# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![BigGiantHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@BigGiantHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigGiantHead)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/101 "2000-10-07T19:54:33Z")
Sept. 6, 1969: “In the Year 2525,” by Zager and Evans. I can definitely deal with that 😃 ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/102 "2000-10-08T00:02:31Z")
_The number 1 on the 1st November 1973 was Daydreamer / The Puppy Song by David Cassidy_ I really… I mean **really** don’t want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/103 "2000-10-08T02:31:40Z")
July 8th, 1981 was “One Day In Your Life” by Micheal Jackson. Yay. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/104 "2000-10-08T03:22:05Z")
TENGU!!! Never ever search out _that_ song. I can actually dimly remember it, and am actively suppressing it. It’s most absolutely horrid. Where is David Soul now? Still washing his mouth out from that abomination methinks. Don’t look back. Get another Birthday. Whatever. But _please_ never let that song cross your auricular proclivities again. Ya’ve been warned! C’est Muy Loco Muzak… ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/105 "2000-10-08T03:26:38Z")
May 2, 1967 “Puppet on a String” by Sandie Shaw Who could forget … ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/106 "2000-10-08T03:50:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odieman \* > \*\*On my birthday, June 21, 1963 the number one song is “I Like It” by Gerry and the Pacemakers I have had the misfortune to hear it ::shudder::, well at least it is from Liverpool. > Keith \*\* Take heart . . . there’s always the Rezillos’ cover of it, which is as good as the original was . . . well, not good. That’s two of us on whose birthdate the UK #1 pop song was covered on the Rezillos’ first album, _Can’t Stand the Rezillos_ (see my earlier post in this thread). ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/107 "2000-10-08T05:20:23Z")
Aug 29th, 1968: Do it Again, by The Beach Boys I draw a blank on the song, not the group. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/108 "2000-10-08T05:32:04Z")
June 22, 1958: **Who’s Sorry Now** by Connie Francis. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/109 "2000-10-08T14:46:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*Well, I officially got the coolest hit so far! > > **Roy Orbison’s "Only the Lonely."** > > The only possibly cooler one would be his “In Dreams.” \*\* That’s what I got as well, Ike. 1960 was a good year… ---
**Author:** ![Wanted\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce73a5/32.png) [@Wanted\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wanted_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/110 "2000-10-08T14:49:00Z")
The number 1 on the 12th July 1969 was Something In The Air by Thunderclap Newman Who the fuck is Thunderclap Newman?..breaks out the napster. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/111 "2000-10-08T14:53:17Z")
I got “See My Baby Jive” by Wizzard for June 1, 1973. What the hell? Never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/112 "2000-10-08T14:59:54Z")
“Let’s Dance” by David Bowie. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/113 "2000-10-08T15:02:19Z")
**Monster104** I have to bitch slap you now for making me feel old. [slap] Sorry, it had to be done. Too bad you couldn’t have gotten Bowie’s “A Space Oddity” Now _ **that** _ was a good song. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/114 "2000-10-08T18:48:47Z")
I got 15 Dec 1958 Hoots mon - Lord Rockinghams eleven. Worse still as a kid of 11 years old I got that off a junk stall and loved it. Rock ‘n’ roll to the tune of A hundred pipers with Scottish interjections like “Hoots mon there’s a moose loose aboot this hoose” and “It’s a braw bricht moonlicht nicht” Yup And even worse is that I still have that record somewhere. **London** So you’re older than me - nyer nyer nyer. For anyone interested, the Archies were a made up group that only existed as a promo cartoon, we never got to see them, IIRC “Sugar sugar” was top of the charts for about 8 weeks so there may be lots of sorry people out there. It was part of a genre of childlike music called bubblegum rock with other notable bands like the 1910 Fruitgum Company. Appropriately it dissappeared just as quickly as it came about - you might say that the bubble burst rather quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/115 "2000-10-08T18:54:02Z")
December 4, 1977: Mull of Kintyre/Girl’s School by Wings. Mull of Kintyre is one of my favorite songs…I’ve never heard of Girl’s School, though. _sigh_ _Mull of Kintyre, Oh mist rolling in from the sea, My desire is always to be here, On Mull of Kintyre…_ ---
**Author:** ![Poirot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@Poirot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poirot)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/116 "2000-10-08T22:25:01Z")
Well, I drew "Yellow River by Christie " which I’ve never heard of, so I’m not exactly overjoyed. Maybe if I can find a copy… ---
**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 8, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/117 "2000-10-08T22:34:41Z")
[hijack] 😕 So does anyone remember the other guy from ‘Miami Vice’? (I pity anyone who got his song for their birthdate.) And who was the other guy in “Starsky & Hutch”? And did he record an album? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![UrbanShocker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/eb9ed0/32.png) [@UrbanShocker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanShocker)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/118 "2000-10-08T22:47:05Z")
February 22nd, 1984: Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax. Just one month earlier, and I would’ve had Pipes of Piece by Paul McCartney. Damn my parents. (They couldn’t even have had me on the 29th, so everyone would think I was cool for being born on a leap day.) ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/119 "2000-10-09T01:24:41Z")
screech-owl: Dunno about the Miami Vice sidekick, but David Soul’s counterpart was Michael Ontkean. He redeemed himself by appearing as the brooding sheriff/police chief (?) in “Twin Peaks”. He was always way better than David Soul, whose very name makes ya wanna puke. “David” means “beloved”. Yark, what an ego! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751/120 "2000-10-09T02:16:47Z")
The number one song in the UK when my daughter was born this January is a Britney Spears number. It is the sign of the apocalypse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-no-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/35751.md?page=7)