http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm

I found a link to this on one of the local radio station's websites...

For me personally it was "Reunited" by Peaches & Herb...we now get to listen to it over and over again on those stupid lost pet microchip implant commercials

"Sincerely" by The McGuire Sisters. And I've never played on the air.

"I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March

How disappointing...

Hell yeah!

"Hot child in the city" by Nick Gilder.

patti page how much is that doggie in the window. i'd take yours craig any day the moonglows did it better. alan freed wrote it. and yes i've played it a few times by request for someones grandma at a wedding

"Cry" by Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads. (TWO versions? Or did they actually record it together?)

HEY! Just like me, Johnnie Ray was a Portlander, too, wasn't he?

(That's a fun website!)

I believe he was from Dallas OR. I never heard anyone sing "Cry" with him. I'll have to check on the specific week of my birth but "The Song From Moulin Rouge" was the big hit that year. And the winner is..."Vaya Con Dios" by Les Paul & Mary Ford. Les Paul invented electronic amplification. Imagine Rock music without it!

"Ruby Tuesday" by the Stones, baby!

Andrew

"Time in a Bottle" by the late, great Jim Croce.

"Want Ads" by the Honey Cones. I haven't heard of either; the song, or the group. In 1997, the song at #1 on my b-day was "MMMBOP" I'm not quite sure how I feel about that:-(

Oh, yeah, baby ... Rosemary Clooney and "Hey, There." That explains a lot!!!

Showing the age

"Vaya con Dios (May God Be with You)" by Les Paul & Mary Ford

Craig Adams, you and I must be almost the exact same age, cause that's my song too!

DUKE, DUKE DUKE ....DUKE OF EARL
BY:Gene Chandler

"My Love" by Petula Clark was number-one....Why couldn't I be born a bit earlier with "Downtown?"

1953 ... "Vaya con Dios (May God Be with You)" by Les Paul & Mary Ford

never played it.

"Hey Jude" by some band that I can't remember (I was very young at the time).

1951 ... "How High the Moon" by Les Paul & Mary Ford.

"Singing the Blues" by Guy Mitchell

Oh ya, "are you lonesome tonight" The KING!!!

Hey, I'm in pretty good company!

Want Ads by the Honey Cone was #1 on my b-day as well.(June 1971) The only thing I know about this song is that it was on a copy of "The Best of Buddah Records" that I had in my LP collection.

Another great link (although it is Canadian and centralized to Toronto) is 1050 CHUM's link to every weekly CHUM Chart from 1959 to 1986.(The #1 song for the week on that chart for June '71 is Murray Head's "Superstar"-"Want Ads" was #3 behind The Rolling Stone's "Brown Sugar" at #2)

http://www.1050chum.com/index_chumcharts.aspx

Wow: "Hot Child in the City" for me, too.

Some song I never heard of

"Against All Odds" by Phil Collins.

:o| How disappointing.................... :o|

"Lady" Kenny Rogers

"Teddy Bear" - Elvis

Just celebrated my birthday. EEEgaads...i izz gettin' old.

Tommy Edwards "Its All In The Game". A song I actually like!

Amus: I'm Jealous! What a GREAT song to be born under! ("Singing The Blues" by Guy Mitchell). I use to sneak it on late at night on Kisn-FM. It was just a little too old for us.

"Black And White" by Three Dog Night ... 1972.

"Upside Down" by Diana Ross

1950 Good Night Irene The Weavers great group. I think I still have mny cassette of The Weavers Greatest Hits. In the late 50s my parents boughtTheWeavers at Carnegie Hall. My sister might still have it. The Thing by Dennis Day Shrimp Boats Jo Stafford Momma Loves Mumbo Perry Como. BTW, IMHO Nick Gilder, Hot Child in the City is awful as is Johnny Ray and ''Cry''

Craig; I know!
I've been singing it to myself all day!

Now who the heck was Gogi Grant?

(In 1955 she signed with a small record company, Era Records, and had her first top ten hit with "Suddenly There's a Valley." The next year, she had an even bigger hit (reaching Billboard magazine's number one spot) with "The Wayward Wind" and she was voted most popular female vocalist by Billboard magazine.

In 1957 she supplied the vocals for Ann Blyth in the movie portrayal of Helen Morgan's life. The soundtrack occasioned her return to RCA (the soundtrack album climbed to #25 in the Billboard album chart), where she also had a minor hit the following year with "Strange Are the Ways of Love".

Although she made albums and appeared on television into the 1960s, her popularity declined and she retired from singing in 1967, nevertheless an album of hers was released in England some twenty years later.

Miss Grant is still performing, currently she headlined with The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies in Palm Springs, California. Her last show was on December 31, 2006 with the Follies, and she continues to perform well into her 80s.)

Gogi Grant?
Remember her well for the "Wayward Wind", which was played all the time when I was a kid.

Mine was Bing Crosby's "I Love You"
Never heard it. I was too young on that day to know what was playing.

El Paso - Marty Robbins

I've been stuck on it for 2 days, but I like it, and the Dead performed it often as well...

ALL SHOOK UP!!!!

Saw Gogi Grant on one of those TJ Lubinsky produced Reunion Concerts for Public TV....

Now for you Honey Cone (ers)


Extra extra, read all about it.

Wanted, Young men single and free.
Experienced in love preferred,
But will accept a young trainee.......

Gonna put it in the want ads........

Though a number one, oldies radio didn't play it very often.....

Damn lot of old heads on this site!!!! :-D

For me, it was "Goodnight Irene" by Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers. Frankly as a big 50s R&B fan, I'd much rather know the top R&B song on my date of birth

I was thinking the same thing about R&B. In 1961 pop music was dullsville.

I'd like to trade mine for something by the Sonics or the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, but neither made #1 in any year.

I'd trade Gogi for Buddy Holly's "That'll be the Day" which was only a mere weeks from being released.

My sympathies to any who get Debby Boone and Light up my Life as their birth song

BTW, I'll go two Gogi's, a Doris, and a Jaye P. Morgan for an album that I once owned, and now can't think of the name. Had some never were and almost hits of Surf stuff... Some of the cuts I remember were

Draggin Wagon....
Beach Party.....Annette
New York's A Lonely Town...

I think the Honeys were on there as well as other forgetable stuff

along the same lines, I do have an album of Chubby checker, Bobby Rydell, Orlons and more doing surf songs... The jacket was destroyed in a flood, but the record plays. Some of the stuff is GOD AWFUL, other cuts not bad..........
Let's surf again, Like we did last summer, let's surf again, surfin time is here...........

I remember playing "Want Ads" my first gig at KLOG. Damn! I think that makes me old.

"Wonderland by Night" by Bert Kaempfert
Who the heck? What the heck? Please someone tell me you used to get tons of requests for this "back in the day"

1952 ... "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Jimmy Boyd

And now, Groups that never were......

Bert Kampfert and the Tijuana Brass...

Dion and the Drells......

Paul Revere and the Pips.....

Diana Ross and the Mysterians....

? and the Romans.......

Sam the Sham and the Family Stone......

Peter, Paul and Garfunkel........

The Shirellephants.....

AC/MC Hammer.........

Care to add?


Have a great week all...

"Nature Boy", by the great Nat King cole, boy would people read things into that title now adays.

Chad and Dean?

Band on the Run.

One of my favorites when I was young.

Since my "birth song" is a loser, maybe it's more important to know what song was #1 when I was conceived....and was it playing when mom and dad were 'doing it' !!

Angie...Ah, Wonderland By Night. Yes, I did get tons of requests for it...from my Mom. That song was the first trumpet solo I ever played for a large audience. So when I was in my room learning new music, honking and tooting like a barnyard full of methane producers, she'd holler "Please open your door and play Wonderland By Night. And when you've finished, close the door...tight!" I was in the fifth grade at the time. BTW, having no sheet music or the Kaemphert recording, I learned it by ear from Louis Prima's rendition.

Roger...how about Dr. Hook and The Pharaohs? Jim Morrison and The Four Seasons? Englebert Humperdinck and The Miracles? Diana Ross and The Mysterians was hilarious!

This IS a fun thread!

how about Peter Pottomus and Mary......

Jay and the Pacemakers?

Maybe Jay and the Five Americans and their smash hit "Ferry Cross Anywhere With Western Union." Do I smell an ad campaign here?

"Make Love to Me!" by Jo Stafford
Huh? I didn't know ole Jo was such a hot mama!

Truthfully, I've never heard or heard of this song. Then again, I was very young...

Angie, was you mom's name Julie? If so, the song was "Stuck on You" by Elvis.

"All I Have To Do Is Dream"-Everly Brothers

Good Luck Charm, Elvis

Ferrante & Teicher Overdrive.
P & Doo Wah Diddy
Twisted Sister Janet Mead
Boyz II Men Without Hats
Eric Burdon & The Andrews Sisters
Pat Boone Costello
Motley Crue-Cuts
Depeche Monkees
10,000 Mrs Millers
A Flock of Yardbirds (plastic pink flamingos, no doubt)
Bing Crosby, Stills & Ogden Nash (this one swiped from Firesign Theater)

Randy, you're DEMENTED! (Apologies to Barry Hansen...)

10,000 MRS. MILLERS?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I'm gonna have nightmares...while being chased by pink flamingos...all night long!

"The Love You Save" by The Jackson 5 was the first number one spun by Casey Kasem on American Top 40. We debuted the same week.

This thread is fantastic.

Buffalo Springsteen
Spanky & Messina
Delfonics Shannon
Bob Dylan & the Band of Susans
Van Dyke der Halen Graaf Generator Parks
Tom Petty & the Mindbenders

I was torn between 10,000 Mrs Millers, or 10,000 Singing Dogs. I also thought of 10,000 Bare Naked Ladies, but in my mind that image tried to merge with the Mrs Millers and I didn't want to go there.

RANDY AND LITTLE......

Fan-frickin-tastic

Twisted sister Janet Mead Too funny

Buffalo Springsteen HA HA HA :-)

How about Jefferson Lighthouse and their big hit Love Grows Where My White Rabbit Goes.

OR

The Petula Clark Five
The Cornelius Brothers and Sister Sledge

Rare Earth, Wind & Firefall

(sorry, all I could come up with. BTW, my birth song is "The Srtipper" by David Rose & His Orchestra. Yeah baby!)

Good enough Matt!

Nitty Gritty Meatloaf...

Buffalo Wings...

BananaABBA...

Moby Dick and Dee Dee....

Crispian Critters...

Y'know, if Glen Frey and Don Henley teamed up with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr...you'd have THE BEAGLES. (Ahem...yeah, I know...sorry...couldn't resist)

hound dog -Elvis Presley

"Wishing Well" by Terence Trent D'Arby

never heard of it but it was a hit

ONE MORE.....

Floyd Cramer and the Dakotas.

"Celebration" by Kool & the Gang

I'm not sure what to think about this

Twally,

You must have been born about the same time as my son.
(2/1/81)

I think it's a good thing.
It was cause for celebration in our house.

"Mary Had A Little Lamb"
by Thomas Alva Edison

Gee Tom, and I thought the Temptations were old.

"Mary Had A Little Lamb" by Paul McCartney! Oops, it has to be #1 so I guess we're both wrong but at least mine sold some copies and had some airplay. On the other hand, yours was cleverer. Come to think of it, I HAVE heard your version on radio and television!

" My Humps " - Black Eyed Peas.

digressing a minute I watched PBS American Masters on Les Paul. I am amazed at what he invented and his recording techniques. He was shown in a jazz club jamming. I'LL have to check but I think they showed him in a jam with Jeff Beck. Les Paul was popular when I came along. How High the Moon was the first of his I recall. Anyway, thought Id pass this along.

the streak by Ray Stevens.

"If" by Perry Como.

Reminds me of what my Gramps always used to say ...

"If the queen had them, she'd be the king."

Daveyboy wrote:


>>>digressing a minute I watched PBS American Masters on Les Paul. I am amazed at what he invented and his recording techniques. He was shown in a jazz club jamming. I'LL have to check but I think they showed him in a jam with Jeff Beck. Les Paul was popular when I came along. How High the Moon was the first of his I recall. Anyway, thought Id pass this along.>>>>

Les Paul invented overdubbing, and is/was quite the technical wizard. One of the very first records he did for overdubbing was called "Lover" and it featured 8 guitar parts. He's a real pioneer of both guitar technology and recording technology.

And, he's 92 and he still plays two shows every Monday night at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. I was fortunate enough to see him live on December 23, 2002....he has a great band, and they all put on a great show. And, I got to meet and interview him. He's got some great stories, that's for sure.

Our friends at Wikipedia credit Les Paul with the first commecially released overdubbed track created with magnetic tape, but cite examples of previous overdubbed releases done with more primitive technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdubbing

(insert Paul Harvey quote)

That show was great...

At one point (before the rock era) Les Paul and Mary Ford had 7 of the slots in the top 10!!

A most interesting quote on how to sell records...

Record songs WITH MELODIES!!

something sorely missing in todays music IMHO.

... And now you know the rest of the story.

Paul Harvey

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Good day.

I swear, that man might be true to his wife, but nobody knocks up a pause like Paul Harvey.

March, 1951: "Be My Love" by Mario Lanza, which I have never heard.

It's on an old Colgate Comedy Hour with Jerry Lewis lipsyncing. I actually thought it was Caruso.

That was Jerry's schtick before he hooked up with Dino.... making funny faces while lipsyncing
stuffy opera type recordings.. you know, the french love him. I however enjoy how the Jerry Lewis character is treated in Animaniacs....

Froylayben.

before,during and after

deck of cards by tex ritter
ah, but it happens by frankie laine
because by perry como
buttons and bows by dinah shore
honky tonkin' by hank sr.

"Rich Girl" by Hall n Oates.

I'm so ashamed.

"A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles

I prefer to use the Billboard R&B Charts, from Joel Whitburn's book, which goes back to 1942. So, for me, that makes it "Lawdy MIss Clawdy" by Lloyd Price and his Orchestra.

And, for Bossboy, "Duke of Earl" was the #1 song on CFUN Vancouver on the first day I tuned into Top 40 Radio, right during the early part of the C-FUNtastic 50 countdown. Dave McCormick broke the hits early, so this would be a month or more before you were born....

Let me go Lover, by Joan Weber.

Never heard of it.

How depressing is that?

My mother's is "When The Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabam" by Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan from 1913. I noticed the same guys' names several times on different pages and decided to investigate. Apparently, they were a comic duo that were popular from roughly 1903-26. Unfortunately, several of their songs had titles that were so racist, I can't bring myself to mention them aloud or even in print! It's hard to believe there was a time when such a thing was not only tolerated but actually sold records! PS: The spellchecker checked one "Choo" but not the other.

When I was born, the number one song in Great Britain was "Softly Softly" by Ruby Murray. [New Musical Express chart].

When I arrived, the number one tune in merry olde England was Mungo Jerry, "In the Summertime" -- according to NME/Record Retailer.

"Poor Side of Town" by John Rivers.

Never heard of him nor the song. Probably... before my time.

Oddly I recognize almost every other song from the other years on my birthday, even going back to the 40's.

You never heard of Johnny Rivers, the best Chuck Berry impersonater ever?

Theme song for the Midnight Special, do you remember that? How about Slow Dancing or Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu?

Oh boy....well, lets show MY age here

Number 1 on my birthday:

IF' ...Perry Como.....YAWN.............

satisfaction by the stones.