Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1962 - Track Listing

Track Listing

1988 original release

No. Title Writer(s) Artist Length
1. "Big Girls Don't Cry" (Billboard peak #1 in November) Crewe/Gaudio The Four Seasons 2:29
2. "Duke of Earl" (Billboard peak #1 in February) Edwards/Williams/Dixon Gene Chandler 2:27
3. "Soldier Boy" (Billboard peak #1 in May) Green/Dixon The Shirelles 2:44
4. "Sheila" (Billboard peak #1 in September) Roe Tommy Roe 2:03
5. "Peppermint Twist – Part 1" (Billboard peak #1 in January) Dee/Glover Joey Dee & the Starliters 2:02
6. "The Loco-Motion" (Billboard peak #1 in August) Goffin/King Little Eva 2:29
7. "The Wanderer" (Billboard peak #2 in February) Maresca Dion 2:50
8. "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (Billboard peak #1 in August) Sedaka/Greenfield Neil Sedaka 2:18
9. "Johnny Angel" (Billboard peak #1 in April) Duddy/Pockriss Shelley Fabares 2:24
10. "Palisades Park" (Billboard peak #3 in June) Barris Freddy Cannon 1:52


1993 re-release, replacement tracks

No. Title Writer(s) Artist Length
1. "Green Onions" (Billboard peak #3 in September) Jones/Cropper/Jackson/Steinberg Booker T. & the M.G.'s 2:55

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