What was #1 on the day you were born?

[Spiritinthesky]

Have you ever done this?

Some people believe our lives are profoundly influenced by whatever pop song was #1 on the day we were born.

On the day Heather Mills (the ex Mrs McCartney) was born (12th Jan 1968) it was Hello Goodbye by The Beatles!

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

See which songs you get
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1

[angelsighs]

mine are:

UK- Don't You Want Me?- Human League

US&AUS- 'Physical' Olivia Newton John


this is surely a sign that I was an unplanned child!!

[purespace]

Here I go dating myself, but this was pretty cool

U.S.: People Got To Be Free - Rascals
U.K and AUS: Hey Jude - The Beatles

[spzretent]

not touching this w/a ten foot pole.

[purespace]

Age is just a number. I'll be turning the big 4-0 on September 13th. I still feel 19. And I never thought I'd see 29, so I'm pretty happy about that

Come on Spzretent, DO IT

[Stuart X.Hunter]

UK - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sApdgt1aV-s

US - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kmuF3jiufww

AUS - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AKIEbzZiRBw

[SpacemanRob]

Bizarrely Spiritinthesky it would seem we must have either the same birthday or at least 1 that is very close?!!!!

[toomilk]

Falco, Pet Shop Boys, and Diana Ross.


Yes, I was born in the 80s.

[Shinesalight]

Fucking hell, how sad is this pair!!!:-

UK & AUS: Puppy Love - Donny Osmand
US: Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan

Couldn't Mum & Dad have planned things a bit better?!

[spzretent]

Age is just a number. I'll be turning the big 4-0 on September 13th. I still feel 19. And I never thought I'd see 29, so I'm pretty happy about that

Come on Spzretent, DO IT

But it was a Benny Goodman song

[sunray]

UK: The Sweet 'Blockbuster'
USA: Elton John 'Crocodile Rock'
AUS: Michael Jackson 'Ben'

Hmmm.

[mc]

UK: St Winifred's School Choir - "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"

Fuckin' hell.

[supershonn]

Falco, Pet Shop Boys, and Diana Ross.


Yes, I was born in the 80s.

holy shit, i was at my sixth grade dinner dance grooving to these tunes!

well toomilk, trust me it's best that you were born in the 80's and didn't have to live thru the pop radio.


me.

[Luminescence]

Shite! Should never have looked.

Gary Glitter - 'Always Yours'

[Stuart X.Hunter]

UK: The Sweet 'Blockbuster'
USA: Elton John 'Crocodile Rock'
AUS: Michael Jackson 'Ben'

Hmmm.

Quality...I won't expand on the multitude of connotations.

Might be an idea (just to settle your mind) to work out what was number one on the day you were concieved...might make you giggle...might make you hurl.

[laid back in the sun]

its almost enough to make me believe in reincarnation....
welcome back- john sebastian.
fernando- abba.

[sunray]

UK: The Sweet 'Blockbuster'
USA: Elton John 'Crocodile Rock'
AUS: Michael Jackson 'Ben'

Hmmm.

Quality...I won't expand on the multitude of connotations.

Might be an idea (just to settle your mind) to work out what was number one on the day you were concieved...might make you giggle...might make you hurl.

Excellent idea, check out this lot (assuming i was born exactly 9 months later mind you)

UK: 'Amazing Grace' The Pipes & Drums & Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
USA: 'The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face' Roberta Flack. A song i have adored since i was a child.
AUS: 'Without You' Nilsson.

Interesting combination given the circumstances.

[rameses]

UK - The Archies 'Sugar Sugar' = how f&*king awful is that!!

US - The 5th Dimension 'Wedding Bell Blues' = never heard it

AUS - - The Beatles 'Something / Come Together' = that's more like it

061169 in case you're wondering.

[enoughtomakemesick]

UK - Do You Love Me - Brian Poole & Tremeloes
USA -Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmour & the Fireballs
Aus- Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison

Thank Christ I was oblivious to what was going on!

[enoughtomakemesick]

UK - Do You Love Me - Brian Poole & Tremeloes
USA -Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmour & the Fireballs
Aus- Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison

Thank Christ I was oblivious to what was going on!

Could have been worse - Bachelor Boy by Cliff Richards on probable conception date - Jeez!

[myegi]

Folks were mourning John Lennon when I was born (except in Australia)
Imagine John Lennon UK
Just Like Starting Over John Lennon US
Shaddup You Face - Joe Dolce Music Theatre AUS (huh?)

[ebbsandflows]

UK = Abba - Take a chance on me.
US = Bee Gees - Stayin' alive.
AUS = Mull of kintyre / Girl's school - Wings.

I think i can hold my head up reasonably high here.

[scratch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X7PvU6qYEA
whoa pretty good! The Rubettes - UK

West Germany wins of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfm-17pu6SQ
goodbye papa it´s hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky!

[toomilk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X7PvU6qYEA
whoa pretty good! The Rubettes - UK

HOLY CRAP. This is bad. bad bad bad.

[scratch]

What do you mean?
the choreography performed flawlessly the way I´m sure it was intended and the falsetto perfectly in tune with the strings.. what more can one ask for?

[purpleorla]

UK: Bohemian Rhapsody: one of my pet musical hates- I have fallen out wit the Flaming Lips for ruining encores with this song.

Much more interesting, however, is the fact that Freddie Mercury died on my birthday 16 years later (cue twilight zone music), or maybe he died overnight while i was sleeping, either way it was the first thing I heard when I woke up that morning and it made my day because I fuckin hated that song so much! And now, thanks to this thread, I carry with me forever the knowledge that my birthday and Queen are somehow intrinsically connected...

...thank god for Australia- Mamma Mia....ABBA are my gulitiest pleasure

[bunnyben]

uk- When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean

us- How Will I Know - Whitney Houston

oz- We Built This City - Starship

what a fun bunch- i think i've heard one of them. i like the way that under your song it has a button that says 'try again'. now that would be interesting...

[Nomen_Luni]

In Ireland ... Streets Of London - Ralph McTell (never heard of it)

In the UK ... Ms. Grace - The Tymes (never heard of it either)

[ebbsandflows]

I used to love Streets Of London as a kid. From memory it's a well sad accoustic protest song about big city poverty and the establishment's willing ignorance of it. Although I fear if I listened to it now I may find it a bit obvious and saccharine. Still, a tune to be proud of and worth a youtube search if you've never heard it.

[nickh]

Tommy James & the Shondells - Mony Mony (UK) Jesus, there are probably people who post on here who weren’t around when the fucking Billy Idol version came out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_2kb5ab ... re=related


The Rascals - People got to be free (US)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ntcMjYL7hc


Vanilla Fudge - You keep me hangin’ on (Aus)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aWFaZgw ... re=related

All rubbish.

[herman]

...could have been worse:

uk: wandrin' star - lee marvin http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=2dEKDCwf9XU
us: bridge over trouble water - arse gartfunkel and paul simon http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=sbFEnoITiWE
aus: venus - shocking blue http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DBcbZc3ck

enjoy

[Already There]

Hahaha.

19/11/1988: 1988, Bon Jovi started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Bad Medicine', the group's third US No.1, a No.17 hit in the UK.

[The Breeze]

US: Mammy by Al Jolson
UK: When I'm Cleaning Windows by George Formby
AUS: Live it up by Mental as Anything