{"id":871333,"date":"2026-10-05T07:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871333\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T07:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:26:18","slug":"3-top-40-hits-from-1960-that-every-60s-kid-still-knows-by-heart-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871333\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Top 40 Hits From 1960 That Every 60s Kid Still Knows by Heart Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year 1960 was the start of an incredible decade of music. So many great songs were released that year, including these three Top 40 hits from 1960. They are so good, it\u2019s almost certain that every 60s kid still knows them by heart today.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond The Sea\u201d by Bobby Darin<\/p>\n

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On Bobby Darin\u2019s This Is Darin album is \u201cBeyond The Sea\u201d. The song, which began as the French song \u201cLe Mer\u201d,\u00a0 was written by Charles Trenet.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeyond The Sea\u201d says, \u201dSomewhere beyond the sea \/ She\u2019s there watchin\u2019 for me \/ If I could fly like birds on high \/ Then straight to her arms, I\u2019d go sailin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darin\u2019s \u201cBeyond The Sea\u201d comes right after \u201cMack The Knife\u201d, his first single to reach the top of the charts.\u00a0 Although Darin\u2019s version of \u201cBeyond The Sea\u201d is the most successful, several other artists also recorded this song, including Benny Goodman and George Benson.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)\u201d by Roy Orbison<\/p>\n

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Roy Orbison includes \u201cOnly The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)<\/a>\u201d on his debut album, Lonely And Blue. The sad song was written by Orbison and Joe Melson.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)\u201d says, \u201cThere goes my baby \/ There goes my heart \/ They\u2019re gone forever \/ So far apart \/ But only the lonely \/ Know why \/ I cry \/ Only the lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nine years later, in 1969, Sonny James put out his spin on this song. \u201cOnly The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel) became one of his many No. 1 singles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI Want To Be Wanted\u201d by Brenda Lee<\/p>\n

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Before Brenda Lee<\/a> became a country music legend, she got her start in rock and roll. In 1960, Lee released \u201cI Want To Be Wanted\u201d. The song was written by Kim Gannon, Pino Spotti, and Alberto Testa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI Want To Be Wanted\u201d says, \u201cAlone, just my lonely heart knows how\u00a0 \/ I want to be wanted right now \/ Not tomorrow, but right now \/ I want to be wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interestingly, \u201cI Want To Be Wanted\u201d started as an Italian song, written by Spotti and Testa. That version was released in 1959. Gannon later rewrote the song in English for Lee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI Want To Be Wanted\u201d is Lee\u2019s second No. 1 single. Her first came in 1958, with \u201cRockin\u2019 Around The Christmas Tree<\/a>\u201d. \u201cI Want To Be Wanted\u201d was a bold song for Lee, who was just 15 years old when it was released.<\/p>\n

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