April 26, 1969: Canada's Guess Who's latest single, "These Eyes," entered the Billboard Top 40.
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| Guess Who 1975 |
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Released as a single in 1969 and re-released on the Wheatfield Soul album in April, the track hit #6 on the Billboard Pop Singles.
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April 26, 1975: John Lennon's cover of Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" reached Number 20 in the US.
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| John Lennon and Yoko Ono |
The only single to be issued from John Lennon’s 1975 album Rock ‘N’ Roll, Stand By Me was a cover version of Ben E King’s 1961 classic. When the song was taped during the Rock ‘N’ Roll sessions, it wasn’t the first time Lennon had performed it in the studio. The Beatles had played it during the Let It Be recording sessions in 1969.
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April 26, 1980: Blondie was at Number 1 in the UK since April 20 with "Call Me," the group's fourth UK chart-topper.
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| Deborah Harry - Blondie |
Blondie had recently completed work on their fourth album in the summer of 1979 when they were tapped by Italian disco maestro Giorgio Moroder to record a new song for an upcoming movie. Moroder was coming off a string of hits, including Donna Summer's groundbreaking singles from a few years earlier and the No. 1 Bad Girls LP earlier in 1979. Blondie broke through the year before with their own disco hit, "Heart of Glass." So, the team-up made sense all around.
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