1989: Roy Orbison had his final Top 10 single on the US chart with "You Got It", four months after he passed away. The song was written by Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty and appeared on Orbison's "Mystery Girl" album that was released posthumously.
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1966: The Beatles record "Paperback Writer" and the vocals for "Eleanor Rigby"
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1964: 22-year-old Chubby Checker marries 21-year-old Catharina Johanna Lodders, who had won the Miss World Pageant in 1962. She is said to be the subject of his 1963, Billboard #12 hit, "Loddy Lo".
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1963: Gerry And The Pacemakers were at #1 on the UK singles chart with "How Do You Do It?" The song wouldn't catch on in the US until the Fall of 1964 when it went to #9.
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1959: Bobby Darin records "Splish Splash". The record will become a world wide hit, although he was outsold in Britain by a rival version from comedian Charlie Drake.
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