Number one the day you were born?

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: GUEST, ...
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 11:59 AM

Which one, Kendall?

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Nick
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 12:39 PM

Doris Day - Secret Love

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Slag
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 12:49 PM

Hmm late April '49. "Just a-walking down the Suez" no, that was later, "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy" "Oh Babe" "Alice Blue Gown" Man, I don't know. Did they even have numbers back in those days??? I remember listening to the Hit Parade and some program called The Caravan of Hits.

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:10 PM

Yes, but, certainly in England there weren't any charts ,as far as I know before 1952, so what charts are they talking aobut?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: shepherdlass
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:14 PM

Oh dear, Cilla Black's "You're my World". I really thought that I stood a fair chance of a bit of Beatles class, not their squawking protege.

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Cruiser
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 02:36 PM

MBSLynne,

You are correct about the year 1952. Remember that songs making the charts in the U.S.pre-1952 were also being aired/played in the UK. So pick your year from the US chart...the best you can do.

This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Singles Chart, from its inception in 1952 to the present.

Wikipedia Charts List of Number-One Singles_(UK)1952 Onward

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Helen
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 05:01 PM

UK charts: Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
US charts: Dance With Me Henry - Georgia Gibbs (never heard of it!)

The Cherry Pink song is one of the player piano/pianola rolls my Ma-in-Law gave us with the piano. I don't know that I had ever heard the song before but I really liked the piano roll as soon as I heard it.   It's now one of my favourites.

Like MBSLynne, I don't know what the hit songs in Australia were when I was born.

Helen

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 08:25 PM

I get Ebony and Ivory in the UK, and I love rock and roll in the US...

Right, back to the sensible music, and verse 39 of that of that ballard..

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 09:16 AM

So can anyone come up with somewhere that tells you what the no 1 in Oz was?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 09:21 AM

yes - I had it but I've forgotten where I put it

ah ... here it is ...


There are navigation buttons to help you go back and forth through the years

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 09:23 AM

Funny ... you can see how the aussies got everything a couple of weeks after the limeys and yanks

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 09:45 AM

According to Wiki list, my birth date had "Riders in the Sky" by Vaughn Monroe on my birth date. The first site suggesting the 18th birthday #1 was Aretha's "Respect."

Well that was thrilling......................

Spaw

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 09:49 AM

the number one when I was born was TEARS by KEN DODD.

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 25 Nov 06 - 09:27 AM

and so it has, my life is shit

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Eye Lander
Date: 25 Nov 06 - 11:30 AM

Mmmm 'If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake' 1950 in case you were trying to remember!

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:54 AM

One of the versions of "To Each His Own" in the USA. No Hit Parade in the UK yet!!

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Tootler
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 06:50 PM

I'm too old for all this.

I was born before the earliest date on the site linked.

That definitely makes me an old fart :-)

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 07:16 PM

You Call Everybody Darlin'. Don't know that I've ever heard of the song or of the artist, Al Trace. Wikipedia says the song was Number One for two weeks. Before that, it was the "Woody Woodpecker Song," by Kay Kyser - I certainly remember that.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 07:19 PM

I got Everything I Do by Bryan Adams. I...erm...don't know what to make of that.

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 10:53 PM

Red Sails in the Sunset- Guy Lombardo


I didn't Google or Wiki- went straight to Ask.com.

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: LadyJean
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 12:26 AM

That is one of the most entertaining time wasters I've encountered. #1 on the day I was born was "Sincerely" by the MacGuire Sisters. #1 on my 18th birthday was "Killing Me Softly". I never heard "Sincerely", and probably don't want to. I'm not a fan of "Killing Me Softly". But it's still interesting. Incidentally they don't have Australian charts before 1956.

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 02:35 AM

I was a little surprised the link still worked, but I had the same problem Joe O reported. Off the chart.

Ageism is rampant. I'd sue, but age discrimination is the only illegal discrimination in the US for which you are not allowed to sue for "punitive damages" so there's no way to pay the lawyer. You're only allowed to claim "actual monetary loss," so you can't even claim extreme emotional damage or that the insult rendered you homicidal and looney as a big ugly bird.

MySpace does the same thing. Ya can't even search for hot chicks over 68. If I'm gonna drool over somebody I want a grown up dammit.

John

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 11:43 PM

"Sincerely" by the MacGuire Sisters.

Sincerely, dah dee dah dah dah dee
dah dah dah dee dah dah
Oh, yes, sincerely
Please say you'll be mine.

See?

Subject: RE: Number one the day you were born?
From: Joe_F
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 09:08 PM

I know the song my mother sang me on the day I was born. Who the **** cares what was on the ******* radio?