Monday, August 4, 2008

NUMBER ONE SONG THE YEAR YOU WERE BORN

1979 Le Freak by Chic was the number one song when Ryen was born, Bud's year it was Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head by BJ Thomas. For Rachel, It was The Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.

When I mentioned to my sweet Thomas that Shirley's song was The Tennessee Waltz by Patti Page, he told me that was his favorite song and his sister broke the recond on purpose.

For all of us that were born in 1944; Paper Doll by the Mills Brothers was number one.

1911 Play that Barber Shop Chord Lloyd Anderson
1914 Peg O My Heart Stanley Ranum
1915 Its a long way to Tipperary Ella Rye
1922 Wabash Blues Ella Lundberg

We may not play an instrument but songs are part of our life. Old Trunks wonders if the teenage years are when we learn the most songs.

Where do you begin with popular music and after decades, do you have NEW favorite?

.........did you hear it through the grapevine?

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y Patti Page1950 ... "I Can Dream, Can't I?" by The Andrews SistersTHE 1940s1949 ... "A Little Bird Told Me" by Evelyn Knight1948 ... "Ballerina" by Vaughn Monroe1947 ... "The Old Lamp-Lighter" by Sammy Kaye1946 ... "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" by Vaughn Monroe1945 ... "Don't Fence Me In" by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters1944 ... "Paper Doll" by The Mills Brothers1943 ... "There Are Such Things" by Tommy Dorsey1942 ... "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Glenn Miller1941 ... "Frenesi" by Artie Shaw1940 ... "Scatter-Brain" by Frankie MastersTHE 1930s1939 ... "Jeepers Creepers" by Al Donohue1938 ... "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" by The Andrews Sisters1937 ... "Pennies from Heaven" by Bing Crosby1936 ... "The Music Goes Round and Round" by Riley-Farley Orchestra1935 ... "The Object of My Affection" by The Boswell Sisters1934 ... "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by Paul Whiteman1933 ... "Night and Day" by Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman1932 ... "River, Stay 'Way from My Door" by Kate Smith with Guy Lombardo1931 ... "The Peanut Vendor" by Don Azpiazu1930 ... "Chant of the Jungle" by Roy Ingraham
THE 1920s
1929 ... "Sweethearts on Parade" by Guy Lombardo1928 ... "My Blue Heaven" by Gene Austin1927 ... "In a Little Spanish Town" by Paul Whiteman1926 ... "The Prisoner's Song" by Vernon Dalhart1925 ... "All Alone" by Al Jolson1924 ... "Charleston" by Arthur Gibbs1923 ... "Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo'bye)" by Al Jolson1922 ... "Wabash Blues" by Isham Jones1921 ... "Whispering" by Paul Whiteman1920 ... "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now" by Al Jolson
THE 1910s
1919 ... "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?" by Bert Williams1918 ... "Send Me Away with a Smile" by John McCormack1917 ... "The Sunshine of Your Smile" by John McCormack1916 ... "There's a Long, Long Trail" by James F. Harrison & James Reed1915 ... "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" by John McCormack1914 ... "Peg O' My Heart" by Charles Harrison1913 ... "Row! Row! Row!" by Ada Jones1912 ... "Down by the Old Mill Stream" by Harry MacDonough1911 ... "Play That Barber-Shop Chord" by Bert Williams1910 ... "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet" by Haydn Quartet

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