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Simple question, what was No.1 the day you were born?

Me: 'Hot Love' T-Rex. Beat that!

― DavidM, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(btw I knowwww "I danced my way... " isn't the lyric from 'Hot Love')

I've just checked, the No.1 album when I was born was 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' Simon & Garfunkel.

Could there be any significance behind it all? (no, obviously. but, y'know... )

― DavidM, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

U.S. - "Honky Tonk Woman" by The Stones

U.K. - "In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)" by Zager And Evans

I've never heard of the second one? Anyone know what this is?

― Mark, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you're kidding, right? in the yeaah twenty- five-twenty-fiiiive....if man is still aliiiive...

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wasn't kidding, but now I have it. The parenthetical bit threw me.

― Mark, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Time in a Bottle", Jim Croce

― dleone, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Abba - Dancing Queen

― Dan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tainted Love. Hah!

― EdwardO, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On December 6, 1971:
U.S. #1: Sly and the Family Stone "Family Affair"
U.K. #1: Slade "Cos I Luv You"

I'm quite proud of this, actually.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Incidentally, I got this info from This Day In Music. Click on the "Birthday #1" text.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

US: Love Letters in the Sand / Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear by Pat Boone / Elvis Presley (shared No.1)

UK: All Shook Up / Elvis Presley.

― nickn, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Call Me" by Blondie, and "Geno" by Dexy's Midnight Runners. I can deal with that, those are both good songs.

― Ian, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not interested in what was no.1 in the US (I looked it up once - some OK soul thing as I remember), but in the UK it was "Cum On Feel The Noize" by Slade, which I am very happy with.

― Tom, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

may 8, 1983 was Beat It

― kevin enas, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK - Free by Deniece Williams US - Hotel fucking Cali.

I am doomed.

― Simon, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

5/10/1980

hmmm.. don't stand so close to me by the Police

well I never, and in fact i really don't mind that song at all.

― dog latin, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (UK), and Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (US).

― James Annett, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

US: 'Tighten Up' by Archie Bell and the Drells UK: 'Young Girl' by Union Gap Featuring Gary Puckett

Eeeuuhh. :-)

On another depressing note: Kevin, Dog Latin, I could have given birth to you if some of the men who loitered around my junior high watching the girls' gym class do jumping jacks had been able to have their way with me.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight and the Pips
Daydreamer by D.Cassidy
This is on the 28th of Oct 19....73

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On the day I was born Dreadlock Holiday by 10cc was the UK #1 and in the US it was Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Taste Of Honey (which I have never heard).If I'd been born a day later the answer would have been Kiss You All Over by Exile (US) and Summer Nights in the UK.I envy people who were born when Are 'Friends' Electric? or I Feel Love was #1,but then it becomes a matter of my favourite #1 singles of all time.

― Damian, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK Engelbert Humperdinck 'The Last Waltz'
USA The Box Tops 'The letter'.

― stevo, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK Somethin' stupid: Nancy and Frank Sinatra

(oh my god!) never heard though...

― erik, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)' by The Eurythmics

That's not very cool...

― Cathy, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My Eyes Adored You by Frankie Valli

lord, i was doomed.

― Geoff, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my US No.1 : 'One Bad Apple' the Osmonds. Which makes me giggle.

― DavidM, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Geoff, Valli is an awesome #1 to come alive to... Come on, you're a lucky bastard. I dont think anyone can get a worse fate than "Hotel California". "Hot Love" is really the best, though.

― Simon, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey DavidM, you must be right around my age, it's "One Bad Apple" for me as well. UK was "My Sweet Lord," can't complain.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I Just Called To Say I Love You" owned either country.

Whoever had "Family Affair" is the clear winner here.

― Keiko, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

US - "Laughter in the Rain" - Neil Sadaka

UK - "January" - Pilot

Me - filled with shame, remorse, and schmaltz.

― David Raposa, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My number ones:
UK: Marvin Gaye - I Heard it Through the Grapevine
US: Fifth Dimension - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

I'm not sure whether to feel soulful or spacey.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

uk - ABBA "take a chance on me"

us - the beegees "stayin' alive"

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

― jess, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Jude. Good baby song. Easy to sing along... Na NA Na NANANaNa

Nanananaa..............

hey joooode...

― sharon, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I'm Still Waiting" by Diana Ross.

Oh, the poetry of it all....

― Dickon Edwards, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK: Donna Summer - I Feel Love (woo hoo!)
US: Andy Gibb - I Just Want to Be Your Everything

― m jemmeson, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK: Abba-"Knowing me knowing you"
US: Abba-"Dancing queen"
That makes me damn awesome if I do say so myself.

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK: Like It by Gerry And The Pacemakers
US: Easier Said Than Done by Essex What the fuck?

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my sharona, by the knack.

― joshua l. clements, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

This thread should be revived.

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

why? in case our birthdays have changed?

― michael, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hehe sweet.

25th of March UK number one:Total Eclipse of the Heart-Bonnie Tyler

US number one:BILLIE JEAN!

Can't complain really.

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

i demand we revive the other, spookier thread: what was #1 the week you were CONCEIVED!?! (even tho i still haf not recovered from what i horribly discovered)

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

"Yesterday," one of my least favorite song by my most favorite band. Maybe if I re-read it as a description of birth trauma I would like it more?

― DeRayMi, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

calculate and tremble!!

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

Thank you for reviving this thread, as my answer is the coolest of all: "Everyday People" by Sly & the Family Stone. FUCK YEAH!

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

UK: "Dance On" by the Shadows (although that's just according to Guinness; NME had "Please Please Me" at the top, and I know which one I'd prefer).

US: "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence.

There's not a lot I can say about that.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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