Swiped from fara_shimbo 

Go here and find the top songs the year you were born. Bold the songs you like. Strike out the ones you hate. Asterisk the ones you've never heard of.


*1. Daddy's Little Girl - Mills Brothers
2. Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
3. Music! Music! Music! - Teresa Brewer
*4. Teardrops From My Eyes - Ruth Brown
5. A Bushel and a Peck - Perry Como and Betty Hutton
6. Rag Mop - Ames Brothers
7. The Tennesse Waltz - Patti Page
8. Harbor Lights - Sammy Kaye
*9. Pink Champagne - Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers
10. I Wanna Be Loved - the Andrews Sisters
11. Goodnight, Irene - Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers
12. The Thing - Phil Harris
*13. All My Love - Patti Page
*14. Blue Light Boogie - Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
*15. Cry of the Wild Goose - Frankie Laine
*16. Double Crossing Blues - Johnny Otis, The Robins and Little Esther
17. If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd Have Baked A Cake - Eileen Barton
*18. I Need You So - Ivory Joe Hunter
*19. Sentimental Me - Ames Brothers
*20. Play A Simple Melody - Bing and Gary Crosby
*21. Hard Luck Blues - Roy Brown and His Mighty-Mighty Men
*22. Hoop-Dee-Doo - Perry Como & The Fontaine Sisters
*23. I Can Dream, Can't I? - Andrews Sisters
24. Third Man Theme - Guy Lombardo or Anton Karas
*25. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley

Hmm, six I liked, none I hated, more than half I don't even recognize.  I'm also surprised there was only one Nat King Cole in the mix - I guess he must've only released one song that year for some reason; who wouldn't love that voice?  Amusingly enough, I knew about Rag Mop because it was sung on Beanie and Cecil a few years later when I was old enough to watch tv.

On another note, I just got a jury summons for January 8.  Just think, a free downtown parking space; an 1 1/2 hour lunch break within easy reach of Little Tokyo, Olvera Street and Chinatown; and an ironclad excuse not to have to do any of the other stuff I usually have to.  And to think some people try to get OUT of jury duty... :)