Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for May 4th

Today we look at a pair of truly classic singles that both became chart toppers, plus Neil Young lets Tricky Dick have it but good...

5/4/1967 (49 years ago today) - It's a bit of a kinda-corny period piece, sure, but still a nice song: The Young Rascals start four weeks at No. 1 with the classic single "Groovin'". The bands label, Atlantic Records, didn't even want to release the track until then-pseudo-influential DJ Murray The K heard it and encouraged them to do so. Back when DJ's carried a little more weight and not everything was stat-crunched and categorized...

5/4/1970 (46 years ago today) - The incident that inspired Neil Young to write "Ohio", which became a hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: On this date, four students were killed (and eleven wounded) when National Guard troops fired into the crowd at a Kent University demonstration protesting the escalation of the Vietnam war. Chilling...

5/4/1974 (42 years ago today) -This was only the second time ever that a cover version had been a No. 1 as well as the original: Grand Funk Railroad kick off two weeks at the top of the Billboard singles chart with their version of the Little Eva hit "The Loco-Motion". Co-written by Carole King way back when...

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