# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/141 "2006-03-09T10:00:40Z")
You know what was playing on Billboard the months in April/May 1970 when my horny, unmarried parents conceived me in college…? Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters The Beatles - Let It Be Jackson 5 - ABC Think the universe was trying to tell my parents something? * * * Flash forward nine months to December 31st. George Harrison’s Isn’t It A Pity? was the top tune in the nation the day I was born. Oh, man…! Of course, one year later, it was the far more acceptable Three Dog Nights’ Joy To The World. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/142 "2006-03-09T10:03:53Z")
> [@Dervish Jones](#): > > 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. I’ve been up all night with the flu so sorry for the highjack. Are you telling us that you have never heard that song? Wow… just wow. What do kids these days consider classics, which “When Doves Cry” certainly is? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/143 "2006-03-09T11:17:39Z")
“Wooden Heart (Muss I Denn)” by Joe Dowell Who dat? I always heard it with Elvis. 8/27/61 ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/144 "2006-03-09T14:36:18Z")
> [@Angel of the Lord](#): > > And the one on my approximate conception date (early October 1982–I was a little early) was “Jack and Diane,” by John Mellencamp (it _says_ John Cougar). But on the album that had that song, _American Fool_ he went by the name of John Cougar. Same guy though. (That was a high school song for me. Had two friends, Diane and Jack, who were dating when that one came out.) ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/145 "2006-03-09T15:15:09Z")
1983/10/10: “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler. Score! ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/146 "2006-03-09T15:34:40Z")
aaaargh! Mine was the title theme to a B horror movie about rats! “Ben” by Michael Jackson (Oct. 14, 72) I ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/147 "2006-03-09T15:37:00Z")
Oops, hit submit too soon. At least I wasn’t born one day later, or it would have been “My Ding-a-Ling” by Chuck Berry ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/148 "2006-03-09T15:44:05Z")
“Too Much”–Elvis Presley (2/3/57) ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/149 "2006-03-09T15:59:14Z")
“Lean on Me” by Bill Withers (7/16/1972) I like that song, and I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/150 "2006-03-09T16:13:05Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Disneyland (07-17-1593) is _Rock Around the Clock_. How 'bout that? How _'bout_ that? Yikes. Make that Disneyland (07-17- **1955** ). _Rock Around the Clock_ ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/151 "2006-03-09T19:01:24Z")
“Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)” by The Temptations Yeah, ain’t that the story of my life… I don’t know _every_ song that’s been mentioned on this thread, but so far I’ve known every song that someone has said they didn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/152 "2006-03-09T23:42:16Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > 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. Actually, neither! The _Billboard_ chart is headlined “Week **ending** December 2, 1967.” If the week ended on December 2 (a Saturday, by the way), then the week would have incorporated November 27 (Nov. 26-Dec. 2). For what it’s worth, the #1 song the week before that (week ending 11/25/67) was Strawberry Alarm Clock’s _Incense and Peppermints_. (Source: _Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard® Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties_ by Joel Whitburn, ©Record Research and VNU.) ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/153 "2006-03-10T00:54:25Z")
“I’ll Be There for You” by Bon Jovi May 13th, 1989 ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/154 "2006-03-10T01:29:47Z")
9 November 1972: “I Can See Clearly Now” by Johnny Nash ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/155 "2006-03-10T01:41:33Z")
Mine was “Witch Doctor” by David Seville Mrs.Winterbottom’s was “I Heard It Through the Grape Vine” by Marvin Gaye LittleMissWinterbottm’s was “Everything You Want” by Vertical Horizon ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/156 "2006-03-10T02:01:35Z")
“Oh, Pretty Woman” by Roy Orbison. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/157 "2006-03-10T02:07:56Z")
“Hard to Say I’m Sorry,” by Chicago. Well. Fuck _that_. I don’t recognize anything on my list after '99. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/158 "2006-03-10T03:01:24Z")
“Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” by Steam ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/159 "2006-03-10T03:08:21Z")
What’s really odd is that I went back exactly nine months from my 16 year old daughter’s birthdate and her favorite song is listed- Sweet Child O’ Mine by G & R! I did the same for myself and got Dizzy by Tommy Roe. Not exactly my favorite song so that theory’s a bust. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/160 "2006-03-10T03:15:32Z")
Hit the Road Jack- Ray Charles I can SO live with that, 10/10/1961 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=9)