Top 100 Lists


TOP 100 CAMEO-PARKWAY HITS
1957-1967

  1. The Twist - Chubby Checker - 1960, 1962
  2. Pony Time - Chubby Checker - 1961
  3. 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians - 1966
  4. So Much in Love - The Tymes - 1962
  5. Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker - 1962
  6. Mashed Potato Time - Dee Dee Sharp - 1962
  7. Bristol Stomp - The Dovells - 1961
  8. The Wah-Watusi - The Orlons - 1962
  9. Wild One - Bobby Rydell - 1960
  10. Silhouettes - The Rays - 1957
  11. Butterfly - Charlie Gracie - 1957
  12. You Can't Sit Down - The Dovells - 1963
  13. Slow Twistin' - Chubby Checker with Dee Dee Sharp - 1962
  14. Forget Him - Bobby Rydell - 1963
  15. South Street - The Orlons - 1963
  16. Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker - 1961
  17. Don't Hang Up - The Orlons - 1962
  18. Volare - Bobby Rydell - 1960
  19. We Got Love - Bobby Rydell - 1959
  20. Ride! - Dee Dee Sharp - 1962
  21. Swingin' School - Bobby Rydell - 1960
  22. Dinner With Drac - John Zacherle - 1958
  23. The Fly - Chubby Checker - 1961
  24. Wonderful, Wonderful - The Tymes - 1963
  25. Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral - 1965
  26. Popeye the Hitchhiker - Chubby Checker - 1962
  27. Kissin' Time - Bobby Rydell - 1959
  28. When We Get Married - The Dreamlovers - 1961
  29. Gravy - Dee Dee Sharp - 1962
  30. The Cha-Cha-Cha - Bobby Rydell - 1962
  31. Do the Bird - Dee Dee Sharp - 1963
  32. Loddy Lo - Chubby Checker - 1963
  33. Good Time Baby - Bobby Rydell - 1961
  34. The Hucklebuck - Chubby Checker - 1960
  35. I'll Never Dance Again - Bobby Rydell - 1962
  36. Not Me - The Orlons - 1963
  37. Dancin' Party - Chubby Checker - 1962
  38. Sway - Bobby Rydell - 1960
  39. Birdland - Chubby Checker - 1963
  40. Fabulous - Charlie Gracie - 1957
  41. Twenty Miles - Chubby Checker - 1963
  42. Hooka Tooka - Chubby Checker - 1964
  43. Little Bitty Girl - Bobby Rydell - 1960
  44. Mexican Hat Rock - The Applejacks - 1958
  45. I've Got Bonnie - Bobby Rydell - 1962
  46. Ding-A-Ling - Bobby Rydell - 1960
  47. Somewhere - The Tymes - 1964
  48. Wildwood Days - Bobby Rydell - 1963
  49. Crossfire! - The Orlons - 1963
  50. Let the Good Times Roll & Feel So Good - Bunny Sigler - 1967
  51. Let's Limbo Some More - Chubby Checker - 1963
  52. I Need Somebody - ? and the Mysterians - 1966
  53. I Wanna Thank You - Bobby Rydell - 1961
  54. Hully Gully Baby - The Dovells - 1962
  55. That Old Black Magic - Bobby Rydell - 1961
  56. Wild Thing - Senator Bobby - 1967
  57. Jingle Bell Rock - Chubby Checker and Bobby Rydell - 1961
  58. Butterfly Baby - Bobby Rydell - 1963
  59. Hey, Bobba Needle - Chubby Checker - 1964
  60. Bristol Twistin' Annie - The Dovells - 1962
  61. Beg, Borrow and Steal - The Ohio Express - 1967
  62. Dance the Mess Around - Chubby Checker - 1961
  63. The Jam - Bobby Gregg and his Friends - 1962
  64. Back to School Again - Timmie "Oh Yeah!" Rogers - 1957
  65. Twist it Up - Chubby Checker - 1963
  66. The Fish - Bobby Rydell - 1961
  67. Wild! - Dee Dee Sharp - 1963
  68. The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven -
    Chris Bartley - 1967
  69. You'll Never Walk Alone - Patti LaBelle and her
    Blue Belles
    - 1964
  70. Do the New Continental - The Dovells - 1962
  71. Rocka-Conga - The Applejacks - 1959
  72. The Class - Chubby Checker - 1959
  73. I'm the Girl From Wolverton Mountain -
    Jo Ann Campbell
    - 1962
  74. Let's Do the Freddie - Chubby Checker - 1965
  75. I (Who Have Nothing) - Terry Knight and the Pack - 1966
  76. Lazy Elsie Molly - Chubby Checker - 1964
  77. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Chubby Checker - 1960
  78. Rock Me in the Cradle of Love - Dee Dee Sharp - 1963
  79. Good, Good Lovin' - Chubby Checker - 1960
  80. Make Me Forget - Bobby Rydell - 1964
  81. Sing Sing Sing - Bernie Lowe - 1958
  82. Bad Motorcycle - The Storey Sisters - 1958
  83. World of Fantasy - The Five Stairsteps - 1966
  84. The 81 - Candy and the Kisses - 1965
  85. This Can't Be True - Eddie Holman - 1966
  86. I Dig Girls - Bobby Rydell - 1959
  87. Betty in Bermudas - The Dovells - 1963
  88. She Wants T' Swim - Chubby Checker - 1964
  89. Groovy Baby - Billy Abbott and the Jewels - 1963
  90. Nine More Miles (The "Faster-Faster" Song) - Georgie Young
    and the Rockin' Bocs
    - 1958
  91. Bon-Doo-Wah - The Orlons - 1963
  92. Surf Party - Chubby Checker - 1963
  93. Can't Get Enough of You, Baby - ? and the Mysterians - 1967
  94. Come Back - The Five Stairsteps - 1966
  95. Over the Weekend - The Playboys - 1958
  96. Oooh, Baby Baby - The Five Stairsteps - 1967
  97. Memory Lane - The Hippies - 1963
  98. The Popeye Waddle - Don Covay - 1963
  99. You're the Greatest - Billy Scott - 1958
  100. Intermission Riff - Bernie Lowe - 1958

This list is comprised of songs released on Philadelphia's Cameo and Parkway labels of the late 1950s and 1960s as well as their subsidiaries Cotton, Lucky Eleven, Windy C and Vando. Rankings are based on the popularity of each song during the period of 1957 through 1967.

Chubby Checker leads the list with 25 songs (including one with Bobby Rydell and one with Dee Dee Sharp). Bobby Rydell is runner-up with 21 songs (including one with Chubby Checker). All other artists trail far behind: Dee Dee Sharp has seven (including one with Chubby Checker), followed by The Dovells and The Orlons with six apiece.




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