EVERY NUMBER ONE SINGLE ON RADIO STATION WABC (New York City) 1960-82
1960
1 7/2 1 Everybody's Somebody's Fool-Connie Francis
2 7/9 1 Alley Oop-Dante & Evergreens
3 7/16 2 I'm Sorry-Brenda Lee
4 7/30 3 Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini-Brian Hyland
5 8/20 5 The Twist-Chubby Checker
6 8/27 2 It's Now Or Never-Elvis Presley
7 9/10 1 Walk Don't Run-Ventures
8 10/15 5 Save The Last Dance For Me-Drifters
9 11/17 1 Stay-Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
10 11/24 5 Are You Lonesome Tonight-Elvis Presley
11 12/22 6 Will You Love Me Tomorrow-Shirelles
1961
12 2/1 3 There's A Moon Out Tonight-Capris
13 2/22 2 Pony Time-Chubby Checker
14 3/8 4 Blue Moon-Marcels
15 4/4 4 Runaway-Del Shannon
16 5/3 3 Mother-In-Law-Ernie K.Doe
17 5/24 2 Barbara-Ann-Regents
18 6/7 2 Travelin' Man-Rick Nelson
19 6/21 6 Quarter To Three-Gary U.S.Bonds
20 8/1 2 Pretty Little Angel Eyes-Curtis Lee
21 8/15 4 Michael-Highwaymen
22 9/5 1 My True Story-Jive Five
23 9/19 1 Take Good Care Of My Baby-Bobby Vee
24 9/26 6 Runaround Sue-Dion
25 11/7 3 Please Mr. Postman-The Marvelettes
26 11/14 1 Big Bad John-Jimmy Dean
27 12/5 5 Lion Sleeps Tonight-Tokens
1962
28 1/9 1 The Peppermint Twist,Pt.1-Joey Dee & the Starliters
29 1/16 1 The Twist-Chubby Checker
30 1/23 5 Duke Of Earl-Gene Chandler
31 2/27 4 Hey! Baby-Bruce Channel
32 3/27 4 Mashed Potato Time-Dee Dee Sharp
33 4/24 3 Soldier Boy-Shirelles
34 5/15 1 She Cried-Jay & Americans
35 5/22 5 I Can't Stop Loving You-Ray Charles
36 6/26 2 The Stripper-David Rose
37 7/10 3 Roses Are Red-Bobby Vinton
38 7/31 4 The Loco-Motion-Little Eva
39 8/28 6 Sherry-Four Seasons
40 10/9 4 Do You Love Me-Contours
41 11/6 6 Big Girls Don't Cry-Four Seasons
42 12/18 2 Pepino The Italian Mouse-Lou Monte
1963
43 1/1 2 Tell Him-The Exciters
44 1/15 2 Go Away Little Girl-Steve Lawrence
45 1/29 6 Hey,Paula-Paul & Paula
46 3/12 7 He's So Fine-Chiffons
47 4/30 1 I Will Follow Him-Little Miss Peggy March
48 5/7 3 If You Wanna Be Happy-Jimmy Soul
49 5/28 3 It's My Party-Lesley Gore
50 6/18 2 Easier Said Than Done-Essex
51 7/2 4 So Much In Love-Tymes
52 7/30 3 Fingertips Part II-Little Stevie Wonder
53 8/13 5 My Boyfriend's Back-Angels
54 9/17 6 Be My Baby-The Ronettes
55 10/29 3 Sugar Shack-Jimmy Gilmer & Fireballs
56 11/19 4 Dominique-Singing Nun
57 12/17 3 Louie Louie-Kingsmen
1964
58 1/7 6 I Want To Hold Your Hand-Beatles
59 2/18 6 She Loves You-Beatles
60 3/31 2 Can't Buy Me Love-Beatles
61 4/14 2 Hello,Dolly-Louis Armstrong
62 4/21 2 Do You Want To Know A Secret-Beatles
63 5/12 4 Chapel Of Love-Dixie Cups
64 6/9 6 Rag Doll-Four Seasons
65 7/21 1 A Hard Days Night-Beatles
66 7/28 4 Where Did Our Love Go-Supremes
67 8/25 3 House Of The Rising Sun-Animals
68 9/15 1 Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)-The Shangri-Las
69 9/22 2 Do Wah Diddy Diddy-Manfred Mann
70 10/6 1 Dancing in the Street - Martha & the Vandellas
71 10/13 2 Oh,Pretty Woman-Roy Orbison
72 10/27 4 Baby Love-Supremes
73 11/24 2 She's Not There-Zombies
74 12/8 2 I Feel Fine-Beatles
75 12/15 3 Come See About Me-Supremes
1965
76 1/12 3 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'-Righteous Brothers
77 1/26 2 Downtown-Petula Clark
78 2/16 3 Eight Days A Week-Beatles
79 2/23 1 This Diamond Ring-Gary Lewis & Playboys
80 3/16 2 Stop! In The Name Of Love-Supremes
81 3/30 3 I'm Telling You Now-Freddie & The Dreamers
82 4/20 5 Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter-Herman's Hermits
83 5/25 3 Wooly Bully-Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
84 6/15 4 I Can't Help Myself-Four Tops
85 7/13 4 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction-Rolling Stones
86 8/10 4 I Got You Babe-Sonny & Cher
87 9/7 1 Help!-Beatles
88 9/14 2 Eve Of Destruction-Barry McGuire
89 9/28 1 Hang On Sloopy-McCoys
90 10/5 2 Yesterday-Beatles
91 10/19 4 A Lover's Concerto-Toys
92 11/16 2 I Hear A Symphony-Supremes
93 11/30 2 A Taste Of Honey-Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
94 12/14 3 Turn! Turn! Turn!-Byrds
1966
95 1/4 2 Sounds Of Silence-Simon And Garfunkel
96 1/18 2 We Can Work It Out-Beatles
97 2/1 4 Lightning Strikes-Lou Christie
98 3/1 2 The Ballad Of The Green Beret-Sergeant Barry Sadler
99 3/15 4 California Dreamin'-The Mamas & the Papas
100 4/12 2 Good Lovin'-Young Rascals
101 4/26 4 Monday,Monday-Mamas & The Papas
102 5/24 2 Paint,It Black-Rolling Stones
103 6/7 5 Strangers In The Night-Frank Sinatra
104 7/12 3 Hanky Panky-Tommy James & Shondells
105 8/2 1 Wild Thing-Troggs
106 8/9 2 Summer In The City-Lovin' Spoonful
107 8/23 1 See You In September-The Happenings
108 8/30 3 You Can't Hurry Love-Supremes
109 9/20 4 Cherish-Association
110 10/18 1 Reach Out,I'll Be There-Four Tops
111 10/25 3 Last Train To Clarksville-Monkees
112 11/15 3 You Keep Me Hangin' On-Supremes
113 12/6 2 Winchester Cathedral-New Vaudeville Band
114 12/20 6 I'm A Believer-Monkees
1967
115 1/31 2 Georgy Girl-Seekers
116 2/14 3 Ruby Tuesday-Rolling Stones
117 3/7 3 Penny Lane-Beatles
118 3/28 5 Happy Together-Turtles
119 5/2 1 Somethin' Stupid-Frank & Nancy Sinatra
120 5/9 7 Groovin'-Rascals
121 6/27 1 Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You-Frankie Valli
122 7/4 3 Windy-Association
123 7/25 4 Light My Fire-Doors
124 8/22 1 All You Need Is Love-The Beatles
125 8/29 3 Ode To Billie Joe-Bobbie Gentry
126 9/19 5 The Letter-Box Tops
127 10/24 2 To Sir With Love-Lu Lu
128 11/7 1 Expressway to Your Heart-The Soul Survivors
129 11/14 1 Incense And Peppermints-Strawberry Alarm Clock
120 11/21 2 The Rain,The Park & Other Things-Cowsills
121 11/28 1 Daydream Believer-Monkees
122 12/12 6 Hello,Goodbye-Beatles
1968
123 1/23 2 Woman, Woman-The Union Gap
124 2/6 1 Green Tambourine-Lemon Pipers
125 2/13 7 Love Is Blue-Paul Mauriat
126 4/2 2 Young Girl-Union Gap
127 4/16 5 Honey-Bobby Goldsboro
128 5/21 4 Mrs. Robinson-Simon & Garfunkel
129 6/18 5 This Guys In Love-Herb Alpert
130 7/23 1 Reach Out of the Darkness-Friend & Lover
131 7/30 1 Stoned Soul Picnic-The 5th Dimension
132 8/6 6 People Got To Be Free-Rascals
133 9/17 6 Hey Jude-Beatles
134 10/29 4 Those Were The Days-Mary Hopkin
135 11/26 3 Love Child-Supremes
136 12/17 5 I Heard It Through The Grape Vine-Marvin Gaye
1969
137 1/21 6 Crimson & Clover-Tommy James & Shondells
138 3/4 1 Proud Mary-Creedence Clearwater Revival
139 3/11 3 Dizzy-Tommy Roe
140 4/1 7 Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In-Fifth Dimension
141 5/20 5 Get Back-Beatles
142 6/24 1 Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet-Henry Mancini
143 7/1 2 One-Three Dog Night
144 7/15 4 In The Year 2525-Zager And Evans
145 8/12 1 Crystal Blue Persuasion-Tommy James & the Shondells
146 8/19 5 Honky Tonk Woman-Rolling Stones
147 9/23 5 Sugar,Sugar-Archies
148 10/28 5 Wedding Bell Blues-Fifth Dimension
149 12/2 2 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye-Steam
150 12/16 1 Leaving On A Jet Plane-Peter,Paul & Mary
1970
151 1/13 1 I Want You Back-Jackson Five
152 1/20 5 Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head-B.J. Thomas
153 2/24 4 Bridge Over Troubled Water-Simon & Garfunkel
153 3/24 7 Let It Be-Beatles
154 5/12 1 Spirit In The Sky-Norman Greenbaum
155 5/19 1 American Woman-Guess Who
156 5/26 1 Cecillia-Simon & Garfunkel
157 6/2 4 Which Way You Goin' Billy?-The Poppy Family
158 6/30 1 The Love You Save-Jackson Five
159 7/7 3 Band of Gold-Freda Payne
160 7/28 4 (They Long To Be) Close To You-Carpenters
161 8/25 1 Signed,Sealed,Delivered I'm Yours-Stevie Wonder
162 9/1 1 Spill The Wine-Eric Burdon & War
163 9/8 2 Ain't No Mountain High Enough-Diana Ross
164 9/12 2 Patches-Clarence Carter
165 10/6 5 I'll Be There-Jackson Five
166 11/10 2 We've Only Just Begun-Carpenters
167 11/24 6 I Think I Love You-Partridge Family
1971
169 1/5 4 Knock Three Times-Ton Orlando & Dawn
170 1/19 1 One Less Bell to Answer-The 5th Dimension
171 2/9 6 One Bad Apple-Osmonds
172 3/23 2 It's Just My Imagination-Temptations
173 4/6 2 What's Going On-Marvin Gaye
174 4/20 7 Joy To The World-Three Dog Night
175 6/8 2 Want Ads-Honey Cone
176 6/22 4 It's Too Late-Carole King
177 7/6 1 Treat Her Like a Lady-Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
178 7/27 1 Indian Reservation-Raiders
179 8/3 1 Hot Pants-James Brown
180 8/10 2 How Can You Mend A Broken Heart-Bee Gees
181 8/24 2 Spanish Harlem-Aretha Franklin
182 9/7 3 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey-Paul & Linda McCartney
183 9/28 6 Maggie May-Rod Stewart
184 11/9 3 Gypsys,Tramps & Thieves-Cher
185 11/30 3 Family Affair-Sly & The Family Stone
186 12/21 2 Brand New Key-Melanie
1972
187 1/4 6 American Pie-Don McLean
188 2/15 5 Without You-Nilsson
189 3/21 1 The Lion Sleeps Tonight-Robert John
190 3/28 3 A Horse With No Name-America
181 4/18 4 First Time Ever I Saw Your Face-Roberta Flack
182 5/16 2 I'll Take You There-Staple Singers
183 5/30 5 Candy Man-Sammy Davis,Jr.
184 7/6 4 Lean On Me-Bill Withers
185 8/1 7 Alone Again (Naturally)-Gilbert O'Sullivan
186 9/19 1 Back Stabbers-O'Jays
187 9/26 3 Black And White-Three Dog Night
188 10/17 1 Everybody Plays The Fool-Main Ingredient
189 10/24 1 Ben-Michael Jackson
190 10/31 2 Nights In White Satin-Moody Blues
191 11/14 3 I Can See Clearly Now-Johnny Nash
192 12/5 1 I Am Woman-Helen Reddy
193 12/12 4 Me & Mrs.Jones-Billy Paul
1973
194 1/9 3 You're So Vain-Carly Simon
195 1/30 4 Crocodile Rock-Elton John
196 2/27 6 Killing Me Softly-Roberta Flack
197 4/10 2 The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia-Vicki Lawrence
198 4/24 5 Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree-Tony Orlando & Dawn
199 5/29 5 My Love-Paul McCartney & Wings
200 7/3 3 Playground in My Mind-Clint Holmes
201 7/24 1 Shambala-Three Dog Night
202 7/31 2 Bad,Bad Leroy Brown-Jim Croce
203 8/14 1 Touch Me In The Morning-Diana Ross
204 8/21 6 Brother Louie-Stories
205 10/2 1 Let's Get It On-Marvin Gaye
206 10/9 2 Half Breed-Cher
207 10/16 3 Angie-Rolling Stones
208 11/13 2 Heartbeat--It's A Lovebeat-DeFranco Family
209 11/27 3 On Top Of The World-Carpenters
210 12/18 3 The Most Beautiful Girl-Charlie Rich
1974
211 1/8 2 Time In A Bottle-Jim Croce
212 1/22 1 The Joker-Steve Miller Band
214 1/29 2 You're Sixteen-Ringo Starr
215 2/12 2 The Way We Were-Barbara Streisand
216 2/26 5 Seasons In The Sun-Terry Jacks
217 4/2 2 Hooked On A Feeling-Blue Swede
218 4/16 1 TSOP-MFSB
219 4/23 2 Bennie And The Jets-Elton John
220 5/7 1 Dancing Machine-Jackson Five
221 5/14 1 The Loco-Motion-Grand Funk Railroad
222 5/21 4 The Streak-Ray Stevens
223 6/18 1 You Make Me Feel Brand New-Stylistics
224 6/25 3 Rock The Boat-Hues Corporation
225 7/16 2 Rock Your Baby-George McCrae
226 7/30 2 Annie's Song-John Denver
227 8/13 3 The Night Chicago Died-Paper Lace
228 9/3 1 (You're) Having My Baby-Paul Anka
229 9/10 1 I Shot The Sheriff-Eric Clapton
230 9/17 3 Can't Get Enough Of Your Love,Babe-Barry White
231 10/8 4 I Honestly Love You-Olivia Newton-John
232 11/5 1 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet-Bachman Turner Overdrive
233 11/12 1 Jazzman-Carole King
234 11/19 3 My Melody Of Love-Bobby Vinton
235 12/10 4 Kung Fu Fighting-Carl Douglas
1975
236 1/7 2 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds-Elton John
237 1/21 3 Mandy-Barry Manilow
238 2/11 1 You're No Good-Linda Ronstadt
239 2/18 1 Fire-Ohio Players
240 2/25 3 My Eyes Adored You-Frankie Valli
241 3/18 1 Lady Marmalade-Labelle
242 3/25 1 Have You Never Been Mellow-Olivia Newton-John
243 4/1 2 Lovin' You-Minnie Riperton
244 4/15 4 Philadelphia Freedom-Elton John
245 5/6 1 He Don't Love You-Tony Orlando & Dawn
246 5/20 5 The Hustle-Van McCoy
247 6/17 2 Swearin' To God-Frankie Valli
248 7/8 6 Love Will Keep Us Together-Captain & Tennille
249 8/19 3 Jive Talkin'-Bee Gees
250 9/9 3 Get Down Tonight-K.C. & Sunshine Band
251 9/30 3 Mr.Jaws-Dickie Goodman
252 10/21 1 They Just Can't Stop It(The Games People Play)-The Spinners
253 10/28 1 Bad Blood-Neil Sedaka
254 11/4 3 Fly,Robin,Fly-Silver Convention
255 11/11 1 Feelings-Morris Albert
256 11/25 5 That's The Way I Like It-K.C. & Sunshine Band
1976
257 1/6 5 I Write The Songs-Barry Manilow
258 2/10 2 Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover-Paul Simon
259 2/18 1 Love Machine-Miracles
260 3/2 1 Theme From S.W.A.T.-Rhythm Heritage
261 3/9 4 December,1963 (Oh,What A Night)-Four Seasons
262 4/6 3 Disco Lady-Johnnie Taylor
263 4/27 1 Right Back Where We Started From-Maxine Nightingale
264 5/4 3 Welcome Back-John Sebastian
265 5/25 4 Love Hangover-Diana Ross
266 6/22 1 Silly Love Songs-Paul McCartney & Wings
267 6/29 6 Kiss And Say Good-bye-Manhattans
268 8/10 2 You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine-Lou Rawls
269 8/24 2 Don't Go Breakin' My Heart-Elton John & Kiki Dee
270 9/8 1 You Should Be Dancing-Bee Gees
271 9/14 4 A Fifth Of Beethoven-Walter Murphy & Big Apple Band
272 9/28 1 Play That Funky Music White Boy-Wild Cherry
273 10/19 6 Disco Duck-Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots
274 11/30 3 Tonight's The Night-Rod Stewart
275 12/21 3 You Don't Have To Be A Star-Billy Davis & Marilyn McCoo
1977
276 1/11 4 Car Wash-Rose Royce
277 2/8 5 Torn Between Two Lovers-Mary MacGregor
278 3/15 3 Theme From A Star Is Born-Barbara Streisand
279 4/5 4 Rich Girl-Daryl Hall & John Oates
280 5/3 5 When I Need You-Leo Sayer
281 6/7 1 Sir Duke-Stevie Wonder
282 6/14 1 Got To Give It Up-Marvin Gaye
283 6/21 2 Gonna Fly Now(Theme From "Rocky")-Bill Conti
284 7/5 3 Undercover Angel-Alan O'Day
285 7/26 9 I Just Want To Be Your Everything-Andy Gibb
286 9/27 3 Theme From Star Wars-Meco
287 10/18 9 You Light Up My Life-Debby Boone
288 12/20 5 How Deep Is Your Love-Bee Gees
1978
289 1/24 1 Baby Come Back-Player
290 1/31 9 Stayin' Alive-Bee Gees
291 3/28 6 Night Fever-Bee Gees
292 5/16 3 Too Much,Too Little,Too Late-Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams
293 6/6 7 Shadow Dancing-Andy Gibb
294 7/25 4 Last Dance-Donna Summer
295 8/22 2 Grease-Frankie Valli
296 9/5 5 Boogie Oogie Oogie-A Taste Of Honey
297 10/10 2 Reminiscing-Little River Band
298 10/24 1 Hot Child In The City-Nick Gilder
299 10/31 1 You Needed Me-Anne Murray
300 11/7 5 MacArthur Park-Donna Summer
301 12/12 7 Le Freak-Chic
1979
302 1/30 1 Too Much Heaven-Bee Gees
303 2/6 5 I Will Survive-Gloria Gaynor
304 2/13 4 Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?-Rod Stewart
305 4/10 3 Knock On Wood-Amii Stewart
306 5/1 6 Reunited-Peaches & Herb
307 6/5 1 Hot Stuff-Donna Summer
308 6/19 5 Ring My Bell-Anita Ward
309 7/24 4 Bad Girls-Donna Summer
310 8/21 6 My Sharona-The Knack
311 10/2 4 Sad Eyes-Robert John
312 10/30 2 Rise-Herb Alpert
313 11/13 1 Still-Commodores
314 11/20 3 No More Tears(Enough Is Enough)-Barbara Streisand & Donna Summer
315 12/11 4 Babe-Styx
1980
316 1/8 6 Rock With You-Michael Jackson
317 2/19 2 Do That To Me One More Time-Captain & Tennille
318 3/4 1 Working My Way Back To You-Spinners
319 3/11 4 Another Brick In The Wall-Pink Floyd
320 4/8 6 Call Me-Blondie
321 5/20 1 Sexy Eyes-Dr. Hook
322 5/27 5 Funkytown, Lipps, Inc.
323 7/1 1 Coming Up-Paul McCartney & Wings
324 7/8 6 It's Still Rock and Roll To Me-Billy Joel
325 8/19 2 Magic-Olivia Newton-John
326 9/2 1 Fame-Irene Cara
327 9/9 2 Upside Down-Diana Ross
328 9/23 6 Another One Bites The Dust-Queen
329 11/4 3 A Woman In Love-Barbara Streisand
330 11/25 7 Lady-Kenny Rogers
1981
331 1/13 3 (Just Like) Starting Over-John Ono Lennon
332 2/3 6 The Tide Is High-Blondie
333 3/17 1 Rapture-Blondie
334 3/24 1 Nine To Five-Dolly Parton
335 3/31 2 Keep On Loving You-REO Speedwagon
336 4/14 6 Morning Train-Sheena Easton
337 5/26 10 Bette Davis Eyes-Kim Carnes
338 8/4 14 Endless Love-Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
339 11/3 1 Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)-Christopher Cross
340 11/17 2 Private Eyes-Daryl Hall & John Oates
341 12/1 10 Physical-Olivia Newton-John
1982 342 2/9 1 I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)-Daryl Hall & John Oates 343 2/16 3 Centerfold-J. Geils Band 344 3/2 7 I Love Rock 'n Roll-Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 345 4/13 3 Chariots of Fire-Titles-Vangelis