Heart of Rock and Soul Poll: the 1001 Greatest Singles Part 14: 651-675

Lots of good ones in here, lots of good doo-wop, one of my favourite Holly songs, etc. (+ "Rip Van Winkle" is one of my favourite discoveries from the book), but there's no way it can be anything other than "I'll Be Around."

Voted for Newcleus.

I never understood why he put "Jam On Revenge" in the book instead of "Jam On It." (Or did he? They're two different songs, right?)

Anyway, I might go for "Jam On It", too, if that wasn't so ambiguous. But Bob Seger gets my vote.

In my copy it's listed as "Jam On It.|

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Shut up.

Anyway, maybe it was a fact-checker error, corrected in a later edition?

Spinners, just over Newcleus.

Marvelettes over Buddy, Frogman, Spinners and Newcleus.

Spinners for me too, with not much competition. I'll disagree with sw00ds about the doo-wop, though, which for me is kind of pedestrian.

It's not in the book, it's whoever put the list online that mistitled it. Anyway, I voted Marvelettes.

I probably was a bit quick on the draw with my doo-wop comment, but I do love "A Thousand Miles Away" and Jesse Belvin's "Goodnight My Love" but I'm not sure if that counts (maybe it's "r&b"?). I don't recall either Shep & the Limeliters song that well, though.

Classic Old school from Spinners/Stylistics, fun Bobby Day, early R&B from Jesse Belvin, great Doo Wop and "Lucille", but I'm going with the Spinners because Phillipe Wynne is one of the most overlooked R&B singers ever.

well, fuck me. this is hard. here are my top, uh, eight:

Etta James I'd rather go blind
Buddy Holly Well all right
Chuck Berry Nadine
Spinners I'll be around
Jesse Belvin Goodnight my love
Bob Seger 2 + 2 = ?
Fats Domino Ain't that a shame
Stylistics Break up to make up

i almost voted for "ill be around," but in truth although it's a beautiful song, it can easily wear out its welcome by how repetitive it is as a piece of songwriting.

so yeah i vote for etta.

some serious muscle shoals shit right there.

"Nadine" over Spinners and Beatles.

damn, I missed the Spinners--that's definitely my favorite here; ah well

Buddy Holly. Well All Right was the winner in the recent Buddy Holly poll, too.

I missed seeing the Spinners too, actually. Not sure whether I would have voted for them, but it would've been close. And Seger deserves at least one vote here, so I really don't mind.

the seger is pretty great, perhaps not deathless.

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"I'll Be Around" over "Revolution" and "Lucille"

Heh. I was gonna vote for Seger, but Chuck's apparently got that covered. Clarence Brown singin' like a frog it is!

Clarence Henry, rather. Dunno why I do that so often.

Hearing the Clarence Frogman Henry record is basically guaranteed to make people happier.

True! But I'm still voting Seger.

Oh, and it's "Jam on Revenge" in my copy of the book too.

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3-Way Tie For Last

(actually first)

it's "Jam on Revenge" in my copy of the book too.

Okay, this is getting curiouser and curiouser. Like one of those weird "variations" that baseball card collectors love so much. I hereby request that everybody who (unlike me) owns a copy of this book tally (1) which Newcleus title their copy lists and (2) what the edition/ copyright year of their copy is. My theory is that some books came out with "Jam On Revenge," and Marsh blew a gasket, and then had it fixed.

...uh, never mind, sorry, false alarm, I misspoke...it's "Jam On It" after all. I was posting from work and relying on my memory - not always a good idea. (One of TWO factual errors I posted yesterday btw.)

(To put it in proper context, though, there are quite a few mistakes by Marsh in that book)

both my copies are "Jam on It" First Printing, October, 1989 123456789 Plume.

I voted Marvelettes because it's the one I've listened to most often the last few years. Rocks hard and sexy.

Hearing the Clarence Frogman Henry record is basically guaranteed to make people happier.

― dad a, Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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