# 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:** 7
**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, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/121 "2006-03-08T21:56:22Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > No I won’t explain who Bobby Sherman is > > and stay off my lawn. damn kids Heh. I had a Bobby Sherman lunchbox in kindergarten. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/122 "2006-03-08T21:59:06Z")
12/19/1948 … “Buttons and Bows” by Dinah Shore ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/123 "2006-03-08T22:01:55Z")
“Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley & His Comets Woohoo! Good one! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/124 "2006-03-08T22:03:54Z")
May 12th, 1969 - “Age of Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine In: the Flesh Failures” by the 5th Dimension. How groovy! ---
**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, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/125 "2006-03-08T22:47:00Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I am happy to say I may have the coolest one yet. > > \*Respect \* Aretha Franklin > > 2 June, 67 _And_ you were born the day _Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_ was released in the USA. (It’s my birthday too, yeah.) ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/126 "2006-03-08T23:00:02Z")
Is it creepy that the #1 single on the day the WTC fell was 2001 … “Fallin’” by Alicia Keys? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/127 "2006-03-08T23:02:24Z")
Far out. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/128 "2006-03-08T23:19:35Z")
I already knew the answer to this one: Ebony and Ivory, by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/129 "2006-03-09T00:37:41Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > She didn’t _die_. She was traded to Anaheim. Oh my God, that was hilarious! I didn’t think anybody still said that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/130 "2006-03-09T00:43:20Z")
1958 … “All I Have to Do Is Dream” by The Everly Brothers I actually know this one. I may have been conceived when a Debbie Reynolds song was #1 though :smack: ---
**Author:** ![gossamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gossamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gossamer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/131 "2006-03-09T01:07:24Z")
Hey! Baby by Bruce Channel. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/132 "2006-03-09T02:32:23Z")
April 6, 1950: “Music! Music! Music!” by Teresa Brewer “All we need is me and you and Music! Music! Music!” It could be worse. _Lots_ worse. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/133 "2006-03-09T02:39:27Z")
“Heartaches”, by Ted Weems ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/134 "2006-03-09T03:12:29Z")
Mr. Sandman, by the Chordettes ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/135 "2006-03-09T04:01:20Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > _Daydream Believer_ reached #1 on the Billboard charts the week ending 12/2/67. It stayed there for 4 weeks, being knocked off at the end of the month (week ending 12/30) by The Beatles’ _Hello Goodbye_. Presumably, both you and **Lady Fried** were born sometime in December of 1967. Sorry, you’re off by a few days. I was born Nov. 27, 1967. Either you got your dates wrong or the site has which song was #1 wrong. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/136 "2006-03-09T04:02:25Z")
> [@RJKUgly](#): > > “Memories Are Made of This” by Dean Martin > > 01/08/56 > > It’s not Elvis (who has the same birthday) but old Deano isn’t so bad. 🙂 Hey, I’ve got that on a 45, along with “I Like Them All” I believe. It’s a pretty good song. Mine is “Deep Purple”, which happens to be my favorite color so that’s all right. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/137 "2006-03-09T04:14:02Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > “Heartaches”, by Ted Weems Just be thankful you weren’t born in 1933… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/138 "2006-03-09T04:45:36Z")
“Shaft,” by Isaac Hayes. Can you dig it? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/139 "2006-03-09T04:49:05Z")
“Running Bear” by Johnny Preston. ---
**Author:** ![Dervish\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dervish\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervish_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/140 "2006-03-09T08:20:38Z")
Prince - When Doves Cry. Hmm, interesting title. Quickly downloads ::listening:: AAUGH! The beat! Doop dit dit doop, doop dit dit doop. . . “Yeah baby, dig the picture, animals in heat with curious poses.” I still don’t understand the appeal of 80s music. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=8)