For me it was this.
Hmmm...
Ooch Memory Loss
The Supremes, "Baby Love".
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Bright Eyes. S&G
The Everly Brothers - "Walk Right Back / Ebony Eyes"
For me, The Beatles, Get Back (hopefully not what my Dad said when he saw me for the first time)
I just looked up for my girls (unsurprisingly, no-one I can even vaguely remember as music has generally turned shit in the last ten years) but I was pleased - no, THRILLED! - to discover that #1 on the day my wife was born, was none other than 'Ken Lee'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyrQqmc5UT8
Kingtastic
On 19th Nov 1978 ...
The Number 1 single was:
The Boomtown Rats - "Rat Trap"
For Number 1 single over the subsequent years Click Here
The Number 1 album was:
Original Soundtrack - "Grease"
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - "Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus"
How's this:
Number one when I was born is Elvis Presley - "Rock-A-Hula Baby / Can't Help Falling In Love"
And I share my birthday with Peter Andre!
Two giants of rock!
The charts had't been invented in 1956!
globalit - 1952 for singles - check the link in my post above
My birthday is 10th Jan, so I think the #1 for that year was Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody".
Or it might have been New Seekers "You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me".
I share my birthday with Brad Roberts off of Crash Test Dummies, and the legend what is Rod Stewart
Blondie - Heart of Glass
1969 On your birthdate the No. 1 single was The Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk Women"
Kev
Conway Twitty - it's on;y make believe.
The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon"
What were your parents listening to when, errm, you know...
Ugh: Wings, Mull Of Kintyre. Dire.
I'd love to say it was something tremendously rock'n'roll, but for me it was:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=19wAAyxZhUo
... probably explains a lot.
pretty flamingo. manfreds.
The quite prophetic 'Somebody Help Me' by the Spencer Davis Group.
Transmission date is a week or so before my birthday though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-LdEx-eaw0
slainte
rob
Can't get You Tube at work but mine was.....
Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
www.youtube.com/watch?v=unwa_XQKc4A
I like a fair bit of 60s stuff, but the Searchers.. mleh.
(Used this http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1 to find it)
Single; Procol Harum - Whiter shade of pale.
Album; Beatles - Sgt Pepper.
T'was the summer of love...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA
Bohemian Rhapsody - so that could have been a lot worse
Hot Love by T Rex
It makes a lot of sense really.
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