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What was number one on the day you were born?
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:14 pm
by Vonny
http://mothership.somethin-else.com/hit40uk1000/
Mine is Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Never heard of it
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:23 pm
by mikef
Billy Ocean - 'When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going'
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:42 pm
by DavebytheSea
I don't think they had number ones when I was born ......
.... tho I can remember that on returning late from chapel choir practice, the house mons made me learn "If you lay a silver dollar down upon the ground it will roll because it's round" (Sandy Shaw) as punishment - only pop song I have ever known!
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:37 pm
by jtaylor
John Denver - Annie's Song
Didn't he die in a plane crash?
J
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:29 pm
by marty
jtaylor wrote:John Denver - Annie's Song
Didn't he die in a plane crash?
J
Yes, he left on a jet plane...
No.1 when I was born was "You're The One That I Want" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John.
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:00 pm
by Euterpe13
they can't find mine ... now I REALLY feel old !
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:16 pm
by ben ashton
Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
oh dear..
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:56 pm
by J.R.
Euterpe13 wrote:they can't find mine ... now I REALLY feel old !
Nor me !
I think
'Nipper', the H.M.V. dog was just a pup then !
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:23 pm
by Jolyon
I think it was Bright Eyes...
Re: What was number one on the day you were born?
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:26 pm
by englishangel
Excellent.
Mine was Eddie Calvert 'O mein Papa' No 1 for 9 weeks.
'Young Girl' came out the year I was 14 and 'School's Out' the year I was 18.
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:24 am
by John Knight
My Mum.... I don't think there were number 1's in 1935
John. (old by d.o.b. but inside I feel like two teenagers sewn together)
Edit: It looks as if I have sinned with an incorrect use of the apostrophe above. - but I will leave it like that as it backs up my old school reports that said the usual thing.. "If this boy did as well in the classroom as he does on the sports field.... etc etc.
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:27 am
by englishangel
John Knight wrote:My Mum.... I don't think there were number 1's in 1935
John. (old by d.o.b. but inside I feel like two teenagers sewn together)
Good for you. My next door neighbour (92) said the same thing.
The singles chart was not born until Nov 1952 (week ending 15th to be exact). The early number 1s of the 50s were based on sheet music sales. Interestingly the first 'record sale' number 1 was the same as the last 'sheet music sale' number 1
My husband was born 14th November 1952, so the week of the first singles chart.
For anyone who wants to find out more here is another link.
http://www.everyhit.com/number.html
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:01 am
by J.R.
I see Mary's been 'googling' again.
Still doesn't get me back to 1947, though.
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:03 am
by englishangel
J.R. wrote:I see Mary's been 'googling' again.
Still doesn't get me back to 1947, though.
'Greensleeves' was No 1 when you were born wasn't it John?
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:08 am
by J.R.
englishangel wrote:J.R. wrote:I see Mary's been 'googling' again.
Still doesn't get me back to 1947, though.
'Greensleeves' was No 1 when you were born wasn't it John?
Ar Yes !! Good old Henry VIII !