the improbable RUSS BALLARD poll: god gave rock n roll to you, and a bunch of other stuff too

my short list is "since you been gone," "winning" and the frida song.

although that hot chocolate song is pretty great too.

I'll always have a soft spot for the 80s pop-prog bombast of "voices" - and the video is amusingly nutso.

The Colin Blunstone one. I've never been able to make up my mind about whether I like "Liar" or not.

Colin Blunstone.

Bump, because this list is fascinating!

I SURRENDER
I SURRENDER
CAN'T YA FEEL THE LOVE THAT I SEND YA?

A short piece on the goofy key change in Rainbow's "Since You've Been Gone" with a link to an mp3 of Ballard's original:
http://www.gearchange.org/descriptions/Rainbow%20-%20Since%20You've%20Been%20Gone.html

i love the sort of syncopated cadence of the verses in "winning," especially right where the second verse picks up over the end of the first one.

I voted 3DN, but would have gone "God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You" if you'd given the KISS version. Had no idea he wrote about half of these, including the Hot Chocolate, America, and Frida tunes.

yes, a n amazing list: i voted for ggr&rty simply because it's so ridiculous.

I got the key
I GOT THE KEY

I won't turn off 'Voices' when it comes on the radio - gotta vote for that with a tip of the hat to 'Sonny Crockett!'

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

"Voices" comes on the radio? There was a video show on my local PBS station, and I saw that video as a teenager. I love that kind of Miami Vice existentialism.

Here's the video.

I missed this poll but would've voted for "You Can Do Magic" or "New York Groove" if that's the Ace Frehley song.

yeah, ace frehley did that one too.

i wish someone would compile all this into a russ ballard best-of. but i suppose rhino wouldn't see much upside to that. i wonder how many of them are on itunes? i guess i could just make one myself.

I watched both the old video and the new remastered version of "Voices" on YouTube last night, and I'm not through with Russ Ballard yet.

I'm bummed I missed this poll but it turned out about right in the end.

I want to get a tattoo that says I GOT THE KEY

I was going to say: No Alanis? Then I found: wrong ballard.

Damn, I missed this. Would have been torn between "Since You Been Gone" and "I Don't Believe In Miracles".

I got the key

I GOT THE KEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8ugxIpu5M

This poll missed a good one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8kiPB-6Cks

Roger Daltrey - Free Me

That's a pretty good track record. He deserves one of those Ace Records comps, if it doesn't already exist.

Belated vote for You Can Do Magic, perfection in every way

Turns out to be good timing for a thread resurrection--Ballard's releasing a double CD on April 25 of new songs on one disc, and his own recordings of half of this poll on the other.

https://www.frontiers.it/news/11662