Source: Good News Network
60 years ago today, the musical soundtrack to the Oscar-winning film South Pacific rose to No.1 on the UK album chart. The songs written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and performed by Mitzi Gaynor and Giorgio Tozzi, include Some Enchanted Evening, Happy Talk, and I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair.
The LP went on to became the longest-running No.1 album of all time, spending an astounding total of 115 weeks (including the whole year of 1959) atop the chart. WATCH Brian Stokes Mitchell sing a brilliant version of This Nearly Was Mine… (1958)
More Good News on this Date:
- The French Revolutionary government opened the Louvre to the public as a museum (1793)
- Abraham Lincoln was overwhelmingly reelected to his second term as U.S. president, helping to ensure the union between states would survive the current Civil War (1864)
- Happy Birthday to Bonnie Raitt, the blues singer-songwriter and slide guitarist whose No.1 album ‘Nick Of Time’ won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year (1949)
- Led Zeppelin released Led Zeppelin IV, which became the third-best-selling album ever in the US,…
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