Artist	Song
Little Stevie Wonder	Fingertips - Part 2
The Village Stompers	Washington Square
The Shirelles	Foolish Little Girl
Dale & Grace	I'm Leaving it Up to You
Lesley Gore	She's a Fool
The Dovells	You Can't Sit Down
Jackie Wilson	Baby Workout
Skeeter Davis	I Can't Stay Mad at You
Garnett Mimms & the Enchanters	Cry Baby
Kyu Sakamoto	Sukiyaki
Lou Monte	Pepino, the Italian Mouse
Lou Christie	The Gypsy Cried
Rocky Fellers	Killer Joe
Martha & the Vandellas	Come and Get These Memories
The Jaynetts	Sally, Go Round the Roses
The Vince Guaraldi Trio	Cast Your Fate to the Wind
The Chiffons	I Have a Boyfriend
Mongo Santamaria	Watermelon Man
Jan Bradley	Mama Didn't Lie
Ned Miller	From a Jack to a King
Rolf Harris	Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport
The Duprees	Have You Heard?
Marvin Gaye	Pride and Joy
The Kai Winding Orchestra	More
The Rockin' Rebels	Wild Weekend
Johnny Mathis	What Will My Mary Say?
Wilson Pickett	If You Need Me
Ruby & the Romantics	My Summer Love
The Crystals	He's Sure the Boy I Love

Comment:

Lenny, from The Simpsons, recently observed, "Why do the oldies stations always play the same songs over and over? We want new oldies!" I thought this a statement both fresh and profound.
Listening to Big D 103, I found that they do tend to play the same songs repeatedly and not others ever, hardly, and it wasn't clear to me why this was so. I suspected it had to do with request lines, focus groups and money - what doesn't? - but I found myself wondering about songs I've never heard.
Using entirely unscientific methods, I went down the list of the Top 100 of an arbitrary year, 1963, and pulled out the titles of songs I thought I never heard on the radio. Several of them turned out to be songs I just didn't know the names of. Others do get some airplay on the oldies stations, they're just not in high rotation. Still, most of these were new to me. Your mileage may vary.
Obligatory Content Warning: the Lou Monte number may be considered to contain unwholesome stereotypes of Italian-Americans, though it's no worse to my mind than Mambo Italiano or Tu Vuo' Fa l'Americano. The Rolf Harris song contains a term which is stone racist, although its main purpose seems to be the mocking of white Australians and Stine, in general. You have been warned.

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