Which Decade Is Tops For Pops?
Jul 24, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min · 10 segments
A spiritual Bobby, a deep cut chart-topper, a Partridged tick-tick-ticker, a posthumous wake-up call, a lightning in a bottle moment, and stadium rock goes high-concept pop…
Nick ParkhouseHostTrevHostThe Sixties!
You may think that is mathematically insane, but as you will discover, it does actually make sense.
So for Brian Highland, it was the second of just three top 20s that he had between 1960 and 1962, and it peaked at number five.
However, a reissue of his next hit, Sealed With A Kiss, returned to the top 10 in 1975, and Ginny Come Lately was on the B-side.
He's 82 years old, and he released his most recent single called Where Did The Summer Go? only two years ago.
Another bubblegum, fleeting pop star of the early 60s, of which we have had many over the course of these various episodes, I think.
American songwriting team also wrote a couple of Brian Highlands later hits, Warmed Over Kisses and various others.
They actually, those two, went on to write a Tony winning musical called Shenandoah.
So, young, handsome boy, signed by American Records, releases his first single in 1959, doesn't really do anything.
A team of writers at the Brill Building, who many ballistas will know as a sort of, I don't know, like a songwriter's...
They would literally have offices down corridors and in each little cubicle you would find genius songwriters just sitting there doing a shift writing songs.
which was an American number one hit, which was It's a Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, which lots of people might know.
And the Brill Building team also wrote some of his later four little heels and various other hits as well.
I love the fact that he did It's a Bitsy Teenie Weenie, which is, look, it's a novelty record.
The Sixties!
You may think that is mathematically insane, but as you will discover, it does actually make sense.
So for Brian Highland, it was the second of just three top 20s that he had between 1960 and 1962, and it peaked at number five.
However, a reissue of his next hit, Sealed With A Kiss, returned to the top 10 in 1975, and Ginny Come Lately was on the B-side.
He's 82 years old, and he released his most recent single called Where Did The Summer Go? only two years ago.
Another bubblegum, fleeting pop star of the early 60s, of which we have had many over the course of these various episodes, I think.
American songwriting team also wrote a couple of Brian Highlands later hits, Warmed Over Kisses and various others.
They actually, those two, went on to write a Tony winning musical called Shenandoah.
So, young, handsome boy, signed by American Records, releases his first single in 1959, doesn't really do anything.
A team of writers at the Brill Building, who many ballistas will know as a sort of, I don't know, like a songwriter's...
They would literally have offices down corridors and in each little cubicle you would find genius songwriters just sitting there doing a shift writing songs.
which was an American number one hit, which was It's a Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, which lots of people might know.
And the Brill Building team also wrote some of his later four little heels and various other hits as well.
I love the fact that he did It's a Bitsy Teenie Weenie, which is, look, it's a novelty record.
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