While half a million young people attended the Woodstock Music Festival in the summer of 1969, the number one song on the charts that summer – from July to this week (Aug. 22) – wasn’t on the ...

When it comes to the key musical acts of 1969, you will rarely hear about Zager and Evans. Mind you, this was a year that saw the Beatles limping along on the verge of collapse, Led Zeppelin emerging ...

During the summer of the first Apollo moon landing, one song dominated the Billboard Hot 100. A band called Zager & Evans sat atop the charts for six weeks, from July 12 to Aug. 16, 1969—tied for the ...

If you were alive and sentient in 1969, you couldn’t have missed the song “In the Year 2525,” which spent six weeks on Billboard’s Top-100 chart, ultimately selling more than five million copies.