(vanity) Tournament of 1950s music

me | 1/7/21 | me

[the OlLine Rebel]

Anyone in? It'll be new from the way I did things in the past.

The method will be using a real bona fide survey site. The approach will be quite different from my tournaments of the past. (e.g., 1950s Chart-Toppers Survey start is how it started last time)

Please bear with me though, as this is totally different and I have to get used to the survey site usage. But I think it'll make my life easier once I put up the threads!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Please consider participating in a music poll!

Would like to start with 1950s.

What do you think?

Let me know on or off the ping list!

[NTHockey]

Ping!

[Alberta's Child]

I would love to participate, and I want you to please keep me on your ping list ... but I will be of limited value to a 1950s music survey because it’s before my time and I don’t know many of the songs from that era. I will do my best!

[DennisR]

👍🏻👍🏻

[Gay State Conservative]

Sounds like fun.It will get my mind off of food prices,unemployment,the impending invasion of Taiwan....

[wardaddy]

My moms music

It’s weird the early reflections as a child of the 60s ...19950s rock and roll and rockabilly sounded dated very fast

Buddy Holly ....some of it ...like not fade away didn’t

That didn’t happen so much later in my chronology of music

The Stones usually don’t feel as dated but some later music does for sure

Disco which I loathed......doo wap as well which is awful

And 70s excess rock

Some southern rock..

Much new wave and punk

And some grunge

But some acts hold up....the quality or uniqueness

50s rock starts in my opinion with Rocket 88 with Ike turner and his nom de guerre in clarksdale Mississippi

It really didn’t end till the Beatles

[certrtwngnut]

Count me in. CERTRTWNGNUT

[rocksblues]

I’m in

[Enterprise]

I’ll give it a go.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yup, it’s before my time but I grew up with my parents’ tastes and exploring further. Since they listened to many different things I did too. Many of us ‘80s Kids were into “oldies” R&R - we had radio stations and so on still back then. Also, still records around (including 45 singles) so you might not be prejudiced by that aspect either.

[Poser]

Don’t forget to include Screamin’ Jay Hawkins version of I Put a Spell on You!

[the OlLine Rebel]

OK...is that a yes or no?

[1Old Pro]

Don’t forget to include Screamin’ Jay Hawkins version of I Put a Spell on You!

Well Poser, how about Hozier and Anne Lennox version on the Grammys a few years back, quite good.

[the OlLine Rebel]

It’ll all be based on the top 10 of each year from Billboard. Amazing how versatile the ‘50s - and even the ‘60s - was. That means lots of styles and types bubble to the very top.

[Rappini]

Count me in 50’s was my favorite

[Fiji Hill]

Yes, indeed. You’ve put a lot of work into creating similar tournaments in the past, and I look forward to participating in this one.

[Poser]

Annie Lennox has a remarkable voice. Her version of Walking in a Winter Wonderland was amazing. She is more manly than most men.

[pookie18]

Paraphrasing Gary Lewis from the 60s...count me in...

[1Old Pro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAKGzmsIPxE