# What tune was number one the day you were born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438 "2006-03-07T22:23:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/21 "2006-03-07T23:01:49Z")
**Elvis** , baby! “Heartbreak Hotel” (June 2, 1956). ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/22 "2006-03-07T23:03:24Z")
1956 … “The Wayward Wind” by Gogi Grant Mr. K’s was 1945 … “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe” by Johnny Mercer I know his better than mine. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/23 "2006-03-07T23:04:39Z")
Kid Kalhoun’s was: 1976 … “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)” by Rod Stewart That’s disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/24 "2006-03-07T23:06:41Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > “I Can Help” by Billy Swan. Never heard of it. It would be a good theme song for me, though. I’m the one alays helping out and being asked for advice. > > (ummm…it’s not about blow jobs or anything weird, is it?) Back in my cover band days (those carefree days before disco ruled) we played it. It has that farfisia mini-compact organ sound (imortalized now as 60’s organ on new synth keyboards) [Ads Galore, but I don’t think anything dangerous warning] [http://top-lyrics.elizov.com/lyrics/Billy\_Swan\_-\_I\_Can\_Help.html](http://top-lyrics.elizov.com/lyrics/Billy_Swan_-_I_Can_Help.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/25 "2006-03-07T23:10:34Z")
“The Streak” by Ray Stevens. Never heard of it…apparently it is about [streaking](http://www.raystevens.com/SongLyrics/StreakLyrics.html)?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/26 "2006-03-07T23:11:26Z")
I didn’t even need the link; I knew the answer. There’s a crazy little shack beyond the tracks And everybody calls it the sugar shack Well, it’s just a coffeehouse and it’s made out of wood Expresso coffee tastes mighty good Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - “The Sugar Shack” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/27 "2006-03-07T23:14:39Z")
I was born during the Dark Years, between Big Band and Rock ‘n’ Roll – and it shows in my song: The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart) by Percy Faith That would be the \*original \* Moulin Rouge, with Jose Ferrer as Toulouse-Lautrec. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/28 "2006-03-07T23:17:04Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I didn’t even need the link; I knew the answer. > > There’s a crazy little shack beyond the tracks > And everybody calls it the sugar shack > Well, it’s just a coffeehouse and it’s made out of wood > Expresso coffee tastes mighty good > > Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - “The Sugar Shack” That was also #1 the day JFK was shot, right? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/29 "2006-03-07T23:17:04Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > “bette davis eyes” by kim carnes… > > …now what in the hell is that? i’ve never even HEARD of that song… > > oh, may 11th, 1981, by the way Oh, that’s a good song. Mine is _Ode to Billy Joe_ ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/30 "2006-03-07T23:19:05Z")
Well, that’s a bit frightening. “Fallin’” by Alicia Keyes was Number 1 on Sept 11, 2001. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/31 "2006-03-07T23:20:26Z")
That red-letter day in history, February 10, 1973 gave us: “Crocodile Rock” by Elton John ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/32 "2006-03-07T23:51:28Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor > > That’s what happens when you are born in the 70’s Tell me about it. I got “He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You)” by Tony Orlando & Dawn. May 10, 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Dusty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dusty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/33 "2006-03-07T23:53:35Z")
I come from a land down under… ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/34 "2006-03-07T23:55:24Z")
“Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro. Don’t think I know that one. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/35 "2006-03-07T23:56:44Z")
“Le Freak” by Chic Born at the height of disco. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/36 "2006-03-07T23:58:07Z")
How strange this thread came up, as I just bought a book of _Billboard_ charts from the '80s and looking this same thing up. It turns out it was a song I never heard of…_Crazy for You_ perfomed by Madonna(5/8/85). The week before that it was one I _have_ heard of- _We Are the World_ (which Madonna dropped down to number 2). For my mother (4/30/56), it’s _Heartbreak Hotel_. It’s hard to wrap my head around that…60 years ago, Elvis was just getting started, and my mom was born. And neither Elvis nor my mother seem that old. Time is crazier than you think. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/37 "2006-03-07T23:59:00Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > How strange this thread came up, as I just bought a book of _Billboard_ charts from the '80s and looking this same thing up. It turns out it was a song I never heard of…_Crazy for You_ perfomed by Madonna(5/8/85). You were born the year I graduated high school! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/38 "2006-03-08T00:00:09Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro. > > Don’t think I know that one. Be glad. Be very, very glad. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/39 "2006-03-08T00:01:00Z")
My mind’s in a weird place…1956 was _50_ years ago, not 60. Still, that’s amazing. And I’m 20. Where does the time go? ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/40 "2006-03-08T00:02:18Z")
“I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor. Seems I have. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=3)