[Migraine]

Interesting list; thanks especially for the links to the songs. That Pitney song, Half Heaven...; I hadn’t heard it. Was it the flip side of a more famous record?
I liked Pitney, esp 24 hours to Tulsa and the Liberty Valance song, oh yeah, and Town w/o Pity. I often wondered, though (as I did with Sedaka and Mathis) with those girlish voices, if they were kinda gay?

[Fiji Hill]

Gene Pitney's "Half Heaven, Half Heartache" should actually be on a 1962 list, because it entered the charts in December of that year and carried over into '63, rising to #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Another great December tune that carried over into '63 was Dionne Warwick's first and best hit, Don't Make Me Over. This is the full-length version, not the edited version heard on most Top 40 radio stations at the time.