The Number One Song When You Were 14

The year was …. 1974 #1 The Way We Were & a couple more equally depressing songs that a 14 yr. old boy didn't fully , really understand . I think One of Six & Goofyfoot 2001 's 1977 list fits me better , 1976- 1979 , ah.. , that music was the soundtrack of my life , my wife is same age as me , she agrees with me. I love most music, but those late 70's Love Songs are hard to beat, also '76-77 - Hotel California Album came out , Fleetwood Mac Rumors , Boston' s first album , Bob Seger Night Moves Album , Kansas- Carry on Wayward Son, ( All ) Zeppelin , Wife's favorites that I like too are Dancing Queen , How Deep is your Love , Love so Right , So into you Atlanta Rhythm Section , Slow Dancing- Johnny Rivers , Heart , Strawberry Letter 23 , Baby Come Back , All Commodores love songs , Kiss You All Over by Exile . Just the way you are - Billy Joel , Jefferson Starship , Steely Dan , Little River Band ,Earth. Wind & Fire ,,... oh wait you said the top song , oh well i'll shut up now . A little late though, sorry ...
 
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1994 - I Saw the Sign by Ace of Base.....




..........I don't like your damned game. And I have no idea how that song affected me. I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, the Stones, the Beatles, Jethro Tull, the Who, the Animals....and 80s music'cause Mom was all about MTV.

I still listen to 60s, 70s and 80s mostly.....wi with some classical, jazz, heavy metal and even big band thrown in occasionally for variety.
 
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SPM said:
..........I don't like your damned game. And I have no idea how that song affected me. I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, the Stones, the Beatles, Jethro Tull, the Who, the Animals....and 80s music'cause Mom was all about MTV
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I think the link, if any, is not the song itself, but rather what was the social mood and culture at a time when you were most impressionable and formed what you would become as an adult. The idea being that the events and social mood st that time impacting you. It’s much like generational theory, just on a smaller scale.
 
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October 23rd, 1970

Jackson Five - I'll Be There

Not my favorite, but you asked for the #1 hit on that day.
 
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Turned 14 today in 1979, Top Billboard was Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" and on the Country's was from the Bellamy Brother's "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me"





The one song that had the most influence on me came out in Jan 66' when I was only 7 months old! Still working with Green Berets after retiring from it.


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I remember hitchhiking through VA in the spring of 1967 & i was 13 & listening to an AM station on a pocket transistor radio with Anybody going to San Antoine by Charlie Pride. It was 2-3 AM, slow steady rain & I was about hypothermiated. I grabbed some newspapers out of driveways & started a fire under a picnic table at a small roadside park & got dried out. I must of walked 12-15 miles that night & didn't see a car. Everytime i hear that song it reminds me of that morning.
Oh yea on my birthday song at 14 was Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding.
 
I can't imagine only the 1 top song would have had that much influence. The top 3 for me are:

1 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
2 Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)
3 Don McLean - American Pie

I think #2 and 3 are more ingrained in my psychy.

Go here and use the little drop down under the album cover to select your year: http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/top-100-songs-of-the-year/?year=1972
 
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Late Sept 1973 so it was either Marvin Gaye, Lets Get It On or GFR We're an American Band. I was a rocker then and saw that GFR tour in GBO. I only listened to rock radio so no Marvin Gaye imprinting my brain at the time although Lets Get On is a great song.
 
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I never listened to the charts about who or what was number 1. Most of what I liked was never on there and they never asked me. I'll guess back in 74 we were listening to Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and the old 60s rockers like Jimi, Carlos, Jefferson Airplane, Doors etc.
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I'm with you, but it was Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, Supertramp, The Who, Allman Bros, Santana, and we were way into Todd Rundgren's Utopia. Got to be part of the security team and sit inside the wire at the RA concert down in Florida. I must have looked more threatening then than I do now. ;)
 
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I’ll always love you by Whitney Houston was no1.
That was before she tried to outdo Charlie Sheen with the nose candy.

There was also a Meatloaf song in the top 100 that year.

And that year, was 1993
 
Wikipedia says it was Macarena.

I guess that's fitting. Everything I do in life feels like I'm performing some pointless ridiculous dance that ultimately doesn't make a difference any way you look at it.
 
Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul was #1 the week I turned 14. Hmmm...
 
For me, 1968. Looks to have been an outstanding year. I highlighted the songs that still are rattling around in my head most often. Top to bottom, it's a helluva playlist.

Position Artist Song Title
« 1967 1968 1969 »
1 Beatles Hey Jude
2 Paul Mauriat Love Is Blue
3 Bobby Goldsboro Honey
4 Otis Redding (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
5 Rascals People Got To Be Free
6 Cream Sunshine Of Your Love
7 Herb Alpert This Guy's In Love With You
8 Hugo Montenegro The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
9 Simon and Garfunkel Mrs. Robinson
10 Archie Bell and The Drells Tighten Up
11 Jeannie C. Riley Harper Valley P.T.A.
12 O.C. Smith Little Green Apples
13 Tommy James and The Shondells Mony, Mony
14 Doors Hello, I Love You
15 Gary Puckett and The Union Gap Young Girl
16 Box Tops Cry Like A Baby
17 Fifth Dimension Stoned Soul Picnic
18 Hugh Masekela Grazing In The Grass
19 Grass Roots Midnight Confessions
20 Sly and The Family Stone Dance To The Music

21 Cliff Nobles and Co. The Horse

22 Temptations I Wish It Would Rain
23 Delfonics La-La Means I Love You
24 Vogues Turn Around, Look At Me
25 John Fred and His Playboy Band Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
26 Classics IV Spooky
27 Diana Ross and The Supremes Love Child
28 Merrilee Rush Angel Of The Morning
29 Georgie Fame The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde
30 Mary Hopkin Those Were The Days
31 Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild
 
1982 was a dark year for music, but I think that was Stevie Ray Vaughn's first Montreux appearance. So nothing else that year really matters.
 
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Yep, that makes sense. My spanish speaking is mooo-eeeeeee boo eno

Honestly, by 14 Id moved on to 'alternative' music, a lot of Nirvana and Bush, specifically. But also getting a taste of punk rock with The Vandals (one of a few conservative punk bands, they opened for No Doubt, that's how i was exposed) and the like. So the pop radio charts had little affect on me
 
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