The week of April 5, 1966, found The Righteous Brothers enjoying their second (and last) #1 hit, ‘(You’re My) Soul and Inspiration.’ Two years earlier, the duo reached the top spot with ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.’
You might have guessed the other #1 was 1965’s ‘Unchained Melody,’ but that classic peaked at #4. The Righteous Brothers’ other two top ten hits were ‘Just Once in My Life’ and ‘Ebb Tide,’ both also released in 1965.
Throwing back to the week of April 5, 1956, we find a couple of repeats atop the singles chart in ‘The Poor People of Paris‘ and ‘Lisbon Antigua.’
At #3 that week was Perry Como with ‘Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom).’ This is Como’s fourth appearance on Throwback Weekends, and if this series stretched back into the 40s and early 50s he’d have a lot more.
Incidentally, I have written more than 300 Throwback Weekend posts now, making that category second only to Random Weekends, which numbered over 1,000.
The week of March 29, 1986, found two very 80s hits atop the Billboard Hot 100 in Falco’s ‘Rock Me Amadeus‘ and Heart’s ‘These Dreams,’ both of which have already been featured on the blog.
Just behind those tracks that week was R&B band Atlantic Starr’s hit ‘Secret Lovers,’ which peaked at #3. It’s a sign of my lifelong blindspot for R&B music that I can confidently say I’ve never heard this song before.
Throwing back to the week of March 28, 1976, we find Jonnie Taylor atop the Billboard Hot 100 with the sultry funk ballad ‘Disco Lady.’
This song spent a full month at #1 on its way to being named the #3 song of all 1976. It has the distinction of being the first single designated Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
The week of March 22, 1966, found the Vietnam era hit ‘The Ballad of the Green Berets‘ hanging on the #1 spot of the Billboard Hot 100. The British Invasion was hot on its heels, with the next two slots going to The Rolling Stones and The Beatles.
The Stones’ ’19th Nervous Breakdown’ sat at #2, where it would peak, held out of the top spot by the Green Berets. This was the band’s third top five single on the U.S. chart in nine months, after ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ and ‘Get Off of My Cloud’ became their first #1 hits in the States the previous summer.
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