6 of the 60s: 11/20/13 (1960)...

It's hump day sixties flashback time, and this week I've got a half-dozen more nuggets from 1960, the year Penguin Books was cleared of obscenity charges over Lady Chatterley's Lover... (as usual, I've included links to buy anything if I can)...

Elvis Presley - "Are You Lonesome To-night?"
from the album Elvis' Golden Records, Volume 3 (1963)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1
Songwriters: Lou Handman, Roy Turk

The "King" transformed this ditty from the 1920's into a quiet, solemn, almost hymnal classic. Complete with what would be known now as the "rap interlude"...

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Lolita - "Sailor (Your Home Is The Sea)"
from the EP Seeman (1960)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5
Songwriters: Fini Busch, Werner Scharfenberger

The biggest hit in German until "99 Luftballons" was this schlager nugget by the Austrian born Edith Zuser.

Andy Williams - "The Village Of St. Bernadette"
from the album The Village Of St. Bernadette (1960)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7
Songwriter: Eula Parker

Memories of World War II call to me from this haunting and succinct ballad from the classic vocalist.

The Four Preps - "Down By The Station"
from the album Down By The Station (1960)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13
Songwriters: Bruce Belland, Glenn Larson

The clean-cut lads who backed Ricky Nelson in the Gidget movies won over the trainspotters with this folkie tune.

Don Costa - "Theme From The Unforgiven (The Need For Love)"
from the album The Unforgiven (1960)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #27
Songwriter: Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington

The theme to the Burt Lancaster/Audrey Hepburn western was put together by Costa, a record producer and arranger who often worked with Sinatra.

Teresa Brewer - "Anymore"
from the album Songs Everybody Knows (1961)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #31
Songwriters: Roy Drusky, Vic McAlpin, Marie Wilson

The last top-40 pop hit for the singer that dominated the early fifties came right at the start of the next decade. Telling title.

That's all for this trip...I'll be back tomorrow with 7 more from 1970 and 8 from 1980...