Voting has been extended to Friday, February 7 at 11 PM for the listener poll for your favorite love songs. You can vote for your 10 favorites from the 1950s, and the 10 best of the Grooveyard era songs of the 1960s here. Results will be unveiled on the pre-Valentines Day edition of “The Grooveyard” next Thursday.
Now here’s the Top Ten @ 10 for February 6, 1963 as played tonight by Alan Seltzer on “The Grooveyard”:
#10 “Up on the Roof” by The Drifters
#9 “The End of the World” by Skeeter Davis
#8 “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” by The Miracles
By coincidence, we played the cover version of this song by the Beatles on The Rock Show last week. Here’s that version:
…and the original hit.
#7 “Ruby Baby” by Dion
#6 “Our Day Will Come” by Ruby and the Romantics
#5 “The Gypsy Cried” by Lou Christie
#4 “Walk Like a Man” by Four Seasons
#3 “Walk Right In” by The Rooftop Singers
#2 “Go Away Little Girl” by Steve Lawrence
and #1 “‘Hey Paula” by Paul and Paula
Once again, don’t forget to vote in the listener survey for your favorite love songs. You can pick your 10 favorite songs of the 1950s here, and the 1960s here until tomorrow at 11 PM. We’ll count down the results next week on…
The Grooveyard 