The single is the latest to debut atop both the Hot 100 and the Hot Country Songs charts, following Wallen’s previous hit ...

But 1968 witnessed a wealth of classic music also, as artists picked up the musical baton of 1967 and ran with it. Here, with a selection of the year’s greatest singles, is just a small sample ...

The best songs of 1968 mostly steered clear of the hippie ... temporarily puts away their differences for one of their most popular and joyous songs. The Band were underground legends before ...

READ MORE: A look back at entertainment in 1968 ... pop music concerts were usually set up as revues: multiple acts each playing relatively short sets focused only on their biggest radio hits.

“Polk Salad Annie,” a 1968 pop hit by Tony Joe White; and “Rainy Night in Georgia,” penned by White and cut by, among others, Brook Benton. Born July 26th, 1931, in Rutherford ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT COUNTRY SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES ... Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart Capitol Week of December 21, 1968 click to see more Capitol Epic ...

"There was a cookie-cutter aspect to most pop music at the time," says John ... "People wanted to make hits," he says. By 1968, that was changing. The world outside of the recording studio was ...

Pop songs get “popular” for a reason. Quite a few gorgeous, catchy, earworm hits through the years have topped the charts because they’re just so good, exactly the way they are. However ...

In 1968, the best records carried that promise forward. Not that rock 'n' should ever be aiming to be respectable, but by transcending the fickle pop charts, it finally became art as well as a ...

The two stars of 1968's "Romeo and Juliet" sued Paramount ... The film, and its theme song, were major hits at the time, and has been shown to generations of high school students studying the ...