#1 Song on your birthday?

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To start us off, I've done Yoda's, site admin and owner. The irony is fun:

Yoda's birthday:
"Ghostbusters," by Ray Parker, Jr.

My birthday:
"Runaway," by Del Shannon

What's yours? Any significance, or just feels random?

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Nov. 14, 1983:
"All Night Long (All Night)" - Lionel Ritchie

July 3rd 1969: ... "Love Theme from 'Romeo and Juliet'" by Henry Mancini

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"Runaway" is one of my all-time favorite songs.




The #1 song on my birthday was The Guess Who's "American Woman". Some great guitar licks, there. It's not my favorite Guess Who song (I'd have to go with "Undun" followed by "Share the Land" and "These Eyes"), but it's a good'un. Click to hear it on YouTube.

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Yeah, there is something cool about Runaway. First heard it as part of the movie American Graffiti ... fitting, considering where we're posting all this.

And American Woman is still stuck in my head -- but at least it's not, like, a rickroll thing. A good song stuck in my head for a change.

August 12th, 1986

"Papa, Don't Preach" by Madonna

I have always liked "Runaway" too. My problem with it is it's such a short song. It practically runs away from you!

I know. I always choose it at the jukebox of this little joint where I drink and play shuffleboard up the street, but at just over two minutes long it's kind of a rip off. I just love the song too much not to select it. It's been covered quite a few times over the years, the only one I like being Bonnie Raitt's from 1977. But nothing compares to the original. Besides being featured in American Graffiti it's also in Good Will Hunting and Children of the Corn as well as being the theme song for Michael Mann's short-lived TV series "Crime Story" set in early 1960s Chicago starring Dennis Farina...though that wasn't the original Del Shannon version they used.

If by some chance you don't know Del Shannon's "Runaway", clicky .

"Good Thing" by Fine Young Cannibals

Yes, I know very well that I am a "good thing."

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My birthday October 1, 1986
Stuck With You: Huey Lewis & The News

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Gee, I guess your parents were stuck with you.

Duct Tape works wonders man.

Yes, it's true (Yes it's true)...

Clicky to see the Huey Lewis and the News video (with like a minute-thirty intro that isn't especially funny - he's no ).

"suicide is painless"it probabily isnt though is it?

Is that Manic Street Preachers? Great band, by the way.

Leaving On A Jet Plane by Peter, Paul and Mary (Dec. 17, 1969)


Makes some sense....I am absolutely and simultaneously enthralled with aircraft and flight but quite skeert to actually fly. I had to fly probably a dozen times or more in the last year for work and it just about got my goat.

They did cover it, as did Marylin Manson. But no, it's the theme from the Robert Altman movie MASH (1970). It opens that film, as well as being played by the characters during Painless Pole's "funeral" - one of my favorite scenes in the whole magnificent movie. An instrumental version of "Suicide is Painless" was used as the theme for the long-running sitcom "M*A*S*H" (1972-1983).

The opening to the movie can be seen .

I give myself a "thumbs down".

October 11, 1956

"Don't Be Cruel" AND "Hounddog" by Elvis.

I think he had others on the Billboard list that day, too. I gather he was rather popular.

And I loved "American Woman."! I can hear it vividly just at the mention of the name.

"End of the Road" by Boyz II Men