Metafilter’s got a link to Josh Hosler’s groovy website where you can find Billboard’s No. 1 song for every day from 1940 to the present. If I were exactly five years younger, the Emotions’ irresistible ”Best of My Love” would’ve topped the chart the day I was born, but alas, I had to settle for ”Alone Again (Naturally)” by Gilbert O’Sullivan as the soundtrack to my first day on the planet. What was America listening to the day you were born? Share the scoop with your fellow PopWatchers, por favor…
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Okay, I’ll post first: The number one song the day I was born was “Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)” by Rod Stewart. Seems more appropriate for the night one is conceived, no? At least it’s not “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy”!
‘the first time ever i saw your face’ by roberta flack
Thanks for making me feel old – I remember that song! Okay, I was only 8, but I listened to a lot of Top 40 radio!
Mine was “She Loves You” by The Beatles. I feel a tiny bit cooler now.
“Dreams,” by Fleetwood Mac. Not as funny as my husband’s — Olvia Newton John and “I Honestly Love you.”
“Grease” is the word! awww yea.
“Billie Jean”-Michael Jackson…can I change my birhday?
“Band on the Run,” by Paul McCartney and Wings. If I’d come along a year later, it would’ve been “Thank God I’m A Country Boy,” by John Denver. Boy, did my parents get it right!
OH GOSH…MY BOYFRIEND IS GOING TO DIG THIS…
1977 … “Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band” by Meco
“The Way We Were” by Barbra Streisand. That explains everything.
Stayin’ Aliii…iii…ve!
A year earlier and I would’ve been jamming to
“Blinded By the Light” My Manfred Mann!
This is kind of a scary coincidence…the #1 song on September 11, 2001 was “Fallin’” by Alicia Keys. Incredible, huh?
Well, I get “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies. Ehh. I was hoping for something more representative of the summer of love! My wife must be five years younger than our friend Michael Slezak — her song is Best of My Love by the Emotions. Is that a remake of the Eagles’ song of the same name? Probably not, but I don’t think I know that one.
How special…mine is “You Light Up My Life” by Debby Boone
“Like a Prayer”… Yes!!
My birthday song sux it.”You Light Up My Life” by Debby Boone. Augh, horrible!
Why was I not born in 1974 then it would have been “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Bububaby, I really hadn’t seen nothing….
Someone else was born the first weeks of Nov 1977?! Debby Boone sux!!!
Are you kidding me… “Magic” by Olivia Newton-John
“Eye of the Tiger”!!! I’m fairly certain that’s not what my mother was listening to in the delivery room, but it’s a pretty funny mental image anyway.
“physical” by olvia newton-john…good music video, yes?
“money for nothing” dire straits…
I love it!
Mine was also “Eye of Tiger”! Well, forget about Roy in the commercial (nice comeback, Survivor), I think they should change the song for my name!
This is so appropriate! “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club!!!!
“You Needed Me” by Anne Murray. Anne Murray had a number 1 in the US? Seriously? Exactly ten years earlier was “Hey Jude” but I guess I’m ten years less cool. Seems like there’s a lot of first-week-in-november people here.
Ken – the song The Emotions recorded isn’t a remake of The Eagles “Best of My Love”. It came out in 1971 and is on their Greatest Hits 1971-1974. The song The Emotions recorded was the basis for Mariah Carey’s “Emotions” from her second album.
The #1 song for February 28th, 1970 (my b’day) was “Bridge over Troubled Water”. Not one of my faves.
um… ok, mine was — “I Am Woman” — LOL!
that explains it ALL, folks.. seriously! LOL
Mine is “Tie a yellow ribbon Around the Old Oak Tree” by Tony Orlando and Dawn. Yikes, I feel OLD!
Angie by the Rolling Stones
4/28/68: Mine was Honey by Bobby Goldsberg? WHO is that??? How lame, I thought it would be a Woodstock era song.
My daughter’s (2/26/96) is One Sweet Day by Mariah Cary & Boyz 2 Men. AWWW. Whatever happened to B2M? Vh1–a special awaits.
“Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League !? I always enjoyed 80’s synths for a reason… hmm… anyways, I LIKE IT!
Mine was “just like starting over” by John Lennon…who was shot less than a month before…
Can anyone beat that for most depressing song?