The single "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues charted at #2
on the Billboard Hot 100 and was #1 on Cash Box. It earned a Gold
certification for sales of a million copies.

The single "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues charted at #2
on the Billboard Hot 100 and was #1 on Cash Box. It earned a Gold
certification for sales of a million copies.



The song “Jingle Bell Rock” charted at No. 13 on Billboard‘s Most Played
C&W by Jockeys chart, a predecessor to the Hot Country Songs chart. It
also peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. After it was featured on the
soundtrack to the 1996 film Jingle All the Way, the original version returned
to the country charts in late 1996-early 1997, reaching a peak of No. 60. It
also crossed to the pop charts, reaching #11 in the Cashbox Top 60, week
ending January 11, 1958.
Robert Lee Helms (August 15, 1933 – June 19, 1997)
The song "In and Out of Love" by The Supremes was the second
single issued with the group’s new billing of Diana Ross & the
Supremes.
The song was successful, peaking at number nine on the Billboard
Hot 100, and number 16 on the R&B Singles chart. It also reached
number 10 on the Cashbox chart.
Bobby Vee (Robert Thomas Velline)
( April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016)
(AP) – Pop idol Bobby Vee, the 1960s singer whose career was born when he
took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that
killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, has died.
According to his son Jeff, Vee, whose 38 Hot 100 hits included the chart-
topping "Take Good Care of My Baby", died today of advanced Alzheimer’s
disease. He was diagnosed with the illness in 2011, and performed his last
show that year.
“Devil or Angel” reached #6 in 1960.
Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans in Spring Gully, South Carolina)
Recording artist Chubby Checker dominated the 1960s music scene with the
dance song "The Twist." and also made the "Limbo Rock" song and dance
style popular. In September 2008 "The Twist" topped Billboard’s list of the
most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958.
Dick Clark and Chubby Checker on American Bandstand.