The 1960s will always be associated with counterculture ... novelty and instrumental records—even a guitar-strumming Belgian nun. In other words, the soundtrack of the era was more like Mad ...

And thats where your hitip parade marches today, the week ending December 7, 1963, when Dominique by the Singing Nun reach number one on billboards Hot 100. Its one of the 1960s oddest chart toppers.