Not a song I particularly like, actually:

You really got me....not bad

"heard it through the grape vine" it's offcially the best single ever

damn and blast!

"Mary's Boy Child".(Angie's actually, Harry.) Just a few weeks later and we'd've been rocking to Jerry Lee's "Great Balls of Fire". Bad timing. Bane of my life...

PS Hello up there, Hannah! Email to follow when I've had some sleep.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

40 years ago this week coming....

Not too bad...

Mary Hopkin with "Those Were the Days", last week in Sept 1968. Produced by Paul McCartney I think.

Quite apt as I was the final child (three older brothers) and I can imagine my mum was glad her child-bearing days were all over.

Surely everyone knows the bit in the middle - la la la laaa la-la, la la la laaa, la-la.... - not too sure about the other language versions though.

Wooden Heart

It's all 60s and 70s around here, isn't it? But what if you were born before the charts were invented? Someone might know of sheet music or wax cylinder charts so that The Word's editorial staff can also join in.

Truly dreadful much prefer his "Little Mouse In Old Amsterdam"

Its a standard I suppose but if I'd have hung on it could have been Daydream Believer by The Monkees. Damn my punctuality.

Haven't we done this before? I seem to recall seeing everyone's Day Of Birth Number Ones and thinking that I knew all these songs as a 10 year old. Mine is Guy Mitchell's Look At That Girl. Never heard it. There was no Number One album as those charts didn't start until 1956, 3 years after I was born.

More coolly, I share a birthday with Johns Lennon and Entwistle and Jackson Browne.

Oh dear. Thanks, Spotify! Great line in the middle though - 'The girl who loves a soldier is either sad or gay'. Both 'sad' and 'gay' have completely different connotations today. If I had arrived on time it would have been Doris Day's 'Que Sera, Sera'. I've always liked that.

the dogs f**king hairy b*ll*cks.

Cumberland Gap - I'm happy with that.

glad I was too young to hear it :-)

was top of the charts as i entered this world. i was a three weeks late, so it should have been "i want to hold your hand"(ahem).

I am the father of twins...and made a pledge that i would buy the number one single when they were born and keep it for a fond memory. However it was Meat Loaf and.." I'd do anything for love(but i won't do that)" which kind of discribed my feeling about buying that! However, they were born 6 weeks early so they could have had Mr Blobby.

come to think of it were Mr Blobby and Mr Loaf ever seen in the same room together?

'Tears' by Kenn Dodd

My mate got 'You've lost that loving feeling', street cred is all a question of timing...

For the first (and probably the only) time in my life I was early, otherwise it would have been The Everlys' Temptation.

Single and album both at No 1, here and in the US. It's the musical equivalent of planets aligning.

And i've been trying to to that ever since.

My eldest niece was born when this was at Number 1 -

I don't think I would wanna be the one in the Mat Unit trying to make a light hearted comment to gee things along :o

May 1969 - seem to be a fair number of us turning 40 this year...

One hit wonder

by Acker Bilk - my son got Lady Gaga

Strange, I can't remember it at all......

Mannfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn. Can`t decide if this is good or bad.

I love a bit of Tom

am I the oldest of the Massive. dob 9/10/53. Young at heart anyhow, even if various bits don't work quite as well as they used to.

Oh and son and heir was born when John Lennon was no 1 with Woman and Mrs Bruised boasts Dean Martin's Memories Are Made Of This. Incidentally as I wrote before I share a birthday with Lennon: she shares a birthday with Ono. Spooky.

And then there is Heppo himself, a young looking 72. But who's counting? Let all us mature tastes show the whippersnappers, callow youths all in their 40s and less, what's what in beat music, eh?

Sweets For My Sweet by The Searchers here, Fingertips pt2 by Stevie Wonder in the States, Surf City by Jan & Dean in Australia. I obviously poked my nose out of the womb, sniffed the air and thought: “Tamla Motown, Merseybeat and surf music... that’ll do me”. And it has done ever since.

Ruby Murray and Ray Martin & His Orchestra - 'Softly Softly'

on Bruised Mike's 18th bithday. No. 1 was Rod Stewart's Maggie May. Not a bad one really. My first daughter is lumbered with Fatman Scoop's godawful shoutfest.

the Jimmy Young version, unfortunately

It was Englebert Humperdinck's 'Please Release Me', which makes a lot of sense.
For the first 30 years of my life I thought it was the Beatles' double a-side of Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, but, of course, our Eng' famously kept them at number two.
Oh, 16th March 67.

by Eddie Grant was tip-top of the singles charts, if I'd hung on for another couple of days it would have been "beat surrender" by The Jam. On the album front it was Dire Straits with "Love Over Gold", which I can honestly say I have never heard. Anyone care to enlighten me?

As it doesn't concern birthdays this is ever so slightly off topic but the number 1 single in Australia before, during, and after, the Chernobyl disaster was none other than Chain Reaction by Diana Ross.

I was amazed by this at the time but never heard it mentioned anywhere. Not at the time and not since.

Chernobyl happened on April 26 1986 which I guess was someones birthday but not mine.

This is the link to the Aussie charts where I confirmed my memory about the timing.

http://www.take40.com/music/number-ones/year?year=1986

and this is the song itself, many mentions of "explosions" and "Instant radiation." It's not funny just spooky.

September 16th 1969. Yet another 1969 baby... 40 this year. This seems to be the mode average for people here.

which is quite cool. But it turns out it was actually Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, which isn't.

2nd August 1985
Yay a proper 80s icon was number 1 when I was born :-)

Four Seasons with December 63 (Oh what a night). Two weeks later and would have been Tina Charles and I love to love (but my baby loves to dance).

Mine was San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) by Scott Mackenzie. I think that's where the brackets go anyway.

I Want to Wake Up with You by Boris Gardiner. (Just looking further, I was perilously close to having Lady In Red - yikes)

The #1 album was Now 7...

Let's hope so

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

Number one in Australia for five weeks, overlapping by weeks on either side of my birthday (7th November 1983) to ensure I would be born under its mildly naff reign.

Bad Moon Rising by Creedence, 30/09/1969.

Don't ask my son. F**k It(I Don't Want You Back) by Eamon, 28/04/2004. Makes you proud.

With A Girl Like You 10/08/1966

by Slade 27/09/1972, if i'd hung in a few more days it could have been David Cassidy. Glad i got out when I did.

For me it was The Young Ones by Cliff and the Shadows and for Mrs Phil it was Telstar by The Tornados, both of which have their merits in my opinion.

I always thought it was "Name of the Game" by Abba, but some sites say it was "Mull of Kintyre" (01-12-77).

Not sure which I prefer, really.

Good Vibrations

These Boots were made for walking which is fab. Though when I was younger I wished I'd been born a couple of weeks later than I'd have had the Walker Brothers and The sun ain't gonna shine anymore. That's Feb 66 by the way (yes, its birthday time next week...), and yes we have done this before but who cares.

If only I'd been born on time it would have been Ray Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You"

Scott Mackenzie`s If You`re Going To San Francisco ( Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair )

Jim Reeves - Distant Drums

One more week and it would have been the Four Tops. Oh well ...