(1964) Dawn, Four Seasons
(1965) Red Roses, Vic Dana / Bert Kaempfert
(1966) Ballad of the Green Beret, SSgt Barry Sadler
(1967) Kind of a Drag, Buckinghams
(1968) Love is Blue, Paul Mauriat
(1969) Build Me Up Buttercup, Foundations
(1970) Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Simon & Garfunkle
(1971) Just My Imagination, Temptations
(1972) I Gotcha, Joe Tex
The Keener Almanac
(1962) Joseph Kearns, Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace dies. Gale Gordon is his replacement.
(1961) Beach Boys release their first single, Surfin.
(1969) Golda Meir becomes Israel's first female prime minister.
Susan writes that the auto exec will appear on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!,” May 17, at Ann Arbor’s Michigan Theater. Also, as Steve Allan exits the PD chair at WOMC, the “oldies” word is again heard as part of their branding message.