What was the #1 song on the day of your birth?

Thanks Edgar! Never heard it before!

**** yes:

You lucky dog! It's no coincidence but an omen from destiny I bet!

Mine's lame....

Rupert Holmes - Escape (Pina Colada Song) in the US
and the next one I actually like:
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall

Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - Tonight We Love
This song was based on the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, second movement. It was a big hit for Freddy Martin in 1941.


Huh, I never heard this version before. I immediately started to tear when I clicked on the youtube video. Not because of this version, so much (ick! is my first reaction), but because one of my first albums to buy - I must have been eighteen - was of a broadcast in 1943 with Horowitz/Toscanini and the NBC symphony orchestra doing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 at Carnegie Hall. I was crazy about it. I told a medical student that I was collecting med records data for about my new purchase, and he scorned it with the words, parlor music. I continued to love it, the record is probably pretty worn - though I now haven't played the album for decades.

Horowitz here -

Thank you EB for helping Chai annotate her response and thusly resuscitating this spring thread for those with the summer time blues.