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What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 03 Jul 2018 07:42
by Brian007
Hi ALL,

The NHS is 70 years old this year , I am 70 years old , so what was number one in July 70 years ago?

What was number one on your birth month and year , please feel free to add to the post if you wish.

Nature Boy - Nat King Cole



Enjoy, Brian007 :D :D

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 03 Jul 2018 11:49
by Hugh-AR
Brian,

What a brilliant idea for a post! I shall have to look and see what was No: 1 the month & year I was born.

I reckon Wikipedia will be the best place to look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

.. and search for "Number one singles of 1942".

Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 03 Jul 2018 12:12
by Hugh-AR
I sort of knew it would be this one. My father was always going on about it. My parents were abroad in China in 1942, so dreaming of a 'White Christmas' and the folks back home was a very nostalgic song for them.

"White Christmas" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 100 million copies worldwide.



Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 03 Jul 2018 12:42
by Hugh-AR
Whilst I was looking I thought I would look up the No: 1 on my wife's birthday, February 1948.

Ballerina - Vaughn Monroe. Never heard this one before!



Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 03 Jul 2018 16:31
by Brian007
Hi Hugh,

Amazing the tunes that where about way back then, some are pretty good too,

Brian007

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 05 Aug 2018 16:13
by Hugh-AR
This topic is for any of you to add to! Click on POSTREPLY

If you can't find the number one 'hit' for the year you were born (or are not sure how to put it up) please email me at hugh@ar-group.org and let me know your Date of Birth. I can either put the post up 'on your behalf'; or I can put it up by Anonymous without mentioning any names.

Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 05 Aug 2018 17:18
by dragon
I don't think music had been invented by the time I was born. .. Fred

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 05 Aug 2018 18:05
by mikeg
Hi Hugh Brian and Fred enjoyed the two tunes and sang along to them vaughn monroe was a great singer and trumpet player other hits were ghost riders and there ive said it again the crosby hit I used to play on acordian in 1942 My year of birth was 1928 and with my poor computer skill the best I came up with is I cant give you anything but love baby recorded by doris day and ella fitzgerald. I knew the lyrics to the song before I played it. Best Regards To All mikeG.

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 05 Aug 2018 19:08
by Hugh-AR
Fred (dragon). It's not the music that hadn't been invented when you were born, it was a means of recording it!

George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue came out in 1924, which in 1930 was included in the Technicolour film called 'King Of Jazz'.
This restored clip courtesy of UNIVERSAL STUDIOS features the newly restored "Rhapsody In Blue" number from "KING OF JAZZ" (1930), as painstakingly restored in 2015/16 by Universal Studios. This is the very first time since 1930 that we are actually seeing the 2-Strip Technicolor as was originally printed/produced 88 years ago. In other words - we are finally seeing what the original 1930 audiences saw. Back then they could not reproduce the colour blue; hence the tinge of Mint Green/Sage Green/Puce Green... all were attempts to render a hint of blue.



What an amazing idea for a film! Have never seen anything like that before, ever!

Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 05 Aug 2018 19:36
by Hugh-AR
Hi Mike,

Here's your clip of Doris Day singing "I Cant Give You Anything But Love, Baby" from the year you were born.



Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 05 Aug 2018 23:00
by dragon
I think 'Memories Are Made Of This' came out about 1930. The Year I was Born. .. Fred

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 06 Aug 2018 08:29
by Hugh-AR
Fred. I think maybe your 'memories' do not go back very far. According to Wikipedia:
Memories Are Made of This is a popular song written by Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller in 1955.

Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 06 Aug 2018 09:12
by dragon
Thanks for the correction Hugh. I meant ' Thanks for the Memory.' Shows how dodgy my memory is. .. Fred

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 06 Aug 2018 11:50
by Hugh-AR
Hi Fred,

Thanks for the memory. This clip is sung by Mildred Bailey. It came out in 1938. The caption underneath the video says:
Mildred is one of the most overlooked superstars in music history. Get to know and appreciate her now.



Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 06 Aug 2018 13:04
by dragon
One of these days I will get something right! .. Fred

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 06 Aug 2018 16:19
by Hugh-AR
Fred. One of these days was released by Pink Floyd in November 1971. Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 06 Aug 2018 22:56
by dragon
I give up. I just give up. .. Fred

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 06 Aug 2018 23:32
by Hugh-AR
Fred. Don't give up.

"Don't Give Up" is a song written by English musician Peter Gabriel and recorded as a duet with Kate Bush for Gabriel's sixth solo studio album 'So' (1986).



Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 07 Aug 2018 09:37
by dragon
HELP!

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 07 Aug 2018 22:21
by Hugh-AR
Oh no! Not that one!



Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 07 Aug 2018 22:58
by dragon
How can I escape this haunting? .. Fred

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 21 May 2019 14:25
by Hugh-AR
Fred,

I'll put up the No: 1 when you were born. That should put a stop to the 'haunting'.

"Happy Days are Here Again!" (Ben Selvin and the Crooners, 1930)



Hugh

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 21 May 2019 15:09
by dragon
Thanks Hugh. What a lovely, lively arrangement. Here we are 89 years later and still playing this melody. .. Fred

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 21 May 2019 15:49
by Rev Tony Newnham
The No: 1 Hit when I was born:

Mario Lanza - The Loveliest Night Of The Year


Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 20 Jun 2019 13:37
by royofherts
The Number 1 when I was born .. April 1931.

Cab Calloway - "Minnie The Moocher"


Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 21 Jun 2019 11:39
by royofherts
Hi Hugh, thank you for finding that. I seem to remember it being played in the thirties. Yes it is the Genos I have now + the GA3. It is quite easy to pick up as not so many buttons. It is mainly touch screen.

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 29 Feb 2020 23:49
by dentyr
1939, Sidney Bechet playing "Summertime".

Sidney Bechet - Summertime



Den

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 21 Sep 2021 10:18
by Hugh-AR
Ed Duffy has asked me what the No: 1 hit was in February 1935.
Probably this one:

Boswell Sisters - Blue Moon


Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 21 Sep 2021 15:56
by kens
hi!
Mine was When Its Springtime in the Rockies. Guess the date Ken S.


Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 25 Nov 2021 00:39
by dragon
May 1930.

Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra - When It's Springtime In The Rockies.


Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 25 Nov 2021 21:31
by JohnT
APRIL/1946 .. John

I’m A Big Girl Now - Sammy Kaye (Betty Barclay, vocal) (a #1 record)



When Daddy tells those certain jokes, it isn’t fair ...
He tells me I’m too young and makes me take the air.
But I could tell a couple that would turn his hair ...
I’m a big girl now.

Re: What was No: 1 in the hit parade when you were born?

PostPosted: 13 Dec 2022 20:52
by GeorgeR
What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For.

Emile ford & the checkmates - what do you want to make those eyes at me for.



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