Top American Hits On Record
| Single – Artist | Composer | |
|---|---|---|
| Winter | ||
| "The Sound of Silence" – Simon & Garfunkel | ------ | w.m. Paul Simon |
| "We Can Work It Out" – The Beatles | w.m. John Lennon and Paul McCartney | |
| "I Got You (I Feel Good)" – James Brown | w.m. James Brown | |
| "Over and Over" – The Dave Clark Five | w.m. Robert James Byrd | |
| "Let's Hang On!" – The Four Seasons | w.m. Bob Crewe, Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell | |
| "Fever" – The McCoys | w.m. Eddie Cooley and John Davenport (a pseudonym for Otis Blackwell) | |
| "Ebb Tide" – The Righteous Brothers | w. Carl Sigman, m. Robert Maxwell | |
| "England Swings" – Roger Miller | w.m. Roger Miller | |
| "Make the World Go Away" – Eddy Arnold | w.m. Hank Cochran | |
| "She's Just My Style" – Gary Lewis and the Playboys | w.m. Gary Lewis, Leon Russell, Snuff Garrett, Al Capps | |
| "Flowers on the Wall" – The Statler Brothers | w.m. Lew DeWitt | |
| "Help Me Girl" – Eric Burdon | ||
| "Five O'Clock World" – The Vogues | w.m. Allen Reynolds | |
| "Day Tripper" – The Beatles | w.m. John Lennon and Paul McCartney | |
| "The Men In My Little Girl's Life" – Mike Douglas | w.m. Gloria Shain, Eddie Dean and Mary Candy | |
| "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" – The T-Bones | m. Granville Burland | |
| "A Must to Avoid" – Herman's Hermits | w.m. Steve Barri and P. F. Sloan | |
| "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" – The Lovin' Spoonful | w.m. John Sebastian and Steve Boone | |
| "Barbara Ann" – The Beach Boys | w.m. Fred Fassert | |
| "My Love" – Petula Clark | w.m. Tony Hatch | |
| "Jenny Take a Ride" – Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels | w.m. Richard Penniman, Enotris Johnson and Bob Crewe | |
| "Lightnin' Strikes" – Lou Christie | w.m. Lou Christie and Twyla Herbert | |
| "Crying Time" – Ray Charles | w.m. Buck Owens | |
| "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" – Stevie Wonder | w.m. Henry Cosby, Stevie Wonder and Sylvia May | |
| "My World Is Empty without You" – The Supremes | w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland | |
| "Don't Mess with Bill" – The Marvelettes | w.m. Smokey Robinson | |
| "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" – Nancy Sinatra | w.m. Lee Hazlewood | |
| "Ballad of the Green Berets" – Sgt. Barry Sadler | w.m. Robin Moore and Barry Sadler | |
| "California Dreamin'" – The Mamas & the Papas | w.m. John Phillips and Michelle Phillips | |
| "Elusive Butterfly" – Bob Lind | w.m. Bob Lind | |
| "Working My Way Back to You" – The Four Seasons | w.m. Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell | |
| "Listen People" – Herman's Hermits | w.m. Graham Gouldman | |
| "Nowhere Man" – The Beatles | w.m. John Lennon and Paul McCartney | |
| "I Fought the Law" – Bobby Fuller Four | w.m. Sonny Curtis | |
| "Homeward Bound" – Simon & Garfunkel | w.m. Paul Simon | |
| "Daydream" – The Lovin' Spoonful | w.m. John Sebastian | |
| "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" – The Righteous Brothers | w.m. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil | |
| . | ||
| Spring | ||
| "Sure Gonna Miss Her" – Gary Lewis and the Playboys | w.m. Bobby Russell | |
| "Secret Agent Man" – Johnny Rivers | w.m. P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri | |
| "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" – B. J. Thomas | w.m. Hank Williams | |
| "Don't Bring Me Down" – The Animals | ||
| "Inside-Looking Out" – The Animals | w.m. Eric Burdon | |
| "Time Won't Let Me" – The Outsiders | w.m. Tom King and Chet Kelley | |
| "Good Lovin'" – The Young Rascals | ||
| "Kicks" – Paul Revere & the Raiders | w.m. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil | |
| "Sloop John B" – The Beach Boys | w.m. Traditional | |
| "Monday, Monday" – The Mamas & the Papas | w.m. John Phillips | |
| "Leaning on the Lamp Post" – Herman's Hermits | w. L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber, m. Noel Gay | |
| "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" – Bob Dylan | w.m. Bob Dylan | |
| "Gloria" – Shadows of Knight | w.m. Van Morrison | |
| "How Does That Grab You, Darlin'" – Nancy Sinatra | ||
| "Message to Michael" – Dionne Warwick | w. Hal David, m. Burt Bacharach | |
| "When a Man Loves a Woman" – Percy Sledge | w.m. Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright | |
| "A Groovy Kind of Love" – The Mindbenders | w.m. Carole Bayer Sager and Toni Wine | |
| "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" – The Supremes | w.m. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland | |
| "Paint It, Black" – The Rolling Stones | w.m. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards | |
| "I Am a Rock" – Simon & Garfunkel | w.m. Paul Simon | |
| "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" – The Lovin' Spoonful | w.m. John Sebastian | |
| "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" – James Brown | w.m. James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome | |
| "Green Grass" – Gary Lewis and the Playboys | ||
| "Strangers in the Night" – Frank Sinatra | w.m. Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder, Bert Kaempfert | |
| "Barefootin'" – Robert Parker | ||
| "Cool Jerk" – The Capitols | ||
| "Red Rubber Ball" – The Cyrkle | ||
| "Paperback Writer" – The Beatles | w.m. John Lennon, Paul McCartney | |
| "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" – Dusty Springfield | ||
| "Sweet Talkin' Guy" – The Chiffons | ||
| . | ||
| Summer | ||
| "Hanky Panky" – Tommy James and the Shondells | ||
| "Wild Thing" – The Troggs | Chip Taylor | |
| "Little Girl" – Syndicate of Sound | ||
| "Along Comes Mary" – The Association | ||
| "Lil' Red Riding Hood" – Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs | ||
| "Hungry" – Paul Revere & the Raiders | ||
| "The Pied Piper" – Crispian St. Peters | ||
| "I Saw Her Again" – The Mamas & the Papas | ||
| "Sweet Pea" – Tommy Roe | ||
| "Summer in the City" – The Lovin' Spoonful | w. John Sebastian and Mark Sebastian, m. John Sebastian and Steve Boone | |
| "Somewhere, My Love" – Ray Conniff and the Singers | w. Paul Francis Webster, m. Maurice Jarre | |
| "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!" – Napoleon XIV | ||
| "Sunny" – Bobby Hebb | ||
| "See You in September" – The Happenings | ||
| "Sunshine Superman" – Donovan | w.m. Donovan | |
| "You Can't Hurry Love" – The Supremes | w.m. Holland-Dozier-Holland | |
| "Yellow Submarine" – The Beatles | w.m. Lennon–McCartney | |
| "Summertime" – Billy Stewart | ||
| "The Land of 1000 Dances" – Wilson Pickett | w.m. Chris Kenner | |
| "Working in the Coal Mine" – Lee Dorsey | w.m. Allen Toussaint | |
| "Blowing in the Wind" – Stevie Wonder | w.m. Bob Dylan | |
| "Bus Stop" – The Hollies | w.m. Graham Gouldman | |
| "Guantanamera" – The Sandpipers | ||
| "Cherish" – The Association | ||
| "Wouldn't It Be Nice" – The Beach Boys | w.m. Brian Wilson, Tony Asher, Mike Love | |
| "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" – The Temptations | ||
| "Black Is Black" – Los Bravos | w.m. Michelle Grainger, Tony Hayes, Steve Wadey | |
| "96 Tears" – Question Mark & the Mysterians | ||
| "Reach Out I'll Be There" – Four Tops | w.m. Holland-Dozier-Holland | |
| "Cherry Cherry" – Neil Diamond | ||
| . | ||
| Autumn | ||
| "Born Free" – Roger Williams | w.m. John Barry, Don Black | |
| "Dandy" – Herman's Hermits | ||
| "Devil With A Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly" – Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels | ||
| "Good Thing" – Paul Revere & the Raiders | ||
| "Good Vibrations" – The Beach Boys | w.m. Brian Wilson, Mike Love | |
| "Hooray for Hazel" – Tommy Roe | ||
| "I'm a Believer" – The Monkees | w.m. Neil Diamond | |
| "I'm Ready for Love" – Martha and the Vandellas | ||
| "I'm Your Puppet" – James & Bobby Purify | ||
| "I've Got You Under My Skin" – The Four Seasons | ||
| "(I Know) I'm Losing You" – The Temptations | ||
| "If I Were a Carpenter" – Bobby Darin | w.m. Tim Hardin | |
| "Lady Godiva" – Peter and Gordon | ||
| "Last Train to Clarksville" – The Monkees | w.m. Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart | |
| "Mellow Yellow" – Donovan | w.m. Donovan | |
| "A Place in the Sun" – Stevie Wonder | w.m. Ronald Miller, Bryan Wells | |
| "Poor Side of Town" – Johnny Rivers | ||
| "Psychotic Reaction" – Count Five | ||
| "Rain on the Roof" – The Lovin' Spoonful | ||
| "See See Rider" – Eric Burdon and the Animals | ||
| "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" – The Royal Guardsmen | ||
| "Sugar Town" – Nancy Sinatra | ||
| "Tell It Like It Is" – Aaron Neville | w.m. George Davis and Lee Diamond | |
| "That's Life" – Frank Sinatra | w.m. Dean Kay, Kelly Gordon | |
| "Walk Away Renee – The Left Banke | ||
| "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted – Jimmy Ruffin | w.m. William Witherspoon, Paul Riser, James Dean | |
| "Winchester Cathedral" – The New Vaudeville Band | w.m. Geoff Stephens | |
| "You Keep Me Hangin' On" – The Supremes | w.m. Holland-Dozier-Holland |
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