London Bridge by Fergie is number one again this week on the Billboard Hot 100. It pushed aside Nelly Furtado and Timbaland’s “Promiscuous” last week after that song had a six week run at the top.
NewMexiKen finds many of the number ones fun, listenable songs. If I had 10-year-olds in the house I might be somewhat nervous about the lyrics, but whatever. “London Bridge” does nothing for me, however.
Except bring trivia to mind. London is the sixth city not in the U.S. to be in the title of a number one song. How many of the other five can you name?
Hint: The most recent is 26 years ago, the longest 50 years ago.
Hint Two: Three were instrumentals.
Hint Three: All five were number one for three or four weeks.
Source: Fred Bronson’s Chart Beat
Okay, I went to itunes to listen to the song, but I can’t get past the photo of Fergie posed in front of the freakin’ TOWER Bridge.
I know she’s not famous because of her brains, but shouldn’t someone at the record company have said something?
10 year old! I am an octogenarian and it bothers me.
Wow. And all I could think of that could make the list was “One Night In Bangkok” by Murray Head.
But that was only a Top 40 song.
Off the top of my head, “The Girl From Impanema” by Sergio Mendes comes to mind as a possible #1 choice.
TALL AND TAN AND YOUNG AND LOVELY
THE GIRL FROM IMPANEMA GOES WALKING
AND WHEN SHE PASSES EACH ONE SHE PASSES GOES AHHHH
But, does Impanema qualify as a city? It’s really just a neighborhood with a famous beach in Rio.
Too late at night to try and think of any others.
The version performed by Astrud Gilberto with Joćo Gilberto and Stan Getz was the hit version in 1964. A great record, a big hit, but it only made it to number five. And Ipanema is only a neighborhood in Rio, as you say.
The answers can be found at Chart Beat (link above).