# What song was #1 on the day you were born **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820 "2008-08-04T17:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mrsspooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mrsspooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsspooky)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/41 "2008-08-04T20:00:10Z")
UK ~ Jennifer Rush - The Power Of Love U.S ~ Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You Aus ~ Mick Jagger and David Bowie - Dancing In The Streets Man I feel old! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/42 "2008-08-04T20:06:47Z")
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” - Diana Ross (US) “Band of Gold” - Freda Payne (UK) “In the Summertime” - The Mixtures\* (Aus) \*never heard of them ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/43 "2008-08-04T20:10:46Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” - Diana Ross (US) “Band of Gold” - Freda Payne (UK) “In the Summertime” - The Mixtures\* (Aus) \*never heard of them [/QUOTE] My Wife: “Happy Together” - The Turtles (US) “Release Me” - Englebert Humperdink (UK) “Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever” - The Beatles (Aus) Much cooler than mine… ---
**Author:** ![mrsspooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mrsspooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsspooky)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/44 "2008-08-04T20:17:36Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” - Diana Ross (US) “Band of Gold” - Freda Payne (UK) “In the Summertime” - The Mixtures\* (Aus) \*never heard of them [/QUOTE] Ive heard of all of yours - I think your one of the only people that’s replied to this thread that i’ve actually recognised all the songs! This thread is making me feel old - I feel a panic attack coming on! ---
**Author:** ![tripletaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@tripletaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripletaker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/45 "2008-08-04T20:23:29Z")
_Every Time You Go Away_ by Paul Young Never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/46 "2008-08-04T20:42:20Z")
_I Got You Babe_ - Sonny and Cher (US) _Help!_ - The Beatles (UK and AUS) ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/47 "2008-08-04T20:45:05Z")
US - “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love Babe” - Barry White UK - “Kung Fu Fighting” - Carl Douglas AUS - “Evie (Part 1)” - Stevie Wright Never heard of the last one, but the first two are pretty damn good. Apparently, I’m a lover _and_ a fighter. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/48 "2008-08-04T20:58:13Z")
UK- _Eye of the Tiger_- Survivor US/AUS- _Abracadabra_- Steve Miller Band ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/49 "2008-08-04T21:04:00Z")
I get around - The Beach Boys, US It’s over - Roy Orbison, UK You’re my world - Cilla Black, AUS ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/50 "2008-08-04T21:04:55Z")
For me (and **Baker** ): UK: Let’s Have Another Party - Winifred Atwell (never heard of it) US: Let Me Go Lover - Joan Weber (nor that) Aussie charts don’t go back to the Stone Age. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/51 "2008-08-04T21:09:23Z")
For me, it was Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May/Reason to Believe” topping both the U.S & U.K. charts. Topping the Australian chart was “Banks of the Ohio” by Olivia Newton-John :shrug: Don’t know that one. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/52 "2008-08-04T21:12:16Z")
US: “Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself Again” - Sly and the Family Stone. That’s amusingly appropriate for me. UK: “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” - Edison Lighthouse. Ugh. Brutal. AUS: “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” - Johnny Farnham. Hmmm. I do kinda like the rain. (Never heard that version before - just the BJ Thomas one, and it isn’t even in iTunes). ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/53 "2008-08-04T21:18:18Z")
Mine are “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” by Poison in the US, “Especially For You” by Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan in the UK and “Kokomo” by the Beach Boys in Australia. Now I have Poison in my head and it won’t go away. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/54 "2008-08-04T21:42:10Z")
I looked to see what was playing the night I was conceived: “A Big Hunk of Love” by Elvis Oh God. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/55 "2008-08-04T22:10:28Z")
US – “Shadow Dancing,” Andy Gibb UK – “You’re the One that I Want,” John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John Aussie – “I Can’t Stand the Rain,” Eruption Yeesh, what a shitty day for music. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/56 "2008-08-04T22:51:18Z")
For me: US & UK: “Get Off My Cloud,” Rolling Stones (which works as my theme song) AUS: “Que Sera Sera,” Normie Rowe and the Playboys (which proves the Aussies are contrarians) For my daughter: US: “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” Ricky Martin UK: “Sweet Like Chocolate,” Shanks & Bigfoot AUS: “No Scrubs,” TLC Sucks to be her. So, Australian people: are The Mixtures worth checking out? (And Olivia Newton-John had a hit with “The Banks of the Ohio”? In, like, _1970_? Australia is a weird place.) ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/57 "2008-08-04T22:55:42Z")
US - \*I’m a Believer \* - The Monkees (LOVE that song) UK- \*Green Green Grass of Home \* - Tom Jones (… not so much) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/58 "2008-08-04T23:11:24Z")
[QUOTE=awldune] Do we have the same birthday? (1/21/1980) I actually have never heard of the first two songs, although of course I know the artists. [/QUOTE] Nope. You’re a day older than me. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/59 "2008-08-05T00:27:43Z")
US Woody Woodpecker by Kay Kyser Sheesh, that says it all really. No wonder my life sucks. 🙂 UK was based on sheet music sales then rather than records, so doesn’t really count. Australia non-existent. Born 1948 (Yep, I know, I’m antediluvian). ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820/60 "2008-08-05T00:33:49Z")
Can’t Buy me Love - The Beatles They toured Australia a few weeks later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-was-1-on-the-day-you-were-born/458820.md?page=4)