The number one British album today in 1963 will be at number one for 21 weeks — “Meet the Beatles”:

The number one single here today in 1963 certainly was not a traditional pop song:

Today in 1967, Otis Redding recorded a song before heading on a concert tour that included Madison:

The number one British album today in 1968 was the Beatles’ “White Album”:

The number one British single today in 1974 was originally a country song:

See the comment from 1963 about the number one single today in 1974:

The number one song today in 1985:

The number one British song today in 1991:

The number one album today in 1991 was U2’s “Achtung Baby”:

The number one single today in 2003:

Only one birthday of note today: Tom Waits, whose voice was described as “like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car” makes him better known as writing for others:

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