Posted on 05/17/2020 5:09:25 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
ROUND 4 OF THE '50S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS COMMENCES!
Votes due: Sunday, May 24 @ 6:00 pm Eastern.
16 songs, 8 pairs, 8 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair listed.
No reply, no vote. (You may abstain from some pairs but please don't overdo it! No onesies, please, or anything less than half!)
Any ties will be broken with a run-off which will end the following Monday.
Format: Billboard rank/seed - year - song title - act
3 1950 “Third Man Theme” Anton Karas
1 1951 “Too Young” Nat King Cole
1 1952 “Blue Tango” Leroy Anderson
2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
4 1956 “My Prayer” The Platters
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers
2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
I don’t know - it seems like Billboard did not have (DOES not have) year-end charts for all the categories? Although, one could sift through the year-end pop for the best of different categories.
Anyway, I was thinking of a new format, which unfortunately would involve an even longer tournament. I’m thinking 11 weeks, whereas I’ve done this style which is 7. Only way to shrink it would be to have the later stages in half-weeks, which would be the easier parts to tally. This would basically be pop (except pop means “popular”, not any genre) but allow participants more selection from the top-ranked songs.
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 (***1/2)
——>1 1952 “Blue Tango” Leroy Anderson (***1/2)
2 1953 “Vaya con Dios” Les Paul & Mary Ford (***1/4)
4 1954 “Sh-Boom” The Crew-Cuts (***1/4)
——>2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets (****)
7 1955 “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” The Four Aces (***1/2)
——>4 1956 “My Prayer” The Platters (***1/2)
——>1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley (****)
7 1957 “Singing the Blues” Guy Mitchell (***)
3 1957 “Little Darlin’” The Diamonds (***1/4)
——>2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (****)/ “Claudette” (***) The Everly Brothers
6 1959 “Dream Lover” Bobby Darin (***1/2)
——>2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin (****)
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
4 1952 “You Belong to Me” Jo Stafford
2 1953 “Vaya con Dios” Les Paul & Mary Ford
2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
7 1955 “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” The Four Aces
7 1957 “Singing the Blues” Guy Mitchell
3 1957 “Little Darlin’” The Diamonds
6 1959 “Dream Lover” Bobby Darin
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
1 1951 “Too Young” Nat King Cole
1 1952 “Blue Tango” Leroy Anderson
4 1954 “Sh-Boom” The Crew-Cuts
4 1956 “My Prayer” The Platters
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
3 1957 “Little Darlin’” The Diamonds
2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
1 1951 “Too Young” Nat King Cole
2 1953 “Vaya con Dios” Les Paul & Mary Ford
2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
7 1955 “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” The Four Aces
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers
6 1959 “Dream Lover” Bobby Darin
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
1 1951 “Too Young” Nat King Cole
2 1953 “Vaya con Dios” Les Paul & Mary Ford
4 1954 “Sh-Boom” The Crew-Cuts
7 1955 “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” The Four Aces
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers
2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
Thank you for the reply!
I was born in 1942, so I remember the POP music you have now been polling. It was the stuff that was on shows like “My Hit Parade” in the EARLY 1950s and on the radio that my mother listened to every day.
By 1955, Rhythm & Blues and early Rock & Roll took hold on us teens. ...Adults at the time mostly disapproved.
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
4 1952 “You Belong to Me” Jo Stafford
1 1952 “Blue Tango” Leroy Anderson
2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
4 1956 “My Prayer” The Platters
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
3 1957 “Little Darlin’” The Diamonds
2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
My picks (most are very hard):
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
1 1951 “Too Young” Nat King Cole
1 1952 “Blue Tango” Leroy Anderson
2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
4 1956 “My Prayer” The Platters (wow is this hard - love both but I’ll give the finesse to the Platters)
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley (not my favorite, but have to have the King cut it)
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers (Decided Claudette is not so bad that it drags down the greatness of Dream)
6 1959 “Dream Lover” Bobby Darin (Love Darin, but just will not vote for a hit-man thug theme)
Hi Bob - did you deliberately leave out the Heartbreak Hotel/Singin’ the Blues contest?
Seriously, please put me down for Heartbreak Hotel. I listened to Singin' the Blues and...well..I'm not an Elvis fan, but oh my...
FYI once again I will likely be late today with results & starting the next round.
Another dinner with my mother.
ROUND 4 RESULTS:
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
4 1952 “You Belong to Me” Jo Stafford
2 1953 “Vaya con Dios” Les Paul & Mary Ford
2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
4 1956 “My Prayer” The Platters
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers
2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
ALL songs go respectable support. “Little Darlin’” and “Third Man Theme” got the fewest at 12, their opponents the best at 29.
On to ROUND 5, coming up shortly!
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
4 1952 “You Belong to Me” Jo Stafford
2 1953 “Vaya con Dios” Les Paul & Mary Ford
2 1955 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
4 1956 “My Prayer” The Platters
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers
2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
I remember hearing all these songs on the Radio.. We had a 1952 Westinghouse AM/Phono TV..
All I have to do is Dream!!
2 1950 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
1 1951 “Too Young” Nat King Cole
2 1953 “Vaya con Dios” Les Paul & Mary Ford
4 1954 “Sh-Boom” The Crew-Cuts
7 1955 “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” The Four Aces
1 1956 “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley
2 1958 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers
2 1959 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
2. 1955 Rock Around the Clock /Bill Haley and the Comets
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