Deathless

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 7:40 am

The Three Bells rules. Twitter users knocked it out early but it's easy listening masks beautiful vocal performances and a poignant story.

Digging this stretch of three-piece multi-gender vocal groups mixed with classic R&B rockers.

Phoebe · Post by **Phoebe** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 8:00 am

Tahlvin wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:05 am 1959 #9:

The number one song of the year!!!

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 8:17 am

It's currently being demolished by Shout

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 8:52 am

1959 #6:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:20 am

But what if I want to dream alone?

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 10:07 am

1959 #5:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 10:32 am

Wang Boy

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:39 am

1959 #4:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 11:47 am

...you can't... too easy...

PENIS!

...sorry oh god... so sorry...

WANG!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:06 pm

1959 #3:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:11 pm

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

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:25 pm

1959 #2:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:34 pm

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.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:02 pm

1959 #1:

BTW, here's the British reply:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:22 pm

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

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:03 am

For 1958 #25, we have a double-sided hit, which we'll have a few of for this year:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:32 am

Not bad! But here's the Orioles version from 48

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:10 am

1958 #24:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:25 am

My nickname in high school.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:31 am

1958 #23 (another double-sider, this time with both songs available in one video):

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:12 am

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.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:23 am

1958 #22 (another double-sider):

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 12:49 pm

Doncha' Think Wang Time

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:27 pm

Tahlvin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:08 pm 1987 #12:

Everybody Wang Fun Tonight

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:29 pm

1958 #21:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:04 pm

Wang Yak

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:16 pm

The Coasters we're so good. King Curtis on sax, but not Yakety Sax, just the Yakety Yak sax.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:31 pm

King Wang on sex.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:48 pm

1958 #20:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 5:15 pm

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.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:00 am

1958 #19:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:47 am

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 5:56 am

1958 #18:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 5:57 am

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!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:10 am

1958 #17 (a double-sider):

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:12 am

Not safe.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:34 am

1958 #16:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:37 am

Twilight Wang

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:39 am

Platters rule.

I was today years old when... i learned that platters mean vinyl records.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:59 am

1958 #15:

Post by **Mike** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:19 am

poorpete wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:39 am Platters rule.

I was today years old when... i learned that platters mean vinyl records.

Nice!

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:44 am

1958 #14:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:56 am

Boj a Teg

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:30 am

1958 #13 (a double-sider):

Post by **Mike** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:40 am

Kyle wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:56 amBoj a Teg

Aaaaaaaaaaaah! I sing that every time! Where did we get it from?

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 12:08 pm

1958 #12:

poorpete · Post by **poorpete** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:05 pm

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.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:15 pm

Mike wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:40 am
Kyle wrote: ↑Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:56 amBoj a Teg
Aaaaaaaaaaaah! I sing that every time! Where did we get it from?

I remember sitting in the station wagon and singing it the normal way, and then you said, "I think I can sing it backward." And then you did.

Tahlvin · Post by **Tahlvin** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:17 pm

1958 #11:

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:23 pm

Conwang Twitty