What was Number One in the charts on the day of your birth??

[seismic-2]

Sorry, but I'm struggling to reconcile that statement with the same person that's posted so much awesome content on the Classic Rock Appreciation Thread. Boring? Not according to that thread.

Although you pre-date rock n' roll you certainly seem to have made up for lost time.

Thank you for those very kind (and undeserved) words, WillieMorgan. Inspired and humbled by your reference to "awesome content", I became curious to go back to that thread and see just what all I had in fact posted therein. To my chagrin, I saw that over half my posts now linked to videos that had been removed from YouTube in the 2 or 3 years since I made those posts. Today I went back and straightened out that problem, replacing the dead links with new ones that go to the same track (whenever possible) or at least another performance of the same song by the same group. While I was doing so, I couldn't resist listening to many of the track over again, and I realized just (as the Grateful Dead told us) "what a long, strange trip it's been". Long Live Rock!

[Riv86672]

On July 3rd 1968...
As far as I can tell, Herb Alpert, “This guy’s in love with you”.

[My Two Cents]

Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight

[dancj]

Without You by Nilsson.

I don't know this version. The only version I know is a terrible power-ballad version from the 80s or 90s by someone like Mariah Carey.

I do quite like Harry Nilsson though, so I should give his version a try.

[dancj]

My first birthday though has Cum on Feel the Noize by Slade - and that's an all time classic!

[WillieMorgan]

My first birthday though has Cum on Feel the Noize by Slade - and that's an all time classic!

I hadn't thought of doing that. Let's see:

1st birthday (1975) - Sailing by Rod Stewart. That's quite a good song. I'll take that.
5th birthday (1979) - Message In A Bottle by The Police. Again, not too shabby.
10th birthday (1984) - I Just Called To Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder. Hmm. Great artist but not one of my favourites by him.
15th birthday (1989) - Ride On Time by Black Box. Nah, not my cup of tea.
Adulthood (1992) - Ebeneezer Goode by The Shamen. Now I'm lost to be honest....

[FluffySheep]

Heh. Not only do we share the same birthday but there's exactly a decade between us. If you were born at something like five in the morning then I'm gonna get really creeped out .

Pretty sure I was born at around 8am, which is fairly close lol.

[Scott Taylor]

Here it is, for February 20, 1966. You know, I'm good with this one!



Number 1 song of the year was California Dreamin' - thats a pretty good year.

[Malvolio]

April 11 1970: "Let It Be" by The Beatles (in both Australia and the US)

(Honestly I was not expecting it to be anything that cool)

That was a good month for music. I was born the next week, April 16, 1970, and the number 1 song in the US was "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel.

[BlueandGold]

May 1976 (US chart):

[ed2962]

I antedate Rock 'n' Roll, so I was born in the era when the record charts were dominated by Broadway show tunes. Perhaps I can claim that as the justification for why I turned out to be so bland and boring.

More than a couple people here like show tunes! Tell us or at least give us a hint!

[ed2962]

For me it's May '66..."Monday Monday" by The Mammas and the Papas.

[Nine Crocodile]

Wild Thing by The Troggs:

[seismic-2]

More than a couple people here like show tunes! Tell us or at least give us a hint!

OK, I admit it. The #1 song when I was born was from "South Pacific". Yes, I am that old.

[Attila Kiss]

Add one more to Oct. o2.
Well since you asked for the song in the country I was born, I doubt anyone knows this one.
Heck, I can't say I heard it either, but I do like it.
Classical song in a surf style from Yugoslavia.


However, if we go by nationality, then something my Father liked was dominating the HUngarian list in October 1966.
Sztevanovity Zorán - Mi fáj? (What Hurts)