What was No.1 on your birthday?

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:59 pm 0

Artist: Stevie Wonder
Song title: I Just Called To Say I Love You
Date: 03/09/1984

Cheers

Bubba

limb_clock · Post by **limb_clock** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:00 pm 0

dude! you're, like a day and a year older than i am!

littledrummerboy · Post by **littledrummerboy** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:02 pm 0

Surfr wrote:
littledrummerboy wrote:No really......
What do they call this mythical 15th month then ?

oOPS! mY Bad! aPOLOGIES SURFRS WAY! 31/05/88

Ahh isn't the CAPS LOCK key pretty

Post by **Jedburgh** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:15 pm 0

Jac wrote:(Andy Kaufman died on my 12th birthday, too.)

Or so he claims.

swith · Post by **swith** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:30 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote:
Jac wrote:(Andy Kaufman died on my 12th birthday, too.)
Or so he claims.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:05 pm 0

Oh, you have got to be f*****' kidding me!

Charles Aznavour, She...?!

The reason I'm in a state of disbelief right now is not because of the artist, but because... well, this might take a little explaining.

I am an anime fan. On top of that, I am a mecha fan - I like Action! Romance! Giant robot combat!

And the daddy of giant robot series is Gundam, to which I am partial. Gundam features a very popular bad guy character called Char Aznable. And Char Aznable, the name, was inspired by...

Charles Aznavour.

NorfolkNChance · Post by **NorfolkNChance** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:06 pm 0

Abba and Dancing Queen....

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:11 pm 0

OK, if we're doing 18th birthdays now, I'll have some of this with no regrets ...

Artist: The Beatles
Song title: All You Need Is Love

Buy the number one song from the day you were 18...

Erm ... no thanks; I already have it

Felonious Feline · Post by **Felonious Feline** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:11 pm 0

stevothejedi wrote:Artist: Bee Gees
Song title: Massachusetts

When I was born

Artist: Bee Gees
Song title: You Win Again

When I was 20

somebody pass me a gun please

SNAP!! I feel and understand your pain..

remember · Post by **remember** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:48 pm 0

Fillyourboots wrote:Hmm, how does this Birthday No.1 thing work? I always thought 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' (Abba) was 'my' No. 1 though according to the link it's 'Free' by Deniece Williams. A song I don't think I ever heard by an artist I've never heard of.

So why the discrepancy? I always thought that the No.1 was determined by what was top the previous Sunday (which is how we decide Christmas No.1's). This site implies results by what singles were buying in a particular week.

ie. top 40 announced Sunday 1st, sprog dropped Monday 2nd. No.1 should be what is actually top based on the previous day's declaration, rather than what will be top on (week ending) Sunday 8th.

I am the webmaster of http://www.DoYouRemember.co.uk and I found this thread in my referrer logs. I noticed a couple of you querying the way the chart dates are calculated and I thought I would clarify for you.

The system uses a database of chart results with associated week ending dates and then compares the date you entered with what is in the database. The song that was number one on your birthday is the first with a week-ending date AFTER your birthday.

Until 1983, the chart was first made available on Tuesdays. Due to improved technology, from January 1983 it was released on the Sunday. The convention of using Saturday as the'week-ending' date has remained constant throughout.

Hope this clarifies things![/url]

JB Lars · Post by **JB Lars** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:00 am 0

andym00 wrote:Artist: Rolling Stones
Song title: Honky Tonk Women
Date: 21/07/1969

Sweet

Sweet? No, that would be on *my* birthdate. "Blockbuster", to be precise.

(Over here, it was Elton John's "Crocodile Rock". First single he dropped for MCA. Strange thread this, as I have a buddy who has the US Billboard charts memorized (yes, really) back to 1960, and does this exact thing off the top of his head as a party trick. He gave me a copy of that EJ single for my 21st birthday, complete with jukebox tag. One of my most prized possessions, to be sure.)

TiltedKitty · Post by **TiltedKitty** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:54 am 0

remember wrote:
Fillyourboots wrote:Hmm, how does this Birthday No.1 thing work? I always thought 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' (Abba) was 'my' No. 1 though according to the link it's 'Free' by Deniece Williams. A song I don't think I ever heard by an artist I've never heard of.

So why the discrepancy? I always thought that the No.1 was determined by what was top the previous Sunday (which is how we decide Christmas No.1's). This site implies results by what singles were buying in a particular week.

ie. top 40 announced Sunday 1st, sprog dropped Monday 2nd. No.1 should be what is actually top based on the previous day's declaration, rather than what will be top on (week ending) Sunday 8th.
I am the webmaster of http://www.DoYouRemember.co.uk and I found this thread in my referrer logs. I noticed a couple of you querying the way the chart dates are calculated and I thought I would clarify for you.

The system uses a database of chart results with associated week ending dates and then compares the date you entered with what is in the database. The song that was number one on your birthday is the first with a week-ending date AFTER your birthday.

Until 1983, the chart was first made available on Tuesdays. Due to improved technology, from January 1983 it was released on the Sunday. The convention of using Saturday as the'week-ending' date has remained constant throughout.

Hope this clarifies things![/url]

Thanks - that definitely helps!

Jac · Post by **Jac** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:39 am 0

remember wrote: Until 1983, the chart was first made available on Tuesdays. Due to improved technology, from January 1983 it was released on the Sunday.

Uh, no. I have tapes and paperwork from 1986 detailing the charts released on Tuesday. I cannot recall exactly when they changed, although by March 1993 they were definitely on Sundays. But I wasn't at secondary school in January 1983 and I can definitely tell you that I was thrown out of orchestra practice for listening to Gary Davies (running down the new chart) on my walkman. And I still have the red notebooks I swiped from the German (classroom) cupboard with the Top 40s for the whole of 1986.