Posted August 25, 2024Aug 25 ~I don't have a fancy banner for this thread unless someone makes one for me~ It's time to begin the next chapter of our ongoing community mega music marathons - we've made our way through every UK #1, #2 and #3 single plus a song from every UK #1 album, we now turn our attention to our friends across the pond and rewind the clock back to 1958 to begin a trek through every song to top the USA's Billboard Hot 100 chart. To those of you who are regulars to this series of listenthroughs you know how it works, it'll be the same as ever. For any potential newbies (don't be scared to join, we don't bite x), every Sunday from 4pm UK time we congregate on a site called SyncTube which plays a feed of YouTube videos to everyone in the room to listen through the playlist and chat about the songs (or other things) on the side. The main meat of each session is chronologically working through all of the #1 hits starting from the inaugural leader, Ricky Nelson's 'Pretty Little Fool' from August 1958, and this will go on until about 7pm. After that there will be an indefinitely long (usually less than an hour) additional section of bonus songs from any or all of the following categories: - selected US #2 hits from the period covered by the #1s - I'll post a list each week of the eligible songs and any of you may nominate up to 3 favourites and I'll play the ones that get the most picks - any new songs that enter the UK top 3 / a selected song from any new UK #1 albums, to continue the previous marathons (the song from a #1 album will be the most streamed song on Spotify from the album that wasn't a UK top 3 hit or already featured on the UK #1 albums sessions playlist from a previous album; note this playlist will keep being updated using its original criteria which only banned top 2 hits but for the purposes of the listenthroughs I'll skip #3 hits too) - RIP slots commemorating notable musicians who've passed away in the last week - every now and then we take birthday song requests for any members of our community who have just turned a year older. No rules, just drop me a PM if you have a request x (no rules also applies to the final and most iconic of all the bonus categories - the Jamelia slot. if you know you know) If someone would like to run a weekly poll to vote on the best and worst songs of the sessions go for it and I'll continue the tradition of kicking off each session with a repeat play of the poll winner from the previous session. I'll post a fresh link to the SyncTube room each week before we start, although it will always be the same, so if you want to save it for ease of use in the future / to be able to join the room if BuzzJack is down any time between 4 and 8-ish on a Sunday, here is the shiny new link: https://sync-tube.de/room/G3URuYMG
August 25, 2024Aug 25 Author Our first session, as has been typical, covers a lot of ground, 69 songs going from August 1958 to August 1962. Future sessions won't have that many as the average song length for hit singles was much lower in the 50s and 60s than later decades, it'll probably go down to an average of about 45 songs a week. As of the time of posting there have been 1,174 Hot 100 #1s to date in total so we'll probably have somewhere around 25 of these sessions. Here's our first batch of potential #2 bonus songs. I don't know many of them so I think I'll abstain from nominating for now. Hopefully at least some of you guys know enough to pick out some decent ones x (I think we used to allow 3 nominations each when we did the UK #1s? so we'll go with that again) Bill Parsons - The All American Boy Bobby Darin - Dream Lover Bobby Day - Rockin' Robin Bobby Rydell - Wild One Bobby Vee - Run To Him Brook Benton - The Boll Weevil Song The Brothers Four - Greenfields Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That The Coasters - Charlie Brown Connie Francis - My Happiness The Crests - 16 Candles Dee Clark - Raindrops Della Reese - Don't You Know? Dick And Dee Dee - The Mountain's High Dion - The Wanderer The Dovells - Bristol Stomp The Drifters - There Goes My Baby Elvis Presley - (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love The Everly Brothers - Bird Dog The Everly Brothers - Problems Ferrante & Teicher - Exodus Floyd Cramer - Last Date The Impalas - Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go Jimmy Jones - Handy Man Johnny Tillotson - Poetry In Motion Jørgen Ingmann - Apache Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen - Midnight In Moscow Lloyd Price - Personality The Miracles - Shop Around Paul Anka - Puppy Love Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder Pérez Prado - Patricia Phil Phillips - Sea Of Love Ritchie Valens - Donna Roy Orbison - Crying Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely Sam Cooke - Chain Gang Shep And The Limelites - Daddy's Home The Ventures - Walk, Don't Run (I am trusting that Wikipedia's articles listing each year's Hot 100 top 10 hits are accurate and complete to compile these lists x)
August 25, 2024Aug 25 If someone would like to run a weekly poll to vote on the best and worst songs of the sessions go for it and I'll continue the tradition of kicking off each session with a repeat play of the poll winner from the previous session. (maybe such polls can be put in the International Charts forum, which I guess this thread maybe should be in too but shhh our community is usually based here x)You can always use this thread as a home base and then post links to the various polls from the International Charts forum here! :D
August 25, 2024Aug 25 Away this week and not sure how much signal I’ll have but I will of course join if I can. I’ll aim to avoid UK Top 3s in my nominations. Jim Reeves - He’ll Have To Go Sam Cooke - Chain Gang The Ventures - Walk, Don’t Run
August 25, 2024Aug 25 Johnny Tillotson - Poetry In Motion The Coasters - Charlie Brown Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
August 25, 2024Aug 25 Ferrante & Teicher - Exodus Johnny Tillotson - Poetry In Motion The Ventures - Walk, Don’t Run
August 25, 2024Aug 25 may as well try for some instrumental hits whilst they’re briefly available x Jørgen Ingmann - Apache Floyd Cramer - Last Date Ferrante & Teicher - Exodus
August 25, 2024Aug 25 Author Good that we have a few sets of nominations - I guess just having 2 mentions will be enough to get a play at least for now x Kicking off in half an hour :jump: https://sync-tube.de/room/G3URuYMG
August 25, 2024Aug 25 Dion - The Wanderer Roy Orbison - Crying The Coasters - Charlie Brown I didn't know most of the ones on the list so there might be better songs I haven't chosen.
August 25, 2024Aug 25 Ritchie Valens - Donna Roy Orbison - Crying [can't believe it only made #17 here (edit: #25 even, it was the album at #17)] Sam Cooke - Chain Gang Edited August 25, 2024Aug 25 by jimwatts
August 25, 2024Aug 25 Author ...nevermind, god dammit BuzzJack sort out your spaghetti servers We did get 6 people in the room but I still didn't want to start without a couple of the regulars (mainly Suede since he did post bonus nominations). I recommend everyone who wants to attend save the link in the OP. I will do this at 4pm next Sunday whether or not the site is working xx (was considering just doing it tomorrow since it's a Bank Holiday but Jim said he couldn't make that)
August 25, 2024Aug 25 Happy for it to go ahead tomorrow if that works for most - I can make next Sunday but will miss the two Sundays after that anyway.
August 25, 2024Aug 25 I completely missed this thread so I guessed the outage was a blessing in disguise! I'll hopefully join next Sunday, but can also do tomorrow. Don't really recognise a lot of these, but I'll try Jørgen Ingmann - Apache Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen - Midnight In Moscow Roy Orbison - Crying
August 26, 2024Aug 26 I wish you better luck with this next Sunday but I'm upset at this thread being posted in UK Charts. I can understand it was likely done for greater visibility, but this would absolutely not be accepted in other areas of the website and likewise I don't accept this happening here.
August 26, 2024Aug 26 Both today and next Sun work for me I spent 20 min refreshing buzzjaxk yesterday hoping for the link But then Julian informed via FB it was cancelled
August 26, 2024Aug 26 Author I don't mind this being moved to the International Charts forum, I just put it here because that's where these threads have been for the previous sessions. I suppose everyone should now know it exists so just don't forget it's been moved now x
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