Posted October 13, 200717 yr 1962-1963 RETRO RECORDS OF THE YEAR :cheer: :yahoo: :w00t: :dance: YES THE RETRO RECORD OF THE YEARS (UP UNTIL 1997) GAME HERE!!! Vote for your favourite Top20 (or minimum Top10) from the list of 50 Records from 1962-1963. Your First choice (Favourite) song will score 20 pts, 2nd = 19 Pts....down to 20th = 1 point. Please state in your list if you are scoring by position or Points. I am playing this game across both BuzzJack & UKMix. Therefore if you vote please can you only vote in one of the sites threads especially if you have a different name on each site (like me). For each year 1964 to 1997 inclusive & games (*) for the years 1960-1; 1962-3 & two alphabetically track name split lists for the 1950s. There are 50 tracks that I feel best represent the year* in popular music. This certainly does not always mean the biggest hits of the year, but tracks (including album tracks) that over time have come to best represent the year. Please note songs will only feature once for the most well-known or definitive version of a song (example “Without You” will only appear in 1972 for Nilsson, but will be absent in 1994 for Mariah Carey). Also please don’t mention that I have put the song in the wrong year as the year the track was recorded, released (on an album), a hit (peaked) in the UK, a hit (peaked) in the USA can result in three of four different answers, and there will be literally hundreds of songs that fall into that category. For each game you will have four weeks to get your votes in (two weeks for the vote from the shortlist of 50 songs, then two weeks to vote from the "Missing" songs that you have nominated). I will be posting two of these Games a Week at the weekend. (VOTING RULES FOR SPECIFIC GAME 1950s: Top25 make the Record of The Decade Final; 1960s & 1990s: Top 4 From Each Game make the Final, 5th to 10th make the Play-offs; 1970s & 1980s: Top 3 each year make the Final, 4th to 8th make the Play-Offs. PLUS: Your choices of missing songs being included in the relevant Play-offs) Phase 2: The Record Of The Decades Finals will result in the following numbers making the Final 200 (1950s: Top20; 1960s: Top50, 1970s Top45; 1980s Top45; 1990s Top40), where they will be split into 4 Quarter Finals, leading to the Final 50 Songs of the Retro Record Game A: Vote for your favourite 20 (minimum 10 out of the following:) Andy Williams - Can't Get Used To Losing You Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand Beatles - Please Please Me Beatles - She Loves You Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song) Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind Bobby Vee - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions Brian Hyland - Sealed With A Kiss Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby Chris Montez - Let's Dance Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday Cliff Richard - The Next Time Cliff Richard - The Young Ones Contours - Do You Love Me Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron Crystals - He's A Rebel Dion - The Wanderer Drifters - Up On The Roof Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm Elvis Presley - Return To Sender Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry Four Seasons - Sherry Freddie and The Dreamers - You Were Made For Me Gene Pitney - Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa Gerry & The Pacemakers - How Do You Do It? Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone Isley Brothers (or Beatles) - Twist & Shout Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire Ketty Lester - Love Letters Kingsmen - Louie Louie Lesley Gore - It's My Party Little Eva - The Locomotion Marvelettes - Please Mr Postman Mr Acker Bilk - Strangers On The Shore Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Ray Charles - I Just Can't Stop Loving You Ronettes - Be My Baby Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet Shadows - Wonderful Land Skeeter Davis - End Of The World Smokey Robinson & Miracles - You Really Got A Hold On Me Tornados - Telstar B: Nominate Two songs from 1962-1963 MISSING from this 50 track shortlist. The Top 4 Songs from each 1960s Game (1960-1, 1962-3, annually thereafter) will go through to the Record Of The Decade Final. The songs finishing 5th - 10th position will go into a Play-off, where the Top18 Songs will join the other 32 in the Final. While your selection of missing songs will be put to a vote with the winning track (or tracks in event of a tie) joining the Record of The Decade Play-Off. You have until Saturday 27th October to vote for your favourite Top 20 (minimum Top 10) songs of the Year. I will then reveal the results of the vote along with your selections of the "missing songs" from the original list for you to vote for an extra song for a place in the Record of The Decade (1960s) play-offs
October 13, 200717 yr Author 1st Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone (20 Pts) 2. Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There 3. Beatles - She Loves You 4. Tornados - Telstar 5. Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire 6. Andy Williams - Can't Get Used To Losing You 7. Lesley Gore - It's My Party 8. Beatles - Please Please Me 9. Cliff Richard - The Next Time 10. Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 11. Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm 12. Kingsmen - Louie Louie 13. Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song) 14. Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions 15. Smokey Robinson & Miracles - You Really Got A Hold On Me 16. Skeeter Davis - End Of The World 17. Ketty Lester - Love Letters 18. Shadows - Wonderful Land 19. Elvis Presley - Return To Sender 20. Contours - Do You Love Me MISSING: The Beatles - Love Me Do The Beatles - All My Loving
October 13, 200717 yr 1. Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 2. Little Eva - The Locomotion 3. Lesley Gore - It's My Party 4. Beatles - She Loves You 5. Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again 6. Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love 7. Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet 8. Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You 9. Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song) 10. Marvelettes - Please Mr Postman Missing: Beatles - From Me To You Chubby Checker/Bobby Ridell - Jingle Bell Rock
October 13, 200717 yr Kingsmen - Louie Louie................................ 20 pts (but this was a hit in '64) Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions................... (wasnt this also in 64?) Shadows - Wonderful Land Andy Williams - Can't Get Used To Losing You Ketty Lester - Love Letters Brian Hyland - Sealed With A Kiss Skeeter Davis - End Of The World Bobby Vee - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes Cliff Richard - The Next Time Beatles - Please Please Me Cliff Richard - The Young Ones Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby Ronettes - Be My Baby Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone Smokey Robinson & Miracles - You Really Got A Hold On Me Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You Gene Pitney - Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa Gerry & The Pacemakers - How Do You Do It? Tornados - Telstar Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet nominate........ johnny dankworth 'african waltz' and the shadows 'atlantis'
October 13, 200717 yr Author Kingsmen - Louie Louie................................ 20 pts (but this was a hit in '64) Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions................... (wasnt this also in 64?) Kingsmen - Louie Louie peaked at USA#2 in December 1963; Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions peaked at US#3 in Oct 1962. When compiling this game there were more great songs for 1964, than for 1962/3, hence I looked to move the odd UK hit from 1964, that would fit into another year. There are several examples of this in other years where if I've been able to move the odd song from a strong year to a weaker year I've done so. :lol:
October 13, 200717 yr 1. Beatles - She Loves You 2. Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise 3. Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone 4. Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You 5. Gene Pitney - Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa 6. Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire 7. Elvis Presley - Return To Sender 8. Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 9. Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 10. Andy Williams - Can't Get Used To Losing You 11. Brian Hyland - Sealed With A Kiss 12. Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There 13. Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet 14. Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm 15. Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love 16. Tornados – Telstar 17. Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions 18. Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again 19. Chris Montez - Let's Dance 20. Lesley Gore - It's My Party
October 13, 200717 yr 1. Beatles - She Loves You (20pts) 2. Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire 3. Kingsmen - Louie Louie 4. Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 5. The Beatles - Twist & Shout 6. Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet 7. Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions 8. Beatles - Please Please Me 9. Contours - Do You Love Me 10. Chris Montez - Let's Dance 11. Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron 12. Little Eva - The Locomotion 13. Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There 14. Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone 15. Dion - The Wanderer 16. Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You 17. Ronettes - Be My Baby 18. Lesley Gore - It's My Party 19. Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind 20. Elvis Presley - Return To Sender Nominations Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas - Do You Want to Know a Secret? The Surfaris - Wipeout
October 14, 200717 yr Kingsmen - Louie Louie peaked at USA#2 in December 1963; Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions peaked at US#3 in Oct 1962. When compiling this game there were more great songs for 1964, than for 1962/3, hence I looked to move the odd UK hit from 1964, that would fit into another year. There are several examples of this in other years where if I've been able to move the odd song from a strong year to a weaker year I've done so. :lol: lol..thats stretching it abit innit? 'in the usa'?...:lol: fair do's :)
October 14, 200717 yr Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There 20 pts Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire Ray Charles - I Just Can't Stop Loving You Isley Brothers (or Beatles) - Twist & Shout Dion - The Wanderer Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand Beatles - She Loves You Skeeter Davis - End Of The World Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You Tornados - Telstar Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Little Eva - The Locomotion Kingsmen - Louie Louie Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain Drifters - Up On The Roof
October 14, 200717 yr Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 20 pts Beatles - She Loves You Elvis Presley - Return To Sender Gerry & The Pacemakers - How Do You Do It? Shadows - Wonderful Land Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire Freddie and The Dreamers - You Were Made For Me Brian Hyland - Sealed With A Kiss Beatles - Please Please Me Ray Charles - I Just Can't Stop Loving You Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You Dion - The Wanderer Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise Gene Pitney - Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love Four Seasons - Sherry nominate 2 Heinz - Just like Eddie Rolling Stones - I wanna be your man
October 27, 200717 yr Author Many Thanks to the 20 of you who voted The 1962-3 Record Of The Year Results are: Position / Artist - Song Title / Points 50th Mr Acker Bilk - Strangers On The Shore 5 49th Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby 12 48th Freddie and The Dreamers - You Were Made For Me 14 46th Chris Montez - Let's Dance 17 46th Four Seasons - Sherry 17 45th Ketty Lester - Love Letters 20 44th Cliff Richard - The Next Time 24 43rd Drifters - Up On The Roof 29 42nd Bobby Vee - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes 35 41st Smokey Robinson & Miracles - You Really Got A Hold On Me 36 39th Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet 39 39th Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You 39 38th Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday 40 36th Marvelettes - Please Mr Postman 40 36th Skeeter Davis - End Of The World 40 35th Gerry & The Pacemakers - How Do You Do It? 44 34th Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry 46 33rd Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron 47 32nd Crystals - He's A Rebel 48 31st Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet 51 29th Andy Williams - Can't Get Used To Losing You 54 29th Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 54 27th Gene Pitney - Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa 61 27th Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain 61 26th Tornados - Telstar 67 24th Contours - Do You Love Me 68 24th Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm 68 22nd Betty Everett - It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song) 69 22nd Cliff Richard - The Young Ones 69 21st Brian Hyland - Sealed With A Kiss 72 20th Dion - The Wanderer 73 19th Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise 74 18th Shadows - Wonderful Land 78 17th Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again 81 16th Little Eva - The Locomotion 83 15th Lesley Gore - It's My Party 94 14th Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone 111 13th Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love 128 12th Elvis Presley - Return To Sender 129 11th Isley Brothers (or Beatles) - Twist & Shout 130 The following songs qualify for the Record Of The Decade (1960s) play-offs 10th Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions 131 8th Ronettes - Be My Baby 134 8th Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind 134 7th Kingsmen - Louie Louie 137 6th Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There 145 5th Beatles - Please Please Me 148 While the Top 4 Songs of 1962-3 all qualify for Record Of The Decade (1960s) Final 4th Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You 166 3rd Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire 230 2nd Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 267 1st Beatles - She Loves You 280 I will reveal the Missing 1962-3 Nominations for you to vote on next.....
October 27, 200717 yr Author 1962-3 Missing Nominations are: Beach Boys ~ Surfin' USA Beatles - All My Loving Beatles - From Me To You Beatles - Love Me Do Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas - Do You Want to Know a Secret? Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas - Bad To Me Bob Dylan ~ A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Chubby Checker/Bobby Ridell - Jingle Bell Rock Four Seasons - Walk Like A Man Heinz - Just like Eddie Johnny Dankworth - African Waltz Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him Martha & the Vandellas - Heat wave Nat King Cole with George Shearing - Let There Be Love Rolling Stones - I wanna be your man Shadows - Atlantis Shirley Bassey - I (Who Have Nothing) Surfaris - Wipeout Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight Please vote for your five favourites in order (1st, 2nd, etc) from that list of nominations within the next two weeks. The winning song will qualify for the Plays offs of the Record Of Decade (1960s)
October 27, 200717 yr Author 1st Beatles - All My Loving (5 Pts) 2nd Shirley Bassey - I (Who Have Nothing) 3rd Beatles - Love Me Do 4th Bob Dylan ~ A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 5th Nat King Cole with George Shearing - Let There Be Love (1 Pt)
October 27, 200717 yr Shadows - Atlantis..............................................5pts Johnny Dankworth - African Waltz Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki Beatles - Love Me Do Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas - Bad To Me
October 27, 200717 yr Beatles - Love Me Do 5 pts Beatles - From Me To You Rolling Stones - I wanna be your man Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas - Do You Want to Know a Secret? Heinz - Just like Eddie
October 27, 200717 yr Beatles - All My Loving (5 Pts) Beatles - Love Me Do Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Shirley Bassey - I (Who Have Nothing) Beach Boys - Surfin' USA
October 28, 200717 yr Surfaris - Wipeout Shirley Bassey - I (Who Have Nothing) Beach Boys ~ Surfin' USa Bob Dylan ~ A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Beatles - Love Me Do
November 10, 200717 yr Author 1962-3 Missing Songs Vote: Results Thanks to the 14 of you who voted on the missing Songs from 1962-3: Position / Artist - Song Title / Points Scored 20th Chubby Checker/Bobby Ridell - Jingle Bell Rock 0 19th Heinz - Just like Eddie 2 18th Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas - Do You Want to Know a Secret? 3 16th Nat King Cole with George Shearing - Let There Be Love 4 16th Johnny Dankworth - African Waltz 4 14th Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas - Bad To Me 5 14th Shadows - Atlantis 5 13th Four Seasons - Walk Like A Man 6 12th Rolling Stones - I wanna be your man 8 10th Beatles - From Me To You 10 10th Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him 10 8th Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki 11 8th Martha & the Vandellas - Heat wave 11 7th Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight 13 5th Bob Dylan ~ A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 14 5th Surfaris - Wipeout 14 4th Shirley Bassey - I (Who Have Nothing) 15 3rd Beatles - All My Loving 17 2nd Beach Boys ~ Surfin' USA 23 So going through to the 1960s Record of The Decade Play-offs is: 1st Beatles - Love Me Do 35
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