meme time!

[nonelvis]

A meme ganked from unfolded73: What was the #1 song the day you were born? Google the date and #1 song and then post your #1 song on your LJ - preferably with a Youtube vid if you can find one!

A classic from January, 1970. Astute readers will note this means I am 40, which as far as fandom is concerned, makes me the Face of Boe. Also, it legally entitles me to call anyone younger than I am "whippersnapper."

Comments

[unfolded73.livejournal.com]

I find that looking at this meme on my flist, anyone younger than me I roll my eyes at how young they are, and anyone older I feel relieved that I'm not as old as that. So it's a win-win, really. :)

[nonelvis]

Your turn will come, missy! :P

[spikewriter]

Um, I've got a decade on you, so I guess I still have "get off my lawn" privileges on you. I really should do this one tonight when I get home.

[nonelvis]

I think fandom assumes anyone older than I am is legally dead. Actually, based on some discussion I saw yesterday, it's clear there are people who think anyone my age is legally dead.

[nonlinearmusing.livejournal.com]

Hello! *waves* I stumbled upon your journal via one of my flist mates. :D

Anyway, your song is a good classic. What really struck me as funny was your commentary on said meme and song. That is funny stuff! *Face of Boe* hahahahaha

[nonelvis]

Thanks :) Even senile old bats like me can be funny sometimes, I guess.

[nonlinearmusing.livejournal.com]

You're not that old! Besides, I think Fried Green Tomatoes summed up aging best.

Face it, girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.

I don't know about you, but I certainly have more insurance these days! Heh.

[syzygy-lj.livejournal.com]

You big Boe Face.

[nonelvis]

Hush, you whippersnapper.

[syzygy-lj.livejournal.com]

Careful. You might break a hip or something.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

I'm two years older than you are and I think I can say with reasonable certainty that I'm not dead yet.

("I think I'll go for a walk." "You're not fooling anyone, you know.")

Apparently the month I was born was the only time in the entire year of 1968 when there wasn't a half-decent song at #1 in the US. Figures.

Actually, I don't know that I've ever heard the song, although based on the description below, it is possible I've heard it and then it immediately evaporated from my brain five minutes later:

In late 1967, Paul Mauriat conducted an orchestral "easy listening" version [of "Love is Blue"] that was a number-one hit in the USA for five weeks in February and March 1968, becoming the only performance by a French artist ever to top the Billboard Hot 100. Not surprisingly, the song spent 11 weeks atop Billboard's Easy Listening survey, and held the longest-lasting title honours on this chart for 25 years. It is the best-known version of the song in the United States.

It's a fucking Eurovision song. No Eurovision song not performed by ABBA has ever been any good.

I suppose I'll have to go listen to it later when I'm at a computer where I can use sound, just to fully absorb the horror.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

"I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March. I've never heard of either. If only I'd been born a year later, I'd have gotten "Can't Buy Me Love" (and the added, geeky bonus of having all the numbers in my date of birth be perfect squares).

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know there was anyone whose eardrums had been spared "I Will Follow Him."

[nonelvis]

I didn't recognize the title of the Little Peggy March song, but I certainly recognized the first few bars when I played it on YouTube just now, and mercifully think I managed to stop it before it could earworm me. "Can't Buy Me Love" would definitely have been a better choice.

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

Glad to at least recognize mine... "Big Girls Don't Cry" by the Four Seasons. I prefer the music of my tweens and teens, though.

[nonelvis]

That's a real classic! I can see why you might prefer what you were listening to in your teens, but as birthday songs go, this one's pretty good.