#1 Records: September 30th to October 6th Over The Years (and some very viable covers to go with them!!!)

^{In 1960, Chubby Checker} 

^{covered this Hank Ballard penned and recorded  1959 “Dance Tune”...}

^{Here’s Hank’s ORIGINAL version…}

^{And the Chubby Checker COVER} 

^{that went to #1…}

^{In 1964 Roy Orbison hit #1 with “Oh, Pretty Woman”…}

^{Almost a couple of decades later, Van Halen put it on the charts again}

 ^{(check out this version with  a very cool two minute intro)…}

^{The Box Tops hit the top of the chart in 1967 with “The Letter”…}

 

^{And it didn’t take long for Joe Cocker}

^{--one of the masters of cover tunes—}

^{to cover it…}

^{1968 saw The Beatles’}

 ^{“Hey Jude” in the #1 Slot…}

^{Wilson Pickett was right on top of it when he recruited Duane Allman to play guitar on his 1971 cover of The Beatles hit…}

^{SOME VERY COOL #1 HITS ON THIS WEEK THROUGH THE YEARS} 

^{(and a lot of cool covers coming out of them in years that followed)…}

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