OLDER THAN THE AMERICAN TOP 40. This Day in Music will let you know what topped the charts the day you were born, as well as suggesting what your life's them song is. There was a British Top 40 the day I showed up, with Cara Mia by David Whitfield with Mantovani topping the charts; on the theme-setting 18th birthday, the British topper is Alice Cooper's School's Out for the Summer, and the U.S. topper is Gilbert O'Sullivan's Alone Again, Naturally. Perhaps if I had grasped the meaning of the former ...