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Title: #1 song when you were born
Post by: brennser on April 07, 2004, 11:08:00 am
has this been posted before? some fairly dodgy music associated w/ my birthday.....
 
 http://www.everyhit.com/dates/ (http://www.everyhit.com/dates/)
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 Rod Stewart - "You Wear It Well"
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Various artist compilation (Arcade) - "20 Fantastic Hits"
 
 Born on 28th Aug:
 1943 - David Soul
 1961 - Kim Appleby ( of sister duo Mel & Kim )
 1965 - Shania Twain ( real name Eilleen Regina Edwards )
 1982 - LeAnn Rimes
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: mankie on April 07, 2004, 11:12:00 am
On 2nd Jul 1960 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 Eddie Cochran - "Three Steps To Heaven"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Original Soundtrack - "South Pacific"
 
 
 Born on 2nd Jul:
 1942 - Leapy Lee
 1950 - Duncan Mackay ( keyboard player, Cockney Rebel )
 1954 - Pete Briquette ( bassist, vocalist, The Boomtown Rats )
 
 
 Who the hell is Leapy Lee?
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: Venerable Bede on April 07, 2004, 11:12:00 am
The Number 1 single was:
 The Stylistics - "Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Stylistics - "The Best Of The Stylistics"
 
 
 Born on 22nd Aug:
 1920 - John Lee Hooker ( blues vocalist guitarist )
 1945 - Ron Dante ( vocalist for cartoon band The Archies )
 1963 - James Debarge ( member of US family group Debarge )
 1963 - Tori Amos ( real name Myra Ellen Amos )
 1969 - Steve Cradock ( guitarist, pianist, vocalist, Ocean Colour Scene )
 1973 - Howard Dwayne ( of The Backstreet Boys )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 07, 2004, 11:13:00 am
The chart doesn't go back far enough for my birthdate...
 
 Actually, I could care less who topped the UK charts the date I was born. What about the US charts?
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: markie on April 07, 2004, 11:14:00 am
Bollocks is the coolest, but I'm sweet!
 
 On 6th Feb 1973 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 The Sweet - "Blockbuster"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Elton John - "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player"
 
 
 Born on 6th Feb:
 1941 - Dave Berry
 1945 - Bob Marley ( vocalist , guitarist, Bob Marley & The Wailers (deceased) )
 1950 - Mike Batt ( prolific songwriter; vocalist, solo and with The Wombles )
 1950 - Natalie Cole ( vocalist, daughter of Nat 'King' Cole )
 1962 - Axl Rose ( vocalist, Guns N' Roses )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: ratioci nation on April 07, 2004, 11:14:00 am
On 1st May 1976 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 Brotherhood Of Man - "Save Your Kisses For Me"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 TV Soundtrack - "Rock Follies"
 
 
 Born on 1st May:
 1939 - Judy Collins
 1944 - Rita Coolidge
 1954 - Ray Parker Jr
 1962 - Owen Paul
 1966 - Johnny Colt ( bassist, The Black Crowes )
 1970 - Bernard Butler ( guitarist; solo and with Suede / McAlmont & Butler )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: markie on April 07, 2004, 11:15:00 am
Bollocks:
 
 http://www.geocities.com/leapyleeshrine/sixties.html (http://www.geocities.com/leapyleeshrine/sixties.html)
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: markie on April 07, 2004, 11:16:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by pollard:
  The Number 1 single was:
 Brotherhood Of Man - "Save Your Kisses For Me"
 
 
Ha Ha!
 
 Bye, bye, baby goodbye.
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: Bombay Chutney on April 07, 2004, 11:17:00 am
The Number 1 single was:
 The Seekers - "The Carnival Is Over"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Original Soundtrack - "The Sound Of Music"
 
 
 Born on 5th Dec:
 1899 - Sonny Boy Williamson ( blues vocalist; deceased )
 1932 - Richard Penniman ( better known as Little Richard )
 1938 - J.J. Cale ( guitarist, singer-songwriter )
 1946 - Andy Kim
 1947 - Jim Messina ( bassist, vocals, Buffalo Springfield )
 1965 - John Rzeznick ( lead vocalist, The Goo Goo Dolls )
 1980 - Zainam Higgins ( vocalist, Cleopatra )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: mankie on April 07, 2004, 11:17:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by mark e smith:
  1950 - Mike Batt ( prolific songwriter;
Markies a Womble!!!!!!!!!! You should change your user name to Orinoco or something.
 
 Bit of a pisser you have to share your birthday with a twat like Axl Rose though.
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: thirsty moore on April 07, 2004, 11:19:00 am
On 25th Sep 1978 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - "Summer Nights"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Boney M - "Night Flight To Venus"
 
 
 Born on 25th Sep:
 1955 - Steve Severin ( bass player, Siousie And The Banshees )
 1968 - Will Smith
 1975 - Declan Donnelly ( 'Dec' of Ant & Dec and 'Duncan' in P.J. & Duncan )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: mankie on April 07, 2004, 11:19:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by mark e smith:
  Bollocks:
 
  http://www.geocities.com/leapyleeshrine/sixties.html (http://www.geocities.com/leapyleeshrine/sixties.html)
Thanks, I did a google on him....With a name like that I thought he was a fast food chain mascot or something.
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: Bags on April 07, 2004, 11:20:00 am
I wasn't even going to bother, 'cuz chances are I wouldn't know the song anyhow (who the hell are the Tremeloes), but I GOT THE MONKEES!!!  AND Ian Astbury!  Oh yeah, and David Byrne.  I'm feeling good.
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 The Tremeloes - "Silence Is Golden"
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Monkees - "More Of The Monkees"
 
 Born on 14th May:
 1936 - Bobby Darin
 1943 - Jack Bruce ( real name John Symon Asher Bruce; bassist, Cream )
 1952 - David Byrne ( vocalist; solo and with Talking Heads )
 1962 - Ian Astbury ( real name Ian Lindsay; lead vocalist, The Cult )
 1973 - Natalie Appleton ( vocalist; All Saints / Appleton )
 
 There's another site that does both UK and US #1s, but I don't remember where I saw it.
 
 PS, did anyone see a half hour of Barry Manilow on Good Morning America today?   ;)
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: markie on April 07, 2004, 11:20:00 am
<img src="http://www.darklighter.co.uk/dwimages/feb2001/womblemurderer.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 I dunno, you and I could use a little patience.
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: mankie on April 07, 2004, 11:22:00 am
I'm really really really old....I can remember watching everyone's number ones on Top of the pops!!
 
 Tremeloes, Silence is golden was my favourite song when I was knee high to a grasshopper.
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: Bags on April 07, 2004, 11:24:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  The Number 1 single was:
 John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - "Summer Nights"
I think I was at the movie theater when you were born....   :p
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: ratioci nation on April 07, 2004, 11:26:00 am
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/cont/choose.html (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/cont/choose.html)
 
 us and uk, just enter a fake email address
 
 the U.S. No.1 on the 5th May 1976 was...
 Let Your Love Flow by The Bellamy Brothers
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 07, 2004, 11:27:00 am
probably not mine  :)
 
  On 25th Aug 1962 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 Frank Ifield - "I Remember You"
 
 Best-selling single of 1962.
 The Number 1 album was:
 Elvis Presley - "Pot Luck"
 
 
 Born on 25th Aug:
 1933 - Wayne Shorter ( saxophonist, Weather Report )
 1949 - Gene Simmons ( bassist, vocalist, Kiss )
 1954 - Elvis Costello ( real name Declan Patrick MacManus )
 1963 - Candida Doyle ( keyboard player, backing vocals, Pulp )
 1966 - Norman Rogers ( aka Terminator X, Public Enemy )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 07, 2004, 11:32:00 am
US: Somethin Stupid (actual song name) by Frank and Nancy Sinatra
 
 UK: Puppet On A String by Sandie Shaw
 
 ...and for the next 36.9 years, it was all downhill for the music charts
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: Random Citizen on April 07, 2004, 11:37:00 am
On 27th Jan 1977 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 David Soul - "Don't Give Up On Us"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Slim Whitman - "Red River Valley"
 
 
 Born on 27th Jan:
 1930 - Bobby Bland
 1945 - Nick Mason ( drummer, Pink Floyd )
 1961 - Gillian Gilbert ( keyboard player, The Inadequates / New Order / The Other Two )
 1968 - Adrian Thawes ( better known as Tricky )
 1974 - Mark Owen ( vocalist, Take That )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: mankie on April 07, 2004, 11:41:00 am
Everybody's Somebody's Fool by
 Connie Francis
 
 
 Thank God I'm not a doodle by birth.
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: godsshoeshine on April 07, 2004, 11:51:00 am
On 6th Jan 1976 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Perry Como - "40 Greatest Hits"
 
 
 Born on 6th Jan:
 1944 - Van McCoy ( producer, vocalist, pianist; deceased )
 1946 - Syd Barrett ( real name Roger Barrett; Pink Floyd )
 1947 - Sandy Denny ( Fairport Convention )
 1953 - Malcolm Young ( guitarist, AC/DC )
 1959 - Kathy Sledge ( Sister Sledge )
 1964 - Mark O'Toole ( bassist, Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: thirsty moore on April 07, 2004, 11:58:00 am
Wait, you mean to tell me that you don't fake your British accent?  You had me going there.  I thought you just really liked Austin Powers or something.
 
   
Quote
Originally posted by Bollocks:
 Thank God I'm not a doodle by birth.
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: vansmack on April 07, 2004, 12:02:00 pm
On 2nd Mar 1974 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 Suzi Quatro - "Devil Gate Drive"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Slade - "Old New Borrowed And Blue"
 
 
 Born on 2nd Mar:
 1943 - Lou Reed ( real name; Louis Firbank. Vocalist; solo and with Velvet Underground )
 1948 - Rory Gallagher ( guitarist, solo and in Taste; deceased )
 1950 - Karen Carpenter ( vocalist, drummer, The Carpenters; deceased )
 1977 - Chris Martin ( lead vocals, keyboards, Coldplay )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 07, 2004, 01:29:00 pm
The Number 1 single was:
 The Bay City Rollers - "Give A Little Love"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Carpenters - "Horizon"
 
 
 Born on 31st Jul:
 1947 - Karl Green ( guitarist, Herman's Hermits )
 1957 - Daniel Ash ( guitarist, vocalist; Bauhaus )
 1958 - Bill Berry ( drummer, REM )
 1963 - Norman Cook ( real name Quentin Cook; bassist, The Housemartins; also DJ / producer known as Pizzaman / Fatboy Slim )
 1964 - Jim Corr ( guitarist, vocalist, The Corrs )
 1978 - Will Champion ( drummer, Coldplay )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: poorlulu on April 07, 2004, 02:07:00 pm
On 17th Jul 1975 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 The Bay City Rollers - "Give A Little Love"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Wings - "Venus And Mars"
 
 
 Born on 17th Jul:
 1941 - Spencer Davis ( guitarist )
 1949 - Mick Tucker ( drummer, The Sweet )
 1949 - Terry 'Geezer' Butler ( bassist, Black Sabbath )
 1952 - Chet McCracKen ( drummer, The Doobie Brothers )
 1982 - Natasha Hamilton ( vocalist, Atomic Kitten )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: mankie on April 07, 2004, 02:22:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by poorlulu:
  On 17th Jul 1975 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 The Bay City Rollers - "Give A Little Love"
 
 
 
This gets the prize for most fitting birth-song!
   :D
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: MaLo on April 07, 2004, 02:36:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  On 25th Sep 1978 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - "Summer Nights"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Boney M - "Night Flight To Venus"
 
 
 Born on 25th Sep:
 1955 - Steve Severin ( bass player, Siousie And The Banshees )
 1968 - Will Smith
 1975 - Declan Donnelly ( 'Dec' of Ant & Dec and 'Duncan' in P.J. & Duncan )
Hey, i'm 4 days older than you:
 
 On 21st Sep 1978 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 10cc - "Dreadlock Holiday"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Boney M - "Night Flight To Venus"
 
 
 Born on 21st Sep:
 1934 - Leonard Cohen
 1947 - Don Felder ( guitarist, organist, vocalist The Eagles )
 1967 - Faith Hill
 1967 - Tyler Stewart ( drummer, Barenaked Ladies )
 1968 - Jon Brookes ( drummer, The Charlatans )
 1968 - Trugoy The Dove ( real name David Jolicoeur; vocals, De La Soul )
 1972 - Liam Gallagher ( vocalist, Oasis )
 1973 - Jimmy Constable ( vocalist, 911 )
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: on April 07, 2004, 04:53:00 pm
Manky...you're ancient. What's your secret to longevity?
 
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by Bollocks:
  On 2nd Jul 1960 ...
 
 The Number 1 single was:
 Eddie Cochran - "Three Steps To Heaven"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Original Soundtrack - "South Pacific"
 
 
 Born on 2nd Jul:
 1942 - Leapy Lee
 1950 - Duncan Mackay ( keyboard player, Cockney Rebel )
 1954 - Pete Briquette ( bassist, vocalist, The Boomtown Rats )
 
 
 Who the hell is Leapy Lee?
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: walkman on April 07, 2004, 09:00:00 pm
The Number 1 single was:
 
 Whitney Houston - "Saving All My Love For You
 
 Born on 19th Dec:
 1941 - Maurice White ( vocalist, Earth Wind and Fire )
 1944 - Zal Yanovsky ( guitarist, vocalist, The Lovin' Spoonful )
 1958 - Chris Hamill ( better known as Limahl, lead vocalist with Kajagoogoo )
 
 Yes!  Limahl has my birthday!!
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: distance on April 09, 2004, 04:09:00 am
songs don't matter to me, but
 
 Born on 23rd May:
 1934 - Robert Moog ( inventor of the synthesizer )
 1967 - Philip James Selway ( drummer, Radiohead )
 1974 - Jewel ( full name Jewel Kilcher )
 
 i knew of the last two, but i don't think i knew about moog.
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: Samantha on April 09, 2004, 08:32:00 am
The Number 1 single was:
 Chris De Burgh - "The Lady In Red"
 
 
 The Number 1 album was:
 Madonna - "True Blue"
 
 
 Born on 7th Aug:
 1952 - Alexis Sayle ( actor and 'vocalist' )
 1952 - Andy Fraser ( bassist, Free )
 1965 - Raul Malo ( vocalist, The Mavericks )
 
 the U.S. No.1 on the 7th August 1986 was... The Glory of Love by
 Peter Cetera
 
 AAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH
 
 I guess it's my own fault for being born in the 80's.
Title: Re: #1 song when you were born
Post by: mankie on April 09, 2004, 09:19:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by Samantha:
  Born on 7th Aug:
 1952 - Alexis Sayle ( actor and 'vocalist' )
 
That's impressive though...." 'Ello John, gotta new mota?"