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Old 03-07-2008, 16:15   #1
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Q: What was the #1 song on this day (7 March) in 1966?

A: Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets".

http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneI...ry/03/0307.htm

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Old 03-07-2008, 16:20   #2
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I didn't know, I think I was still in diapers.......
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Old 03-07-2008, 16:50   #3
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I didn't know, I think I was still in diapers.......
Geez, I was still in diapers. I wouldn't turn 1 for another two months!
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Old 03-07-2008, 16:54   #4
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I didn't know, I think I was still in diapers.......

Let's see you were 4 or 5... so you probably were in diapers - being a late developer and all... (ducking for cover, hoping the Xd is holstered)
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Old 03-07-2008, 17:03   #5
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I was in Pakistan at the time so we didn't get much new music.
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Old 03-07-2008, 17:06   #6
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I was still just an itch in Daddy's jeans!

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Old 03-07-2008, 18:38   #7
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Ballad of the Green Beret

5 weeks at #1. I was in 10th grade and had no idea what an SF soldier was let alone ever thought that I would one day become one. Ain't life a kick in the ass!

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Old 03-08-2008, 13:21   #8
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Old 03-08-2008, 16:02   #9
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Some of you guys are very old....
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Old 03-08-2008, 16:53   #10
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College Soph! Diapers on our first 4 years later. Ballad is still a popular request here in the Shen Valley on Mem Day any Vets Day!

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Old 03-08-2008, 16:53   #11
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Q: What was the #1 song on this day (7 March) in 1966?

NDD, Just remember the song "YOUR DAY WILL COME"!!!

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NDD, Just remember the song "YOUR DAY WILL COME"!!!

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Old 03-08-2008, 18:26   #13
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I was at The Citadel getting my a** kicked for running s**t.

Some of you may know what I mean.
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