Welcome to Week 2 of this season's polls! :bounce:

 

As we covered 64 songs this week (that's the most in any session I've hosted) I've made both shortlists a bit larger than usual.

 

(Edit: Oops I forgot to make the worst poll multiple choice! I don't know if that can be edited without re-starting the whole thread - no worries if not.)

 

Results of Week 1:

 

"At The Hop" by Danny And The Juniors won the best poll resoundingly with a very impressive 12 out of 13 voters, with "Oh Boy" by The Crickets second and "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard third.

 

With 8 votes, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Jimmy Boyd is crowned the worst.

A lot I love from this week but I didn't want to vote for more than half so I've whittled it down to my top 7:

Billy

Bobby

Sandy

Roy

Chuck

Swinging Blue Jeans

Dusty

 

 

Ronnie Carroll for worst - I don't mind the comically bad ones like "Delaware" so much.

Voted for The Swinging Blue Jeans as favourite and Neil Sedaka least favourite - 'Delaware' is indeed naff but 'Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen' really gave me the creeps

Have made the worst poll multiple choice now :bounce: (you just tick the box on top of the poll in full editor)

 

Gone for my top 7 - Rocking Goose, Let There Be Drums, Sealed With a Kiss, Brown-Eyed Handsome Boy, You're No Good, I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself and Where Did Our Love Go, the former two were two very good discoveries in particular.

 

Delaware, Both Sixteen Songs and Little Donkey for worst - Cringeworthy, sickening and dull respectively x

I voted for Rocking Goose, Sealed With A Kiss, It Might As Well Rain Until September, No Particular Place To Go and I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself.

 

Anthony Newley, Ronnie Carroll and Cliff for the worst.

Best: Johnny & The Hurricanes, Sandy Nelson, Roy Orbison (I actually liked the other side of the Roy double A even more but they were both great)

Worst: Perry Como (I was tempted to break from tradition and give 2 votes this time with one to the pretty creepy Neil Sedaka song as well but the Perry song was really just endless groaning)

loads of faves for me here, so they all got a vote, but happy if Dusty wins as that was my fave of the options as a kiddie, and only Carole King comes close to it these days. Worst is easy, I don't mind any of them bar Slim Dusty. Re songs about being 16, one should bear in mind that the key target group for pop records were 14 to 18 year old girls and Neil Sedaka was 20, looked about 18, hardly a dirty old man, just a young songwriter churning out pop hit tunes galore for the Brill Building - he didnt write the lyrics, and there's no indication that the person in the song is anything more than a year or so older - girls of 16 going out with 17 year olds is not creepy, given boys are invariably less mature than girls it's always been the norm. Now if it actually IS her brother, ooh that's creepy....!

Best votes to Johnny And The Hurricanes, Dusty and The Supremes.

 

Worst vote to 'Delaware' - might have been more on board with it if he'd tried to fit a few more state names into the song. I've known the Neil Sedaka one for years without really listening to the full lyric - can definitely see how it comes across as creepy, I always assumed it was for someone he had grown up as friends with - but it's nowhere near the worst musically.

Worst vote to 'Delaware' - might have been more on board with it if he'd tried to fit a few more state names into the song.

Well he did manage 15

 

Oh what did del-a-ware boy?

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She wore a brand new jersey

Oh, why did cali-fon-ia?

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She called to say ha-wa-ya

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Oh what did missi sip boy?

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She sipped a minne sota

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Where has ore-gon, boy?

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If you want al-ask-a

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She went to pay her texas

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Oh, how did wis-con-sin boy?

Stole a new-brass-key

Too bad that arkan saw boy

And so did tenne-see

It made poor flori-di boy

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She died in miss-our-i

Yes you're right, Jim, it is about a slightly younger friend and it's just a chirpy pop song, they bantered, argued, then became valentines at 14 before she matured and became hot and he got all shallow and ranted on about how hot she was now. For all he knows his over-confident attitude will get him dumped right away, but 16 year old girls dont listen to advice from other people except their peers, never have and you can't force them to stop seeing someone or start seeing someone if they dont want to. Is the notion of childhood friends going out in later life creepy? I never had lifelong friends (RAF child) so I'm not in a position to judge really, but loads of songs and novels get old ladies going "ahhh that's so sweet" that true love is the one you already know inside out. See "Friends" for slightly (but not much) older versions of same basic plot (Ross n Rachel from High School) and much older (Chandler & Monica) - only the most popular sitcom ever :o :lol: .

Well he did manage 15

Only 30% though - I've visited more than that!

I guess the optics of a 22 year old singing "tonight's the night I've been waiting for" about the lead up to a girl's 16th birthday aren't the best I'm sure it's a product of the time that has aged badly but these lyrics were ones I don't want to hear again in a hurry, even over 'Delaware', hence the vote!

The Week 3 session is coming up here:

 

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