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Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:45 pm
by Chasplaya
Borrowed this idea from Facebook.
1. Research the number 1 hit in the week and year of your birth
2. Find a You Tube of that hit
3. Post it here.
Ok start the ball rolling
9 October 1957 to best of my knowledge in UK was Paul Anka with Diana: here's a studio version
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Re: Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:53 pm
by daryl
I had a good one: December 2, 1957 .......
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Re: Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:02 pm
by Music Junkie
Laugh it up Fuzzballs......
January 27, 1970
"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" - B.J. Thomas
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Re: Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:11 pm
by mark
21st August 1964
Could have been worse - I was hoping it was going to be the beatles
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Re: Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:15 pm
by mark
My girlfriends is better - 8 Dec 1970
Strangely this is the last song I've learnt to play
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Re: Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm
by skaladar
Great idea Chas. Even if borrowed.. hehe
It’s easy for me because the week and year of my birth were happy days
July 20, 1955
According to wiki – July 9 – "Rock Around the Clock" becomes the first Rock and roll single to reach Number One on the American charts.
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♫ Ken ♫
Re: Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm
by jimcjimc
From June 6 1953
Percy Faith - the song from moulin rouge
I have no plans to learn this on the guitar...
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Re: Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:40 pm
by lueders
Albert King wasn't the only one born under a bad sign...
just look at this one for July 7, 1976
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YankGQMlbE&fea ... r_embedded #!
But I guess it could have been worse, a mere three days later on July 10 would have yielded this:
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Re: Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:48 pm
by MarkM
July 20 1969 (The day Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon)
Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525
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Re: Dare To Take The Challenge?
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:00 pm
by lueders
Mark, you were born on the day of the moonwalk? (And not an early incarnation of a Micheal Jackson dance. lol) Wow, man that
is so ridiculously cool! I am jealous.
:laugh: And you got a cool iconic song of the era as well!! Yep, definitely jealous!