Posted on 01/16/2022 9:29:33 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel
TOURNAMENT FOR THE GREATEST SONG OF THE '50S!
ROUND 1B – ‘50s
The baseline for the survey is the top 10 hits of each year of the '50s, as compiled by BILLBOARD. This is NOT based on personal preferences, biases, prejudices, or counter-culture fringe-element reactionism. Nor based on weekly charts.
Round 1 involves ranking candidate songs in order of preference for each year. Part B, as before with A last week, will be 5 years’ worth of rankings, so hunker down again because that’s 50 songs to handle!
(The remaining rounds are handled as play-offs, starting with 32 pairs of songs to compare. More on that later.)
For the first time ever, WE ARE USING A SURVEY WEBSITE for the polling! NO MORE TYPING YOUR CHOICES IN THE THREAD!
Following posts list the pieces for instant review. Again, however, another post will link to SurveyHero surveys, and links to YouTube for the hits.
PLEASE BEWARE: MANY SONGS IN THE ‘50S WERE COVERED, EVEN IN THE SAME YEAR, AND HIT. PLEASE CHECK “ACT” AND THE YOUTUBE PLAYLIST FOR THE CORRECT RECORDING AND NOT JUST ASSUME THE MOST FAMOUS/ENDURING RECORDING!
Also, please note that some “singles” were not really “singles” especially in 1958. They feature both songs on the 45 as the same “piece” (I still haven’t fully figured that out). Treat it as you wish, but be aware some are really polling on 2 songs at once!
ROUND 1B DUE DATE: SUNDAY JANUARY 23 @12:00PM EST
I guess I should not be surprised that almost all the recording artists from the 1950s era have passed on. After all, the decade ended over 60 years ago. But Paul Anka and Frankie Avalon are still hanging in there at 80 and 81 years old respectively. Elvis, if he was still around, would have just turned 87.
What about Pat Boone? The guy is on commercials galore! I never saw him all my life until the last decade!
And I love his voice. I don’t care what “hip” people think, he was cute and sung romantic and he is such a nice, moral man.
That version was very cool. Thanks for sharing it with me.
That’s a beautiful version too. There are a few songs that always make me think of my father. Some of them are, My Prayer and Mona Lisa, which are in this list.
Yeah, it's not like I wasn't into all those as well. It's just that my siblings were purists.
Thank you for all of your effort.
The King of Rock and Roll--and he's still going strong!
When I was in junior high school, I didn’t dare tell anyone, not even my brother, that I was a fan of the Shangri-Las,. Boys were not supposed to like that group. But I am still a fan.
Yeah, I really love Out In The Streets. That song should have been a huge hit.
DUDE ! Been awile since we’ve seen this badboy. Thanx.
“Out in the Streets” only made #53 nationally, but it should have been a much bigger hit.
"Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley & His Comets
"Don't Be Cruel" Elvis Presley
"All Shook Up" Elvis Presley
"It's All in the Game" Tommy Edwards
"Kansas City" Wilbert Harrison
You were a musician? Sounds great!
“It’s All in the Game” was co-written by Charles Dawes, a Chicago banker and a Republican who served as vice president from 1925-1929 and won the Nobel Peace Prize for cooking up a plan for Germany to pay its reparations for WWI that were imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
Were/are you in the music business?
Great piece as performed here. Love to sing to it.
No, but I've been collecting records since the 1960's. And I come from a musical background. My father was a music teacher and church choir director and choral singing was an avocation for both of my parents..
That's really wild. He's the guy arguably responsible for WWII? I'm going to have to look him up.
Thanks! Finished.
On the contrary, Charles Dawes deserved his Nobel Peace Prize because he defused an international crisis. In 1923, Germany defaulted on its reparations payments, which resulted in France and Belgium occupying the Ruhr, one of its key industrial regions. At the same time, hyperinflation caused Germany's currency to collapse.
A committed headed by Dawes crafted a plan in which Germany would pay its reparations in installments while receiving loans to facilitate these payments and stabilize its currency. Meanwhile, France and Belgium would withdraw their troops. This plan was replaced by another one, the Young Plan, crafted by a committee headed by Owen Young, in 1928. Germany reparations payments pretty much ceased with the onset of the Great Depression.
However, despite this accomplishment and his successful vice presidency under Calvin Coolidge, it seems Charles Dawes' lasting impact on the world of today is "It's All in the Game," a decades-long fixture on Oldies playlists .
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