September 27, 2007

• The singles chart wasn't born until Nov 1952 Ageist bastards! I wasn't born before 1952, but still!
• Everyone was couples before then.
• Frankie Laine? Jeez, I'm old. But I share my birthday with Neil Young, Booker T. Jones and Screaming Lord Sutch so that's cool.
• I like Frankie Laine! "She had a dark and a rovin' eye-eye-eye, and her hair hung down in ring-a-lets!"
• My cool credentials are confirmed: Elvis Presley - "Jailhouse Rock"
• ralph... are you my wife's twin???? me...I got Bing...
• Worse news: I'm your wife.
• *claps hands to cheeks SHOCKING!!
• Frankie laine, "I Believe" I believe for every drop of rain that falls, A flower grows, I believe that somewhere in the darkest night, A candle glows. I believe for everyone who goes astray, Someone will come to show the way. I believe, I believe. *gags slightly
• Lee Marvin - "Wand'rin' Star" LOL I couldn't make that up.
• Rawhide!
• Harry Belafonte: "Mary's Boy Child"...
• T.Rex "Get it on"....
• Awright, "Combine Harvester"! *fires up the combine harvester with her brand new key* ... Wait, what do you mean, it's just a song??
• Little Jimmy Osmond, "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool."
• The Archies - "Sugar Sugar" achtung! youtube! mrs roryk has Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Bad Moon Rising": I'm totally jealous.
• I am totally jealous of gomichild! Not only T. Rex, but "Get it On!" I got Abba's "Winner Takes it All" which I'm ok with. Now I'm sitting here jammin' out to "Fernando" wishing I was a drag queen instead of a woman.
• The Seekers - "I'll Never Find Another You" Meh...at least the #1 album was the Stones.
• Mine's not so bad - Tremoloes doing Silence is Golden
• Oh...and this is a double.
• The Number 1 single was: Slade - "Merry Xmas Everybody" The Number 1 album was: David Cassidy - "Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes" I have never heard this song. I have never heard this album. My gut tells me they're teh suck. But, I do share a birfday with Benny Andersson, so that's cool.
• Dreams are Nuthin' More than Wishes was David Cassidy's third solo album release. It was released in 1973 and produced by Rick Jarrard on Bell Records. It contains some cover versions, including John Sebastian's "Daydream" and Peggy Lee's "Fever". "Fever"? "FEVER"? This horrible creature is screaming for a remix...
• In the UK it's still not Christmas until Noddy Holder's sung, Captain. I should think 90 percent upwards of the population could give you a rendition of that single.
• I should think 90 percent upwards of the population could give you a rendition of that single. ... and weep tears of horror as they are doing so. If I never ever hear that ghastly earworm again it will be too soon. The Number 1 album was: Carpenters - "The Singles 1969-1973" Oy.
• Peggy Lee's "Fever" Surely they mean Little Willie John's "Fever".
• Mothy, you don't like The Carpenters? What's the skinny? [...] I'm sorry. Very sorry. OK, but not enough not to make the joke.
• Don McLean - "Vincent" And I've always had an affinity with Mr. van Gogh, insteresting... The top-selling album was a compilation, "20 Dynamic Hits" on K-Tel records. Wow. Times.Have.Changed.
• Oh, and I share a birthday with George Michael of all people.
• Oh...and this is a double. Well, I searched for the url and nothing came back positive...
• It looks like this is a slightly different version, with UK hits only, where the last one had US and UK number ones.
• Who are the Stargazers? What was 'I see the Moon'? This just isn't fair.
• Mine is also "Sugar, Sugar". Am I roryk's sock-puppet?
• Yes. Can you please start an argument in one of today's threads?
• It says a lot about someone who's so polite to his sock puppets.
• More T-Rex! Metal Guru! What would Mark Bolan be doing now, I wonder? Album - Rolling Stones - "Exile On Main Street" Birthdays - Kim Deal! That bloke from Then Jericho!
• Looking at the subsequent years, 10th June is BAD for music.
• Who is this Eddie Campbell from "Texas" who's also somehow from the UK who was born on my birthday?
• I think he invented soup or something.
• Ten years ago I went to a funeral where a bagpiper played Amazing Grace as the family walked out behind the casket. I hadn't been to many funerals, but it was an especially touching memorial to a wonderful father and public servant, and after hearing several humorous and flattering stories about the man, the extra sense of importance lent to the march by the bagpiper was just the right note to end the service. Afterwards I told every one of my family members that I wanted bagpipes played at my funeral. Ten years later, I haven't changed my mind. Why did I share that story? Well, I had to explain the goosebumps - the #1 single on my birthdate was the Royal Scots Dragoon Guard's Pipes & Drums version of "Amazing Grace."
• Frank Ifield - "Wayward Wind": The wayward wind is a restless wind A restless wind that yearns to wander And he was born the next of kin The next of kin to the wayward wind It figures. Naturally I've been struggling with agoraphobia most of my life. Wayward nothing, more like broken.