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Remember When: No. 1 Songs

Cis/Simple Mind, in her never ending quest to provide relief from political posts, offers this wunnerful link to No. 1 songs from yesteryear on any given day here. Here's some flashbacks to No. 1 songs on this date in ...

1958: "Tom Dooley"/Kingston Trio
1968: "Hey Jude"/Beatles
1978: "MacArthur Park"/Donna Summer
1988: "Bad Medicine"/Bon Jovi
1998: "Doo Wop (That Thing)"/Lauryn Hill

Question: Which song was on the top of the charts on your birthday? (Me? "Mule Train"/Frankie Laine, Nov. 20, 1949)



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.