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Brigade du jour

20:16 / 31.01.03

Heh heh definitely the site of the week!

www.thisdayinmusic.com/cont/choose.html

It has US and UK on it, apologies to residents of other countries - but it rocks anyway!

Mine was Come Up And See Me by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. Rock on dudes!

that

20:19 / 31.01.03

linky

w1rebaby

20:55 / 31.01.03

I know this without looking - it was Space Oddity. Class.

Graeme McMillan

21:04 / 31.01.03

"Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas.

Which makes me very happy indeed.

Brigade du jour

21:23 / 31.01.03

oh yeah sorry bout the lack of link - I can type fast, but that's about the limit of my computer ability!

On my 18th birthday - No Limit by 2 Unlimited. Ouch.

Warewullf up North

22:52 / 31.01.03

You're the one that I want by John Travolta and Olivia Newton John

Grins!

Char Aina

22:56 / 31.01.03

Going Underground / Dreams Of Children by
The Jam.

also, it was the same year john lennon died, and the SAS retook th eiranian embassy.

but that wasnt really what you asked...

Murray Hamhandler

00:54 / 01.02.03

U.S. #1, September 7, 1977: "The Best Of My Love", by The Emotions.

Fucking right! I started out the same way as Boogie Nights!

alas

01:26 / 01.02.03

(damn I feel old . . . )
The Ballad of the Green Berets by
Sgt. Barry Sadler in the U.S. and

The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore by
The Walker Brothers in the UK.

Sadly, missed "These Boots are Made for Walkin'" by Nancy Sinatra by only a couple o' weeks, which has a much higher hipster factor.

Mourne Kransky

03:31 / 01.02.03

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

"Why do birds si-ing so-o gay?" hohoho...

Pat Boone is the US but not The Main Attraction, sadly, which I used to perform at family parties as a child.

Damn, I am the Ancient of Days. Should make you feel like the fresh young thing you are, alas. Nice to see you about the old homestead again. I like Americans who use the word "arse".

Cherry Bomb

07:22 / 01.02.03

Yikes. "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence (!!) of all people, and then some song called "Get Down" by Gilbert O'Sullivan in the UK. Why can't I have something cool like "Best of My Love"?

Seth

08:06 / 01.02.03

Take a Chance On Me, Abba

Goodness Gracious Meme

08:58 / 01.02.03

Mine is:

Make Me Smile (Come Up And Se Me) by Steve Harley And Cockney
Rebel.

Which I can cope with, cool song...

and would seem to be make Felicia and me twins... blimey. (unless, I guess, it was no.1 more than once.)

Goodness Gracious Meme

09:00 / 01.02.03

Nope, actually, we *are* twins, as I know that 2unlimited were no.1 on my 18th birthday.

cor!

And I'm pretty sure someone else round here has the same birthdate (but is a little younger. batardo.)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:07 / 01.02.03

Done this one before: "Coz I luv You" by Slade.

But, in the US chart, it's so much cooler:

"Theme From Shaft" by Isaac Hayes.

He's a complicated stoat
Ain't nobody understands him like his badgers...

Mourne Kransky

09:52 / 01.02.03

Cherry Bomb, the Gilbert O'Sullivan track was a powerful and moving piece, especially with Pan's People performing as dog-women to it on Top of the Pops. It was a triumph of naff:

Told you once before
And I won´t tell you no more
Get down, get down, get down
You´re a bad dog baby
But I still want you around

and repeat x5 or something...

I will sing it to you when I'm pissed (and do the accompanying pointy gestures...)

that

10:04 / 01.02.03

UK - 'The Winner Takes It All' - Abba
US - 'Magic' - Olivia Newton-John

18th birthday, UK - 'No Matter What' - Boyzone (urgh)
US - 'The Boy Is Mine' - Brandy and Monica (how inappropriate)

Jack Fear

12:08 / 01.02.03

UK #1 on 24 February 1967 was This Is My Song by Petula Clark, which delights me no end, as my love for Petula is well-known. And the song is written by Charlie Chaplin! How fucking cool is that?

#1 in my homeland, though, was Kind of a Drag by the Buckinghams. Which is, well, kind of a drag.

Persephone

14:08 / 01.02.03

Gawd, you are a granddad. U.S. #1 on 24 August 1967 was "All You Need is Love" by the Beat-Alls. U.K. #1 was "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie. Summer of Love, baby...

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:54 / 01.02.03

My UK one is 'Matchstick Men and Matchstick bastard bastard Dogs', which I knew already and is appalling.

However, in the US it was 'Night Fever' by the Bee Gees, which is perfectly respectable.

Goodness Gracious Meme

17:09 / 01.02.03

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Brigade du jour

20:17 / 01.02.03

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Check out Sean Connery singing that in the shower in The Rock. Fantastic movie moment. Nice voice actually. Quite mellifluous.

Goodness Gracious Meme

20:23 / 01.02.03

Have just realised, that it only has to be the same week, of course. Blame the GM foods....

Cosmicjamas

21:43 / 01.02.03

UK No1 was Good Luck Charm by Elvis Presley. US was Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles. Yes, I am 40. No, I am not a grandmother!!

Mazarine

21:47 / 01.02.03

US- Do That to Me One More Time, by the Captain and Tenille.
UK- Coward Of The County by Kenny Rogers.

Rev. Orr

02:56 / 02.02.03

'Merry bleedin' Christmas everybody' by Slade in the UK and the Steve Miller Band with 'The Joker' in the States. A jeans ad and a song that makes shopping torture for a month annually. I was born in darkness and unto darkness I shall return.

rizla mission

12:57 / 02.02.03

We've done this before, and thus I remember that I get "Fame" in the UK and - whoa! - "Eye of the Tiger" in the US.

I was clearly born to drown in all-consuming Generation-Y kitsch..

that

13:03 / 02.02.03

b.i.p. - doesn't necessarily even have to be the same week...if both songs were number one for more than one week...

Mazarine

13:03 / 02.02.03

Okay, having just listened to Coward of the County, I would officially like to say 'what the fuck?'

Guy Parsons

14:56 / 02.02.03

UK - Stand By Me, Ben E King
US - Livin' on a Prayer, Jon Bon Jovi

I can live.

persona_o

15:14 / 02.02.03

Sept 30th, 1981.

Endless Love by
Diana Ross and Lionel Richie

[shudders]

Jack Fear

16:03 / 02.02.03

Serves you right for being young.

Sax

17:54 / 02.02.03

I already know without checking. Two Little Boys by Rolf Sodding Harris. Now I ask you, how am I supposed to be a hero of the counter-culture with a legacy like that?

Hieronymus

18:18 / 02.02.03

Best of My Love by The Eagles

*sobs violently*

Matthew Fluxington

18:29 / 02.02.03

USA: "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer

UK: "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats.

meh.

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