"Get Back" by The Beatles, April 1969.

Buddy Holly, 'It Doesn't Matter Anymore', May 1959.

The Missus:

Sandie Shaw, 'Always Something There To Remind Me'

The offspring:

Son #1: Rick Astley, 'Never Gonna Give You Up' (Ha! Rickrolled!!)

Son #2: Black Box, 'Ride on Time'

I win.

Me - Frank Ifield - I Remember You. Good God!

My wife - Alice Cooper - Schools Out. She wins.

The Beatles - "From Me to You" May 63

Mine was Uptown Girl - Billy Joel. Do like some of his stuff (especially Piano Man) but not keen on this tune

Nov 83

I would've preferred 20th Century Boy, but it's a damn sight cooler than a lot of the stuff that was knocking about at the time.

Wizzard - Angel Fingers

I looked the song up on youtube. It sounds like a wedding band, with a few complimentary glasses of champagne inside them, attempting to recreate Phil Spector's wall of sound.

Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann

August 1964

Dream Lover - Bobby Darin, July 1959

July 1968 - Des O'Connor - I Pretend
if I could only have held out for another couple of days I;d have had the infinitely cooler Tommy James & The Shondells - Mony Mony
ho hum c'est la vie

...Jan 1976 Bohemian Rhapsody. How many blinking times has that been at number one? If I'd been born a few days later I would have got ABBA's Mamma Mia so it's not all bad. Well done on the idea Mr. Hare as I'd never checked before. I'm very jealous that you got Ernie!

I Want to Wake Up with You - Boris Gardiner

I've never heard of this song, or the man himself. Mind you, the other number one for that month was Lady in Red, so it could've been far, far worse

was born in July 2002. It wasn't until a long time after the event that I realised that when people ask him this question later in life, he'll nonchalantly be able to say "Elvis Presley. You?"

The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore by The Walker Brothers.

The album at the top of the charts was The Sound of Music, and I share my birthday with the lovely Agnetha Faltskog.

Here's a useful page for discovering such facts.

according that that website the no1 for my DOB was the Beach Boy's - Do It Again.

Aug '73 - Gary Glitter, I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)

What a world to bring a child into....

19 September 1960
Apache by The Shadows (single)
Down Drury Lane To Memory Lane by One Hundred And One Strings (album)
My wife has Emile Ford's What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For, not one of Joe Meek's best, so I win.

How Do You Do It-Gerry and the Pacemakers

Me:
Single - "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, which I'm entirely happy with.
Album - "Abbey Road" by the Beatles, which makes 2 out of 2.

Mrs H:
Single - "Let The Heartaches Begin" by Long John Baldry - I suspect that she's never heard of it.
Album - "Sgt Pepper" by the Beatles. I'm pretty sure she's heard of this one.

Young Master H:
Single - Possibly one of the worst so far - "F U Right Back" by Frankee, unfortunately had the misfortune to be born right in the middle of the singles chart being bizarrely fascinated by Eamon & Frankee's expletive filled break up songs. Why couldn't they have re-released all the Elvis singles again, just for the hell of it ?
Album - "Hopes And Fears" by Keane. I guess if I was going to get something to commemorate the music that was around when he was born, I'd go for the album rather than the single somehow.

Me - nancy Sinatra, These boots were made for walking. Feb 66

Mrs Zilster - Frank Sinatra, Strangers In The Night . Jun 66

Is that good or bad?

So very, very long ago, *glaaaargh*

Z

Addendum: From the US charts:

Mrs Zilster - Percy Sledge, When a man loves a woman
Me - The Ballad Of The Green Berets - Sgt. Barry Sadler.

Er, she wins that one, I think!!

If you'd pushed a bit earlier, it would have been "All Shook Up". If I'd hung on in there and refused to come out for a couple more weeks, I'd have got "That'll Be The Day". Instead, what did I get? Paul Anka's "Diana", that's what I bloody got.

Number 1 with Yes Tonight Josephine in May 1957 when I was born. As if I care.

George Harrison - My Sweet Lord.

Happy with that one!

Also in the chart in early March

Paul McCartney - Another day
T Rex - Hot Love
Byrds - Chesnut Mare
Kinks - Apeman

and (ahem) The Mixtures - Pushbike Song.

For May 1968;

Single: Louis Armstrong "What a Wonderful World"

Album: Bob Dylan "John Wesley Harding"

The Tams - "Hey Girl Don't Bother Me" in the singles chart (I don't know it)
Rod Stewart - "Every Picture Tells A Story" in the albums (classic)

4 Oct '71

Charts weren't available in the UK at the time, but Rocket 88 had only recently fallen out of the US R'n'B charts. Tony Bennett & Because Of You was the US#1. People walked in front of cars with red flags and you could buy a whole village for £1 12s 6d.

No 1 in March '57, with Young Love.
Good name. Wonder if he was the same chap who kept me awake at Glasto 93? He seemed to have lost something too.

Marvin Gaye "(I heard it) through the Grape Vine. beats the rest hands down as the best song to get to number one ever.
oh sorry it wasn't competion, oh I see, I still win though!
* slinks off in shame*

.......pretending to be from someone else, displaying razor sharp repartee, with nary a whisper of the easy and intended pharmaceutical related jest: "That must have been Rolf Harris then"
says A Perfect Stranger

...it was Engelbert Humperdinck with 'Please Release Me', famously keeping The Beatles at number 2 with Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. The Beatles would have been much more cool, but would have lacked the irony.
By the way - have a look at the number 1 songs from 1967. I'm sure that most Word readers would be able to sing a snatch of every one of these from memory, even if the songs are 41 years old and many readers (like me) were either not yet born or very young at the the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_No.1_Hits_of_1967

It was a Sunday and when they played the Top 40 it was The Walker Bros - Make it Easy on Yourself and pop pickers The Beatles Help was 6 weeks a no 1.

If you were born in 1959, don't bother looking it up, the top album was "South Pacific - OST". It went to no. 1 in November 1958 and stayed there for 70 weeks. I'm a child of the 60's, if only by a couple of months, but it was still there, with only a week or two to go. No. 1 single was 'Why' by Anthony Newley which I have never heard of.

As Mrs G comes from early 1964 she gets "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "With the Beatles", which beats me hollow I suppose.

Sung by Dean Martin at the end of February 1956.

Rock on, dudes!

"Lily The Pink" - Scaffold

"I Heard It Through The Grapevine" Marvin Gaye

Either a novelty or a Mowtown classic in my case.

"Tug of War" by Paul McCartney
"A Little Peace" by Nicole

What were you record-buyers thinking in 1982?

A few weeks earlier in 1965, and I could have had 'Satisfaction' by the Stones. Or 'Make It Easy On Yourself' by those Walker Brothers. But no, I ended up with 'Tears' by Ken Dodd. I blame my mother.

Mrs Sartee: 'Good Vibrations'. At least someone got it right.
Sartee Jnr: er...'Evergreen' by Will Young. Hmmm.

How disappointing.
I was born in October '73, to the sound of "Eye Level/The Van der Valk Theme" by the Simon Park Orchestra.
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain.

Jim Reeves - Distant Drums

My dads fave too

Me- Thunderclap Newman, Something in the air , July '69
Mrs- Elvis , The Wonder of you, August '70.
Not bad at all.

For me it's:

Adam and the Ants - Price Charming.

Could be worse I suppose, for the GLW it's:

Price Charming by Adam and the Ants.

Looks like I am amongst the oldest here, how ghastly is that, not only falling apart but also born when some extremely unhip music was about.
So,
ME - Look At That Girl - Guy Mitchell
SHE WHO MUST - Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin
THE BOY - Woman - John Lennon

I am clearly the least cool of the bunch.

Tom Jones '20 Greatest Hits' and Bay City Rollers 'Bye Bye Baby' were at the top of the hit parade (and I use that term loosely) on the day I entered this world.

6 March 1971 - Baby Jump by Mungo Jerry - just listened to it on You Tube for the first time ever, sounds ok but would never get any airplay nowadays especially due to In the Summertime.

Not sure what the accompanying artwork has to do with the song

I missed both My Sweet Lord - George Harrison and Hot Love - T Rex by a week but it could have been much worse, The Osmonds were at No 1 in the US

I fare better with the Album : Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

Thanks for the blog - never thought of doing this before

Moi? Elvis Presley - Wooden Heart.

The Rolling Pin? Frankie Laine - I Believe

Oh bugger. Just about as naff a pairing as one can possibly get!

Barbra Streisand - Woman in love.

Having looked it up.... I'm not too sure why I'm releasing the information to the wider world.

Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn is what he tells me - WRONG!!!

Cinderella Rockefella - Esther & Abi Ofarim

Single - Middle Of The Road - "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"

Album - Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

Does anyone actually own any singles or albums that were number 1 when they were born? I own neither...

Someone else shares the same birthday period (Feb 1966) as I also have Nancy Sinatra with These boots are made for walking. Always used to get me that a week or so later it would have been the Walker Brothers and The sun ain't gonna shine any more, but now I quite like it. Who do I share my birthday with ? John Travolta, Yoko Ono, Graham Garden, Cybill Shepherd and a few more I've forgotten.

Born in 1959, apparently I could hear the distant strains of Adam Faith's 'What Do You Want'.

The current Mrs Scoop - born '63 - has to be gutted about Bachelor Boy by the turkey-necked Cliffster.

In the UK: Cliff Richard & The Shadows, 'Travellin' Light'
In the US: Bobby Darin, 'Mack the Knife'
In New Zealand, where I was born, there were no charts until 1966, but in "my" week the local classic 'Down the Hall On a Saturday Night' was released by Peter Cape.
The only paper reviewing records at the time, Middlebrow's Disc-Coverage column in the scurrilous "Truth", hated it for its over-egged Kiwiana, all jokers, sheilas and short-back-and-sides haircuts.
Middlebrow preferred the B-side:
'Tamatawhakakoauauatamateapokaiwheruahitianatahu'.
Also comes in handy as a haka.

and number one was Sugar Baby Love by The Rubettes. Waterloo by Abba and Seasons In The Sun were in the top ten.

The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me

also in the top 10 were Thin Lizzy "Killer On The Loose" and Madness' "Baggy Trousers"! Not bad, eh?

.... Dear God. Checking up my entries ("She Loves You" Sept ‘63 me; "Summer Holiday" March ‘63 wife, love it) I noticed the following.

Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Cliff Richard, Monkees and The Sound of Music, so that's 5 artists and 1 OST, between them they held the number one album spot for, wait for it, 5 consecutive years, not months, years (Jan '63 to Dec '67).

Look at 2007 and the 7th artists kicked in before March was over.

From this I can conclude that Leona Lewis (7 weeks) is the new Bob Dylan.

'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and "With The Beatles". What with it being 1963 and all I suppose it was fairly inevitable.

(he wasn't) by Lonnie Donnegan and the aforementioned South Pacific (OST) were my soundtrack into life..(ah!). If only I had hung on til August for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates how life would have been different

This is bad alright.

Number 1 single:
Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder - Ebony & Ivory

Number 1 album:
Status Quo - 1982

Johnnie Ray - Just walking in the rain

wife 3/4/64 - Beatles - cant buy me love

son 9/2/90 - Sinead O'Connor - Nothing compares to you

daughter 13/4/99 - Mr Oizo - Flat Beat

I have no idea what that last song is as i had long given up listening to the charts by then. The others are all okay though.

David Whitfield & The Mantovani Orchestra - Cara Mia

This song was number one in both record sales and sheet music charts - so no escape! The album charts did not start for another two years, this makes me feel really old.

Generally a good year I feel - mine is Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. How cool is that?
My sister was born in August 1974 and I remember the radio one charts that very day announcing George McCrae Rock Your Baby as number one single.
When the last one of us was born however the spell was broken - in July 1976 Demis Roussous was at the top of the charts with not one song but a whole EP........hard luck sis

Nancy Sinatra "These Boots are Made for Walking" [To One Hit Wonder Status]

Soemthing that George Washington, Drew Barrymore, Lord Baden Powell, Bruce Forsyth and I have in common. But at least we will not share the shame of my son who will be forever linked with Barbie Girl by Aqua. Ho ho, sorry son. But at least he just missed Candle in the Wind's resurrection....

45 - Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkins

LP - The Hollies' Greatest - The Hollies (unsurprisingly)

"OK" I suppose, but my list of people with the same birthday as me is pretty punchy:

John Lennon
John Entwhistle
Jackson Browne
PJ Harvey
The bass player out of Suede

Swings and roundabouts, I reckon.

Sadly, ''Swing the Mood by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers''

Get Into The Groove - Madonna

Number 1 album was Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms...I didn't have a hope really did I?!

My birthday: 24th May 1979
Number 1 single - Blondie, 'Sunday Girl'
Number 1 album - ABBA, 'Voulez-Vous'

My wife's birthday: 19th November 1980
Number 1 single - Blondie, 'Tide Is High'
Number 1 album - ABBA, 'Super Trouper'

We were made for each other, obviously...

I swear this is completely true - I was born about 3 weeks late, and number 1 when I was born was...

Tired Of Waiting For You by The Kinks!

My mum was pretty tired etc etc...

I have the same famous birthday companions as Janice above - Yoko, John Travolta and Dr Dre.

I have to plug my site!

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com

It shows you what song was at No.1 on the day you were born.

(Go to 'Birthday No.1' at the top of the site).

My number 1's are:
'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon in the US
'Long Haired Lover From Liverpool' by Little Jimmy Osmond in the UK
'Ben' by Michael Jackson in Australia

I'm quite surprised at the spread of ages of users on this...

I expected the number of 60s kids on the site, but am pleased to find as many early 70s kids like myself!

My additions to the Hall Of Fame are:
- Nilsson Without You (single)
- Neil Young Harvest (album) which I never knew before!

March 1972