Sunshine on my shoulders
Jun. 10th, 2009 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyA few years ago someone gave me one of those birthday cards that has a CD of songs from your birth year attached. It's great, all glam and glitter: T.Rex, Suzi Quatro, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, and, erm, Slade. However, I can't help but think it's slightly misleading. We were playing with this at work today: what was the US number one song on the day you were born? Mine was 'Sunshine on my Shoulders' by John Denver. It could have been worse. A month earlier and it would have been 'Seasons in the Sun'. Not much glam or glitter to be had there. (If I'd been born in 1899, the number one would have been that old toe-tapper, 'I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby' by Arthur Collins. Hasn't that lived on?)
In Australia on the same date, it was 'My Coo Ca Choo' by Alvin Stardust and in the UK it was 'Billy, Don't Be A Hero' by Paper Lace. What a wonderful musical world I was born into. How about you?
In Australia on the same date, it was 'My Coo Ca Choo' by Alvin Stardust and in the UK it was 'Billy, Don't Be A Hero' by Paper Lace. What a wonderful musical world I was born into. How about you?