I’ve always enjoyed the fact that my favourite Beatles album, Abbey Road, is 2 days younger than me, but I’ve just bought Laura Nyro’s New York Tendaberry on CD and found the album was released on the day I was born.
Anybody else share a birthday with a decent record?
I was only a couple of weeks old when Tubular Bells came out, which is my stock answer for this question! There Goes Rhymin’ Simon was also out the same month.
But I’ve never thought of looking up the exact day of my birth… until now… Hawkwind: Space Ritual! Get in! Happy with that one.
Is this all a scam to sneakily gather personal data from us, Paul? 🙂 You’ll be asking for the name of our first pets next….
Not at all. But I think I might be related to your mum. What’s her maiden name?
Just googled this – Elvis Presley Love me tender was no.1 on my birthday.
Never knew that.
Well, you win that. I Love You Love was number one on mine….
Bad Moon Rising for me, but I’m not quite sure whether that is supposed to be telling me something.
Hey Jude was number 1. I like to think I was named after the song, although released in August that year
Just found this nugget:
“Working on new songs for their forthcoming ‘White Album’ The Doors came to visit The Beatles in the studio and watched them recording.”
Your real name is Fuckin’ ‘ell?
No. Why would you think that?
There are three things that, once heard, can never be unheard in Beatles songs. The edit in Strawberry Fields, the bongos on Hard Day’s Night and the ‘fuckin’ ell’ in Hey Jude. On certain days, it’s my favourite bit o’ Beatles
Never heard of that before. I looked it up, went to the 2.58 mark and you can’t hear it, can you?
Anyone would think this site was a den of Beatles obsessives.
Mind you, I did spot a young Noel Gallagher at 6.52 in this video
I can’t unhear the piano stool creaking at the end of A Day In the Life. Or indeed sometimes think, as Greil Marcus initially did, that the first album starts with the words “One-two-three-FUCK!”
John Bonham’s squeaky kick drum pedal is my favourite bit of instrumentation on Since I’ve Been Loving You. Once heard, never missed again.
The distant dog barking at the end of I Feel Fine.
Ditto, my fellow 68er. This classic was at #15 too!
I can’t find a record that was released on my birthday, however allegedly (according to the Internet) I was conceived when Doris Day was in the charts with Secret Love.
No 1 was Let’s Have a Party by Winifred Atwell.
Perry Como – Some Enchanted Evening. I am 103.
“My Bonnie” by the Beatles with Tony Sheridan was released (in the UK) the day before I was born. Hurrah!
– Mach schau!
– WAAAAAAHHHH!
– Gott in Himmel! Not zat blummink much!
That’s uncanny, Moosey. You weren’t actually at the Kaiserkeller, were you?
I only went there to fix the toilet.
Billie Holiday – Lady In Satin
Boss album.
I’ve always loved that the number one the week before I was born was Help and immediately afterwards it was I Got You Babe. Echoing my mother’s thoughts at the time I’m sure.
As much of the James Brown album Foundations of Funk was recorded in 1965, I like to think of myself and Funk as born the same year. I’m sure other versions of the birth of Funk are more widely regarded.
Mine birthday number one was Englebert Humperdick’s Please Release Me. The Beatles’ Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields was at 2, which would have been cooler but not nearly as appropriate.
This thread reminds me that Relics (I think) lists that recording dates of the Pink Floyd tracks on it, and Astronomy Domine was recorded on the day I was born.
….are you sure living wasn’t easy with eyes closed?
Closest one I could find was Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, released one day after my birthday…
Top of the Pops on my birthday was Surrender – Elvis at number one for four weeks…
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/c1d278e1df6440909feb130b32e41714?page=23
Elvis was No 1 – cracking Saturday night line on on BBC on my birth day!
The Top 5 singles on the day I crept into the world were:
Mungo Jerry – In The Summertime
Free – All Right Now
Elvis Presley – The Wonder Of You
Kinks – Lola
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Up Around The Bend
Top 5 Albums:
Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Beatles – Let It Be
Free – Fire and Water
Bob Dylan – Self Portrait
Paul McCartney – McCartney
The Stooges – Fun House is a fortnight older than me
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmos Factory is 4 days older than me
And Syd Barrett completed the last session for the Barrett album with Dave Gilmour at the controls
Mine was probably Hanson or Jedward or someone like that, I imagine.
On the day I was born, Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats (Actually Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm) were in the studio recording this nugget of treasure.
Released later in April ’51
Great record. On Chess, I think .
Oohhh I had a good week. Black Sabbaths Masters of reality and Funkadelics Maggot Brain were released. T-Rex – get it on was the Uk no1 single.
“Mother earth is pregnant for the third time….”
Sigh…UK charts didn’t start until I was 5. In the US, however…
Woah, I didn’t know they had charts during the civil war….
The number 1 singles around the date I was born tells the story of a new mother in August 1965!
I was born on the 18th when Help by The Beatles was No.1.
4 days later I Got You Babe is number 1 for two weeks.
Followed two weeks later by Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones!
CLAAAANG!!!! I was born to the sound of George’s 12 string Rickenbacker G9susblahdyblah. Well, probably. It was number one that week in July
1964, but my mum, having endured a hard night’s day, couldn’t confirm if it was playing on the radio as I emerged. My dad was miles away, buying a motorcycle, so he was no bloody use either. I like to think it was my overture
“Who’s that little old man?”
I get to claim (near enough) Aretha Franklin’s Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, released on 18 February 1964, the day before I appeared in the world and The Searchers’ Needles and Pins, which was No 1 on my birthday.
I didn’t know about the Aretha Franklin record until just now, but I am pleased because I have a real soft spot for Dinah Washington. Only this week, I picked up two of her last Fifties albums, The Swingin’ Miss “D” and What A Difference A Day Makes!
Also, Needles and Pins … what a tune!
My birthday was preceded by Anthony Newley’s Why? and followed by Adam Faith’s Poor Me. Oh dear. An inauspicious landing.
Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe (the album). 🙂
My brother told me that Somethin’ Stupid was number one when I was born because they heard I was about to arrive. It was actually Yellow Submarine.
Not a birthday, but a fun fact nonetheless: I got married on the same day as the wedding on the cover of Pulp’s Different Class.
Singles chart No. 1 was Wonderful Land by The Shadows, other heavyweights in the top 10, Elvis, Orbison and Cribbins! Elvis also had the number 1 album with Blue Hawaii. From this you can learn I will be 60 very soon 🙁
And also that my dad must have been at the height of his limited record buying years when you were born, because the Blue Hawaii album and the fantastic Wonderful Land were both in his collection, and subsequently etched on my brain, as I played all his records to death. Only the good ones, mind. Little Boxes by Pete Seeger* only got one spin, but even my dad hated that one and had no idea how it was in there.
*see also Dominique by The Singing Nun and the god awful Sally by Gerry Monroe. He also didn’t know how Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake was in a sleeve of a cheap album of Elvis covers, where the artist wasn’t even named, and hated that one, but in this instance my dad was quite wrong.
Little Boxes is a slyly subversive protest song by activist songwriter Malvina Reynolds, about the conformity of the white American middle classes. I think it’s a classic, though Pete Seeger’s version doesn’t really do it justice. A bit too “nice”.
Ughhh. We had to sing it at school. Deeply depressing, like the music from Last of the Summer Wine.
I understand.
Things that you’re made to sing at school often leave bad memories.
I’m surprised it was chosen, unless all they had you sing was the first verse.
We sang some weird shit at my school.
In the woods there grew a tree and a fine fine tree was he
and on that tree there was a limb,
and on that limb there was a branch,
and on that branch there was a nest….
And the green grass grew all around
The only things I can remember about primary school I didn’t like were the piddly little bottles of milk (which were either yoghurt or still frozen) and doing ‘Music, Mime and Movement’.
Music, Movement and Mime. I believe.
Oddly enough I recall having to be a small dinosaur running round a large lumbering dinosaur and having to swap half way through. 60 years ago!
Sorry, hubes. Hope I haven’t triggered anything.
Hopefully Gatz and myself can claim compensation from the BBC, anyone know any good lawyers…….or therapists?
Ah music and movement. I’ve been told that I was visibly upset after my first day at school and when asked why blurted, ‘We did music and movement, and I had to be a bloody leaf falling off a bloody tree!!’ I hated the milk too, to the extent that I got made a milk monitor so I could miss out my desk on my rounds. I can’t day I was thrilled about the regular use of of a leather strap to instil discipline either, if we’re doing a round up of awful things from primary school.
https://youtu.be/astCHiQRj9s
I mentioned music and movement just the other day. I think I was pretending to be a tree at the time.
We sang it at skool and all.
“Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky…”
Don’t think I’ve heard it since.
From a big book called Songs That ruin Childhoods.
Me too!! also on the same day as the Hapton Valley Colliery Disaster.
https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/accidents-disasters/lancashire/hapton-valley-colliery-explosion-burnley-1962/
Ah, but you are really old. 9 days older than me …
Lucky to have this on the air when I arrived (1959)…
Fats Domino top of the RnB charts with Blue Monday.
How does one find songs/albums released on a specific day?
@junior-wells I just Googled “albums released in February 1964” and there were various sites that came up – Years In Music, that sort of thing.
Needles and Pins being No1 also showed up in the list somewhere.
Joni’s Ladies of the Canyon.
I’ve heard worse – I share my birthday with Lou Reed, and I’ve heard Metal Machine Music.
Uncertain but I’m sure Happy Birthday was playing somewhere. Which was kind.
Mitch Miiller’s Yellow Rose of Texas – Number One for 5 weeks in and around my birthday on 06/09/1955
Workin’ for the Man Roy Orbison
with Ramblin’Rose Nat King Cole Number two both of which I am very familiar
However I have never heard any of the other songs in the top 5.
Valley Cat Bent Fabric
Swiss Maid Del Shannon
It’ll Be Me Cliff RIchard
The rest of the top forty are completely unknown to me with exceptions like The Loco-Motion, Surfin’Safari and It Might as Well Rain Until September
Apparently Judy Collins version of Send in the Clowns was a new entry at number 39. Seems apt.
I was born on a Sunday so nothing released as such, but the day after came this:-
King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa