Posted on 02/16/2020 3:12:16 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel
ROUND 6 OF THE '60S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS COMMENCES!
Votes due: Sunday, Feb 23 @ 6:00 pm Eastern.
The FINAL 4!
Even easier! Just 2 pairs of songs! Vote for your favorite of each pair shown.
No reply, no vote. No more refusals - there're only 2 pairs, after all.
Any ties will be broken with a run-off which will end (hopefully) the following Monday.
4 1964 “Oh, Pretty Woman” Roy Orbison
4 1968 “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” Otis Redding
4 1961 "Crying" Roy Orbison
4 1964 "Oh, Pretty Woman" Roy Orbison
5 1965 "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" The Righteous Brothers
4 1968 "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" Otis Redding
No movie tie-in that I know of. (That would be You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ / Top Gun)
Not criticizing the format - it's fun, it's fair, and it's an interesting exercise, but the top of the pop charts are usually better at recognizing passing fads rather than enduring greatness. What we end up voting on is the most enduring of the fads.
The idea that Dock of the Bay could be one of the top four songs of the 60s is not nearly as silly as the idea that Roy Orbison could have two of them.
1968 - The Dock of the Bay.
4 1964 “Oh, Pretty Woman” Roy Orbison
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5 1965 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” The Righteous Brothers
Ooooph!!!!!!!! I may have to flip a coin for these :)
1961 “Crying” Roy Orbison
1965 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” The Righteous Brothers
4 1961 “Crying” Roy Orbison
4 1964 “Oh, Pretty Woman” Roy Orbison
-—>4 1961 “Crying” Roy Orbison
4 1964 “Oh, Pretty Woman” Roy Orbison
——>5 1964 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” The Righteous Brothers
4 1968 “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” Otis Redding
4 1964 “Oh, Pretty Woman” Roy Orbison
4 1968 “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” Otis Redding
I’m not understanding the Dock of the Bay phenomenon. Is there some emotional tie in to some movie or something?
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I’m more of the mind that ...Loving Feeling feels overplayed and played out after all this time. Kind of like Hey Jude by the Beatles. And ...Grapevine by Marvin Gaye. Great great stuff, but I’m really just tired of hearing them over and over for 50+ years.
It should say something that songs 1,2 & 3 of each year are all gone. We have three #4s and a #5. That’s like having an NCAA Final 4 with no Dukes, Carolinas or Kentuckys but a bunch of Butlers and Gonzagas.
I really like all four songs and so I am going to sit out the rest of the contest. I can live with any of the four finalists and yet none would be my personal choice for the best (or most representative) song of this multi-faceted decade, one that featured some of the greatest highs (moon landing) and lows (war, assassinations) in our nation’s history.
Yes, that's a perspective definitely worth considering. I do volunteer work for just such an organization which is run by a federal agency combined with a private foundation, and I've seen some of those in positions of leadership undergo personality changes as a result of the stress of having to serve two masters which are often at loggerheads. Perhaps the man sitting on the dock is suffering burnout from being caught up in too many bureaucratic power struggles.
4 1961 “Crying” Roy Orbison
AND
4 1968 “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” Otis Redding
4 1964 “Oh, Pretty Woman” Roy Orbison
4 1968 “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” Otis Redding
4 1964 “Oh, Pretty Woman” Roy Orbison
5 1965 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” The Righteous Brothers
What if you don’t like any of them?
Don’t vote
I’ll listen to Roy sooner than the Beatles.
Especially hippie-dippie doofus “message” Beatles (which, BTW, I think had a lot of “gay” goofy arrangements).
I like the early Beatles but they quickly morphed. It just occurred to me maybe their AIM was to be hippie-dippie and they just used the pop market to get it so everyone would listen to their self-important pieces, which hit very soon after Ed Sullivan. Sort of the Vogues syndrome.
I love Roy. But Pretty Woman gets overplayed as if it’s a 1-hit wonder (actually, they tend to play “Only the Lonely” tons, too - and none of the classics in between).
Actually look at the charts and most of them ARE enduring. It HAS to be popular to truly be remembered.
But a few like these - amazed that they get the votes and end up “best of” the decade. I think this may be the oddest decade vote I’ve had so far.
They seemed to have changed drastically during their trip to India.
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