My Birthday Number One Song List

Just for fun I thought it would be interesting to see what songs were #1 on the charts on my birthday each year since 1966. Here's the list:

1966 - Wild Thing - The Troggs
1967 - Light My Fire - The Doors
1968 - Hello, I Love You - The Doors
1969 - In The Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
1970 - (They Long To Be Close) To You - The Carpenters
1971 - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Bee Gee’s
1972 - Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O’Sullivan
1973 - The Morning After - (Song from the Poseidon Adventure) Maureen McGovern
1974 - Feel Like Makin' Love - Roberta Flack
1975 - Jive Talkin' - The Bee Gees
1976 - Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
1977 - I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb
1978 - Miss You - The Rolling Stones
1979 - Bad Girls - Donna Summer
1980 - Magic - Olivia Newton-John
1981 - Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
1982 - Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
1983 - Every Breath You Take - The Police
1984 - Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
1985 - Shout - Tears For Fears
1986 - The Glory Of Love - Peter Cetera
1987 - I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For - U2
1988 - Roll With It - Steve Winwood
1989 - Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
1990 - Vision Of Love - Mariah Carey
1991 - (Everthing I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
1992 - This Used To Be My Playground - Madonna
1993 - Can't Help Falling In Love - UB40
1994 - Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb
1995 - Waterfalls - TLC
1996 - Macarena - Los Del Rio
1997 - I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy and Faith Evans
1998 - The Boy Is Mine - Brandy & Monica
1999 - Genie In A Bottle - Christina Aguilera
2000 - It's Gonna Be Me - NSYNC
2001 - Bootylicious - Destinys Child
2002 - Hot In Here - Nelly
2003 - Crazy In Love - Beyonce
2004 - Slow Motion - Juvenile feat Soulja Slim

I can see exactly where it was that I started losing interest in pop music...1990. In 1999 I all about quit listening to secular music and the only reason I know what those tunes are is because it is my business.

The early eighties were my high school years, so those tunes bring back a flood on fond memories for me. The late seventies was "happy" music, when disco was king and I was the coolest person on my street because I had the soundtracks to Grease and Saturday Night Fever, still classics today.

In the early seventies I was quite young, but I do remember some of those songs because my grandma and my parents would often put a small AM transistor radio under my pillow, especially during thunderstorms, to help me calm down enough to sleep. I think my grandparents always had those transistor radios at the bedside, with those earpieces to listen, or they would tuck the radio under the pillow. Ah, a memory.

I don't really remember those late sixties songs because I was too young at the time to care, but it is obvious that most of those because rock music classics and will be heard often even today.

Amazing how music permeates our lives.