Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for September 28th

Some of the coolest classics of the '60's and '70's hit the charts on this date...

9/28/1968 (48 years ago today) - It was their 16th U.S. No. 1 as well as the biggest selling single of 1968: The Beatles start a nine week run at the top with the mega-classic "Hey Jude". After hearing it for the first time, Mick Jagger turned to Keith Richards and famously quipped, "Okay, what the f---k do we do now?"

9/28/1974 (42 years ago today) - Bad Company get to the No. 1 spot with their self-titled debut album, and a rather concise piece of work it is, too: eight songs (four per side) clocking in at under 35 minutes!!! It opens with "Can't Get Enough", closes with "Seagull", and in between? No frills whatsoever, taking the meat-and-potatoes style of Free to a shockingly even more basic blueprint, and it worked, selling over 5 million copies -- pretty good turnaround for the first LP release on Led Zeppelin's then-new Swan Song record label...

9/28/1976 (40 years ago today) - Stevie Wonder released his eighteenth studio album "Songs In The Key of Life", an ambitious double LP set that also came with a bonus four-song EP! In it's first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 Album Chart a week later, it debuts at the No. 1 spot, becoming only the third album in history to achieve that feat, the first by an American artist(!) -- only The Beatles and Elton John had done that before...

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