# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/161 "2006-03-10T03:30:11Z")
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel by Elvis. ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/162 "2006-03-10T03:56:52Z")
11/13/1952 … “I Went to Your Wedding” by Patti Page Not one that seems to have stood the test of time…sort of like me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/163 "2006-03-10T04:00:24Z")
“I Feel Fine” by The Beatles. Actually I feeling achy and cranky and **Jayjay** but not necessarily in that order… 😉 ---
**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 10, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/164 "2006-03-10T05:26:00Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > 11/13/1952 … “I Went to Your Wedding” by Patti Page > > Not one that seems to have stood the test of time…sort of like me. ☹ Oh, don’t feel bad. You’re younger than my mother. By 10 months and 6 days. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/165 "2006-03-10T05:35:45Z")
“That’ll Be the Day” by The Crickets. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/166 "2006-03-10T05:46:43Z")
LittlePoysyn got a cool one - Lose Yourself - Eminem ---
**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 10, 2006, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/167 "2006-03-10T06:33:51Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Hit the Road Jack- Ray Charles > I can SO live with that, > 10/10/1961 Cool, another double 10:er. Did you know that we share birthdate with Thelonius Monk? ---
**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 10, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/168 "2006-03-10T08:51:50Z")
\*\* JXJohns \*\* wrote: > [@](#): > > What do kids these days consider classics, which “When Doves Cry” certainly is? I guess my problem is that I really don’t like 80s music. I grew up listening to “oldies” so I recognize and enjoy most of the 60s and 70s songs that others have posted. Definitely classics. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/169 "2006-03-10T09:11:40Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > Finally. A thread where I know the lyrics and the songs! > > I think I know everyone’s song except mine: **“Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer”** by The Song Spinners > > Sounds appropriate for a birth – just not mine. I was breach-born. (July 14, 1943) I prefer to think of it as between “Opus One” and “String of Pearls.” I was exactly 22 years later, Zoe (July 14, 1965). I got one of the greatest-ever rock songs: “Satisfaction” by Stones. But I’m not a big fan of the song. And my problem is probably too much satisfaction. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/170 "2006-03-10T09:14:22Z")
**Moonbaby** got a good one: “Baby Boy” by Beyonce (10/1/03). ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/171 "2006-03-10T09:39:24Z")
Ugh. “Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell, how gawd awful. Even better, I might have been conceived to the tune of “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas, how seventies. ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/172 "2006-03-10T11:21:24Z")
“Blue Velvet” by Bobby Vinton September, 1963 Hell, it could have been worse. At least it’s not _Honey_! ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/173 "2006-03-10T11:31:22Z")
“Hey! Baby” by Bruce Channel Damn. Now I have to go find it and listen to it. ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/174 "2006-03-10T15:50:01Z")
“96 Tears” by ? and the Mysterians. Make of that what you will. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/175 "2006-03-10T20:47:59Z")
Wow! I almost didn’t start this thread, because I didn’t think it would fly! Thanks for surprising me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/176 "2006-03-10T21:59:23Z")
Oh God – another thread to make me feel old. According to the link: “There are such things” by Tommy Dorsey. Well, I know of the band and have heard some of their work, but I’m not a fan of the big band sound. Don’t think I’ve ever heard that particular song. I’m a '70’s kind of gal. ---
**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 10, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/177 "2006-03-10T22:01:12Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Ugh. “Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell, how gawd awful. > > Even better, I might have been conceived to the tune of “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas, how seventies. Hey, if we’re talking about songs we may have been _conceived_ to, then I get to go back exactly 9 months from Feb 10, 1973 (to May 10, 1973), and the song was… “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” by Roberta Flack ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/178 "2006-03-10T22:10:02Z")
"Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) by the Temptations. Excellent! I love that song! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/179 "2006-03-11T06:56:10Z")
[_The Three Bells_](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/classic-country/three-bells-14925.html) by the Browns. Only one of said bells applies so far to my life – I was obviously born (August 30, 1959), but have yet to marry or die. When I was conceived, The Teddy Bears’ _To Know Him Is to Love Him_ might well have been topping the charts. I’m glad there’s at least one **Doper** who agrees that the title applies to me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stillwell\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Stillwell\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stillwell_Angel)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438/180 "2006-03-11T13:28:28Z")
For myself: “Everyday People” by Sly & the Family Stone Mr Stillwell: “I Can’t Stop Loving You” by Ray Charles Stillwell Junior: “The Power of Love” by Celine Dion [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tune-was-number-one-the-day-you-were-born/347438.md?page=10)