What was No 1 the day you were born?

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USA - I Went To Your Wedding - Patti Page
UK - Here In My Heart - Al Martino
AUS - nothing, I'm too old

Well, I've heard of Patti Page, but not Al Martino.
Anyway, I thought I'd see what it was when I graduated from high school.

USA - Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones

UK - Knock Three Times - Dawn

AUS - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Lally Stott

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tigerlily wrote:

USA - I Went To Your Wedding - Patti Page
UK - Here In My Heart - Al Martino
AUS - nothing, I'm too old

Well, I've heard of Patti Page, but not Al Martino.
Anyway, I thought I'd see what it was when I graduated from high school.

USA - Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones

UK - Knock Three Times - Dawn

AUS - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Lally Stott

Al Martino just died a few days ago. Aside from his own singing career, he was in The Godfather as Johnny Fontane, a character supposedly based on Frank Sinatra.

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Lessee... 1939? Probably something by Glenn Miller. I'm gonna say "String of Pearls." OK guess?

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I think '39 was Artie Shaw's year (he only had one).

I might have the year wrong, my memories have got a bit fuzzy.

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No 1 records of 1939? Well, there were no charts in the UK, so the US of A will have to suffice

Artie Shaw had two No 1 hits - "They Say" and "Thanks For Ev'rything". His biggest hit was "Frenesi" in 1940.

Glenn Miller had six - count 'em! - No 1s, so John's guess is pretty good; they were "Wishing (Will Make It So)", "Stairway To The Stars", "Moon Love", "Sunrise Serenade", "Over The Rainbow", "Th Man With The Mandolin" and "Blue Orchids".

"String of Pearls" hit in 1941.

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Subject: Re: What was No 1 the day you were born? Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:25 pm

For Tigerlily

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eGLzp5eDWU

Massive hit over here, enjoy!!

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Nashville Skygirl wrote:

For Tigerlily

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eGLzp5eDWU

Massive hit over here, enjoy!!

OMG how could I have forgotten this??

Thanks Nash

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felix wrote:

No 1 records of 1939? Well, there were no charts in the UK, so the US of A will have to suffice

Artie Shaw had two No 1 hits - "They Say" and "Thanks For Ev'rything". His biggest hit was "Frenesi" in 1940.

Glenn Miller had six - count 'em! - No 1s, so John's guess is pretty good; they were "Wishing (Will Make It So)", "Stairway To The Stars", "Moon Love", "Sunrise Serenade", "Over The Rainbow", "Th Man With The Mandolin" and "Blue Orchids".

"String of Pearls" hit in 1941.

Thanks, Felix.

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Based on overall sales, it looks like Glenn Miller won in 1939:

1939 -- "Moonlight Serenade"
1940 -- "When You Wish Upon A Star" by Ukulele Ike (with Artie Shaw's "Frenesi" in 3rd place).

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Ah, Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade...." I slow-danced to that in 1957, on El Cumpleanos de Amor (St Valentine's Day), on a flat rooftop in Tampico, with Christmas lights all around, with a very sweet and pretty young senorita, who was headed for the U Texas in Brownsville the following year and was using my Scots-English as practice for her lilting Mexican-English. She probably married into the Bush family and is a great-grandmother by now....

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On my birthday...

# 1 USA - Walk Like A Man - The Four Seasons
# 1 UK - Summer Holiday - Cliff Richard and the Shadows

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Eddie wrote:

I don't know whether to be pleased or disheartened to discover that I'm almost exactly the same age as the raddled nag that is Rock n Roll.

ahahahaah well at least yours was not "Love letters in the Sand" Laughing

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GypsyDaisy wrote:

Eddie wrote:

I don't know whether to be pleased or disheartened to discover that I'm almost exactly the same age as the raddled nag that is Rock n Roll.

ahahahaah well at least yours was not "Love letters in the Sand"

Summer of '57 then, GypsyD. Pat Boone was the biggest thing that year - after Elvis, of course...

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