** = funk/soul/jazz/reggae/world/exotica/surf pop/bossa nova/ska/or combinations
no stars = something else
# = guilty pleasures
++ = absolute TOP favorites, even more than the others

In opposite to the other ‘personal year charts’ pages, the tracks on this page are nót in chart order.

My favorite songs of the year 1964 listed:

• Dusty Springfield – Summer is over ++
• Gerry And The Pacemakers – Ferry cross the mersey ++
• Professor Longhair – Big chief **/++
• Roy Orbison – Oh pretty woman ++
• The Searchers – Goodbye my love
• Serge Gainsbourg – Les sambassadeurs **/++
• The Shadows – Guitar tango **/++
• Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto – The girl From Ipanema **/++
• Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders – The game of love ++
• The Zombies – She’s not there

My favorite songs of the year 1963 listed:

• Bob & Earl – Harlem shuffle **
• Charles Mingus – Freedom (the version from ‘The Complete Town Hall Concert’) ** ++
• Colette Magny – Melocoton **
• Hugues Aufray – Dès que le printemps revient ++
• Johnny Cash – Ring of fire ++
• Stan Getz And Luiz Bonfa – Saudade vem correndo **
• The Surfaris – Wipe out **
• Trini Lopez – If I had a hammer **

My favorite songs of the year 1962 listed:

• Ahmed Abdul-Malik – Wakida hena **/++
• The Beatles – Love me do
• Cliff Richard & The Shadows – The young ones ++
• Dick Dale – Misirlou **/++
• Duke Ellington – Bonga **/++
• Quincy Jones – Soul bossa nova **/++
• Ray Baretto – Descarga la moderna **
• The Shadows – Wonderful land **/++
• Sue Thompson – Norman #
• The Spotnicks – Hava nagila **/++

My favorite songs of the year 1961 listed:

• Billy Vaughn – Wheels **/++
• Del Shannon – Runaway ++
• Ray Charles – Hit the road jack
• Serge Gainsbourg – Les oubliettes **/++
• Serge Gainsbourg – Personne **
• The Spotnicks – The rocket man **/++

My favorite songs of the year 1960 listed:

• Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – No hay problema (1st version) **/++
• Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – No hay problema (2nd version) **/++
• Enoch Light And The Light Brigade – Hernando’s hideaway **/++
• Joe Meek – I hear a new world
• Roy Orbison – Only the lonely ++
• The Shadows – Apache **/++
• The Shadows – Man of mystery **/++
• The Shadows – 36-24-36 **/++
• The Ventures – Walk, don’t run **/++

My favorite songs of the year 1959 listed:

• The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take five **
• The Markko Polo Adventurers – The girl friend of a whirling dervish **/++
• Nina Simone – My baby just cares for me (note: in 1987 a Dutch hit) **/++
• Sonny Day – Creature from outer space ++

My favorite songs from 1928-1958 listed:

• 1958 ~ André Popp – Java **/++
• 1956 ~ Les Baxter – The poor people of Paris **
• 1956 ~ Louis Prima – Buena sera **
• 1956 ~ Ray Charles – Lonely avenue **/++
• 1956 ~ Sid Bass – Chant of the jungle **
• 1955 ~ Les Baxter – Atlantis **/++
• 1954 ~ Billy May’s Rico Mambo Orchestra – Hernando’s hideaway **/++
• 1954 ~ Yma Sumac – Gopher **/++
• 1953 ~ Ray Antony & His Orchestra – Dragnet **
• 1951 ~ Frankie Lane – Jezebel **/++
• 1951 ~ Tito Puente – Oye como va **/++
• 50s??? ~ South See Serenaders – Taboo **/++
• 1949 ~ Anton Karas – The Harry Lime theme **/++
• 1940 ~ Fats Domino – Blueberry hill **/++
• 1928 ~ Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – The mooche **