Posted October 20, 2024Oct 20 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). Once again the winner was decided by just a one vote margin, the run of 7 vote winners is broken as the leader this time only got 6 votes (perhaps because of just how many classics were on offer), that being The Doors' 'Light My Fire'. Joint second place with 5 votes each were Otis Redding's '(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay' and The Beatles' 'Something', the latter looking like they may be missing out on a poll win here with this week being their last chance but perhaps not helping themselves by having so many songs to split the votes between ('Hey Jude' also got 3 votes and 'Penny Lane' 1 vote, with no one voting for more than one song from them). The worst vote poll was even more scattered as we generally agreed there wasn't really anything that bad from the week 4 selection, the winner by way of being the only song to get more than one mention was The Rascals' 'People Got To Be Free' with 2 votes. 9 other songs claim joint 2nd place with 1 vote each. 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] Week 3 (Aug 1964-Feb 1967): Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence [7/13] Week 4 (Feb 1967-Feb 1970): The Doors - Light My Fire [6/10] 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] Week 3 (Aug 1964-Feb 1967): SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets [9/11] Week 4 (Feb 1967-Feb 1970): The Rascals - People Got To Be Free [2/6] Following today's more condensed 2 hour session including several more double A-Sides and a few longer songs, this week's list only covers the 230th through 254th #1s (so 25 #1s but 29 songs accounting for four double A-Sides), from mid February 1970 (Sly & The Family Stone's 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)' / 'Everybody Is A Star') to mid June 1971 (Honey Cone's 'Want Ads'). Voting for this should be open for 2 weeks as I plan to do the next session on Sunday 3rd November and then hopefully won't have to keep skipping weeks after that! The Beatles - For You Blue The Beatles - Let It Be The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road Bread - Make It With You Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You Dawn - Knock Three Times Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough Edwin Starr - War George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity George Harrison - My Sweet Lord The Guess Who - American Woman The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight Honey Cone - Want Ads The Jackson 5 - ABC The Jackson 5 - I'll Be There The Jackson 5 - The Love You Save Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rosie The Osmonds - One Bad Apple The Partridge Family - I Think I Love You Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Sly & The Family Stone - Everybody Is A Star Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) Three Dog Night - Joy To The World Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
October 20, 2024Oct 20 Author Full results from week 4: Best: Light My Fire x6 (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay x5 Something x5 I Heard It Through The Grapevine x4 Daydream Believer x3 Hey Jude x3 In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) x3 Respect x3 Suspicious Minds x3 Happy Together x2 Ruby Tuesday x2 Green Tambourine I Want You Back Incense And Peppermints The Letter Love Theme From "Romeo & Juliet" Mrs. Robinson Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye Ode To Billie Joe Penny Lane Sugar, Sugar Venus Worst: People Got To Be Free x2 Crimson And Clover Groovin' Harper Valley P.T.A. Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) Kind Of A Drag Sugar, Sugar Tighten Up To Sir With Love Windy ~ My votes for this week: Best: The Beatles - Let It Be The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You Edwin Starr - War George Harrison - My Sweet Lord Triple George impakt ('Isn't It A Pity' was a great discovery too) Worst: Bread - Make It With You Sly & The Family Stone - Everybody Is A Star There's again nothing outright awful this week but the Bread song was a proper snoozer and they made some choices with the backing vocals on 'Everybody Is A Star'. Considered voting for Ray Stevens too but I will give him a pass because it is not quite 'The Streak', just a bit bland x
October 20, 2024Oct 20 Best The Beatles - Let It Be The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Worst Again. nothing unless I can vote for Brotherhood Of Man
October 20, 2024Oct 20 The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You Edwin Starr - War Bread - Make It With You Worst: The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
October 20, 2024Oct 20 Best The Beatles - Let It Be Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough Edwin Starr - War Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water My Sweet Lord, Brown Sugar and American Woman just outside Worst Bread - Make It With You Sly & The Family Stone - Everybody Is A Star The Osmonds - One Bad Apple Osmonds was ahem, the bad apple here, the other two were pretty dull.
October 21, 2024Oct 21 Best: Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough The Guess Who - American Woman The Jackson 5 - ABC Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee Three Dog Night - Joy To The World Worst: nothing this time
October 21, 2024Oct 21 Best Neil Diamond - Cracklin’ Rosie The Carpenters - Close to You George Harrison - Isn’t It a Pity Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - The Tears of a Clown Worst Dawn - Knock Three Times Sly & the Family Stone - Everybody Is a Star Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful
October 21, 2024Oct 21 The Beatles - Let It Be George Harrison - My Sweet Lord The Guess Who - American Woman [this gets a shout for being the best discovery] Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Worst: The Osmonds - One Bad Apple Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful
October 21, 2024Oct 21 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown George Harrison - My Sweet Lord Edwin Starr - War The Beatles - Let It Be Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Sly & The Family Stone - Everybody Is A Star Three Dog Night - Joy To The World The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
October 21, 2024Oct 21 Best: The Beatles - Let It Be Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough George Harrison - My Sweet Lord The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water just missing out: The Tears Of A Clown Worst: The Osmonds - One Bad Apple Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful I thought 'Everybody Is A Star' was pleasant enough, and 'Joy To The World' has the iconic bullfrog opening line I remember from Heardle.
November 2, 2024Nov 2 Author Cheeky bump to anyone else who may still want to nominate, still open until 4pm tomorrow!
November 3, 2024Nov 3 Author Hmm we really could use a last minute vote here as it's currently a tie for the best :kink: edit: I decided to give tiebreak power to Bjork on SyncTube (as he hadn't voted in this already) and he picked Bridge Over Troubled Water over Let It Be x
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