Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1963 poll

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Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1960 poll
Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1961 poll
Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1962 poll

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1 9 The Ronettes - Be My Baby	9
11 824 Martha and The Vandellas - Heat Wave	7
16 1015 The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird	4
4 100 The Beatles - She Loves You	4
8 567 Roy Orbison - In Dreams	3
6 285 Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire	2
10 777 The Crystals = Then He Kissed Me	2
22 1350 The Jaynetts - Sally, Go 'Round the Roses	1
29 1940 The Beatles - Twist and Shout	1
20 1145 Bob Dylan - Masters of War	1
38 2674 Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome	1
17 1028 The Beach Boys - Surfin' U.S.A.	1
21 1266 Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right	1
14 852 The Beatles - Please Please Me	1
5 255 The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)	1
9 674 The Drifters - On Broadway	1
30 1963 James Brown - Prisoner of Love	0
31 2012 The Ronettes - Baby, I Love You	0
32 2036 Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over	0
33 2063 Marvin Gaye - Can I Get a Witness	0
34 2115 Lesley Gore - It's My Party	0
15 952 Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall	0
35 2180 Stevie Wonder - Fingertips	0
36 2304 Bobby Bare - Detroit City	0
37 2499 Henri Salvador - Syracuse	0
2 26 The Kingsmen - Louie Louie	0
39 2765 Rufus Thomas - Walking the Dog	0
3 40 The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand	0
28 1939 Jan and Dean - Dead Man's Curve	0
13 835 The Chiffons - He's So Fine	0
12 828 The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There	0
18 1061 The Surfaris - Wipe Out	0
19 1085 The Beach Boys - In My Room	0
7 357 Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind	0
23 1409 The Chiffons - One Fine Day	0
24 1462 Bob Dylan - Girl from the North Country	0
25 1617 The Four Seasons - Walk Like a Man	0
26 1643 Peter, Paul and Mary - Blowin' in the Wind	0
27 1654 Jan and Dean - Surf City	0
40 2793 Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters - Cry Baby	0

― Bee OK, Thursday, 4 December 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link

we are finally back.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 4 December 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link

Be my baby beats everything always

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link

Pretty much, yeah.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link

Wow, what a list.

Bird, bird.

― forbodingly titled It's True! It's True! (Eazy), Thursday, 4 December 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link

SURFIN' BIRD

― paolo, Thursday, 4 December 2014 08:42 (nine years ago) link

in dreams in a heart beat

― g simmel, Thursday, 4 December 2014 10:18 (nine years ago) link

Hearing "She Loves You" for the first time blew my little 7 year old mind and changed my life.

― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link

Da Doo Ron Ron is so much better than Be My Baby fyi

― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link

She Loves You

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link

"Surfin' Bird". No contest.

This is the beginning of the girl group golden age, but there are soooooooooo many better songs than those represented here.

― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link

"HEAT WAVE" THO

― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link

also i'm a huge jens lekman fan so

― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link

Da Doo Ron Ron is so much better than Be My Baby fyi

This is not an opinion I share. At all. There are a lot more songs that have simply been beaten to death for me on this list than on the '62 list, but I don't think I'll ever not want to hear "Be My Baby."

Off now to find out what the hell "Syracuse" by Henri Salvador is.

― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link

Holy crap, this video is absolutely wonderful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp_ETuS-_gw

― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link

there are at least 20 perfect songs here (and that's a low estimate) but 'be my baby' still wins.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link

Heat Wave barely over Surfin' Bird

― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link

Da Doo Ron Ron is so much better than Be My Baby fyi

― Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Thursday, December 4, 2014 11:53 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I dunno, I think the opening to Mean Streets would lose something if it was set to "Da Doo Ron Ron."

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link

I think the main problem with this lineup is that, as someone mentioned, many of these have been overplayed to the point where I can't even hear them on their own merits anymore. Why does '63 seem to be the year where the oldies canon starts in earnest?

― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 December 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link

^^^ Beatles.

― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 4 December 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link

good year,

heat wave

― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Friday, 5 December 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link

Sally Go 'Round The Roses is by far the most haunting song here, also not overplayed like (alas) so many of these. Runner-up goes to Fingertips Parts I and II.

― agincourtgirl, Friday, 5 December 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link

Fun fact: the drummer on "Fingertips," Freddie Waits, went on to work with Bill Dixon, Andrew Hill, and Pharaoh Sanders, among others.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 5 December 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link

i love the run from "On Broadway" to "Heat Wave" have a Beatles song then the excellent "He's So Fine" and the Beatles again.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 6 December 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link

"Ring of Fire." I wore out all the Spector stuff.

― clemenza, Saturday, 6 December 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link

(Would love to have a good copy of that Life. Seems to run around $40 online.)

― clemenza, Saturday, 6 December 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link

The "Syracuse" video is astonishing, thanks Dan Peterson. Cool music too.

from this list for me, Jaynetts vs. Please Please Me.

some (only some) serious contenders not on the list:
Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis
Our Day Will Come - Ruby & the Romantics
That's How Heartaches are Made - Baby Washington

― Vic Perry, Saturday, 6 December 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 8 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

ended up voting for "On Broadway."

― Bee OK, Monday, 8 December 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

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