Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s—THE TOP 101 RESULTS THREAD

my top 10

1. Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk
2. Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too
3. Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
4. Clyde McPhatter - A Lover's Question
5. Frank Sinatra - Night And Day
6. Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil
7. Barret Strong – Money
8. Phil Phillips - Sea of Love
9. Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
10. The Rays – Silhouettes
11. Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
12. Ray Charles - What'd I Say
13. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Start Me Talkin'
14. Nat King Cole – Unforgettable
15. Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?
16. Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
17. The Drifters - There Goes My Baby
18. Jerry Lee Lewis - High School Confidential
19. Little Richard and His Band - Jenny, Jenny
20. Johnny Mathis - Wonderful Wonderful
21. Ricky Nelson - Poor Little Fool
22. Mickey and Sylvia - Love Is Strange
23. Johnny Burnette - The Train Kept A-Rollin'
24. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
25. Shirley & Lee - Let The Good Times Roll
26. Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace
27. Fats Domino – Blue Monday
28. Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart
29. Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful
30. The Coasters - Poison Ivy

31. Big Joe Turner – Shake, Rattle & Roll
32. Billie Holiday - I'm a Fool to Want You
33. Bobby Freeman - Do You Want to Dance
34. Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
35. Ella Fitzgerald - Anything Goes
36. Gene Vincent - Cat Man
37. Johnny Cash - Guess Things Happen That Way
38. Julie London – Cry Me A River
39. Mighty Sparrow — Jean and Dinah
40. Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love
41. Sam Cooke - Only Sixteen
42. The Cadillacs - Speedoo
43. The Cellos - Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman)
44. The Chords - Sh-Boom
45. The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man
46. The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night
47. The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
48. The Platters – The Great Pretender
49. The Spaniels - Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite
50. Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City

my ballot, I mean

ranked, things that placed struck out:

The Platters – The Great Pretender
Mills Brothers - Be My Life's Companion
Varetta Dillard - Mercy Mr. Percy
Wynonie Harris - Bloodshot Eyes
Eartha Kitt - I Want to Be Evil
Johnnie Ray - The Little White Cloud That Cried
Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
Rosemary Clooney - Come On-A My House
Chet Baker – My Funny Valentine
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
Les Paul & Mary Ford - How High the Moon
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie
Marty Robbins – Big Iron
The Collins Kids - Whistle Bait
The Jacks - Why Don't You Write Me?
The Five Keys - The Glory Of Love
The Phaetons - I Love My Baby
Perez Prado - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Lefty Frizzell - If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Can't We Be Friends
Nervous Norvous - Transfusion
Big Joe Turner – Shake, Rattle & Roll
Link Wray & His Ray Men - Rumble
Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters - Money Honey
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog
Johnnie Ray - Cry
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?
Doris Day - Que sera, sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Gene Vincent – Jezebel
Hank Williams – Moaning the Blues
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Chuck Berry – Maybelline
Flatt & Scruggs - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Cannonball Adderley – Autumn Leaves
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry - Better Day
Big Al Downing - Down On The Farm
Duane Eddy - Rebel Rouser
Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
Bernard Herrman - "Vertigo" Theme
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - My Baby Left Me
Donald O'Connor - Make 'Em Laugh
The Del Vikings - Come Go With Me
James Brown - Please, Please, Please
Charlie Feathers - Can't Hardly Stand It
Buck Owens - Under Your Spell Again
Del Close & John Brent - Cool
Carl Perkins – That's Right

im trying to save my outrage but i am so baffled that my number 1 didnt make the cut that i cant even

also how did les paul mary ford not make it?!!

so confused

and WHISTLE BAIT agghghg

I didn't vote or follow this thread at all but yay Flamingos!

13. Shirley Collins - The Cherry Tree Carol

this was the last song i cut, and i had such a goddam hard time with it. so beautiful. ultimately let it go mostly because i'd never heard it prior to this poll, and it's hard for me to sacrifice and old and true love in favor of something new and untried.

amazing poll Johnny, thanks!

PS: did you add my vote for Go to the Mardi Gras to the points of Mardi Gras In New Orleans? I changed the title because I thought we agreed that was the right version (recorded in the 50's), but I see you didn't change the name.

If it had made the top 101, i would've.

My own ballot

The Platters - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes*
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You*
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons*
Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk*
Link Wray & His Ray Men - Rumble*
Ray Charles - (Night Time Is) The Right Time
Barret Strong - Money*
Dinah Washington - What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle*
Phil Phillips - Sea of Love*
Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops*
Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
Jerry Butler & The Impressions - For Your Precious Love
The Chantels - Maybe
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - Peter Gunn
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - Ain't Got No Home*
Elvis Presley – That's All Right
The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do Is Dream*
Mighty Sparrow — Jean and Dinah*
Ilene Woods - A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog*
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?*
Bud Powell – Un Poco Loco
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues*
Frank Sinatra - I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall in Love*
Gene Vincent - Cat Man*
George Jones - White Lightning*
Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Harry Belafonte - Day-O
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'*
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues*
Johnny Mathis - Chances Are
Ken Nordine - Flibberty Jib
Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil*
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Tonight (West Side Story)
Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con Dios
Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It
Marty Robbins - El Paso
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable*
Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium*
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You*
The Champs - Tequila*
The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman*
The Chords - Sh-Boom*
The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night*
The Isley Brothers - Shout*
The Monotones - Book of Love*
The Penguins - Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)*
The Treniers - Poontang

31/50 on my ballot made the top 101.

this is interesting

307 Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk 100 1 1 gospodin simmel
307 Elvis Presley - Baby, Let's Play House 100 1 1 whatever
307 Gene Vincent - The Night Is So Lonely 100 1 1 (fizzles the chimp) gamalielratsey
307 Professor Longhair - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand 100 1 1 PeteScholtes

i'd like to fap with the other three. it's worth a night out.

Take that, Rudipherous.

If anything, I resent losing last place.

I didn't vote for Elvis. I've been regretting it a little as we've counted down, and my internal jukebox is telling me That's Alright Mama is his best song.

It was between That's All Right and Mystery Train for me. Ending up going with the former, but was totally happy to see the latter take #6.

quick observations

1. thanks johnny and seandalai
2. phil philips - what??
3. no dion and the belmonts :-(
4. the capris - way too low
5. suspicious of hivemind love for flamingos. it's good but it's not 'smoke gets in your eyes' or a host of others
6. great how the electronic 50s made such an impact in the poll.
7. 50s jazz should get its own poll (but i'm not volunteering)
8. thanks johnny and seandalai - if I can paraphrase IK, it's been a week of exceptional added value.
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92iwC-xI3mE

phil philips what what?

Agree there are better renditions of "Sea of Love" than the original, but the original is solid.

no wai

phil philips' version is one of my favorite songs of all time, no one else even comes close.

The Phil Phillips version is the one, I think.

hivemind #1! My ballot did exceedingly well. The only two of my top ten not to place were the Marcels' "Blue Moon", & the Edsels' "Rama Lama Ding Dong". You can see from those two how my tastes run.

ashamed to say, as a 50s lover, i'd never heard 'sea of love' before. my life has not changed one iota since hearing it.

yeah I wasn't really blow away by it either...? Actually most of the stuff in the top 10 is fairly "blah" to me

im trying to save my outrage but i am so baffled that my number 1 didnt make the cut that i cant even

also how did les paul mary ford not make it?!!

so confused

― lemon kerrang! (jjjusten), Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:42 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

given the diversity of material in this poll, throw me to the lions for suggesting this but could a poll within a poll work? so the first votes would be on the full long list, in order to get to a short list of, say, 100.

I don't want to have too many "as god is my witness, I swear I thought turkeys could fly" moments here, but I am kinda shocked "Blue Suede Shoes" didn't make the top 100.

My moment like that is "El Paso".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPEfdjvTqE

hey WmC which blue suede shoes version are you repping for?

Carl Perkins'

The consensus that Professor Longhair belongs in the upper echelons of all things self-evidently awesome, with Chuck Berry or Elvis: not as strong as I'd thought.

A small sample of 40 people will always produce eccentric results. (I'm being a hypocrite here, seeing as I post supplemental lists for the 1001 polls, and they're based on one guy's selections.)

my ballot (ranked):

John Cage - Williams Mix
Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the 2nd Moon
Edgard Varèse - Poème électronique
Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
Cecil Taylor - Excursion on a Wobbly Rail
Ray Charles - I Got A Woman
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge
Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'
Ray Charles - What'd I Say
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Etude
György Ligeti - Artikulation
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
The Isley Brothers - Shout
James Brown - Please, Please, Please
Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?
Charles Mingus - Better Git It In Your Soul
Moondog – All Is Loneliness
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Sittin' on Top of the World
Johnny Burnette - The Train Kept A-Rollin'
Hank Williams - Settin' the Woods on Fire
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
Miles Davis - So What
Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless
The Five Blobs - The Blob
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Take Five
Link Wray & His Ray Men - Rumble
Johnny Guitar Watson - Space Guitar
The Everly Brothers – Bye Bye Love
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
Hank Williams - Hey, Good Lookin'
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
The Penguins - Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love
Sonny Rollins – St. Thomas
Buddy Holly - Oh Boy!
Sam Cooke - You Send Me
Dale Hawkins - Suzie Q

yeah it got my vote WmC, much as i think elvis's version rocks better.

house point for picking the correct chuck berry track, absolutely clean glasses :)

I voted for both "Blue Suede Shoes" & "El Paso" but I can see why they'd be ones to give. I'm puzzled about Carl Perkins' legacy; as a kid I read lots of George Harrison interviews where he'd rep Perkins as his main influence, but even in those days (the late 1980s) his profile was nothing.

A rough guess, but I'd say Miles Davis suffered the most from vote-splitting. Or at least Kind of Blue.

xp: But yeah, thanks Johnny Fever and seandalai! Hugely entertaining.

Algerian Goalkeeper/pfunkboy's list:

John Coltrane – Blue Train
The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle
Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners
Johnny Guitar Watson - Space Guitar
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Miles Davis – So What
Charles Mingus - Better Git It In Your Soul
Charles Mingus - Haitian Fight Song
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Charles Mingus – Fables of Faubus
John Coltrane - Cousin Mary
John Coltrane - Lush Life
Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart
Sun Ra – Kingdom of Not
Sun Ra and the Cosmic Rays – Dreaming
Woody Guthrie - Why, Oh Why
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Nica's Dream
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk - In Walked Bud
Cannonball Adderley – Autumn Leaves
Cecil Taylor - Excursion on a Wobbly Rail
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - The Blues Walk
Flatt & Scruggs - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Gene Vincent – Jezebel
Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas
James Brown - Please, Please, Please
James Brown - Try Me
Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love
Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap
Miles Davis - Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Miles Davis - Blue in Green
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
Miles Davis – Gone, Gone, Gone
Ornette Coleman - Congeniality
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
Sonny Rollins – St. Thomas
Thelonious Monk - Ruby, My Dear
The Three Cats - Yellow Cherries
Pierre Schaeffer - Erotic
Buchanan and Goodman - The Flying Saucer
Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium
Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans
The Champs - Tequila
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Etude
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge
John Cage - 4'33"
Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
John Fahey – Sligo River Blues

Thanks to all, lovely poll!

(pfunkboy's ballot = ranked up through Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart, then unranked after that)

and yes, this has been my favorite ILM poll I think.

can we do the 60s next?

60s have been done before, but it was a long time ago and fuck if I can find it in the archives.

AH! ILX 60'S POLL PART ONE - THE SONGS

That's the thread with "The Mysterians"

that 60s list has like no jazz :(

i'd like to fap with the other three. it's worth a night out.

I know the jukebox!

tough on morale, being ringmaster for that 60s poll

I think the results of another 60s trax poll would be sorta different now, but I may not be in a position much longer to run big polls. (possible job, yay! no time for poll running, boo!)

I have to wonder what the hell else was occupying my time in the summer of 2006 that prevented me from voting in/participating in the 60s poll. I should've been all over it!