Spot The Woman with The Christmas Time Birthday...

[athersgeo]

1978 On your birthdate the No. 1 single was Boney M - "Mary's Boy Child-Oh My Lord"
1979 On your 1st birthday Pink Floyd - "Another Brick In The Wall" OK, that's kinda cool!
1980 On your 2nd birthday John Lennon - "(Just Like) Starting Over"
1981 On your 3rd birthday The Human League - "Don't You Want Me"
1982 On your 4th birthday Renee & Renato - "Save Your Love" Kill me now
1983 On your 5th birthday The Flying Pickets - "Only You" Good grief; this is as old as this?! *boggle*
1984 On your 6th birthday Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
1985 On your 7th birthday Whitney Houston - "Saving All My Love For You"
1986 On your 8th birthday The Housemartins - "Caravan Of Love"
1987 On your 9th birthday The Pet Shop Boys - "Always On My Mind"
1988 On your 10th birthday Cliff Richard - "Mistletoe & Wine"
1989 On your 11th birthday Jive Bunny - "Let's Party"
1990 On your 12th birthday Vanilla Ice - "Ice Ice Baby"
1991 On your 13th birthday Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives" Another one for the cool side of things
1992 On your 14th birthday Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You"
1993 On your 15th birthday Take That - "Babe" I've changed my mind; I'll take Renee & Renato over this bunch ANY day of the week!
1994 On your 16th birthday East 17 - "Stay Another Day"
1995 On your 17th birthday Michael Jackson - "Earth Song"
1996 On your 18th birthday Dunblane - "Knockin' On Heaven's Door / Throw These Guns Away"
1997 On your 19th birthday Teletubbies - "Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh'"
1998 On your 20th birthday B*witched - "To You I Belong" Ah, B*witched...whatever happened to them? [NB, this is a rhetorical question!]
1999 On your 21st birthday Cliff Richard - "The Millennium Prayer"
2000 On your 22nd birthday Eminem - "Stan" I suppose this beats the endless diet of seasonal songs - but I think I'm a little boggled all the same
2001 On your 23rd birthday Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman - "Somethin' Stupid"
2002 On your 24th birthday Blue featuring Elton John - "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word"
2003 On your 25th birthday Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne - "Changes"
2004 On your 26th birthday Band Aid 20 - "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
2005 On your 27th birthday Pussycat Dolls - "Stickwitu" I don't know this - and somehow, I feel I'm NOT missing out on anything...

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That's the annoying thing about a December birthday, though. Your presents come wrapped in paper with holly leaves or Santa Claus and the only music in the charts is novelty/charity records. Bleh. (OK, with the exception of Queen and Pink Floyd!)

Comments

[carolynp.livejournal.com]

The really scary thing is that I remember all of them apart from the 2 or 3 most recent!

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

So with you on that. I think it's actually kind of wrong that I know the songs that were no.1 when I was a baby/toddler *BETTER* than I know most of the songs from post 2000!

[megaleena.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! Some of yours are worse than mine!

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

I would venture to suggest many of mine are worse than yours.

Except Crazy Frog.

Having Crazy Frog as your birthday no.1 is just plain embarrassing ;)

[megaleena.livejournal.com]

I know...I may have to change my birthday to hide the fact I got Crazy Frog!

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[katie__pillar.livejournal.com]

But you got Ice Ice Baby, so you win.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*laugh* I think I actually win for the Jive Bunny - I have that on LP somewhere... (Ooops, is that my 80s showing? ;))

[squirrela.livejournal.com]

my list would be the same as yours - albeit starting a few years later...

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

It'll be slightly different - your birthday is (I think) much closer to Christmas than mine. I know, for one thing, the Christmas number one in 97 was the Spice Girls (which doesn't feature on my list).

*grin*

It might be interesting to run yours just to see how much difference a week makes ;)

[squirrela.livejournal.com]

Um, yup, that would be right. TBH I think I object more to Blobby than the spice girls - I don't know any of their songs after the first one, but blobby was just vile!

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Good point! The Spice Girls' song's actually not too bad (as long as you don't think *too* hard about what the lyrics actually say!), but Mr Blobby is, ah, special!

[sunfire1216.livejournal.com]

My birthday is also the 16th of December, but I was born in 1980.
The sad thing is that I haven't heard of most of these songs, unfortunately.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

It's worth noting that this is based on the British chart, and most of the songs haven't exactly been, ah, international hits.

That said, I can honestly say that you have not missed much if you've never heard Renee & Renata or Take That or *shudders* the Teletubbies...

On another note, this must mean we're twins - of a sort ;)