Posted on 05/11/2020 4:12:26 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
ROUND 3 OF THE '50S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS COMMENCES!
Votes due: Sunday, May 17 @ 6:00 pm Eastern.
32 songs, 16 pairs, 16 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair listed.
No reply, no vote. (You may abstain from any pairs but please don't overdo it! No onesies, please.)
Any ties will be broken with a run-off which will end the following Monday.
Format: Billboard rank/seed - year - song title - act
Oh, I thought we could leave out some. Sorry. I do not know any of those.
Yes, you can leave some out - I just want to make sure. No problem!
I will be back in a bit after I listen.
As I said, you don’t have to.
But here is the play list I provided belatedly in #26
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Lnx_IGaigbnMCLI-zqwM-Zc0wwuP6zr
Belong
Cruel
Darlin’
Mack
My picks (Extremely difficult in many cases):
6 1950 “Music, Music, Music” Teresa Brewer
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
1 1951 “Too Young” Nat King Cole
2 1952 “Wheel of Fortune” Kay Starr
1 1952 “Blue Tango” Leroy Anderson
2 1954 “Wanted” Perry Como
1 1953 “The Song from Moulin Rouge” Percy Faith
6 1954 “Oh! My Pa-Pa” Eddie Fisher (mostly DEDICATED TO MY DAD)
7 1955 “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” The Four Aces
2 1956 “Don’t Be Cruel” Elvis Presley (mostly just trying to help the King)
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley (again, really trying to help the King - I prefer Don’t be Cruel to this, but this race is closer!)
2 1957 “Love Letters in the Sand” Pat Boone
3 1957 “Little Darlin’” The Diamonds
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers (generally Claudette drags it down, but I’ll still pick it over Witch Doctor. B side not bad and fascinating it’s from Roy Orbison about his wife)
6 1959 “Dream Lover” Bobby Darin
3 1959 “Personality” Lloyd Price (I can’t vote for that lyric!)
Come on and vote! We have a tie I’d like to break - though it could lead to other ties!
My picks for Round 3
3 1950 “Third Man Theme” Anton Karas
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
3 1951 “How High the Moon” Les Paul & Mary Ford
4 1952 “You Belong to Me” Jo Stafford
3 1953 “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?” Patti Page
2 1954 “Wanted” Perry Como
4 1954 “Sh-Boom” The Crew-Cuts
2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
7 1955 “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” The Four Aces
2 1956 “Don’t Be Cruel” Elvis Presley
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
2 1957 “Love Letters in the Sand” Pat Boone
3 1957 “Little Darlin’” The Diamonds
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers
4 1959 “Venus” Frankie Avalon
2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
ROUND 3 RESULTS:
3 1950 “Third Man Theme” Anton Karas
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
1 1951 “Too Young” Nat King Cole
4 1952 “You Belong to Me” Jo Stafford
1 1952 “Blue Tango” Leroy Anderson
2 1953 “Vaya con Dios” Les Paul & Mary Ford
4 1954 “Sh-Boom” The Crew-Cuts
2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
7 1955 “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” The Four Aces
4 1956 “My Prayer” The Platters
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
7 1957 “Singing the Blues” Guy Mitchell
3 1957 “Little Darlin’” The Diamonds
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers
6 1959 “Dream Lover” Bobby Darin
2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
On to ROUND 4, coming up shortly!
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