On This Day: November 3, 1990 — The Righteous Brothers Hit #1 With Unchained Melody
On November 3, 1990, The Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, 25 years after Bobby Hatfield first sang it as a throwaway B-side in 1965. The song owed its second life to Ghost, the Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore film that used it to score a pottery wheel scene…