Cashbox Ranking	title	artist
1	Theme From a Summer Place	Percy Faith
2	It's Now or Never	Elvis Presley
3	Save the Last Dance for Me	The Drifters
4	The Twist	Chubby Checker
5	Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini	Brian Hyland
6	I'm Sorry	Brenda Lee
7	Stuck On You	Elvis Presley
8	He'll Have To Go	Jim Reeves
9	Cathy's Clown	The Everly Brothers
10	Running Bear	Johnny Preston
11	Walk -- Don't Run	The Ventures
12	Everybody's Somebody's Fool	Connie Francis
13	Handy Man	Jimmy Jones
14	My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own	Connie Francis
15	Only the Lonely	Roy Orbison
16	Teen Angel	Mark Dinning
17	El Paso	Marty Robbins
18	Chain Gang	Sam Cooke
19	Kiddio	Brook Benton
20	Please Help Me, I'm Fallin'	Hank Locklin
21	Greenfields	The Brothers Four
22	Night	Jackie Wilson
23	Good Timin'	Jimmy Jones
24	Baby, You've Got What It Takes	Brook Benton & Dinah Washington
25	Wild One	Bobby Rydell
26	Mr. Custer	Larry Verne
27	Sink the Bismark	Johnny Horton
28	Sweet Nothin's	Brenda Lee
29	Puppy Love	Paul Anka
30	I Want To Be Wanted	Brenda Lee
31	Paper Roses	Anita Bryant
32	Because They're Young	Duane Eddy
33	Alley-Oop	The Hollywood Argyles
34	Way Down Yonder in New Orleans	Freddy Cannon
35	Why	Frankie Avalon
36	Burning Bridges	Jack Scott
37	Where or When	Dion & the Belmonts
38	Finger Poppin' Time	Hank Ballard & the Midnighters
39	Volare	Bobby Rydell
40	Theme From the Apartment	Ferrante & Teicher
41	Devil Or Angel	Bobby Vee
42	You Talk Too Much	Joe Jones
44	A Rockin' Good Way	Brook Benton & Dinah Washington
45	White Silver Sands	Bill Black Combo
46	It's Time to Cry	Paul Anka
47	You've Got What It Takes	Marv Johnson
48	What In the World's Come Over You	Jack Scott
48	Heartaches By the Number	Guy Mitchell
49	The Big Hurt	Toni Fisher
50	Harbor Lights	The Platters

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In the 1950's Cashbox Magazine was the main competitor with Billboard for the music trade. In 1956 the rankings expanded to a top 50 and then to a top 75 in 1957 and became a top 100 in 1958. Publicaton of the magazine ended in 1996. Back from the army in 1960, Elvis placed two songs in the Cashbox top ten: "It's Now Or Never" (#2) and "Stuck On You" (#7). "The Drifters had the #3 Cashbox record for 1960 with "Save The Last Dance For Me." Ben E. King sang lead on the record." "Chubby Checker led the dance songs of 1960, and Cashbox ranked "The Twist" as the #4 song of the year. This story is to "be continued.""