Favorite song from the year of your birth?

[dorktv]

Mine is "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.

[Heidi]

1. Bob Dylan: "Masters of War."

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Either 'Blue Suede Shoes' (Carl Perkins)

or "Long Tall Sally" (Little Richard).

Yeah. I'm old. Deal with it. :P

[dorktv]

3. well I was born in 1979 so I am old too.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. I got shoelaces older'n that

:eyes:

[dorktv]

5. sure you.........

do not!

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Wanna c'mere

and sniff 'em?

[dorktv]

35. Can I just...

stay here in AZ and work on getting this state blue instead?

[Left Is Write]

23. "I was born in 1979 so I am old too"

I'm sorry, that does not compute.

[dorktv]

36. Now adays you are old if you are over 23.

[Left Is Write]

38. Nope - as someone almost 40, I can't agree.

I am not even old. My husband just turned 32, which seems terribly young to me.

So, no, can't agree that "over 23" equals old, nowadays or ever. (Though I have a truth for you - pretty much all of us over 30 used to think we were "old" when we were really quite young also.)

[Nikia]

43. That's funny for a couple of reasons

1. People live longer than they did in the past.
2. People marry later on average.
3. More women are having babies in their late 30's and 40's, some their first babies.
4. People tended to be more likely to be out on their own and established in their early twenties in the past than they are now.
If you are old in your twenties, you might be old for 75% of your life.

[dorktv]

51. I do not know why...but everyone tells me I am old at 26.

[Bassic]

25. Me too, but anything below 30 isn't old yet.

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

53. Hey! For me, anything under 40 isn't old yet!

:grr: ;) :hi:

[Bassic]

57. And I'll join your point of view in a little less than 3 years.

;) :hi:

[lady raven]

7. Elton John, "Rocket Man"

1972

[FarLeftRage]

8. "Tequilla"

By The Champs... yes, I'm that old. 1958!!

[Rowdyboy]

9. very grim selection.....1954 was NOT a good year for music...Best I can do

is Eddie Fisher and "Oh, My Papa", Dean Martin and "That's Amore" and "3 Coins in the Fountain" by the 4 Aces.....

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. "That's Amore" is AWESOME!!!

:hi: :hi:

[Betsy Ross]

50. I was thinking of That's Amore

But if I remember it from about the age of three, it might have been popular then.

[yellowdogintexas]

90. The DJ played that for my niece to dance with her grandfather

at her wedding. He is 100% Italian, (she is only half) and it was just the sweetest thing!

[Bullwinkle925]

87. I would say a good year for songwriting.

Love them all.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. Prince's "Dirty Mind."

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Layla"

:hi: 1970

[Call Me Wesley]

13. Frank Sinatra,

"Strangers In The Night." Just because of the lyrics.

[MissMillie]

14. The Beatles came ot America the year I was born

so... too many to choose from!

[seemunkee]

15. Great Balls of Fire

Got to go with my namesake

[azmouse]

16. The Way You Look Tonight

The Way You Look Tonight
The Lettermen

Someday,
When I'm feeling low,
And the world is cold;
I will feel aglow just thinking of you,
And the way you look tonight.

You're lovely
With you smile so warm,
And you cheeks so soft;
There is nothing for me but to love you
Just the way you look tonight.

With each word, your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fears apart.
And your laugh that wrinkles your nose,
Touches my foolish heart.

You're lovely,
And never, never change,
Keep that breathless charm
Won't you please
Arrange it 'cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight.
The way you look tonight.

[Bridget Burke]

17. 1948 was not a great year (Thanks, Wikipedia!)

Was "Nature Boy" a great song? Well, it was when Nat King Cole sang it.

"Cool Water" & "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" by the Sons of the Pioneers are pretty fine for those of us who follow The Cowboy Way.

"Kiss Me Kate" had some decent songs by Cole Porter....

[gollygee]

70. Wunderbar!

thanks for the earworm :D

LOL

[windlight]

18. Brandy (You're A Fine Girl ) by Looking Glass

1972... I do enjoy the song as well...:)

[miss_american_pie]

19. What was wrong with people in 1977?

"You Light up my Life" Debbie Boone

[Left Is Write]

21. What?! You picked that over "Dancing Queen"?

[miss_american_pie]

24. Not me

Wikipedia said it was the best-selling song of 1977.

I would have gone with "Dreams." ;)

[Left Is Write]

20. "Summer In The City"

[ghostsofgiants]

22. Probably Hüsker Dü's "Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill" (1985)

Or something else from "New Day Rising." (I originally said the title track, but I was listening to the album and changed my mind, haah.)

[enigmatic]

88. "Celebrated Summer"

That album ruled my life in 1985; between "Celebrated Summer" and the 45 of their cover of "Eight Miles High", I drove bandmates, friends, and anybody else around insane from playing it so much..

[ChickMagic]

26. Ballad of Davy Crockett

I'm a September baby and always thought I was
conceived in love and thoughtfulness. Then I realized
that they had a rockin' New Year's Eve and boinked
to the Ballad of Davy Crockett. Sometimes I think
Dad should have worn his coonskin cap.

[kwassa]

27. When I was born, music hadn't been invented yet.

[Bullwinkle925]

86. Come on now - I 'fessed up - you can too.

[Parrcrow]

28. Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles

#1 the day I was born!:applause:

[tigereye]

29. wow there were a lot of classic r and r tunes

Johnny Be Goode - Chuck Berry
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Rave On; Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly
Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard
All I Have to Do is Dream - Everly Brothers
Yakety Yak - The Coasters
Book of Love - The Monotones
Little Star - The Elegants

not a bad list, eh?

well, for those of us who love our rock and roll history, anyway.

[LSK]

30. i dont know what songs are from 1972

[DBoon]

46. I think Bowie did Ziggy Stardust that year

nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

31. Song of Solomon

[mtowngman]

32. Beethoven's fifth symphony n/t

[kwassa]

33. Hound Dog" - Big Mama Thornton

"Jambalaya (On The Bayou)" - Hank Williams
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" - Lloyd Price
"Midnight Special" - Weavers
"Night Train" - Jimmy Forrest
"Wimoweh" - Weavers
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" - Kitty Wells

[ksilvas]

34. The Doors "Not to touch the Earth" from Waiting for the Sun , 1968

Not To Touch The Earth

Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Let's run
Let's run

House upon the hill
Moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees
Witnessing the wild breeze
C'mon baby run with me
Let's run

Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run

The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing till you get inside

Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
The engine runs on glue and tar
Come on along, not goin' very far
To the East to meet the Czar

Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run

Whoa!

Some outlaws lived by the side of a lake
The minister's daughter's in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl, we're almost home

Ya, c'mon!

We should see the gates by mornin'
We should be inside the evenin'

Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
I will get you
Soon!
Soon!
Soon!

I am the Lizard King
I can do anything

[TallahasseeGrannie]

37. My Foolish Heart

[Initech]

39. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast (1980)

:headbang:

[Left_Winger]

40. Smoke gets in your eyes - the Platters

[WritingIsMyReligion]

41. Oh, I don't know....

I really (read: REALLY!) like Bonnie Raitt's "Something to Talk About" and "I Can't Make You Love Me." The album, Luck of the Draw, was released in the year of my birth (1991), though I don't know if the songs were.

[Nikia]

42. Carry on My Wayward Son by Kansas

There really aren't a lot of good songs to choose from in 1977. We played that song in high school marching band and I always liked it.

[dorktv]

48. Kansas is cool

[Spider Jerusalem]

44. Iggy Pop, "The Passenger"

or David Bowie, "Breaking Glass" or "Sound and Vision"

or Talking Heads, "Psycho Killer"

I can't really decide...1977 was a pretty good year for music, despite the growing popularity of disco...

[DBoon]

45. Rumble, Link Wray

yes I am that old....

[brook]

47. Stormy Weather.

also: "We're in the Money".

[Hardrada]

49. There Goes That Song Again

We used to call it Our Serenade.
We fell in love when we heard it played
Over and over
And over and over again.


1944

[ET Awful]

52. Something off Crosby, Stills & Nash's first album (1969)

Maybe "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", but the whole album was excellent.

[khashka]

54. Donovan - Sunshine Superman

Great song, although parts of it offend my militant feminist sesnibilities.

Khash.

[TyeDye75]

55. Panic by the Smiths

[gollygee]

67. Ack! Are you joking!?

God I'm old.

[hyphenate]

56. I don't particularly like the music from the year I was born

but it was the beginning of "rock and roll" as it's defined today. Elvis, Fats Domino, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and such others ruled for the most part. If I had to pick one song, it is difficult, because really none of it is thrilling to me. I suppose I can pick Elvis with "Love Me Tender" though it's not really much more than one that doesn't suck as much as the others.

I found the list on a website that shows the top songs and other stuff from the 1950s:

http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_songs50-69.html

[DanCa]

58. In the year 25-25

I can't remember who sang it right now . I just got up.

[windlight]

59. Zager and Evans - the one hit wonder

that they never wanted to be a one hit wonder group..:)

[Burma Jones]

60. "What'd I Say" - Ray Charles

"La Bamba" - Ritchie Valens
"Mack The Knife" - Bobby Darin
"Sea Cruise" - Frankie Ford
"Since I Don't Have You" - The Skyliners

1959 was the year Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash.....

[nutsnberries]

61. I realized I couldn't name a single song from the year of my birth

so I checked.

Here are a few good ones from 1962

Twist & Shout (the Isley Bros)
Loco-Motion (Little Eva)
Monster Mash (Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers)
Town Without Pity (Gene Pitney)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (The Tokens)
Can't Help Falling In Love (Elvis Presley)
You Don't Know Me (Ray Charles)

http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Tbl1962.html

[nutsnberries]

64. if i had posted that a few minutes later, i could have

had reply #62 for my tunes from '62 and that would have been *way cool*.
oh well. some of those songs were probably written in '61 and came out in '62,
just like me.

there. i feel better. :)

[Love Bug]

62. "Shake, Rattle and Roll" by Bill Haley and the Comets - 1954

This came out one year before their most famous song, "Rock Around the Clock"

[2bfree]

63. House Of The Rising Sun

Or Pretty Woman!

[dorktv]

72. I am so green with envy...I love that song!

[martymar64]

65. I Get Around - Beach Boys

1964

[dorktv]

83. I always see that opening seen from Look Who's Talking when I hear

that song

[Withywindle]

66. Hard choice, but...

Let's go with "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones.

It was a great year for music, but if I have to pick only one, that's it.


Other close contenders include "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker, "Bad Moon Rising" by CCR, "Meet On the Ledge" by Fairport Convention, "Victoria" by the Kinks, "What Goes On" by the Velvet Underground, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by Iggy & the Stooges...

[gollygee]

68. Crimson and Clover

by Tommy James and the Shondells, who coincidentally are from not far from here.

[AngryAmish]

69. Walk This Way by Run-DMC

[skygazer]

71. Stand By Me

Ben E. King. Great song - didn't know it was released the year I was born.

edited to add - and that year was 1961. You get this old, your memory starts to go.

[fishwax]

73. Wish You Were Here

by (the) pink floyd

[leftofthedial]

74. "Rock Around the Clock"

BIll Haley and the Comets

[DainBramaged]

75. Music truly sucked when I was born. Maybe Duck and Cover

[KitchenWitch]

76. "House of the Rising Sun" - The Animals.

[misanthrope]

77. Anything from "A Love Supreme"**nm

*

[njdemocrat106]

78. "Sometimes a Fantasy" by Billy Joel - 1980

BTW, this is pretty good site for those who don't know what songs were on the charts in their birth year:

http://www.ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/top40/index.html

[gemini_liberal]

79. New Order - Blue Monday (1983)

One of the greatest songs ever, IMO.

[In_The_Wind]

80. I think I've only heard a few of the ones on this list:

1. I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover - Art Mooney
2. Bumble Boogie - Freddy Martin
3. Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
4. Twelfth Street Rag - Pee Wee Hunt
5. :redbox: I've Got My Love To keep Me Warm - Les Brown
6. Love Somebody - Doris Day & Buddy Clark
7. It's Magic - Doris Day
8. Manana (Is Soon Enough For Me) - Peggy Lee
9. Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
10. All I Want For Christmas is my Two Front Teeth - Spike Jones
11. Now Is The Hour - Bing Crosby
12. You Can't Be True, Dear - Ken Griffin
13. Woody Woodpecker - Kay Kyser
14. You Call Everybody Darlin' - Al Trace
15. A Tree In The Meadow - Margaret Whiting
16.:redbox: Honky tonkin' 1948 Hank Williams ML BES
17. Hooray for love (from Casbah) 1948 Leo Robin, Harold Arlen



:redbox: marks the ones I like the best

[donheld]

81. DREAM LOVER - Bobby Darin

[arwalden]

82. I Can't Recall The Last Time That A DU Thread Made Me Feel So OLD!

[dorktv]

84. sowwy.

[Bullwinkle925]

85. "Some Enchanted Evening" by Perry Como

OKAY - I KNOW I'M OLD. Someday, you will be too!

[6000eliot]

89. "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" by The Platters

I also love "Come Softly to Me" by The Fleetwoods and "Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darin.