1976: Foghat's "Slow Ride" becomes the first of their five Billboard chart entries and the only one to crack the Top 20.
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1967: The Monkees' second album, "More Of The Monkees" was released on Colgems Records. It would displace the band's debut album at the top of the Billboard 200 chart and remained at #1 for eighteen weeks, the longest of any Monkees album. The LP also topped the UK chart and has been certified 5X Platinum by the RIAA with sales of more than five million copies. The main single released from the album was "I'm A Believer (#1) backed with "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone" (#20).
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1966: The Beatles started a six week run at #1 on the US album chart with "Rubber Soul", the group's seventh US chart topper.
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1971: Judy Collins cracks the Billboard Top 40 with "Amazing Grace", a song she recorded in St. Paul's chapel at Columbia University, chosen for the acoustics. It would prove to be her second highest charting single, topping out at #15.
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1958: Danny And The Juniors' Rock 'n' Roll classic "At The Hop" was the number one song in America. Originally written as "Do the Bop", American Bandstand host Dick Clark advised the group to re-write the lyrics because the dance known as The Bop was on its way out. Clark was right and the Philadelphia quartet's record stayed in the top spot for a month.
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