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This Week in Music Chart History (May 11)

From Billboard Top 100!
Number One Songs this Week in History
May 11 - 17

1982 - Chariots of Fire, Vangelis
1979 - Reunited, Peaches & Herb
1978 - If I Can't Have You, Yvonne Elliman
1975 - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You), Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974 - The Loco-Motion, Grand Funk
1970 - American Woman / No Sugar Tonight, The Guess Who
1967 - The Happening, The Supremes
1966 - Monday, Monday, The Mamas & the Papas
1864 - Hello, Dolly!, Louis Armstrong
1959 - The Happy Organ, Dave "Baby" Cortez

Today's Dose of Humour (May 17)

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
- Laurence J. Peter

Thinking Cap (May 17)

"It's not how many times you get knocked down in life that counts, it's how many times you get up."
- Terryl Bechtol

Today In History (May 17)

1975
The NBC Television network paid a record $5,000,000 for the right to air "Gone with the Wind" only once.

Born on this Date (May 17)

1962 - Craig Ferguson (actor; The Drew Carey Show; TV talk host; The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson)
1956 - Sugar Ray Leonard (boxer; Olympic gold medalist; Junior Welterweight; World Welterweight; and World Junior Middleweight Champion; WBC Heavyweight; Super Middleweight)
1956 - Bob Saget (actor; Full House; TV host; America's Funniest Home Videos; died January 9, 2022)
1955 - Bill Paxton (actor; Twister, Aliens, Apollo 13, The Terminator; died February 25, 2017)
1936 - Dennis Hopper (actor; Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Rebel Without a Cause; director; Easy Rider, Colors, Chasers; died May 29, 2010)
1921 - Bob Merrill (songwriter; If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake, Doggie in the Window; died February 17, 1998)
1911 - Maureen 'Paul' O'Sullivan (actress; Tarzan films; Jane; Peggy Sue Got Married; died June 23, 1998)
1898 - Alfred Joseph 'A.J.' Casson (Was a member of the Group of Seven, best known for depictions in his signature limited palette of southern Ontario, and for being the youngest member of the Group of Seven; died February 20, 1992)

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