ZAGER AND EVANS END A SIX-WEEK RUN AT #1 WITH THEIR SMASH-HIT IN - TopicsExpress



          

ZAGER AND EVANS END A SIX-WEEK RUN AT #1 WITH THEIR SMASH-HIT IN THE YEAR 2525 (EXORDIUM & TERMINUS) (THC) Today in history AUG 22 1969 Despite the impression one might get from movies and television, the actual soundtrack of late 1960s America was not utterly monopolized by darlings of the counterculture. Hollywood has certainly conditioned us to expect a song by Jimi Hendrix, the Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival or Buffalo Springfield every time we see footage of hippies in the Haight-Ashbury or helicopters in the skies over Vietnam. Yet a glance at the pop charts of 1969 reveals a musical landscape that was far more diverse and. In fact, when half a million kids piled into their cars for the long drive home from Woodstock, the song that was likely playing when they clicked on their AM radios wasnt Purple Haze, White Rabbit, Run Through The Jungle or For What Its Worth. It was probably In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)by Zager and Evans—the monumental smash hit that ruled the charts and airwaves for nearly that entire summer before finally ending its run at #1 on August 22, 1969. youtu.be/WhNM2K8cmU8
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:17:27 +0000

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