[Music] What was Number One in the pop charts the day you were born?

[zefarelly]

Wow ... that has abiding memories of the Goldstone for me .... that was the song played before and at half time at almost every game in the 1970-71 season (?) or may have been 71-72? Whenever I hear it I think of the North Stand

Band of Gold Freda Payne . . .I have that on gold vinyl !!!

 

[jmc]

It was 1970 as I was expecting my son at the time.

was he coming round for Tea and Crumpets?

 

[magoo]

UK - Eye Level by Simon Park Orchestra

US - Half Breed by Cher

WTF - never heard of either of those - lets see where did I put my Kazaa

Is your birthday around 6th october james?

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Woodstock by Matthews southern Comfort

 

[Bobby's Gull]

Absolute quality mine is. 18th January 1986 - Pet Shop Boys and West End Girls. OOooh Eighties music so class.

 

[Dandyman]

U.S. number one was "He's so fine" by The Chiffons. Seems appropriate...

 

[Dandyman]

band of gold by freda payne
who the hell is he/she?
answers on the back of a 78rpm.

Great record (Stax/Atlantic ?)- "Now that you're gone, all that I have is a band of gold..."

 

[pasty]

You've lost that loving feeling - The Righteous Brothers.
I like my step-daughters though, House of Fun, Madness

 

[Marshy]

Without You - Nisson.....never heard of it

 

[Sonic The Hedgehog]

Great record (Stax/Atlantic ?)- "Now that you're gone, all that I have is a band of gold..."

It was on Invictus, which I think was set up as a Philadelphia based rival to Tamla Motown.

Now where did I leave my anorak?

 

[Uncle Buck]

.Now where did I leave my anorak?

In the orchid?

 

[Dave the OAP]

carolina moon/ stupid cupid - Connie Francis

 

[Emily's Mum]

World without love - Peter & Gordon

 

[The Large One]

It was on Invictus, which I think was set up as a Philadelphia based rival to Tamla Motown.

Now where did I leave my anorak?

Invictus was set up by Holland/Dozier/Holland when the fell out with Berry Gordy at Motown. Also on that label were Chairmen of the Board, who sang soul classics 'Give Me Just A Little More Time', and 'Everything's Tuesday'.

Me? September 29, 1969. Bad Moon Rising - Credence Clearwater Revival

OMG, I've just looked up the US No1 on that day. Sugar Sugar by The Archies

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

She Loves You by The Beatles. Not bad!

 

[The Large One]

Without you - Nilsson ?? never heard of it I don't think....

A song tainted in tragedy.

Pete Ham and Tom Evans were the songwriters of the group Badfinger. They were both due to take their long-suffering girlfriends out for an evening, when Evans appeared at Ham's door with a great tune in his head and needed help with it. Ham, who had another tune in his head but wanted to use it another day, initially said no, but his girlfriend, exasperated told him to go ahead - go to the studio. 'You're smiling, but there's sorrow in your eyes'.

Using their separate tunes, Ham & Evans went on to write 'Without You'. The song was first recorded in 1970 and was a commercial flop. Harry Nilsson picked the song up 18 months later, with piano and orchestra (the original was on guitar), and re-recorded it. It became a worldwide smash - No1 in the UK and USA.

However, over the coming years, the pair did not receive due royalties, and after years of wrangling, Pete Ham committed suicide by hanging himself in his garage. The rest of Badfinger were left to rue his suicide, and so tragic did they find this that, still with unpaid royalties, Tom Evans too hanged himself in his own garage exactly eight years later.

The records company's main gripe was that they claimed Ham/Evans were claiming money which the other two members of the band were also entitled to - despite the fact that neither of them were making any claims. They both admitted then - and now - that Ham & Evans wrote the song and that the royalties should be theirs.

The record company eventually paid up in the late 90s after years of going through the courts. Nilsson himself died in 1994.

But the biggest tragedy of all was... Mariah Carey's version. f***ing awful beyond redemption.

 

[bobbyzee]

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Originally posted by bobbyzee
band of gold by freda payne
who the hell is he/she?
answers on the back of a 78rpm.


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It was 1970 as I was expecting my son at the time.

true!..i was born september 1970

 

[bobbyzee]

A song tainted in tragedy.

Pete Ham and Tom Evans were the songwriters of the group Badfinger. They were both due to take their long-suffering girlfriends out for an evening, when Evans appeared at Ham's door with a great tune in his head and needed help with it. Ham, who had another tune in his head but wanted to use it another day, initially said no, but his girlfriend, exasperated told him to go ahead - go to the studio. 'You're smiling, but there's sorrow in your eyes'.

Using their separate tunes, Ham & Evans went on to write 'Without You'. The song was first recorded in 1970 and was a commercial flop. Harry Nilsson picked the song up 18 months later, with piano and orchestra (the original was on guitar), and re-recorded it. It became a worldwide smash - No1 in the UK and USA.

However, over the coming years, the pair did not receive due royalties, and after years of wrangling, Pete Ham committed suicide by hanging himself in his garage. The rest of Badfinger were left to rue his suicide, and so tragic did they find this that, still with unpaid royalties, Tom Evans too hanged himself in his own garage exactly eight years later.

The records company's main gripe was that they claimed Ham/Evans were claiming money which the other two members of the band were also entitled to - despite the fact that neither of them were making any claims. They both admitted then - and now - that Ham & Evans wrote the song and that the royalties should be theirs.

The record company eventually paid up in the late 90s after years of going through the courts. Nilsson himself died in 1994.

But the biggest tragedy of all was... Mariah Carey's version. f***ing awful beyond redemption.

i was on the verge of crying with sadness until i read the line about mariah carey.....brilliant!

 

[Yorkie]

true!..i was born september 1970

You are exactly two months older than my son because he was born in November

 

[Yorkie]

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