1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die - 1958

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode 14
The Everly Brothers: All I Have To Do Is Dream 9
Peggy Lee: Fever 8
Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues 7
The Coasters: Yakety Yak 5
Ritchie Valens: La Bamba 4
Lloyd Price: Stagger Lee 3
Domenico Modugno: Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu 3
Ricky Nelson: Lonesome Town 2
Frank Sinatra: One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 2
Serge Gainsbourg: La Poinconneur des Lilas 1
Conway Twitty: It's Only Make Believe 1
The Teddy Bears: To Know Him Is To Love Him 1
Danny & The Juniors: At The Hop 1
Cliff Richard & The Drifters: Move It 0
Henri Salvador: Dans Mon Ile 0


Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 24 April 2011 07:49 (fourteen years ago)

I've spent a great deal of time complaining about the limitations of the 12 bar blues and how boring its dominance in 50s rock was. However, this bunch contains two really great songs that managed to become really great in spite of those limitations. Voting for "Summertime Blues", but "Johnny B. Goode" is another great example of the same. Those two songs are probably the best 12 bar blues based songs ever written.

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 24 April 2011 07:51 (fourteen years ago)

Torn between Cochran and the Everlys. This is HARD.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 April 2011 07:56 (fourteen years ago)

voted for the Teddy Bears

A Zed and Two Nults (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 April 2011 08:05 (fourteen years ago)

sinatra's best moment

nonightsweats, Sunday, 24 April 2011 09:48 (fourteen years ago)

Stagger Lee like a motherfucker.

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

"The night was claaare, and the moon was yellow..."

Land of Rap and Homies (kkvgz), Sunday, 24 April 2011 11:59 (fourteen years ago)

Johnny Fever - I'm torn between Cochran and the Everlys as well. Let me know which one you pick and I'll pick the other.

EZ Snappin, Sunday, 24 April 2011 12:52 (fourteen years ago)

I'm always intrigued by the people/songs I've never heard of: Henri Salvador/"Dans Mon Ile"? "Johnny B. Goode," "Summertime Blues," "At the Hop," "La Bamba," and "All I Have to Do Is Dream" would have gotten my vote at different points in my life. I played "Summertime Blues" for my class last week, on the anniversary of Cochran's death. Truthfully, they're all a little overplayed for me, but I'll go with "Johnny B. Goode" on the grounds that it may be the only chance I get to cast a vote for Chuck Berry.

clemenza, Sunday, 24 April 2011 13:05 (fourteen years ago)

Most of those Non-English language songs in this book I understand are songs that have been influential on local trends that have later crossed over to influence Anglo-American popular music trends. I guess "Dans mon lie" is among those.

"Nel Blu Dipintu Di Blu" is of course better known as "Volare".

Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 24 April 2011 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

I totally missed "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu." I like that almost as much as some of the rock & roll on here.

clemenza, Sunday, 24 April 2011 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

Went for Chuck Berry, but if I was going to choose Sinatra at all I guess it would have been for this one

Iago Galdston, Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

Johnny Fever - I'm torn between Cochran and the Everlys as well. Let me know which one you pick and I'll pick the other.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, April 24, 2011 8:52 AM (7 hours ago)

I went Everlys in the end.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:04 (fourteen years ago)

Then Cochran it is.

EZ Snappin, Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:22 (fourteen years ago)

Voted "At the Hop" before I had too much time to think about it.

the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Sunday, 24 April 2011 21:24 (fourteen years ago)

Went Everlys before seeing "Yakety Yak."

Four Shouters Shouting (Eazy), Sunday, 24 April 2011 21:24 (fourteen years ago)

impossible, need a random number generator

meisenfek, Monday, 25 April 2011 13:39 (fourteen years ago)

if i'd be subjected to waterboarding, it would be probably 'lonesome town' (Cramps, Pulp Fiction, Rowland S. Howard)

meisenfek, Monday, 25 April 2011 13:44 (fourteen years ago)

dude I could vote for, like, 8 of these...

right now, gut's telling me At the Hop just barely over La Bamba & Yakety Yak

Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:08 (fourteen years ago)

I'd vote "Fever" in a number of different years, too.

scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:18 (fourteen years ago)

after digging around Youtube for a minute, I think the Coasters might be my favorite pre-Beatles band

Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:18 (fourteen years ago)

oh God I've never heard the Cliff Richard song before...!

Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:20 (fourteen years ago)

La Bamba: first garage-rock song

Move It: lays out the template for surf guitar

At the Hop: acrobatic backing vocals + proto-Velvets motorik piano

Yakety Yak: frenetic cowpunk

Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 25 April 2011 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

I've never heard the original Volare before, but I'm listening to it now and voting for it, years after first hearing it abused in a TV commercial and then getting to like it in a merengue version, etc.

_Rudipherous_, Monday, 25 April 2011 14:31 (fourteen years ago)

LA BAMBA FTW

reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Monday, 25 April 2011 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

Teddy Bears' one is so fucking creepy

The Everybody Buys 1000 Aerosmith Albums A Month Club (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 April 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

Spector details the whole back story in last year's documentary--the words were taken from his father's tombstone.

clemenza, Monday, 25 April 2011 19:19 (fourteen years ago)

You guys aren't saying "Stagger Lee" enough. Get to voting.

Land of Rap and Homies (kkvgz), Monday, 25 April 2011 19:52 (fourteen years ago)

Things you can do at the hop:

* rock it
* roll it
* stop it
* stroll it
* swing it
* groove it
* really start to move it
* get your kicks

deez m'uts (La Lechera), Monday, 25 April 2011 19:56 (fourteen years ago)

Went with the Everlys over Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran, but this is really hard; I could have talked myself into voting for eight or nine of these.

Somehow the existence of many prior recordings of "Stagger Lee" made Lloyd Price harder to vote for here, I don't know why.

Brad C., Monday, 25 April 2011 20:29 (fourteen years ago)

I don't know either because lloyd's is the d2efinitive performance.

Land of Rap and Homies (kkvgz), Monday, 25 April 2011 20:32 (fourteen years ago)

haven't voted yet: probably down to either Move It or At the Hop

Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 25 April 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

voted Conway Twitty. was tempted by Lonesome Town and One For My Baby (And One More For The Road). the others will get their votes.

gospodin simmel, Monday, 25 April 2011 22:39 (fourteen years ago)

Spector details the whole back story in last year's documentary--the words were taken from his father's tombstone.

yeah, knew about this from one of his bios. still haven't seen that doc, waiting for my local store to get the DVD

The Everybody Buys 1000 Aerosmith Albums A Month Club (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 April 2011 22:44 (fourteen years ago)

stagger fucking lee

balls, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 02:12 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

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

System, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)


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