# Find out the #1 song on your birthday (US or UK) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559 "2005-03-08T18:25:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/41 "2005-03-08T23:21:52Z")
Trivia time: When “Wake Up Little Suzie” was No. 1 on the U.S charts, what was No. 1 on the Canadian charts? Answer: Who cares? But six months later, it was “Wake Up Little Suzie.” :: runs away from mob of angry Cannucks :: ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/42 "2005-03-08T23:25:06Z")
U.S.A. “Long and Winding Road”, Beatles (They weren’t kidding 😃 ) 10th Birthday: “Funky Town”, Lipps, Inc. (I remember my friend and I made up a dance to this song!) 20th Birthday: “It Must Have Been Love”, Roxette (sorta remember this) 30th Birthday: “Be With You”, Enrique Iglasias (Don’t know this song. But I know this guy’s dad, Julio’s, song. Hmm.) ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/43 "2005-03-08T23:29:34Z")
My birthdate isn’t on the chart. I am very very old. Tris ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/44 "2005-03-08T23:33:17Z")
Mine: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” - Diana Ross Wifey’s: “Happy Together” - The Turtles First Date: “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?” - Bryan Adams Wedding Anniversary: “Livin’ La Vida Loca” - Ricky Martin :sniff: It was fate. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/45 "2005-03-09T01:10:30Z")
> [@Triskadecamus](#): > > My birthdate isn’t on the chart. > > I am very very old. > > Tris I only just made the chart: - ‘I believe’ by Frankie Laine I believe I am old. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Typically\_Sunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Typically\_Sunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typically_Sunday)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/46 "2005-03-09T01:11:58Z")
“Livin’ On A Prayer”. Oh god, now it’s going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the week. Damn you, Bon Jovi! whoa-oh! livin’ on a prayer… ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/47 "2005-03-09T01:14:12Z")
Wow! And I mean _Wow!_ the number one song on my birthdate is the one and only song that has ever made me cry - ‘Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel’ ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/48 "2005-03-09T01:14:25Z")
Dec. 19, 1971 US: Brand New Key - Melanie UK: Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) - Benny Hill Hmmm… Not exactly a great day in the history of music. Although It was the world premier of _A Clockwork Orange_! ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/49 "2005-03-09T01:23:19Z")
I arrived in the world to the sound of _Too Much Heaven_, by the Bee Gees. On my 18th birthday, _Un-break My Heart_ by Toni Braxton was at the top of the U.S. charts & on my 21st, it was _I Knew I Loved You_ by Savage Garden. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/50 "2005-03-09T01:26:17Z")
The first site doesn’t work for me, but Popstrology gives the number one song for the week of my birth as: Queen’s _Another One Bites the Dust_. I consider myself lucky - three days later and I would have been born under a Barbra Streisand song. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/51 "2005-03-09T01:46:44Z")
Birthday–Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds (anyone heard of it?) 19th a.k.a. legal drinking age–Burn - Usher Figures I wouldn’t know either, though I’ve at least heard of Usher. ---
**Author:** ![sweetfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@sweetfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweetfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/52 "2005-03-09T01:50:55Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > Birthday–Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds (anyone heard of it?) The theme song from the movie The Breakfast Club. ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/53 "2005-03-09T02:02:44Z")
Birthday-Daydream Believer by the Monkees 18th-Broken Wing-Mr. Mr. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/54 "2005-03-09T02:04:57Z")
On the day I was born: Australia – _(Rockin’, Rollin’) Clementine_ by Col Joye and the Joy Boys Never heard of song or group. UK – _Livin’ Doll_ by Cliff Richard Don’t know the song, but have heard of the singer. USA – _The Three Bells_ by The Browns Only know song and group because they were featured on a “Fifty Nifty Fifties Hits by the Original Artists” commercial that ran incessantly when I was in high school. Eighteenth birthday: Australia – _I Go To Rio_ by Peter Allen I know (what I assume to be) the Pablo Cruise version of the tune, but not Peter’s, although I do recognize his name. UK – _Float On_ by The Floaters I must have heard this once or twice, and I know it inspired a parody called _Bloat On_. USA – _Best of My Love_ by The Emotions Finally one I know fairly well, though I’m not especially delighted by that fact. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/55 "2005-03-09T08:08:11Z")
Day I was born: US: Kiss You All Over by Exile (Never heard of it) UK: Summer Nights by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (Grease isn’t too bad) 1st birthday: US: Rise by Herb Alpert (another one I haven’t heard of) UK: Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles (now we’re getting somewhere!) 18th birthday: US: Macarena by Los Del Rio (this is supposedly my life’s theme song :eek: ) UK: Words by Boyzone (I’m assuming they’re a boy band. Actually, I think they may be the ones who had a brief appearance in U2’s video for the Sweetest Thing, but I’m not sure) 19th birthday (legal age here): US and UK are the same: Candle in the Wind 1997 (no comment) ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/56 "2005-03-09T08:45:43Z")
Look At That Girl - Guy Mitchell Maggie May - Rod Stewart Ugh. Guy Mitchell was OK but I loathed Rod Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/57 "2005-03-09T09:14:16Z")
Day I was born: _I’ll Be There_ - Jackson 5 Right, there’s a story behind that, but I won’t bore y’all. And hey! Thanks a lot, **MinniePurl**! At least it wasn’t the Partridge Family. 1st Birthday: _Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves_ - Cher I think I feel a hairball coming up. GAK! 16th Birthday: _Amanda_ - Boston I vaguely remember this song. 18th Birthday: \*Kokomo \*- The Beach Boys Life’s theme song? Don’t I wish? ☹ 21st Birthday: \*Cream \*- Prince and the New Power Generation I don’t remember this one. Is this the Artist formerly (and now, once again) known as Prince? Who’s the New Power? What happened to the Revolution? Was this the follow-up to _Darling Nikky_? sorry Wedding Day: _The Boy Is Mine_ - Brandy & Monica Never heard it, but apropos nonetheless. 30th Birthday: _With Arms Wide Open_ - Creed …and boobs hung down low… What’s worse is that 1970 was a bad year for music. The Beatles broke up. So did Simon and Garfunkel. Jimi Hendrix died. And then Janis Joplin. Bummer. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/58 "2005-03-09T13:39:13Z")
18th:Blood on the Dance Floor-Michael Jackson. Seems pretty apt for my life.Bring on the body bags ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/59 "2005-03-09T14:11:34Z")
I just checked out Popstrology. Apparently, I was born in The Third Year Of Elvis Presley. My life song is the same one that was number 1 when I was born: “It’s All In The Game” by Tommy Edwards. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559/60 "2005-03-09T14:44:11Z")
I don’t wanna talk about it _looks grumpy after seeing which songs were on his birthday_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-out-the-1-song-on-your-birthday-us-or-uk/293559.md?page=4)