Top 10 Countdown

This week we look back to the year

1966

at the Top 10 Songs on the Billboard Charts

(for week ending Mar 12, 1966)

Headlines and Special Notes

Mar 12- Mar 18, 1966

Mar 12 -  Bobby Hull, of the Chicago Blackhawks, became the first NHL player to score 51 points in a single season.

Mar 13 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational

Mar 15 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles

Mar 17  - A U.S. submarine found a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean off of Spain.

Mar 18 - Scott Paper began selling paper dresses for $1.

Born on This Day

 Mar 12

• Wally Schirra  (Astronaut) 1913
• Gordon MacRae 1921
• Al Jarreau 1932
• Johnny Rutherford 1938
• Barbara Feldon 1941
• Liza Minnelli 1946
• James Taylor 1948
• Mike Gibbins (Badfinger) 1949
• Jon Provost (actor "Lassie') 1950

Mar 13

• Sammy Kaye 1910
• L. Ron Hubbard 1911
• William Casey 1913
• Peter Breck 1930
• Liz Anderson 1930
• Mike Stoller (songwriter) 1933
• Neil Sedaka 1939
• Donald York (Sha-Na-Na) 1949
• William H. Macy 1950
• Fred Berry 1951
• Dana Delany 1956

Mar 14

• Casey Jones (John Luther) 1864
• Albert Einstein 1879
• Les Brown 1912
• Max Shulman 1919
• Quincy Jones 1933
• Michael Caine 1933
• Michael Martin Murphey 1945
• Steve Kanaly 1946
• Billy Crystal 1948
• Rick Dees 1950

Mar 15

• Andrew Jackson (U.S. President) 1767
• Harry James 1916
• Norm Van Brocklin (NFL) 1926
• Carl Smith 1927
• Judd Hirsch 1935
• Phil Lesh ( The Grateful Dead) 1940
• Mike Love (The Beach Boys) 1941
• David Costell (Gary Lewis & The Playboys) 1944
• Sly Stone (Sly & The Family Stone) 1944
• Bobby Bonds 1946
• Howard Scott (War) 1946

Mar 16

• James Madison (U.S. President) 1751
• Henny Youngman 1906
• Jerry Lewis 1926
• Chuck Woolery 1941
• Erik Estrada 1949
• Kate Nelligan 1951
• Nancy Wilson (Heart) 1954

Mar 17

• Shemp Howard (Three Stooges) 1895
• Nat "King" Cole 1919
• Adam Wade 1937
• Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) 1941
• John Sebastian (Lovin' Sponful) 1944
• Harold Brown ( War) 1946
• Patrick Duffy 1949
• Kurt Russell 1951
• Lesley-Anne Down 1954
• Gary Sinise 1955
• Paul Overstreet 1955

Mar 18

• Grover Cleveland (U.S. President) 1837
• Smiley (Lester) Burnette 1911
• Andy Granatelli 1923
• Peter Graves 1926
• George Plimpton 1927
• John Updike (author) 1932
• Charlie Pride 1938
• Wilson Pickett 1941
• Barrie (B.J.) Wilson (Procol Harum) 1947
• John Hartman (The Doobie Brothers) 1950
• Irene Cara 1959
• Vanessa Williams 1963
• Bonnie Blair (Olympic Gold Medal Speed Skater) 1964