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)