[the OlLine Rebel]

TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS 1950S II PING LIST

(This is a temporary ping list, so don’t worry it won’t last forever!)

Here are the 4 pairs for Round 5. Please see start of thread for Round 5 rules!

Again, the survey is here: 1950s survey Great 8

My YouTube Playlist covers ALL these songs, but is in order of year, not paired up as the preview below: 1950s playlist Great 8

ROUND 5 PAIRS/BRACKETS (TOCT seed/year/BB rank/title/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

[gnarledmaw]

(The following statement should not be construed as suggesting anything in particular about this contest but as a broad brush generality.)

Bracketed tournaments.

Humans can see the makeup of atoms and are on the verge of a colony on the moon yet we as humans dont seem to be able to come up with a better way of determining “best”.

For me each bracket always seems to break down into a competition where my true feeling/vote is either “Who cares?” and “Both!”

[the OlLine Rebel]

This is a pretty good remaining list, but I’ve been corralled into facing off my worst nightmare.

I won’t vote for Mack the Knife, and I have not voted for the Everlys’ selections YET due to the dual nature. (I absolutely ADORE “Dream” - that’s not the problem.)

Now my hand is being forced!

Will have to vote for Everlys now to keep the murder song from getting up there (and it’s too Frank-Sinatra ‘40s like for this anyway - 1959!).

[SamAdams76]

Not surprised that Elvis Presley did not make the cut for the top 10 songs of the 1950s.

While obviously a phenomenal singer and performer, he was plagued with poor song choices and a manager (Tom Parker) who only cared about the dollars and not at all about artistic merit.

The above tells me that your tournament is truly bringing out the very best of the 1950s.

"Rock Around The Clock" personified the 1950s for me and "Dream Lover" as well. Those are my picks for the top two.

[Family Guy]

Some difficult decisions.

[gnickgnack2]

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The Crew Cuts