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."

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[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.