In 1966, The Monkees scored a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “I’m a Believer.” The song was written by Neil Diamond, who already had launched a successful solo career by that time. [RELATED: ...
Ivory Joe wrote and released “Empty Arms” in 1957. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s. James ...
Some of what the 1970s deemed as acceptable, albeit risky, publicity stunts would be grounds for a swift and immediate cancellation these days, and the Rolling Stones billboard that spurred a wave of ...