Posted on 02/06/2022 9:43:03 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel
ROUND 4 OF THE '50S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS II COMMENCES!
ROUND 4 – SWEET 16
Votes due: Sunday, Feb 13 @ 12:00 pm Eastern.
16 songs, 8 pairs, 8 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair listed. (You may abstain from any pairs, but please don't overdo it!)
Any ties will be broken via Billboard annual ranking, then back to Round 1 ranking (seed), then Round 1 point total, then Round 1 vote count.
Past Rounds:
Rounds 1A and 1B: 1A, 1B
Round 2: 2
Round 3: 3
You are fascinating!
So far I love a couple Jo Staffords from the ‘40s I had on CD. I love “I’ll Never Smile Again”.
from The Big Draft
TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS – 1950’S II PING LIST
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RESULTS of Round 4: 8 play-off brackets, 16 pieces
Poll seed-year-BB rank-piece-act
1 1950 2 “Mona Lisa” Nat King Cole
8 1958 8 “Tequila” The Champs
4 1957 3 “Little Darlin’” The Diamonds
5 1959 6 “Dream Lover” Bobby Darin
2 1958 2 “All I Have to Do Is Dream” / “Claudette” The Everly Brothers
10 1959 2 “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin
3 1955 2 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets
11 1954 4 “Sh-Boom” The Crew-Cuts
Notes:
-36 voters
-The only tight race was for “Mona Lisa”. At first it was losing but later votes pushed it slightly ahead of “Don’t Be Cruel” by Elvis.
-No Elvis left! The last 2 are gone now!
-”Rock Around the Clock” was the biggest run-away, over “Singing the Blues”
On to Round 5!
No Elvis left! The last 2 are gone now!
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Bet most of those 36 voting are NOT from the distaff side of FR. 😷
Well, he had many of the top 10s. But my favorite of those, “Hound Dog” disappeared early, and I’d prefer Heartbreak Hotel to have been left off the earliest of all of them!
Sometimes, unfortunately, it depends on the pairing.
I’m not totally displeased with the top 8 here, though.
I hope you didn’t take my remark disparagingly. It was only a thought.
The results are what they are. I’ve nothing invested in the outcome save the time I spend listening to songs I may not have heard in years. Obviously I enjoy the Tournament and appreciate your efforts to put it together or I wouldn’t participate.
Good job!
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