Heart of Rock and Soul Poll: the 1001 Greatest Singles Part 23: 426-450

Mitch Ryder, narrowly from the Chi-Lites. Sure Little Latin Lupe Lou isn't the best song here, but can't help but want to rep for Mitch.

He Stopped Loving Her Today

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Impossible! Any one of these:

He Stopped Lovin' Her Today
I Wish It Would Rain
Edge of Seventeen
Have You Seen Her

Voting "Peppermint Twist." A close call; gets the edge because I'm actually surprised to see it here, for some reason.

Next six, more or less this order:
Shirley and Co, Chi-Lites, Dudley, Ryder, Spinners, Gladys.

"Ain't Too Proud To Beg" over "One Of A Kind (Love Affair)".

Some great choices here: 2 Temps, Elvis, Jackie, EWF, Chi-Lites, Five Satins, Dave Dudley, Joey Dee, Gladys, Spinners, Solomon, Nicks and the wild Shirley & Co. But this belongs to George Jones.

Beg over Little Sister.

Yeesh, I misread that as "Bend over little sister" for a split-second!

Great selection up there, but "Shame Shame Shame" up there with "Rock Your Baby" and "I Feel Love" as a track I'll happily play a half-dozen times running, one of the great K-Tel smashes of all time, unstoppable and untoppable.

"Have You Seen Her" is such a perfect song.

How is the band's name pronounced? My friend says it "shy lights."

Pretty good group, but one of the easiest choices yet for me: "The Mountain's High," which sat somewhere on Billboard's Top 100 the week I was born. I'll be surprised if it gets a second vote, but one of my favorite songs ever. Some runners-up: "I Wish It Would Rain", Marvin Gaye (I'm sick of a lot of great Motown hits, but not those two), Blue Jays, and Joey Dee. And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to return to thoughts of how much Carly Simon loved having sex.

Shirley and Co. for me.

James Brown - Night Train, over george jones and mitch ryder. marsh really liked putting two versions of the same song next to each other, eh?

like this version more than the single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2aNifcy20

damn, it's a total toss up between marvin gaye and the five satins. five satins win because of the sax solo.

1956 Five Satins In the still of the night
1965 Marvin Gaye Ain't that peculiar
1966 Sam and Dave You don't know like I know
1975 Shirley and Company Shame shame shame
1966 Temptations Ain't too proud to beg
1968 Temptations I wish it would rain
1952 Jimmy Forrest Night train
1956 Drifters Your promise to be mine
1980 George Jones He stopped lovin' her today
1971 Chi-lites Have you seen her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT3oDMCWpI

those backing vocals! shoo-dooit-shooby-do...

that sax solo is basically the sourcepoint for the first julee cruise album, people.

Totally missed "Your Promise to Be Mine"--not as well known as the early-'60s hits, but one of the Drifters' greatest. I think it's still Clyde McPhatter singing, but I'm not sure.

I'm still listening my way through these. These polls have been a great source for YouTube searches.

The YouTube video of this is pretty great: Joey Dee and the Starlighters Peppermint twist

When I was in high school, the theater group I did performed a play in which an intrepid explorer is stranded on an island that worships the Temptations. We learned an elaborate bit of choreography for Ain't To Proud To Beg, which looks enough like real dancing that sometimes I break it out at parties (oh, box step, what can't you do?). The guy who wrote that play grew up to write for Lost and Charmed.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Chi-Lites. (and yes it's pronounced like yr friend says, they are from Chicago. but you can't say "shuh-lites")

word.

'Edge of Seventeen'. I'd never heard it before, but there was a Fleetwood Mac evening on BBC4 last night and this was on. I did not know it was the root of 'Bootylicious' either. I was loving it.

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

Hey temps!

Scott & i otm re voting for Shirley & co; shame shame shame on the rest of y'all for not doing so.

should went on my other instinct and tossed Gladys a vote

& MVB too. (which one of us forgot to vote? probably me. ;_;)

xp

Hmm...well, I THINK I voted, but I do have a history of forgetting! So I'll take the blame, blame, blame.

Same, same, same: I sometimes forget to actually vote in these things (and I can't recall if I did so here or not).

Maybe we ALL forgot and two lurkers voted instead?

I voted for it twice so....