May 23, 1953: Bill Haley and his Comets'
"Crazy, Man, Crazy" enters the charts reached No. 12, becoming the first song generally recognized as rock and roll to be a pop hit…
"Crazy, Man, Crazy" enters the charts reached No. 12, becoming the first song generally recognized as rock and roll to be a pop hit…
May 23, 1960: The Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown" hits #1, eventually selling eight million copies worldwide, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and one week on the R&B charts. It spent seven weeks at number one in the UK in May and June 1960. It would become the Everly Brothers' biggest hit single and their third and final US Number One.
The song is ranked number 149 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time…
May 23, 1964: Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" enters the charts: It is unclear who played the harmonica - urban legend credited Rod Stewart for many years,
but he has denied it...
Even the “slow days” have their moments, in
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