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| From | "fjeder" <fjeder@shiner22.net> |
| Subject | Re: birthday songs |
| Date | Tue, 1 Jul 2003 00:53:26 +0200 |
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Sugar Shack - (Jimmy Gilmour & the Fireballs) in the US
Maria Elena - (Los Indios Tabajaras) in Australia
Do You Love Me? - (Brian Poole & the Tremeloes) in the UK
Oct 18th 1963
According to the link below
shineOn...:-)
Fjeder
www.shiner22.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: birthday songs
> 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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