Top 10 Countdown

This week we look back to the year

1962

at the Top 10 Songs on the Billboard Charts

(for week ending August 25, 1962)

Headlines and Special Notes

August 27 - September 2, 1962

Aug 27 - Mariner 2 was launched by the United States. In December of the same year the spacecraft flew past Venus. It was the first space probe to reach the vicinity of another planet.

Aug 29 - The lower level of the George Washington Bridge In New York was completed.

Aug 29 - U.S. U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba

Aug 31 - The Caribbean nations Tobago and Trinidad became independent within the British Commonwealth.

Sep 2 -  Ken Hubbs, of the Chicago Cubs, set a major-league baseball fielding record when he played errorless for his 74th consecutive game.

Sep 2 - The Soviet Union believes that the U.S. intends to attack Cuba. It agrees with Cuba to send arms to deter an attack. 

Born on this Day

 Aug 27

• Lyndon B. Johnson (U.S. President) 1908
• Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Theresa) 1910
• Martha Raye 1916
• Tommy Sands 1937
• Daryl Dragon (The Captain and Tennille) 1942
• Tuesday Weld 1943
• Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge) 1944
• Barbara Bach 1947
• Jeff Cook (Alabama) 1949
• Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens 1952
• Alex Lifeson (Rush) 1953

Aug 28

• Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828
• Charles Boyer 1899
• Nancy Kulp 1921
• Billy Grammer 1925
• Donald O'Connor 1925
• Ben Gazzara 1930
• David Soul 1943
• Daniel Seraphine (Chicago) 1948
• Wayne Osmond (The Osmonds) 1951
• Daniel Stern 1957
• Scott Hamilton 1958
• Emma Samms 1961

Aug 29

• Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809
• Ingrid Bergman 1915
• George Montgomery 1916
• Charlie "Bird" Parker 1920
• Wendell Scott 1921
• Sir Richard Attenborough 1923
• Dinah Washington 1924
• Elliott Gould 1938
• Robin Leach 1941
• Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground) 1942
• Dan Truman (Diamond Rio) 1956
• Rebecca DeMornay 1962

Aug 30

• Huey P. Long 1893
• Raymond Massey 1896
• Shirley Booth 1907
• Fred MacMurray 1908
• Joan Blondell 1912
• Ted Williams 1918
•  Kitty Wells (Muriel Deason) 1919
• John Phillips (Mamas and the Papas) 1935
• Elizabeth Ashley 1939
• John McNally (The Searchers) 1941
• Peggy Lipton (actress - The Mod Squad) 1947
• Mick Moody (Whitesnake) 1950
• Timothy Bottoms 1951

Aug 31

• Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 0012
• Wilhelmina (Netherlands) 1880
• Frederic March 1897
• Arthur Godfrey 1903
• Daniel Schorr 1916
• Richard Basehart 1919
• Buddy Hackett 1924
• James Coburn 1928
• Frank Robinson 1935
• Eldridge Cleaver 1935
• Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) 1939
• Van Morrison  1945
• Richard Gere 1949
• Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions) 1952
• Gina Shock (The Go-Go's) 1957
• Tony DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) 1960

Sep 1

• Engelbert Humperdinck (German composer, his name was borrowed by singer Arnold Dorsey) 1854
• Don Wilson (The Jack Benny Show) 1900
• Richard Farnsworth 1920
• Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton) 1922
• Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano) 1923
• George Maharis (actor - Route 66) 1928
• Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin) 1931
• Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins) 1933
• Lily Tomlin 1939
• Dave White (Danny & The Juniors) 1940
• Archie Bell 1944
• Barry Gibb (The Bee Gees) 1946
• Greg Errico (Sly & The Family Stone) 1946
• Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo) 1957

Sep 2

• Cleveland Amory 1917
• Grady Nutt (Comedian - Hee Haw) 1934
• Sam Gooden (Roosters, The Impressions) 1939
• Jimmy Clanton 1940
• Joe Simon 1943
• Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the Vandellas) 1943
• Marty Grebb (The Buckinghams) 1946
• Terry Bradshaw 1948
• Mark Harmon 1951
• Jimmy Connors 1952
• Linda Purl 1955
• Steve Porcaro (Toto) 1957
• Fritz McIntyre (Simply Red) 1958
• Eric Dickerson 1960
• Keanu Reeves 1964