TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS 1950S PING LIST
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ROUND 4
VOTE 1 FOR EACH PAIR (8 PAIRS) - see start of thread.
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Billboard rank/seed - year - song title - act
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
You didn’t have this version!
STAN FREBERG - Heartbreak Hotel (1956)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INt48fr_ZYc
Homer & Jethro - Hart Brake Motel (Heartbreak Hotel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DULIEni80
Mona Lisa Nat King Cole
Too Young Nat King Cole
Blue Tango Leroy Anderson
Sh-Boom The Crew-Cuts
My Prayer The Platters
Singing the Blues Guy Mitchell
Little Darlin The Diamonds
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
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
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!