Track Listing

1. Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
2. Young Girl - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
3. Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
4. You've Made Me So Very Happy - Blood, Sweat & Tears
5. Kind Of A Drag - The Buckinghams
6. San Francisco - Scott Mckenzie
7. Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith
8. Flowers On The Wall - The Statler Brothers
9. A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
10. Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
11. It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers
12. Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrkle
13. Hey Little Cobra - The Rip Chords
14. Kicks - Paul Revere & The Raiders
15. Greenfields - The Brothers Four
16. Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams
17. Don't Worry - Marty Robbins
18. Sink The Bismarck - Johnny Horton
19. Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
20. Theme From "A Summer Place" - Percy Faith

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #215890 in Music
• Released on: 2003-04-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
Full Title - Top Hits Of The 60's - Chart Toppers. Collectables is proud to present this expansive Top Hit Series, each song on this twenty track disc made the top of the charts. Featuring Roy Orbison, The Byrds, The Statler Brothers, Johnny Cash and more. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Contains original (short-lived) version of Big Bad John
The previous reviews mention the different versions of the ending phrase of the song Big Bad John: "at the bottom of this mine lies a hell of a man" or the reissued version which changed the words "hell of a man" to "big, big man." The first issues of the 45 version did, in fact, use the "hell" version, but due to some disgruntled listeners a new "sanitized" version quickly replaced the original issue. So, in fact, the "hell of a man" version was actually the first "original" version.

Not quite all the originals
I bought this CD mainly because I was looking for the original hit version of Jimmy Dean's 'Big bad John'. Well it's not there. On the original version which I taped more than 20 years ago from a Jim Pewter show the last line goes "On the bottom of this mine lies A BIG, BIG MAN, Big John", but on this CD Jimmy sings "On the bottom of this mine lies ONE HELL OF A MAN, Big John". It's close, but NOT the original take. Don't be fooled, check your old records and tapes.

Yes, all the originals!
This collection of hits from the 60s is indeed all the original artists and songs. Commenting on the previous reviewer, it is possible that way back in 1960, when Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John was getting radio airplay, that the word "hell" was deemed too inappropiate, so consequently there might have been two versions of the song recorded back then in 1960. Some of us remember that when Elvis was on The Ed Sullivan Show, that he was filmed from the waist up since his shaking hips were deemed a little too risky for that era of time.Just my opinion and explanation for what it's worth. Barry, Florida