Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for July 15th

Lookin' at the charts and feeling...older, but OK at the same time; at least we were there for 'em...

7/15/1965 (51 years ago today) - It was a very good year (for parenthesis)!: This weeks top singles in the U.S. are -- No. 3, The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man"; No. 2, The Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"; and at No. 1, The Rolling Stones, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". We can live on just those. Wicked indeed.

7/15/1972 (44 years ago today) - His fifth album here is the one that prepares him to go from cool rock songwriter status to bona-fide future superstar: Elton John starts five weeks at the top with his first Number One LP, "Honky Chateau", and an impressive set it is -- "Honky Cat", "I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself", "Rocket Man", "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters", "Hercules" -- rock solid start-to-finish and, notably, the first of seven consecutive Number One LPs for Elton in the U.S.!

7/15/1978 (38 years ago today) - Showing the punks how it's done: The Rolling Stones are at No. 1 on the LP chart for two weeks in a row with the ridiculously-impossible-to-overrate "Some Girls". Just for "Respectable" alone, seriously.

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"Well, now we're a pillar of society...", xoxo!