So what was #1 the day I was born?
“The Night Chicago Died” by Paper Lace
and what hit the charts (and stayed) a week later?
(You’re) Having My Baby” by Paul Anka with Odia Coates
blah.
Hmmm…the year I turned 10, it was Ghostbusters. The year I graduated, End of the Road (Boyz II Men). OOH…and the year I graduated from college? Macarena.
I have a sucky birthday for music.
(via Jen)
Hmmm, I didn’t even look at the other dates yet…interesting!
Mine was “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” by Paul & Linda McCartney. EW! I HATE THAT SONG!
The day I was born – “You Light Up My Life” by Debby Boone. Ew.
Mine was “Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)” by Paul Revere & the Raiders.
I *think* that’s the one that goes “Cherokee peopleeeeeee, cherokee pri-hiiiiiiiiide…” I have vague memories of it.
I’d rather have Uncle Albert, myself. 🙂
July 23, 1969:
“In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) by Zager & Evans.
The most overwrought attempt at sci-fi rock & roll ever (though prog-rock fans like Rand may know a few to compete). A premise that’s been explored to better effect in about a thousand novels. Lazy rhymes that, well, don’t.
Yow.
And around about when I graduated from high school in 1987: “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” by Whitney Houston.
What’s with all the parentheticals?
Well, that was depressing. Kind of like when my mother told me that all the chatter at the hospital when I was born was about Ted Kennedy driving off the bridge at Chappaquiddick. Three days earlier, and it would’ve been the moon landing.
“Cathy’s Clown” by The Everly Brothers