I score "I'll take you there" by the Staples Singers in the U.S chart and a very cool "Metal Guru" by T-Rex in the UK chart. Pleased about that one....
Has this been on Barbelith before, it's just that I thought I'd replied to this awhile back but there's nothing from me here? Maybe this is a glitch in the Barbemainframe? This proves that your all just lines of HTML and Flash programs!
The one you want to check out is the one for NINE MONTHS PREVIOUS, so you can find out what was playing in the background as you shot out of your daddy's nuts:
Moi:
19 Dec 1967:
UK = The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
US = The Monkees - Daydream Believer
19 Sep 1968:
UK = The Beatles - Hey Jude
US = The Rascals - People Got to be Free)
My parents were getting down to it to Reach Out I'll Be There (suitably enough) and it would have been Last Train to Clarksville had I been conceived in the USA. When I was born, similar vintage to Grandpas Jack and Saveloy and Grandma Persephone, Whiter Shade of Pale was #1 in the UK and Windy by The Association in the US. Never heard of Windy before, but it seems to contain the classic line "Who's bending down to give me a rainbow?"
Heh heh heh. The video for that probably was responsible for a lot of tiny Rizlas and Rizlettes. I remember when it was on Top of the Pops my mum was moved to screw up her face and spit: "dissss-GUST-ing..." at the screen and shake her head at the general moral decline. Mind you, she thought the Osmonds were "vulgar". She liked Topol.
Had my folks been making the beast of two backs (no, please, no, don't make me imagine that...) in an American locale, I would have been conceived to the romantic threnody of Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing. Good tune, great movie, opera redux!
