GREEN TAMBOURINE – The Lemon Pipers
#1 February 3, 1968
NEWS
• Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 he also became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
• North Vietnam tried to grip the South with an offensive named Tet.
• Robert Kennedy was assassinated following a brief victory speech delivered just past midnight on June 5 at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, mortally wounded and unconscious, he survived for nearly 26 hours, dying early in the morning of June 6.
• Police battled protesters at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
• Apollo 8 launched on December 21, 1968, the crew took three days to travel to the Moon. They orbited ten times over the course of 20 hours, during which the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read the first 10 verses from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever.
• Gas was 25 cents a gallon.
FADS and ENTERTAINMENT
• MOVIES: “2001 Space Odyssey” “Planet of the Apes” “Barbarella”
• T.V.: “Laugh-In” premiered in January 1968.
• The “Summer of Love” was happening in San Francisco.
• “Batman” “The Lucy Show” & “The Monkeys” were cancelled.
• Led Zeppelin would play live for the first time.
• Cream would play their “Farewell” at Royal Albert hall.
#1@1
• From Ohio
• The song has been credited as being the first bubblegum #1 hit and ushering in the bubblegum pop era.
• They would beat back the Beatles, Doors & Stones to claim #1.
• The Lemon Pipers with “Green Tambourine”. The number 1 at 1 from February 1968
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