Hits of the Year Edition Part 2
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
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The Worst Number One He's Ever Written About
Ballad of the Green Beret's was a hit with Americans who didn't like the trajectory of 1966 popular culture and were still in favor of the Vietnam War. Stereogum's Tom Bryant, writer of the number ones column, has called it The Worst Number One He's Ever Written About. Recorded by an army special forces staff sergeant, moon lighting as a singer.
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