Number One Songs Lensography

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1958. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs The Alaska Statehood Act into United States law. The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels be...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1959 Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan Bonanza premiers, the first regularly scheduled TV program that is in color The...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1960 The Summer and Winter Olympics were played in Rome (summer) and Squaw Valley, California (winter). No snow until the start of the Oly...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1961 Mr. Ed debuts Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player by signing a $75,000 contract Explorer 9 launched Discovery o...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1962. Johnny Carson takes over hosting duties of The Tonight Show NBA Championship Boston defeats LA Lakers (4-3) Pat Brown defeats Ric...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. I picked this picture because my Dad had this album and I played it a lot when I was little. Other things were happening in 1963 November 22, President Kennedy shot and...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1964 The British Invasion in the music industry started IBM announces the System/360 The Beatles make their appearance on The Ed Sulliva...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1965 Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines July 25 at Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan goes electric Sandy Koufax throws...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1966. Insulin is first synthesized in China Unemployment 4.5% Wimbledon Billie Jean King defeats M. Bueno (6-3 3-6 6-1) On July 1 Medic...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1967. In December of that year was the first human-to-human heart transplant is performed. Lpuis Washkansky died 18 days after the transpl...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1968 Movies 2001 A Space Odyssey Funny Girl The Lion in Winter Miss America, Miss Debra Dene Barnes (KS) North Korea seizes US Navy ship...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard hot 100. Other things were happening in 1969. Woodstock Music Festival The FCC bans all cigarette advertising on television and radio The Godfather by Mario Puzo Stanley Cup M...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1970. Monday Night Football debuts on ABC IBM introduces the floppy disk The Beatles break up On May 31 an earthquake kills more than 5...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1971 The Ed Sullivan Show ends on June 6th 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified A six pound meteorite struck the home of...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1972 President Richard Nixon orders the development of the space shuttle program Summer Olympics are held in Munich, Germany Winter Olym...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1973 Federal spending $245.71 billion U.S. population 211,908,788 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President and pleads no contest to char...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1974 President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 mph Happy Days premiers on ABC The Altair 8800, the...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1975. The Altair home computer kit allows consumers to build and program their own personal computers Junko Tabei becomes the first woman...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1976 Nation celebrates Bicentennial The Band gives its last public performance; Martin Scorsese is on hand to film it (The Last Waltz) C...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1981 August 1, first broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles Walter Cronkite signs off...

This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Other things were happening in 1984 Hulkamania is born, Hulk Hogan wins the WWF Championship by defeating Iron Sheik The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale Walter Payt...