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TIL that the first American Artist to cover a Beatles song was Del Shannon with his 1963 cover of "From Me to You". Del Shannon's cover also became the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts when it entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 29th, 1963

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