“On the Fourth of July, 1964, the Beach Boys topped the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘I Get Around,’ the first No. 1 single by an American male singing group in eight months,” Fred Bronson wrote in The ...
On the Billboard Hot 100 dated May 9, 1964, Louis Armstrong ended the most dominant run at No. 1 in the chart’s history to that point. The Beatles had ruled the Hot 100 for 14 consecutive weeks, via ...