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
> >> 
> >  
> 
> 
>