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Which songs were number one in the UK, US and Australian charts on the day I was born? Courtesy of wellinghall and This Day in Music.

UK: I Hear You Knockin' - Dave Edmunds; though I'd have gone for the top of the charts of 21 November 1970 rather than 28 November as the engine does, so I also offer Voodoo Chile - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Reviews for both on the excellent Popular: Voodoo Chile; I Hear You Knockin'.

US: I Think I Love You - Partridge Family

Australia: Lookin Out My Back Door - Creedence Clearwater Revival

and to counter accusations of Anglophone bias:

France: Deux amis pour un amour - Johnny Halliday

Germany: A Song of Joy - Miguel Rios

Italy: Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall - Aphrodite's Child

Netherlands: To My Father's House - Les Humphries Singers

France, Germany and Netherlands courtesy of Wikipedia; Italy courtesy of Hit Parade Italia.

A Turn on your MP3 player or music player on your computer.
B Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.
C Write down the first 15 songs that come up—song title and artist—NO editing/cheating, please.

1. Green, Green Grass of Home - Johnny Cash
2. It's All Too Much - The Beatles
3. Elephants Graveyard - Boomtown Rats
4. Kitty Jay - Seth Lakeman
5. Over my Head - Furslide
6. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party - The Beatles
7. Deborah Recitative - The King's Consort (Handel: Deborah)
8. Moonshiner - Bob Forrest
9. Trumpet Fanfare - The King's Consort (Handel: Music for the Coronation of King George II)
10. Let the Cold Wind Blow - Kate Rusby
11. Si Tu Dois Partir - Fairport Convention
12. One Sure Thing - Fairport Convention
13. The Unwelcome Guest - Billy Bragg and Wilco
14. The Legionnaire's Lament - The Decembrists
15. John the Gun - Fairport Convention

From wryelle...

( Cut as an afterthought )

To celebrate that I have finished reading my students' essays already, and so will not be up until 3.45am tonight, the random tracks meme, from tree_and_leaf:

( You probably know the rubric )

( Guess the song and artist - or the composer and work for the classical pieces )

American Cities That Best Fit You:

55% Austin 50% Atlanta 50% New York City 50% Washington, DC 45% Boston

As seen at wryelle's LJ.

What was that someone once said about it always being the 1970s somewhere in my mind?

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late 1970s but it is now being joined by the publisher '1912 1913'
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I like this one too:

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has dominance in your past life over the wall continued from here
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...brought back into my friends list by tree_and_leaf

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
5. ...along with these instructions.

Like tree_and_leaf, I'm grabbing the nearest books:

"Two British SF writers were identified as offering the best potential for adaptation: Fred Hoyle and John Wyndham." (Time And Relative Dissertations In Space, ed. David Butler, 2007)

"This went through two more editions during the Elizabethan period, after Veron's death." (part of endnote 7 to Carrie E. Euler, 'Bringing Reformed Theology: Jean Veron' in From Strangers to Citizens: The Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550-1750, ed. Randolph Vigne and Charles Littleton, 2001)

"The pages of the publication are printed on the quad sheet in an order determined by the pattern of folding to be applied to it during the binding process; the arrangement or 'imposition' of the pages on both sides of the sheet is complex, and the editor will usually be asked to check running sheets - a set of unbound pages - to ensure that the correct order results once the quad sheet is folded and trimmed." (New Hart's Rules, ed. R.M. Ritter, 2005)

and adding something from the book which is always falling onto my desk from the shelf above, in the interests of fiction:

"The sheepdog came stealthily into the kitchen and lay in front of the fire with its eyes fixed on the man as he spoke, and its head resting on its paws." (Colm Toibin, The Heather Blazing, Picador Thirty edition, 2002)

As seen at nhw's journal: