Posted on 02/18/2018 5:57:16 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel
ROUND 6 OF THE '70S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS COMMENCES!
Votes due: Sunday, Feb 25 @ 6:00 pm Eastern.
The FINAL 4!
It's getting easier! Just 2 pairs of songs! Vote for your favorite of each pair shown.
No reply, no vote. (You may abstain from a pair, but please be clear about that.)
Any ties will be broken with a run-off which will end (hopefully) the following Monday.
3 1972 “American Pie” Don McLean
2 1975 “Rhinestone Cowboy” Glen Campbell
Rhinestone Cowboy
3 1972 “American Pie” Don McLean
4 1978 “Stayin’ Alive” Bee Gees
American Pie
Stayin’ Alive
American pie
Stayn Alive
1 1971 “Joy to the World” Three Dog Night
3 1972 “American Pie” Don McLean
2 1975 “Rhinestone Cowboy” Glen Campbell
4 1978 “Stayin’ Alive” Bee Gees
Are you voting or just quoting?
Are you voting or just goofing around?
OK, I’ll post my picks while I’m convalescing...
American Pie
and
Stayin’ Alive
Another ping for those who haven’t voted...
TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS 1970S PING LIST
(This is a temporary ping list, so don’t worry!)
ROUND 6! Songs of the FINAL 4! Pick one per pair!
Format: Billboard rank/seed - year - song title - act
1 1971 “Joy to the World” Three Dog Night
3 1972 “American Pie” Don McLean
2 1975 “Rhinestone Cowboy” Glen Campbell
4 1978 “Stayin’ Alive” Bee Gees
I like Joy to the world, but American Pie brings back more better memories.
I like Glen Campbell too only the Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive again represents great late 70's memories, while Glen's material was on the radio when my mom was mopping the kitchen floor.
1972 “American Pie” Don McLean
1978 “Stayin’ Alive” Bee Gees
I like all these songs, but Joy is easily the weakest in my view. In fact, while I’ve voted for it later (early I did not), I think it is the worst 3-Dog Night hit. It’s OK but it doesn’t get me like their other goofy hits! Yet you’d think it was their only hit the way radio plays it today.
Never Been to Spain is one of my favorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6qw_yeo6o
1 1971 “Joy to the World” Three Dog Night
2 1975 “Rhinestone Cowboy” Glen Campbell
It seems like there were a lot of novelty recordings back in the 70s - was Steve Martin’s King Tut in the 70s or early 80’s? (I looked - 1978). The Streak was a classic, Disco Duck is best left in the 70s, Mr. Jaws was kind of funny at the time (probably because I was 10 at the time.) Even Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer was from the 70s.
I can’t say I’ve ever heard “Freeze a Yankee,” but I grew up in Connecticut and it might have been slightly less popular up that way.
American Pie
Rhinestone Cowboy
Joy To the World
Stayin’ Alive
Thanks for the ping, Reb. I forgot! :-)
“American Pie” Don McLean
“Stayin’ Alive” Bee Gees
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