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The top-selling single of 1966 did not belong to Bob Dylan, The Beatles, or Simon & Garfunkel, but to Barry Sadler, whose “Ballad of the Green Berets” sold more than 9 million copies. How did that happen?!

by /u/Praetornicus in /r/AskHistorians

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