# UK no. 1 on the day you were born **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751 "2000-10-05T10:52:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/1 "2000-10-05T10:52:53Z")
[http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/cont/choose.html](http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/cont/choose.html) Fill in your date of Birth on the link and it will tell you what was no. 1 on the day you were born. (it only goes to 1952, so if you’re before that, I dont know, let just say it was George Formby singing “When I’m Cleaning Windows”) incidentaly, while searching for this site, I came across the rather morbid [http://www.mycemetry.com](http://www.mycemetry.com) while it is a good Idea for people to be able to have somewhere to remember their pets, who would want to go around reading other pets “gravestones”?? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/2 "2000-10-05T10:55:37Z")
Blockbuster by The Sweet. At least I know the _band_ in this case 😃 I haven’t clicked on that cemtery link yet, I’m at work. Is it OK? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/3 "2000-10-05T10:58:32Z")
Its ok, its just a little strange to be reading pets headstones. ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/4 "2000-10-05T10:59:30Z")
When I was born it was “Sugar Baby Love” by the Rubettes. I have no idea who they are or what the song sounds like. Maybe cause I was born in Korea and they only had Korean music playing in the delivery room. On the day my son was born, 2 July 1995, the number one song was “Abbaesque” by Erasure. That, I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/5 "2000-10-05T11:01:08Z")
“This is only a test!” That’s what it says. Does this site use Flash or any sort of advanced Java shit beyond our beloved Version Java 200BC? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/6 "2000-10-05T11:02:03Z")
‘Summer Holiday’ by Cliff Richard And The Shadows. That was fun. Know of any links like this for other countries? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/7 "2000-10-05T11:02:10Z")
Tater, I know that song. It’s positively horrific 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/8 "2000-10-05T11:02:48Z")
All it says is “This is Only A Test!”? Are you playing a sick sort of joke, trying to see how many people would rather read pet headstones than work? Because, mister, I’ll have you know that one of my turtles is looking a little off, and I had a very good reason for looking at that site (I’m no good at writing epitaphs). You suck! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/9 "2000-10-05T11:06:01Z")
Well, of course you know that song, Coldy, compared to me, you’re ancient! 😃 On the day my mom was born, the number one song was “Let’s Have Another Party” by Winifred Atwell. My what funny names pop stars had way back then. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/10 "2000-10-05T11:09:09Z")
aside grom the obvious one: [http://www.rubettes.com/](http://www.rubettes.com/) I found [http://website.lineone.net/~michelec/](http://website.lineone.net/~michelec/) and this one with Rubettes live listings in Germany. [http://home.camelot.de/jimmy/rubettes.htm](http://home.camelot.de/jimmy/rubettes.htm) They were a glam band, If I remember the song, with a high pitched singer. God, the things I look for for you Tater! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/11 "2000-10-05T11:10:45Z")
it was there earlier!!! I swear!!! I was reading about some guy’s german shepherd! I’ll find the link again… ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/12 "2000-10-05T11:11:53Z")
[http://www.mycemetery.com/my/pet22.html](http://www.mycemetery.com/my/pet22.html) there it is! ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/13 "2000-10-05T11:14:42Z")
Um, **Twistycakes** , dearheart, would you like me to bring you a life when I come to Dublin next week? Really, it’s no bother… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/14 "2000-10-05T11:14:47Z")
On the day my girlfriend was born: Cum On Feel The Noize by Slade. My word, there was a LOT of crap music back in 1973! ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/15 "2000-10-05T11:17:11Z")
\<….GULP….\> \<….Deep Breadth…\> ‘Stupid Cupid’ by Connie Francis - a certain irony, there. I remember ‘Blockbuster’ before it was a video store (“You better beware, you’d better take care…” Kind of explains any subsequent absence of musical taste AKA Rush …and even ‘Sugar Baby Love’, though I was too young to be influenced by sequins and high pitched delivery. Thank the Lord for small mercies. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/16 "2000-10-05T11:18:19Z")
or even breathe ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/17 "2000-10-05T11:20:45Z")
OK, I have to seriously take issue with all things said against Slade. ‘Cum on feel the noise’ was, and is, a classic. And Noddy Holder’s sideburns are still an iconoclastic fashion statement. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/18 "2000-10-05T11:20:46Z")
Does anyone know the way, there’s got to be a way to BLOCKBUSTER!!! ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/19 "2000-10-05T11:20:47Z")
‘I believe’ by Frankie Laine. I believe I’m old… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/20 "2000-10-05T11:22:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Here lies Blackie, > Chased a car, > Caught in the muffler, > Dragged through the tar, > Around the corner, > Across the track, > He might not be dead, > But he never came back. > > ``` > But if he is, > This I pray, > He's running through green fields, > At play. > Chasing frisbees > Eating Rump Roast round, > Up in Heaven, > Not here in the cold, cold ground. > > A Labrador Retriever, > One of the best, > He saved a child, > they put medals on his chest. > Beloved by all, > Especially my niece, > WE LOVED YOU BLACKIE, > REST IN PEACE! > > ``` Needless to say, I just tossed my lunch. What utter nonsense. That poor dog probably coulnd’t stand this idiot anymore and must have run like hell! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751.md?page=2)