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flipSide 02/22/2016

2/22/2016

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Welcome to the "flipSide's" all new format.  We'll be spinning discs from 1964 all the way to 1984 . . . that's 21 years of music.  It's not that we dislike music on the Turntable . . . It's just that we'd like to move on! Well . . . here we are . . .
                                                    Harv!
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1964
"Oh, Pretty Woman" is a song recorded by Roy Orbison,  written by Orbison and Bill Dees. It was released as a single in August 1964 on Monument Records and spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. 

1968
 "Hey Jude" tied the "all-time" record, at the time, for the longest run at the top of the US charts. The single has sold approximately eight million copies and is frequently included on professional critics' lists of the greatest songs of all time. In 2013, Billboard named it the 10th biggest song of all time.
1972
"American Pie" is a song by American folk rock  singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the American Pie album in 1971, the single was a number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972. In the UK, the single reached No. 2 on its original 1972 release and a reissue in 1991 reached No. 12.  The song was listed as the No. 5 song on the RIAA project Songs of the Century
1976
"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" was the first No. 1 single in the UK for both John and Kiki Dee, topping the chart for six weeks in mid 1976.  John would not enjoy a solo British chart-topper until "Sacrifice" in 1990. It also became his sixth No. 1 single in the US, topping the Billboard Hot 100  for four weeks and spent one week on the Easy Listening chart.
1980
"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" is a hit 1980 song performed byBilly Joel,from the hit album Glass Houses.  The song was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for two weeks, from July 19 through August 1, 1980. The song spent 11 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and was the 7th biggest hit of 1980 according to American Top 40.
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