{"id":733864,"date":"2026-06-30T00:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733864\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:41:14","slug":"3-rock-songs-from-1960-that-make-me-wish-i-could-travel-back-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733864\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Rock Songs From 1960 That Make Me Wish I Could Travel Back in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music was going through quite an evolution in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the middle of the change came the songs in 1960, which set a precedent for the music that would be released throughout the decade. These are three of the best rock songs that came out in 1960, songs that are so good, I still want to listen to them today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStuck On You\u201d by Elvis Presley<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782780073_298_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Elvis Presley\u2019s first single in 1960, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/on-this-day-in-1960-the-king-of-rock-n-roll-was-back-on-top-of-the-hot-100-for-the-first-time-since-serving-his-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Stuck On You<\/a>\u201d is on his Elvis\u2019 Golden Records, Vol. 3 project. Aaron Schroeder and J. Leslie McFarland are the song\u2019s two writers.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tVideos by American Songwriter\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStuck On You\u2019 says, \u201cYou can shake an apple off an apple tree \/ Shake-a, shake-a sugar, but you\u2019ll never shake me \/ Uh-uh-uh \/ No, siree \/ I\u2019m going to stick like glue \/ Stick, because I\u2019m \/ Stuck on you \/ I\u2019m gonna run my fingers through your long black hair \/ Squeeze you tighter than a grizzly bear \/ Uh-uh-huh \/Yes, siree, uh uh \/ I\u2019m going to stick like glue \/ Stick, because I\u2019m \/ Stuck on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStuck On You\u201d also became a Top 10 R&amp;B hit and a Top 30 country single for Presley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCathy\u2019s Clown\u201d by The Everly Brothers<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782780073_496_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/on-this-day-in-1960-the-everly-brothers-harmonious-career-highlight-cathys-clown-became-a-no-1-hit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cathy\u2019s Clown<\/a>\u201d is on The Everly Brothers\u2019 fourth studio album, A Date With The Everly Brothers. Don Everly wrote \u201cCathy\u2019s Clown\u201d by himself.<\/p>\n<p>A No. 1 song for The Everly Brothers, \u201cCathy\u2019s Clown\u201d says, \u201cI\u2019ve gotta stand tall \/ You know a man can\u2019t crawl \/ But when he knows you\u2019re tellin\u2019 lies \/ And he hears them passing by \/ He\u2019s not a man at all \/ Don\u2019t want your love anymore \/ Don\u2019t want your kisses, that\u2019s for sure \/ I die each time \/ I hear this sound \/ \u2018Here he comes \/ That\u2019s Cathy\u2019s clown.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also, in 1989, Reba McEntire had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YYVKQW-RORs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">No. 1 single<\/a> with this song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Want To Be Wanted\u201d by Brenda Lee<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782780074_854_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Before Brenda Lee became a country music superstar, she got her start in rock music. On Lee\u2019s This Is\u2026Brenda album is \u201cI Want To Be Wanted\u201d. The song became Lee\u2019s second No. 1 single.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Want To Be Wanted\u201d began as an Italian song, written by Pino Spotti and Alberto Testa. Kim Gannon later added the English lyrics. The song says, \u201cWhen I am kissed \/ I want his lips to really kiss me \/ When we\u2019re apart \/ I want his heart to really miss me \/ I want to know \/ He loves me so his eyes are misting. \/ That\u2019s the way I want to be loved.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music was going through quite an evolution in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the middle of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[24911,88,216,2156],"class_list":["post-733864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1960s","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}