What song was #1 on the day you were born

[Mudbug]

Have you ever done this?

My number #1's are:
'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon in the US
'Long Haired Lover From Liverpool' by Little Jimmy Osmond in the UK

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1

[AlreadyGone95]

In the US:

Gangstas Paradise - Coolio

[SilverAcidRayne]

Rock Creek Park... The BlackByrds

Philadelphia Freedom... Elton John

[tequila mockingbird]

Turn! Turn! Turn! ~The Byrds

[Brooke]

My Prayer-Platters

Never heard of it! :lol:

[Jonny Come Lately]

Nice idea for a thread.

My UK one was Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet. Meh. My US one was Stay (I Missed You) by Lisa Loeb - never heard of either the singer or the song.

This thread has reminded me of something I found a few months ago. My parents bought The Times (of London) on my date of birth and kept it as a memento, but my Mum got it out and showed to me last year. As it was a Friday it had the music reviews and the UK album charts. I was very pleased to find there was a review of Neil Young's Sleeps With Angels album (IMO one of his best latter-day releases), which was also second in the chart. But I was even happier when I saw who was in fifth!

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w498/JCL94/IMG_0195_zps3qij1boe.jpg (http://s1078.photobucket.com/user/JCL94/media/IMG_0195_zps3qij1boe.jpg.html)

I was born a few months too late for Pink Floyd's The Division Bell and a few months too early for Hell Freezes Over, although I'm still pretty chuffed that they were released in my year of birth. I was also born less than fortnight before the seismic release of the Oasis debut album Definitely Maybe, which became the UK's fastest selling debut album at the time.

[L101]

JCL - I love that song by Lisa Loeb (I feel so old :grin:)

My number ones are :

UK - My Sweet Lord - George Harrison (a real hippy trip but I love it !!)
US - One Bad Apple - Osmonds (Never heard of this song ?)

[buffyfan145]

Papa Don't Preach - Madonna (US)

I Want to Wake Up With You - Boris Gardiner (UK)

I knew the first but never heard of the latter. However, my Mom to this day swears it was "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and Waves as she only remembers hearing that song leading up to the day I was born. LOL :)

[Brooke]

JCL - I love that song by Lisa Loeb (I feel so old :grin:)

My number ones are :

UK - My Sweet Lord - George Harrison (a real hippy trip but I love it !!)
US - One Bad Apple - Osmonds (Never heard of this song ?)

Lol! Donny in his younger days!

JCL, that's :cool:

[NightMistBlue]

Ooh, I love My Prayer by the Platters - swoon city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDlcqhlzDqQ

My number 1's... no, I'm too ancient.

[Outlawman13]

US-The Way It Is ~Bruce Hornsby (love this song so much)
UK-The Final Countdown ~Europe

[Freypower]

UK: It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley
US: Stay - Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs (covered by Jackson Browne on Running On Empty)
Australia: Save The Last Dance For Me - Drifters

[NightMistBlue]

Shoot, if Freypower can come out of the closet age-wise, so can I.

"I Hear a Symphony" by the Supremes was #1 in the States and "Get Off of My Cloud" by the divine Rolling Stones was #1 in the UK. I love both songs, but the Stones' music has its own shrine in my soul.

[shunlvswx]

JCL - I love that song by Lisa Loeb (I feel so old :grin:)

My number ones are :

UK - My Sweet Lord - George Harrison (a real hippy trip but I love it !!)
US - One Bad Apple - Osmonds (Never heard of this song ?)

The Osmonds is my other favorite band. They're of course are now in second place behind the Eagles. I've been seeing them in concert since 2009.

Here's One Bad Apple. This was originially going to be a Jackson 5 song, but they turn it down. They were and still have very huge in Europe. Too bad the US kinda didn't take them serious because of their clean image.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUryDvlCu68

[shunlvswx]

Rock with You- Michael Jackson

[TW]

US: foolish - ashanti
UK: hindu times - oasis

[UndertheWire]

US: "The Three Bells" by The Browns (never heard of this)

UK: "Living Doll" by Cliff Richard (which I know well)

I find it more interesting to see what was #1 on by 18th and 21st birthdays

UK
18th "Float on" - The Floaters (which I have no memory of)
21st "Ashes to Ashes" - David Bowie

US
18th "Best of My Love" - The Emotions (which always annoyed me because it wasn't the Eagles song)
21st "Magic" - Oliva Newton John (I don't remember the song, but by then she would have been more popular in the US than the UK)

[NOLA]

In the US, "Yesterday" by the Beatles. :heart:

Arguably, one of the band's iconic songs with a Guinness record of having the most recorded versions in history.

[NightMistBlue]

Quoting UnderTheWire: "Float on" - The Floaters (which I have no memory of)

It's a classic slow jam. I love the astrological sweet talkin' - hilarious! Let us venture into loveland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WclAFJSvyWw

Gotta love the powder-blue leisure suits, that is suave.

[Gemini]

This is fun! Not sure how I missed it when it started in February ...

US -- Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)
UK -- Young Girl (Gary Puckett & The Union Gap)
:rockon:

[Witchy Woman]

US - Maggie May - Rod Stewart
UK - Maggie May - Rod Stewart

[zeldabjr]

US...Wonderland by Night..by Bert Kaempfert...??? lol

UK...Poetry in Motion..by Johnny Tillotson...???

[Brooke]

The Osmonds is my other favorite band. They're of course are now in second place behind the Eagles. I've been seeing them in concert since 2009.

Here's One Bad Apple. This was originially going to be a Jackson 5 song, but they turn it down. They were and still have very huge in Europe. Too bad the US kinda didn't take them serious because of their clean image.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUryDvlCu68

The Osmonds have a theater in Branson in case you want to go see them! I enjoyed them back in the day.



US - Maggie May - Rod Stewart
UK - Maggie May - Rod Stewart

Love that song! Takes me back to a hayride I went on and it played on the radio around the bonfire! I even remember exactly what I was wearing! Oh the good ol' days! :lol:

[Freypower]

I did my 18th birthday (1978 )

UK - Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats
US - Macarthur Park - Donna Summer (UGH. Hated the original by Richard Harris & to hear it discofied was a nightmare).
Australia - Three Times A Lady - Commodores

Well, no to those. So let's try 1981 when I was 21:

UK - Under Pressure - Queen/David Bowie (that's more like it)!
US - Physical - Olivia Newton'-John :shrug:
Australia - Start Me Up - Rolling Stones:drool:

On my birthday in 1987 this happened:

1987, Dire Straits became the first act to sell over three million copies of an album in the UK. Brothers in Arms contained five, top 40 singles: ‘Money for Nothing,’ ‘So Far Away,’ ‘Walk of Life,’ ‘Brothers in Arms’ and ‘Your Latest Trick.’ The album is the eighth-best-selling album in UK chart history.

[VillageGirl]

Lean on Me- Bill Withers (US)
Puppy Love- Donny Osmond (UK)

If it's the "Lean on Me", I'm thinking it may be, then not too shabby I guess. I'll have too check it out. But " Puppy Love"? I was born almost 3 weeks late. Can I use that date instead? :p

[SilverAcidRayne]

ok so I totally lied. the song was Island Girl. Elton John. lol

[SoaringRockyMountainWay]

Ricky Martin- Livin' La Vida Loca ?????

[WalshFan88]

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses ;)