Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge over at Genea Musings is to look up the #1 songs for the important days in our lives.
Here are some of mine:
Day I was born:
I Want To Hold Your Hand by the Beatles
Day I went to Kindergarten:
Honky Tonk Woman by the Rolling Stones
Day I entered Junior High:
Best of My Love by the Emotions
Day I entered High School:
Grease by Frankie Valli
Day I graduated High School:
Ebony and Ivory by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
Day I turned 21:
I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreinger
Day I became an Aunt for the first time:
Nothins Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship
Day I turned 30:
All For Love by Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart
Day I started my website, YourIslandRoutes.com:
Fallin’ by Alicia Keys
Day I turned 40:
Hey Yeah by Outkast
I can’t say that many of those are my favorite songs. I did find it interesting that I still like every song that was #1 on my first 9 birthdays:
1973 Crocodile Rock Elton John
1972 American Pie Don McLean
1971 Knock Three Times Dawn
1970 I Want You Back The Jackson 5
1969 Crimson & Clover Tommy James & the Shondells
1968 Green Tambourine The Lemon Pipers
1967 I’m a Believer The Monkees
1966 We Can Work It Out
1965 Downtown Petula Clark
Now to have some more fun…
The number one song the day my Grandma Shellabarger was born (24 Sep 1912): “I Love You Truly” by Elsie Baker
The number one song the day my Grandpa Pacheco Smith was born (28 Mar 1907): “My Gal Sal” by Byron G. Harlan
The number one song the day my Grandma Lassalle was born (17 Oct 1897): “There’s A Little Shining Star For You” by Dan Quinn
The list doesn’t go back to 1888, so I can’t get my Grandpa Lassalle.
…My Mom: “The Way You Look Tonight?” by Fred Astaire
…My Dad: “Some of These Days” by Sophie Tucker
I tried to find the recordings of my Grandparents. The only one I could find was “I Love You Truly” by Elsie Baker. It seems very familiar. It must have been used in the movies of the 1930s. If you’d like to hear the song, you can listen to it by clicking on “stream” from this link at archive.org.
That was a fun trip down memory lane!