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What was Number One when you were born?

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  • #2
    BoozyBabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭BoozyBabe


    UK:- Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno

    Never heard of it!

    US:- Blondie - Call Me


  • #3
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Spaceman by Babylon Zoo.
    Great tune, Pighead can't believe sustained worldwide success and fame didn't follow.


  • #4
    Ferror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭Ferror


    (Uk)
    Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record).

    What a Classic!

    (USA)
    Cant Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon

    Meh! i dunno!


  • #5
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Doctor & The Medics - Spirit In The Sky.

    \o/


  • #6
    Kermitt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Kermitt


    99 Red Balloons - Nena


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  • #7
    Smellyirishman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Smellyirishman


    Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Jack Your Body.


    Never heard of it.


  • #8
    quon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭quon


    Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall.

    I'm happy with that!


  • #9
    NikNik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭NikNik


    Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes.

    I expected something cooler.....who's Frankie anyway ?


  • #10
    Kojak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Wham! - Freedom.


  • #11
    ZiabR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭ZiabR


    Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance

    OMG


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  • #12
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    I prefer this site:
    http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/member/birthdayno1.php

    You can check both the UK and US charts.


    ... and OMG, I got:

    UK: Under The Moon Of Love - Showaddywaddy
    US: Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart


  • #13
    DukeDredd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭DukeDredd


    Pighead wrote:
    Spaceman by Babylon Zoo.
    Great tune, Pighead can't believe sustained worldwide success and fame didn't follow.

    You're only 10 years old?


  • #14
    Femelade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    i'm sure this was done in the music thread not oo long ago but....

    UK: Going Underground / Dreams Of Children - The Jam
    US: Another Brick In The Wall (part ll) - Pink Floyd


  • #15
    Tazz T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    Weird! The UK chart for each site is different.

    The Walker Brothers - Make it easy on yourself

    and

    Tears - Ken Dodd ugh!


  • #16
    Diarmsquid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Diarmsquid


    US: Hold On - Wilson Phillips
    UK: According to first link: Adamski - Killer.
    UK: According to second link: World In Motion - Englandneworder

    :confused:
    Never heard any of them.


  • #17
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    DukeDredd wrote:
    You're only 10 years old?
    Oh really. Yeah well you're only 9.:mad:


  • #18
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    David Bowie - Lets Dance


  • #19
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    This is why i'm so uncool: Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore. :(


  • #20
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    Kiera wrote:
    This is why i'm so uncool: Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore. :(

    In Japan they call that song "Itchy Fanny" :D


  • #21
    ferdi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭ferdi


    UK: Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart).

    USA: Tears for Fears - Shout


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  • #22
    thelordofcheese
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    Uk Charts: Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
    US Charts: Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger.

    not bad, really.


  • #23
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    el tel wrote:
    In Japan they call that song "Itchy Fanny" :D
    Poor you! You must have been so embarrassed having to ask about your pee pee problem in Japan.


  • #24
    Shabadu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,659 ✭✭✭Shabadu


    I quite clearly win the Internet: Stand and Deliver- Adam Ant


  • #25
    Roddy23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,473 ✭✭✭Roddy23


    Smokey Robinson - Being With You.


  • #26
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Culture Club - Karma Chameleon... oh the shame :(


  • #27
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Abba - Dancing Queen


  • #28
    gaf1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭gaf1983


    Uptown Girl by Billy Joel.

    Personally I'm delighted, never in my wildest dreams would I have expected a song so good to be UK Number 1 on the day I was born.


  • #29
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    UK Joe Dolce Music Theatre - Shuddap You Face.
    US I Love a Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt


    Pighead wrote:
    Spaceman by Babylon Zoo.
    Great tune, Pighead can't believe sustained worldwide success and fame didn't follow.


    You have a decent vocabulary for a 10 year old. :)

    EDIT** oops duke got there first.


  • #30
    el tel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    stp wrote:
    Abba - Dancing Queen

    Same here.
    Also Play That Funky Music (US)


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  • #31
    Megatron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭Megatron


    The UK number 1 single on your birthday was:

    Windsor Davies & Don Estelle - Whispering Grass.

    See no US single ... me thinks i'm so old that the US wasn't around back then :eek: :p


  • #32
    mandz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭mandz


    UK - Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
    US - Chicagoe -We don't talk anymore


  • #33
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    This post has been deleted.


  • #34
    Blisterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Doctor & The Medics - Spirit In The Sky
    We must have been born the same week Tar.


  • #35
    misswex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 745 ✭✭✭misswex


    Blondie - Heart of Glass!!

    Excellent song so I'm happy.


  • #36
    Tobias Greeshman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭Tobias Greeshman


    UK: Captain Sensible - Happy Talk.

    Yes I don't know either!

    US: The Human League - Don't you want me

    Sweet dear jesus, the shame


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  • #37
    Sengoku79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭Sengoku79


    First Link UK - Gary Numan -Cars

    deadly

    Second Link

    US - My Sharona - The Knack

    UK - Message in a bottle - The Police


    Happy days here anyway nowt too cr*p.


  • #38
    peckerhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love.... :eek:

    ;)


  • #39
    kittenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭kittenz


    Don McLean - Crying

    Hmmm, not the best song!


  • #40
    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    Comeonfeelthenoize!! Slade. You're a young bunch!


  • #41
    JCDenton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭JCDenton


    UK: Easy Lover - Philip Bailey and Phil Collins
    US: One More Night - Phil Collins


    It seems Phil was a bit of a star when I was born!


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  • #42
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    UK: A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV
    US: Lionel Richie - Say You Say Me

    Bah...


  • #43
    jabberwock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 928 ✭✭✭jabberwock


    John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - You're The One That I Want.


  • #44
    Scraggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭Scraggs


    Livin' On a Prayer -Bon Jovi

    not too shabby


  • #45
    mise_me_fein_V2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭mise_me_fein_V2


    in the UK -> Tight Fit - the lion sleeps tonight

    and in the US -> Centerfold - J. Geils Band


  • #46
    charba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭charba


    In UK
    Jennifer Rush - The Power of Lover

    in US
    Part-time Lover - Stevie Wonder


  • #47
    toString
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭toString


    UK
    Sunday Girl - Blondie
    US
    Love You Inside Out - The Bee Gees


  • #48
    bobbyjoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 798 ✭✭✭bobbyjoe


    Nnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    Gary Glitter - I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am).


  • #49
    Jack Bauer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Jack Bauer


    Cliff Richard & The Young Ones - Living Doll

    Nooooooooooooooooooooo


  • #50
    phantom_lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,894 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    Eh i should be so lucky...


  • #51
    Big Nelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,613 ✭✭✭Big Nelly


    Blondie - Heart Of Glass.


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