And On the Day I Was Born...

[billroper]

This website allows you to look up the number one song in America on any given day in history -- or at least any given day when Billboard was keeping track of the chart. And on the day that I was born, the number one song in America was:

Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley

Thank you. Thank you very much. (Apply accent as appropriate...)

Comments

[madfilkentist]

In my case, "Because of you, [recorded] by Tony Bennett."

I find it quite annoying that that site uses "by" to mean "recorded by."

[billroper]

Well, since we're talking about a list of recordings, it's not unreasonable to list the recording artist who made the recording. But as a songwriter, I understand.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Mine was something called Funkytown, which I've never heard of.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

"Funkeytown" is featured in Mel Brooks' film "A History of the World, Part I" in the Roman sequence. A black man is walking with it playing over a boombox.

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

And this just reminded me of how young you are :) Whoah ... :) That song was popular when I was just on my way into the teenage years *grin*

[ericcoleman]

You darn kids ...

I was already in college ...

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

"Somethin' Stupid" by Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

Mine was "Honeycomb" by Jimmy Rodgers. I have a vague memory of something with the word Honeycomb in it but I'm not 100% postive it isn't a cereal commercial. *g*

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

"Honeycomb, won't you be my baby,
Oh, Honeycomb, be my own.
What a darn good life
When you got a wife
Like Honeycomb"

That's the chorus. I can only get bits of the verses to come together.

[katyhh.livejournal.com]

Oh what fun ...
I got "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding ... welllll ... I do like sitting at a bay, but ... *g*

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

December 9, 1959 ... "Heartaches by the Number" by Guy Mitchell

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

I'm not telling....

The thing that I found disturbing was that I only even recognized four of the songs on that date from 1990 forward, and one of them was "Macarena". I guess I just don't listen to Top 40 radio anymore, and the songs that hit number one don't make it on to the stations I do listen to.

Time to buy a rocking chair.... :-)

[highstone.livejournal.com]

This is scary, I scored with a sort-of-skiffy hit: 'Purple People Eater' by Sheb Wooley.

[janeg.livejournal.com]

Mine is The Thing by Phil Harris. Wikipedia describes it as a novelty song about the hapless finder of a box with a mysterious secret and his efforts to rid himself of it. Sort of filkish so I guess that is all right. Lryics at http://www.lyricsstyle.com/p/philharris/thething.html. I do not know the tune.