Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for April 8th

...and America's most successful group on the singles chart is.... -- Remembering the guy that wrote one of the best Christmas classics of all-time -- A Beatle offspring birthday...

4/08/1964 (56 years ago today) - The Supremes roll the tape machine for "Where Did Our Love Go?" at Detroit's Motown Studios; it would soon become their first Number One -- In 1959 they started out as The Primettes and remain, to this date, the most commercially successful vocal group to come out of the United States with a grand total of 12 No. 1 singles on the Billboard chart (the only acts that have more are The Beatles with 20, Mariah Carey w/18, and Michael Jackson w/13, so some pretty commmercially intense company there)...

4/08/1985 (35 years ago today) - Fact: he wrote over 700 songs, so let's give it up for J. Fred Coots who passed away on this date at age 87. C'mon now, he wrote Pat Boone's No. 1 "Love Letters In The Sand", but most importantly, the J-Man was the author of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" [Insert standing ovation here!] 

4/08/1963 - Born on this date, John Lennon's first son (and the only child of first wife Cynthia Lennon), Happy Birthday to Julian Lennon, 57 years old today -- Lately he's been writing books and occasionally still makes some cool music on the down-low that's totally worth seeking out. Paul McCartney wrote "Hey Jude" for him when Mom and Dad were going through divorce...

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"Please don't leave me all by myself...", xoxo!