Gordon Lightfoot, at the age of 81, is still touring (although that’s been postponed for the moment, of course). An inspiration to us all!
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YouTube’s right-hand list ‘suggested’ this, as something that might be enjoyed by someone listening to Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker… which I guess makes sense, to an algorithm:
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Mnemosyne
There’s been kind of a fun meme on Facebook saying that the #1 song of the year when you were 12 years old is your quarantine song. This is mine:
https://youtu.be/EPOIS5taqA8
burnspbesq
My favorite Fountains of Wayne song, from what turned out to be their last album. R.I.P.
https://youtu.be/NcGpsxmo-AE
Another Scott
@Mnemosyne: You shouldn’t have gone there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDPMmaHWj1I (2:58)
Hehe. :-)
Rest easy, everyone.
Cheers,
Scott.
scav
@Mnemosyne: If that is true, I may need to go rogue.
burnspbesq
@Mnemosyne:
ugh. It’s not “Respect” or “Light My Fire,” or even “The Letter.”
Nope.
”To Sir With Love.”
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debbie
@Mnemosyne:
Huh. Guess I was an early adopter of mopiness.
Another Scott
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mnemosyne: 1) I thought it was the year you were born?
2) what do you do, just google number one song, a hundred years ago
ETA: My birth year song is Ode to Billie Joe, which I’m okay with, my 12th birthday song is My Sharona, which… could be worse.
Amir Khalid
@Another Scott:
Is that tiresome loon HA Goodman still out there posting his harangues?
Amir Khalid
Top song of 1973 was Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Old Oak Tree. It’s not among my favourites, but I understand it’s why the released Tehran hostages were welcomed home in 1981with yellow ribbons tied around trees and stuff.
Major Major Major Major
I’m sitting here in my ok apartment in midtown, cat sleeping peacefully, radiator rattling contentedly, and it’s so weird to absolutely know that things are going to be very bad very soon outside.
Major Major Major Major
different-church-lady
Ellis Marsalis and Bucky Pizzarelli have both been claimed by the Corona-Reaper.
Anne Laurie
Probably, but I think the NYTimes Pitchbot is a satire tweet-site.
different-church-lady
@Anne Laurie: Poe’s Law.
Citizen Alan
@Mnemosyne: I got Jessie’s Girl, which is a vast improvement over the #1 song on the day I was actually born — In The Year 2525.
Mike in NC
Currently watching a Canadian movie called “The Decline” about feuding Survivalists on Netflix. Odd how we’ve heard very little in the media about real-life Survivalists and Doomsday Preppers. They must be ecstatic these days, with all those guns and gold coins buried in their backyards.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: You know what you did!//
Adam L Silverman
@Another Scott: @Amir Khalid: @Anne Laurie: NYTimes Pitchbot is DougJ’s twitter account.
Origuy
On my 12th birthday, the top song was “Hey, Jude”. Not bad.
Anne Laurie
@Adam L Silverman: Nobody tells me anything!
Another Scott
@Adam L Silverman: Um, yeah, it says so in the tagline.
rofl. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
CaseyL
Mine is Hey, Jude, which isn’t bad.
#1 song in the year of my birth was Heartbreak Hotel. Also not bad.
(These are Billboard choices. Is Billboard considered definitive?)
joel hanes
Rewritten :
Oh. On your twefth birthday.
For me that’s Manfred Mann’s Doo-Wah Diddy Diddy
Six early Beatles #1 songs that year.
Jackie
The year I was born: Davy Crockett. When I was 12: Groovin. ?
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne:
Okay we can play this game…
TBH I expected much worse.
SectionH
12? Beats “the yr you were born”. I mean, I srsly didn’t care about music when I was born. And no, I’ve never posted anything like a real answer anywhere before.
This was #1 when I was 12. I was still all about ballet and classical music then. A year later… heh. And heh, I still listened to more than half of That song when I went looking for the YouTube link.
divF
@burnspbesq: I did better.
prostratedragon
1964 was a pop/rock explosion year. Since this is America, experience of the number one song varied by who was asking. There were “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and “Where Did Our Love Go?” —you can guess that breakdown. Intersectionality was represented by “Oh Pretty Woman.”
Rusty
Rod Stuart, Tonight’s the Night (It’s Gonna Be All Right). Not a great song, but the title is reassuring during a pandemic.
frosty
@Citizen Alan: Both of those were better than mine: “Too Young” by Nat King Cole, and “Sugar Shack”. One year before the Beatles. OTOH, the R&B and Country #1 for birth year were good: “Sixty-Minute Man” and “Cold Cold Heart” … there’s a pair for you!
delk
(You’re) Having My Baby
though to be honest by 12 I knew this wasn’t ever going to happen.
piratedan
@burnspbesq: mine was this one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9i3zm_64A&list=RDEMyncnYEkOCIwcX7aI2WVOCw&index=23
Gonna miss these guys, like most power pop guys that knew what they were doing, seriously underrated…
NotMax
Sabbath music: The Ch-ch-ch-cholent Song.
:)
Oldies but goodies: 1980s music, 1930s style
Flashmob* Ode to Joy
*a phenomenon we won't be seeing for quite a while
A forcetissimo rendition.
Harp trek.
Mary G
Did these both on Twitter – 16 Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford was #1 on my DOB and The Byrds’ Turn Turn Turn was #1 on my 12th birthday
OT This article Parenting in a pandemic: Chaos, control, and an Animal Crossing meltdown is by the daughter of a loved and lost jackal.
NotMax
Never a hit, yet in 1963 and into 1964 every place I found myself in which had a jukebox sooner or later played this.
I’m rough
I’m tough
Don’t take no guff
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?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: NOOOOOOOO!
(Looks up 3rd week of January, “American Pie”….ARRRG!)
joel hanes
I’m going to have to reject the premise
This is my quarantine song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZFhnzTriqU
I know it’s all broken
…
Is it well, is it hell, can anyone even tell ?
All I ever wonder
Will we make it through ?
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
You lucked out somewhat. “American Pie” replaced Melanie’s “Brand New Key” as #1.
;)
James E Powell
Billboard has “To Sir, With Love” and Cashbox has “The Letter” . There are a lot of really great songs in the top 100. On my 12th birthday, it was “Happy Together.”
It was a damn good year for albums. If I were going to be stuck in isolation with the music from one year, this would not be a bad year to choose.
NotMax
@James E Powell
’67 was an… eclectic year, what with the #1s running from Frank Sinatra to The Monkees, from Tom Jones to The Temptations
;)
frosty
@Mary G:
Nice pair of songs!
frosty
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, do we have to look up the actual week of the 12th birthday, not just #1 for the year?
… still Sugar Shack, dammit! But at least it wasn’t Dominque. One year later and the Beatles hit the airwaves and everything changed. That’s what I remember growing up. All of a sudden our hair was too short!
NotMax
@frosty
And looking back now, theirs wasn’t all that long.
;)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: “Missed it my that much…”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@frosty: The song for the actual week of my 12th b-day is much better than the year.
PST
Week of my 12th:
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Also a week with Hang on Sloopy, Do You Believe in Magic?, Eve of Destruction, and Liar Liar by the Castaways, all of which seem evocative.
Uncle Cosmo
Another Scott: Ran across this Cole tweet in the replies to that:
Hoo coulda node that Cole & I were blood-brothers in thoughtcrime?? :^D
Also, the #1 song the year of my 12th berfday was “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” After 14 days of self-imposed hermitage, I can state with great confidence that the answer is NO – I don’t miss most of you at all.