4 Top 10 Hits From 1960 That Every 60s Kid Alive Still Remembers Today
Four songs that reached the US Top 10 in 1960 are highlighted as enduring hits: Brenda Lee’s “That’s All You Gotta Do”, Connie Francis’s “Mama”, the Everly Brothers’ “When Will I Be Loved” and Hank Locklin’s “Please Help Me, I’m Falling”. Their continued recognition and later recordings show how songs from the start of the decade travelled across generations and performers.
Lee was 15 when her song came out, and it also reached the R&B Top 20; Francis sings “Mama” in English and Italian. Phil Everly wrote “When Will I Be Loved”, which Linda Ronstadt later made a crossover hit in 1975. Locklin’s song, written by Don Robertson and Hal Blair, became his second and final country radio No. 1.
- Four 1960 Top 10 songs remain widely remembered.
- Linda Ronstadt made “When Will I Be Loved” a crossover hit in 1975.
- Locklin’s song was his second and final country radio No. 1.