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On January 6, 2014, Aitzaz Hasan stopped a suicide bomber outside his school in Pakistan. He gave his life, and hundreds of his classmates went home safe.

Army Specialist Vance McFarland and his bomb-sniffing dog Ikar were split up the day they came home from Afghanistan. Three years later, Ikar came running.

In 1944, a young American soldier fell in love with a French girl. In 2019, at 97, K.T. Robbins held her in his arms again.

“Day-O! Daylight come and me wan’ go home.” Harry Belafonte took a Jamaican work song and made it an anthem. Watch him sing it live in 1960.

“Out in the West Texas town of El Paso…” Marty Robbins’ cowboy ballad ran over four minutes, and America couldn’t get enough of it.

“You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?” Tennessee Ernie Ford’s deep voice turned a coal miner’s song into one of the fastest-selling records of the 1950s.

A song about a dreamer who didn’t make it in L.A. became Gladys Knight & the Pips’ first No. 1 hit, and her signature song for life.

Ray Charles refused to play for a segregated crowd in Augusta in 1961. In 1979, Georgia made his “Georgia on My Mind” the state song.

In 1964, Dean Martin told his Beatles-loving son he’d knock “your pallies” off the charts. A few weeks later, “Everybody Loves Somebody” was No. 1.

“Top of the World” was almost just an album track. Then a country cover changed everything, and Karen and Richard Carpenter had a No. 1 hit.