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What was No.1 at the time of yr conception?

― mark s, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(This question was conceived at the ILE Free-Jazz Picnic in the Sky, parents myself and [too drunk to recall: ulp])

Ans for mark s = LIVING DOLL, Cliff Richard (or just possibly TRAVELLIN' LIGHT, Cliff Richard)

― mark s, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tiger feet by Mud.

― RW, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hm. Dad was a Santana junkie and Mom liked the Beach Boys. I'm sure whatever was No. 1 wasn't something they listened to. Probably Michael Jackson or something.

― Lyra, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Time to resume that discussion of The Consequences Of Cliff Richard?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Escape (Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes

― alex in montreal, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can visit this site for help with the question: A Half Century of British Number Ones

My number one 'Paperback Writer' by the bleedin bolloxing Beatles. If I'd been born a day later it would've been 'Sunny Afternoon' by the Kinks - not one of my favourites either.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have to say I only found this unexpected fact out 20 minutes ago. I cannot yet tell if it confirms all or flies in the face of all!!

― mark s, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just realised I've confused 'conception' w/ 'birth' - sure that has deep metaphysical implications. Or maybe not.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just looked this up - pretty scary.

Conception : Elvis -"His Latest Flame"

Birth : Elvis - "Are You Lonesome Tonight"

― Dr. C, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow, that's very strange. I was born on 29 July 1979, when 'I Don't Like Mondays' by was number 1. Rewind nine months to the end of November 1978... it's 'Rat Trap' by the very same Boomtown Rats. Although I have a feeling I was premature, which means it was 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?'. Oh dear.

― John Davey, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Where do you go to my lovely' by Peter Sarstedt. Hey, I think these are probably a more accurate guide to future personality traits than so-called "astrology" any day. The Cliff thing says SO MUCH about mark s.

― stevie t, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Beatles - Get Back - but I very much doubt that was my parents thing they were more interested in books/reading.

― DJ Martian, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I'll take my pick of "Where Do You Go To My Lovely", "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" or "The Israelites", according to the fact I know I was induced but I don't know how early I was. Ew.

― Tim, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, this is so sad! The british number one at that time is too awful and embarassing to repeat. I wish I had access to the US charts, perhaps that number one would be acceptable enough to admit to.

― Nicole, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How do you people know these things?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jim Diamond, I Should Have Known Better, apparently.

I've never even heard of him.

― Lyra, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I echo the Pinefox. Are you just subtracting nine months from your DOB, or are y'all MUCH closer to your parents than I am?

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This Day in Music has both the UK and US number ones.

― j-lu, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm rather pleased to report that it was "Prince Charming" by Adam & The Ants.

― Tim, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do It Again - The Beach Boys (Aug 68)

― scott, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm just doing the math -- the only easy way to go about it.

― Nicole, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In my case, Dan, knowing I was ten weeks premature sort of narrows things down. If I asked my mother I'd probably get an in-depth discussion of the specific conception process that night.

― Tim, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Letter by the Box Tops. I am so cool!

― Kerry, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Conception - probably The Pretenders, 'Brass In Pocket'
Birth - The Police, 'Don't Stand So Close To Me'. Nooooooooooo!
Oddly, my parents own both the albums these songs are from.

― DG, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

EEK! "Ben" by Michael Jackson! *sob*

Of course, #1 on the day I was born was "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon. I feel a little better.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I was a little late, so: The Bee Gees' "Massachusetts". Otherwise: "Baby Now That I've Found You", The Temptations. My 42-year-old brother: "Magic Moments", Perry Como. Heh-heh.

I know it was Tommy James & The Shondells' "Mony Mony" on my zeroth birthday.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bearing in mind the vagaries of human gestation, it was either 'Puppy Love' by the Osmonds or 'School's Out' by Alice Cooper. Kiddie pop! My parents were about 30 by this time, so this wasn't a terribly appropriate soundtrack

By the time I was born the nation was nostalging it up to 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree'

― Nick, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry Osmonds buffs, make that Donny Osmond solo.

― Nick, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

conception: mony mony

birth: get back (!)

― kevan, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oops, that was the song playing when I was born. I was conceived to "I'm a Believer", which is appropriate since I love Neil Diamond *and* the Monkees.

― Kerry, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

According to the British list, Petula Clark's "Playing My Song"... sheesh.

I searched on the Billboard site for the US charts, but only listed by year. 1967 was an amazing and diverse year for chart hits, though.

― Sean, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OH LORD NO. "Vincent" by Don McLean.

― Tom, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For week by week US charts go here: http://members.tripod.com/~chart98a/US/USCHS.HTM

(Sorry, blue writing still spooks me out a little bit.)

― stevie t, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ok, in the US charts it's The Buckinghams, "Kind of a Drag". Never heard it but I love the name of the band and the song... betcha it's great!!

― Sean, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quite embarrassingly, it was 'Reunited' by Peaches and Herb

― JC, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Reunited" by Peaches and Herb is by some distance the best record mentioned so far on this thread. Or at least in the top three.

― Tim, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

US: "The Twist" - Chubby Checker. Ewww. UK: "Apache"-The Shadows. Yeah!

― Arthur, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Odyssey "Use It Up And Wear It Out" trust me to get a total unknow. two days before abba "the winner takes it all".

anyone remember odyssey?

― ambrose, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sean: "Kind of a Drag" is superb.

Assuming a standard 9-month gestation for me, then Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" had just dethroned Steve Miller's "Keep On Rock'n Me." Grody. In better news, Elvis died roughly three or four days after my birth, sparing me any living contact with his potential further decline.

― Nitsuh, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

rock your baby. hurrah!

― cw, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, Odyssey's big hit was "Native New Yorker". "You're no tramp but you're no lady, talking that street talk, you're the heart and soul of New York City." Great song.

― Arthur, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can SING the Odyssey song. But I won't. I wanna know the third of TimH's best three: Peaches and Herb, Rupert Holmes and...

― mark s, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Conception: 'Hey Girl Don't Bother Me' by The Tams. Never heard of it but it sounds quite cool.

Birth: 'Vincent' by Don Maclean. And my father wanted to call me 'Vincent' after one of his classic motorbikes.

― Johnathan, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Conception - Le Freak by Chic

Birth - My Sharona by The Knack

― Jeff, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the US... Conception: "My Sharona", Birth: "Funkytown"

In the UK... Conception: "Crying" (Don McLean - what the fuck is up with ILM posters and Don McLean No. 1's?), Birth: "Cars" (Gary Numan - top that! ;-)

― Clarke B., Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I took a look at this a few months ago- UK: "House of Fun" by Madness. US: "Ebony And Ivory" by Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder

Oh my.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clarke and Jeff obviously win for the late 70s.

― Nitsuh, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Half Breed" by Cher. Figures, really.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In a superb transport related/Beatles double:

Conception: Ticket to Ride

Birth: Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out

Oh 1965, so much to answer for...

― Bill E, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Skipping 6 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Jesus, you lurk for months, then end up posting 3 times in one thread. Apologies if you're sick of me already but:

US charts:

Conception: Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders - Game of Love
Birth: Dave Clark 5 - Over & over

Fantastic! Sure beats my UK Beatles double.

― Bill E, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had hope it would be some cool Motown number or something by the Beatles but no it was Tears by Ken Dodd in the middle of his 6 week run at the top. How tickled I am not.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whatever reached #1 in our charts on March 23^rd of 1975.

― Kodanshi, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably something by Crosby, Stills and Nash. Errggggh.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On my date of birth, Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)" in the US, and Alice Cooper's "School's Out" (dude!) in the UK.

― Patrick, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmm, I am so uncool. In the US: Birth: _9-5_ by Dolly Parton (yes, that's right.) Conception: _Me_ by Blondie

In the UK: Birth: _Shaddap You Face_ by Joe Dolce Music Theatre (what the...) Conception: _What's Another Year?_ by Johnny Logan. Yeah.

― Emily, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

US - Conception: Kool and the Gang - Celebration Birth: Hall and Oates: Private Eyes

UK - Conception: John Lennon - Woman Birth: Police: Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

― palpable, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh my God!!! Joe Cocker and that other bitch singing "Up Where We Belong" adding a forever track in contemerary radio hell. As for the album, it was Men at Work's Bussiness as Usual. Thats not so bad.

― Luptune Pitman, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I reckon it could be one of these three...

I'm Not In Love - 10 cc
Tears On My Pillow - Johnny Nash
Give A Little Love - The Bay City Rollers

When I was actually born it was Save Your Kisses For Me - The Brotherhood Of Man

and in Australia it was Fernando - Abba

― JEL, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Acch! Help! Acch! Listen, do I have to tell the truth? I missed Percy Faith's "Song from Moulin Rouge" by one week. That's interesting, isn't it? What more do you need to know? Really, this question is irrelevant since my parents would have been listening to Beethoven or Brahms or Mozart anyway. So I really don't see why I should have to answer. (Grumble grumble) (Calms down, takes a deep breath) All right, here we are: Patti Page "Doggie in the Window." None of your business. I don't care. Shut up!

― Frank Kogan, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Conceived: Get Back - The Beatles Born: Love Grows - Edison Lighthouse

― Venga, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

makes me feel old: conception: A Fool Such as I (!) by Elvis birth: Why by Anthony Newley

two of the great voices of the 20th Century of course

― loop dandy, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

conception: probably (yeuch!) "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman" Dr Hook / birth: (yes!) "Ashes To Ashes" David Bowie

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Conception - US - The Beatles, The Long and Winding Road
UK - Mungo Jerry, In The Summertime
Birth - US - The Osmonds, One Bad Apple (HORRENDOUS SONG!)
UK - Baby Jump, Mungo Jerry
Mungo Jerry twice? And if it had to be a Beatles song, WHY did it have to be THAT one? I feel dirty.

― Kim, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ohmygod!

Lily The Pink : Scafold

― phil, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six months pass...

IT LIVES!! mwahahahaaah!!

― mark s, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Adam Ant-Goody Two Shoes was number one at the time of my conception. not bad either.

― Ronan, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK No. 1: "Lily The Pink" by The Scaffold (don't think I've heard this.)

US No. 1: "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye (both parents love this song, so who knows?!)

― Mark, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel. My parents both do like that song an awful lot...

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Looks like it may have been "Get Off My Cloud" - which I'm fairly certain my parents have STILL never heard.

Lazing on a Sunny Afternoon was #1 when I was born... cool. cool.

― Dave225, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

love me for a reason by the osmonds or kung fu fighting by carl douglas at conception

whispering grass by windsor davis and the little bloke with glasses when i was born

― leigh m, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some group called The Beatles (conception and birth)

― Jeff W, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Ok, in the US charts it's The Buckinghams, "Kind of a Drag". "

Until earlier this year, I thought this song was saying "Helluva Drag".

Mine is either:

Yes, We Have No Bananas - Sheet Music or Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men

I'm so old/young!

― Joe "PappaWheelie" Gonzalez, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lord help me, "In The Year 2525" by Zager & Evans was the #1 US single the week of my birth. It was "Hey Jude" nine mos. earlier.

― fritz, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

Hooray for Flashdance (conception) and Val Halen (birth).

On a brighter note, my birth occurred while Michael Jackson's Thriller was at number one.

*grins*

― Prue, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

blondie - call me

― minna, Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

Madness - House of Fun. *sulks*

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Helpful thread:

There Are Only 935 Perfect Songs... (CAUTION VAST POST!)

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Either 'When' by the Kalin Twins (don't ask me) or possibly 'Stupid Cupid' by Connie Francis. The latter would be more apt: all I know of my biological parents is that he was a married surgeon and she was an unmarried student nurse.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I am on a thread reviving mission!

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't feel bad about "House of Fun", Cozen -- surely that's not too bad a number one?

*thinks*

Ah, now I see. Sorry.

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 20 April 2003 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Me: "Lady Madonna" by the Beatles, provided I wasn't late or early or stuff.

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 20 April 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

In Norway it was "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" by Marmalade. I don't think they listened to that one though. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 20 April 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

You got the one for about 1 April 1968 in Norway as well, Geir?

OH NO! I AM APRIL FOOL JOKE PERSON! OH NO!

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 20 April 2003 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

conceived to Do They Know It's Christmas, born to Dancing In The Street..!

― thom west (thom w), Sunday, 20 April 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

They probably knew, Thom. :-)

Your mum probably wasn't, though.

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 20 April 2003 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

Crowd - You'll Never Walk Alone

― Jole, Sunday, 11 January 2004 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

dunno what was number one in nz... but USA = MacArthur Park by Donna Summer
UK = Rat Trap by The Boomtown Rats
Australia = Three Times A Lady by The Commodores.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 11 January 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Conceived to Blondie "Atomic"
Born the day before "The Tide is High" was no.1. Yay!
Though I doubt my parents know who Blondie is.

― sym (shmuel), Sunday, 11 January 2004 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i misread this q the 1st time

real answer:

pink floyd - another brick in the wall pt 2

― minna (minna), Sunday, 11 January 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"We don't need no procreation."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

UK "Telstar" - The Tornadoes
US "Sherry" - The Four Seasons or "The Monster Mash" - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

looks like it was probably "it's still rock and roll to me" by billy joel!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Apparently the "Theme Song of My Life" (#1 on your 18th b-day) is The Macarena.

ROFFLE

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

I was going to work out the date, but seeing as my two daughters have birthdays within the same week as mine, all I needed was my memories...

Anyhow, Eddie Cochran Three Steps To Heaven

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

I got mine totally wrong

apparently, it was actually "crying" by don mclean, in the UK, and, a INFINITELY more appropriately, "coming up" by paul mccartney live in glasgow, in the US

18th birthday was "flat beat" by mr. oizo, in the UK, and "believe" by cher, in the US

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

18th Birthday
UK "Ghost Town" - Specials
US "Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 16 September 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

US at conception: "The Theme from a Summer Place", by Percy Faith!

UK and Australia, no idea.

18th birthday: Donna Summer, "Macarthur Park."

― xhuxk, Friday, 16 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

And oh yeah, when I was born, "Stay" by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs.

― chuck, Friday, 16 September 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

At birth, Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" ruled the land.

― Chris O., Friday, 16 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

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