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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1966

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Sinatra, Frank - Strangers In The Night 

Sinatra’s version of “Strangers In The Night” reached number
one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening
chart. it was the title song for Sinatra’s 1966 album Strangers in
the Night
, which became his most commercially successful album.

Sinatra’s recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop
Vocal Performance
and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year,
as well as a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying
a Vocalist or Instrumentalist
for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy
Awards of 1967
.

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1966

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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1973

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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1961

bonds quarter to three
Gary U.S. Bonds (Gary Levone Anderson)

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quarter to three 45

"Quarter to Three" appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 
500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.

 

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Gary U.S. Bonds became 74 on June 6

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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1966

paperback writer

"Paperback Writer" was the last new song by the Beatles to
be featured on their final tour which kicked off in Munich,
Germany in 1966, and was the group’s only U.S. number one
released that year.

 

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MEDLEY, NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1981

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The US Radio Records release with its famous forty-one word title. It is
(to date) the longest titled song to ever chart in Billboard.

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