▸ the year you arrived
1962
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You will be 64 this year — a child of the '60s.
The song that ruled the year you arrived
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Your generation
Baby Boomer
1962 belonged to
Dion
3 year-end chart hits
Top 10 of 1962
- 1

Stranger On the Shore
Acker Bilk
- 2

I Can't Stop Loving You
Ray Charles
- 3

Mashed Potato Time
Dee Dee Sharp
- 4

Roses Are Red (My Love)
Bobby Vinton
- 5

The Stripper
David Rose
- 6

Johnny Angel (Single Version)
Shelley Fabares
- 7

The Loco Motion
Little Eva
- 8

Let Me In
The Sensations
- 9

The Twist
Chubby Checker
- 10

Soldier Boy
The Shirelles
The world you were born into
Top AlbumsThe Beach Boys — Surfin' Safari
Ray Charles — Modern Sounds in Country
Booker T. & the M.G.'s — Green Onions
At the MoviesLawrence of Arabia
Dr. No
To Kill a Mockingbird
On TVThe Beverly Hillbillies
The Jetsons
Johnny Carson's Tonight Show
In the HeadlinesCuban Missile Crisis
John Glenn orbits Earth
First Walmart and Kmart open
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