THE SINGING NUN REACHES #1 ON U.S. POP CHARTS WITH DOMINIQUE (THC) Today in history Dec 71963 From the perspective of the American pop charts, December 1963 was, as the Four Seasons would later sing, a very special time indeed. The previous month, pop radio stations around the country had briefly gone dark out of respect for the late President John F. Kennedy following his assassination in Dallas on November 22. The following month, those same stations would begin broadcasting, nearly nonstop, the first sounds of a coming revolution, as the Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand hit American shores on January 13. Perhaps only during the unique moment in pop-music history that fell between those historic landmarks could an actual Belgian nun have ascended to the American pop charts with a jaunty tune about a Catholic saint—sung in French, no less. Thats exactly what happened on this day in 1963, when Soeu Sourire—billed in English as The Singing Nun—scored a #1 hit with the song Dominique. youtu.be/j67CRvHEVvs
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