“In the Year 25-25 by Denny Zager & Rick Evans: …is arguably the most famous one hit wonder of all time.

Rick Evans wrote the song about the journey of man over a 10,000-year span: from 25-25 to 85-10…predicting the course of human events, and ending with the extinction of all mankind.’

With that in mind, the song was subtitled “Exordium & Terminus,” which is a fancy way of saying “Beginning & End in Latin.”

“In the Year 25-25: spent 6 weeks at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 & Adult Contemporary Charts…coincidentlyreaching #1 the week before man landed on the moon. It also topped the charts in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and West Germany.

Over the years, the song has been covered at least 60 times in 7 languages, and has been used in a number of TV Shows including “Futurama”…and films like “Alien 3.”

“In the Year 25-25” may be a one hit wonder…but in the year 20-26, It’s still a Great Song of the ’60s.