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05 January 2008

Memefilter: what was #1 on the day you were born? I got three good ones: →[More:] (UK) Mony, Mony and (US) Hello, I Love You ... and the AUS #1 was You Keep Me Hangin’ On by Vanilla Fudge...

post by: chuckdarwin at: 05:10 | 37 comments

If the UK one comes back with "information not available", you can always try EveryHit.co.uk.

posted by TheDonF 05 January | 05:26

Australia - Amazing Grace - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards...?? T-rex "Metal Guru (uk) and Sammy Davis jr "Candy man" USA.

I've always thought my life theme song was Papa was a rolling stone by the temptations, as it was on the toplist all summer when I was born. :) And I LOVE it.

posted by dabitch 05 January | 05:29

Australia and UK : A Fool Such As I by Elvis Presley
USA : Kansas City by Wilbert Harrison.

I feel old. I actually bought Metal Guru by T Rex.

posted by essexjan 05 January | 06:01

USA: Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tenille
UK: Whispering Grass - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle
AUS: January - Pilot

I've only heard the C & T one.

posted by triggerfinger 05 January | 06:35

Baby Jane - Rod Stewart (UK), Flashdance...What A Feeling - Irene Cara (US), Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler (Australia). Must have been a bad summer.

posted by Daniel Charms 05 January | 06:36

triggerfinger : Whispering Grass

The uniforms are because the two performers are in character from their TV Show "It Ain't Half Hot, Mum", which was a sitcom set in India in WW2 and which centred on the antics of a group of entertainers. It was horribly unfunny, homophobic and racist, which was about par for the course for British sitcoms of the 1970s.

And: January by Pilot

posted by essexjan 05 January | 06:50

Styx "Babe" US
Pink Floyd "Another Brick in the Wall" UK
Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" AUS

I feel like a little kid.

posted by pokermonk 05 January | 09:24

US: I Am A Woman - Helen Reddy
UK: Blockbuster - Sweet

Australia apparently didn't exist when I was born.

posted by moonbird 05 January | 09:29

I don't even need to look it up: My Guy, by Mary Wells.

posted by JanetLand 05 January | 09:44

hm, i strongly suspect chuckdarwin and i were born within a few weeks of one another. only diff between his & mine is that MacArthur Park (wtf?) was #1 in Oz on my bd.

posted by lonefrontranger 05 January | 10:17

UK: It’s Over - Roy Orbison
US: I Get Around - The Beach Boys
AUS: You’re My World - Cilla Black

Yea, I'm old.

posted by octothorpe 05 January | 10:17

US: In the Year 2525 (America's lesson learned: never do enough drugs to make you want to buy records like this)
UK & AU: Honky Tonk Woman

posted by Miko 05 January | 10:28

US: something by Paul McCartney and Wings, live in Glasgow
UK: Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra

Ugggggggggggggggh. At least there was a Democrat in the White House.

posted by grouse 05 January | 10:28

US - Hey Jude, The Beatles
UK - Lily The Pink, Scaffold (Hu?) The month before was A Little Help From My Friends, Joe Cocker, and I was born early in the next month, so I'm claiming that.

posted by rainbaby 05 January | 11:13

US The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
AUS When The Girl In your Arms Is The Girl In Your Heart - Cliff Richard
UK Moon River - Danny Williams

posted by arse_hat 05 January | 11:25

AUS was also Hey Jude, and the original link took me to A Little Help From My Friends for the UK, so I'm feeling old but kinda cool.

Neat post.

posted by rainbaby 05 January | 11:34

I now feel less cool, as I followed the suggestions at the link, and the #1 on my 18th birthday was I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany, and on my wedding day? MACARENA!!!

posted by rainbaby 05 January | 11:38

wow arse... Andy Williams had a big hit with Moon River too!

I was Sherry by the Four Seasons in the U.S. Gawd I hate that song.

posted by Doohickie 05 January | 11:43

UK: Knock three times by Tony Orlando & Dawn

USA: Brown Sugar by the Stones

AUS: Another Day by Paul McCartney

Not the most distinguished week in pop music, it seems.

posted by jason's_planet 05 January | 11:50

'Dancing Queen,' 'Play That Funky Music' and 'Dancing Queen' again.

posted by box 05 January | 12:02

"Come On Eileen" - Dexy’s Midnight Runners

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 January | 12:22

TPS, you got lucky. I'm stuck with "My Sharona." A true earworm.

posted by brina 05 January | 12:42

It's an Elvis trifecta - "It's Now or Never" in the UK and Australia, "Are You Lonesome Tonight" in the US.

posted by bmarkey 05 January | 12:43

US: "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John
UK: "Bye Bye Baby" by the Bay City Rollers
AUS: "Horror Movie" by the Skyhooks

posted by me3dia 05 January | 13:08

US Only: Whatever Gets You Through The Night - John Lennon with The Plastic Ono Nuclear Band

I've never heard of this before, but the title has me curious enough to look up the lyrics.

posted by desjardins 05 January | 14:03

UK - Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston

US - Say You Say Me - Lionel Richie

AUS - Species Deceases - Midnight Oil

Sad to say, I have only heard the first one, and I'm not a big fan.

posted by mayfly wake 05 January | 14:28

UK: I Believe - Frankie Laine
US: I'm Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
Aus: Did not exist that far back into ancient times.

Wow, I'm old.

posted by kat allison 05 January | 14:54

desjardins - it's a really good song.

posted by Miko 05 January | 15:08

pokermonk is the baby! I have that Buggles album!

posted by dabitch 05 January | 15:22

UK: Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
USA: Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin
OZ: A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles

Heh, Dean Martin, heh heh.

posted by eekacat 05 January | 16:05

UK: If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
US: Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart
AUS: Money, Money, Money - Abba

True child of the 70s am I!

US: I Am A Woman - Helen Reddy
...
Australia apparently didn't exist when I was born

Hmmm, except Helen Reddy is Australian :)

posted by goo 05 January | 16:29

Let me just say I'm appalled at how many people are listing songs that I vividly remember playing on the radio when they were new. Some from my teen years. Argh.

At least I got one truly kick-ass song for my birthday:

You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ - The Righteous Brothers (US and UK)

20 Miles - Ray Brown & the Whispers (AUS- never heard of it)

posted by BoringPostcards 05 January | 17:16

"A Horse With No Name" - America (US)

Not bad, but it's not ...

"Without You" - Harry Nilsson (UK)

Or, oddly enough ...

"American Pie" - Don McLean (Aus)

posted by grabbingsand 05 January | 17:19

US: Whatever Gets You Through The Night - John Lennon with The Plastic Ono Nuclear Band

W. T. F?

posted by eamondaly 05 January | 19:44

I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family

Fuckin' A! (it's great screw you)

posted by jonmc 05 January | 19:59

"With A Girl Like You" by the Troggs - UK

"Summer In The City" by the Lovin' Spoonful - USA

"Too Much/I'll Make You Happy" by the Easybeats - AUS

I feel old, 'cause I know many of the songs you guys have listed! Jonmc, just how old are you? I loved the Partridge Family!

posted by redvixen 05 January | 20:30

I'm 37, vix. (and the USA number one on your birthday is one of my all time favorite songs and the Troggs were a great band and so were the Easybeats (they did 'Friday On My Mind,' still the bes 'weekend song ever)).

posted by jonmc 05 January | 20:32

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