US #1s of 1964

except
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/The_Freewheelin%27_Bob_Dylan.jpg

in 3....2....1....

and
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Night_Beat_cover.jpg

oh let's just say that american music is always better, come on.

not that this needs saying but Geir totally wrong as usual.

Off the top of my head, American albums released 1963:

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz and João Gilberto
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 - Sam Cooke (recorded but not released until 1985) <<<THIS ALBUM IS FUCKING AMAZING
Sam Cooke - Night Beat <<<BUT THIS ALBUM IS EVEN MORE TOTALLY FUCKING AMAZING

lolz x-posts

suck on it world
http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/americanflag01.jpg

still might have to vote Hard Day's Night though, haha

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:p16AcBevnVes1M:http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003BD7.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

yeah it's def. hard day's night ... The Beatles were just Americans in disguise though.

Walk On By is a good song from this year, but it didn't make number one. I voted Rag Doll.

The lyrics of "She Loves You" are great.

This poll has been in the back of my mind today even while off the board, really really bothering me. Part of me didn't feel I'd heard enough of these songs to comment and was so in awe of others who had such fine things to say here. Beatles were too much a part of my childhood to ignore here, please put them in a Yahtzee can and shake the dice and pick any one of these Beatles tracks as my vote I don't care which one it is, here.

But someone said something really interesting about a Supremes track here that made me pause. I'm going to play "Come See About Me" and give it some thought. Also too drunk to pick a Beatles track. Please someone pick a Beatles track and vote for me?

I admire you all so much for participating. 1964 was a long ass time ago.

Also Shakey, I've been wanting to say this for awhile now but "Kitchen Paper Towel" is goddamn kickass screen name and I never would have thought of it myself and I salute you.

Thanking U.

OOOOOOH DIANA ROSS BABY she can take me home any TIME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PycKSdKG_74

Better believe it, bootchez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kge_Krzuegs

I mean really! Elvis can go eat one!

tylerw so otm in this thread

especially about the Beatles being secret Americans

got love for plenty of these but it's "rag doll"

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― k3vin k., Freitag, 12. Juni 2009 01:08 (2 days ago) Bookmark

i wish i'd never had read anything about the songs history and the lyrics :(

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

xp Red Bird Records

That was the label Leiber & Stoller started. They released both "Chapel of Love" and "Leader of the Pack" in '64.

got love for plenty of these but it's "rag doll"

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― k3vin k., Freitag, 12. Juni 2009 01:08 (2 days ago) Bookmark

i wish i'd never had read anything about the songs history and the lyrics :(

― meisenfek, Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:29 AM (Yesterday)

why do you say?

goddam how great is ringo on "i feel fine"? some kinda faux-latin thing, just swings like hell.

why do you say?
― my god, it's full of straws! (k3vin k.), Montag, 15. Juni 2009 05:51 (17 hours ago) Bookmark

banalizes child labour.
on the other hand: agatha christie wrote a book called '10 little niggers'.

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:( @ no one else picking "Money Can't Buy Me Love"

well, the three songs that didn't get any votes are the ones I've never heard ...

You've never heard "Doo Wah Diddy"?

"And there she was just a-walkin' down the street/ Singin' doo-wah-diddy diddy-dum diddy-doo"

lolz yeah doesn't everybody know this song?!?

oops, yes i've heard that song. i was even in a band that played it. for some reason i thought the mandred mann was a cover? is that the original?

It's a cover, but the original isn't nearly as well known.

so manfred mann's is the one they play on oldies stations? lol, i don't think i've ever known that.

" (Beatles still in their "flippin' lousy" stage), "

bite your tongue! the more i revisit early beatles the more i realize what stellar musicians they were right from the get go. not to mention what a really fantastic infections bouncy energy they had in their early days. shame i'm too late to add a 10th vote for "she loves you"

do wah diddy diddy is a pretty incredible and great song, but so are another 10 or so of these songs

I removed the Beatles because they suck up too much air. Good year.

I hated "She Loves You" as a kid, still hate it

YEAH YEAH YEAH

lol

Now these are hits..

"chapel of love" too low, "hello dolly!" too high. i'm straight btw

I know a guy who played on “Chapel of Love.” /streetteam

Also never tire of the story of how it saved, and then led to the destruction of, Leiber and Stoller’s record labels.

Which also messed up some projects of the guy I know, but he bounced back, just like them.

Because of George Goldner's gambling + the Mafia?

Yeah. I see you’ve read about that.

You and I- and dow, to some extent- have been posting in parallel about that without ever actually colliding.

So I see! Reading my old posts can be very informative to me, since I'll often forget what I read just 2-3 years back.

You and me both, brother! Like I was saying in another context, these days I am older than Mr. Atoz.