Brenda Lee was a close second with I'm Sorry.
You need to include a link to the Top 100, for each year, like this.
http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1960.htm

I'm Sorry, Only the Lonely, Mr. Custer, and It's Now or Never, plus Cathy's Clown.

and so was The Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown"

The news of his death was the only time I cried over a celebrity death. It was bittersweet because he went out back at the top of the charts with You Got It.

1960 was a good year for novelty songs, which are a special favorite of mine. That year gave us:
Alley Oop, Hollywood Argyles
Mr. Custer, Larry Verne
Mule Skinner Blues, The Fenderman

If you don't know that last one, check it out on YouTube. If you don't laugh, you have no funny bone.

Best melody of the year has to be El Paso by Marty Robbins. It's another good one to sing along with.

"Out where the horses where tiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeed!"

I also remember Alley Oop...good song!
(Don't know Mr Custer or Larry Verne)

I saw Roy Orbison perform back in the 1960s.

Right before he died in December 1988, he played with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne in The Traveling Wilburys and was on their 1st album, which came out 2 months before he died.

In the late 1980s, maybe about a year before his comeback. It was a good concert in the Russellville Ballroom in Davison, MI.

I had the cassette tape of the first Traveling Wilburys album. It developed a high pitch squeak that would not go away.

One of my favorite Orbison songs was from the album Regeneration called Something They Can't Take Away. I hope you like it as much as I do: