Burning Love went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Presley’s
final top ten pop hit. Reportedly, Elvis didn’t not care for the song,
and was not comfortable performing it.
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28
Mar
RECORDED BY THE KING ON THIS DAY IN 1972
27
Mar
‘’ THE DIVINE ONE’’ ~ SARAH VAUGHAN
27
Mar
NUMBER-ONE DURING THIS TIME IN 1960
Theme from a Summer Place spent an at-the-time record of nine consecutive
weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It remains the
longest-running number-one instrumental in the history of the chart.
Percy Faith won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1961 for the
recording which was the first movie theme and the first instrumental to
win a Record of the Year Grammy.
27
Mar
DISASTER IN ALASKA ON THIS DAY IN 1964
The Alaska earthquake lasted nearly four minutes and was the most powerful
recorded quake in U.S. and North American history and the second most powerful
ever measured by a seismograph with a magnitude of 9.2, at the time making it the
second largest earthquake in recorded history.
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