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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1966

Strangers in the Night

“Strangers in the Night” reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100
chart and the Easy Listening and was the title song for Sinatra’s 1966
album “Strangers in the Night”, which became his most commercially
successful album.

The song won Sinatra 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.

Note: Glen Campbell
played rhythm guitar and Hal Blaine was the
drummer on the record.

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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1958

splishsplash45

bobbydarin20 (1)

The song “Splish Splash” helped to give Bobby Darin a major
boost in his career, reaching No. 3 on the
pop singles chart.

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SINGLE RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1973

paul-mccartney-my-love

"My Love" is a love song written by Paul McCartney to his first wife Linda. The
ballad was a number one single and the most successful track from the Paul
McCartney and Wings
1973 album Red Rose Speedway.

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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1964

where-did-our-love-gojkt

"Where Did Our Love Go" was the first single by the Supremes to go to
the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart and
remained for two weeks. It was also the first of five Supremes songs in a
row to reach number one. The Supremes’ version is ranked #475 on
Rolling Stone ‘​s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

where did our love go 45

billboard hot 100

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THE FIRST 45 RPM RECORD RELEASED

first45byrca

Texarkana Baby” by Eddy Arnold (above) was the world’s first commercially
released 45 RPM record in 1949. At first each genre of music had it’s own
color of vinyl, Popular releases on standard black, Country were on green,
Children’s records were on yellow, R&B and Gospel were released on
orange vinyl and Classical singles used red vinyl. Eventually, RCA
soon ended it’s colored vinyl lines due to the production cost.

Blue Big Band copy 3  orange45      kids45  Red Classical copy (1)

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