"Crimson and Clover" entered the U.S. charts on December 14, where
it stayed for 16 weeks on Billboard Hot 100 and 15 weeks on Cash Box
Top 100. Following a performance of the song on The Ed Sullivan Show
on January 26, it became number one on February 1, 1969, a position
held for one week on Cash Box Top 100 and two weeks on both Billboard
Hot 100.

The single has sold 5 million copies, making it Tommy James and the
Shondells’ best selling song. In 2006, Pitchfork Media named it the 57th
best song of the 1960s.

Tommy James and the Shondells on the Ed Sullivan
Show in 1969.

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Tommy James (born Thomas Gregory Jackson) turned 69 in April.

Connie Francis (Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero)

Singer Connie Francis released the 1958 hit "Who’s Sorry Now?" and 
also appeared in many movies, including Looking for Love (1964). She
was one of the highest charting female solo singers in the 1950s and
1960s. She almost accepted a scholarship to New York University, but
pursued music full-time instead.

"Charlie Brown" was a top-ten hit for The Coasters in the spring
of 1959. It went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts,
and was the first of three top-ten hits for the group that year.

JOHN BELMONT

In 1958 the first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S.
when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National
Airlines Boeing 707.

Susan Hallock Dey was born in Pekin, Illinois.

Susan Dey played roles on the ABC television series The Partridge
Family (1970-1974) and L.A. Law on NBC (1986-1994). She also
appeared in the 1981 movie Looker. Prior to her acting career, she
spent time working as a model.