[78-L] What was #1 the day you were born?

[Gregg Kimball]

I wondered that, too.

Wikipedia has a weekly number one listing, but it doesn't quite synch up 
with Billboard.  Here is 1955:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_singles_of_1955_(U.S.)

According to this, the number 1 for the week I was born (August 27-Sept. 2) 
was Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," but Billboard has Haley's falling 
off the number on position on the 28th, giving way to Mitch Miller's "Yellow 
Rose of Texas" for the rest of the week.

Wikipedia purports to be compiling record sales, juke box plays, and radio 
play.  Is that what the Billboard list is reporting as well?

Gregg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <L78rpm at aol.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] What was #1 the day you were born?


> What source do you turn to when you want to know a song's position in the
> specified week?
>
> pcharosh
>
>
> In a message dated 1/7/2012 1:51:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> ampex354 at gmail.com writes:
>
> In the  UK:  'Diane' by The Bachelors (not on 78); in the US:  'I want  to
> hold your hand', The Beatles (on 78 in India)....
>
> On Sat, Jan 7,  2012 at 6:36 AM, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Glah!!
>> It's a Frank Sinatra song.
>>  M
>>
>> *******
>>
>> On 1/6/2012 7:41 PM, David Lennick  wrote:
>> > This is kinda cute..go to this and find out what was #1 on  the
> Billboard
>> Top
>> > Ten the day you were born.
>> >  http://www.joshhosler.biz/
>> >
>> > Just my luck, it has to  be something by Doris Day. At least now I know
>> why I
>> >  can't stand her and that phony drunk style she affected. (It was My
>>  Dreams Are
>> > Getting Better All the Time. At least the band was  good.)
>> >
>> > dl
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