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Christmas, 2020 Is Just Hours Away
With Christmas now just hours away, here’s a brand new animated video spotlighting The Beach Boys’ classic “Little Saint Nick” …Footage of McCartney and Tonight Show Host Jimmy Fallon performing...
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Thursday This And That
Hi Kent,A Very Merry Christmas to you and a Fantastic New Year with Forgotten Hits!!!I liked your Christmas song list by Chicago performers!Check out Dave Edmunds version of "Run Run Rudolph." Dave...
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December 26th, 1970
1970: December 26th– George Harrison becomes the first Beatle to top the pop charts with his #1 Single “My Sweet Lord.” (Of course by now he had already been #1 here in Chicago for the past three...
View Article1970: The Year In Movies And Television
Looking at the year-end recap of movies and television entertainment, 1970 comes across as quite a bit less than a stellar year. Unlike other years we've covered recently in the late '60's, there are...
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December 28th, 1970
Rather than running a new chart for the last week of 1970, WCFL ran their Year-End Chart instead.The #1 Record Of The Year seems a bit dubious ...This song never even hit the #1 spot when it was on the...
View ArticleTHE TOP 70 of 1970
Based on a compilation of Year End Charts from all three major trade publications (Billboard, Cash Box and Record World) plus the stats compiled by Joel Whitburn's Record Research 1970 Pop Annual and...
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December 30th, 1970
1970: December 30th– Elvis’ business in Washington, D.C. apparently wasn’t finished yet. Today he tours FBI Headquarters, where he requests … and then is given … a permit to carry a gun in every...
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1970: December 31st– Paul McCartney sues his former bandmates in order to dissolve The Beatles’ legal partnership. (Happy New Year!)While he formally announced the split in conjunction with the...
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It's Our Very First Comments Page of 2021!
There was little cause for celebration in 2020 ...But out of the ruins of the Covid-19 Pandemic and all the shut-downs caused by it ...All the cancelled shows, tours and celebrations ...It is...
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1971 SUPER CHART - Week Ending January 2nd
Also Happening This Week in 1971 ... January 1st– Radio Luxemburg aired over seven hours of non-stop Beatles music to celebrate their ten year anniversary as a band. (Of course by now The Fab Four had...
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1971 SUPERCHART: Week Ending January 9th
George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" holds on to the #1 position for the fourth straight week ...While this week's top debut belongs to another solo Beatle as John Lennon's "Mother" premiers at #67The Bee...
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Monday Mornin'
So 2021 is starting out not a lot unlike 2020 …Today we have to report the death of Gerry Marsden, leader of Gerry and the Pacemakers, one of the premier acts from The British Invasion to find success...
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Tuesday This And That
UPDATE: According to news reports issued late this yesterday afternoon, Tanya Roberts is NOT dead!!!Roberts collapsed on Christmas Eve while walking her dogs and was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical...
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BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS ...Tanya Roberts is dead ... again.Further updates as they occur.Seriously, though, this has got to be either the most bungled news release EVER ...Or the most brilliant.Let's face it ......
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The Dumbest Songs Of All Time
With recent talk of selecting The Worst Songs Of All Time (a topic we ultimately decided to avoid), it was interesting to then get this piece from long-timeFH Reader Clark Besch ... especially since it...
View ArticleA Forgotten Hits Classic: Our Salute To NEIL DIAMOND (circa 2001)
Way back in 2001 (OMG, has it REALLY been twenty years?!?!) we did a short piece on Neil Diamond that has remained a list favorite ... in fact, I believe that this is the at least the fourth or fifth...
View ArticleMore 1971 Goodies
Remembering The Music of 1971:LOTS of attention being paid to 1971 since we flipped the calendar page last week … Me-TV-FM has been running special 1971 features, Sam Tallerico is going to do a salute...
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1971 SUPERCHART: Week Ending January 16th
Dawn (not yet Tony Orlando and Dawn) finally dethrone "My Sweet Lord" this week as their SECOND straight chart-topper, "Knock Three Times," moves into the #1 spot. (It was a slow climb ... from #5 to...
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Monday Mornin'
>>>Can the Super Charts be any more accurate, if all the info they are taken from is inaccurate? (Ken Freck) >>>My thinking is that The Super Charts help to eliminate the wide...
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