Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s—NOMINATIONS THREAD

There was a fair amount of discussion during the 20th Century poll last year about how the 1950s is an incredibly rich decade for music but suffers the misfortune of getting trapped in a blind spot when it comes to discussion on music of the modern era. Out of 125 top results, only a very few were recorded prior to 1960. We chose to give the 50s their due someday. That someday is here now.

Between now and the end of Saturday June 25th, do some exploration of the decade and nominate those tracks that deserve recognition. When you've made your decisions, please post your 25 nominated tracks in this thread using the ARTIST - TRACK format. Voting will be done via email after the close of nominations (the details of which we can discuss here over the next few weeks).

If you're at a loss for ideas, the lists at RYM are always helpful:
Whole decade "top" list: http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/1950s
Whole decade "esoteric" list: http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/esoteric/single/1950s

(There are also lists in both categories for every individual year of the decade.)

For a broader and less detailed overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_in_music

(There are also entries there for individual years in the decade.)

Don't just focus on rock and pop—why would you? There's jazz, blues, country, gospel, Broadway, folk, etc. If you're not an expert, turn it into a learning experience.

Awesome idea! Bravo for doing this... Stoked to get turned on to some cool stuff. Will mull over my own collection shortly...

Ooh, excellent news. Will have to give this some thought...

Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n' Roll Trio - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
The Platters - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Teresa Brewer - Music, Music, Music
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk

5/25

I did this really quick--just went through my media library, then added three or four extra that I never got around to digitizing. It's quite arbitrary, but these are the ones I didn't give a second thought to. You've already listed the Flamingos, so I knocked them off my list, which still leaves 26--don't begrudge it to me, J.F. I will inevitably be back at some point to add a handful I missed.

Elvis Presley: “Mystery Train” (1954)
Nolan Strong & the Diablos: “Since You’re Gone” (1954)
Celia Cruz: “Mi Soncito” (1955)
Five Keys: “Close Your Eyes” (1955)
Chips: “Rubber Biscuit” (1956)
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers: “The ABC’s of Love” (1956)
Johnny Cash: “I Walk the Line” (1956)
Ray Price: “You Done Me Wrong” (1956)
Cellos: “Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman)” (1957)
Diamonds: “The Stroll” (1957)
Little Richard: “The Girl Can’t Help It” (1957)
Miller Sisters: “Got You on My Mind” (1957)
Bo Diddley: “Who Do You Love?” (1958)
Bobby Freeman: “Do You Want to Dance” (1958)
Buddy Holly: “Look at Me” (1958)
Dale Hawkins: “La-Do-Dada” (1958)
Dee & the Kool Gents: “When I Call on You” (1958)
El Dorados: “Lights Are Low” (1958)
Everly Brothers: “Problems” (1958)
Jerry Butler & the Impressions: “For Your Precious Love” (1958)
Michael Holliday: “The Story of My Life” (1958)
Pastels: “So Far Away” (1958)
Chuck Berry: “Almost Grown” (1959)
Louvin Brothers: “You’re Learning” (1959)
Miles Davis: “Flamenco Sketches” (1959)
Sheriff & the Ravels: “Shombalor” (1959)

Since I'm copy/pasting these into a spreadsheet, it would be super nice if everyone would follow that ARTIST - TRACK format I listed in the opening post. Thanks.

The Dubs - Could This Be Magic
Phil Phillips - Sea of Love
The Capris - There's a Moon Out Tonight

8/25

Youtubing through a lot of clemenza's list. Some of it's familiar, some of it isn't. All of it's good. Voting will be HARD.

Little Richard was a damn monster!!! (in a good way)

I only just found this one from falling down the obscure 45's rabbit hole on youtube, but WOW I loved it immediately. "He was a bad motorcycle/bud'n bud'n bud'n!"

The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle link

9/25

25/25;

The Chordettes – Soft Sands
The Flamingos – Golden Teardrops
The Harptones – Sunday Kind of Love
Hank Williams – Moaning the Blues
The Viscounts – Harlem Nocturne
Marty Robbins – Big Iron
Howlin’ Wolf – The Natchez Burnin’
Charles Mingus – Fables of Faubus
Cannonball Adderley – Autumn Leaves
Buddy Holly & The Crickets – Not Fade Away
Sarah Vaughan – Lullaby of Birdland
Miles Davis – So What
Miles Davis – Gone, Gone, Gone
Ray Charles – Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’
Gene Vincent – Jezebel
Bo Diddley – Who Do You Love?
Sonny Rollins – St. Thomas
John Coltrane – Blue Train
Elvis Presley – Baby, Let’s Play House
Chuck Berry – Maybelline
Johnny Ace – Pledging My Love
Fats Domino – What’s The Reason (I’m Not Pleasing You)
Carl Perkins – That’s Right
Joe Hill Louis – Boogie in the Park
Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez – The Happy Organ

This is going to be great.

Bo Diddley – Who Do You Love? is already nominated. Have another?

Awesome! Great opening post too.

I'm going to put up mostly show tunes I think - will research further and report back.

Bo Diddley – Who Do You Love? is already nominated. Have another?

Oh yeah! I'll swap it for The Chords - Sh-Boom

this will be very hard and very great.

Stick McGhee - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Percy Mayfield -Please Send Me Someone To Love
Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans
Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man
Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too
Clyde McPhatter - A Lover's Question
Cadillacs - Speedoo
Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City
Drifters - There Goes My Baby
Coasters - Poison Ivy
Barret Strong - Money
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Start Me Talkin'
Mickey and Sylvia - Love Is Strange
Shirley and Lee - Let the Good Times Roll
Rays - Silhouettes
Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace
Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk
Rick Nelson - Poor Little Fool
Johnny Cash - Guess Things Happen That Way
Sam Cooke - Only Sixteen
Ray Charles - Lonely Avenue
Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
Johnny Burnette - The Train Kept A-Rollin'
Spaniels - Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite

Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - Peter Gunn
Frank Sinatra - I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night

11/25

xp I wanted to nom the original Stick McGhee version of "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" but found it was from 1947 (and then again in 1949). Nothing from the fifties, sadly. So I went with Johnny Burnette.

sorry, my bad.

Frank Sinatra - Night And Day

Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
The Coasters - Yakety Yak
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
The Marcels - Blue Moon
The Penguins - Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night
Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil
The Edsels - Rama Lama Ding Dong
Charles Mingus - Better Git It In Your Soul
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
Ray Charles - I Got A Woman
The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
Huey "Piano" Smith - Sea Cruise
Richie Valens - La Bamba
The Champs - Tequila
Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
Buddy Holly - Oh Boy!
Chuck Berry - Rock & Roll Music
Hank Williams - Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
The Drifters - Money Honey
Chuck Willis - It's Too Late
The Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is To Love Him
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

25/25

Hot noms!

I went pretty quickly & thus with the obvious but good grief, this nom list could be ridiculously long & great even with just obvious noms.

Ooh, before I forget! Would definitely have voted for this one in the 20C poll, but it never got nominated.

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

12/25

Chuck Berry - Promised Land
Gene Vincent - Race With the Devil
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Gene Vincent - Cat Man
Gene Vincent - The Night Is So Lonely
Duane Eddy - Rebel Rouser
Janis Martin - Drugstore Rock n Roll
Janis Martin - Let's Elope Baby
Anton Karas - Theme from The Third Man
Lonnie Donegan - Lost John
Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama
Johnny Cash - Long Black Veil
The Girl Around the Corner - Lee Andrews and the Hearts
The Orioles - Crying in the Chapel
Glen Glenn - Everybody's Movin
Howlin Wolf - Crying at Daybreak
Clint Miller - Bertha Lou
Jay Chevalier - Rockin Roll Angel
Nervous Norvous - Transfusion
Rosemary Clooney - Half As Much
Guitar Slim - Feelin Sad
Eddie Fontaine - Nothing Shakin'
Bo Diddley - Say Man

23/25

Also prefer the earlier version of Spo-Dee-O-Dee. Only found out a couple of weeks ago that the phrase was a replacement for 'motherfucker'. How naive.

Sorry, got one the wrong way around -

Lee Andrews and the Hearts - The Girl Around the Corner

I'll go pedant for a moment: Johnny Cash's version of "Long Black Veil" is from 1965, so not eligible for this poll. I nominated Lefty's version, the original, which is from 1959.

Not pedantic at all, I thought I'd checked, but I hadn't obviously (or more likely checked badly). Thanks! (And apologies)

Pedant again! Chuck Berry's "Promised Land" is from 1965.

I really am sorry, I'm dreadfully hungover. It's no excuse. Thank God you're on the ball.

no prob; jet-lagging & trying to stay focused & pedantry seems to be doing the job

Okay, my first go:

Louis & Bebe Barron - Battle with the Invisible Monster
Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium
John Cage - Williams Mix

3/22

Also, yay for Gamaliel nominating 'Transfusion'. That's going to be high on my list.

Here's my 25:

Theophilus Beckford - Easy Snappin'
The Treniers - Poontang
Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
Ruth Brown - Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
Webb Pierce - There Stands The Glass
Howard Keel & co. - Sobbin' Women
Clifton Chenier - Eh, Petite Fille
LaVern Baker - Tweedlee Dee
Charlie Feathers - Can't Hardly Stand It
Johnny Griffin - Mil Dew
The Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl
Charles Mingus - Haitian Fight Song
Dale Hawkins - Suzie Q
George Jones - If I Don't Love You (Grits Are Groceries)
Robert Mitchum - Jean And Dinah
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk - In Walked Bud
Frank Sinatra - Blues In The Night
Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love
Sam Cooke - You Send Me
Del Close & John Brent - Cool
Harry Belafonte - Day-O
Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops
John Cage and David Tudor - Indeterminacy Part 1
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
Buddy Holly - Words Of Love

Thelonious Monk - In Walked Bud (Misterioso version)
Sam Cooke - You Send Me
The Chantels - Maybe
Jack Scott - Baby She's Gone
Everly Brothers - Claudette
Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby
Wynonie Harris - Lovin' Machine
The "5" Royales - Tears of Joy
The "5" Royales - Say It
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'
Fats Domino - I'm Walkin'
The Moonglows - Sincerely
James Brown - Try Me
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
Chuck Berry - Havana Moon
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up

16/25

damn, didn't see in walked bud already nommed. i'll go back down to 15/25 if that's cool

Crows - Gee
Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Joao Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
Chuck Berry - Too Much Monkey Business
Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers - Touch the Hem of His Garment
The Elegants - Little Star
Ray Charles - Drown in My Own Tears
Thelonious Monk - Ruby, My Dear
The Shirelles - I Met Him on Sunday
Link Wray - Rumble
Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie
Nolan Strong & the Diablos - The Wind
Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call

Sorry about the formatting--I thought I was following the guidelines, but I see what you mean now. I'm glad someone added Nervous Norvus. So far I've caught one huge oversight on my list, an all-time favourite, but it's not obscure and I'm sure it'll turn on on someone's list sooner or later.

xp to outdoor miner: "You Send Me" had been nominated just before you did it, so you can have one more back.

Couple things...

So far, 191 tracks have been nominated.

If the group likely has a "The" at the beginning of their name, please include it. That'll make it easier for people to find it in the master list (I've been adding them where they're missing so far).

The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Blue Rondo a la Turk
Mighty Sparrow — Jean and Dinah
Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Tonight (West Side Story)
Peggy Lee — Fever
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You

7/25

György Ligeti - Artikulation
Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Etude
Otto Luening - Fantasy in Space
Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the 2nd Moon

(5/25)

György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, and Otto Luening--is that who Don McLean meant by "the father, son, and the holy ghost"?

Okay, so I'm just thinking out loud here, but the last couple days of nominating I'll probably open it up with a few more for everyone just to make sure we don't leave out anything important. That (mostly) worked pretty well for the 20C poll.

Also, I haven't talked to seandalai about helping out with the voting (he's not around much anymore), so I may end up tabulating manually. That means no 100-song ballots. Probably something manageable like 40. Not expecting turnout for this to be as big as other decade polls and definitely not the year-end polls, so hopefully tabulating manually won't eat up ALL my time. :)

Farid el Atrache - Ana Wel Bahebou
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable
Ella Fitzgerald - Anything Goes
Cortijo y su Combo - Negro Bembon
Abbey Lincoln - Afro Blue
Oum Kalthoum - Ya Zalemni
Billie Holiday - Easy to Love
Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do
Farid el Atrache - Wehyat Eineiki
Joao Gilberto - A Felicidade
Tito Puente – Hong Kong Mambo
Benny More y Pedro Vargas - Obsesion

12/25

Lefty Frizzell- If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time
Lefty Frizzell- Look What Thoughts Will Do
Marty Robbins- El Paso
Johnny Cash- Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Hank Williams- Ramblin' Man
Hank Williams- Kaw-Liga
Johnny Cash- Cry! Cry! Cry!
Hank Williams- Hey, Good Lookin'
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs- Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Johnny Cash- Big River
Johnny Cash- Five Feet High and Rising
Hank Williams- Cold, Cold Heart
Hank Williams- I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Hank Snow- I'm Moving On
Conway Twitty- It's Only Make Believe
Don Gibson- Oh Lonesome Me
Marty Robbins- A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)
Frankie Laine- Cry of the Wild Goose
Jim Reeves- He'll Have to Go
Ray Price- Crazy Arms
George Jones- White Lightning
Patsy Cline- Three Cigarettes (In an Ashtray)
Hank Williams- Settin' the Woods on Fire
Marty Robbins- Big Iron
Kitty Wells- It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

Marty Robbins- Big Iron
Conway Twitty- It's Only Make Believe

These are already in there. You can have back two noms.

Benny More - Como Fue

13/25

(Was holding off on that because I don't know if the original is from earlier, but at the very least he clearly recorded a major version of it in 1953.)

LaVern Baker - Soul on Fire
James "Sugarboy" Crawford - Jock-A-Mo
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
The Weavers - Goodnight, Irene
Chuck Berry - Brown Eyed Handsome Man

5/25

Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium

Holy crap @ this! Love it!

25:

Little Anthony and the Imperials – Tears On My Pillow
The Crests – Sixteen Candles
Ricky Nelson – Travelin’ Man
Connie Francis – Who’s Sorry Now?
Yma Sumac - Virgin Of The Sun God (Taita Inty)
Moondog – All Is Loneliness
Bud Powell – Un Poco Loco
Duke Ellington feat. Mahalia Jackson – Come Sunday
Johnny Cash – Belshazzar
Little Richard - Ooh! My Soul
Marian Anderson – If He Change My Name
Lloyd Price – Stagger Lee
John Fahey – Sligo River Blues
Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
The Bobbettes – Mr. Lee
Edith Piaf – Milord
Chet Baker – My Funny Valentine
Lotte Lenya – Pirate Jenny
Edgard Varèse - Poème électronique
Judy Garland – The Man That Got Away
Beverley Kenney – Born To Be Blue
Julie London – Cry Me A River
Sun Ra and the Cosmic Rays – Dreaming
Platters – The Great Pretender
Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas

I'm gonna set up a public spreadsheet soon, but for right now here are the 269 nomination received so far:

Abbey Lincoln - Afro Blue
Anton Karas - Theme from The Third Man
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk - In Walked Bud
Barret Strong - Money
Benny More - Como Fue
Benny More y Pedro Vargas - Obsesion
Beverley Kenney – Born To Be Blue
Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog
Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk
Billie Holiday - Easy to Love
Bo Diddley - Say Man
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
Bobby Freeman - Do You Want to Dance
Bud Powell – Un Poco Loco
Buddy Holly - Look At Me
Buddy Holly - Oh Boy!
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly - Words Of Love
Buddy Holly & The Crickets – Not Fade Away
Cannonball Adderley – Autumn Leaves
Carl Perkins – That's Right
Celia Cruz - Mi Soncito
Charles Mingus - Better Git It In Your Soul
Charles Mingus – Fables of Faubus
Charles Mingus - Haitian Fight Song
Charlie Feathers - Can't Hardly Stand It
Chet Baker – My Funny Valentine
Chuck Berry - Almost Grown
Chuck Berry - Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Chuck Berry - Havana Moon
Chuck Berry – Maybelline
Chuck Berry - Rock & Roll Music
Chuck Berry - Too Much Monkey Business
Chuck Willis - It's Too Late
Clifton Chenier - Eh, Petite Fille
Clint Miller - Bertha Lou
Clyde McPhatter - A Lover's Question
Connie Francis – Who’s Sorry Now?
Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
Cortijo y su Combo - Negro Bembon
Dale Dawkins - La-Do-Dada
Dale Hawkins - Suzie Q
Dave 'Baby' Cortez – The Happy Organ
Dee & The Kool Gents - When I Call on You
Del Close & John Brent - Cool
Don Gibson - Oh Lonesome Me
Duane Eddy - Rebel Rouser
Duke Ellington feat. Mahalia Jackson – Come Sunday
Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
Eddie Fontaine - Nothing Shakin'
Edgard Varèse - Poème électronique
Edith Piaf – Milord
El Dorados - Lights Are Low
Ella Fitzgerald - Anything Goes
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
Elvis Presley – Baby, Let's Play House
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
Farid el Atrache - Ana Wel Bahebou
Farid el Atrache - Wehyat Eineiki
Fats Domino - I'm Walkin'
Fats Domino – What's the Reason (I'm Not Pleasing You)
Frank Sinatra - Blues In The Night
Frank Sinatra - I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night
Frank Sinatra - Night And Day
Frankie Laine - Cry of the Wild Goose
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - The ABC's of Love
Gene Vincent - Cat Man
Gene Vincent – Jezebel
Gene Vincent - Race With the Devil
Gene Vincent - The Night Is So Lonely
George Jones - If I Don't Love You (Grits Are Groceries)
George Jones - White Lightning
Glen Glenn - Everybody's Movin
Guitar Slim - Feelin Sad
György Ligeti - Artikulation
Hank Snow - I'm Moving On
Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart
Hank Williams - Hey, Good Lookin'
Hank Williams - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Hank Williams - Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
Hank Williams - Kaw-Liga
Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Hank Williams – Moaning the Blues
Hank Williams - Ramblin' Man
Hank Williams- Settin' the Woods on Fire
Harry Belafonte - Day-O
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - Peter Gunn
Howard Keel & Co. - Sobbin' Women
Howlin' Wolf - Crying at Daybreak
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
Howlin' Wolf – The Natchez Burnin'
Huey 'Piano' Smith - Sea Cruise
Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
Jack Scott - Baby She's Gone
Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops
Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas
James "Sugarboy" Crawford - Jock-A-Mo
James Brown - Try Me
Janis Martin - Drugstore Rock n Roll
Janis Martin - Let's Elope Baby
Jay Chevalier - Rockin' Roll Angel
Jerry Butler & The Impressions - For Your Precious Love
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'
Jim Reeves - He'll Have to Go
Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do
Joao Gilberto - A Felicidade
Joao Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
Joe Hill Louis – Boogie in the Park
John Cage - Williams Mix
John Cage and David Tudor - Indeterminacy Part 1
John Coltrane – Blue Train
John Fahey – Sligo River Blues
Johnny Ace – Pledging My Love
Johnny Burnette - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Johnny Burnette - The Train Kept A-Rollin'
Johnny Cash – Belshazzar
Johnny Cash - Big River
Johnny Cash - Cry! Cry! Cry!
Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Johnny Cash - Five Feet High and Rising
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash - Guess Things Happen That Way
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Johnny Griffin - Mil Dew
Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love
Judy Garland – The Man That Got Away
Julie London – Cry Me A River
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Etude
Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
LaVern Baker - Soul on Fire
LaVern Baker - Tweedlee Dee
Lee Andrews and the Hearts - The Girl Around the Corner
Lefty Frizzell - If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time
Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil
Lefty Frizzell - Look What Thoughts Will Do
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Tonight (West Side Story)
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Link Wray & His Ray Men - Rumble
Little Anthony and The Imperials – Tears On My Pillow
Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
Little Richard - Ooh! My Soul
Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
Lloyd Price – Stagger Lee
Lonnie Donegan - Lost John
Lotte Lenya – Pirate Jenny
Louis & Bebe Barron - Battle with the Invisible Monster
Marian Anderson – If He Change My Name
Marty Robbins - A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)
Marty Robbins – Big Iron
Marty Robbins - El Paso
Michael Holliday - The Story of My Life
Mickey and Sylvia - Love Is Strange
Mighty Sparrow — Jean and Dinah
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
Miles Davis – Gone, Gone, Gone
Miles Davis – So What
Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
Moondog – All Is Loneliness
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable
Nervous Norvous - Transfusion
Nolan Strong & The Diablos - Since You're Gone
Nolan Strong & the Diablos - The Wind
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
Otto Luening - Fantasy in Space
Oum Kalthoum - Ya Zalemni
Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby
Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes (In an Ashtray)
Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
Peggy Lee — Fever
Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love
Phil Phillips - Sea of Love
Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans
Ray Charles – Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
Ray Charles - Drown in My Own Tears
Ray Charles - I Got A Woman
Ray Charles - Lonely Avenue
Ray Price - Crazy Arms
Ray Price - You Done Me Wrong
Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium
Richie Valens - La Bamba
Rick Nelson - Poor Little Fool
Ricky Nelson – Travelin’ Man
Robert Mitchum - Jean And Dinah
Rosemary Clooney - Half As Much
Ruth Brown - Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
Sam Cooke - Only Sixteen
Sam Cooke - You Send Me
Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers - Touch the Hem of His Garment
Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk
Sarah Vaughan – Lullaby of Birdland
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
Sheriff & The Ravels - Shombalor
Shirley and Lee - Let the Good Times Roll
Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Start Me Talkin'
Sonny Rollins – St. Thomas
Sun Ra and the Cosmic Rays – Dreaming
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
Teresa Brewer - Music, Music, Music
The "5" Royales - Say It
The "5" Royales - Tears of Joy
The Bobbettes – Mr. Lee
The Cadillacs - Speedoo
The Capris - There's a Moon Out Tonight
The Cellos - Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman)
The Champs - Tequila
The Chantels - Maybe
The Chips - Rubber Biscuit
The Chordettes – Soft Sands
The Chords - Sh-Boom
The Coasters - Poison Ivy
The Coasters - Yakety Yak
The Crests – Sixteen Candles
The Crows - Gee
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Blue Rondo a la Turk
The Diamonds - The Stroll
The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man
The Drifters - Money Honey
The Drifters - There Goes My Baby
The Dubs - Could This Be Magic
The Edsels - Rama Lama Ding Dong
The Elegants - Little Star
The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
The Everly Brothers - Claudette
The Everly Brothers - Problems
The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie
The Five Keys - Close Your Eyes
The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night
The Flamingos – Golden Teardrops
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
The Harptones – Sunday Kind of Love
The Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl
The Louvin Brothers - You're Learning
The Marcels - Blue Moon
The Miller Sisters - Got You on My Mind
The Moonglows - Sincerely
The Orioles - Crying in the Chapel
The Pastels - So Far Away
The Penguins - Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
The Platters - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
The Platters – The Great Pretender
The Rays - Silhouettes
The Shirelles - I Met Him on Sunday
The Spaniels - Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite
The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle
The Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is To Love Him
The Treniers - Poontang
The Viscounts – Harlem Nocturne
The Weavers - Goodnight, Irene
Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Ruby, My Dear
Theophilus Beckford - Easy Snappin'
Tito Puente – Hong Kong Mambo
Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the 2nd Moon
Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama
Webb Pierce - There Stands The Glass
Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City
Wynonie Harris - Lovin' Machine
Yma Sumac - Virgin Of The Sun God (Taita Inty)

Gonna come back to this for sure, but gotta lock in a few essentials real quick -

Chuck Berry - Memphis Tennessee
Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Ain't Got No Home
Huey 'Piano' Smith - Don't You Just Know It?
Johnny Burnette - Honey Hush
Lee Andrews and the Hearts - Teardrops
The Coasters - What About Us?

6/25!

18/25

Muddy Waters - Louisiana Blues
Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby
The Del Vikings - Come Go With Me
John Coltrane - Lush Life
Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless
Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy
The Fabulous Wailers - Tall Cool One
Joao Gilberto - Desafinado
Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor
Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful
Jimmy Reed - Baby, What You Want Me To Do
John Lee Hooker - Dimples
Sonny Boy Williamson - All My Love in Vain
The Stanley Brothers - Man of Constant Sorrow
The Stanley Brothers - Pretty Polly
Odetta - Midnight Special
Buck Owens - Under Your Spell Again
Billy Lee Riley - Red Hot

adding a few more... (21/25)

Bobby "Blue" Bland - Farther Up The Road
Louis Jordan - Salt Pork, West Virginia
Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats - Rocket 88

Most of the things I was dying to nominate, when I look them up, are turning out to be 40s. This is highly awkward Fever, you've picked the wrong decade.

Here's a few noms by me (16/25):

Sarah Vaughan - He's My Guy
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
Elizete Cardoso - Chega de saudade
Dean Martin - Sway
Dean Martin - The Peddlar Man
Eartha Kitt - Under the Bridges of Paris
Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa
Juliette Gréco - La Valse brune
Tony Bennett - Stranger in Paradise
Doris Day - Que sera, sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Édith Piaf - Milord
Édith Piaf - Padam... padam...
The Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble - Cubano Chant
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - That's All
Miriam Makeba - Pata pata
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - The Blues Walk

I'm in the middle of putting together a Spotify playlist of the noms so far, not quite caught up yet but I'll try and keep adding to it:

http://open.spotify.com/user/gcwright/playlist/4dZR1lNRm0gmFVX5Ovg7vH

The Isley Brothers- Shout
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys- Sittin' on Top of the World

that's not my post got the one I mistakenly missed: "Come Go with Me."

it will be impossible to choose just one Lefty Frizzell song. good thing Saginaw Michigan is from 1964.

My first 5:

Frank Sinatra - I've Got You Under My Skin
George Jones - Why Baby Why
Ray Charles - What'd I Say
Little Richard - Keep a Knockin'
Buddy Holly - Well...All Right!

Fayza Ahmad - Sit El Habayib
Abdel Halim Hafez - Awwel Marrah
Oum Kalthoum – Zekrayat
Oum Kalthoum – Sahran Lewahdi
Hibari Misora – Kuramaya-san
Sun Ra – Kingdom of Not

19/25

Also, I haven't talked to seandalai about helping out with the voting (he's not around much anymore), so I may end up tabulating manually. That means no 100-song ballots. Probably something manageable like 40. Not expecting turnout for this to be as big as other decade polls and definitely not the year-end polls, so hopefully tabulating manually won't eat up ALL my time. :)

I'm still here! Have just been correcting my ILX-life balance a bit. Looks like a great poll, I'm happy to help with the counting.

Moondog - Dog Trot
Paul Anka - Put Your Head on My Shoulder
Perez Prado - Mambo No. 5
Sonny Knight - But, officer!
Vince Taylor - Brand New Cadillac

5/25

Tito Rodriguez – Sabroso Mambo
La Niña de los Peines (Pastora Pavón) - A la Sierra de Armenia

21/25

xps cool, man!

Here's the list of noms so far: http://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmydPg1ULhKNdFlOdWpJWmhkT0ZaVThEQ0k5bW96WEE&hl=en_US

You'll have to give clear instructions on spreadsheet voting for someone like me. I tried to vote in the 2011 year-end, and couldn't figure it out.

I think the spreadsheet is just for reference, so you can easily check for yourself what's already been nominated.

^ this

Okay--much easier.

Let me sneak one in, with the link embedded: Richard Berry & the Dreamers - The Big Break. Obviously a gloss on "Riot in Cell Block #9," but just as good I'd say.

I thought it was the Dreamers; according to the YouTube poster, it's the Crowns.

Atahualpa Yupanqui - Punay (La Pastorcita Perdida)
Bill Evans - Peace Piece
Brenda Lee - Sweet Nothin's
Desi Arnaz - Babalu
Dick Penner - Cindy Lou
Joe Bennett And The Sparkletones – Black Slacks
Luiz Bonfá – Manha De Carnaval (Theme from Black Orpheus)
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Nina Simone- My Baby Just Cares for Me
Olavi Virta ja Harmony sisters - Sinitaivas
Olivier Messian - Catalogue d'oiseaux - Livre I - II. Le Loriot
Yma Sumac - Taki Rari
Yves Montand - Rue St Vincent

18/25

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge
Marty Robbins - The Story of My Life
Ornette Coleman - Congeniality
Miles Davis - Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Ferlin Husky - Gone

5/25

The Michael Holliday verzh of "Story of My Life"'s been nominated but the Marty verzh deserves a slot imo

Little Richard - Lucille
Eddie Cochran - Somethin' Else
Bo Diddley - Diddy Wah Diddy
Johnny Dollar - Action Packed
Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks - Mary Lou

5/25

LaVern Baker - Soul on Fire

Working my way through the nominations i'm not familiar with (which is a lot) and this is flippin amazing.

Yeah, I'm finding and hearing for the first time a lot of great stuff in these nominations too! "Soul on Fire" is astounding.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmydPg1ULhKNdFlOdWpJWmhkT0ZaVThEQ0k5bW96WEE&hl=en_US

Couple more -

The Bosstones - Mope-Itty-Mope
Camille Howard - Fireball Boogie

Thank you whomever nominated "Poontang" (EZ?) — excellent!

You're welcome!

How many votes are we gonna get this time? I could rep for almost every number in here.

Since seandalai came on board for tabulation duties, who knows. We had 100-song ballots for the 20C poll, and it didn't seem like they were big enough then. We could possibly go that large again, with the weighted, unweighted and mixed ballot options.

Charles Trenet - La Mer
Duke Ellington - Mood Indigo
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train
Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
The Ink Spots - Java Jive

23/25

I realize Mood Indigo was probably recorded a zillion times, but is there a specific 50s version you can point to?

I know this is not the campaigning thread but if you're only listening to one of my noms make it this one:

Olavi Virta ja Harmony sisters - Sinitaivas

Finnish ghost tango. I've no clear idea what he's singing about but it seems to be about a man who dreams of soaring the skies.

xpost:

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/duke_ellington/masterpieces_by_ellington/

Since seandalai came on board for tabulation duties, who knows. We had 100-song ballots for the 20C poll, and it didn't seem like they were big enough then. We could possibly go that large again, with the weighted, unweighted and mixed ballot options.

100 votes for a whole century was a whole different thing. I think 50 should be enough for one decade.

"The Yellow Rose of Texas" - Stan Freberg.

even 50 seems excessive. 25 or 30 should be fine. it's just a single decade.

But if you only allow 25 or 30 votes, then voters will end up choosing their noms and giving the few remaining numbers to obvious, well-known songs and we'll end up with a boring top 10 and a number of mishaps and random winners below.

Moka otm. That is roughly what will probably happen. 100 picks sounds good. Certainly no fewer than 50.

Mukesh - Awara Hoon

22/25

I'd go with 40 or 50 votes. Would usually suggest less but there is obviously the problem of people just voting for their own nominations. But definitely not 100, please. That's way too many for a single decade poll, and the nature of the task would probably put me off voting at all.

Yeah, I'm more in the 40/50 boat myself.

no fewer than 50, please

even 50 seems excessive.

I resisted the 100-song ballot for the 20C poll until I could resist no longer, and then was glad it became a reality at voting time. 50 seems about right for this, which means when I vote I'll be wishing I had just two or three more spaces.

75.

as an appreciator of symbolism I think its a good idea we get 50 votes in the 50s poll. Top 50 of the 50s, amirite?

I'm an appreciator of the same type symbolism, so 50 it is!

FIFTY: is the number of jubilee or deliverance. It is the issue of 7x7 +1 or 7 squared + 1, and points to deliverance and rest following on as the result of the perfect consummation of time.

* On the 50th day after leaving Egypt God met Israel at Sinai, = the first Pentecost (this Greek word means "50th day"). [Exodus 19:1; 14-16]
* 50 is grace = 5 multiplied by perfect order = 10.
* In the 50th year, known as a Jubilee year, all debts were to be forgiven, all Hebrew slaves were to be freed, and all land returned to the original owner. [Leviticus]
* On the 50th day after the Resurrection the Holy Spirit came to the disciples in the Upper Room, the second Pentecost. [Acts 1:3; 2:1]

With a history like that, this will be THE GREATEST POLL ON ILM OF ALL TIME!!!!!!

The only decades where I could go beyond 50 would be the '60 or '70s. Any other decade, past 50 I'd be filling in slots with stuff I like but that has no special significance for me.

I could probably do a 300 song ballot from the 80s, but that was the era of my musical awakening.

Two of the best novelty songs of all time:

Bob McFadden & Dor - I'm a Mummy
Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes & Connie Stevens - Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)

That's 5/25 for me.

Two of the best novelty songs of all time:

Bob McFadden & Dor - I'm a Mummy
Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes & Connie Stevens - Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)

― emil.y

Love that one of theses songs references the other.

Yesssssss.

Buchanan and Goodman - The Flying Saucer
Serge Gainsbourg - L'Alcool
Dorival Caymmi - O Bem Do Mar

Johnny Mathis - Misty

23/25

Two of the best novelty songs of all time:

Bob McFadden & Dor - I'm a Mummy
Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes & Connie Stevens - Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)

― emil.y

Love that one of theses songs references the other.

― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Wednesday, June 1, 2011 7:46 AM Bookmark

I remember very clearly the day I learned this on Best Novelty Song On K-Tel's "Looney Tunes' Compilation , it cracks me up just thinking about it. I grew up with "Kookie" so it was such a fun discovery. And, man, what is up with the squeaky mummy walking sound? Hilarious!

Proto death-rock: no one's mentioned these two yet, and I think they're both crucial.

Jody Reynolds - Endless Sleep

Donald Woods & the Vel-Aires - Death of An Angel

(I'm on a computer with no sound right now; hopefully those are the original versions.)

The Cadillacs - Gloria
Tyrone Schmidling - You're Gone, I'm Left
The Clovers - Love Potion Number 9
Sanford Clark - The Fool
Ronnie Dawson - Action Packed
The Blenders - Don’t Fuck Around With Love
Sparkle Moore - Skull and Crossbones

7/25

(stared at the tracklists of the Lux'n'Ivy comps for some inspiration, will try to look properly through my library + other sources this evening.)

The Blenders - Don’t Fuck Around With Love

For real? I'm amazed such a record came out in the '50s.

The commercially released one was "Don't Play Around With Love", though the fuck around version was cut at the same sessions.

Jackie Wilson and Lavern Baker's X-rated take on "Better Think Twice" is one of my favorite nasty outtakes from that era.

The Coasters - Young Blood
The Coasters - Searchin'
The Everly Brothers - (Til') I Kissed You
Buddy Holly - Everyday
Little Richard - Keep a Knockin'
Les Paul & Mary Ford - How High the Moon
Ray Charles - This Little Girl of Mine
Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula

8/25

This is where I start cursing my lack of innate chronology. Really trying to remember stuff.

I'm struggling too for my remaining noms. I do lists for everything but I rarely arrange them by chronological order. I feel like I should nominate some more latin artists and also musique concrète but no idea where to start looking.

Problem I'm having is that a lot of songs I think of as "50s" are actually from 1960-63. Like Shakin' All Over by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates.

Moka, I'm currently browsing the internet for suitable musique concrète tracks, too! Great minds, etc etc. Also pondering Nordine - if it was an albums poll I'd be on it like a shot, but got to think more carefully about individual track selection. Also, he did the work I like best in the '60s, so is it just fondness for the man that makes me want to nominate his earlier stuff too? (Answer is probably no for Nordine, the Word Jazz album is genius in itself, but I did just discount Oram for this reason.)

Also, yeah, I have the thing of lightbulb going off then looking things up only to find they're '60s or '40s, or sometimes even '30s. Dang, I'm bad at this.

I'm focusing right now on Schaeffer's 'Groupe de Recherches Musicales' collective. They released a couple of eps and singles in the 50's that could qualify as they were pieces conceived in short-length and they stand pretty well when isolated.

Word Jazz is brilliant, I would definitely rate it high on an albums poll. I'll vote Nordine if you nom it!

Yeah, my problem has been with deciphering what are 'movements' and what are distinct tracks. I think the general consensus with ILM polls is that movements can't be separated.

Bobby Jones on Jack Nicklaus: "He plays a game with which I am not familiar." There are two polls going on here...which is great.

I think the general consensus with ILM polls is that movements can't be separated.

We tried to do that in the 20C poll, but then DJP got in a huff because he couldn't nominate entire musicals and other people were nominating entire jazz albums for a tracks poll. It seemed like a good idea at the time to break those things up, but by the time the countdown came around it didn't really seem like such a big deal anymore. If there's an entire movement—a single idea with multiple sections—you (or anyone else) would like to nominate, go for it!

(I still think it would be perfectly easy and sensible to break up musicals. Jazz albums and such are often tricker.)

The Poni-Tails - Born Too Late
Doris Day - Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be)
Patience & Prudence - Gonna Get Along Without You Now
Perez Prado - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White

4/25

I remember w/o looking that Que Sera, Sera has already been nom'ed.

My bad - replace w/

Nat King Cole - Quizás, quizás, quizás

Cecil Taylor - Excursion on a Wobbly Rail
Georges Brassens - Le Gorille
Mighty Sparrow - Jean and Dinah
John Cage - 4'33" (someone had to nominate this)
Shirley Collins - The Cherry Tree Carol
Lou Harrison - Strict Songs III: Here is Tenderness
Ike Turner and his Kings Of Rhythm - She Made My Blood Run Cold
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Space Guitar

11/25

Don Gibson - I Can't Stop Loving You

8/25

I don't know if this is even a door you want to open--feel free to ignore these--but the first pieces of soundtrack music I'd nominate would be Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo Theme and Leonard Bernstein - On the Waterfront Theme. (I don't know if that's what they're actually called...whatever plays over the opening credits.)

Definitely. There are GREAT film scores in the 50s!

a lot of songs I think of as "50s" are actually from 1960-63.

Those four years could probably support a poll of their own. I just got done watching a girl groups doc (poorly put together, made in the 80s, but did its job) and it was full of amazing music front to back—and didn't even touch on the guy groups, surf bands, etc.

Mighty Sparrow - Jean and Dinah

already nommed. Have been vaguely wishing that someone would turn up & drop an all-calypso 25, would like more knowledge of Sparrow, Melo etc.

Agreed on 60-63 - a ton of stuff popping into my head is actually from this stretch.

Second both those things (witness my blundering around the early sixties with a couple of entries). Started looking at calypso stuff, inc Mighty Sparrow, but would like someone who really knows it inside out. Still got two noms left. So much good stuff here, really looking fwd to voting + results.

Billie Holiday - What's New?
Tito Rodriguez - Tremendo Cumban
Peruchin - Guaguanco Callejero

25/25

(I should have something to say about a lot of these, during campaigning. I know Billie Holiday recorded earlier versions of the two songs of hers that I picked, but I'm more familiar with her 50s output.)

(I really have only a very superficial knowledge of 1950s Latin music, and I'm lukewarm to mambo in general, though there's some I like. I tried to find a Machito track I could honestly endorse, but I don't care for his sound. Okay, I'll get off the nominations thread.)

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Space Guitar

:)

Lord Kitchener - Trouble in Arima
Martin Denny - Quiet Village
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime

13/25

Chuck Berry – School Days
Muddy Waters – Blow Wind Blow
Fats Domino – Blue Monday
Buddy Holly – Rave On
Elvis Presley – Blue Moon of Kentucky

10/25

Frank Sinatra - I've got you under my skin
Hank Mizzell - Jungle Rock
Joe Clay - Sixteen Chicks
Esquerita - Rockin' the Joint
Professor Longhair - Tipitina

12/25

Marylin Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

9/25

Frank Sinatra - I've got you under my skin

Nommed already.

Spreadsheet updated (426 total noms so far...)

http://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmydPg1ULhKNdFlOdWpJWmhkT0ZaVThEQ0k5bW96WEE&hl=en_US&pli=1#gid=0

I'm adding this (very canonical) one since no one else will, it seems. It might not survive the voting, but it should be there at least.

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

13/25

Certainly should be there - in the results too I think. Love it's full-throated ease, but I wonder whether that, or maybe it's being so canonical means it doesn't stand out.

It's like other songs ("Let's Get it On" or "Green Onions") in that it's become less of a song and more like pop culture wallpaper. People know it so well it's hard to appreciate in any way that's fresh.

Ok, I'm going to nom

Lord Kitchener - Victory Calypso
Dave Bartholomew - The Monkey

Was looking to Ten to One is Murder by The Mighty Sparrow but it's 1960, so Victory Calypso it is.

Victory Calypso surely not the best calypso and perhaps not even the best cricket calypso song - I was even tempted to nominate the plangent, wistful Alec Bedser Calypso ('Who taught you to bowl Australia?') from '53. But it feels like a marker of various sorts, and is a cheerful narrative of handing the colonial masters their asses on a plate at one of their establishment fortresses - an all-too rare early moment of glory for Windrush immigrants.

And that's me done btw.

Michigan J. Frog - The Michigan Rag
Frankie Laine - Rawhide theme song

11/25

Johnny, would you mind if I started a 50s poll campaigning thread?

I wouldn't mind a bit.

Jimmy Reed - I Ain't Got You
Herbie Nichols - Terpsichore
The Soul Stirrers - By and By
Little Walter - Too Late
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness

20/25

Haven't forgotten about this, btw (and I hope nobody else has). Just occupying myself with the Pavement poll this week and next.

crew Pavement - more 50s goodness!

or screw them even!

Yes yes yes, more. Do we have all the '50s tracks from the 20th century poll listed? Not that many of them made a splash, mind you.

Sad the last noms I entered were 10 days ago...but there are 10 more days to nominate! More songs!

emil.y reminded me - do we have Darin's "Splish Splash"? I'm outta noms either way, but it should be up here.

bump

http://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmydPg1ULhKNdFlOdWpJWmhkT0ZaVThEQ0k5bW96WEE&hl=en_US#gid=0

I'll be nominating some stuff, if I remember to do so that is.

Yeah I have a ton of rockabilly comps etc to go through and work out what year the songs are from, hopefully I'll get to it before the deadline. Want to get some more R&B noms in as well.

Big Joe Turner – Shake, Rattle & Roll
Bill Haley and His Comets – Rock Around The Clock
Buddy Holly – Maybe Baby
Elvis Presley – That’s All Right
Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream
Everly Brothers – Bye Bye Love
Everly Brothers – Wake Up Little Susie
Frank Sinatra – You Make Me Feel So Young
Johnny Cash – Don’t Take Your Guns To Town
The Coasters – Charlie Brown

20/25

James Brown - Please, Please, Please

21/25

Muddy Waters – Hoochie Coochie Man

22/25

Hey guys, I'm late to the party here. If any of you want to nominate more songs feel free to do it via me.

Too busy at work to give this the time it deserves, but this has been my most listened to musical era for the past 10 years or more, sadly ignored by oldies radio and the vast majority of modern listeners, I think. That spreadsheet is amazing; I play in a band that covers a bunch of them and I'll c/p the list for more inspiration.

Off the top of my head I would nominate:

Wanda Jackson - Let's have A Party
Roy Hamilton - Don't Let Go
Chris Kenner - Sick and Tired
The Collins Kids - Whistle Bait
Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knocking

Before I forget, here's a few to be going on with:

Bernard Bresslaw - Mad Passionate Love
Frankie Ford - Sea Cruise
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Summertime
Billie Holliday - I'm A Fool To Want You
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - Ain't Got No Home
Buddy Holly - It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain
Lord Rockingham's XI - Hoots Mon
Little Junior and the Blue Flames - Feelin' Good
Lord Kitchener - London Is The Place For Me
Shirley & Lee - Let The Good Times Roll
The Swallows - It Ain't The Meat, It's the Motion

12/25

Most of the artists I would nominate are here already. Though there are some favorite tracks missing, I think I should probably just vote for the ones already here to reduce vote-splitting.

more more!

Bumping again.

If you've already nominated 25 and want to nominate more, go ahead.

In honour of Mr. Hongro, I'm going to submit some more doo-wop tracks tonight. There's some I'd definitely vote for that haven't been nominated yet--I want to check my media player, though.

just remembered about this poll and so glad i haven't missed the chance to nominate. i have the day off work tomorrow so i'm going to laze in bed in the morning and have a great time thinking and nominating. i love the 50s.

also big <3 to nominator upthread for both the marcels and elvis's blue moon.

and thanks johnny for stepping up again after the pavement joy.

Sorry Johnny, it turns out I don't know the decade at all as well as I thought I might. I eventually managed to scrape together twenty, then it turned out half were on the list already. Here's the remaining ten:

Frank Loesser - Sit Down, You're Rocking The Boat
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
Leonard Bernstein - America
Rodgers & Hammerstein - Getting To Know You
Lerner & Loewe - On The Street Where You Live
Lerner & Loewe - I Could Have Danced All Night
Rodgers & Hammerstein - My Favourite Things
Rodgers & Hammerstein - The Sound of Music
Mitzi Gaynor - I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair
The Chordettes - Mr Sandman

I didn't know what to do about songs from musicals. Where the song was first published in the 50s I've credited the composer; where it was published earlier but recorded in the 50s I've credited the performer.

Okay, I'm going with:

Pierre Schaeffer - Erotic
Marie Bryant - Tomato
Ken Nordine - Flibberty Jib

Still only 8... gonna have to think harder.

Lucho Gatica - Historia de un Amor

Some extras:

Robert & Johnny - We Belong Together
The Accents - Ching a Long
The Harptones - Life Is But a Dream
The Marshall Brothers - It All Comes Back to Me Now
The Moonglows - Sweeter Than Words
The Sheppards - Island of Love
The Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You
The Sonics - This Broken Heart

Ooh, before I forget! Would definitely have voted for this one in the 20C poll, but it never got nominated.

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

12/25

^ Brilliant song.

Two more:

Sparkle Moore - Killer
The Three Cats - Yellow Cherries

Something I'd love to see: emil.y's remake of American Graffiti.

Johnny Mathis - Wonderful Wonderful

Will add more when I find the time

Elvis Presley - Hound Dog

I'm guessing this hasn't been nominated because Big Mama Thornton's version is already up, but it should be there. The greatest b-side of all time?

Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel

and vote-splitting be damned

Nominations still open through the end of Saturday. Keep 'em coming.

Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap

ah fuck i have to remember to do this still

Suggestion from a friend:

The Phantom - Love Me

Pretty great, actually.

Yeah, so like...there are only about 46 hours left to nominate. Still don't quite have 500 songs yet, so if you can think of anything you or someone else might vote for that isn't already on the list, put it here!

oh shit, ok, im up and not doing anything, id better do this.

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - My Baby Left Me
Big Al Downing - Down On The Farm
Bob & Lucille - Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moe
Bob Luman - Red Hot
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry - Better Day
Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters - Money Honey
Dion & the Belmonts - I Wonder Why
Donald O'Connor - Make 'Em Laugh
Dorsey Burnette - Bertha Lou
Edwin Bruce - Rock Boppin' Baby *
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Can't We Be Friends
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi - Jesus Gave Me Water
The Five Keys - The Glory Of Love
Flatt & Scruggs - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
The Jacks - Why Don't You Write Me? *
Jimmy Martin - You Don't Know My Mind
Johnnie Ray - The Little White Cloud That Cried *
Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads - Cry *
Johnny Mathis - Chances Are
LaVern Baker - Jim Dandy
Mills Brothers - Be My Life's Companion
Mills Brothers - Glow Worm
The Monotones - Book of Love *
The Phaetons - I Love My Baby *
The Platters - Only You (And You Alone)
Rosemary Clooney - Come On-A My House
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Caffeine Patrol
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
Wynonie Harris - Bloodshot Eyes

man i really want to nom the frankie laine version of jezebel, but 2 peeps doing the same song is prob vote splitting to the highest degree but damn. also pissed that "Funnel of Love" by Wanda Jackson is from 1961.

thats more than 25, so oops. this took longer than expected, so i can whittle it down tomorrow. plus i have to make sure a few of these dont spill over on one side or the other of the 50's

hah ignore the stars, those were my first go to ones and i wanted to mark them so i didnt get rid of them later. IGNORE.

I know Peter Gunn has been nomm'd, but surely got to have the

Dwayne Eddy - Peter Gunn

version as well.

I can't believe this missed my first round of nominating:

The Five Blobs - The Blob

Also:

Carole Bennett - Haunted Lover

Stelios Kazantzidis - Zigkouala

Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
Al Saxon - I'm All Right Jack

13/25

Generally not a big 50s fan, but these have to get in:

Billie Holiday; I'm a Fool To Want You
Buddy Holly: Everydaÿ
Neil Sedaka: Oh Carol!

The Heartbeats - 1000 Miles Away
The Fiestas - So Fine
Lee Andrews & the Hearts - Long Lonely Nights
Danny & The Juniors - At the Hop
The Silhouettes - Get a Job

I'd also like to nominate "Blue In Green" by Miles Davis, because I am certain others will just go for the faster tracks, but that beautiful ballad is actually the highlight of the "Kind of Blue" album.

Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean a Lot
Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz
Eartha Kitt - C'est Si Bon
Ames Brothers - Rag Mop
The Olympics - Western Movies
The Cadets - Stranded in the Jungle
Sandy Nelson - Teen Beat
Preston Epps - Bongo Rock
Phil Harris - The Thing
Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con Dios
Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend
Ilene Woods - A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Suggestion from a friend:

The Phantom - Love Me

Pretty great, actually.

― emil.y

This is an amazing song but I think it's actually from 1960.

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Nica's Dream

(I admit I got to like this by way of a La Sonora Poncena cover version. This performance includes the song's composer, Horace Silver.)

Oh sorry, my "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" pick was nommed already, that's what I get for searching this page instead of the spreadsheet (where Johnny corrected the "marylin" typo). So please replace with

Andre Williams - Greasy Chicken

A few more:

Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake
The Bobbettes - Mr Lee
Thurston Harris - Little Bitty Pretty One

Varetta Dillard - Mercy Mr. Percy

totally forgot this, can 86 some of my other choices if need be

No need to 86 anything at this point. We're still just in the 500-600 nomination range.

whoo hoo!

Frank Sinatra - I Get Along Without You Very Well

please

Chuck Berry's "School Days" should be "School Day." Great choice.

Most of my faves are covered except Christmas songs, which I'll leave out. Some Minnesota (and Mexican American) love, 2/25:

Augie Garcia - Hi Yo Silver
Kico Rangel Band featuring the Rangel Sisters - Ábrete Sésamo

Jimmy Jam's dad played on the first one, which is pretty great.

Other faves, 15/25:

Chuck Berry - Wee Wee Hours
Clyde McPhatter - I Can't Stand Up Alone
Duke Ellington - The Mooche
Elvis Presley - Shake, Rattle and Roll
Fats Domino - Whole Lotta Loving
Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' at Midnight
Joe Williams and Count Basie - Teach Me Tonight
Little Richard and His Band - Jenny, Jenny
Lord Kitchener - Ah Bernice
Professor Longhair - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
Professor Longhair - No Buts - No Maybes
The Mighty Sparrow - Short Little Shorts
Woody Guthrie - Why, Oh Why

I'm happy to go with the consensus calypso songs, but those are a couple of my favorites. As for Professor Longhair, it's not vote-splitting in my case--I'll probably actually vote for them all. "Why, Oh Why" is one of my favorite children's songs ever.

This has potential to be a great ILM poll, as I have no idea what the consensus top 20 would be.

I imagine things like "I Only Have Eyes for You" will end up in the top 20 after doing so well in the 20c poll, but outside of that it's just a big question mark.

One thing that struck me earlier was that while many of us here may not be very familiar with the 50s, pooling what everyone knows has resulted in an interesting list of nominations. The results should be fun.

So as far as voting goes, I was thinking ballots of 50 with the 100, 98, 96, 94...6, 4, 2 point arrangement, some point total for unranked ballots (haven't mathed that out yet), and then split ballots (partly ranked, partly unranked—equally distributing points out of the total left)...so, just like the 20c poll or the most recent EOY polls. Either two or three weeks of voting (does anyone have a preference for three weeks?).

To fill some gaps:

Jerry Lee Lewis - High school confidential
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great balls of fire
Buddy Holly - That'll be the day
Jimmy Wages - Miss Pearl
Jimmy Wages - Mad man
Elvis Presley - Milkcow blues boogie
Elvis Presley - My baby left me the RCA studio engineers' best recreation of the Sun sound
Bobby Day - Rockin robin
Elvis Presley - One night
Elvis Presley - When my blue moon turns to gold again
Johnny and the Hurricanes - Red river rock
Danny and the Juniors - At the hop
Dion and the Belmonts - I wonder why (such a great intro)
Stan Freberg - John and Marsha
The Diamonds - Little darlin'
The Monotones - The book of love
The Platters - Only you
Chuck Berry - Sweet little sixteen
Carl Perkins - Blue suede shoes
Eddie Cochrane - C'mon everybody
Eddie Cochrane - Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie

and i know it's already been nominated but what a killer performance

oops here's the correct link for

The Diamonds - Little darlin'

Five hours left.

Feel obligated somehow to get in

Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill

and especially

Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love

The Beatles - All You Need Is Love

Just another 90 minutes or so. Last call!

Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven

Tried but failed to find The Peanuts' '50s output online. Would have been a good addition, but never mind. I'm sure as soon as the nominations end I'll think of twenty more great tracks.

Freddie Cannon - Tallahassee Lassie
Bobby & Terry Caraway - Ballin’ Keen
The Charts - Desiree
The Clovers - Love, Love, Love
Lorrie & Larry Collins - Mercy
John Coltrane - Cousin Mary
The Cookies - In Paradise
The Duponts - Screamin Ball (At Dracula Hall)
The Eternals - Rockin’ in the Jungle
Serge Gainsbourg - Le femme des uns sous le corps des autres
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - Little Demon
The Hollywood Flames - Frankenstein’s Den
The Impalas, with LeRoy Holmes Orchestra - Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)
Ivory Joe Hunter - Since I Met You Baby
Kid Thomas - Rockin’ This Joint To-nite
Little Willie John - I’m Shakin’
Manhattan Brothers - Baby Ntsoare
Clyde McPhatter - Treasure of Love
The Johnny Otis Show - Hand Jive
Pastels - Been So Long
Bobby Please & the Pleasers - The Monster
The Revels - Midnight Stroll
Billy Riley & His Little Green Men - Flyin’ Saucers Rock & Roll
The Students - So Young
Willows - Church Bells May Ring

k, I'm gonna plug all these that I haven't so far into the spread sheet and then open the voting sometime tomorrow. FUN!

Kudos to Neue Jesse Schule for some of those last minute additions

So many great songs and artists on this list, couldn't find the part that tells how many we get to vote for, maybe that will be on the voting thread. This is gonna be even worse than that speculative fiction poll.

Can I squeeze one more in? If not no trouble.

Lord Rockingham's XI - Fried Onions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O6p84lYw7s

Voting thread is already up with the final list. But if anyone sees this and wants to vote for it besides you, that's okay.

Ah cheers, I was out on the pop last night and forgot all about the deadline.

missed nominations

m(

Plenty to vote for: Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s—VOTING THREAD