One group that is often overlooked is The Angels, whose "My Boyfriend's Back" was enjoying a three week run at the top of the charts 50 years ago this week. Lead singer Peggy Santiglia and sisters ...

“It can’t be 50 years,” said the song’s lyricist ... told them “The Rapper” had landed on both of the top music charts in those days: Billboard and Record World.

By Keith Caulfield There are girl groups, and then there are the Supremes. 50 years ago, Florence Ballard, then 21, Diana Ross and Mary Wilson (both 20), became Motown’s brightest stars ...

As well as the strange fact of the Pink Floyd album that reached No. 1 for just a single week in 1973 but also hung around on the album charts for more than 18 years total. The singles charts didn ...

Fifty years ago this week, in March 1974, Terry Jacks’ emotional rendition of the pop ballad “Seasons in the Sun” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song, which spent three weeks on ...

Fifty years later, i’s hard to hear “Mandy” — Barry Manilow’s first No. 1 that topped the charts in January 1975 — any other way. But the woman who came and gave without taking was ...

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Rock ruled the album charts in the 1970s, and a look at the Billboard 200 rankings from 50 years ago really brings the genre’s dominance into focus. Five different albums spent time at No. 1 ...