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This week in 1950, President Truman asked Congress for $260 million for a hydrogen bomb plan, General Douglas McArthur was named to head U.N. forces in Korea, The National League won baseball’s All-Star game, and a musician from Nova Scotia, Canada had his first No. 1 record, which would stay on the charts for 44 weeks!

A lot of hit songs were recorded shortly after being written, some were even written during the recording session, but for many songs, it was quite some time before making it from the writer’s pen to the vinyl record. And according to Hank Snow, his first No. 1, “I’...