This week in 1982, The U.S. House Of Representatives rejected a nuclear arms freeze, New Jersey passed a bill allowing death penalty by injection, John Hinckley Jr. was given an indefinite term for attempting to kill President Reagan, and a vocal group named after a Tennessee town had their 19th hit record.

A lot of hit songs have been written by someone riding in a car. Some have even been written while sitting in a car in a parking lot. And according to Sonny Throckmorton, The Oak Ridge Boys 1982 hit, “I Wish you Could Have Turned My head And Left My Heart Alone” was one of those...

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