What song was #1 the day you were born? / Earliest memories?

[Chad Jennings]

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com - Click on "Birthday No. 1" up top.

Just a fun little diversion.

For me, on the US Charts it was "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce.

The UK charts - "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade


edit:  Some folks down the line in the thread started mentioned earliest memories.  Definitely another fun little diversion.

edit 2:  Spurred by Ken Holmes announcement that today was his birthday, I grabbed the first google link for finding common birthdays.  http://www.famousbirthdays.com was a quick and easy (while far from exhaustive) way to check up on that.  Click on the month in the frame along the left hand part of the screen for a listing of the "famous" birthdays in that month.  In addition, each day has a list of links to similar tools elsewhere on the web (the 2-3 letter links: ET - IP - DT....etc).  Among those is http://us.imdb.com/OnThisDay.  That link gives you a list of everyone in the Internet Movie DataBase who was born, died, or was married today.  Alter the date you want to search for in the left hand column near the top, it will default to today's date.

[Karen Lane]

Yesterday
The Beatles

[Keith Dahlgren]

'I Want You, I Need You, I Love You' by Elvis Presley.

(No 'old' jokes, please.)

[Peggy Gannon]

My Sweet Lord  -  George Harrison (US)
I Hear You Knocking  -  Dave Edmonds (UK)


I don't think I know either of those songs.  Can anyone hum a few bars?

P.

[Keith Dahlgren]

Peggy...you're joshin' me, right?

George Harrison's My Sweet Lord?  The one he got sued for because it sounds just like 'He's So Fine'?

See:Â  http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/mysweet.htm

I Hear You Knockin', I can understand, because it was a one hit wonder (a band on Apple Records, coincidentally, if I recall correctly.)

I was in high school. *sigh*

[Dom Zook]

Lessee, I got:

US: Best Of My Love - The Emotions

UK: Way Down - Elvis Presley

Hmmm... guess it's time to hit the iTunes Music Store!

[Marcy Rodenborn]

U.S. - Satisfaction by the Stones, baby.  You know I'm cool.

U.K. - Mr. Tambourine Man.  You know I'm sensitive. 

[Marcy Rodenborn]

Frightening footnote.  My daughter was born March 15, 2004 and here's her songs:

Yeah - Usher feat Lil Jon and Ludacris (I've never even heard this song)

Cha Cha Slide - DJ Casper- ditto

[Peggy Gannon]

Oh *THAT* song.  Yeah Keith, I totally know that song.  It's that hippy song.   

I am not shy, so I'll say it ... I love that song.  It makes me kinda happy to sing along to it.  It's a spring song for me; the kind of song that makes me want to roll down my car windows and sing lustily even if I don't know all (or even most) of the words.  The same impulse which embarrasses me year after year when I realize again that people can hear me when I do that.   

[Peggy Gannon]

Great.  Now I can't get "My Sweet Lord" out of my head.  4 people at work have already called me on it.  Apparently I'm humming.

[Chad Jennings]

Frightening footnote. My daughter was born March 15, 2004 and here's her songs:

Yeah - Usher feat Lil Jon and Ludacris (I've never even heard this song)

Cha Cha Slide - DJ Casper- ditto

Ah yes, the Cha Cha Slide....   heh.      Well, Yeah was #1 for a large portion of the year (or at least multiple weeks) so it would be hard to avoid.

[Karen Lane]

DeLancey's: Un-break My Heart by Toni Braxton
UK - Discotheque by U2

Marcus: Crazy in Love by Beyonce
UK - the same!

[Machelle Allman]

Me:  UK: School's Out, Alice Cooper  (Rock on!)
US:  Alone Again, Naturally, Gilbert O'Sullivan

My son: UK: If Tomorrow Never Comes, Ronan Keating (?)
US:  Foolish, Ashanti

These all fit together cosmically somehow, but I just can't place it....

[Margaret O'Malley]

For me- "I'll Be There" by The Jackson 5 - US... Back when Michael Jackson was a sweet young boy
  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne- UK (never heard of it)

For my son Liam born earlier this year: "Let Me Love You" by Mario- US and "Goodies" By Ciara -UK
I feel so old and parent like because I have heard neither of those songs

[Becky Hellyer]

Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Elvis Presley (<----who's he?)