#1 Song From the Day You were Born

[penfold]

UK Charts -  T Rex - "Get It On"

OK, thats cool. Dead rockstar for teh win.


US Charts - The Bee Gees -  "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"

I'll stick with the UK charts I think. Not that the Saturday Night Fever fold out double LP I have as a hand me down from my parents isn't worthy of the odd play together with falsetto singalong.

[Tige]

"Eight Days a Week"

It sucks that I keep having to keep scrolling farther and farther down the page on stuff like this and drop down menus. 

 

[voodoolily]

Awwwwwyeeeeeaaaah. Afternoon Delight.

[schild]

Awwwwwyeeeeeaaaah. Afternoon Delight.

Sky Rockets in Flight.

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

"Take Good Care of My Baby" by Bobby Vee

[Fabricated]

"What a Feeling" by Irene Cara. Blarghhh

[Venkman]

"Let it be" from the Beatles.

That alone has shaped my life of conformity since :)

[hal]

(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear by Elvis Presley

(The song on the video - nothing to do with Knut, however).

Hal wins oldest in thread.  His is the only song I've never heard before.  When the hell is that from, anyway?

Some of these songs people mention don't seem old enough to me for these people to be out of high chairs.  Time is funny that way.

Oddly enough I have no idea (neither does Itunes) and I am pretty up on 40's and early 50's songs.

Mother had a pretty large swing thing going,

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

 That said I realized I really need to down load "string of pearls" -Glen Miller And if you liked that In the mood - same band well OK, Orchestra.

And just a dare for our guitarists. Classical gas by Mason Williams Not 40's or 50"s but some picking to aspire to.

Oh and July Late July 1952

Nothing wrong with Tommy Dorsey if you like this. just trying to hit some high spots. < This is an edit

[HaemishM]

Quote from: WayAbvPar on Today at 12:20:21 PM

Quote from: HaemishM on Today at 12:11:46 PM
I had "Reunited" on 45 vinyl when I was a kid. STFU.

And before you get crazy, I also had Rod Stewart, Kiss, the Village People and the ultimate disco hit, Freak Out, on 45's as well.

Did you have Juice Newton too?

The Laws of Probability suggest Play that Funky Music White Boy completes the "collection"

No, and no Juice Newton either. My mom still has that spindle of 45's somewhere. I've been tempted to see what I could Ebay some of them for. There was Blondie's Heart of Glass and I am drawing a blank on most of the others.

[Xanthippe]

Oddly enough I have no idea (neither does Itunes) and I am pretty up on 40's and early 50's songs.

 That said I realized I really need to down load "string of pearls" -Glen Miller And if you liked that In the mood - same band well OK, Orchestra.

And just a dare for our guitarists. Classical gas by Mason Williams Not 40's or 50"s but some picking to aspire to.

Oh and July Late July 1952

Nothing wrong with Tommy Dorsey if you like this. just trying to hit some high spots. < This is an edit

I bought Classical Gas a few months ago.

Ditto on Glen Miller - grew up listening to Big Bands, my parents recorded their old 78s onto the high tech hi fi reel to reel from Japan! in the 60s sometime (when it was a Big Deal to get something from Japan).  I do wish that his music was recorded with a better quality.  Moonlight Serenade, Pennsylvania6-5000 and Little Brown Jug are all awesome. 

[Abagadro]

I had "Reunited" on 45 vinyl when I was a kid. STFU.

And before you get crazy, I also had Rod Stewart, Kiss, the Village People and the ultimate disco hit, Freak Out, on 45's as well.

I won't bore you with the details, but the theft of my Village People album in 1979 at a ward-house was the beginning of the road of my rejection of Mormonism. My personal favorite disco album of the time, however, was the Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk EP. I wore that sucker out. Probably damaged my brain.



Penfold, we seem very close on that date. What is your birthday? Mine is August 9, 1971.

[stejen]

I lose the internet and the world

"Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb

It burns it burns

[Triforcer]

"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes.

Wtf?  The last days of disco must have been rough. 

Get some fucking culture, motherfucker. That song kicks ass.

I was fucking zero years old!!    My music collection was low on my list of priorities. 

[NowhereMan]

"I just called to say I love you" by Stevie Wonder for the US and UK charts it seems. Not too bad.

[Zetleft]

"That's the Way (I Like It)" by K.C. & the Sunshine Band

Play that funky music.

[Flood]

Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan

I'll admit I've never even heard of him or that song, but after listening to it I like it.


Song name appropriately symbolic for my life also, fuck you kismet.

[Azazel]

AU - Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy ~ I have no idea what this song sounds like, or who Helen Reddy is.
US - Brother Louie - Stories ~ Um. same again?
UK - Young Love - Donny Osmond ~ Oh for fuck's sake. I've never heard of any of these.

bah

[trotski]

"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes.

Wtf?  The last days of disco must have been rough. 

Get some fucking culture, motherfucker. That song kicks ass.

I was fucking zero years old!!    My music collection was low on my list of priorities. 

At zero years old your top priority was probably titties...which, ironically, are still high on my list of priorities 

[Righ]

AU - Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy ~ I have no idea what this song sounds like, or who Helen Reddy is.
US - Brother Louie - Stories ~ Um. same again?
UK - Young Love - Donny Osmond ~ Oh for fuck's sake. I've never heard of any of these.

Helen Reddy and Donny Osmond are both absurdly well-known. Helen Reddy is best known for "Am I Woman?" and Donny Osmond is best known for his teeth. Never heard of Stories, but I had heard of Brother Louie, which was a big Hot Chocolate hit in the UK. Apparently some twats in the US butchered it for the American market.

Hot Chocolate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMP2LJvUtgw

Twats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exl0oSfTSoY

[Kail]

You know, I've never been that into music, and now I finally know why.  I was born on the day that Streisand's No More Tears became the most popular song in the damn world.  YOU PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK.

[Miasma]

Just be glad you weren't born in the early-mid nineties when country music made a sudden terrible comeback.  Some poor sap probably has "Achy Breaky Heart".  Not to mention the engineered boy bands, some seventeen year olds are living under the crushing weight of New Kids on the Block "Step by Step".

[Sky]

You know, I've never been that into music, and now I finally know why.  I was born on the day that Streisand's No More Tears became the most popular song in the damn world.  YOU PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK.

Yes, ignore the vast riches of musical wonder because of the worst schlock the masses lap up. 

Re: Hal's tune. Anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that we would meet again...some sunny day?  :-D

On a more serious Vera Lynn note, you people need allmusic.com in your reference folders :)

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3pfixqt5ldse

[Viin]

I can't believe I was born on a day where the top song was a Barbra Streisand song!

I might have to change my bday.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Oddly enough I have no idea (neither does Itunes) and I am pretty up on 40's and early 50's songs.

 That said I realized I really need to down load "string of pearls" -Glen Miller And if you liked that In the mood - same band well OK, Orchestra.

And just a dare for our guitarists. Classical gas by Mason Williams Not 40's or 50"s but some picking to aspire to.

Oh and July Late July 1952

Nothing wrong with Tommy Dorsey if you like this. just trying to hit some high spots. < This is an edit

I bought Classical Gas a few months ago.

Ditto on Glen Miller - grew up listening to Big Bands, my parents recorded their old 78s onto the high tech hi fi reel to reel from Japan! in the 60s sometime (when it was a Big Deal to get something from Japan).  I do wish that his music was recorded with a better quality.  Moonlight Serenade, Pennsylvania6-5000 and Little Brown Jug are all awesome. 

I love big band music!  Specifically requested that the DJ at my wedding play a lot of it (and to NOT play fucking "Hokey Pokey" or "Chicken Dance").  Bastard didn't play as much swing as I wanted and then played those two damn songs I told him not too!  Guest requests and all that.

Biggest regret from the reception was the idiot videographer not getting me and my mom doing the jitterbug on tape.  My parents were into swing dancing for a long while and she taught me how to do some of them.  Doing the jitterbug in a freaking hoop skirt was an accomplishment, and that idiot missed it!  ARGH!  Still pisses me off 14 years later.

[Murgos]

Without going into a lot of detail, a Benny Hill song was #1 in AU when I was born.  Such is the travails of my youth.

[Sky]

I love big band music!  Specifically requested that the DJ at my wedding play a lot of it (and to NOT play fucking "Hokey Pokey" or "Chicken Dance").  Bastard didn't play as much swing as I wanted and then played those two damn songs I told him not too!  Guest requests and all that.

Best wedding I ever worked as a DJ (not yours!). Couple handed us a playlist for dinner music, some real classy Sinatra and piano stuff. Then gave us a 'jist list' of swing and big band for the rowdy dancing portion of the evening. We winced, because people expect 'wedding music' (chicken dance, ad nauseum). But we were pros and followed orders. Turns out one of the families paid for lessons for everyone and the whole place broke into a flurry of raucous swing dancers, it was a couple hours of insanity. Good times.

Sorry you got stuck with a shitty DJ. We had some stupid requests, we just let people know that they didn't fit into the program the couple had requested. You /never/ fuck with the bride's requests, and secondarily the groom's.

[Lantyssa]

Sorry you got stuck with a shitty DJ. We had some stupid requests, we just let people know that they didn't fit into the program the couple had requested. You /never/ fuck with the bride's requests, and secondarily the groom's.

That is what surprised me about Rhyssa's story.

[shiznitz]

1968 ... "Hey Jude" by The Beatles

[Driakos]

"My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry

Funny or sad?

[Xanthippe]

AU - Delta Dawn - Helen Reddy ~ I have no idea what this song sounds like, or who Helen Reddy is.

Delta Dawn was Tonya Tucker's hit when she was 13.  I didn't know Helen Reddy covered it.

Helen Reddy - only hit song with the word "embryo" that I know of (and the song stinks).  I Am Woman.  Ugh.

[Sky]

"My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry

Funny or sad?

Awesome. Purists hate it, but I think it's a fun song.

[Hokers]

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel

1970 ... "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel

Add me in there March 23rd.

[Polysorbate80]

"Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones

Same.

Could be worse, my older brother got "This Guy's In Love With You" by Herb Alpert

[sigil]

"A Horse with No Name" by America

Hokey, but not as bads as some of the shit some of you got struck with.

[Montague]

US: People Got To Be Free - The Rascals.

Groovy.

UK: Hey Jude - The Beatles.

Probably half the population born in Britain in 1968 has this as well.

AU: Hey Jude - The Beatles.

Ditto for the Aussies