1987: Bon Jovi started a four week run at the top of the Billboard chart with "Livin' On A Prayer". It reached #4 in the UK.
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1965: Jr. Walker and The All Stars enter the US charts for the first time with "Shotgun", which will make it to #1 on the R&B chart and #4 on the Pop chart.
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1967: The Turtles release their biggest hit, "Happy Together", which will reach #1 in the US and #12 in the UK. Co-written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, the song had been rejected by several other performers.
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1958: Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly With Me" rose to the top of the Billboard album chart, where it would stay for the next five weeks. At the inaugural Grammy Awards in 1959 the LP was nominated for Album Of The Year, but lost to Henry Mancini's "The Music from Peter Gunn".
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1964: The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which was watched by over 73 million people (60% of the viewing audience). The Fab Four performed "All My Loving", "Till There Was You", "She Loves You", "I Saw Her Standing There" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand". Also performing on the show is a future member of The Monkees, Davy Jones, who appeared as part of the cast of Oliver.
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