1965: The Beatles topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the seventh time with "Eight Days A Week". Paul McCartney would later say the name of the song came from a chauffeur who drove him one day. "I said, 'How've you been?'. 'Oh working hard,' he said, 'Working eight days a week.'"
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1957: Buddy Holly And The Crickets record "Maybe Baby", which would be released the following year and climb to #17 in the US and #4 in the UK.
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1989: 38 Special's biggest hit, "Second Chance" enters the Billboard charts where it will reach #6 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Adult Contemporary Chart. The Jacksonville, Florida based band featured Donny Van Zant on vocals and Don Barnes on guitar.
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1979: Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" found its way from B-side obscurity to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It was also a #1 in the UK.
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1960: The Mystics appeared on American Bandstand where they sang their newest release, "All Through The Night", a follow-up to last year's #20 hit, "Hushabye". Among the group's members was the recently added Paul Simon (aka Jerry Landis), who would leave a few weeks later to pursue other projects.
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