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In the Music - July 2

Good Morning SML-ers (well not sure that is a good way to put that). No a lot for July 2 over the years, but July 2, 1988, was a banner year for Michael Jackson. Five #1 singles from one album - phenomenal!!! ( see first reply)

posted by ItsNdaMusic

July 2, 1966

Frank Sinatra's "Strangers In The Night" displaced The Beatles' "Paperback Writer" at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It was also a UK #1.

July 2, 1977
Billboard's top tune was "Gonna Fly Now", the theme from the Sylvester Stallone film Rocky.

July 2, 1979 Sony introduces the Walkman, the first portable audio cassette player. Over the next 20 years they will sell over 100 million of them in the US alone.

July 2, 1988 Michael Jackson became the first artist to have five number one singles from one album when "Dirty Diana" went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The other four chart-toppers from the L.P. "Bad" were the title track, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Man in the Mirror".

BAD

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I Just Cant Stop Loving You

Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel

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Man In the Mirror

posted by ItsNdaMusic
over 2 years ago

Thanks for the Michael Jackson flashback. At one time, he was quite the entertainer.
My daughter is 34 and grew up in the Thriller, Billy Jean, Moonwalk era of him. She used to have his posters all over her room as well as the Michael doll and all his records.
The night he died, she was at work and all these young people couldn't understand why she was upset about it. She told them, "When he was black, he was the man." She said he didn't get weird until he turned white. Sort of true. So sad.