓ 31

Peak: 10 • 12 wks • Prev: 30

62

Small Sad Sam

Phil McLean

↓ 24

Peak: 21 • 10 wks • Prev: 38

63

Cry To Me

Solomon Burke

↑ 15

Peak: 44 • 10 wks • Prev: 78

64

Where Have All The Flowers Gone

The Kingston Trio

↑ 8

Peak: 21 • 14 wks • Prev: 72

65

Flying Circle

Frank Slay And His Orchestra

↓ 8

Peak: 45 • 9 wks • Prev: 57

66

Don't Break The Heart That Loves You

Connie Francis

★ NEW

Peak: 1 • 13 wks

67

Please Mr. Postman

The Marvelettes

↓ 17

Peak: 1 • 23 wks • Prev: 50

68

He Knows I Love Him Too Much

The Paris Sisters

↑ 16

Peak: 34 • 10 wks • Prev: 84

69

I Could Have Loved You So Well

Ray Peterson

↓ 5

Peak: 57 • 8 wks • Prev: 64

70

My Melancholy Baby

The Marcels

↑ 21

Peak: 58 • 5 wks • Prev: 91

71

Dreamy Eyes

Johnny Tillotson

↓ 3

Peak: 35 • 23 wks • Prev: 68

72

What's Your Name

Don & Juan

★ NEW

Peak: 7 • 13 wks

73

Nite Owl

Dukays

↑ 15

Peak: 73 • 6 wks • Prev: 88

74

(Do The New) Continental

The Dovells

↑ 19

Peak: 37 • 10 wks • Prev: 93

75

That's My Pa

Sheb Wooley

↑ 5

Peak: 51 • 11 wks • Prev: 80

76

Ecstasy

Ben E. King

↑ 19

Peak: 56 • 6 wks • Prev: 95

77

Drums Are My Beat

Sandy Nelson

★ NEW

Peak: 29 • 7 wks

78

Oliver Twist

Rod McKuen

↑ 7

Peak: 76 • 6 wks • Prev: 85

79

The Majestic

Dion

★ NEW

Peak: 36 • 8 wks

80

B'wa Nina (Pretty Girl)

The Tokens

★ NEW

Peak: 55 • 5 wks

81

Jamie

Eddie Holland

↑ 13

Peak: 30 • 13 wks • Prev: 94

82

Lizzie Borden

The Chad Mitchell Trio

↓ 6

Peak: 44 • 8 wks • Prev: 76

83

What's The Reason

Bobby Edwards

↓ 9

Peak: 71 • 6 wks • Prev: 74

84

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Timi Yuro

↑ 12

Peak: 66 • 5 wks • Prev: 96

85

Blue Water Line

The Brothers Four

↑ 4

Peak: 68 • 8 wks • Prev: 89

86

Tears And Laughter

Dinah Washington

★ NEW

Peak: 71 • 5 wks

87

A Little Too Much

Clarence Henry

↓ 6

Peak: 77 • 5 wks • Prev: 81

88

Bandit Of My Dreams

Eddie Hodges

↓ 6

Peak: 65 • 6 wks • Prev: 82

89

Midnight

Johnny Gibson

↑ 1

Peak: 76 • 4 wks • Prev: 90

90

Let's Go

Floyd Cramer

↑ 8

Peak: 90 • 2 wks • Prev: 98

91

Do You Know How To Twist

Hank Ballard

★ NEW

Peak: 87 • 4 wks

92

Bermuda

Linda Scott

★ NEW

Peak: 70 • 6 wks

93

Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth

Jimmy Reed

★ NEW

Peak: 93 • 5 wks

94

Rough Lover

Aretha Franklin

★ NEW

Peak: 94 • 1 wks

95

Shimmy, Shimmy Walk, Part 1

The Megatons

★ NEW

Peak: 88 • 4 wks

96

Yessiree

Linda Scott

★ NEW

Peak: 60 • 7 wks

97

I Surrender, Dear

Aretha Franklin

—

Peak: 87 • 5 wks • Prev: 97

98

Pictures In The Fire

Pat Boone

★ NEW

Peak: 77 • 4 wks

99

Sugar Babe

Buster Brown

↑ 1

Peak: 99 • 2 wks • Prev: 100

100

Strange

Patsy Cline

★ NEW

Peak: 97 • 2 wks

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