1958: A teenage quartet from Hollywood, California who called themselves The Four Preps saw their first big hit, "Twenty-Six Miles (Santa Catalina)" peak at #2 on the Hot 100. They would go on to place six more songs in the Top 40 over the next four years, including "Big Man" (#3) and "Down By The Station" (#13).

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1963: "Our Day Will Come" by Ruby And The Romantics topped the Billboard Hot 100, although it only made #38 in the UK. On the day the song was recorded, it was the first time Ruby had ever been in a recording studio.

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2006: Three impoverished South African women whose father, Solomon Linda, had written "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1939, won a six-year court battle that will give them 25 per cent of all past and future royalties from the song.

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1961: Ricky Nelson records "Hello Mary Lou", which would climb to number 9 in the US by early May.

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1971: Reprise Records releases Jethro Tull's fourth album, "Aqualung". It would go on to sell more than seven million copies worldwide, but spawned just one charting single in the US, "Hymn 43", which stalled at #91 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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