What was No1 in the Music Charts

[blues_r_best]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Mar. 12 2004,15:45)]

Quote[/b] (blues_r_best @ Mar. 12 2004,15:39)]The Number 1 album was:
Various artist compilation (EMI/Virgin) - "Now, That's What I Call Music 8"

Cripes... I bought that album with my own paper-round money - and you'd only just been born!

Matt

P.S. Actually, maybe I got it for Xmas!

You had just turned 13 when I was born.

Old Git

 

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Four eyes

 

[steveh1510]

Quote[/b] (blues_r_best @ Mar. 12 2004,15:48)]Ginger

bread man?

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (blues_r_best @ Mar. 12 2004,15:50)]You had just turned 13 when I was born.

Old Git

Young scallywag!

Matt

 

[blues_r_best]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Mar. 12 2004,16:00)]

Quote[/b] (blues_r_best @ Mar. 12 2004,15:50)]You had just turned 13 when I was born.

Old Git

Young scallywag!

Matt

 

[MrB]

Quote[/b] (The General @ Mar. 12 2004,14:41)]The Number 1 album was:
Genesis - "Invisible Touch"

Oh cr*p, I bought that when it was released!

On 2nd Jun 1975 ...

The Number 1 single was:
Windsor Davies & Don Estelle - "Whispering Grass"

The Number 1 album was:
Stylistics - "The Best Of The Stylistics"

Born on 2nd Jun:
1941 - Charlie Watts ( drummer, The Rolling Stones )
1941 - William Guest ( The Pips )
1950 - Chubby Tavares ( Tavares )
1960 - Tony Hadley ( vocalist, Spandau Ballet )
1970 - B-Real ( real name Louis Freeze; vocalist, Cypress Hill )

 

[Ron Manager]

On 7th Feb 1974 ...

The Number 1 single was:
Mud - "Tiger Feet"


The Number 1 album was:
Carpenters - "The Singles 1969-1973"


Born on 7th Feb:
1924 - Dora Bryan
1960 - Steve Bronski ( keyboard player, Bronski Beat )
1962 - David Bryan ( keyboard player, Bon Jovi )
1962 - Garth Brooks ( country singer, full name Troyal Garth Brooks )
1974 - Danny Goffey ( drummer, Supergrass )

So I share the exact birthday with the guy from Supergrass! (ie same year)

 

[The Fitter]

On 11th Oct 1970 ...

The Number 1 single was:
Freda Payne - "Band Of Gold"


The Number 1 album was:
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"


Born on 11th Oct:
1946 - Gary Mallaber ( drummer, The Steve Miller Band )
1949 - Daryl Hall ( or Hall And Oates )
1950 - Andrew Woolfolk ( saxophone, Earth Wind and Fire )
1957 - Blair Cunningham ( drummer, Haircut 100 )

 

[TaffyBlue]

On 22nd Nov 1974 ...

The Number 1 single was:
David Essex - "Gonna Make You A Star"


The Number 1 album was:
Elton John - "Elton John's Greatest Hits"


Born on 22nd Nov:
1949 - Steve Van Zandt ( guitarist, South Side Johnny / E Street Band )
1950 - Tina Weymouth ( bassist, Talking Heads )
1960 - Jim Bob ( real name James Morrison; vocalist/guitarist Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine )
1968 - Rasa Don ( percussionist, Arrested Development )
1979 - Scott Robinson ( vocalist, 5ive )

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (MrB @ Mar. 12 2004,16:33)]On 2nd Jun 1975 ...

The Number 1 single was:
Windsor Davies & Don Estelle - "Whispering Grass"  

I once sat opposite Windsor Davies on a tube. Even though you couldn't hear what he was saying, you could still hear that he was saying it with that unmistakable deep Welsh rumble of his.

Every single person in the carriage (since we were all over 25) was ****ing themselves laughing!

I wonder whether anyone under 25 (*) has the faintest idea of who Windsor Davies is...

Matt

(*Apart from MF, who would be white-haired were he not ginger...)

 

[McScriven]

On 6th Jul 1984 ...

The Number 1 single was:
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "Two Tribes"


The Number 1 album was:
Bob Marley & The Wailers - "Legend - The Best Of Bob Marley & The Wailers"


Born on 6th Jul:
1925 - William John Clifton Haley ( better known as Bill Haley; deceased )
1939 - Jet Harris ( guitarist, The Shadows )
1954 - Nanci Griffith
1965 - Eddie Campbell ( keyboard player, Texas )

 

[McScriven]

And Mrs McScriv's:

On 22nd May 1980 ...

The Number 1 single was:
Johnny Logan - "What's Another Year"


The Number 1 album was:
Boney M - "The Magic Of Boney M"


Born on 22nd May:
1924 - Charles Aznavour
1931 - Kenny Ball ( trumpeter & vocalist, Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen )
1950 - Bernie Taupin ( co-writer of many of Elton John's hits. )
1955 - Mary Black
1959 - Morrissey ( full name Steven Morrissey; vocalist, The Smiths )
1967 - Dan Roberts ( bassist, Crash Test Dummies )

 

[Kenny]

Travolta must have been in his prime when I was dropped -


On 9th Jul 1978 ...

The Number 1 single was:
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - "You're The One That I Want"


The Number 1 album was:
Original Soundtrack - "Saturday Night Fever"


Born on 9th Jul:
1946 - Bon Scott ( real name Ronald Belford; vocalist, AC/DC; deceased )
1950 - Gwen Guthrie ( deceased )
1954 - Debbie Sledge ( of Sister Sledge )
1959 - Jim Kerr ( vocalist, Simple Minds )
1959 - Marc Almond ( vocalist Soft Cell )
1964 - Courtney Love ( guitarist, vocalist, Babes In Toyland / Hole, married Nirvana's Kurt Cobain on 24th Feb 1992 )
1967 - d**kon Hinchcliffe ( guitarist, violin, Tindersticks )

 

[Alexis_SUFC]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Mar. 12 2004,18:33)]I wonder whether anyone under 25 (*) has the faintest idea of who Windsor Davies is...

This is just a guess, but did he have a number one song on the 2nd June 1975, called "Whispering Grass" with Don Estelle???

Alexis

 

[Kenny]

Quote[/b] (Alexis_SUFC @ Mar. 12 2004,19:50)]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Mar. 12 2004,18:33)]I wonder whether anyone under 25 (*) has the faintest idea of who Windsor Davies is...

This is just a guess, but did he have a number one song on the 2nd June 1975, called "Whispering Grass" with Don Estelle???

Alexis

I'm guessing that song must have had something to with "It Ain't Alf Hot Mum" which was the big BBC sitcom at the MtS was born.

From my childhood I remember Windsor Davies as the voice of the head bot in Terrahawks!

 

[Alexis_SUFC]

On 8th Aug 1987 ...

The Number 1 single was:
Los Lobos - "La Bamba"


The Number 1 album was:
Various artist compilation (CBS/WEA) - "Hits 6"


Born on 8th Aug:
1923 - Jimmy Witherspoon
1942 - John David ( of Dr Hook )
1950 - Andy Fairweather-Low ( vocalist; solo and with Amen Corner )
1961 - The Edge ( real name Dave Evans; guitarist, U2 )
1974 - Brian Harvey ( vocalist; solo and with East 17 )
1976 - Joshua Chasez ( N SYNC )
1981 - Bradley McIntosh ( vocalist, S Club 7 )

 

[blues_r_best]

Quote[/b] (Alexis_SUFC @ Mar. 12 2004,19:50)]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Mar. 12 2004,18:33)]I wonder whether anyone under 25 (*) has the faintest idea of who Windsor Davies is...

This is just a guess, but did he have a number one song on the 2nd June 1975, called "Whispering Grass" with Don Estelle???

Alexis

Didn't they also have a song called Sing Lofty.

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Surrey Blue @ Mar. 12 2004,14:21)]The Number 1 single was:
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)"

Classic song...

Alas it was a Jim Reeves and "Those Distant drums" on my birthday...many moons ago.
I share a birthday with Marc Bolan, which is nice.  

 We were also both born on a full moon.... which explains a lot...

...and on reading some of the fellow Shrimperzoners birthdate chart toppers...I feel incredibly old...a right old fogey...why can't you play football round your own areas?

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Well mine is:

On 20th Jun 1983 ...

The Number 1 single was:
The Police - "Every Breath You Take"


The Number 1 album was:
Police - "Synchronicity"


Born on 20th Jun:
1937 - Jerry Keller
1942 - Brian Wilson ( vocalist, The Beach Boys )
1946 - Anne Murray
1949 - Lionel Richie ( vocalist, keyboard player; solo and with The Commodores )
1960 - John Taylor ( bassist, Duran Duran )
1979 - Charlotte Hatherley ( guitarist, Night Nurse / Ash )

 

[Guest]

What are all you young people doing up at this time of day and playing with computers, don't your parents have any control over you!!


Feeling a sad old git after reading this thread. Not only can I remember all these songs but I have probably got half of them in my record collection which now resides in the loft!