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Chart Rewind: On July 4, 1964, The Beach Boys Got Around to Their First Hot 100 No. 1


The Beach Boys' "I Get Around" led the Hot 100 on Independence Day in 1964. Here's the Chart Rewind.

1 single by an American male singing group in eight months,” Fred Bronson wrote in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. Notably, Beach Boy Brian Wilson, who wrote “I Get Around” with bandmate Mike Love, hit No. (Paul Grein headlined the magazine’s Chart Beat column that week: Resurgent Beach Boys Still Get Around.)

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