"Let's Think About Living," Bob Luman (1960)

It's the anti-murder ballad!

Peak: #9 on the Hot 100
Streams: 1.6 million

I first heard Bob Luman’s “Let’s Think About Living” a few months ago, when I was watching a fight scene in a Netflix show. That was the point, of course: Action series love to ironically juxtapose violent content with sunny music. But even as I was rolling my eyes at that particular cliché, the song got me tap…