View Full Version : What was the #1 song on your birthday?
Snaquebite
01-20-2010, 21:52
I figure this might get humorus.
http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneinhistory/SelectMonth.htm
1952 Why Don't You Believe Me Joni James
http://www.viddler.com/explore/chargertom/videos/41/
Longstreet
01-20-2010, 22:23
I tried your link, but was unable to access the website. So I did a quick search and using Billboard's #1, my song is "(You're) Having My Baby" by Paul Anka with Odia Coates. I have neverheard of it although the title sends a shiver down my spine, heh-heh.
I'll have to ask my dad if he was singing that when he was racing to the hospital to see me and was pulled over by the police for speeding.
jaYson
1950 "I Wanna Be Loved" - Andrews Sisters.
The first song I remember is "How Much is that Doggy in the Avatar...er...Window." 1952
Pat
Snaquebite
01-20-2010, 22:39
should work now
armymom1228
01-20-2010, 23:00
IF by Perry Como.
First song I remember..Chantilly Lace by the Big Bopper and can still sing it too.
My brother was 9 yrs older then me, so I got to listen to all the new Elvis songs.
You gotta be kidding me.... "We are the World" by USA for Africa. Gag me. :mad:
armymom1228
01-20-2010, 23:09
You gotta be kidding me.... "We are the World" by USA for Africa. Gag me. :mad:
laughing hysterically.. its better than Perry Como.. I was hoping for something cool like Carl Perkins Blue Suede Shoes.. we are the world.. hahahahahaha:D
The coolest would have to be for anyone here that was born between March 5th and April 8th 1966....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_1966_(U.S.)
You gotta be kidding me.... "We are the World" by USA for Africa. Gag me. :mad:
I have to be careful not to laugh so hard that I get another hernia!
Back when you were in a bassinet, I worked an airline that was all 1st Class. It even went to an isolated terminal at LAX.
Diana Ross came in on a flight with her two kids. Even as isolated as we were, she wanted to exit through our Flight Control offices instead of through the terminal.
I was the only one in the office when they came through. She was singing, “We are the World”.
She had two limos…one for her and the kids and one for her luggage.
Where is her world?
Pat
p.s.: The proper response, with your avatar, would be " Good grief!"
Chris Cram
01-20-2010, 23:40
The coolest would have to be for anyone here that was born between March 5th and April 8th 1966....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_1966_(U.S.)
That was a year of classics...
February 26 "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Nancy Sinatra
March 5-April 2 "Ballad of the Green Berets" SSgt Barry Sadler
July 30 "Wild Thing" The Troggs
:D
You gotta be kidding me.... "We are the World" by USA for Africa. Gag me. :mad:Maybe you can change it to "Born under a bad sign" by Cream...
"Penny Lane" by the Beatles."We are the World"On the upside, you don't have memories of hearing that song over and over and over and over and over again.:eek:
MackallResident
01-21-2010, 04:39
"Every time you go away" by Paul Young, circa 1985
"Drinking Rum and Coca-Cola" ~ The Andrews Sisters... Thanks, Snaquebite...ah, the memories!
Autumn Leaves? Autumn Leaves?
How come I didn't get a cool song like the rest of you?
A year later "ELVIS" was on top :cool:.
PedOncoDoc
01-21-2010, 06:31
Grease - Frankie Vallie. I'd probably be proud if I were a female or a bit limper in the wrist. ;)
Goggles Pizano
01-21-2010, 06:35
Grease - Frankie Vallie. I'd probably be proud if I were a female or a bit limper in the wrist. ;)
At least you didn't get stuck with his Four Seasons song "Rag Doll". Ugh!
armymom1228
01-21-2010, 07:07
At least you didn't get stuck with his Four Seasons song "Rag Doll". Ugh!
Hush, quit bitchin' you could be have this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4&feature=related) as your song it reached #3 in 1966.
Red Flag 1
01-21-2010, 07:11
Bad Moon Rising would have been great!
I get "Rumors are Flying".
Oh well.............
RF 1
Dozer523
01-21-2010, 07:34
My Prayer
WTH?
Come On-a My House by Rosemary Clooney
TrapLine
01-21-2010, 08:17
Convoy by C.w. Mccall. Over and out.
Ret10Echo
01-21-2010, 08:31
"Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)" The Byrds :eek:
Warrior-Mentor
01-21-2010, 08:31
You gotta be kidding me.... "We are the World" by USA for Africa. Gag me. :mad:
Dude, I was running track in High School when that came out.
Still traumatized from hearing that while warming up. ;)
Actual:
"Good Night Irene"
The Weavers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCifK-vIG2k
Leadbelly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCf60f_sAA0&feature=related
Willy Nelson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGd4jkaoHRg&feature=related
Mississippi John Hurt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Unj_uU9tbs&feature=related
Dr John - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6dK2JBPoJU&feature=related
The one I'd choose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEqsZExmDzI&feature=related
Richard
Ret10Echo
01-21-2010, 08:33
Dude, I was running track in High School when that came out.
Still traumatized from hearing that while warming up. ;)
Better yet, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" blaring on the PA while being smoked at jump school....
Ahhh good times....
Hush, quit bitchin' you could be have this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4&feature=related) as your song it reached #3 in 1966.One of my sister's favorite songs...:rolleyes:
Till I waltz with you again...I can't say I ever heard it...but a couple of weeks after that, The Doggie in the Window was #1...and I heard that a lot...:(
x SF med
01-21-2010, 09:41
One of my sister's favorite songs...:rolleyes:
Till I waltz with you again...I can't say I ever heard it...but a couple of weeks after that, The Doggie in the Window was #1...and I heard that a lot...:(
LK, I heard through the grapevine that in reality, the #1 song on your birthday was Toccata and Fugue in E flat minor, by that new guy Johann Sebastian Bach.... is this true?:rolleyes:
<yeah, I'm smart, piss off a demo guy turned Officer, real smart>:eek:
dadof18x'er
01-21-2010, 09:43
I figure this might get humorus.
http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneinhistory/SelectMonth.htm
1952 Why Don't You Believe Me Joni James
http://www.viddler.com/explore/chargertom/videos/41/
12 tracks of guitar and singing.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ffdwBUL78
LK, I heard through the grapevine that in reality, the #1 song on your birthday was Toccata and Fugue in E flat minor, by that new guy Johann Sebastian Bach.... is this true?:rolleyes:
<yeah, I'm smart, piss off a demo guy turned Officer, real smart>:eek:LOL...not a bad tune, but at least it wasn't early Gregorian chant like Richard.
Red Flag 1
01-21-2010, 10:02
Actual:
"Good Night Irene"
The Weavers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCifK-vIG2k
Leadbelly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCf60f_sAA0&feature=related
Willy Nelson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGd4jkaoHRg&feature=related
Mississippi John Hurt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Unj_uU9tbs&feature=related
Dr John - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6dK2JBPoJU&feature=related
The one I'd choose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEqsZExmDzI&feature=related
Richard
Leadbelly on a Stella 12-string, haven't heard him in decades...thanks Richard!!
RF 1
greenberetTFS
01-21-2010, 13:55
Pennies From Heaven, By Bing Crosby, 1/26/1937...........:rolleyes::eek::p I know there are guys older than me,lets see who the "old farts" are as well as who's the "youngest baby" to post.............
Big Teddy :munchin
greenberetTFS
01-21-2010, 14:05
Dude, I was running track in High School when that came out.
Still traumatized from hearing that while warming up. ;)
Sir,with all due respect,I don't see your listing!!!!! ;)
Big Teddy :munchin
Goggles Pizano
01-21-2010, 14:18
Hush, quit bitchin' you could be have this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4&feature=related) as your song it reached #3 in 1966.
JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH! I only made it 30 seconds into that song before I ran for the Brioschi.
armymom1228
01-21-2010, 17:14
JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH! I only made it 30 seconds into that song before I ran for the Brioschi.
How about this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9w8s2l8NM&feature=channel) Is this easier for you to handle.. now doncha know that the kids that have this song, Ojos Asi, as thier birthsong are going to have a eye opener.:D
Speedgod
01-21-2010, 17:54
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
SG :munchin
monsterhunter
01-21-2010, 17:54
"I Got You Babe" - Holy Crap! For the younger crowd with "We Are the World," that is really horrible (stuck in my head once again).
"I Got You Babe"Ah, memories of Cher strutting her stuff on those variety shows.
IIRC, she did a number with Racquel Welch that was the talk of recess the following day at Ivanhoe Elementary. No, I didn't say anything at all.;)
While my strongest memory of Cher is the eulogy she gave at Mr. Bono's memorial service, my fondest is of the story she told about a screening of Silkwood (1983). She heard snickers and laughs when her name appeared during the opening credits. By the end of the screening, she said, the snickers and laughs were gone.
That was the last time she would hear anyone laugh about her skills as an actor. At least openly. (If only she had stayed with the acting.)
Abu Jack
01-21-2010, 19:22
Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones, I always liked that song.
mojaveman
01-21-2010, 20:02
"Telstar" by the Tornados?
Ok some of you FOGs, time to chime in. Who were they?
"Telstar" by the Tornados?
Ok some of you FOGs, time to chime in. Who were they?
I remember the "song", but, without cheating, I don't know who they were.
My wife still has one share of Telstar stock that her father bought her in the early 60s.
(Okay, I cheated and still don't know.)
Pat
Blitzzz (RIP)
01-21-2010, 21:57
7 March "48--->Peggie Lee "Manana" (is soon enough for me).
Oh well, the story of my life...
Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart, Vera Lynn
Circa 1952
I never heard it before. Not bad....
Dozer523
01-21-2010, 23:39
Dude, I was running track in High School when that came out.
Still traumatized from hearing that while warming up. ;) Dude! I was writing ARTEPs at SWC while you were running track in high school!
August of 47,
It was: Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette), Western swing. The original Tex Williams version went to number one for sixteen weeks on the Country Charts. A popular version performed by Phil Harris went number one on the Pop Charts in August 1947 and stayed there for six weeks.
And during one of those August weeks, I came a long. Interstingly enough - I am not a smoker - never was. As has been mentiond many times before - being a non-smoker back when they used to put cigerrettes in your C-Rats - was a great advantage. Could trade them for most anything - especially in the field.
Goggles Pizano
01-22-2010, 07:13
How about this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9w8s2l8NM&feature=channel) Is this easier for you to handle.. now doncha know that the kids that have this song, Ojos Asi, as thier birthsong are going to have a eye opener.:D
NO THANKS! You got me once, I won't touch another link thank you very much.
armymom1228
01-22-2010, 09:48
NO THANKS! You got me once, I won't touch another link thank you very much.
HAHAHAHA.....chicken!:p:lifter
Dude, I was running track in High School when that came out. Dude, I was training lieutenants in IOBC...that woulda traumatized the **** out of you...it did me...LOL...
armymom1228
01-22-2010, 09:54
August of 47,
It was: Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette), Western swing. The original Tex Williams version went to number one for sixteen weeks on the Country Charts. A popular version performed by Phil Harris went number one on the Pop Charts in August 1947 and stayed there for six weeks.
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Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen did an outstanding version of that song.
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen did an outstanding version of that song.Leave it to you to bring up Commander Cody....LOL...if memory serves me, their version referred to the high speed, roll your own, left wing Luckies...
armymom1228
01-22-2010, 10:32
Leave it to you to bring up Commander Cody....LOL...if memory serves me, their version referred to the high speed, roll your own, left wing Luckies...
I have no idea what you are refering too..I am am pure in heart and deed.:D
OTOH... I do recall that these guys had more than a passing aquaintence with the afformentioned substance. New Riders of the Purple Sage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktOg7-vPx14)
Yeah...so did these guys...kinda the unofficial generational National Anthem of the times. :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGJvzwKqg0&feature=related
Richard's $.02 :munchin
Yeah...so did these guys...kinda the unofficial generational National Anthem of the times. Ah, yes....our siblings from the "Just Say Yes" generation....
And the good Commander and the boys had a relationship with hemp, as well...
http://www.lala.com/#album/937030197521749194
armymom1228
01-22-2010, 11:53
Ah, yes....our siblings from the "Just Say Yes" generation....
And the good Commander and the boys had a relationship with hemp, as well...
http://www.lala.com/#album/937030197521749194
So did these guys, Grateful Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKuhAxcH7g). Not thier sigature song that would be here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE&feature=related)
My granddtr can sing both, its the cd she wants played in the car. Named my first sailboat Sugar Magnolia.
I think we are giving our age away...lmao.. "sometimes it occures to me what a long strange trip its been..."
LibraryLady
01-22-2010, 16:37
You gotta be kidding me.... "We are the World" by USA for Africa. Gag me. :mad:
"Penny Lane" by the Beatles.On the upside, you don't have memories of hearing that song over and over and over and over and over again.:eek:
Ahem.
linky (http://www.billboard.com/news/quincy-jones-to-remake-we-are-the-world-1004060769.story#/news/quincy-jones-to-remake-we-are-the-world-1004060769.story)
I'm just the messenger. Don't be hatin'! :p
LL
Ahem.
linky (http://www.billboard.com/news/quincy-jones-to-remake-we-are-the-world-1004060769.story#/news/quincy-jones-to-remake-we-are-the-world-1004060769.story)
I'm just the messenger. Don't be hatin'! :p
LLI admire Mr. Jones. He has made great music, has had a profound impact on global mass popular culture, and his romantic conquests are legendary. (It says something about a guy when his exes hang out with each other, talk about how great things were, and not have that "aha" moment and start comparing notes. Well done, Q! Well done!)
That being said, I'd like to see a better application of his philanthropy, his leadership, and his artistry than rebooting that dreadful song.:(
Ahem.
linky (http://www.billboard.com/news/quincy-jones-to-remake-we-are-the-world-1004060769.story#/news/quincy-jones-to-remake-we-are-the-world-1004060769.story)
I'm just the messenger. Don't be hatin'! :p
LL
So I guess the comments about me at least being spared from hearing this song over and over again don't really apply anymore... nice.
LibraryLady
01-22-2010, 17:57
So I guess the comments about me at least being spared from hearing this song over and over again don't really apply anymore... nice.
Just say thank you to the nice Library Lady for brightening your day... :D
:p
LL
armymom1228
01-22-2010, 18:20
Just say thank you to the nice Library Lady for brightening your day... :D
:p
LL
Thank you nice Library Lady, just for you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skU-jBFzXl0)