1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die - 1964

Missing "I Feel Fine", several "Hard Day's Night" tracks and the first two Supremes singles. Amongst other stuff.

Still some great songs. Torn between Dionne Warwick's greatest ever moment and yet another Phil Spector vote.

(Although "Leader Of The Pack" is of course really great too)

Great selection, but it's "Walk On By" by a couple of lengths.

Sam Cooke

Not sure. Leaning towards Kinks or Animals, but maybe Sam Cooke too...

Dancing In The Street, you cretins.

as a cretin i'm voting for Dusty

I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself murders me in that version. another cretin vote

Also seriously missing "Oh Pretty Woman" and "It's Over" here. Going for Righteous Brothers anyways.

Sam Cooke, no question.

Girl From Ipamena

For me it's between Jacques Brel, Sam Cooke and Martha & The Vandellas.

"The Girl from Ipanema" is another part of the world suddenly claiming everything.

Sam Cooke, no question.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, May 20, 2011 5:46 PM (1 hour ago)

this one is really really hard

Even though I think the Beatles' greatest singles are a year away, leaving them off a '64 list is silly...From the list I'd go with "Walk on By," followed by the Righteous Brothers. Other favourites: the Beach Boys' "All Summer Long," Bessie Banks' original "Go Now," Brenda Holloway's "Every Little Bit Hurts," Earl-Jean's original "I'm Into Somethin' Good," Gene Pitney's "It Hurts to Be in Love," Horace Silver's "Song for My Father," Lesley Gore's "Look of Love," the Murmaids' "Bull Talk," the Rockin' Berries' "He's in Town," the Rolling Stones' "It's All Over Now," the Searchers' "Don't Throw Your Love Away," and Shirley Matthews' "Big Town Boy"...I'm sure I missed a couple. (Promise I won't do any more MIA lists beyond two or three songs--starting in '65, there'd just be too much.)

Getz/Gilberto

"I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" is an all time classic vocal performance, and it's got a great melody too. Clearly, this is missing a lot, but there's a ton of classics on this list as is. Might be tempted to change to Sam Cooke or Getz/Gilberto later, but Dusty seems like the right choice here.

Actually, the biggest lack here is no Beatles tune, but the glorious "California Girls".

Should note that I really like that Jacques Brel tune as well, though it's a bit below the actual contenders for a vote.

Couple other missing ones: "Goldfinger", "She's Not There", "Baby I Need Your Loving". Wouldn't be crazy to throw a Mary Poppins tune in there either.

Yeah, "Goldfinger" is, like, the ultimate Bond tune.

"California Girls" is summer of '65.

Should note that I really like that Jacques Brel tune as well, though it's a bit below the actual contenders for a vote.

Yeah, there are other Brel songs I would vote for over anything on this list, but in the end I went for Sam Cooke.

Ah, "California" is 65 of course. May even be in the list there (haven't looked closely through, but it will be a very solid list)

great batch - went for leader

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what is this:

Mina: E Se Domani

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_%28singer%29

The Mina song is an Italo-ballad, with jazzy touches, some orchestration, and a vocal that goes from soft to full-blooded passionate & back again... something Italian singers seem to have a knack for, but Mina is one of the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvyDWGF290M&feature=related

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Not a lot of talk here, but I guess the results were kinda expected. There weren't so many outspoken supporters of Sam Cooke, but it was kind of the song I expected to win when I posted the poll, so no surprise there, really. Personally I prefer the more tuneful earlier Cooke-material, but "A Change Is Gonna Come" is by no means a bad song, and particularly the lyrics were important as an early example of socially conscious soul lyrics.

i missed this but god bless u person who voted for john jacob niles

Brel perhaps never sneers better than in Amsterdam. Voted Sam, Getz/Gilberto is an album to me.

I feel that Getz's best moment is the "Jazz Samba" album from a couple years earlier. "Desafinado" is his crowning moment.