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#1 song when you were born?

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I forget. I think it was a recording of amateur Serbian operas released by the Volta Graphophone Company or perhaps the Valdemar Poulsen Telegraphone Company. It was a hit at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, so I guess I am old.

Seriously, Billboard says it was a #1 single: "Autumn Leaves" by Roger Williams. Great song then, great song now.

It was released on something called a "record." Records are thin pieces of round polymer oil derived from oil and spun at 45 revolutions per minute by a motor. You had to listen to the sounds in the presence of young gals wearing tight pink sweaters before the sock hop.

They have a hole in the center and a single groove on either side. As this record revolves round and round, a piece of rock materials rapidly moved left and right, recreating the sound. Ask your grandparents for more info.
 
eyebeam said:
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones (July 1965)
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Not a bad song to be out when you're born, but it sure does set the bar kind of high for a newborn...

Bob Maxey said:
I forget. I think it was a recording of amateur Serbian operas released by the Volta Graphophone Company or perhaps the Valdemar Poulsen Telegraphone Company. It was a hit at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, so I guess I am old.

Seriously, Billboard says it was a #1 single: "Autumn Leaves" by Roger Williams. Great song then, great song now.

It was released on something called a "record." Records are thin pieces of round polymer oil derived from oil and spun at 45 revolutions per minute by a motor. You had to listen to the sounds in the presence of young gals wearing tight pink sweaters before the sock hop.

They have a hole in the center and a single groove on either side. As this record revolves round and round, a piece of rock materials rapidly moved left and right, recreating the sound. Ask your grandparents for more info.
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They're definitely #1s for a reason. I actually like the fidelity of vinyl better than that of MP3s and even CDs. It seems that there is a human element lost in converting something from analog to digital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tDQMqlHZt8
 
TxGoat said:
They're definitely #1s for a reason. I actually like the fidelity of vinyl better than that of MP3s and even CDs. It seems that there is a human element lost in converting something from analog to digital.
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Lots of experts will debate digital Vs analogue and which is better and why the other is crap.

I love records because to my ears, the sound is different. Or perhaps I love scratches and pops.

I found a guy that owns millions of records. I'll post a link, but it is on YouTube. Look for "worlds largest record collection." He was told that only about 17% of the music we know about is available on CD. How very sad so much will be gone forever unless it is illegally ripped to CD and the RIAA comes after you because of SOPA.... Sorry, wrong thread.

Smiley.

One thing I have noticed is a bargain basement digital system sometimes sounds worse than even a mediocre analogue system. I use to run with a guy that had something like $80,000.00 worth of Struder Revox, Carver, and Marantz stuff and in a room designed for music. He was an engineer and he invested lots of cash to create a great system. It put my little cheap CD portable to shame and that is not supposed to happen because when digital arrived, it was best, period. right?

Thanks for the link, but his work is on my PC.
 
Doit2it said:
The Beatles - Hard Day's Night the 1st week of August '64



YOU feel old! I remember listening to Seasons in the Sun on 1510 WLAC AM radio! Pre FM days. I was 10 at the time.
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AM radio was way cool. All the best local jocks had AM shows. Crazy contests, funny guests, actual music and personalities. Now we have automated FM stations owned by heartless, deaf, and dumb morons obsessed with the bottom line who would not know Tom Petty from Justin Bieber; all they know is one sells more than the other and that is that.

Give a listen to "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It says all that needs to be said.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - The Last DJ - YouTube
 
Doit2it said:
YOU feel old! I remember listening to Seasons in the Sun on 1510 WLAC AM radio! Pre FM days. I was 10 at the time.
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Just wait for that one kid to come in here and post that the #1 song was something by Madonna or Nirvana.
 
US: The Archies Sugar Sugar
I actually remember the song albeit from some years after i was born

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UK #1: The Wayward Wind - Frank Ifield
US #1: Walk Like A Man - The Four Seasons
Aus #1: From A Jack To A King - Ned Miller
PRC #1: Raise Your Weapons To Wave Chairman Mao.....JK
 
TxGoat said:
Just wait for that one kid to come in here and post that the #1 song was something by Madonna or Nirvana.
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...or Spice Girls or Robbie Williams or Boyzone. I guess AF is inhabited by mostly old fogies, like me.

Mind you Madonna has been around for a while now, first US #1 1983, first UK #1 1985.
 
2k2cse said:
This is embarrassing. Very little good music has come from the early 90s lol

US:
Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations - YouTube

This is better

UK:
Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, LIVE - SPECIAL EDIT - YouTube

Aus is the same as the UK
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But, Mark Walburg is a little more relevant today than Bryan Adams, and besides, Bryan Adam's is Canadian....ewww blech! :p ;)



Frisco said:
I don't know.. this whole thing is a bit too "facebooky" for me.

;)

Just kidding.. sort of.. mine is ..oh wait, they didn't have recordings that far back. :eek: :D

Patti Page - Oh, What It Seemed To Be - YouTube
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I actually first saw a thread like this on a forum I used to visit awhile back. I did however have someone spam me in Facebook with such a post. Granted I know the ages of most of the people on my facebook page so it's a little more entertaining here, like melim's entry...OMG! JACKSON 5?!?!
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