Louis Armstrong's "Hello Dolly" Dethrones The Beatles "Can't Buy Me Love" In 1964 | Chart Rewind | Billboard News - video Dailymotion

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On today’s episode of Billboard's Chart Rewind, Jazz musician Louis Armstrong dethrones The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" and earns his first No. 1 with "Hello Dolly" on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964.

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00:00 ♪ Hello Dolly, this is Louis Dolly ♪

00:05 - Louis Armstrong stops the Beatles

00:08 in this week's chart rewind.

00:10 We head all the way back to 1964.

00:13 The New Orleans-born trumpeter hit number one

00:15 on the Hot 100 with "Hello Dolly,"

00:17 stopping 14 straight weeks of the Beatles

00:20 at the top of the chart,

00:21 rising up over the band's "Can't Buy Me Love."

00:24 ♪ I don't care too much for money ♪

00:26 ♪ Money can't buy me love ♪

00:29 - Despite Beatlemania, "Hello Dolly" rose to the top

00:31 in part thanks to the musical that was popular at the time.

00:35 The song spent one week at the top

00:37 and was his only Hot 100 number one hit.

00:40 (upbeat music)

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