So I use the Billboard end of year to help decide which songs go in my tourney but it's been months since I looked. I assume I grabbed the top two, so my guesses are... 1. MTK and 2. IOHEFY
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:25 pm
by Tahlvin
1959 #2:
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:34 pm
by poorpete
Mack the Wang and Kurt Weill, ftw!
Bobby Darin had a goat 1959, with this, Beyond the Sea, and Dream Lover. Not many, or maybe no artist, was able to jump so easily between rock and roll and standards (maybe Ray Charles in the early 60s). And the year before his big hit was... Splish Splash. 1959, the year he leveled up.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:02 pm
by Tahlvin
1959 #1:
BTW, here's the British reply:
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:22 pm
by poorpete
It's very good I'm hesitant to admit, but it's so embarrassingly patriotic, so I'm glad it lost to "Long Black Veil" in my tourney today.
Woah, he wrote an answer song to his own song?
I got MTK right but IOHEFY was I Only Have Eyes For You which wasn't as big a hit as I thought / as it should've been
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:03 am
by Tahlvin
For 1958 #25, we have a double-sided hit, which we'll have a few of for this year:
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:32 am
by poorpete
Not bad! But here's the Orioles version from 48
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:10 am
by Tahlvin
1958 #24:
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:25 am
by Kyle
My nickname in high school.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:31 am
by Tahlvin
1958 #23 (another double-sider, this time with both songs available in one video):
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:12 am
by poorpete
Didn't include this in my tourney but maybe I should've, as I haven't listened to it in probably a decade and it's immediately stuck in my head.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:23 am
by Tahlvin
1958 #22 (another double-sider):
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 12:49 pm
by Kyle
Doncha' Think Wang Time
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:27 pm
by poorpete
Tahlvin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:08 pm
1987 #12:
Everybody Wang Fun Tonight
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:29 pm
by Tahlvin
1958 #21:
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:04 pm
by Kyle
Wang Yak
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:16 pm
by poorpete
The Coasters we're so good. King Curtis on sax, but not Yakety Sax, just the Yakety Yak sax.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:31 pm
by Kyle
King Wang on sex.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:48 pm
by Tahlvin
1958 #20:
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:15 pm
by poorpete
Bah.
bah bah bah. Bah bah bah bah. Bah bah bah bah. Bah bah bah bah At The Hop!
Fun fact Dick Clark demanded 50% of the royalties in return for playing it on AB. If he had done it a few years later he'd have been kicked out of show business.
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:00 am
by Tahlvin
1958 #19:
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:47 am
by Kyle
Wang
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 5:56 am
by Tahlvin
1958 #18:
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 5:57 am
by poorpete
Hashtag not my Jimmie Rodgers
As for Whole World, it's interesting to hear the folk movement simmer around pre-Dylan. People were into it!
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:10 am
by Tahlvin
1958 #17 (a double-sider):
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:12 am
by Kyle
Not safe.
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:34 am
by Tahlvin
1958 #16:
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:37 am
by Kyle
Twilight Wang
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:39 am
by poorpete
Platters rule.
I was today years old when... i learned that platters mean vinyl records.
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:59 am
by Tahlvin
1958 #15:
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:19 am
by Mike
poorpete wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:39 am
Platters rule.
I was today years old when... i learned that platters mean vinyl records.
Aaaaaaaaaaaah! I sing that every time! Where did we get it from?
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 12:08 pm
by Tahlvin
1958 #12:
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:05 pm
by poorpete
Classic of my childhood -- superweird song, Sheb was primarily a country artist, so him trying rock and roll and going full-novelty makes it seem like he's calling the whole genre silly. And "who where's short shorts"? Almost like an early sample.
