(Saturday, July 6, 1968) — “The Look of Love” by Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 peaked at #4 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week. Continue reading ‘The Look of Love’ by Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 peaks at #4 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
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‘D. W. Washburn’ by The Monkees peaks at #19 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
(Saturday, July 6, 1968) — “D. W. Washburn” by The Monkees peaked at #19 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks. Continue reading ‘D. W. Washburn’ by The Monkees peaks at #19 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
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‘Some Things You Never Get Used To’ by Diana Ross & the Supremes peaks at #30 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
(Saturday, July 6, 1968) — “Some Things You Never Get Used To” by Diana Ross & the Supremes peaked at #30 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for three weeks. Continue reading ‘Some Things You Never Get Used To’ by Diana Ross & the Supremes peaks at #30 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
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‘Folsom Prison Blues’ by Johnny Cash peaks at #32 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
(Saturday, July 6, 1968) — “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash peaked at #32 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for three weeks. Continue reading ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ by Johnny Cash peaks at #32 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
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‘It’s Nice to Be With You’ by The Monkees peaks at #51 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
(Saturday, July 6, 1968) — “It’s Nice to Be With You” by The Monkees, the B-side of the group’s single “D. W. Washburn,” peaked at #51 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for four weeks. Continue reading ‘It’s Nice to Be With You’ by The Monkees peaks at #51 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
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‘Hello, I Love You’ by The Doors debuts at #77 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
(Saturday, July 6, 1968) — “Hello, I Love You” by The Doors debuted today at #77, the band’s fifth appearance on Billboard‘s Hot 100 singles chart since June 3, 1967. Continue reading ‘Hello, I Love You’ by The Doors debuts at #77 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1968)
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The Doors perform at Hollywood Bowl 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 5 1968)
Video: 'The Doors Hollywood Bowl (1968)'
(Friday, July 5, 1968, 8:30 p.m PDT scheduled start time) — The Doors performed tonight at the Hollywood Bowl, an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Continue reading The Doors perform at Hollywood Bowl 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 5 1968)
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The Beatles work on early version of ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 5 1968)
Video: 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Anthology 3 Version)'
(Friday, July 5, 1968, 5:00 p.m.-1:30 a.m. BST) — The Beatles completed an early version of Paul McCartney’s “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” tonight at EMI Studio 2 in London, adding three saxophones, bongos, additional percussion and guitar overdubs to a track started July 3, 1968. Continue reading The Beatles work on early version of ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 5 1968)
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono open art exhibition 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 1 1968)
Video: 'The Art Exhibition You Are Here Monday 1 July 1968.'
(Monday, July 1, 1968; during recording sessions for The Beatles, also known as “The White Album”) — John Lennon of The Beatles and his new girlfriend, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono, opened their first joint art exhibition, officially titled You Are Here (To Yoko from John Lennon, With Love) today at the Robert Fraser Gallery in London. Continue reading John Lennon and Yoko Ono open art exhibition 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 1 1968)
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McCartney records ‘Thingumybob’ by Black Dyke Mills Band 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 30 1968)
Video: 'Thingumybob (Stereo)'
(Sunday, June 30, 1968; during recording sessions for The Beatles, also known as “The White Album”) — Paul McCartney of The Beatles produced the Lennon-McCartney compositions “Thingumybob” (the theme to a Yorkshire Television sitcom of the same name) and “Yellow Submarine” for The Black Dyke Mills Band, a brass band from Yorkshire, England, today in Saltaire near Bradford. Continue reading McCartney records ‘Thingumybob’ by Black Dyke Mills Band 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 30 1968)
