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Do you know what was No 1 the day you were born?
Posted by Dave Amitri on 28 April 2010 - 12:03am.
My wife was messing about with something similar on Facebook tonight and I thought it might be fun to do here. Just enter your date of birth on this website http://www.everyhit.com/dates/ and it does the rest. It can tell you the No 1's for all your birthdays, I think I'll make a Spotify playlist of mine.
My birthday, 18th July 1965
The Hollies "I'm Alive"
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September 1969
Bad Moon Rising. I never knew! One of my favourite songs of all time! Thanks Dave, without your thread I would never have known!
Can I Just Say
that I'll be amazed if anyone can find a more appropriate song for the day they were born than 'I'm Alive'
I dunno
I got The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore.
I dunno either
I've got "Why"
(by Anthony Newley)
More appropriate than I'm Alive?
No1 August 1964: A Hard Day's Night, which probably says more about my mother's experience giving birth
20 November 1957..
.."Mary's Boy Child" Harry Belafonte.
(Christ)
27 June 1974...
And it's Charles Aznavour, with 'She'. Far more pleasing is that over in the album charts, 'Diamond Dogs' was the dog's bollocks on that day.
And I share my birthday with Gilson Lavis of Squeeze and the eternally dewy Michael Ball.
Nice find, Mr Amitri!
20 March 1969
UK:
everyhit says: Desmond Dekker And The Aces: "Israelites"
Wikipedia says: Peter Sarstedt: "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)"
Norway:
Marmalade: "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
and John and Yoko got married in Gibraltar.
2nd September 1956
I love mine... Que Sera Sera (whatever will be, will be:Doris Day
10 Feb 1967
Mine was great...
Monkees - I'm A Believer
To answer the OP
I was
Separated at birth
I was born on the same day, same year as Shirley Manson.
Well I never.
Aye.
And on the B side of Distant Drums...
...was this little gem.
Half Man Half Biscuit
did a great cover of this in a Peel Session many moons ago.
Me too.
And that's the first time I've heard it!
The Beatles
I Feel Fine
21 January 1978
Wings - Mull of Kintyre.
The Police
Walking on the Moon
Correction
I've just followed the link only to discover that I've been wrong all this time.
It's wasn't The Police, it was Pink Floyd with Another Brick in the Wall.
'There's A Lame Dog Howling In The Snow'...
by the Thumbscrew Seven. Aaaages ago.
14th August 1969
The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
Got to be happy with that...
1st Feb 1956.
A classic month
bracketed by yourself at the start and me at the (almost) end. 1956 was a leap year and I avoided the 29th by about six and a half hours.
Dean Martin and Memories Are Made Of This had moved into the number 1 spot.
March 13th 1970
The B-Side....
I've always had a soft spot for the A Side
which was number one
on the day I was born, March 22 1970.
The number one album was Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Sublime and ridiculous; I'll leave others to decide which is which.
For subsequent years, there lots of killer not much filer till the late 90's :
Spotify: spotify:user:illuminatusds:playlist:5fg6eiHqlpGjIy8O70GWvn
HTTP: http://open.spotify.com/user/illuminatusds/playlist/5fg6eiHqlpGjIy8O70GW...
My daughter was born on Feb 20 2004
Number 1 single was : Sam & Mark - "With A Little Help From My Friends / Measure Of A Man"
Number 1 album : Norah Jones - "Feels Like Home"
How very underwhelming. She does, however share a birthday with:
Buffy Sainte-Marie, J. Geils and Kurt Cobain. I manage George Benson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim and Pete Wylie.
Middle of the Road
Blimey, how long was Bridge Over Troubled Water at the top of the charts for? I was born in July '71 and it was No1 then too.
I had always thought the number 1 single when I was born was Get It On by T-Rex, which is pretty cool, but rather disappointingly it turns out to have been Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep instead.
9th June 1958
Connie Francis. Who's sorry now? Who indeed?
Ah well at least I was also able to find out that I share my birthday with Jon Lord and Les Paul.
I've never heard of this song
On the day I was born, Boris Gardiner was atop the charts with I Want to Wake Up with You, and the #1 album was Now 7.
Oh, and I share my birthday with a famous Joe... Strummer
I hereby declare you..
...too young for this website!
Actually, I'm just jealous.
I think around that time every number one album was one of those "Now" or "Hits" compilations, which prompted the move to exclude them from the charts shortly after.
Jeesus
The Bay City Rollers - "Bye Bye Baby"
March 67
Englebert Humperdinck with the appropriate Please Release Me keeping Penny Lane/Strawberyy Fields off number 1.
Elvis
Surrender
Stranger on the Shore
by Acker Bilk. Coincidentally, 'Acker Bilk' is the sound my one year old son makes as he coughs and regurgitates his Heinz cheesy pasta and tomato stars.
Jan 4th 1962 - same day (but not year) as Michael Stipe and Barney Sumner.
Two days later
I was born two days later, on Jan 6th, 1962.
I've always believed that Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore" was no. 1 when I was born, but that site informs me that it was "Moon River" by Danny Williams. Ho hum.
Jan 6th. Same day (but not year) as Syd Barrett and Sandy Denny.
oh yes -
have we been mis-informed all this time or is that site wrong?
I'll Be Home
by Pat Boone (sadly, not Randy Newman). July 1956.
almost inevitably for the 60s
It was the HJH's with "She Loves You". They were number one in the album charts too
I'm old and sad enough...
...to know the answer without checking: 19 September 1960
Apache by The Shadows.
30th Nov 1971
Slade - Coz I Luv You
The Searchers - "Don't Throw Your Love Away"
I share my birthdate with -
1944 - Titch ( of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch )
1948 - Brian Eno ( synthesizer player, Roxy Music )
1953 - Mike Oldfield
1959 - Andrew Eldritch ( vocalist with Sisters Of mercy; real name: Andrew William )
For me
And for Ma Bisto:
(Coincidentally my mum is in the street below when this was performed!)
Small Bisto child:
Smaller Bisto child:
An interesting distillation of the way the music industry has changed.
June 4, 1965
Let's hope it's true
Oh dear
Ruby Murray - "Softly Softly"
LP charts did not exist.
September 1977
I get Elvis! Sadly he'd just popped his clogs - Way Down is not one of his better efforts.
Snap!
...and I share my birthday with Morten Harket of A-ha.
September 27th 1973
Topping the charts was Eye Level (better known as the theme from Van De Valk) by The Simon Park Orchestra.
Goats Head Soup by The Rolling Stones was the number one album.
I share my birthday with Alvin Stardust, Meat Loaf, Avril Lavigne, Brett Anderson and Lee from 911.
many, may years ago
I had a teacher who knew this as
21 October 1970
Freda Payne band of Gold. Pretty cool I think,but if Vorgona ever left me I'd start cursing fate. Fortunately, that seems unlikely!
2nd April 1986
Cliff Richard's "Living Doll" with the Young Ones...
Hmmm
January 11th 1966
"Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out" by the HJH. Number one album also by them.
Any psychologists out there who can tell me why I've always hated them, based on this information?
Nope
but I have the same problem/virtue. Mine was Diana Ross: I'm Still Waiting, and I too have always detested the woman.
My album's even worse - Top Of The Pops Vol 18, in case you were wondering.
On the plus side, I share my birthday with St John of Peel (30th August).
Wonderful Land by the Shads
I suppose that means Wales in March 1962 ...
15th June 1977
Kenny Rogers - "Lucille". Nope, me neither.
Still, I share a birthday with Noddy Holder, Demis Roussos and Ice Cube. That would be a good party.
If you don't know that song
consider yourself lucky.
Just reading your post has started the hateful chorus running through my head.
I made the mistake
of looking it up on Youtube. I will never, ever criticise punk again.
Just think, there's 3 weeks' worth of lucky 14-year-olds out there right now who can tell you that that number one on the day they were born was "Firestarter".
40 years ago today....
....I was born. With Dana's 'All Kinds Of Everything' top of the charts. Life couldn't get much more depressing.
happy birthday!
Barbara Streisand, Woman In Love
And here's the Spotify playlist I made last year of all my birthday number 1s.
PS. I have seen one of the featured artists live in concert - bonus points to anyone who can guess which one...
spice girls
or 5ive?
5ive
Well-played. I was at uni by then though, so old enough to know better!
*awards bonus points*
Abba - Waterloo
Although why I'm posting it I have no idea. It's not like no one here hasn't heard it...
That's alright, I'm sureI |'ve not seen the vid
For me, May '62 it was
Shads--Wonderful Land as single
and
Elvis--Blue Hawaii as album. Quite pleased with that.
Has had side effect of telling me exactly when I lost track of the album and singles charts ... about '90 and '95 in my case.
17th May 1969
HJH's with Billy Preston - Get Back.
Probably a safe bet that it would have been them around that time.
Mmmmm...
1st November 1974
UK
Single - Ken Boothe - Everything I Own
Album - Bay City Rollers - Rollin'
US
Single - Dionne Warwick - Then Came You
Album - Barry White - Can't Get Enough
Lonnie Donegan
My Old Man's A Dustman
21 July 1970
Single:
1 Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
Album:
Simon And Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Free were at Single#2 (All Right Now) & Album #3 (Fire & Water) in this week
7th August 1986
Chris De Burgh's 'Lady In Red' sat at the top of the charts. What were you all thinking?
I am so sorry
I was there at the time, I saw people buy it, yet I stood by and did nothing. May God have mercy on my wretched soul.
De Burgh's eyebrows had a strangely hypnotic effect...
on ladies of a certain vintage. They were led in droves to record emporiums across the land.
Cheek to cheek...
I've been wondering for a while
whether you were older than me or not, as I was pathetically hoping to still be the youngest regular contributor to this site. And yes, you are older than me... just
*does celebratory lap of honour while eating marshallows*
I'm glad you haven't returned from
Word Gatherings (sentences?) telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty; including wedgies, and having your head flushed down the toilet by our more senior members of the forum.
I expect you to address me as Sir, from now on, by the way, seeing as I am your elder.
I wonder how many people our age
would have got that Kinks reference.
By the way, rather that refer to you as Sir, I shall just call you by the names of various Toms that are also older than me. It'll probably be one of:
Tom Waits
Tom Petty
Tom Jones
Tom Baker
Tom O'Connor
Hope that's ok
Does this settle the Zooey Deschanel question?
Does Tom win her hand as the senior contender?
This is complicated
Ms. Deschanel is an enchanting, beautiful young woman who is perfectly capable of making up her own mind as to who should be her suitor.
However, without wishing to be misogynistic, I called shotgun on her, so I win...
Good points, all.
But, um, technically, I think someone may already have called shotgun.
I did know that
I just choose to refuse to believe it ever happened.
(Note to self. Buy slightly bigger glasses and grow hair slightly longer)
I'm not exactly sure.
It's either this:
or this
(come on you Addicks!)
I've never really been sure. Everyhit suggests the latter, but other places suggest the former.
Sunny Afternoon by the Kinks July 66
It explains my sunny disposition and cheerful outlook on life.
In one of those lump in the throat moments in life, I got a special CD made up for my 40th of every number 1 on that day since then. Special friends eh? Illegal downloads too, but it's the thought that counts
The Tams - Sep 1971 'Hey girl don't bother me'
This song gets randomly stuck in my head a lot. Now i know why.
This is worth a look
The middle singer of the three at the back looks like he's a mate of the band who's been told the dance moves about five minutes before he's due to go on. Seriously. Half way through, the camera cuts to the lead singer. When it cuts back to the long view, matey-boy has had enough and has sodded off!
Crackin'
It's true, it looks like they've got the teaboy in, especially because I don't even think the coat fits properly
Nancy Sinatra
These boots were made for walking - Feb 1966.
Elvis - Good Luck Charm
Well I never
24th March '64
'Little Children' by Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas.
I'm a big bugger now.
I Got You Babe - August 1965
Quite appropriate really.
Bonnie
Bonnie Tyler - "Total Eclipse Of The Heart"
27th April 1976
Brotherhood Of Man - Save all your kisses for me
No wonder I spent the first few weeks of my life screaming and crying.