what was the number one song that topped the charts in the year you were born?
1971 "joy to the world" by three dog night for me
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Goodness knows... and no that wasn't the title.
I don't know if they had "charts" in 1952, when the Big Band sound and crooning were all that the USA could offer and other countries played, and were already becoming stale, in the way of "pop" music.
Though Rock-&-Roll came along in the next few years, and I started to notice pop music in about 1962 with bands like The Beatles, Shadows and Rolling Stones.
And guess what, youngsters, they might not all have been first-rate musicians but they actually played their own instruments, and sang with their own voices, on stage!
The era when all the Colonel Blimps (Rtd.) and Mrs. Trellis of Swansea could huff and puff and waffle on Any Questions? and in Letters to The Times about these long-haired layabout beat-groups and their dreadful attempts at music.
That was all very amusing and irritating by turns to we yoof of the time, but eventually I realised our elders-&-supposedly-betters' background. They had come from an era of drab conformity, and through a dreadful war, rationing, shortages, austerity - as indeed had their own parents with WW1 and the 1930s Depression - so were probably, secretly jealous that the "youth of today" had something bright and cheerful of its very own.
I don't know if they had "charts" in 1952, when the Big Band sound and crooning were all that the USA could offer and other countries played, and were already becoming stale, in the way of "pop" music.
Though Rock-&-Roll came along in the next few years, and I started to notice pop music in about 1962 with bands like The Beatles, Shadows and Rolling Stones.
And guess what, youngsters, they might not all have been first-rate musicians but they actually played their own instruments, and sang with their own voices, on stage!
The era when all the Colonel Blimps (Rtd.) and Mrs. Trellis of Swansea could huff and puff and waffle on Any Questions? and in Letters to The Times about these long-haired layabout beat-groups and their dreadful attempts at music.
That was all very amusing and irritating by turns to we yoof of the time, but eventually I realised our elders-&-supposedly-betters' background. They had come from an era of drab conformity, and through a dreadful war, rationing, shortages, austerity - as indeed had their own parents with WW1 and the 1930s Depression - so were probably, secretly jealous that the "youth of today" had something bright and cheerful of its very own.
beermeplease · M
@ArishMell the number one single in 1952 was "blue tango" by leroy anderson
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@beermeplease Oh - I know of Leroy Anderson but not much about his music. Thankyou!
I will keep my ears open for it, as arrangements of his music are among the styles we sometimes hear on the wireless as in BBC Radio Three's Friday Night Is Music Night, live concerts.
I will keep my ears open for it, as arrangements of his music are among the styles we sometimes hear on the wireless as in BBC Radio Three's Friday Night Is Music Night, live concerts.