December 3 in Pop History

On this day, December 3rd in: 

• 1956 - Guy Mitchell had the top song with Singing The Blues

• 1962 - Bobby Vee released the single The Night Has A Thousand Eyes 

• 1966 - The Supremes logged a second week at # 1 on the R&B chart with You Keep Me Hangin' On.  Winchester Cathedral was the # 1 Easy Listening song from the New Vaudeville Band 

• 1976 - You can count on one hand the number of artists of the Rock Era who were this much in demand.  The Royal Albert Hall received 3.5 million applications for a total of 11,212 tickets for upcoming ABBA shows in February 

• 1977 - Simple Dreams by Linda Ronstadt was the new # 1 album, taking over from Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, which had spent 29 weeks at # 1, a record to that time

• 1977 - Duran Duran released their first career single Hungry Like The Wolf