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Classic Hits from the 60s, 70s & more! - Support #CommunityRadio oldies96.com Quispamsis, New Brunswick Joined March 2020
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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: August 4,1957 #TheEverlyBrothers make their second appearance on #TheEdSullivanShow and play #WakeUpLittleSusie a song which would be banned from some radio stations because it was about two teenagers who accidentally fell asleep together.

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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: August 3,1971 #RingoStarr receives a Gold record for #ItDontComeEasy. Ringo was given full writer's credit even though it was later revealed that #GeorgeHarrison not only helped him, but may have written the bulk of the song.

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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: August 2,1958 Buddy Holly's version of "Rave On" peaks at #5 on the UK chart. The record, which lasts only 1:47, is one of Holly's last hits during his lifetime. #BuddyHolly #RaveOn

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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: August 1,1966 #TheTroggs accomplished the rare feat of having a Top Ten hit in both the UK and the US with different songs. In England, #WithAGirlLikeYou was a major hit, while in the US, #WildThing led the Billboard chart.

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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 28,1976 #TheSteveMillerBand's album #FlyLikeAnEagle goes Gold, on its way to Platinum. The LP features the title track (US #2), "Take the Money and Run" (US #11), "Rock'n Me" (US #1) and "Jet Airliner" (US #8).

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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 27,1957 #TheEverlyBrothers had the best selling song in North America with #ByeByeLove. It was ranked 210th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 26,1960 RCA Victor releases #SamCooke's #ChainGang, which will prove to be the singer's 2nd most popular song of his career. Cooke was inspired to write the song after seeing a chain gang of prisoners on a highway while he was on tour.

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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 25,1970 #TheCarpenters #CloseToYou topped the Billboard Pop chart and became the first of 20 top 40 hits for the brother and sister team. The song itself had been written in 1963 by Hal David and Burt Bacharach

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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 24,1964 #MarvinGaye records "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" at Hitsville U.S.A. studios in Detroit, Michigan. When it is released on the Tamla label next November, the single will rise to #6 on Billboard's Hot 100 and #39 in the UK.

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9 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 20,1965 #TheLovinSpoonful release their first single #DoYouBelieveInMagic, from the album of the same name. It will reach #9 on the US Pop chart and was later ranked #216 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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10 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 19,1965: Capitol Records releases #TheBeatles single #Help. Written mostly by #JohnLennon, with some help from #PaulMcCartney, the song would spend three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and end the year as the #2 song of 1965.

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10 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 18,1960 #RoyOrbison saw his first record #OnlyTheLonely climb into the Top 5 in North America after #TheEverlyBrothers and #Elvis both turned the song down. Over the next six years, Roy Orbison would have 22 Top 40 hits. @ROYORBISON

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10 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 14,1967 #TheWho begin their first full-scale US tour as the opening act for #HermansHermits. So far, The Who's only single to crack the Billboard Top 40 was #HappyJack, while The Hermits had placed sixteen songs on the chart.

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10 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 13,1959 Paul Anka's "Lonely Boy" was the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100. Paul would also sing the song in the movie Girls Town, in which he starred with Mamie Van Doren and Mel Torme. #PaulAnka #LonelyBoy #GirlsTown

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10 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 12,1969 #InTheYear2525 was the #1 song. Denny Zager and Rick Evans had invested $500 to press 1000 copies of the tune. After a Texas radio station added it their play list, RCA signed the duo. It was the #1 record in 1969. #ZagerAndEvans

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10 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 11,1964 The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go?" is released and enters the Hot 100. It stays on the chart for 14 weeks and would become the group's first number one hit next August. #TheSupremes #WhereDidOurLoveGo

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10 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 10,1963 #MarthaAndTheVandellas release #Heatwave, which will reach #4 on the Billboard Pop chart and #1 on the R&B. The song became their first million-seller and won the group their only Grammy nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance.

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10 months ago

Congratulations to this week's Saint John Gold Rush winning ticket #829! They've possibly won $1586.00! #Inittowinit #supportlocal #goldrush

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10 months ago

#onthisdate in #musichistory: July 5,1974 Linda Ronstadt records "You're No Good" at The Sound Factory in Los Angeles, California. It will go on to become the only one of her twenty-one Billboard Top 40 singles to reach number one. #LindaRonstadt

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10 months ago

#Onthisdate in #musichistory: July 3,1977 The #MarshallTuckerBand’s hit #HeardItInALoveSong peaks at #14. The Group got their name from a blind piano tuner who had tuned a piano for them. The real Marshall Tucker died in 2023 at the age of 99.

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