Discography and Biography of Roy Hamilton. Listen to all their hits.
Roy Hamilton Songs

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Roy Hamilton (April 16, 1929 - July 20, 1969) was an American singer. By combining semi-classical technique with traditional black gospel feeling, he brought soul to Great American Songbook singing. Hamilton's greatest commercial success came from 1954 through 1961, when he was Epic Records' most prolific artist. His two most influential recordings, "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Unchained Melody", became Epic's first two number-one hits when they topped the Billboard R&B chart in March 1954 and May 1955, respectively. Hamilton also became the first solo artist in the label's history to have a US top-ten pop hit when "Unchained Melody" peaked at #6 in May 1955.

Below is a list of Roy Hamilton songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Fontana 298
chart position: RandB #6, US #12
weeksinr&bchart: 12
written by: Bill Cook
album: You Can Have Her
Roy Hamilton You Can Have Her
1961 Fontana
2 record label: Epic 9257
chart position: RandB #2, US #13
weeksinr&bchart: 12
written by: Jesse Stone
Roy Hamilton Don't Let Go
1958 Epic
3 record label: Epic 9294
chart position: US #45
written by: Fats Washington (as Ferdinand Washington) and Don Robey
album: With All My Love
comments: [love ballad]
Roy Hamilton Pledging My Love
1958 Epic
4 record label: Epic 9307
chart position: RandB #14, US #62
weeksinr&bchart: 7
written by: Clarence Paul, K.K. Martin and Sonny Woods
Roy Hamilton I Need Your Lovin'
1959 Epic
5 record label: Epic 9443
chart position: US #80
written by: Bob Brass and Irwin Levine
Roy Hamilton You're Gonna Need Magic
1961 Epic
6 record label: Epic 9449
chart position: Cashbox RandB #27
written by: B. Cook
Roy Hamilton No Substitute For Love
1961 Epic
7 record label: Epic 9520
chart position: US #110
written by: Bill Cook
Roy Hamilton I'll Come Running Back To You
1962 Epic
8 record label: MGM 13138
chart position: US #129
written by: Van McCoy
Roy Hamilton Let Go
1963 MGM
-- record label: AGP 113
written by: C. Moman, D. Penn
album: Deep Soul Treasures Vol.4 (compiled by Dave Godin)
comments: [deep soul]
Roy Hamilton The Dark End Of The Street
1969 AGP
-- record label: AGP 125
written by: B. Conway Twitty, Jack Nance
Roy Hamilton It's Only Make Believe
1969 AGP
-- record label: AGP 116
written by: Barry Mann Cynthia Weil
Roy Hamilton Angelica
1969 AGP
-- record label: RCA Victor 478641
written by: Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold, Gilbert Kennington
Roy Hamilton Heartache (Hurry On By)
1965 RCA Victor




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