Cringey songs on my birthday
- Karma Factory

- May 4, 2021
- 1 min read

I stumbled upon This Day In Music website today and found it had a "what was the No.1 hit on your birthday" section. I couldn't resist so I punched my old self's date in and received "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock as a result. (My birthday is in November). Cool. I knew that song, it was pretty popular and was used for decades in movies and TV shows depicting the late 60's and early 70's. I became more curious and wondered what the No.1 songs were on my birth day EVERY year. So I pulled up a little spreadsheet and while munching on my lunch, punched in every year. To my horror, the songs were absolutely dreadful (at least given my taste in music).
For example, 1974 "I Can Help" by Billy Swan, 1989 "Blame it on the Rain" Milli Vanilli, 2005 "Hung Up" Madonna. Kenny Rogers, Barbara Streisand, Wham! PM Dawn, Debby Boone are more of the No.1 hits on my birthday through the years. No Foreigner, Billy Joel, The Police, Pink Floyd or Hall & Oats? Nope, not a one. Novembers are apparently rubbish for No.1 song hits. Ah well.









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