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(VANITY) How about another music tournament? This times, '50s!
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Posted on 04/19/2020 2:41:27 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
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Anyone in? As always, I will create a ping-list to ensure everyone who is interested is notified of new rounds and results, etc. (This would not exclude anyone from voting, just ensure many people would vote.)
To: a fool in paradise; AbnSarge; Alberta's Child; Albion Wilde; Artemis Webb; b4me; bagster; be-baw; ..
Pinging a few who had 50s interest as well as my old 60s ping!
Please consider joining for a tournament of the best 50s songs!
Anyone is welcome, any time, and I will add (or delete) you from my ping list for alerts.
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posted on
04/19/2020 2:45:28 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Please add me. Would it be possible to explain how the process works? How do you determine what songs make your list?
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posted on
04/19/2020 2:49:51 PM PDT
by
be-baw
To: the OlLine Rebel
Before my time. Even some of the early 60’s stuff was a stretch for me. Born in ‘55. Just a kid.
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posted on
04/19/2020 2:50:34 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
04/19/2020 2:52:58 PM PDT
by
heylady
To: the OlLine Rebel
I'm in but just a suggestion for future tournaments, which is to do them by the year.
Such as the best songs from 1975...or 1981.
To: Cboldt
Personally I dont care. I love so much music I just listened always to what I want and my birth year be damned!
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posted on
04/19/2020 2:59:44 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:01:12 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: SamAdams76
Oh, wow, if we did it by year, it would be easy. Just use all the top 64 of each year. But that would be ALOT of years and a lot of time to cover 30 or 40 years! LOL
My preference now is maybe to have everyone vote for the tops of the years, and then seed them based on that. That will likely be my new approach.
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:02:30 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: be-baw
Basically, I take the top 7 rated songs of each year for the decade per Billboard. First everyone ranks the #7 songs, which weeds out 6 songs so we are left with a total of 64 songs for the decade (top 7 would mean 70 songs, which we dont need). Then I try to arrange those 64 into a kind of play-off system, which can be difficult, but mostly it is based on the ranks and the years of the songs.
In the past, this was all Billboard rankings. It should still be BB although they had slightly different methods for ranking early songs.
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:08:35 PM PDT
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the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: the OlLine Rebel
--
Personally I don't care. I love so much music I just listened always to what I want and my birth year be damned! --
Me too, and I love 30's and 40's big band and swing. But for whatever reason, parents weren't big on 50's pop, and I didn't hear much of it growing up.
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:08:58 PM PDT
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Cboldt
To: the OlLine Rebel
👍👍👍
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:09:24 PM PDT
by
buckalfa
(Post no bills.)
To: Cboldt
My parents were very eclectic, so I am too. I love just about anything. And as a RevWar nut, I love the songs arranged for fife & drum!
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:12:15 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: the OlLine Rebel
okay! Put me on ping list!!
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:12:43 PM PDT
by
tallyhoe
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:13:28 PM PDT
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tallyhoe
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:13:35 PM PDT
by
WXRGina
(Father, please heal Rush! <3)
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:14:12 PM PDT
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tallyhoe
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:14:38 PM PDT
by
tallyhoe
To: the OlLine Rebel
I will. I found some pleasant surprises in the 60s.
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:18:07 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Make an animal friend today!)
To: the OlLine Rebel
I would suggest dividing it between early 50s and late 50s. One issue with the 60s tournament is the chasm between pre-1965 and post-1965. Not a lot in common between Percy Faith and Sly and the Family Stone. You have a similar dynamic (but to a lesser degree) in pre-Rock ‘n’ Roll and post.
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posted on
04/19/2020 3:24:21 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
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