General Chat

Picking up from the older thread on General, I have got my big Guinness book of British Hit Singles on hand if anyone wants to know what was number one on the day they were born, wedding day etc.

The charts only go back to 1952 but there are a couple of "possible pre-1952" popular songs lists in there too. (My book only goes up to 2002, though - time I got a new edition!)

All ideas welcome

I was born in 1946 - bet the song was 'You must have been a beautiful baby'. Well, I bet my Mum thought so.

LW

There's a few listed for 1946 (apparently it says sheet music was still a big seller at the time):

January - Cruising Down the River, It's Been a Long Long Time
February - Kentucky, Cruising Down the River
March - Kentucky, Chickery Chick, Cruising Down the River
April - Chickery Chick
May - Along the Navajo Trail, In The Land Of Beginning Again, Mary Lou
nothing for June (presumably it was still Mary Lou)
July - Bless You
August - Bless You, Primrose Hill
September - nothing listed (could still have been Bless You)
October - Let It Be Soon
November - Bless You (tied with All Through The Day at one point)
December - Five Minutes More (at one point tied with Sweetheart You'll Never Grow Old)

Bet there aren't any listed for 1940. Probably We'll meet again is there somewhere.

Hi Ann

Afraid not - I checked to see if there were any World War Two era ones, but they only seem to have got 1945-1952 covered.

November 7th 1970.
I am intrigued to know

Checked on line for 1940, surprisingly there was a lot of music that year. These are some of them:
Glen Miller In the Mood
Woodpecker song
Body and Soul
Blueberry Hill
Imagination
Fools rush in
A Nightingale sang

Artie Shaw.... Frenesi
Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra I'll never smile again
Bing Crosby Only Forever
Cliff Edwards When you wish upon a star
Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul
Jimmy Dorsey The breeze and I
Jimmy Davis You are my sunshine
Tommy Dorsey All the things you are
Ink Spots Maybe
Ink Spots Whispering Grass
Judy Garland I'm nobody's baby
Dick Robertson and orchestra Ma, he's making eyes at me
Joe Loss South of the border

A few hours later (sorry about that!) . . .

For Havoc - June 1951, With These Hands (Lee Lawrence and David Hughes)

For Agatha - Woodstock by Matthews' Southern Comfort was at number one from 31 Oct until 20 Nov 1970.

For Diane -
January 1957 - Singing The Blues (one version by Guy Mitchell was at number one twice, another by Tommy Steele and the Steelmen was there for a week)
January-February 1957 The Garden Of Eden (Frankie Vaughan)
February-April 1957 - Young Love (Tab Hunter)
Apr-May 1957 - Rock-a-Billy (Guy Mitchell)
May 1957 - Butterfly (Andy Williams)
June-July 1957 - Yes Tonight, Josephine (Johnnie Ray), Gamblin' Man/Putting on the Ritz (Lonnie Donegan)
July-Aug 1957 - All Shook Up (Elvis Presley)
Aug-Oct 1957 - Diana (Paul Anka)
Nov 1957 - That'll Be The Day (The Crickets)
22 Nov-end of the years - Mary's Boy Child (Harry Belafonte)

September 1959 for me please...

I have never heard of my song, can anyone tell me if it was good

hi agatha this might help you remember it
it was a good song


Well, I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, Tell me, where are you going?
This he told me

Said, I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm,
Gonna join in a rock and roll band.
Got to get back to the land and set my soul free.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Well, then can I roam beside you?
I have come to lose the smog,
And I feel myself a cog in somethin' turning.
And maybe it's the time of year,
Yes and maybe it's the time of man.
And I don't know who I am,
But life is for learning.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

By the time we got to Woodstock,
We were half a million strong
And everywhere was a song and a celebration.
And I dreamed I saw the bomber death planes
Riding shotgun in the sky,
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden,
We are caught in the devils bargain,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

Sorry for the delay, Teresa!

Up to 10 Sep 1959 - Living Doll (Cliff Richard and the Drifters)
11th September onwards - Only Sixteen (Craig Douglas)

I Believe by Frankie Lane - apparently

Sue x

Hi Kate
Hope everyone's having a good evening I was born in October 1954

Barb

October 1954 - two number ones!

up to 7 Oct - Three Coins in the Fountain (Frank Sinatra)
8th Oct onwards - Hold My Hand (Don Cornell)

Thanks Kate, I'm the 7th so just get Frank Sinatra, never heard of the other one though

Barb

Hi Allan

The Guinness Book has got A Tree In The Meadow by Hutch and Dorothy Squires in the list.