"My Love" is a love song written by Paul McCartney to his first wife Linda
and was a number 1 single, spending four weeks atop the Billboard Hot
100 chart. The ballad was the most successful track from the Paul
McCartney and Wings album Red Rose Speedway (1973).
The single “Heartbreak Hotel” topped Billboard‘s Top 100 chart for
seven weeks, Cashbox‘s pop singles chart for six weeks. It was No.
1 on the Country and Western chart for seventeen weeks and went
to No. 3 on the R&B chart, becoming Presley’s first million-seller,
and one of the best-selling singles of 1956. The song reached the
top 5 of Country and best-selling singles of 1956. It also reached
the top 5 of Country and Western, pop, and Rhythm ‘n’ Blues charts
simultaneously and would eventually be certified double platinum
by the Recording Industry Association of America.
In 1995 "Heartbreak Hotel" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of
Fame, and in 2004 Rolling Stone magazine named it one of the "500
Greatest Songs of All Time". That year it was also included in the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame‘s "500 Songs that Shaped Rock & Roll".
Elvis Presley holding framed gold record of “Heartbreak Hotel”
while in a recording studio.
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song written and recorded originally by
Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds for the South African Gallo Record
Company in 1939, under the title "Mbube" (Zulu for “lion”). The song has
earned at least $15 million in royalties from cover versions and movie
licensing in the United States..
Solomon Popoli Linda (1909 – October 8, 1962)
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles recording of “I Second That Emotion”
peaked for three weeks in the United States at #4 on the Billboard pop
singles chart in December 1967. It became the Miracles highest charting
popular single since "Shop Around".
The song also topped the Billboard Black Singles Chart and was a million-
selling hit for The Miracles, their sixth overall.
MIKE GRACIA
Bob Stevens of American Media in Florida.
On this day in 1988, during a debate between candidates for vice president of
the U.S., Democrat Lloyd Bentsen (left) told Republican Dan Quayle, “You’re
no Jack Kennedy."
On this day in 1962, "Love Me Do" by the Beatles was released in the U.K. It
was their first single.
On this day in 1969, "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" debuted on BBC television. The British sketch comedy series, created by the comedy group Monty Python, aired until 1974.
It was on this day in 2001.
