Number 1 Adult Contemporary song in the year of my birth

Number 1 in the US and the UK also the Rhythm and Blues Genre.
First released by Don Gibson in 1957
Ray Charles - I Can’t Stop Loving You

I’ve had a look at the songs in my year and I don’t know any of them :grinning:

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I don’t know them either - one of them was Souvenirs by Frank Sinatra and I can’t even place that song.

Nothing to see here I am afraid.

I do remember Don Gibson one of my all time favourites is his Sea of Heartbreak

But I was over 10 years old by then. It’s on my Spotify play list

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The first one that really made an impression on me was Diana by Paul Anka but I was 10 by then too.

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I loved Don Gibson songs.
The radio station in my home town, 7QT, played a whole lot of 50s and 60s music.
Don Gibson was an oft played singer.

Paul Anka, one of those great crooners from the era.

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I was born November 1944. A time when husbands and wives were separated. The wives hoping their husbands would come home. The husbands hoping they still had their loved ones. I suppose this reassuring song of the time probably reflects that.

Dinah Shore I’ll Walk Alone

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God this makes me feel ancient … 1962

The lyrics are dismal too … The Young Ones

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Okay…not strictly a song, nice mellow tune from 1962 for a Sunday morning though.

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OMG, it was all Bing Crosby, Vera Lynn, Doris Day, the year I was born. Everyone was having a ball.

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One of my mum’s favourites ,if not her all time favourite.
I like it myself … it’s one of those tunes that stands the test of tine well. Bit sad isn’t it.

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I’d have thought war rations would have put paid to all that,

It is sad, melancholic.
Timeless as you suggest…