In 1966, a Green Beret staff sergeant sat down and wrote a song. Four weeks later, it was the #1 record in America. “The Ballad of the Green Berets” sold nine million copies, knocked the Beatles off ...

A wounded Vietnam veteran, Sadler became a national sensation before his hit song became controversial, and a series of ...

The song "The Ballad of the Green Berets," sung by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, hit No. 1 on the U.S. music charts on this day in history, March 5, 1966. Unlike many songs that would emerge from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exactly 60 years ago today, on March 11, 1966, a song that was widely embraced at the time was the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot ...