View Full Version : What was No.1 when you were born?
Mine was:
Title: TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE
Artist: MARTI WEBB
Check out link to find your own
http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/number_one
Pauro 76
09/05/2006, 3:26 PM
Title: DANCING QUEEN
Artist: ABBA
Lovely. :rolleyes:
Title: WHEN I NEED YOU
Artist: LEO SAYER
Same in UK and Irish charts
John83
09/05/2006, 3:48 PM
Title: TRUE
Artist: SPANDAU BALLET
Drumcondra Red
09/05/2006, 3:55 PM
Imagine, John Lennon
pineapple stu
09/05/2006, 4:41 PM
Title: VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR
Artist: BUGGLES
strangeirish
09/05/2006, 4:48 PM
Title: TRUE
Artist: SPANDAU BALLET
Sorry John83, but I'd be getting a new birth cert.:D Just kidding.
Title: NEEDLES & PINS
Artist: SEARCHERS
:cool:
Schumi
09/05/2006, 4:51 PM
Title: COWARD OF THE COUNTRY
Artist: KENNY ROGERS
I've googled the lyrics and they're only brutal. :eek:
Anto McC
09/05/2006, 4:52 PM
Title: FREEDOM
Artist: WHAM!!
$Leon$
09/05/2006, 4:54 PM
Title: Radio Ga Ga
Artist: Queen
Title: TIE A YELLOW RIBBON
Artist: DAWN
Title: BORDERLINE
Artist: MADONNA
aberharp
09/05/2006, 6:39 PM
title: dancing in the street
artist: david bowie and mick jagger
Babysis
09/05/2006, 7:27 PM
Title: FAME
Artist: IRENE CARA
superfrank
09/05/2006, 8:01 PM
Tiffany- Could've been
Never heard this song....
I predate the Irish charts. British No 1 was:
Ricky Valance
Tell Laura I love her.
Defy anyone to predate that!
gustavo
09/05/2006, 9:16 PM
Title: IT'S MY PARTY
Artist: DAVE STEWART/BARBARA GASKIN
I predate the Irish charts. British No 1 was:
Ricky Valance
Tell Laura I love her.
Defy anyone to predate that!
Hamish to thread!
Hamish to thread!
Title: TEENAGE RAMPAGE
Artist: SWEET
I did the British charts version before and it was Mud - Tiger Feet. Glamtastic!
cullenswood
10/05/2006, 7:48 AM
Artist: ABBA
Title: KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU
a-haaaa
Title: THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN
Artist: SHOWADDYWADDY
Dublin12
10/05/2006, 8:57 AM
Yellow Submarine -The Beatles
Lionel Ritchie
10/05/2006, 9:05 AM
I believe it was 'Cum On Feel The Noize' by Slade.
Plastic Paddy
10/05/2006, 9:09 AM
"Maggie May" by Rod Stewart for me. Classic. :D
:ball: PP
tetsujin1979
10/05/2006, 9:56 AM
Title: VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR
Artist: BUGGLES
Ditto, 27th October 1979
superfrank
10/05/2006, 10:00 AM
Artist: ABBA
Title: KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU
a-haaaa
Is your name Alan?
Magicme
10/05/2006, 10:30 AM
Title: YOUNG LOVE
Artist: DONNY OSMOND
God some of u r so young I remember dancing to the songs u mention at (kid) discos! Dam I am old.
Terry
10/05/2006, 10:44 AM
God some of u r so young I remember dancing to the songs u mention at (kid) discos! Dam I am old.
Which songs were them?:)
Block G Raptor
10/05/2006, 11:11 AM
NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Summer lovin' by John Travolta and Olivia newton John YUCCCCCK
drinkfeckarse
10/05/2006, 11:13 AM
Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell. Makes me feel old now....
Aberdonian Stu
10/05/2006, 11:17 AM
Kids in America by Kim Wilde
Duffer
10/05/2006, 11:20 AM
Blondie: Sunday Girl
Actually I was born on a Sunday.............my hair is blond ..............and I'm a girl :eek: this has to be some sort of weird coincidence!!!
joeSoap
10/05/2006, 11:28 AM
Title: LONELY WOODS OF UPTON
Artist: SEAN DUNPHY
joeSoap
10/05/2006, 11:32 AM
Where Do You Go to my Lovely
Pater Sandsted
A little better than Sean Dunphy...:eek:
http://www.theofficialcharts.com/all_the_no1_songs.php
PaulB
10/05/2006, 11:43 AM
Title: BLACK VELVET BAND
Artist: JOHNNY KELLY
Magicme
10/05/2006, 11:43 AM
Which songs were them?:)
To name but a few.....
True - Spandau Ballet
Freedom - Wham
Radio Gaa Gaa - Queen (I feckin hate Queen & that poxy song is the worst)
Borderline - Madonna
Dancing in the Streets - Bowie & Jagger
Fame - Irene Cara
See what I mean! I was wearing my slip on kitten heels and trying to be all growed up dancing to that muck at the Monaghan Phoenix Athletic Club discos while most of this thread were breathing their first breath!
Am gonna have to go lie down now....all this nostalgia has made me feel faint.
Magicme
10/05/2006, 11:44 AM
had my first slow dance to True....aw hows romantic it was being 6 yrs old and fancying a 9 yr old!
Marked Man
10/05/2006, 12:25 PM
The Irish record-buying public is not exactly being shown in a favorable light here...
The Irish record-buying public is not exactly being shown in a favorable light here...
Westlife ....enough said
Title: MY SWEET LORD
Artist: GEORGE HARRISON
My Sweet Lord Indeed.
Metrostars
10/05/2006, 3:28 PM
jaysus
Title: LONELY WOODS OF UPTON
Artist: SEAN DUNPHY
I prefer the UK charts better:
Marvin Gaye
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
http://www.theofficialcharts.com/all_the_no1_songs.php?show=2
Drumcondra Red
10/05/2006, 4:07 PM
Ah you're not that old magic, sure I'm only 3-4 years behind you, oh god, now I'm old!!!
EDIT! Sorry I think I got my dates mixed up, I'm only 25, you're ancient!!!!!!!
paul_oshea
10/05/2006, 4:46 PM
Title: LION SLEEPS TONIGHT
Artist: TIGHT FIT
Date: 21.02.1982
btw its coward of the county who ever said kenny rogers.
he said this ones for becky as he watched the last one fall.....
...sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man
finlma
10/05/2006, 7:45 PM
Mine was:
Title: TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE
Artist: MARTI WEBB
Ditto Neish
April 1980 was a good time to be born.
Roverstillidie
11/05/2006, 1:11 PM
summer lovin
john travolta and olivia newton-john.
in october i might add!!
the music journo brother got phil collins. to say he is unimpressed would be a rather large understatement.
Schumi
11/05/2006, 2:20 PM
btw its coward of the county who ever said kenny rogers.
Apologies, how could I have got that wrong...
SligoBrewer
12/05/2006, 10:03 PM
Title: THE CHRISTMAS NO. 1
Artist: ZIG & ZAG
Date: 1/1/1991
the best every1 ..thank u...i am SO deadly..(applause)
David
12/05/2006, 10:36 PM
Embarrassing one here :o
Ralf Harris
Two Little Boys
adamcarr
12/05/2006, 10:56 PM
Title: NOTHING COMPARES 2 U
Artist: SINEAD O'CONNOR
Fúckin Brilliant!:rolleyes:
Wake me up before you go-go....Wham....from 3/6/84.:o
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