Posted September 22, 2024Sep 22 In lieu of the previous SyncTube sessions' weekly polls cutting each week's songs down to a list of 10 options to vote for because no one volunteered to do the work to make such curated lists, for our Hot 100 #1s marathon I'm just going to post one of these threads each week allowing people to vote for whichever songs they want from the full list x If you don't know what the above sentence is referring to don't worry, this thread is open to participation from anyone (although we're always open to new participants at our weekly listening sessions x), just post in the thread with up to 5 favourites and, if you want, up to 3 least favourites from the below song list. The song with the most favourite nods will get a play at the start of next week's session (and the song with the most least favourite nods will just have a permanent place on a wall of shame for funziez). Following Percy Faith's win in the first week, we have another instrumental winner with The Tornados' 'Telstar' topping the poll having been mentioned by 7 out of 9 voters. Just behind on 6 voters in 2nd place was underdog Kyu Sakamoto's 'Ue O Muite Arukō' (even as it attracted Cow to submit a vote for that song alone), and the top 3 was completed by The Beach Boys' 'I Get Around' on 5 votes. The vote for the worst of the week was less of a walkover this week, but ultimately the dishonour goes to Steve Lawrence's 'Go Away Little Girl' with 5 votes out of the 8 who nominated least favourites. Jimmy Soul's 'If You Wanna Be Happy' placed 2nd with 3 votes and there was a tie for 3rd on 2 votes each for The Four Seasons' 'Big Girls Don't Cry' and Dale & Grace's 'I'm Leaving It Up To You'. Wall of Fame Week 1 (Aug 1958-Apr 1962): Percy Faith - Theme From "A Summer Place" [7/9] Week 2 (May 1962-Aug 1964): The Tornados - Telstar [7/9] Wall of Shame Week 1 (Aug 1958-Apr 1962): Larry Verne - Mr. Custer [8/9] Week 2 (May 1962-Aug 1964): Steve Lawrence - Go Away Little Girl [5/8] This week's selection covers the 116th through 177th #1s, from mid August 1964 (The Supremes' 'Where Did Our Love Go') to mid February 1967 (The Monkees' 'I'm A Believer'). Back to being open for voting for just the one week this time as next week's session should be going ahead as scheduled. ? And The Mysterians - 96 Tears The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun The Association - Cherish Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations The Beach Boys - Help Me, Rhonda The Beatles - Eight Days A Week The Beatles - Help! The Beatles - I Feel Fine The Beatles - Paperback Writer The Beatles - Ticket To Ride The Beatles - We Can Work It Out The Beatles - Yesterday Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) The Dave Clark Five - Over And Over Donovan - Sunshine Superman Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night Freddie And The Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now Gary Lewis & The Playboys - This Diamond Ring Herman's Hermits - I'm Henry VIII, I Am Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter Johnny Rivers - Poor Side Of Town Lorne Greene - Ringo Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City The Mamas & The Papas - Monday, Monday Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy The McCoys - Hang On Sloopy The Monkees - I'm A Believer The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' The New Vaudeville Band - Winchester Cathedral Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman Petula Clark - Downtown Petula Clark - My Love The Righteous Brothers - (You're My) Soul And Inspiration The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets The Supremes - Baby Love The Supremes - Back In My Arms Again The Supremes - Come See About Me The Supremes - I Hear A Symphony The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On The Temptations - My Girl Tommy James And The Shondells - Hanky Panky The Troggs - Wild Thing Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - The Game Of Love The Young Rascals - Good Lovin'
September 22, 2024Sep 22 Author Full results from week 2: Best: Telstar x7 Ue O Muite Arukō x6 I Get Around x5 It's My Party x4 Monster Mash x3 Stranger On The Shore x3 Can't Buy Me Love x2 Dominique x2 Our Day Will Come x2 Blue Velvet Chapel Of Love A Hard Day's Night He's So Fine I Can't Stop Loving You I Want To Hold Your Hand My Boyfriend's Back Worst: Go Away Little Girl x5 If You Wanna Be Happy x3 Big Girls Don't Cry x2 I'm Leaving It Up To You x2 Blue Velvet Deep Purple Dominique Hey Paula Roses Are Red (My Love) Soldier Boy There! I've Said It Again ~ My votes for this week: Best: The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction The Beatles - Yesterday The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence Very tough to whittle down to 5 this week, I actually like 'Good Vibrations' more than 'I Get Around' which made my votes last week but couldn't quite squeeze it in! 'Paperback Writer' and 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'' also narrowly missing out and '96 Tears' was fairly close to making it in as a new discovery. Worst: Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets The Sadler thing is an order of magnitude worse than everything else so I considered nominating only that but I will also highlight the Herman's Hermits track for being pretty naff and having rather subpar vocals. (I actually liked the other Herman's Hermits track though as silly as it was). Nothing else stood out as being worse than a bit boring.
September 22, 2024Sep 22 5 favourites of the week: The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun The Beatles - Ticket To Ride Donovan - Sunshine Superman The Monkees - I'm A Believer The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black 3 least favourites of the week: Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets Very strong week...
September 22, 2024Sep 22 Best The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations The Beatles - Yesterday The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black Incredibly tough, The Sound of Silence, Downtown, My Girl, You Keep Me Hangin' On, Mr Tambourine Man and Sunshine Superman all would've made it most weeks. Worst Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter Johnny Rivers - Poor Side Of Town SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets A pro-Vietnam song was always gonna be an easy pick and Mrs Brown... had dodgy vocals, Johnny Rivers just left very little impression on me but not bad at all.
September 23, 2024Sep 23 Faves: The Beatles - Help! The McCoys - Hang On Sloopy Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack Least Faves: Tommy James And The Shondells - Hanky Panky
September 23, 2024Sep 23 oops did I miss last time's? though it wouldnt have changed the result if I did as telstar and Kyu would both have had votes from me, along with maybe Ray Charles and Beatles. This list is just insanely stuffed with classic after classic. Picking just 5 is pretty tough! The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There in the end I had to go with genuine rock classics and one personal fave, but look...No Stones, No Beatles, and I cant give any support to little-known gems like This Diamond Ring, Poor Side Of Town, Lightnin' Strikes, and so much more. I wasn't doing personal charts in this era (obv) but around a third of this list has topped my chart as oldies. Worst: Lorne Green, Green berets, and Henry VIII - though Herman's Hermits isnt quite in the same league as the other 2, it has always got on my nerves a bit given that their genuinely great pop singles didn't hit number one and these two ancient music hall songs did. The UK had the good taste not to issue them as singles....
September 23, 2024Sep 23 Author ^ I thought I'd better not pester you via PM a second week in a row, glad you have seen it anyway this week though! I did think you might have tied it for Kyu if you had voted (given it was you who first introduced me to it via BJSC!) but it is a wash if you'd have also voted for 'Telstar' anyway ofc.
September 23, 2024Sep 23 ^ I thought I'd better not pester you via PM a second week in a row, glad you have seen it anyway this week though! I did think you might have tied it for Kyu if you had voted (given it was you who first introduced me to it via BJSC!) but it is a wash if you'd have also voted for 'Telstar' anyway ofc. No worries :) Rag Doll is the one that has lost out, that would def be one of my top 5, but as no-one else voted for it..... :D
September 24, 2024Sep 24 Best: The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations The Beatles - Yesterday The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love Worst (easily): SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets
September 25, 2024Sep 25 Best The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations The Beatles - Ticket To Ride The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence Worst Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets Tommy James And The Shondells - Hanky Panky
September 25, 2024Sep 25 This is indeed very hard to narrow down. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence Beatles - We Can Work It Out Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black Petula Clark - Downtown Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Were Made For Walkin’ Bobbie Vinton - Mr Lonely Ssgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets Lorne Green - Ringo
September 26, 2024Sep 26 Best: The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman The Beatles - Yesterday Worst: SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets Tommy James And The Shondells - Hanky Panky
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Best The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun The Beatles - I Feel Fine Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' Simon & Garfunkel - The SoundsOf Silence Worst SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Author We have a tie for the winner of the best poll at the moment - not sure if there's likely to be any more voters (hello anyone reading this you can vote x), if it's still tied tomorrow afternoon I'll put up a quick flash poll.
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Sorry!! Best: Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City Did that help?
September 28, 2024Sep 28 Sure I'll contribute to this :) Best List The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love The Beatles - Help! The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love The Temptations - My Girl Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman HM: The Sounds Of Silence, These Boots Are Made For Walkin', You Keep Me Hangin' On, Come See About Me Worst List Bobbie Vinton - Mr Lonely
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