The song “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. The song also reached number one on the UK Singles
Chart.

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.

The song “Splish Splash” by Bobby Darin was his first hit and 
helped give him a major boost in his career, reaching No. 3 on
the pop singles chart.

The song “Moonlight Serenade” was a Top Ten hit on the
pop charts in 1939, reaching number three on the Billboard
charts, where it stayed for fifteen weeks. It was the number
5 top pop hit of 1939 in the Billboard year-end tally. Glenn
Miller had five records in the top 20 songs of 1939 on
Billboard′s list. In 1991, Miller’s recording of this song was
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The song "Brown Eyed Girl" by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van
Morrison was released as a single in June 1967 on the Bang label,
peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. It featured The Sweet
Inspirations singing back-up vocals and is considered to be Van
Morrison’s signature song. It has remained a staple on classic rock
radio, and has been covered by hundreds of bands over the
decades.

Van Morrison (Sir George Ivan Morrison) will be 72 on August 31.

The Afro-Cuban music sound in “Groovin” included a conga, a Cuban-
influenced bass guitar line from ace session musician Chuck Rainey,
and a harmonica part, performed first for the single version by New
York session musician, Michael Weinstein, and later for the album
version by Gene Cornish.

The single became an instant hit in May of 1967, spending four weeks
atop the Billboard pop singles chart, but not four consecutive weeks
because the sequence was interrupted by Aretha Franklin‘s "Respect"
which spent a week at No. 1 in the middle of "Groovin’"’s run. The song
was RIAA–certified a gold record on June 13, 1967.