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

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I was once given a cassette tape of Ken Dodd songs. The first song was Happiness, followed by Tears and then a series of even more maudlin and depressing songs in a similar vein. Never got to the end of the tape.

He was a very strange man. People frequently baffle me with their affection for creepy wrong 'uns.

 

[Official Old Man]

Jimmy Young, The Man From Laramie.
More importantly, in a chart full of swooners country singers and even Winifred Atwell, it was the start of Rock'n'Roll with Bill Haley, Rock Around The Clock hitting the charts for the first time.

 

[zefarelly]

That God awful Joe Dolce aberration.

Ffs

Two days later, I could have had Jealous Guy, Roxy Music cover… still not my cup of tea, but no - I had to have one of the worst novelty hits ever recorded…

Probs why I instinctively dislike nearly all 80s music

The sad reality is a good proprtion of 'hits' are novelty shyte.

2 days after I was born . . . . . Get it on , T-Rex

Prior to that . . . . .

Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep. FFS!

 

[BLOCK F]

Mary Hopkin "Those Were The Days"...aaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggghhhh! What a bummer, the week before it was The Beatles "Hey Jude". My timing's always been suspect.

Both good songs of ‘68.

 

[Boys 9d]

I doubt there was a pop chart in the middle of World War 2 when I was born. I think people had other things to think about.

 

[Flounce]

He was a very strange man. People frequently baffle me with their affection for creepy wrong 'uns.

Yep he was very weird but was he a wrong’ un? He certainly came across as one but I’ve seen nothing to suggest that he was.

 

[oldboyroy]

Release me by Englebert Humperdinck

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Yep he was very weird but was he a wrong’ un? He certainly came across as one but I’ve seen nothing to suggest that he was.

I use the term loosely.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

I use the term loosely.

Blame the diddymen…..

Seriously, I know what you mean…….

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Blame the diddymen…..

Seriously, I know what you mean…….

How is this in any way 'OK'?

 

[LamieRobertson]

No idea…i was quite young at the time

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

How is this in any way 'OK'?

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Just very, very strange….

Edit - the so-called hysterical scouse sense of humour…. Myth…

 

[heathgate]

Frank Field - Lovesick Blues. ( It's a bit shit tbh)

 

[Dinner with Gotsmanov]

A Hard Days Night by the Beatles, both in UK and US. Think I may have to try and buy a vinyl copy of it.

 

[BLOCK F]

Woodstock by Matthews southern Comfort

Great song, one of my all time favourites.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Dave and Ansil/Ansell* Collins - 'Double Barrel'

...a day later and it would have been Dawn - 'Knock Three Times'Three

Got lucky there.



* Different; wrong spelling on the UK release

 

[BLOCK F]

This thread makes me feel rather old, well, I suppose I am as I was born in the pre chart days of 1948.

 

[lawros left foot]

It doesn’t matter anymore, Buddy Holly and the Crickets.


I know.
I don’t look that old, do I.

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

Apparently it was If by Perry Como.

Not a song I was aware of then or now.

By the time I was listening to music on the radio we had the likes of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Freddie and the Dreamers etc

Things got better

 

[jonny.rainbow]

The Pogues - Fairytale of New York