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Take the musical test — when did you get old?
I guess I’m still not old . . .
From Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune:
Reader Mike Carniello sent me a list several years ago of top summer songs of each year going back.
He maintained that by “using this list, you can pinpoint exactly when middle age kicked in” by identifying the first song on the list for which you can’t kind of hum the melody. His choice to list the most popular song in August struck me as apt, as August tends to be the idlest, most radio listenin’ month.
I expanded and updated his list, and invite you to take the test:
August 1958 — “Poor Little Fool” –Ricky Nelson
August 1959 –“A Big Hunk o’ Love” –Elvis Presley
August 1960 — “It’s Now or Never” — Elvis Presley
August 1961 –“Tossin’ and Turnin'” — Bobby Lewis
August 1962 — “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” Neil Sedaka
August 1963 — “Fingertips Pt. 2” Little Stevie Wonder
August 1964 — “A Hard Day’s Night” The Beatles
August 1965 — “I Got You Babe” Sonny & Cher
August 1966 — “Summer in the City” — The Lovin’ Spoonful
August 1967 “Light My Fire” — The Doors
August 1968 — “People Got to Be Free” The Rascals
August 1969 — “In the Year 2525” Zager and Evans
August 1970 — “(They Long to Be) Close to You” — The Carpenters
August 1971 — “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?” — Bee Gees
August 1972 — “Alone Again (Naturally)” — Gilbert O’ Sullivan
August 1973 — “The Morning After” — Maureen McGovern
August 1974: “(You’re) Having My Baby” — Paul Anka with Odia Coates
August 1975: “Jive Talkin'” — the Bee Gees
August 1976: “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” — Elton John & Kiki Dee
August 1977: “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” –Andy Gibb
August 1978: “Miss You” — Rolling Stones
August 1979: “My Sharona” — the Knack
August 1980: “Magic” — Olivia Newton-John
August 1981– “Jessie’s Girl” — Rick Springfield
August 1982 — “Eye Of The Tiger” — Survivor
August 1983: “Every Breath You Take” — the Police
August 1984: “Ghostbusters” — Ray Parker Jr.
August 1985: “The Power of Love” — Huey Lewis & the News
August 1986: “Papa Don’t Preach” — Madonna
August 1987: “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” — U2
August 1988: “Roll With It” — Steve Winwood
August 1989: “Right Here Waiting” — Richard Marx
August 1990: “Vision of Love” — Mariah Carey
August 1991: “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” –Bryan Adams
August 1992: “Baby Got Back” — Sir Mix-A-Lot
August 1993: “(I Can’t Help) Falling in Love With You –UB40
August 1994: “Stay (I Missed You)” — Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
August 1995: “Waterfalls” — TLC
August 1996: “Macarena” — Los Del Rio
August 1997: “I’ll Be Missing You” — Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
August 1998: “The Boy Is Mine” — Brandy & Monica
August 1999: “Genie in a Bottle” — Christina Aguilera
August 2000: “It’s Gonna Be Me” — ‘N Sync
August 2001: “Bootylicious” — Destiny’s Child
August 2002: “Hot In Herre” — Nelly
August 2003: “Crazy In Love — Beyonce featuring Jay-Z
August 2004: “Confessions Part II” — Usher
August 2005: “We Belong Together” — Mariah Carey
August 2006: “Promiscuous” — Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland
August 2007: “Big Girls Don’t Cry” — Fergie
August 2008: “Leavin'” — Jesse McCartney
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Bag of Randomness
- Our housing division sits between two cities, and both put on a pretty decent fireworks show. Coppell’s held their fireworks show on the third, and we could actually see them looking our our front door window while sitting on the couch. I tried to take several pictures, but none out very well. Lewisville had theirs on the fourth, and we had to walk outside to the corner to see them. It’s one of the highlights of the year.
- WifeGeeding and I watched that Jackson family movie over the weekend. Thank goodness for the DVR, the runtime was five hours but we got to fast forward through all the commercials.
- I wasn’t aware that Jermaine Jackson was a producer of the movie, and his son played him in the movie.
- Joe and Katherine had a total of ten children. Wowzers.
- For some reason I keep seeing Diane Diamond being interviewed about the Michal Jackson place. He name rang a bell, but I couldn’t place it without some research. Turns out she was on that now defunct tabloid show called Hard Copy. I think the logo for the show was blue and yellow and hard a pyramid. Anyways, she use to really get on my nerves.
- John Hancock was the only one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence who actually signed it on July,4, 1775. Most added their signature on Aug 2, 1776, and others signed it up until 1781.
- While watching that historic Wimbledon match between Federer and Roddick I noticed how the shadow of the stadium on the court, and it reminded of Texas Stadium.
- Tennis needed a match like that, I don’t think there’s been a real buzz around tennis for a while.
- Sampras looked a bit weird at the match. He looked like a manager of a Italian restaurant.
- Roddick’s interview after the match was exceptionally classy.
- Nike had a nice commercial that aired right after Federer won. Actually, there were two commercials that aired right after he won.
- I once heard Billy Jean King talk about her love for tennis and how she compares it to life in general. That you have to position yourself, live with the consequence of each swing, and then quickly move on among other things. For some reason it just stuck with me.
- I found the altar call entry in Wikipedia a bit interesting for some reason. In particular the external link in that article about 21 flaws of the altar call. I’m not saying that I’m against or support the read, but that I just found it interesting.
- I also found the Wikipedia entry for Quiverfull interesting – I recently heard the term on NPR.
- Sarah Palin is just bizarre, and I’m still convinced that no one craves the spotlight more than her.
- George Stephanopoulos runs the best Sunday morning political talk show, now that Tim Russert is gone.
- Boy, it should would have been neat to still have him around.
- KDFW use to have a show called Insights. I say use to because it was recently canceled after 29 years.
- That Steve McNair death was shocking and very bizarre. One of the toughest QB’s I can remember, but it’s just strange that he’s a married man with four children, who has a girlfriend. Now, I can probably see that he and his wife were separated, so maybe that part makes sense. But it turns out that he and his girlfriend both hand their names on the title of a vehicle. I know there was a mention of a shotgun wound to the head. If you have ever used a shotgun before, you know this will be a closed casket funeral. But I also heard something that there were four shots total.
- The Weather Channel will no longer be playing jazz but soft rock.
- Real life Oregon Trail
- A nice picture of Mount Rushmore
- The Michael Jackson Simpsons aired last night – that was cool. Here’s a back story on the episode – the coolest part being that Jackson didn’t take credit for the speaking parts.
- I didn’t know that Michael Jackson and Madonna actually went on a date.
- Can you remember what hand Michael Jackson wore his white glove? I see most impersonators mess this up. Here’s your answer.
- A bit of a funny story . . . a man is loading up his SUV and has a sandwich, then a bear hits him on his head and steals the sandwich. It would have been funnier (but deadlier) if he fought the bear back for the sandwich in a Homer Simpson kinda moment.
- We just started to feed our dogs Bil-Jac.
- Grace
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Casey Kasem’s final countdown
It’s the final countdown—again—for Casey Kasem. The radio legend will wind up his “American Top 40” spin-off programs, “American Top 20” and “American Top 10,” on July 4— a date of significance: He created the franchise on July 4, 1970.
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