Donegan was still riding on the success of his hit Rock Island Line, which had been released a year earlier, and had sold over 150,000 copies in the first two weeks.
Rock Island Line was regarded as a skiffle novelty song by most critics, but radio play helped give the song mainstream success.
Other notable events for March 29:
-After their single, Cover of Rolling Stone, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show were actually pictured on the front of the magazine on March 29, 1973
-All six Led Zeppelin albums released to this point were in the charts on March 29, 1975
-Dolly Parton's The Bargain Store topped the US country charts on March 29, 1975 despite being banned from some radio stations for supposedly suggestive lyrics
-Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon spend its 303 week in the US charts on March 29, 1980, thus beating the record previously held by Carole King's Tapestry
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