Put in further perspective: Prior to "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and the British Invasion, just four songs by British artists – "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn (nine weeks in 1952) "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" by Laurie London in 1958 and the instrumentals "Stranger on the Shore" by Acker Bilk and "Telstar" by the Tornados, both in 1962 – topped the chart.Hand" is still hailed as a landmark in popular music. Apart from existing Motown acts, few pre-1964 popular music acts would see their careers survive. The song also heralded a little event called the British Invasion, a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s wherein rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom became massively popular in the United States. 1 - nothing sounded as different on the radio than this song - would fundamentally change the style of popular music, plus herald (or reinforce) a cultural and social change in America. 1 - Bobby Vinton, whose vocal pop style was as different as the British rock style of the Fab Four - would remain popular is awesome in and of itself, but it also laid to rest for good the vocal music era that was in reality still popular. The fact that the artist they knocked out of No. February 4, 1964: "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles.and was widely considered to be the song that more than any other, brought rock and roll into mainstream culture around the world. 1, was considered by many to be an anthem for rebellious youth of the 1950s. But the fact was, it was the first rock and roll song to top the Billboard charts, had an extended run (eight weeks) at No. 1 Hits" that the average reader of the day might have shrugged upon reading the chart news in that week's issue, and then turned elsewhere in the magazine for what they might have considered more newsworthy. Writer Fred Bronson remarked in his book "The Billboard Book of No. July 8, 1955: "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets.In the 75-plus year history of the chart, two of those chart-toppers songs changed the very direction of music as we know it: Since the start of the Billboard magazine pop music charts in 1940, more than 1,500 different songs have rotated in and out of the No.Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
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