What song was No.1 on the day you were born

Mudbugclub

Bit of fun here, have you done this? http://www.thisdayinmusic.com

It shows you what was No.1 in the charts on the day you were born.

(Go to Birthday No.1 at the top of the site, it’s free, you don’t have to log in).

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 Jacskon in Australia

Loads of other good fun music trivia on the site as well.

MooseJam

had to be Elvis

JeanClaude

UK.. Don't give up on us......David Soul

U.S.... Car Wash - Rose Royce

Aus.....If You Leave Me Now - Chicago

Ruu_Old

UK-Land Of Make Believe - Bucks Fizz.
US-Physical - Olivia Newton-John.
AUS-Down Under - Men at Work (best of the 3!:D).

Jello

UK: The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go

US: Mariah Carey - Someday :eek:

AUS: Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You

patrickc

do you have to sign up to do it?

Jello

patrickc2006 wrote:

do you have to sign up to do it?

Nope, as the OP said:

(Go to Birthday No.1 at the top of the site, it’s free, you don’t have to log in).

ChippingSodbury

UK - Those Were The Days (my friend) Mary Hopkin
US & Aus - Hey Jude: Now, there's a song!

Dord

UK: Chain Reaction - Diana Ross
US: These Dreams - Heart
AUS: When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean

Some pretty crappy ones there...

JeanClaude

patrickc2006 wrote:

do you have to sign up to do it?

No, just click on the "Birthday Number One" tab and work away from there.

patrickc

im blind i swear

uk: the lion sleeps tonight, tight fit
us: centrefold, j geils
aus: tainted love, soft cell

Doctor DooM

Uk- We dont talk anymore- Cliff F*&king Richards

States- My Sharona- more like it

crosstownk

UK : Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse
US : I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Aus: Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - Johnny Farnham

Thankfully, none of the above appear in my music library.

emilyc

Jello wrote:

UK: The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go

US: Mariah Carey - Someday :eek:

AUS: Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You

Mine's the same!

Doctor DooM

crosstownk wrote:

UK : Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse
US : I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Aus: Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - Johnny Farnham

Thankfully, none of the above appear in my music library.

Oh I don't know, I want you back always reminds me of a cool scene in Clerks 2

dame

UK: Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police
US: Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Aus: Moscow - Genghis Khan

I can't stand the first two and don't know the last one.

Dudess

UK: Boney M - By The Rivers of Babylon. Awww, nuts.
US: Wings - With a Little Luck. Oh for cryin' out...
Oz: The Bee-Gees - Stayin' Alive

What a load of crappy crap crap.

Jello wrote:

UK: The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go

US: Mariah Carey - Someday

AUS: Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You

This is what I was dreading - someone posting up songs from the day they were born that I remember clearly! And what a tease - it starts off with The Clash, but it was the RE-release, not the original!

crosstownk

dame wrote:

UK: Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police
US: Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Aus: Moscow - Genghis Khan

I can't stand the first two and don't know the last one.

I don't know the last one either - but the first two are excellent! 1980 perhaps - or thereabouts?

dame

Yep, spot on crosstownk, good detective work!

Haha, my better half has the Bee Gees "Tragedy" and Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive"!

Wisesmurf

UK:Only You - The Flying Pickets

US:Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Micheal Jackson

AUZ:All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie

Most credable so far.....

Dudess

dame wrote:

Haha, my better half has the Bee Gees "Tragedy" and Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive"!

Wow, two of the campest anthems ever on the one day - what are the odds?!

GhostInTheRuins

You Win Again - The Bee Gees
I Think we're Alone Now -Tiffany
La Bamba - Los Lobos

My my, that's a terrible lot

Wisesmurf

Dudess wrote:

Wow, two of the campest anthems ever on the one day - what are the odds?!

Not as big as you'd think! it was a very camp year!

Pompey Magnus

UK = Hello - Lionel Ritchie
US = Jump - Van Halen
Aus = Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar

Pighead

UK: So you win again by Hot Chocolate.:cool:
US: Undercover Angel by Alan O'Day.

Is there a "What Composer was Number 1 on the day you were born" link for the likes of Beruthial and Thaedydldydly who were born well before the invention of Pop Charts?

Terry

From memory, a Bowie song.

EDIT:
U.K.: Space Oddity - David Bowie
U.S.: Island Girl - Elton John
AU: Mama Mia - Abba

darkskol

Oh dear, me:

UK: I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
USA: Tragedy - The Bee Gees
AUS: Le Freak - Chic

matchthis

uk - John Lennon - Imagine
Usa - Blondie - The tide is high
Aus - John Lennon - (Just Like) starting over

Imagine - probably the first song i ever heard and still the favourite

Dudess

Wisesmurf wrote:

Not as big as you'd think! it was a very camp year!

It was either 1978 or 1979 - there's an overlap as the songs were out at the end of one year, start of the other.
1978 certainly was a camp year - and I came kicking and screaming into the world like a melodramatic drag queen that year!

Dudess

Pighead wrote:

UK: So you win again by Hot Chocolate.:cool:
US: Undercover Angel by Alan O'Day.

What about Aus?

spurious

UK: 'Summer Holiday' - Cliff Richard and the Shadows
US: 'Our Day Will Come' - Ruby & The Romantics
AUS: 'Hey Paula' - Paul & Paula

dame

Dudess wrote:

What about Aus?

Must be a bad one! Maybe it'd reveal something about Pighead???

1979, the other half's third was a Blondie one, not quite so bad!

bronte

Uk 99 red balloons-Nena

Us Jump-Van Halen

Aus Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar

Colonel Sanders

UK: It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin (Dear god!!)
US: Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross (you're guess is as good as mine)
AUS: Endless Love - Diana Ross and Lionel Richie

Pighead

Dudess wrote:

What about Aus?

Sounds good babes. Next Tuesday good for you?

Walk Right In by Dr Hook was No 1 in Australia when Pighead was born. Not familiar with the song but a quick google reveals the lyrics of the 1st verse to go a little something like this

Walk right in, sit right down, baby let your hair hang down
Walk right in, sit right down, baby let your hair hang down
Everybody's talking 'bout a new way of walking
Do you want to lose you mind
Walk right in, sit right down, baby let your hair hang down

Sounds like a cracking tune.

crosstownk

bronte wrote:

Uk 99 red balloons-Nena

It's sad to say, but I actually have the 7 inch of this.......................

You and I in a little toy shop..................

Fcuk - I need to get a life

Terry

Dudess wrote:

What about Aus?

Walk Right In - Dr Hook

phasers

UK:Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash :cool:

US:Someday - Mariah Carey :eek:

AUS:I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat

Pighead

Pigheads baffled and stunned that nobody was born when "Everything I do (I Do It For You)" by Bryan Adams was No.1.

That song was number 1 for at least 4 years solid. Was there nobody here born between the years 1991 and 1995?

dame

Seeing lots of people with same songs. Were the pre-MTV generation so deprived they only bought a few songs per year? Poor dears!

tuxy

US
Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor

UK
Fame - Irene Cara

Not bad

Dudess

Colonel Sanders wrote:

US: Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross (you're guess is as good as mine)

Actually very famous. Theme song to the movie Arthur starring Dudley Moore. You'd know it all right.

Starts with:
"Once in your life you'll find her,
Someone that turns your heart around and
Next thing you know you're closing down the town"

And the chorus goes:
"When you get caught between the Moon and New York City
I know it's crazy, but it's true
If you get caught between the Moon and New York City
The best that you can do ......
The best that you can do is fall in love"

crosstownk

dame wrote:

Seeing lots of people with same songs. Were the pre-MTV generation so deprived they only bought a few songs per year? Poor dears!

I was limited to Sunday afternoon music videos - Vincent Hanley and MTV USA!

Pighead

Pighead wrote:

US: Undercover Angel by Alan O'Day.

Just googled the lyrics to Alans song and its easy to see how it got to number 1.

I said "Whaaaat"
She said "Ooo-ooo-ooo-wee"
I said "All right"
She said "Love me, love me, love me"

Devastatingly romantic. Its always been Pigheads dream to have a chick whisper "Ooo-ooo-ooo-wee" into his ear. Beautiful. Pighead has just made it his mission to hear this work of art by the end of the week.

Dudess

phasers wrote:

AUS:I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat

It was out here in 1990 and was actually massive. Always on the radio. But it didn't get much airplay since. Very catchy tune. I bet you'd recognise it if you heard it.

robinph

UK - I Love You Love Me Love - Gary Glitter
US - Keep On Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks
Oz - He Did With Me - Viki Lawrence

I'm hoping the Oz tune does not have anything to do with Mr Gadd as well though.

tallus

Yesterday, by the beatles.

Terry

Pighead wrote:

Pigheads baffled and stunned that nobody was born when "Everything I do (I Do It For You)" by Bryan Adams was No.1.

That song was number 1 for at least 4 years solid. Was there nobody here born between the years 1991 and 1995?

People bitch and moan about Bono all the time, but it took U2 releasing "The Fly" to knock that dick off the top spot.

dame

Ah Bryan was very rose-mantic...back in the days when the teenage dish-coes played slow-sets....

Pighead

Terry wrote:

People bitch and moan about Bono all the time, but it took U2 releasing "The Fly" to knock that dick off the top spot.

Yeah he was a bit of a spanner wasn't he. You know the way most artists tend to try and distance themselves from an obscenely successful song, maybe asking the record company to delet all remaining copies or say in an interview that even they are sick of trhe song?

Not our Bryan, on his very next single "Can't Stop This Thing We Started."the fcuker put a longer version of Everything I Do(I Do It For You) as a B-Side. Lord help us all.

dame

Pighead wrote:

Not our Bryan, on his very next single "Can't Stop This Thing We Started."the fcuker put a longer version of Everything I Do(I Do It For You) as a B-Side. Lord help us all.

How do you know? Part of your collection is it??