What song was #1 on the day you were born

Spiritinthesky

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
'Ben' by Michael Jackson in Australia

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1

McChubbin

Heart - The Pet Shop Boys
Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car - Billy Ocean

I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue

Rothko

Eternal Flame - The Bangles
Like A Prayer - Madonna

Martin_ie2012

Hello- Lionel Richie (UK)
Against all odds- Phil Collins (US)

Bobby Baccala

Killing me softly - Fugees (UK)
Tha Crossroads - Bone thugz and harmony (US)
Until it sleeps - Metallica. (AUS)


Funnily enough I'm a massive hip hop fan, weird to see 2 of the biggest hip hop hits of the 90s were number one on my birthday.

Dunny

Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Bombalurina(UK)

Vision Of Love - Mariah Carey(US) (CA)

Epic - Faith No More(AUS)

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I want to know what love is - Foreigner (UK) (US)

Posy

Every Breath You Take- The Police

im invisible

steve miller band - abracadabra

chicago - hard to say i'm sorry

survivor - eye of the tiger


not bad, not bad at all

OakeyDokey

UK - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) - Cher
US/CAN/GER - Joyride - Roxette
AUS - Tingles EP - RatCat

Skerries

suspect i'll be the oldest here till the old folks wake up

Can The Can - Suzi Quatro
My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree - Dawn

strobe

Martin_ie2012 wrote: »

Hello- Lionel Richie (UK)
Against all odds- Phil Collins (US)

Snap, also 99 luftbaloons in AUS, love that song.

daithieoghan

Red Red Wine -UB40 😒

holystungun9

deccurley wrote: »

I want to know what love is - Foreigner (UK) (US)

Ha! Reads like it's some drunken racist chat up line at a country disco.

woof im a dog

Theme From S'Express - S'Express

wtf is that

Tarkus

UK - It's Almost Tomorrow - The Dreamweavers
US The Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter
AUS Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
GER Eventuell, Eventuell - Peter Alexander & Caterina Valente
CA Didn't even have it back then...WTF

DEFTLEFTHAND

Groovy Kind Of Love, Phil Collins.

Mars Bar

UK: Back To Life (How Ever Do You Want Me) - Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler

US: Good Thing - The Fine Young Cannibals


I don't know either song.

theteal

UK - David Bowie, Let's Dance
US - Michael Jackson, Billie Jean

Not bad

Malice

This is what I got. Kind of disappointing really. I mean "YMCA" from Germany? Was there nothing better in the charts at the time?

Chart|Song|Band
UK|Mary's Boy Child - Oh My Lord|Boney M
USA|Le Freak|Chic
Aus|Kiss You All Over|Exile
CA|You Don't Bring Me Flowers|Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond
Ger|Y.M.C.A.|Village People

losthorizon

UK (IF Paradise is) half as Nice - Amen Corner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foTwWg1CyWU

US Crimson & Clover - Tommy James & the Shondells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0

Australia Ob-La - Di. Ob la -Da - The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJhcGepfG04

losthorizon

Suas11 wrote: »

Eternal Flame - The Bangles

I had a thing and still have a thing for Susanna Hoff of the Bangles. Not many people know that she wrote that song for me.:p Shes still looking well after all these years. Great pop band. My fav song of theirs was the cover of September Girls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKSs1J38EA

Irish Guitarist

I guess I'm the second oldest that has replied to this

UK - Forever And Ever by Slik
US - Symphony by Freddy Martin

I'm more interested in the Irish number one though so I found a similar Irish site - http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/number_one Mamma Mia by Abba was the Irish number one on the day I was born.

Also Elvis was made a reserve for the Memphis police on the day I was born. :cool:

partyguinness

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Killing me softly - Fugees (UK)
Tha Crossroads - Bone thugz and harmony (US)
Until it sleeps - Metallica. (AUS)


Funnily enough I'm a massive hip hop fan, weird to see 2 of the biggest hip hop hits of the 90s were number one on my birthday.

Jaysus...I was doing my Leaving Cert that summer. Killing Me Softly was No. 1 was ages while working on a building site in Kerry.

And then came the Spice Girls.

partyguinness

Summer Nights- John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. (UK)
MacArthur Park- Donna Summer (US)
Three Times a Lady- The Commodores (Aus)

partyguinness

Oh man I am getting old. I can remember most of the songs posted here being in the charts....:(

Kwack

I don't wanna Dance-Eddy Grant
Truly-Lionel Richie

Some truly bad music in the 80's

Spiritinthesky

Yes, it does make you feel old!

Whatsernamex33

Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own.

Awesome. ;P

Cruel Sun

UK- Doop- Doop
US- The Sign - Ace Of Base
AUS- It's Alright - East 17

Disappointed.

Roisy7

UK and Ireland- Simple Minds- Belfast Child

US- Paula Abdul- Straight Up

Pretty disappointing... My mother says she remembers Waiting for A Star to Fall being big around the time I was born, it always makes her wistful! :pac: