Heart of Rock and Soul Poll: the 1001 Greatest Singles Part 19: 526-550

Flamingos should be #1, #527 is just so wrong.

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I keep waiting for a group of songs where there's something like half the list that I love. Probably won't happen--my tastes are sufficiently different from Marsh's that it's invariably a couple of favorites, and a lot of stuff I've either grown tired of or never cared for much to begin with (and a few I don't know). For this group, "Temptation 'Bout to Get Me" first, Flamingos second, and (what I think will win) probably Del Shannon third.

Coin flip between Flamingos and Del Shannon.

The last 30 seconds of "Stand!" After that, "Beat It."

yep, voted for "Runaway"

voting "youre gonna miss me" over the dells and del shannon, just on account of my mood..

Flamingos, Del Shannon...

I need to read these lists closer. The Knight Brothers got, and would probably still get, my vote, but I'd go 1. "Temptation ('Bout to Get Me)," 2. "Way Over There," 3. "You're Gonna Miss Me," and 4. "I Only Have Eyes for You." It's a stronger group than I thought. Please don't let "Beat It" or "Bad Girls" win.

RUNAWAY

Lots of good ones: MJ, B.B., D. Summer, Isley Bros., MARRS, CCR, LL, Run DMC, 13th Floor, E. Cochran but this is between Del Shannon and the Flamingos. Coin flip: I'm going with the latter.

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shit this is a great list. lessee...

1- Sly and the family Stone Stand!
2- Bo Diddley Dearest darling
3- Falcons I found a love
4- Flamingos I only have eyes for you
5- Arthur Alexander Soldiers of love
6- Thirteenth Floor Elevators You're gonna miss me
7- Dells There is
8- Knight Brothers Temptation 'bout to get me
9- Eddie Cochran C'mon everybody (though I much prefer "Just Like Eddie" by Heinz)
10- Miracles Way over there

eh, should have voted for falcons.

Voting Del Shannon.

Runners up: 13th Floor, Run DMC, Donna Summer, Isleys, M/A/R/R/S, LL, Cochran, etc.

Always seemed a complete bore to me: "The Thrill Is Gone"

Don't know lots of the others.

"Beat It" a runnerup too, obv.

And I've always prefered "Magic Carpet Ride" to "Born To Be Wild," if anybody cares. (It's funkier.)

Always seemed a complete bore to me: "The Thrill Is Gone"

totally agree. i just never really got into b.b. king, period.

i'm tempted to vote for lavern baker out of knee-jerk allegiance to atlantic r&b. (and because i love the song.)

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Didn't see this, but would have voted for "Stand!" over MARRS, Flamingos, Steppenwolf, & MJ.

My fave B.B. King line: "Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jiving too." "The Thrill Is Gone" has pop-culture resonance or whatever--it owns that sentiment.

too late to vote cochran

i find b.b. king kind of boring, frankly. "the thrill is gone" is ok, though.

He was great in concert, but that was 26 years ago and he still had a little fire inside.

I thought I disliked "The Thrill is Gone" until I listened to it again earlier this year and suddenly heard it less as a boring blues, more as a chilly late-60s soul record.

Didn't vote in this batch. The most uninspiring bunch for me thus far.

it is definitely a kind of soul/blues hybrid. i like the string arrangement a lot.