What Was the #1 Song on Your Birthday?

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The discussion revolves around a website that allows users to find the number one song on the charts for their birth date, prompting participants to share their own birthdate songs. Various songs are mentioned, including "Love Me Tender" by Elvis Presley and "Like a Virgin" by Madonna, with users reminiscing about their childhood memories associated with these tracks. Some participants express nostalgia for songs from their youth, while others share humorous anecdotes about their early interests in music and science. A significant portion of the conversation shifts to concerns about privacy and identity theft, with one user cautioning against sharing personal information online, including birthdates. This leads to a debate about the safety of using the website and the potential risks involved. Despite the warnings, many users seem to enjoy the nostalgic aspect of the thread, discussing their musical preferences and memories tied to specific songs. The thread captures a blend of nostalgia, humor, and caution regarding online privacy.
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If you go to this site, you can look up the song that was at the top of the charts on the day you were born.

Mine was,

Love me Tender...Elvis Presley
 
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"Lost in Emotion" by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam :bugeye:
 
Wheel of Fortune by Kay Starr. Not in heavy rotation on the oldies stations.
 
"Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DW8ecqu0Iw
 
Tiffany Could've Been

I love this song !:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LzGss9QGAk
 
Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band.

Never heard of it...:confused:
 
Ms Music said:
Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band.

Never heard of it...:confused:
Novelty song that happened to hit the pop charts...
 
"Lisbon Antigua" by Nelson Riddle.
That's a little less than inspiring.
 
turbo-1 said:
Novelty song that happened to hit the pop charts...

Yeah, it had a link to listen to it online. Nothing impressive... <sigh>
 
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Winchester Cathedral was a really fun tune, and rather catchy at the time. The only one so far that I don't know, was Dangers. I had to listen to it, sounds like dance music that my folks use to listen to.
 
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"Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu)" by Domenico Modugno
 
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I feel young today :biggrin:
 
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They didn't have music when I was born. Unless you consider banging wooden branches on rocks and making gutteral sounds music. :frown:
 
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Evo said:
They didn't have music when I was born. Unless you consider banging wooden branches on rocks and making gutteral sounds music. :frown:
OK, now you'er exaggerating! There were no such things as "wooden" branches when you were born. Only modified grasses. Not much of a percussion section. Foop, foop!
 
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Evo said:
They didn't have music when I was born. Unless you consider banging wooden branches on rocks and making gutteral sounds music. :frown:
I'm thinking you are about my age. Is your song "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow" by Dan Quinn? o:)
 
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I'm guessing that Evo was born when "Come Softly to Me" by the Sevilles was #1, but that's just because she claims all kinds of 1960's experiences. I suspect that she was jail-bait in the '60's, and "Runaway" by Del Shannon was her #1.
 
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turbo-1 said:
I'm guessing that Evo was born when "Come Softly to Me" by the Sevilles was #1, but that's just because she claims all kinds of 1960's experiences. I suspect that she was jail-bait in the '60's, and "Runaway" by Del Shannon was her #1.
I wasn't jail bait in the 60's I was in Kindergarten. I was 11-12 when I started going to concerts by Hendrix, The Doors, etc... My big brother was forced to accompany me.

You're older than I am, btw. :biggrin:
 
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Evo said:
I wasn't jail bait in the 60's I was in Kindergarten. I was 11-12 when I started going to concerts by Hendrix, The Doors, etc... My big brother was forced to accompany me.

You're older than I am, btw. :biggrin:
I know I'm older than you. I'm 57. Point is, if you attended Hendrix concerts as a child, you couldn't have been born any later than 1959 at the earliest. That makes you (gasp!) 50 in a month and 15 days.
 
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Yessss!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il9d0LYGBHM

Math education left a little to be desired back then. That must have been the month a lot of crack pots were born.
 
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Get Off of My Cloud... the greatest rock band ever...
 
  • #21
Hallelujah - The Angels in Heaven
 
  • #22
"'The Third Man' Theme" by Anton Karas.
 
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Holy moly, I just found out that several songs that I listened to on the radio when they came out and can still sing to this day was from when I was 3. But I was also reading about Egyptians and had an interest in astronomy when I was 3, that is when I told my mother I wanted to be an archaeologist and astronomer. This validates that my memories are correct time wise. I was already seasoned by the time I entered kindergarten, but I had no way to be certain this all was around age 3, but I had always said 3. Yeah, I know, this only means something to me.
 
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"All Night Long (All Night)" by Lionel Richie for me. Wonder what was in the UK charts.
 
  • #25
"Straight up" by Paula Abdul.
 
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AHAHAHH YES!

1985 Like a Virgin Madonna


NIVU2snA-yU[/youtube] Talk about the perfect song for being born.
 
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Cyrus said:
AHAHAHH YES!

1985 Like a Virgin Madonna


NIVU2snA-yU[/youtube] Talk about.../QUOTE]Ahahhaa, that is "so" perfect for you.
 
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Evo said:
But I was also reading about Egyptians and had an interest in astronomy when I was 3, that is when I told my mother I wanted to be an archaeologist and astronomer.

Hey I was into paleontology and astronomy. But from some time later than 3 because I could read about it. So I must have been at least ... 4, ... if not 7 then.

Oddly I have a very vivid memory of being bathed in a sink at about a year + a couple of months at a summer cottage in Wimberley, TX that only basically had screen walls, a roof on a cement slab, where we on occasion spent some time. (I can still see it in my mind's eye and smell the fir trees along the river.) It's as far back toward the Big Bang as I can recall. Don't recall what was playing on the radio though.
 
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LowlyPion said:
Hey I was into paleontology and astronomy. But from some time later than 3 because I could read about it. So I must have been at least ... 4, ... if not 7 then.
Well, I mostly "read" the books with lots of pictures that had captions. We're 2 of a kind. Little freaks. Did you have a microscope and telescope? I find this is quite common among PF members when they were little.

Oddly I have a very vivid memory of being bathed in a sink at about a year + a couple of months at a summer cottage in Wimberley, TX that only basically had screen walls, a roof on a cement slab, where we on occasion spent some time. (I can still see it in my mind's eye and smell the fir trees along the river.) It's as far back toward the Big Bang as I can recall. Don't recall what was playing on the radio though.
That's very cool. Do you or did you have a photographic memory when you were growing up?
 
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LowlyPion said:
Hey I was into paleontology and astronomy. But from some time later than 3 because I could read about it. So I must have been at least ... 4, ... if not 7 then.

Oddly I have a very vivid memory of being bathed in a sink at about a year + a couple of months at a summer cottage in Wimberley, TX that only basically had screen walls, a roof on a cement slab, where we on occasion spent some time. (I can still see it in my mind's eye and smell the fir trees along the river.) It's as far back toward the Big Bang as I can recall. Don't recall what was playing on the radio though.

I was in Wimberly, TX, for a wedding - on my 40th birthday! Don't remember the cottage you describe :wink: but I do remember having to join a "club" in order to get a glass of wine at a restaurant there...it's a dry county :rolleyes:.

Gotta love Texas.

OK technically you don't but why fight it.
 
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geez, this webmaster seriously needs to make use of a database

Billie Jean Michael Jackson for me
 
  • #32
Evo said:
Well, I mostly "read" the books with lots of pictures that had captions. We're 2 of a kind. Little freaks. Did you have a microscope and telescope? I find this is quite common among PF members when they were little.

That's very cool. Do you or did you have a photographic memory when you were growing up?

I was a child of privilege. My grandfather had a telescope in his backyard. It was an 8" reflector. There was a walk up platform to get to the eyepiece. And no motor mount. But damn you could sure see the moon. When I was older I built my own telescope, ground the lens and all - another reflector - phew. But it was a puny thing compared to his walk-up.

And of course I had a microscope and chemistry set too. I loved that stuff. My science projects tended to involve petri dishes and sketches of staff and strep and agar cultures and glass slides. I had a Bunsen burner in my bedroom even on my work table. Test tubes, chemicals, and a dart board. I even had a rifle hanging on a wall mount. When I think back on it my room was a real hazard zone for kids, but by some miracle we all survived. And that was even before seat belts.
 
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LowlyPion said:
I was a child of privilege. My grandfather had a telescope in his backyard. It was an 8" reflector. There was a walk up platform to get to the eyepiece. And no motor mount. But damn you could sure see the moon. When I was older I built my own telescope, ground the lens and all - another reflector - phew. But it was a puny thing compared to his walk-up.

And of course I had a microscope and chemistry set too. I loved that stuff. My science projects tended to involve petri dishes and sketches of staff and strep and agar cultures and glass slides. I had a Bunsen burner in my bedroom even on my work table. Test tubes, chemicals, and a dart board. I even had a rifle hanging on a wall mount. When I think back on it my room was a real hazard zone for kids, but by some miracle we all survived. And that was even before seat belts.
ooooh. OOOOOH.

I went to the planetarium whenever i had a chance. First time I went I thought "this is what I want to do when i grow up". Be a projectionist. :-p
 
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Evo said:
That's very cool. Do you or did you have a photographic memory when you were growing up?

Forgot this. I realized after I posted that it was those Texas scrub cedar trees that were all about nor firs.

Either it's a good memory or taking a bath was so infrequent that it was a big event. The thing that is odd about it is that it's almost like a photo through a glass darkly. (To borrow a little from Alice.) And in shades of reds and blacks for some reason. But generally, no it's not photographic.
 
  • #35
Evo said:
ooooh. OOOOOH.

I went to the planetarium whenever i had a chance. First time I went I thought "this is what I want to do when i grow up". Be a projectionist. :-p

I see. You wanted to run things?
 
  • #36
LowlyPion said:
I see. You wanted to run things?
heh, I wanted to work in an observatory because I thought it would be like the planetarium. :biggrin: All beautiful, in color, with great music and black lights. It is, isn't it?

Ok, yes I knew it was fake. But I wanted to do something to instill that awe in others.
 
  • #37
lisab said:
Don't remember the cottage you describe :wink:

I should hope not. I can't imagine that it's still there. It was more like semi-permanent camping, not really a house at all. Cement slab, 4 posts along each side, 2 screen doors on opposite sides a counter sink and table and room for cots. A swift wind should have seen that thing in the creek.
 
  • #38
Evo said:
heh, I wanted to work in an observatory because I thought it would be like the planetarium. :biggrin: All beautiful, in color, with great music and black lights. It is, isn't it?

Ok, yes I knew it was fake. But I wanted to do something to instill that awe in others.

Sounds a bit like a strip bar the way you put it. (Not like I would know except from the pictures of course.)
 
  • #39
My wishful thinking was "Top of the world - carpenters" ... Ah, I was born 2 months before the release of the album. Anyway, they were the no. 1 when I was 4 month old, may be the day I started on my solids.



I listen to this song almost every other day.
 
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Borek said:
Never heard about Telstar & The Tornadoes

What? :) I was born way later and *I* know that song.

The Tornadoes I understand, they were a one-hit wonder with that song. But the song itself is pretty well-known; there are a lot of cover versions of it.

Try checking out "The Spotnicks". There's a whole genre of 1960's satellite-related instrumental rock that you probably don't know about :smile:
 
  • #42
Ah OK, now that I have heard sample from wikipedia I know it, I was just not aware of the title.

alxm said:
Try checking out "The Spotnicks". There's a whole genre of 1960's satellite-related instrumental rock that you probably don't know about :smile:

Could be. Living on this side of the iron courtain had its drawbacks.
 
  • #43
Tears for fears-shout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bqgy1mebh8
 
  • #44
Annie's Song by John Denver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkGS263lGsQ

gonna have to try this one at karaoke night.
 
  • #45
April 15th, 1985

We Are the World - USA for Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM
 
  • #46
Huckleberry said:
Annie's Song by John Denver
gonna have to try this one at karaoke night.

You've got me beat by one year... darn! When I saw the list I liked that one so much better! (Nice to know I'm not the only one from the 70's here...)
I get "The Hussle" (Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony) on this guy's list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFz2WkVAk38
but "Listen to what the Man Said" (McCartney & the Wings) on others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwuz3j4XbbU
... neither is really inspiring.

But at least my Hot Soul Single Number One is the original "Fight the Power." :biggrin:
 
  • #47
I think I have the worst song in history.

12/1/78 is "You don't bring me flowers" by Barb Striesand and Niel Diamond
 
  • #48
"Straight Up" by Paula Abdul.

I only know her from American Idols, never heard her music.
 
  • #49
Another Day in Paradise - Phil Collins

I actually liked Phil Collins a lot as a child, coincidence?
 
  • #50
*-<|:-D=<-< said:
Another Day in Paradise - Phil Collins

I actually liked Phil Collins a lot as a child, coincidence?

How did you know Phil Collins as a child?
 

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