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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: birthday songs |
| Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:36:07 -0500 |
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Theres another excellent chart listing at
http://www.menziesera.com/media/music_number_1_hits.htm#Start
Which compares the USA Billboard - Australia and UK #1 for each week from 1949
to 1972
My Birthday Song? "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean - Nov 25, 1961.
The UK had a better #1 - Elvis' "Cant Help Falling In Love". Australia picked
James Darren "Goodbye Cruel World" (I'm off to join the circus...) but earlier
that year they loved Del Shannon's "Runaway" - it stayed at #1 for 6 weeks.
Billy
At 09:56 AM 6/30/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I can only assume this website is accurate --
>http://www.recordresearch.com/numones/numone_pop_intro.html -- in which
>case I have the immense honor of having the longest Beatle single ever
>released as being my birthday song, "Hey Jude".
>
>Christopher
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: audities-owner@smoe.org
>> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Sager, Greg
>> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:58 AM
>> To: audities@smoe.org
>> Subject: birthday songs
>>
>>
>> > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:41:49 -0700 (PDT)
>> > From: Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com>
>> > To: audities@smoe.org
>> > Subject: summer songs
>> > Message-ID: <20030628194149.21780.qmail@web11410.mail.yahoo.com>
>> >
>> > "Tossin' and Turnin'," Bobby Lewis (1961)
>> >
>> This is my birthday song. That is to say, this is the
>> song that was #1 on the *Billboard* chart on the day that I
>> was born ... August 10, 1961. It's a fun, bouncy R&B number,
>> but I probably enjoy it out of proportion to its' musical
>> values due to the song's personal significance for me.
>>
>> I used to amuse my friends by asking them what day they
>> were born, and then looking up their birthday song in my
>> *Billboard* reference book. It was funny to see some of them
>> get excited about having cool birthday songs such as
>> "Groovin'" or "Hey Jude" or "My Sharona", while others were
>> crestfallen to find that theirs were "You Light Up My Life"
>> or "Winchester Cathedral".
>>
>> Does anybody else know his or her birthday song?
>>
>>
>> Gregory Sager
>>
>
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