The only Hot 100 No. 1 for the late Lou Christie was a winning pop-soul confection from one of the greatest periods in top 40 history.
The Beach Boys' second No. 1 was essentially the end of their career's first phase as hitmakers.
If The Beach Boys felt threatened by the Fab Four’s explosive arrival, they were not going down without a fight.
The final of the group's three No. 1 singles was a brilliant but bittersweet success.
Sometimes the simplest songs convey the deepest truths, as seen in the first of the late Sly Stone and his Family Stone's three Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s.
The 1979 chart-topper was an unlikely late-career breakthrough for an artist with an absolutely bizarre career arc.
Flack transformed the song from a pop/folk tune to one that drew from a wide range of American music forms – pop, soul and jazz.
The late Maurice Williams' best-remembered pop song runs just 1:38. It is the shortest of the 1,174 singles that have reached No. 1 on the Hot 100.
The mid-'60s girl-group No. 1 was an absolute miracle of girl-group theater-pop.
The soft-rock ballad helped cement Soul's mid-'70s cross-platform stardom, but didn't necessarily fit in with his loftier musical inspirations.
