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In reply to the discussion: What's your favorite song from your year of birth? [View all]True Dough
(20,094 posts)45. Oh. If you missed a few notes
it would make me feel better about my bland self!
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"If I Loved You" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.
elleng
Aug 2024
#2
Bobby Darin-Mack the Knife. It was one of my favorite old songs and I saw it was number one the year I was born.
brewens
Aug 2024
#3
I have always been grateful that I was born after the invention of rock & roll. 1961 has some real classics.
Rustynaerduwell
Aug 2024
#13
In 1973, I was going to the prom. "Walk on the Wild Side" was #1 at the time.
malthaussen
Aug 2024
#20
This was written the year before I was born, but released in the states the year after, so...
LudwigPastorius
Aug 2024
#23
My favorite when I was a teen, my favorite now, for very special reasons.
Clouds Passing
Aug 2024
#63
Definitely the WORST song that year was "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett & the Union Gap
Coventina
Aug 2024
#72
Stay - Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs -- shortest song to ever reach #1 on Billboard
Stargleamer
Aug 2024
#80