1962 Songs Top Ten: King of Clowns (#1)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86939)
United States
May 31, 2022 10:25am CST
Oh, will you look at this!? I’m sure everybody who knew this song came out in 1962 knew that it would top my list of favorites from sixty years ago. To make the kids feel old I’ll do a 40 and 50-year-old list soon. Meanwhile, to close out the month and the list, the king of 1962.
#1: King of Clowns - Neil Sedaka
This song tanked in the U.S. when it was released. It didn’t even make the top 40. However, an Italian-language version hit #1 in Europe.
I don’t care where it was or wasn’t on the charts in 1962. (I didn’t care much about anything then, except cloth diapers. 
) I love, love, LOVE this song.
Happy 60th birthday to one of Sedaka’s all-time greatest songs.
Thanks for reading.
King of Clowns
Written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield
Recorded by Neil Sedaka
Released as a single, 1962
Though I’m hurt still I’m proud:
) I love, love, LOVE this song.
Happy 60th birthday to one of Sedaka’s all-time greatest songs.
Thanks for reading.
King of Clowns
Written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield
Recorded by Neil Sedaka
Released as a single, 1962
Though I’m hurt still I’m proud:
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@Marilynda1225 (91201)
• United States
31 May 22
I ws a big Sedaka fan but this one doesn't ring a bell for me. I'm sorry to see your 60 year old songs come to an end but looking forward to the next bunch
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
31 May 22
I’m glad you enjoyed the countdown! Hopefully you’ll know some of the 50-year-old songs (and will think, as I do, NO WAY that is 50!).
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@Marilynda1225 (91201)
• United States
31 May 22
@FourWalls I'm sure I'll be shaking my head when you do your 50 yr old songs. I was shaking my head with all the 60 yr old ones
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
1 Jun 22
It probably didn’t do well in America because it wasn’t the happy, upbeat stuff that people were used to from him. I think “Happy Birthday Sweet 16” was the follow-up song to this.
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
1 Jun 22
@JudyEv — yeah, sounds like he never went through puberty. 
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@JudyEv (382693)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Jun 22
@FourWalls I remember that too. He had quite a distinctive voice.
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
31 May 22
There should be a law against looking so young!
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@celticeagle (190074)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Jun 22
@FourWalls .......No, he sure doesn't. Love his voice.
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
1 Jun 22
That’s okay, he doesn’t look that young anymore.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
4 Jun 22
I always thought this song was SO sad. Not to dance but to listen to, seated on the floor in my room them.
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
4 Jun 22
It is a sad song, which is probably why it didn’t do well in America. We were used to his happy songs.
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
1 Jun 22
Amid all of my hardcore country music and the Ramones and the Clash, I love Sedaka.
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@LindaOHio (222987)
• United States
31 May 22
OMG! I don't know this one! (faints)
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
1 Jun 22
Ah-HA!!!!! Gotcha!!!!!!! 
At least you do know who Sedaka is. 
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
2 Jun 22
@LindaOHio — I take my victories where I can get them.
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@DaddyEvil (174781)
• United States
31 May 22
I was born in October of 1963. So, while I might have heard it before, I sure wouldn't remember it.
It's not one I remember mom listening to when I was a kid.
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
31 May 22
According to the charts, it wasn’t one of his more popular songs in the 60s. That’s what we have “retrospective” and “greatest hits collections” for. 
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@DaddyEvil (174781)
• United States
31 May 22
@FourWalls I'm not sure what songs mom would have listened to back then. She was born in 1921, do was a day or two old by the time I was born.
When I was a teenager, the radio was always on in the kitchen where she was at but I can't remember the songs that were playing then. (I wasn't terribly interested in hearing them, like now. *shrug*)
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@RasmaSandra (98156)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 May 22
Yep, I know the "clown" songs I particularly liked Cathy's Clown and Send In the Clowns Cher does a great version of this one
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
1 Jun 22
“Send in the Clowns” is one of the best. The late Stephen Sondheim wrote that.
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
1 Jun 22
It did chart, but not into the top 40. And sandwiched between two happy upbeat songs it wasn’t going to be popular.
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
31 May 22
You just wait until I start the lists of songs that are 40 and 50 years old this year!!!! You’re gonna be drinking Geritol!
(Oops, you probably don’t even know what Geritol is. )
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
31 May 22
Neil Sedaka, another one of my 60s favorites! He was very handsome, too:)
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
31 May 22
@FourWalls He's adorable! Back when stars weren't able to get a face job! lol
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
31 May 22
I am forty four but I do listen to songs that date back to fifty or sixty years and enjoy them. Some are just timeless.
Sorry I have never heard this one. I am not much into music from other countries.
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@FourWalls (86939)
• United States
1 Jun 22
I understand. I don’t know that I’ve heard music from other nations or cultures that doesn’t sound similar to the western popular music I’m used to. That’s no knock on anyone, just the way we are! Thanks for stopping by.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
1 Jun 22
@FourWalls We have different types of music here. Our classical and folk have no influence of others. Byt yes, some pop and rock influence can be seen in our popular danc numbers from Bollywood and other regional movie industries.
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