My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! O ur assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is: 1) What is your all-time favorite song? Yep, number 1. It's hard to choose sometimes. If you made your favorite all-time Top 40 music selections, what would be #1? 2. Tell us about it. Why is it a favorite? Do you have special memories attached to this song?  3. Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post. Selecting a number one song would be very difficult. I can remember the first LP album I received for a gift: Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass “Whipped Cream & Other Delights.” The cover seemed scandalous to me with the naked women covered in whipped cream. There were some really good songs and I probably played it a lot.  Here is “A Taste of Honey.” My first 45 rpm I bought with my own money was ...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun !! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment for today: Tonight, we're going to go down memory lane a bit. 1)  What was the #1 song on the day you were born?  Or on your birthday when you were 15?  When you were 18?  Or when you married?  Or some other important date in your life. 2)  Go to http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1 and enter the date and select from UK, US or Australia record lists.  Note:  the first date available is 1 January 1946.   Alternatively, go to Wikipedia.org and search for "number one songs in yyyy" (insert your year) and enter the month and date and see a list of number one songs for each year since 1940. 3)  Tell us what your results are (If you are sensitive about your age, don't list the date or year... ) on a blog post of your own, a comment to this post, or in a Facebook sta...