Living Together, Polling Together — it's the BURT BACHARACH SONGBOOK Ballot Poll

Gonna have to scramble. With a few exceptions, probably going to vote for mostly obvious stuff, especially early stuff on Scepter, especially if Paul Griffin is on it.

Your daily reminder to vote! With a low turnout, everybody who votes can be sure their ballot will carry a lot of weight.

Okay, thanks. Slowly compiling a ballot.

Sent!

rad

I count a dozen or so unballoted posters upthread who said they'd vote or vaguely indicated interest -- please give a few minutes to hammer out your ballot! NV, Morbs, rushomancy, Euler, Darin, et al...

I am putting one together right now!

Promises, promises.

Obviously the results thread has to be called One Less Poll to Answer.

dunno if ongoing life crash will permit

voted

Sorry, Morbs, hope things improve for you.

Highest-ranked song with all points from one version: {redacted} place
Lowest-ranked song with points from more than one artist: 60th place

Make it easy on yourself, Doctor.

One of the weirder bootlegs in my music collection is Zumpano on the radio on “Burt Bacharach” night in 1999 playing:

24 Hours From Tulsa
Anyone Who Had A Heart
What The World Needs Now
Always Something There To Remind Me
My Little Red Book

It’s a fun listen if nothing else, and I can’t remember where I got it.

OK, I have a better sense of my work schedule (I hope). The thing is, my work client has newly-discovered cancer and is putting 95% of her time and attention into dealing with that, so a big project that should have been finished on the 1st isn't getting finished until next week. My part should be mostly done by Monday, fingers crossed. So I'm calling a hard deadline on ballots: MONDAY, MAY 13th by end of day. I will work on tabulations and artwork Tuesday and roll out results starting Wednesday.

Sorry this is dragging out past a month, I hate it when these polls do that. But you have plenty of time to vote!

I have a job application and a ballot scheduled to do tomorrow/Sunday, hangover permitting. Might well just vote for the songs rather than versions tho

Haven't found the time to put together a ballot unfortunately, but here's a new interview with BB:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/10/burt-bacharach-trump-is-dangerous-my-songs-are-a-form-of-resistance?fbclid=IwAR3_2HB0-eNWHKODPiBio6ib_yJYcgOI0SP2_1uXymcs7ggrCQz_EPIP5gA

Last 3 days to vote! Do it if you're gonna do it!

already voted, but still listening and finding new stuff to be interested in

91 years old today! (or whenever Sunday arrives in the western hemisphere anyway)

Nice Guardian article btw.

Interesting article!

I am pretty sure I could stay cool and collected in the presence of any individual but Dionne Warwick would be the exception. "Anyone Who Had A Heart" is just the greatest song

Happy Burtday! Vote if you haven't already!

Up to 103 different songs, represented by 110 artists, receiving votes.

Drafting Ballot Now.

Needs To Be Said: The Rhino Box Is ALL-TIME.

Yup

Last day to vote!

Come on ILM

And there are
Only
Twenty four hours to POLL, sir

Ballot #15 received and added to the spreadsheet.

I just want to say that one of these years real soon, Burt's going to die and somebody's going to say "hey we should do a ballot poll in tribute" and I'm going to be real tempted to ban that fucker if stet doesn't catch me and unmod me first.

Pretend he's dead now and vote in the memorial poll!

might do a short ballot tonight

Just sent my top 20

One song has points from seven different artists, still not enough to push it into the top 10.

"Long Day, Short Night" is the greatest song the (English) Beat never recorded.

Wm there really isn't a mu in yr email, is there?

No, it's a u.

sent

failed to perversely include Ella Fitzgerald's "Wives and Lovers"

No "Beware of the Blob," no credibility

One song has points from seven different artists, still not enough to push it into the top 10.

Going to hazard a guess that it’s ‘This Girl/Guys in Love With You’.

No "Beware of the Blob," no credibility

thought about it, left it out for accounting reasons

OK, no ballots came in overnight so this dish is DONE with 17 voters. Thank you to everyone who sent in a ballot! I could start the results right now if previous polls hadn't raised the graphics game so high.

A sense a bit of perfectionism in you, not unlike Mark Hudson.

Ah, got the wording slightly wrong, should be a *bit* of the perfectionismt

for my part, I don't ever look at the graphics in poll rollouts, with images off.

OK, I don't see any reason to delay the results, but I'm still waiting on a big work dump that is 2 weeks late at this point. If it comes in today, I'll have to pause the rollout and give 100% attention to that.

Wishin' and Votin' - the BURT BACHARACH SONGBOOK Poll Results

Good to have NV and Dr M in the polling

https://i.imgur.com/0BQjtxe.jpg

2. I Say a Little Prayer — 1027 Points, 17 Votes, 2 first-place votes
Lyric: Hal David
Aretha Franklin, 1968 single, 708 points — https://youtu.be/KtBbyglq37E
Dionne Warwick, 1967 single, 244 points — https://youtu.be/kafVkPxjLYg
Gene, from To See the Lights (1996), 88 points — https://youtu.be/G7CxOtEqOmQ
Al Green, from Truth N' Time (1978), 77 points — https://youtu.be/ZeQQGjoFdI0

lol whoops