Numbers Ones on the Day You Were Born

[Simon R]

We haven't done this for years and it's always a hoot...

WHAT WAS ATOP THE UK CHARTS ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN?

There's various websites and t'ing to find out but "everyhit" gives you the singles and albums as well as the birthdates of popstars and things of that nature so that's the one I recommend...

http://www.everyhit.com/dates/

And "thisdayinmusic" gives you the American and Australian chart toppers as well which is nice...

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/member/birthdayno1.php

So what do we all get and do you like what you see?

[Pip Madeley]

UK: Madonna - Into The Groove
US: Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love
AUS: Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero

The first two are awesome.

[Carol Baynes]

"See my baby jive" by Wizzard was top of the UK singles chart on the day I was born.

....and Dame David Bowie was No.1 in the UK album chart with "Aladdin Sane"!

Glam-rock-tastic!

[Wayne]

Cliff Richard & The Shadows - "Summer Holiday". Both the album & the single!

[Si Hunt]

"The Only Way Is Up" by Yazz.

Si.

[Pip Madeley]

My arse.

[SiHart]

I got the fantastic 10cc - "I'm Not In Love". It's a wonderful song.

Si xx

[Captain Tancredi]

1972 On your birthdate the No. 1 single was Donny Osmond - "Puppy Love"

Clearly I was meant to have stayed in the Mormons.

[Stephen Morgan]

I got the fantastic 10cc - "I'm Not In Love". It's a wonderful song.

Si xx

Si you are indeed honoured, it's my all time favourite single.

Mine, well.. I was born at the right time I think, Bill Haley and the Comets Rock Around The Clock, or Dickie Valentine's Christmas Alphabet, depending on which chart you look at for those days.

[Andrew Curnow]

I'm genuinely not making this up, but the number 1 single on my birth day was...

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.


And the number one album was the somewhat more impressive Bridge Over Troubled Waters.

[Pip Madeley]

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep makes me grin... I can't tell you why. Not outside the Temple anyway.

[Andrew Curnow]

Oh I say!! It always reminds me of the Victoria Wood Italian Waiter Sketch:

VW: How long has the affair been going on?
JW: Well it must have been quite a while because he said their song was Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.

[Dave Tudor]

I got the fantastic 10cc - "I'm Not In Love". It's a wonderful song.

Just a couple of weeks later, I get 'Give A Little Love' by the Bay City Rollers. Great.

[Jonno]

UK was Dizzy by Tommy Roe - one of those songs that's hit the top in different versions of course.

UK Album was one for Mr Hunt - Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline.

[Milky Tears]

Single
Pato Banton - "Baby Come Back"

Album
Bon Jovi - "Cross Road - The Best Of Bon Jovi"

[SiHart]

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.

Ah Andrew, you'd probably be ermm, honoured to know we were all singing that in the pub in Nottingham late on Saturday night. If only we'd have known we'd have toasted you... we seem to toast everything else we could think of at the time!

Si xx

[P-Bal]

If You Wanna Be My Lover by The Spice Girls was number one when I entered this world.

[Pip Madeley]

If You Wanna Be My Lover by The Spice Girls was number one when I entered this world.

Your nose just grew...

[Rob McCow]

The Village People - "Y.M.C.A."

Oh yes.

My album was Various artist compilation (EMI) - "Don't Walk - Boogie" whatever the heck that was!

[duncan]

The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black

[Stephen Morgan]

The Village People - "Y.M.C.A."

Oh yes.

My album was Various artist compilation (EMI) - "Don't Walk - Boogie" whatever the heck that was!

It was just what it says, a err.. disco compilation album containing all the disco hits of the day, I think one of the tracks was YMCA. I'll check it out.

[Paul Clement]

Oh dear. In the UK it was Young Love by Donny Osmond.
Delta Dawn by Helen Reddy was at No. 1 in the U.S and Australia. Never heard of it.

[Simon R]

I know Courtney Cox's version of "Delta Dawn" if that helps.

The UK was rocking to "Prince Charming" by Adam and the Ants the day I was born whilst America swooned to "Endless Love" by Richie and Ross. Poor Australia got lumbered with "You Drive Me Crazy" by Shakin Stevens.

Can't say I've ever really "got" Adam Ant. Maybe you had to be there and be older than I was then. Rick Astley, Whigfield Melanie B was apparantly number one on some of my birthdays.

The number one album was something called "Abacab" by some lost group called "The Genesis" or something.

[Dave Tudor]

The number one album when I was born was 'Horizon' by The Carpenters, although I'm rather more pleased that Pink Floyd were finishing off recording 'Wish You Were Here', a chart topper a couple of months later, during the month I was born.

I also notice from that site, that I share the same birthday as Michael Vaughn, vocalist with Nottingham's finest, Paper Lace, whose biggest hit, 'Billy Don't Be A Hero' we were singing down the pub on Saturday!

[Jonno]

Talking of Adam and the Ants (yes, you had to be there, Simon!), their first number one (Stand and Deliver) was during my 12th birthday and exactly a year later I became a teenager while Madness were enjoying their only UK chart topper (House of Fun).

Also - looks like England New Order were just hitting the top with World In Motion at the time of my 21st.