What was the UK number 1 on your birthday?

jennyswan · Post by **jennyswan** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:43 am

This is cool, mine was Gilbert O'Sullivan - Clair

http://hit40uk.somethinelse.com/

Post by **spot** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:50 am

pompom;493867 wrote: Well thank you, I feel really old now, the top 10 doesn't go back that far

;)spot screams with delight and falls against the back of his chair in helpless spasms

Pompom, I have just the thing - there's a website that published the 1901 Census...

theia · Post by **theia** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:52 am

spot;493875 wrote: spot screams with delight and falls against the back of his chair in helpless spasms

Pompom, I have just the thing - there's a website that published the 1901 Census...

More screams of delight, Spot...the site won't work for me either :-5

jennyswan · Post by **jennyswan** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:53 am

Sorry guys!

Post by **spot** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:58 am

theia;493876 wrote: More screams of delight, Spot...the site won't work for me either :-5

Pinky;493880 wrote: Mud - Oh boy!

spot puts the Entertainer of the Year award down for the thread to share and passes out delirious

Mud!!!!!!

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:59 am

Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown. I never knew that. I remember my sons being Culture Club - Karma Chameleon and my Daughters being Shakespeares Sister - Stay with Me. They both get fed up of me telling them when they come on the radio. It's a Dad/Trivia thing :rolleyes:

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:20 am

pompom;493897 wrote: Right - did my son's instead: Young Love - Donny Osmond

Don't remember it at all. I do remember Rod Stewart's Oh no not my Baby being played on the radio in the maternity ward :-6
I remember buying that single in a fancy tartan sleeve from Boots

My brother bought Young Love. Still laugh about that now :wah:

venus · Post by **venus** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:36 am

Alvin Stardust, Jealous minds!!:-3

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:47 am

Mine was Elvis Presley- She's not you, and Voodoo's was Marvin Rainwater - Whole Lotta Woman LOL!

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:51 am

Beatles - All you need is love

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:42 pm

pompom;493867 wrote: Well thank you, I feel really old now, the top 10 doesn't go back that far

;)

Same for me pompom......it was probably Vera Lynn or Gracie Fields

Post by **spot** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:56 pm

Bez;494102 wrote: Same for me pompom......it was probably Vera Lynn or Gracie Fields :DCaruso, Bez.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:18 pm

spot;494122 wrote: Caruso, Bez.

Well at least it was 'classy' then spot

Post by **spot** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:23 pm

Bez;494134 wrote: Well at least it was 'classy' then spot :)And there was me getting ready to turn the other cheek!

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:23 pm

Benny Hill, "Ernie, the fastest milkman in the west". I think its rather apt actually.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:40 pm

As I can remember most of these songs being out, it's making me feel really old

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:21 am

Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

I never even heard of that crap, but you said U.K.. :wah:

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:28 am

K.Snyder;494612 wrote: Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

I never even heard of that crap, but you said U.K.. :wah:

Ouch !!

Post by **Betty Boop** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:37 am

Matthew's Southern Comfort - Woodstock :-2

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:01 am

K.Snyder;494612 wrote: Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming

I never even heard of that crap, but you said U.K.. :wah:

I LOVE adam and the ants, check it out K Synder, its a very funny and camp British song, the video is feicking brilliant!

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:01 am

helefra;494620 wrote: Freda Payne - Band Of Gold

Never heard of it :-2

Oh god, thats a feicking brilliant song as well, you have to hear it!

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:02 am

Betty Boop;494637 wrote: Matthew's Southern Comfort - Woodstock :-2

I like that version of that song actually, very trippy and sixties it is!

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:25 am

Betty Boop;494637 wrote: Matthew's Southern Comfort - Woodstock :-2
I'm revising my claim to fame. I once kissed the woman who wrote the UK No.1 on the day our Betty Boop was born. Didn't mean to be a namedropper, but I just had to mention Boops :wah:

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:40 am

Elvis Presley - Surrender

I don't recognize it. :-3

:guitarist

When we kiss my heart's on fire

Burning with a strange desire

And I know, each time I kiss you

That your heart's on fire too

So, my darling, please surrender

All your love so warm and tender

Let me hold you in my arms, dear

While the moon shines bright above

All the stars will tell the story

Of our love and all its glory

Let us take this night of magic

And make it a night of love

Won't you please surrender to me

Your lips, your arms, your heart, dear

Be mine forever

Be mine tonight

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:43 am

Accountable;494674 wrote: Elvis Presley - Surrender

I don't recognize it. :-3

:guitarist

When we kiss my heart's on fire

Burning with a strange desire

And I know, each time I kiss you

That your heart's on fire too

So, my darling, please surrender

All your love so warm and tender

Let me hold you in my arms, dear

While the moon shines bright above

All the stars will tell the story

Of our love and all its glory

Let us take this night of magic

And make it a night of love

Won't you please surrender to me

Your lips, your arms, your heart, dear

Be mine forever

Be mine tonight

Super love song....surprised tha no one's covered it....

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:44 am

Novelty;494096 wrote: (OZ) Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da: The Beatles

(UK) I Heard It Through The Grapevine: Marvin Gaye

(US) Dizzy: Tommy Roe
Now that was a good day to be born ... or to be listening to the radio. :driving:

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:45 am

Bez;494676 wrote: Super love song....surprised tha no one's covered it....
I don't recognise it either Acc. Could you hum it Bez?

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:47 am

Uncle Kram;494678 wrote: I don't recognise it either Acc. Could you hum it Bez?

No problem.....hum de hum de hum de hum, hum.....maybe not

Try this instead.........

http://www.last.fm/music/Elvis+Presley/_/Surrender

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:52 am

Bez;494679 wrote: No problem.....hum de hum de hum de hum, hum.....maybe not

Isn't that Polk Salad Annie?

Post by **Betty Boop** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:57 am

Galbally;494647 wrote: I like that version of that song actually, very trippy and sixties it is!

A-hem, I wasn't born in the sixties!!

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:00 am

Betty Boop;494685 wrote: A-hem, I wasn't born in the sixties!!

True but you were conceived around the first Valentines day of the 70's so that's close enough in my book

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:05 am

Uncle Kram;494661 wrote: I'm revising my claim to fame. I once kissed the woman who wrote the UK No.1 on the day our Betty Boop was born. Didn't mean to be a namedropper, but I just had to mention Boops :wah:

What! You snogged Joni Mitchell? And why were we not informed eh? Was she a good kisser? She is a fine songwriter!

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:06 am

Betty Boop;494685 wrote: A-hem, I wasn't born in the sixties!!

I didn't say you were BB, I was just critiquing the record! It was 1970 wasn't it? That makes you 24 then.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:08 am

Galbally;494692 wrote: I didn't say you were BB, I was just critiquing the record! It was 1970 wasn't it? That makes you 24 then.

:wah: :-4

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:08 am

For the 'few' that were born before 1952 when 'charts' started, here are a few of the artists that may have been around when you were born

Hoagy Carmichael

Ella Fitzgerald

Andrews Sisters

Bing Crosby

Frank sinatra

Dinah Shore

Jo Stafford

Woody Herman

Perry como

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:10 am

Galbally;494691 wrote: What! You snogged Joni Mitchell? And why were we not informed eh? Was she a good kisser? She is a fine songwriter!
Calm down Doc :wah: It was just a kiss on the cheek, otherwise she might have written a song about me. You know where she gets her inspiration

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:12 am

Uncle Kram;494698 wrote: Calm down Doc :wah: It was just a kiss on the cheek, otherwise she might have written a song about me. You know where she gets her inspiration

Oh milk it, milk it, man, you never know! If you play your cards right you might get on "I kissed a celebrity, get me out of here!" :wah:

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:19 am

Hey, I remember those guys!

Hoagy Carmichael - sandwich maker

Ella Fitzgerald - tested glassware

Andrews Sisters - teased Andrew mercilessly

Bing Crosby - Earned his nickname as the first triangle soloist in orchestral history

Frank sinatra - musical mafioso

Dinah Shore - Southern accent was so thick no one knew her name was really Diner

Jo Stafford - Polygamist (remember the Stafford Wives?)

Woody Herman - porn star

Perry Como - Sorry, this one doesn't ring a bell

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:20 am

Accountable;494706 wrote: Hey, I remember those guys!

Hoagy Carmichael - sandwich maker

Ella Fitzgerald - tested glassware

Andrews Sisters - teased Andrew mercilessly

Bing Crosby - Earned his nickname as the first triangle soloist in orchestral history

Frank sinatra - musical mafioso

Dinah Shore - Southern accent was so thick no one knew her name was really Diner

Jo Stafford - Polygamist (remember the Stafford Wives?)

Woody Herman - porn star

Perry Como - Sorry, this one doesn't ring a bell

. :yh_rotfl .

theia · Post by **theia** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:14 am

Can't find the actual UK number 1...records don't go back that far

Popular Music Of 1948

1 I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover Art Mooney

2 Bumble Boogie Freddy Martin

3 Buttons and Bows Dinah Shore

4 Twelfth Street Rag Pee Wee Hunt

5 I've Got My Love To keep Me Warm Les Brown

6 Love Somebody Doris Day & Buddy Clark

7 It's Magic Doris Day

8 Manana (Is Soon Enough For Me) Peggy Lee

9 Nature Boy Nat King Cole

10 All I Want For Christmas is my Two Front Teeth Spike Jones

11 Now Is The Hour Bing Crosby

12 You Can't Be True, Dear Ken Griffin

13 Woody Woodpecker Kay Kyser

14 You Call Everybody Darlin' Al Trace

15 A Tree In The Meadow Margaret Whiting

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:59 pm

Bez;494625 wrote: Ouch !!

I was making assumptions based on the name alone...

sorry, but being a guy, I don't really "fancy" being associated with anything,..shall I say "Prince Charming", unless of course you are a lovely a lady talking about me. :yh_wink :yh_flower

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:06 pm

Galbally;494645 wrote: I LOVE adam and the ants, check it out K Synder, its a very funny and camp British song, the video is feicking brilliant!

I did actually check out the video from youtube...

I actually thought they were filming from within a psycho ward...

Sorry, but the drag queens in the video sort of turned me off of it...I'm guessing that, that was in reference to the historical gender barriers in the plays of modern day Shakespeare. I can understand something like that, but still wouldn't care to watch it...:wah:

I like women in my videos...:wah: ...you know....THOSE women...yeah....:wah: