The #1 Hit the Week You Were Born Game

[Al B. Sure!]

Go here (if you want to use your own country, I guess you can):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_(United_States)

Find the song that was the #1 hit the week you were born. Post the video of that song.


Sorry I have to start the thread off all extra star-studded strong but:




(this thread also exists to make people feel old )

[Elok]

Every Breath You Take by The Police. Too lazy to dig up the video.

[Tupac Shakur]

[Al B. Sure!]

Every Breath You Take by The Police. Too lazy to dig up the video.

Unnecessary. We all know that song.

I know it's rough trying to follow up

Spoiler:

Dan Aykroyd (The only Canadian, and one of two non-US performers)
Harry Belafonte
Lindsey Buckingham (of Fleetwood Mac)
Kim Carnes
Ray Charles
Bob Dylan
Sheila E.
Bob Geldof (The only member of Band Aid, only Irishman, and one of two non-US performers)
Hall & Oates (Daryl Hall and John Oates)
James Ingram
Jackie Jackson
La Toya Jackson
Marlon Jackson
Michael Jackson
Randy Jackson
Tito Jackson
Al Jarreau
Waylon Jennings
Billy Joel
Cyndi Lauper
Huey Lewis and the News (Sean Hopper, Bill Gibson, Johnny Colla, Mario Cipollina, and Chris Hayes)
Kenny Loggins
Bette Midler
Willie Nelson
Jeffrey Osborne
David Paich (of Toto)
Steve Perry (former lead singer of Journey)
The Pointer Sisters
Steve Porcaro (of Toto)
Lionel Richie
Smokey Robinson
Kenny Rogers
Diana Ross
Paul Simon
Bruce Springsteen
Tina Turner
Dionne Warwick
Stevie Wonder

anyway

[Elok]

Whereas we haven't all heard of We Are The World? Well, you're justifying my laziness, so I suppose I shouldn't complain.

[-Jrabbit]

Find the song that was the #1 hit the week you were born. Post the video of that song.

My date of birth precedes the actual Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, which was started in 1958. And the top single in the country the week of my birth wasn't even a song; it was a comedic satire of the show Dragnet by Stan Freberg, titled "St. George and the Dragonet." Video?

In 1951, the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses and saving the information onto magnetic tape. Ampex sold the first VTR for $50,000 in 1956.

Charles Ginsburg led the research team at Ampex Corporation in developing the first practical videotape recorder (VTR).

So you couldn't even buy a videotape recorder when I was born.

(this thread also exists to make people feel old )

I'm immune to that, but still, well done.

[Al B. Sure!]

[Aeson]

I think I win the prize for "least lyrics"

[Barnabas]

Bob Dylan's **** voice is so recognizable.

I have looked through the number 1 ranking of the past years, they suck, when was the last time a rock band had a number 1 hit in the USA? And it must have been a horrible band like Creed o perhaps Limp Bizkit a decade ago

[Elok]

Just saw this game going around some friends on Facebook...

[Barnabas]

Mine

[Al B. Sure!]

Bob Dylan's **** voice is so recognizable.

I have looked through the number 1 ranking of the past years, they suck, when was the last time a rock band had a number 1 hit in the USA? And it must have been a horrible band like Creed o perhaps Limp Bizkit a decade ago

That's cause rock blows chunks.

And the answer appears to be June 28, 2008: "Viva la Vida" Coldplay

[giblets]

Mine

I think I liked that song better before I watched that video

[Guynemer]

[SlowwHand]

Surprising to me, because I never heard of it, "Pérez Prado - Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)" . DJ's were just ending playing "Bill Hayes - Legend of Davy Crockett" and starting "Les Baxter - Unchained Melody".