What was #1 on the day you were born.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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?