# 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:** 3
**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, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/41 "2006-03-08T00:03:49Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > You were born the year I graduated high school! :eek: Like I said, time’s a funny critter, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/42 "2006-03-08T00:05:38Z")
Oh. My. God. “Welcome Back” by John Sebastian Yes, the fucking Welcome Back Kotter song. Excuse me while I put my skull in a vice. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/43 "2006-03-08T00:17:03Z")
“Eight Days a Week” by the Beatles. Not my favorite Beatles song but, overall, not bad. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/44 "2006-03-08T00:17:21Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Be glad. Be very, very glad. Seriously. If you hear that song, you’ll try to get your birth date legally changed. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/45 "2006-03-08T00:19:22Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > So, do you [know?](https://home.comcast.net/~josh.hosler/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm) > Mine was “The Gypsy” by The Ink Spots (June 24 1946) “Moody River” by Pat Boone. My mother also specifically recorded “Tossin’ and Turnin’” by Bobby Lewis in my baby book 😃 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/46 "2006-03-08T00:20:30Z")
“Love Me Do” by the Beatles on 25 May 1964 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/47 "2006-03-08T00:21:57Z")
Crazy Little Thing Called Love, the Queen version. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/48 "2006-03-08T00:23:45Z")
“You Can’t Hurry Love” by the Supremes. Which perhaps explains why I didn’t lose my virginity till I was 18… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/49 "2006-03-08T00:32:51Z")
“Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart” by Vera Lynn (8/22/52) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/50 "2006-03-08T00:40:50Z")
“Light My Fire” by The Doors! ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/51 "2006-03-08T00:43:05Z")
> [@«Ðëëp¤F®ïêd»™](#): > > I remember doing this before and it was that “Hare Hare” or “My sweet Love” song by George Harrison. > Lady Fried was “Daydream Believer” by the Monkees. Fits her quite well. 🙂 So Lady Fried and I were born on the same day… or did that song hit #1 twice? ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/52 "2006-03-08T00:54:12Z")
The same as my middle name: “Wild Thing” by The Troggs 28-Jul-1966 ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/53 "2006-03-08T00:57:30Z")
“Broken Wings” by Mr. Mister. That was Dec. 6th, 1985, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/54 "2006-03-08T00:57:42Z")
Who the hell is Nelson Riddle? 22 February 1956 … “Lisbon Antigua” by Nelson Riddle ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/55 "2006-03-08T01:05:57Z")
“Billy, Don’t Be a Hero” by Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods I vaguely recognize this song. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/56 "2006-03-08T01:33:33Z")
“Hey Jude” by The Beatles ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/57 "2006-03-08T01:37:31Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > So Lady Fried and I were born on the same day… > > or did that song hit #1 twice? Well, songs are usually #1 for a span of weeks. Presumably you two were just born with a week or so of one another, maybe months for some really popular songs. _Beat It_ would be a good example. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/58 "2006-03-08T01:45:29Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > “The Streak” by Ray Stevens. Never heard of it…apparently it is about [streaking](http://www.raystevens.com/SongLyrics/StreakLyrics.html)?!?! Don’t look, Ethel! Mine was Tommy Edwards’ “It’s All In The Game” (second version, the hit one). October 1, 1958. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/59 "2006-03-08T01:53:56Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Well, songs are usually #1 for a span of weeks. Presumably you two were just born with a week or so of one another, maybe months for some really popular songs. _Beat It_ would be a good example. :smack: My first thought was, no, the songs around it weren’t the same, but those were the songs that were #1 on my birthday during different years. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/60 "2006-03-08T02:03:59Z")
> [@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). 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. 1956 was only 50 years ago. I was born in '46, and I’ll be 60. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=4)