Daily Archive: January 5, 2024
As Christmas songs have begun making annual trips up Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, Burl Ives‘ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” has joined the perennial Top 10 parade. Exactly five years ago, it climbed into the...
Two songs from Helen Reddy’s 1973 Long Hard Climb album hit the Top 5 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Exactly 50 years ago, the second of that pair of hits, “Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red...
Dexter Wansel hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot Soul Singles chart one time. On this date in 1980, that song, “The Sweetest Pain,” rose to a peak position of number 40.