What song was #1 on the day you were born.

[GTG]

Oct 15, 1975:

US - Bad Blood, Neil Sedaka (?)
UK - Hold me close, David Essex (?)
AUS - I do I do I do I do I do, Abba (!!)

Disco rears its ugly head!

18th b-day:

US - Dreamlover, Mariah Carey (one of the highest selling artists of all time, I believe, ick, not my thing)
UK - Relight my fire, Take That featuring Lulu (who? Sounds like some a club mix butchering of the Doors' classic)
AUS - I would do anything for love (but I won't do that), Meatloaf

Oh man, radio can be so cheesy.
Much more momentous to me was Nov. 2, 1990 - the first time I kissed a girl on a date:

US - Black Cat, Janet Jackson
UK - Unchained Melody, the Righteous Brothers (remember the movie Ghost?)
AUS - Bust a move, Young MC

Good fun, thanks!

[Elliot Luber]

Paul Anka - Lonely Boy

[violmando]

I may offend some with this, but I am NOT a fan and my #1 was "Are you Lovesome Tonight?" by Elvis---Nov. 22, 1960. Ah, well....

[Jim Broyles]

I may offend some with this, but I am NOT a fan and my #1 was "Are you Lovesome Tonight?" by Elvis---Nov. 22, 1960. Ah, well....

Doesn't offend me. I never could figure out what made him the King.

[Mandolin]

sweet day, Mariah Carey

[Jill McAuley]

I got two decent birthday chart songs - hurrah!

UK - Day Tripper - The Beatles
US - Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds

No complaints there!

Cheers,
Jill

[Dave Harbst]

Dick Haymes - You'll Never Know

[JimRichter]

Mrs. Robinson--Simon and Garfunkel (May 20, '68)

Jim

[mandroid]

Just barely on the oldest end of the chart..

Smoke, smoke, smoke (that cigarette) by Tex Williams

if I fudged the month enough to find something youngsters may have heard on their grandpa's radio.

tell Saint Peter at the pearly gate
i just have to make him wait
cause I gotta to have me one more cigarette ...

Country Music, it was around before rocks were invented..

[blueridgemandolin]

Mine was this

"Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole

Dan

[mandozilla]

Yikes! I just found out the number 1 Hit on the day I was borned was
"How Much is that Doggy in the Window" by Patti Page

I've always had a fondness for that number but I never knew why!

[Overcast]

Let’s Stay Together - Al Green

You know - offhand, I don't even recall that song.

Actually, I found the top five for the week, lol

1. Let's Stay Together
Al Green

2. American Pie
Don McLean

3. Without You
Nilsson

4. Precious and Few
Climax

5. Never Been To Spain
Three Dog Night

[journeybear]

Yikes! I just found out the number 1 Hit on the day I was borned was
"How Much is that Doggy in the Window" by Patti Page

Hard to believe there was a time when that was the state of the art for popular songs. We've come a looooooooong way since then!

[Mike Bunting]

AAArgh! Am I that old?
The software on that site doesn't give my birth year!
Rod

I share your pain! Right around my birthday WWII ended. I like to think there's some connection there.
On my 18th birthday, Jimmy Soul was topping the charts with the memorable "If You Want to Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life (Never Make a Pretty Woman Your Wife)" and don't blame me!

[Ken Olmstead]

I got two decent birthday chart songs - hurrah!

UK - Day Tripper - The Beatles
US - Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds

No complaints there!

Cheers,
Jill

You win Jill!!!

[Dave Weiss]

October 16, 1951...
U.S. Because of you Tony Benett
U.K. Too Young Nat King Cole
October 16, 1969...
U.S. Sugar Sugar The Archies
Bubble gum rock still makes me gag. I think my favorite from '69 was Rain drops keep fallin' on my head BJ Thomas.
This was fun, thanks,

[Jim Broyles]

October 16, 1951...
U.S. Because of you Tony Benett
U.K. Too Young Nat King Cole
October 16, 1969...
U.S. Sugar Sugar The Archies
Bubble gum rock still makes me gag. I think my favorite from '69 was Rain drops keep fallin' on my head BJ Thomas.
This was fun, thanks,

Eww! Better than any of these other #1s from 1969?
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
"Crimson and Clover" Tommy James & the Shondells
"Everyday People" Sly & the Family Stone
"Dizzy" Tommy Roe
"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In " The Fifth Dimension
"Get Back" The Beatles with Billy Preston
"Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" Henry Mancini
"In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" Zager and Evans
"Honky Tonk Women" The Rolling Stones
"I Can't Get Next to You" The Temptations
"Suspicious Minds" Elvis Presley
"Wedding Bell Blues" The Fifth Dimension
"Come Together" / "Something" The Beatles
"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" Steam
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" Peter, Paul and Mary
"Someday We'll Be Together" Diana Ross & The Supremes

Raindrops didn't go to #1 until January of '70, BTW. I could never stand that song. Thought it was about the lamest thing I'd ever heard.

[jasona]

On the US charts it was Get Back by the Beatles. On the UK charts it was the Ballad of John and Yoko, also by the Beatles.

When I turned 18 it was Head to Toe by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. On the UK charts it was the infinitely cooler Star Trekkin by the Firm.

[journeybear]

Eww! Better than any of these other #1s from 1969?

"Dizzy" Tommy Roe
"Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" Henry Mancini
"In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" Zager and Evans

Raindrops didn't go to #1 until January of '70, BTW. I could never stand that song. Thought it was about the lamest thing I'd ever heard.

Excerpting for emphasis ... Well, it's all a matter of taste. "Raindrops" is a bouncy little number that's 1) a lot more easy on the ears than "2525," which is godawful and was inescapable back then; 2) less soupy than anything by Henry Mancini except "The Pink Panther Theme"; and 3) ... "Dizzy?" You really want to use THAT in a discussion about song quality? But I would take none of these with me when I go, if I have a choice.

I will say this though: "Raindrops" was most likely the worst song B.J. Thomas ever sang - remember, this is the guy who introduced a generation to Hank Williams - and still to this day ranks as one of the least time-appropriate songs used in a movie, ever. How it got to be used in "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" is a complete mystery, probably the result of a deal done between a film producer and a record company exec involving lots of moolah and overseen by the devil.

[Dave Weiss]

Sometimes a song is a favorite because it can instantly take you back in time. Raindrops... takes me back to the good times of that very confusing year.

[Jim Broyles]

Excerpting for emphasis ... Well, it's all a matter of taste. "Raindrops" is a bouncy little number that's 1) a lot more easy on the ears than "2525," which is godawful and was inescapable back then; 2) less soupy than anything by Henry Mancini except "The Pink Panther Theme"; and 3) ... "Dizzy?" You really want to use THAT in a discussion about song quality? But I would take none of these with me when I go, if I have a choice.

I will say this though: "Raindrops" was most likely the worst song B.J. Thomas ever sang - remember, this is the guy who introduced a generation to Hank Williams - and still to this day ranks as one of the least time-appropriate songs used in a movie, ever. How it got to be used in "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" is a complete mystery, probably the result of a deal done between a film producer and a record company exec involving lots of moolah and overseen by the devil.

Well, it was only a list of all the #1s from '69 except "Sugar, Sugar." It wasn't intended as a sampling of great music. I actually hated radio music already by then and of that list only could stand the Beatles' and Stones' songs. And, I'm sorry, but 2525, silly alarmism and all, is more tolerable to me than the love theme from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Didn't even fit the movie, IMO.

[journeybear]

Sometimes a song is a favorite because it can instantly take you back in time. Raindrops... takes me back to the good times of that very confusing year.

I may be a bit harsh on the tune - it is eminently whistleable, after all - but it's mostly because it was SO out of place in the movie. Somehow it's really hard for me to separate the song from that context. Speaking of context - in the context of B.J. Thomas songs ... well, it's relative. He was one of my favorite solo artists in the 60s, and this was later in his career, so it suffers by comparison. His "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is still my favorite Hank Williams cover, forty years later. The improvising at the end still gives me goosebumps.

Well, it was only a list of all the #1s from '69 except "Sugar, Sugar." It wasn't intended as a sampling of great music.

These lists are misleading, as they reflect the gathering of information from a great number of sources all muddled together. Also, so many great songs never make it to #1. The music got better overall than the #1s would indicate - worse too, of course. But such lists do have value as a start for conversation, though not as a definitive conclusion.

[M Hollen]

My birthday: US & UK: Baby Love - Supremes AUS: I Feel Fine - Beatles

18th B-day: US: Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes (meh)
UK: I Don't Want to Dance - Eddie Grant
AUS: Come On Eileen - Dexie's Midnight Runners

[musiclovesryan]

apparently its gloria estafen-anything for u.

i have never heard of that song. LOL.

[Bill Snyder]

Hard to believe there was a time when that was the state of the art for popular songs. We've come a looooooooong way since then!

I take it that you say this sarcastically. After all the current #1 his is Right Round by Flo Rida.
Of the two I'll take How Much is That Doggie in the Window.

FWIW He's So Fine by the Chiffons was #1 the day I was born.