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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1973

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       billboard hot 100

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"My Love" is a love song by Paul McCartney & Wings that was the
most successful track from their 1973 album Red Rose Speedway.
McCartney
wrote it for his wife Linda, who was a member of the
band. The song
was recorded at Olympic Studios in London,
England.
 

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PAT BOONE IS 79 TODAY

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pat boone today

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone was one of the most successful
pop singers during the 1950s and early 1960s. According to
Billboard magazine, he was the second biggest charting artist
behind only Elvis Presley but ahead of
Ricky Nelson and The
Platters
. Boone sold over 45 million albums, had 38 Top 40 hits
and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood movies. He is a Gospel
Music Hall of Fame member and continues to perform today and
is a motivational speaker.

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“April Love” was written as the theme song for the 1957 film
of the
same name starring Pat Boone and Shirley Jones. It
became a number-one hit for Pat Boone in December of
1957 and was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Music, Original Song.
 

 

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RECORDED ON THIS DATE IN 1957

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Sam Cooke’s “You Send Me” reach #1 for a two-week stay in December
1957, with sales estimated at 1.5 million copies. It become a landmark
record of the soul genre, which Cooke helped create. It was named as
one of the 500 most important rock and roll recordings by the Rock &
Roll Hall
 of Fame. In 2005, the song was voted #115 by members of
the music industry and press in Rolling Stone magazine’s The 500
Greatest Songs of All Time
. 

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NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1971

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Rolling Stone
magazine ranked “Brown Sugar” #495 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and at #5 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.

             

Rolling-Stones today

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SONGWRITER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1931

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   Clint Ballard, Jr. (May 24, 1931 – December 23, 2008)

Ballard was a songwriter who wrote two Billboard Hot 100 number
one hits. The first was “Game of Love” by Wayne Fontana and
The Mindbenders in 1965. The second song was the 1975 hit,
”You’re No Good” by Linda Ronstadt, originally sung by “Dee
Dee” Warwick.

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