Hits of the Year Edition Part 2
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
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The Rise and Fall of the Beatles
Before the Fab Four, Bernard Stanley Bilk was the first Brit to top the Hot 100 with this sultry clarinet ditty. Billboard's number two single of 1962 was Ray Charles' I Can't Stop Loving You. Sugar Shack was a corny, catchy, crazily popular trifle from Chicago-born Jimmy Gilmer fronting the New Mexico-based band The Fireballs.
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