🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 18: An upbeat song you danced to at a school dance

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 19: A song you slow danced to at a school dance

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 19: A song you slow danced to at a school dance

I’ve had one slow dance and that was at prom to this song

Okay, we are very clearly of the same generation, in that case.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 15: A song with the word blue in the title or lyrics

4 hours on the road = time to play catch up.

You really shouldn't be on your phone while driving.

 

[morelikeasong]

I learned something from this prompt suggestion! The #1 single on Christmas Day is a coveted spot in the UK. It’s a little murkier and harder to find for the US without going year by year, so feel free to use the top charts for any country.

This link is a Wikipedia compilation list of the UK ones.
This is a Spotify compilation for the US, I can’t speak to how accurate it is.
If you use one of these links or find a different resource, please quote or link for others


Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but is not a holiday song

 

[orangecurious]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but is not a holiday song

JCB Song - Nizlopi
Controversial... was it #1 on xmas day? yes and no.
The song reached #1 on 18 December... the new #1 was announced in the afternoon of Xmas day, so, technically, this was still #1 until the announcement.

Anyway... it's beautiful. At a time when the chart was dominated by manufactured music from a "talent" show, this provided some relief

"and we're holding up the bypass"

the video is a total joy and encapsulates what xmas is for kids, the joy of family.

i'm not crying...

 

[lingus60]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but is not a holiday song

Dave Edmunds: I hear you knocking
UK Christmas number 1 way back in 1970

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but is not a holiday song

List of US Billboard Hot number ones 1985

Say You, Say Me - Lionel Ritchie (1985)

 

[Anastasia1999]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but is not a holiday song

UK No. 1 in 1975

 

[vagrantx]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but is not a holiday song

This was fun!! Like the previous #1 hit prompt this made me scroll through decades of #1 hits, but honing in on December. Found this gem, gosh, it was truly everywhere... First song to popularize autotune! And mfghfmghhh she was/is so damn gorgeous..

#1 Hits in Sweden, week by week.


Cher - Believe

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but is not a holiday song
I recently mentioned to my wife that this song was over 20 years old, and she responded with, "Shut the fuck up. I hate you."
"Hey Ya" - Outkast - #1 in December 2003

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but not a holiday song

This would have been my first Christmas, but not likely heard in my house for many years. Number one for the last 3 weeks of December, 1968.

 

[Biggalute]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but not a holiday song

1987 A song that should never have been No1.
It's widely recognised that 'Fairytale of New York' sold more records but was considered unsuitable, by the people who compile the charts, as a Xmas no1 because of the language. Thus it was No2 and the Pet Shop boys were No1.
The same happened in 1977 to the Sex Pistols.

 

[vagrantx]

I recently mentioned to my wife that this song was over 20 years old, and she responded with, "Shut the fuck up. I hate you."

I share your wife's sentiment... what the fuck

 

[Bry1313]

Day 20 - Non Holiday song on Christmas

Working off the Spotify list, Melanie joins us for the holidays

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but not a holiday song

1987 A song that should never have been No1.
It's widely recognised that 'Fairytale of New York' sold more records but was considered unsuitable, by the people who compile the charts, as a Xmas no1 because of the language. Thus it was No2 and the Pet Shop boys were No1.
The same happened in 1977 to the Sex Pistols.

I love this song because it is a cover of an Elvis (and Willie Nelson) song. Did Pogues fans protest?

 

[Bry1313]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but is not a holiday song
I recently mentioned to my wife that this song was over 20 years old, and she responded with, "Shut the fuck up. I hate you."
"Hey Ya" - Outkast - #1 in December 2003

Shut the fuck up, I hate you.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but is not a holiday song

JCB Song - Nizlopi
Controversial... was it #1 on xmas day? yes and no.
The song reached #1 on 18 December... the new #1 was announced in the afternoon of Xmas day, so, technically, this was still #1 until the announcement.

Anyway... it's beautiful. At a time when the chart was dominated by manufactured music from a "talent" show, this provided some relief

"and we're holding up the bypass"

the video is a total joy and encapsulates what xmas is for kids, the joy of family.

i'm not crying...

This is why I come here, over and over. This is why I love this thread so much. What an utterly remarkable song. Had I not come here, there is no way I would know that song existed. Now I do, and I am smiling, and better for hearing it. Music makes all the difference. Thank you.

 

[Saltfountain]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but not a holiday song

Christmas 1983 in the UK, and a bunch of lefty actors and ex-coalminers top the charts with an acapella version of a song previously released by the synth-pop duo Yazoo.

And it was fucking beautiful (even if they weren't)

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but not a holiday song
Xmas 1980

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 20: A song that was #1 on Christmas but not a holiday song

Britain has given the world some of the greatest cultural high points ever. Amazing music. Amazing theater. Amazing TV. They are often held as being the font of culture in the West. They are a shining star of culture and refinement.

They also embrace the novelty song. Mr. Blobby was a minor character on a BBC Saturday night variety show, a parody of such characters from kids shows. To quote the great Bob Mortimer, Mr Blobby was a "pink, spotty, rubber twat." And he had the #1 song on Christmas Day in 1993.

Don't ever stop, Britain.

"Mr. Blobby," Mr. Blobby (#1 1993)

 

[Biggalute]

I love this song because it is a cover of an Elvis (and Willie Nelson) song. Did Pogues fans protest?

I don't think so, made a few headlines at the time but no-one that fussed

 

[UnquietDreams]

I love this song because it is a cover of an Elvis (and Willie Nelson) song. Did Pogues fans protest?

I don't think so, made a few headlines at the time but no-one that fussed

I would think most Pogues fans wouldn't have cared, other than to take the piss out of the pop establishment. (As I remember, the BBC looked down their noses at their name as well )

 

[Mr_bogey]

You really shouldn't be on your phone while driving.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Hey, if you end up flipping over in a ditch and dying, don't haunt me, young man.



Haunt Purple. She would probably be okay with it