Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Mrrzy Date: 10 Feb 09 - 01:06 PM I see who has my birthday, and what their #1 songs were, but not what was the #1 song ON my birthday? |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: GUEST,BanjoRay Date: 10 Feb 09 - 12:19 PM It would probably have been "Who set fire to the Old Coliseum" by Nero Caesar and the lyre-o-maniacs if the charts had been invented at the time. Ray |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: cloudstreet Date: 10 Feb 09 - 04:35 AM Can't Buy Me Love (Beatles) in Oz, US and UK. I have been deeply affected by this sentiment ever since. John |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Pistachio Date: 10 Feb 09 - 04:16 AM Perry Como, UK Magic Moments..and US. Catch a falling star for my twin and me. Buddy Holly -It don't matter any more for my Husband. Woman In Love - Streisand for our Wedding, Cliff (and the Young ones) Livin' doll, for my daughter and The Joker, Steve Miller Band for my son. Useless information - all our birthdays and our anniversary fall on the same day within any year! I did say useless info... Back to work! - but thanks for the thread. Hazel. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 09 Feb 09 - 05:27 PM To John on the Sunset Coast: You are right as rain regarding the Crew Cuts. I was up in Fresno County in those days, which may explain the reference to the "Crew Cuts." They happened to have the record on the juke box in our cafeteria. We had a senior quartet during my freshman year of high school who went by the name "The Squires." They did a better version of "Sh-Boom" than the Crew Cuts, but no one did it better than the Chords. And yes, I do remember the take-off on "Your Show of Shows that skewered all those rip-off masters of the era. The mainstream record companies didn't have the cojones to use the original artists, so we got the 'white' version of a lot of great songs back then. Several folks mentioned Frankie Laine. When I moved to San Diego, in 1967, one of the first people I ran into was the late Frankie Laine, who lived for many years in Point Loma. There is a hospital wing at Mercy Hospital named for him and his late wife, Nan, using his birth name of Frank LoVecchio. He was a very generous guy who kept singing into his 90's. He told the story on himself once about recording "Blazing Saddles" for Mel Brooks. Brooks let him believe it was a straight western, and he did it that way. He didn't find out until the premier what sort of wacky film it was. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: PoppaGator Date: 09 Feb 09 - 02:40 PM Janie: Tony Bennett's recording of the Hank Willams classic "Cold Cold Heart" was Number One on one of my birthdays ~ I think about my 3rd or 4th. (I am not bothering to look it up again to pinpoint the exact year, but I'm pretty sure it was '51 or '52.) So: Not only do I know your approximate age, I don't have to ask "What's your sign?" Unless that song stayed at the top of the charts longer than most, your b-day is around the first week of November and you're a Scorpio like me. (Not that I put the slightest credence in astrology, except as a conversational ploy.) |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: ard mhacha Date: 09 Feb 09 - 01:48 PM I think it was Handel`s Water Music. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Nickhere Date: 09 Feb 09 - 01:44 PM You know, this thread topic is a great one to ask someone diplomatically if you don't know their age / birthday! |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Leadbelly Date: 09 Feb 09 - 01:41 PM In 1943, mostly sold records have been: 1. Paper Doll - Mills Brothers (Obviously, I looked like, when I came to join this world) 2. Oh, what a beautiful morning - Bing Crosby (That's what I felt, when I recognized my first sunrise) 3. As times goes by - Rudy Vallee ( That's what I feel today) Great songs. Just tailor-made for life-time. Manfred |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: JohnInKansas Date: 09 Feb 09 - 09:38 AM While I'll avoid repeating the "ageism" charge, this is obviously a game for little kids, since the charts are short by decades of going back to when I came on the scene. (Maybe they didn't have charts back then. Can't recall exactly when we invented them.) John |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Will Fly Date: 09 Feb 09 - 05:23 AM IB: Furthermore, when Helen Shapiro recorded You Don't Know (#1 in August 1961 - link below) she was 14-years-old. Hell, she's only 62 now, same age as my beautiful mother-in-law - now there's a thought! Not sure why I find this business so unsettling actually, probably because of the utterly archaic nature of the music itself in terms of historic & cultural remoteness. And into this dark & alien realm I was born... I had a chuckle when I read this. One man's dark & alien realm is another man's teenage years. :-) Helen Shapiro was part of a tour that passed through our city (Lancaster) in 1962. One of the lads in our 6th form played guitar in a band that was chosen to back her. ("Jumbo" Wilson - where are you now...?). I heard HS on the radio just recently, singing jazz these days, with a very fine voice. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Mr Red Date: 09 Feb 09 - 05:22 AM Dunno 'bout songs But Mother reckoned I was number 1 in Wednesbury, maybe I was singing (of sorts). |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Stu Date: 09 Feb 09 - 05:08 AM Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby By The Beatles (double-A side, for those who remember such things). Quite happy with that one. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Uncle Phil Date: 09 Feb 09 - 01:19 AM "The Old Lamplighter" by Sammy Kaye, also. January, 1947. We must be the same age, Sandy. Number one on the day Michelle and I got married was "The Wonder of You" by Elvis Presley. - Phil |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 09 Feb 09 - 12:46 AM "The Old Lamplighter" by Sammy Kaye. Strangely enough it is a song that I sometimes sing, but with The Browns more country twist. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: pdq Date: 08 Feb 09 - 10:13 PM "...a lot of the old hits had beautiful melodies..." That separates the squealing and howling of most modern AM radio junk from lasting music. Neil Young, Phil Ochs, and Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead) are/were brilliant at writing melodies. As a result, their compositions will be around a long time. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: M.Ted Date: 08 Feb 09 - 10:01 PM I forgot to mention that, by the Billboard Charts, my tune was "The Thing"--Though I am a big Phil Harris fan, I've always tried to fudge it a bit, and claim "Harbor Lights" , which was the week before, or "Tennessee Waltz", which was practically the whole month after. Maybe they were on "Your Hit Parade"-) It is worth listening to these old songs--there is something to Kendall's point--a lot of the old hits had beautiful melodies, and it is kind of amazing to see how many of the popular songs from fifty, seventy five, and even a hundred years ago are familar today--especially when most of us wouldn't recognize more than a few hits from the last ten years. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: michaelr Date: 08 Feb 09 - 08:43 PM Tried it. Got someone I'd never heard of singing something I didn't know. Yawn. Now -- what was #1 on the day I first got laid -- that might be relevant to me. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: TRUBRIT Date: 08 Feb 09 - 08:36 PM I have been tracking this and checking in on several of the neat U-Tube clips (thanks ) and went from Helen Shapiro to The Shadows......then this am, my sister in the uk told me she had seen Liquorice Locking (ex Shad) playing last night......! |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: boosh Date: 08 Feb 09 - 02:06 PM The Number 1 single was: Culture Beat - "Mr Vain" The Number 1 album was: Meat Loaf - "Bat Out Of Hell II - Back Into Hell" i found it out here |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: GUEST,John in Hamilton Date: 08 Feb 09 - 09:27 AM Massachusetts by the Bee Gees was #1 in Britain |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: *Laura* Date: 08 Feb 09 - 07:42 AM Don't Turn Around - Aswad - UK Man in the Mrror - Michael Jackson - US I Should be so Lucky - Kylie Minogue - AUS hmm |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Jack Blandiver Date: 08 Feb 09 - 06:44 AM Furthermore, when Helen Shapiro recorded You Don't Know (#1 in August 1961 - link below) she was 14-years-old. Hell, she's only 62 now, same age as my beautiful mother-in-law - now there's a thought! Not sure why I find this business so unsettling actually, probably because of the utterly archaic nature of the music itself in terms of historic & cultural remoteness. And into this dark & alien realm I was born... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2cG-ed6hw On a happier note, Sun Ra recorded his Futuristic Sounds in the October of the same year, which still sounds fresh as a daisy. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Padre Date: 07 Feb 09 - 11:38 PM I had to pick the day I started school in order to get a song to come up - the curse of old age! "To Each His Own" by Freddie Martin |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Janie Date: 07 Feb 09 - 10:04 PM USA Cold, Cold Heart - Tony Bennett |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Joe_F Date: 07 Feb 09 - 09:57 PM MTed: I'll see if I can scare it up. The jacket of _Copulatin' Blues_ (Stash ST-101) informs me that the performance of "Stavin' Chain" was *recorded* on the day I was born -- and, if the Harlem Hamfats were in fact in Harlem at the time, then not far from where it happened, either (Harkness Pavilion Hospital). Perhaps that is a more significant part of my musical horoscope. The first song I ever *heard* was very likely "Rozhenkes mit Mandeln". I have the copy in my mother's handwriting that she studied it from while she was waiting for me to appear. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: GUEST,Allen in Oz Date: 07 Feb 09 - 07:59 PM 1943 "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer" Halcyon days AD |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 07 Feb 09 - 04:13 PM quokka Ghost Riders in the Sky was written by Stan Jones. If Jones is a member here, then he's a Ghost Writer in the Sky. He went to the bing round-up about 45 years ago. I'm often surprised to find people I thought alive, dead. And more happy to find those I thought were gone are still around/ |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Catherine Jayne Date: 07 Feb 09 - 04:05 PM 'The Winner Takes it All' by Abba in the UK charts 'Magic' by Olivia Newton-John in the US charts |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Reinhard Date: 07 Feb 09 - 03:36 PM "When" by the Kalin Twins. Which was also in the charts in Showaddywaddy's version when I finished school. The latter is the only version I knew until today so this thread is adding to my education. Thank you. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: quokka Date: 07 Feb 09 - 11:00 AM Kendall - I believe Ghost Riders in the Sky was written by a current Mudcatter... Cheers |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 07 Feb 09 - 09:14 AM Hey wha, I must be over the hill (1937). But not to despair! Rather than let an ageist website beat me, I turn to the inimitable Sigmund Spaeth's listing of pop songs in 1937 from "Popular Music in America." (loud cheers) Out of some 40 total -- don't worry, not gonna cite em all! -- I'll pick a few titles popular in that year, a few of which I actually remember: As Long As You're Not in Love With Anyone Else Boo-Hoo! Ebb Tide Have You Got Any Castles, Baby? It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Lane My Cabin of Dreams Nice Work if You Can Get It (Gershwin, who else) Once in a While (Bud Green-Michael Edwards -- great torch, my favorite of the bunch) That Old Feeling (by the great Lew Brown & Sammy Fain) There's a Lull in My Life Too Marvelous For Words Whispers in the Dark You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming Gee, think we could be psychoanalyzed via the song titles? Anyway, I'm safe, it could well be that none of these was actually charting on my birthday. Bob |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: John MacKenzie Date: 07 Feb 09 - 09:01 AM Did you leave a C off, Kendall? |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: kendall Date: 07 Feb 09 - 08:34 AM Ah yes, the singable ones, the ones that made sense. Alternative music= no melody, no lyrics, no harmony. In other words, Rap. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: katlaughing Date: 07 Feb 09 - 12:54 AM It lists Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen for the day my Rog and I got hitched. Ah, wish Freddie was still around. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Feb 09 - 12:20 AM "Sh-Boom" by the Crew Cuts? Never heard of it or the group. "Little Things Mean a Lot" by Kitty Kallen in the UK. Never heard of those either. I always assumed it was something like "16 Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford. My folks had that 45 since I can remember. And "The Thing" (is that Phil Harris?) from around the same time. I was more into classical music anyway. It was probably something by Bernstein or Copland or Toscanini (conducting). SRS |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Cats Date: 06 Feb 09 - 11:45 PM I Believe by Frankie Lane .. Hmmmm |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: M.Ted Date: 06 Feb 09 - 10:11 PM JoeF--According to Pop Memories, which is Joel Whitburn's compilation of Billboard Chart information from 1890 to 1954, the number one hit on the day you were born, and for the last two weeks in October, 1937 was "You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming" by Teddy Wilson--I am not sure, but the vocalist was likely Billie Holiday. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: RangerSteve Date: 06 Feb 09 - 09:35 PM I only checked the U.S. - it was Frankie Laine doing Mule Train. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Joe_F Date: 06 Feb 09 - 09:21 PM My parents kept the New York Times for the day I was born (28 October 1937), but either the state of the Hit Parade that day was not news, or it was not fit to print. Wikipedia, however, says that the top tune for the year was "One-o'Clock Jump" with Count Basie, which I am sorry to say I know nothing about. No. 2 was "Sing Sing Sing" with Benny Goodman, which I do admire. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 06 Feb 09 - 09:16 PM Like many groups, the Hilltoppers lead singer Jimmy Sacca went on his own. From what I remember, he had a minor hit before disappearing. He joins lead singers who never equalled their success they had with the group they were in like Tony Williams of the Platters (who had a couple of minor hits, from what I remember,) and Bill Kenny of the Ink Spots. Of course there were some who went on to pretty good success as solo artists, including Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly, and even Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Jerry |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 06 Feb 09 - 08:56 PM Those were the days. Kendall, do you mean the son? Or are you pining for the singable tunes of yore? A story about Unchained Melody. I choose to believe it is true. Johnny Johnston was a pleasant singer (crooner type) in the 1940s. He appeared in several MGM musicals of the period. Flash forward a few years; Johnston is offered and takes the second lead in a movie, "Unchained." This is a prison movie staring football player Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsh, who is trying to build an acting career. The producers of the film ask Johnston to sing the title song for the movie credits. He declines because he, too, wants to focus on his film career. The movie tanks. But Roy Hamilton and Al Hibler have monster hits with the title song. Bad career choice fo JJ. Johnny Johnston never again approaches his 40s popularity, and ends his career hosting bowling shows on the tele. Elroy Hirsh also doesn't do well in acting, but he ends up as Athletic Director at his Alma Mommy, U. of Wisconsin. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: M.Ted Date: 06 Feb 09 - 08:42 PM PoppaGator, you probably do know "Now is the Hour"-- It was one of the most recorded songs in it's day--check this Guy Lombardo does "Now is the Hour" For those that don't like the Ink Spots, here is a bit more earthy version-- Hank Snow's 1950 Version of "Address Unknown"--If anyone wants hear their birthday song, a lot of old recordings are on Youtube, and there's a pretty good chance it's there-- |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: open mike Date: 06 Feb 09 - 08:24 PM I'm Walking Behind You -- Eddie Fisher guess i was too young to remember it on that day. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: kendall Date: 06 Feb 09 - 07:28 PM What ever happened to those singable pop songs? The Wayward Wind Mule Train Ghost Riders in the sky. Love is blue. Unchained melody. Those were the days. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: SussexCarole Date: 06 Feb 09 - 06:43 PM In the UK the NME chart was started on 14th November 1952 - two days before I was born - so the very first number one was 'Here in my Heart' by Al Martino. Nessie - Perhaps you & me should share a party! |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 06 Feb 09 - 06:25 PM Billy Vaughn, as FB, noted is the correct answer to to my earlier question. But in addition to being a record producer, he also led the sax-filled Billy Vaughn Orchestra which cranked out lots of LP. His monster hit, I guess, was "Sail Along Silver(y) Moon". ===================== TJinSanDiego-- "Sh-Boom" by the Crew Cuts is the exemplar for bad white covers of R&B songs. In Los Angeles, I don't know about SD, the Chords original was far and away the more popular version. Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris [The Three Haircuts(?)] did wonderful takes skewering groups like the Crew Cuts. I was just about to enter the 10th grade when Peter Potter introduced the real "Sh-Boom" on "Juke Box Jury" in the summer of 1954. ===================== On the day I graduated high school (yes, I managed to), Pat Boone's "Love Letters in the Sand" was the primero song in the country. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: Bainbo Date: 06 Feb 09 - 06:09 PM FanTASTic. Here in the UK it was Hoots Mon, by Lord Rockingham's XI. I first heard the record on a pub juke box when I was - ooh, 19, maybe, and I've loved it ever since. But I had no idea! I'm chuffed to little bits. In the U.S. it was To Know Him Is To Love Him, by the Teddy Bears, and in Australia It's All In The Game, by Tommy Edwards. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: bobad Date: 06 Feb 09 - 04:23 PM You're Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone That's probably what my mother said when she saw me. |
Subject: RE: What was #1 on the day you were born. From: John MacKenzie Date: 06 Feb 09 - 03:59 PM I think this is a thread for people younger than you or I, Cap'n. |
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