Posted on 02/23/2020 4:05:03 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel
TNX for the tourney
“Theme from A Summer Place” Percy Faith Round 5, Great 8
“Cherish” The Association Round 4, Sweet 16
“You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” The Righteous Brothers Round 7, Finals
“Surfin’ U.S.A.” The Beach Boys Round 5, Great 8
“Rhythm of the Rain” The Cascades Round 2, top 64
“Blue Velvet” Bobby Vinton Round 3, top 32
“Oh, Pretty Woman” Roy Orbison WINNER
“Downtown” Petula Clark Round 3, top 32
“Ballad of the Green Berets” SSgt. Barry Sadler Round 2, top 64
“To Sir With Love” Lulu Round 2, top 64
“Hey Jude” The Beatles Round 2, top 64
“Oh, Pretty Woman”??? No way! It doesn’t even make my top 500 and probably not even my top 1,000.
My top 10:
You obviously put in a lot of time and a lot of hard work compiling the data and crunching the nummbers. And you got dozens of Freepers to participate.
Thanks for doing this project.
Thanks for your efforts! I had fun.
Thank you. I rather enjoy it. The worst part really can be counting all the votes, sifting through the comments and ensuring no one votes twice!
Overall, great memories! I could hum almost all of them just from seeing the titles. Thanks, the OlLine Rebel!
PS
There's one instrumental from the early days of space exploration that I totally loved: Telstar.
Mega LOLs!
I don't know; but it doesn't seem likely that Roy Orbison had that intention when he wrote the song (1964). Movie used it as a pretext or "hook" in 1990.
This sounds like a good proposal! Except that since they were top-of-chart hits to begin with, you could eliminate 0 stars and 1 star and just rank from 2 to 5.
In this past competition, I really had trouble deciding some of the matchups that were both more outstanding than most of the rest of the decade's choices, but according to the rules, one had to go arbitrarily.
Thanks, it was fun. :-)
Do I like this outcome? No - I like the cover version better.
Shall we improve upon the Process? It's up to the Rebel, and frankly I'm tickled that I was able to participate. As long as the process is fair I'm good with the status quo. Besides this beats (many) coronavirus threads.
The song that SHOULD have won is Go to the Mirror! by The Who but it wasn't even on the list. My fav that was in the list was Sitting on the Dock which had a strong showing.
“I don’t know; but it doesn’t seem likely that Roy Orbison had that intention when he wrote the song (1964). Movie used it as a pretext or “hook” in 1990.”
I didn’t know that. I listened to a recording of it and I think you are right.
Problem is that I keep seeing the movie play in my head when I hear it.
Thank you for pointing that out.
With respect to the 0 and 1 star ratings, it has to do with personal preferences. I’m sure there are countless examples of songs that charted high that we despise with a burning passion. One poster here loathed The 5th Dimension’s “hippy crap”, so obviously they’d give “Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In” with a 1 or 0 star. I’d give it a 4 because I happen to like it.
Conversely, some “overrated” other songs in my estimation because of a strong emotional connection to childhood, even if it was only what I’d consider fair to middle-of-the-road (such as Sly & The Family Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime”). Emotional attachments do play a big role, obviously.
Actually I already have another process in mind, but it would take that much longer, if I continue with the “1 week” turnaround. I’d like to end these in a few days, but then, I fear some would have trouble getting votes in during the week as opposed to nicely doing it on the weekend.
Although I could try a different process, I feel since I subjected 3 decades to this I have to start the ‘50s that way, but that’s probably just me being anal.
I would like to do all the decades with a new spin.
It would STILL be heavy on the chart successes, but more like a “round 1” for every year and playoffs after all years are complete.
Just for interesting perspective, here is a simplistic run-down of the acts with the most appearances on year-end 100 in the ‘60s. Please note that some have even more if “associated acts” are counted.
Act Top 100 places
The Beatles 23
Elvis Presley 12
Brenda Lee 10
The Supremes 10
Ray Charles 9
The Beach Boys 9
Connie Francis 8
Roy Orbison 8
The Temptations 8
Dionne Warwick 7
Herman’s Hermits 7
Ricky Nelson 7
The Dave Clark Five 7
The Rolling Stones 7
Aretha Franklin 6
Bobby Rydell 6
Chubby Checker 6
Dion 6
Gary Lewis & the Playboys 6
Marvin Gaye 6
Sam Cooke 6
The Everly Brothers 6
The Four Seasons 6
The Shirelles 6
The Turtles 6
Tom Jones 6
Tommy James and the Shondells 6
If you do a similar project for the fifties, you might have to use a different methodology because the Billboard Hot 100 didn't start until 1955.
However, they had been tracking singles by sales and airplay etc before then. So, there are records of what the top 10+ were back into the ‘40s. Very cool.
Even if I couldn't access BB data, perhaps we'd seqway into CashBox or Hit Parade.
This was so much fun. Thank you for all your hard work!!
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