1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die

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Now for the 40s entries.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land	6
Hank Williams: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	5
Bing Crosby: White Christmas	5
Louis Jordan & his Tympani Five: Saturday Night Fish Try	5
Billie Holiday: God Bless The Child	3
Charles Trenet: La Mer	2
Edit Piaf: La Vie en Rose	2
Joseito Fernández: Guantanamera	2
Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday	2
Roy Brown: Good Rockin' Tonight	1
The Nat King Cole Trio: (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66	1
Lord Invader: Rum and Coca-Cola	1
La Niña de los Peines: Al Gurugu	0
Marlene Dietrich: Lili Marleen	0
The Nat King Cole Trio: Nature Boy	0
Lena Horne: Stormy Weather	0
The Ink Spots: Java Jive	0

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

Several contenders here as well (there will be in most of the polls). But, even though it's not that time of year, I feel it is impossible for me not to vote for "White Christmas" here. I mean... no Christmas without....

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:12 (fourteen years ago)

Between these three:

Billie Holiday: God Bless The Child
Lena Horne: Stormy Weather
Lord Invader: Rum and Coca-Cola

― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:30 (fourteen years ago)

One could point out glaring omissions in most of these polls btw. I guess in this one (apart from instrumentals), one would be "That's All Right" and maybe some early Hank Williams or Hank Snow.

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:32 (fourteen years ago)

Louis Jordan

― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:50 (fourteen years ago)

Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday
Joseito Fernández: Guantanamera
Billie Holiday: God Bless The Child
Lena Horne: Stormy Weather
Marlene Dietrich: Lili Marleen
The Nat King Cole Trio: (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66
Edit Piaf: La Vie en Rose

All of these are five-star classics IMO, but gotta go for La Vie en rose. Hopefully the 50s poll includes "Mona Lisa", that's my favourite Naty King Cole song.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 10:56 (fourteen years ago)

This will only get progressively harder. Torn between these five:

The Ink Spots: Java Jive
Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday
Joseito Fernández: Guantanamera
Lord Invader: Rum and Coca-Cola
Edit Piaf: La Vie en Rose

― Moka, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 11:12 (fourteen years ago)

Nat King Cole Trio

― Darin, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:08 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgdzS4OSQ1M

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 23:08 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, Good Rockin' Tonight it is

― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:42 (fourteen years ago)

unless it's Billie or Louis Jordan. Hank too

― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:42 (fourteen years ago)

Four or five I don't know, many I'm indifferent towards. Hank Williams, but there are songs of his I like better.

― clemenza, Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:54 (fourteen years ago)

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

― System, Thursday, 7 April 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

wish i had seen this poll, would have voted stormy weather

― symsymsym, Thursday, 7 April 2011 23:14 (fourteen years ago)

"This Land Is Your Land" winning surprises me considerably less than none of its fans actually mentioning it in the thread.

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 7 April 2011 23:27 (fourteen years ago)

otm

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Thursday, 7 April 2011 23:29 (fourteen years ago)

I voted for Woody, couldn't really articulate why...as a protest song that launched however million-plus protest songs, and yet still manages to sneak under the radar as not necessarily a protest song.

― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 7 April 2011 23:37 (fourteen years ago)

ah shit if i had remembered to vote this would be a tie

― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 April 2011 23:38 (fourteen years ago)

oh ha thats not as helpful as i meant it to be considering the 3 way tie for second - would have voted hank williams

― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 April 2011 23:39 (fourteen years ago)

A Great song for Great Americans....ONLY ...who love America....Not Latinos or Mexicans
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― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 7 April 2011 23:48 (fourteen years ago)

I voted for Woody, because we in America now live in a fascist corporate state so it's extra poignant.

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 8 April 2011 00:31 (fourteen years ago)

Surely Woody Guthrie represents a political movement that was somewhat vibrant in the US in the late 40s, but which is now stone dead there.

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Friday, 8 April 2011 00:32 (fourteen years ago)

It's tragic, Geir, truly.

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 8 April 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

The present will always be the future.

― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 8 April 2011 02:10 (fourteen years ago)

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1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die - the 40s

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