(VANITY) TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS ('50S) - ROUND 7

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[the OlLine Rebel]

ROUND 7 OF THE '50S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS COMMENCES!

The FINAL!

Votes due: Sunday, June 7 @ 6:00 pm Eastern. (My birthday, FYI; don't disappoint me!)

4 songs, 2 pairs, 2 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair listed.

No reply, no vote. (NO abstentions this time! Must vote both contests - you can handle 2, cantcha?)

Any ties will be broken with a run-off which will end the following Monday.

Format: Billboard rank/seed - year - song title - act

[Bonemaker]

1958...Nel blu!😃

[the OlLine Rebel]

IMHO it’s a satisfying result in my surveys - I don’t think I’d actually pick Rock-Clock as my #1, but if all were “rated” loosely as another poster once suggested, Rock-Clock would be in that top rating.

I think I’m MORE satisfied with the ‘70s result, but it’s close. Not overly pleased with the ‘80s and ‘60s winner, but it wasn’t bad.

[Alberta's Child]

Those are some great threads you post there, Rebel!

I'm usually a regular on these "Chart-Toppers" surveys ... but I am completely out of the loop when it comes to hits from the 1950s!

Well done!

[Impy]

[Fiji Hill]

!!!!SONG OF THE 1950s!!!!

"Rock Around the Clock" beats "Mack the Knife."

Interesting that a song written by a Communist made #2--and came close to winning it all--on a conservative website.

[Impy]

I love the Jerry Orbach version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsM0mfQH08E

[Fiji Hill]

I like this version better. It really rocks!

Rock Around the Clock--Hal Singer & His Orchestra (1950)

[Family Guy]

Hey Rebel, thanks for doing that. It was fun and I was always looking forward to it.

[stylin19a]

thanks for the hard work. enjoyed the competition, if not the outcome.

But who better than Bill Haley|Comets - ushers in R&R.

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks! I remember listeing to many of the oldest ones on Mom’s radio in the kitchen, and dancing to many of the later ones in the church rec hall. Imagine most of today’s pop music — or dance styles— being considered for young teens in churches today — holey moley!

I also remember the older generation of the 50s warning that rock’n’roll music and lyrics would corrupt the youth and degrade the nation, and nobody listened. Now look.