Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s—VOTING THREAD

We ended up with 604 nominated tracks here, and now it's time we move to voting.

Each ballot is worth a total of 2,450 points. You, the voter, have one of three options for how to split those points.

• RANKED BALLOT: By this method, you can vote for (up to) 50 tracks. Points will be assigned high to low starting at 100 for first place and ending at 2 for last place. They will count down using even values like so: 100, 98, 96 ... 6, 4, 2.

• UNRANKED BALLOT: By this method, you can vote for (up to) 50 tracks as well. When you choose for your ballot to be considered unranked, each track you vote for will receive 49 points.

• SPLIT BALLOT: By this method, you can vote for (up to) 50 tracks also. However, if you only want to rank your top, say, 17 tracks, the other 33 tracks will split the remainder of your 2,450 points evenly.

VOTING ENDS AT MIDNIGHT EDT ON SUNDAY JULY 10, 2011. THE COUNTDOWN WILL BEGIN THE NEXT DAY (MONDAY JULY 11, 2011).

Now, go vote!

Abbey Lincoln - Afro Blue
Abdel Halim Hafez - Awwel Marrah
Al Saxon - I'm All Right Jack
Ames Brothers - Rag Mop
Andre Williams - Greasy Chicken
Anton Karas - Theme from The Third Man
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Nica's Dream
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk - In Walked Bud
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - My Baby Left Me
Atahualpa Yupanqui - Punay (La Pastorcita Perdida)
Augie Garcia - Hi Yo Silver
Barret Strong - Money
Benny More - Como Fue
Benny More y Pedro Vargas - Obsesion
Bernard Bresslaw - Mad Passionate Love
Bernard Herrman - "Vertigo" Theme
Beverley Kenney – Born To Be Blue
Big Al Downing - Down On The Farm
Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace
Big Joe Turner – Shake, Rattle & Roll
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog
Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk
Bill Evans - Peace Piece
Bill Haley and His Comets – Rock Around The Clock
Billie Holiday - Easy to Love
Billie Holiday - I'm a Fool to Want You
Billie Holiday - What's New?
Billy Lee Riley - Red Hot
Billy Riley & His Little Green Men - Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll
Bo Diddley - Diddy Wah Diddy
Bo Diddley - Say Man
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?
Bob & Lucille - Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moe
Bob Luman - Red Hot
Bob McFadden & Dor - I'm a Mummy
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Sittin' on Top of the World
Bobby "Blue" Bland - Farther Up The Road
Bobby & Terry Caraway - Ballin’ Keen
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash
Bobby Day - Rockin' Robin
Bobby Freeman - Do You Want to Dance
Bobby Please & The Pleasers - The Monster
Brenda Lee - Sweet Nothin's
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry - Better Day
Buchanan and Goodman - The Flying Saucer
Buck Owens - Under Your Spell Again
Bud Powell – Un Poco Loco
Buddy Holly - Everyday
Buddy Holly - It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Buddy Holly - Look At Me
Buddy Holly – Maybe Baby
Buddy Holly – Not Fade Away
Buddy Holly - Oh Boy!
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly – Rave On
Buddy Holly - That'll Be the Day
Buddy Holly - Well...All Right!
Buddy Holly - Words Of Love
Bull Moose Jackson - Big Ten Inch Record
Camille Howard - Fireball Boogie
Cannonball Adderley – Autumn Leaves
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
Carl Perkins – That's Right
Carole Bennett - Haunted Lover
Cecil Taylor - Excursion on a Wobbly Rail
Celia Cruz - Mi Soncito
Charles Mingus - Better Git It In Your Soul
Charles Mingus – Fables of Faubus
Charles Mingus - Haitian Fight Song
Charles Trenet - La Mer
Charlie Feathers - Can't Hardly Stand It
Chet Baker – My Funny Valentine
Chris Kenner - Sick and Tired
Chuck Berry - Almost Grown
Chuck Berry - Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Chuck Berry - Havana Moon
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry – Maybelline
Chuck Berry - Memphis Tennessee
Chuck Berry - Rock & Roll Music
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
Chuck Berry – School Day
Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen
Chuck Berry - Too Much Monkey Business
Chuck Berry - Wee Wee Hours
Chuck Willis - It's Too Late
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - Ain't Got No Home
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - The Blues Walk
Clifton Chenier - Eh, Petite Fille
Clint Miller - Bertha Lou
Clyde McPhatter - A Lover's Question
Clyde McPhatter - I Can't Stand Up Alone
Clyde McPhatter - Treasure of Love
Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters - Money Honey
Connie Francis – Who's Sorry Now?
Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
Cortijo y su Combo - Negro Bembon
Dale Dawkins - La-Do-Dada
Dale Hawkins - Suzie Q
Danny & The Juniors - At the Hop
Dave 'Baby' Cortez – The Happy Organ
Dave Bartholomew - The Monkey
Dean Martin - Sway
Dean Martin - The Peddlar Man
Dee & The Kool Gents - When I Call on You
Del Close & John Brent - Cool
Desi Arnaz - Babalu
Dick Penner - Cindy Lou
Dinah Washington - What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
Dion & the Belmonts - I Wonder Why
Don Gibson - I Can't Stop Loving You
Don Gibson - Oh Lonesome Me
Donald O'Connor - Make 'Em Laugh
Donald Woods & The Vel-Aires - Death of an Angel
Doris Day - Que sera, sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Dorival Caymmi - O Bem Do Mar
Dorsey Burnette - Bertha Lou
Duane Eddy - Rebel Rouser
Duke Ellington - The Mooche
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Mood Indigo (1951)
Duke Ellington feat. Mahalia Jackson – Come Sunday
Dwayne Eddy - Peter Gunn
Eartha Kitt - C'est Si Bon
Eartha Kitt - I Want to Be Evil
Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
Eartha Kitt - Under the Bridges of Paris
Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes & Connie Stevens - Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)
Eddie Cochran - Somethin' Else
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
Eddie Cochrane - Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie
Eddie Fontaine - Nothing Shakin'
Edgard Varèse - Poème électronique
Edith Piaf – Milord
Edith Piaf - Padam... padam...
Edwin Bruce - Rock Boppin' Baby
Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake
El Dorados - Lights Are Low
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train
Elizete Cardoso - Chega de saudade
Ella Fitzgerald - Anything Goes
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Can't We Be Friends
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
Elvis Presley – Baby, Let's Play House
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
Elvis Presley – Blue Moon of Kentucky
Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
Elvis Presley - Milkcow Blues Boogie
Elvis Presley - My Baby Left Me
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
Elvis Presley - One Night
Elvis Presley - Shake, Rattle and Roll
Elvis Presley – That's All Right
Elvis Presley - When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
Esquerita - Rockin' the Joint
Farid el Atrache - Ana Wel Bahebou
Farid el Atrache - Wehyat Eineiki
Fats Domino – Blue Monday
Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill
Fats Domino - I'm Walkin'
Fats Domino – What's the Reason (I'm Not Pleasing You)
Fats Domino - Whole Lotta Loving
Fayza Ahmad - Sit El Habayib
Ferlin Husky - Gone
Flatt & Scruggs - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Frank Loesser - Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat
Frank Sinatra - Blues In The Night
Frank Sinatra - I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night
Frank Sinatra - I Get Along Without You Very Well
Frank Sinatra - I've Got You Under My Skin
Frank Sinatra - Night And Day
Frank Sinatra – You Make Me Feel So Young
Frankie Ford - Sea Cruise
Frankie Laine - Cry of the Wild Goose
Frankie Laine - Rawhide
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - The ABC's of Love
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Freddie Cannon - Tallahassee Lassie
Gene Kelly - Singin' in the Rain
Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula
Gene Vincent - Cat Man
Gene Vincent – Jezebel
Gene Vincent - Race With the Devil
Gene Vincent - The Night Is So Lonely
George Jones - If I Don't Love You (Grits Are Groceries)
George Jones - White Lightning
George Jones - Why Baby Why
Georges Brassens - Le Gorille
Glen Glenn - Everybody's Movin
Guitar Slim - Feelin Sad
György Ligeti - Artikulation
Hank Mizzell - Jungle Rock
Hank Snow - I'm Moving On
Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart
Hank Williams - Hey, Good Lookin'
Hank Williams - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Hank Williams - Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
Hank Williams - Kaw-Liga
Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Hank Williams – Moaning the Blues
Hank Williams - Ramblin' Man
Hank Williams - Settin' the Woods on Fire
Harry Belafonte - Day-O
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - Peter Gunn
Herbie Nichols - Terpsichore
Hibari Misora – Kuramaya-san
Howard Keel & Co. - Sobbin' Women
Howlin' Wolf - Crying at Daybreak
Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor
Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' at Midnight
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful
Howlin' Wolf – The Natchez Burnin'
Huey 'Piano' Smith - Don't You Just Know It?
Huey 'Piano' Smith - Sea Cruise
Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
Ike Turner and His Kings of Rhythm - She Made My Blood Run Cold
Ilene Woods - A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Ivory Joe Hunter - Since I Met You Baby
Jack Scott - Baby She's Gone
Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats - Rocket 88
Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops
Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas
James "Sugarboy" Crawford - Jock-A-Mo
James Brown - Please, Please, Please
James Brown - Try Me
Janis Martin - Drugstore Rock n Roll
Janis Martin - Let's Elope Baby
Jay Chevalier - Rockin' Roll Angel
Jerry Butler & The Impressions - For Your Precious Love
Jerry Butler & The Impressions - The Gift of Love
Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
Jerry Lee Lewis - High School Confidential
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'
Jim Reeves - He'll Have to Go
Jimmy Martin - You Don't Know My Mind
Jimmy Reed - Baby, What You Want Me To Do
Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do
Jimmy Reed - I Ain't Got You
Jimmy Wages - Mad Man
Jimmy Wages - Miss Pearl
Joao Gilberto - A Felicidade
Joao Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
Joao Gilberto - Desafinado
Jody Reynolds - Endless Sleep
Joe Bennett And The Sparkletones – Black Slacks
Joe Clay - Sixteen Chicks
Joe Hill Louis – Boogie in the Park
Joe Williams and Count Basie - Teach Me Tonight
John Cage - 4'33"
John Cage - Williams Mix
John Cage and David Tudor - Indeterminacy Part 1
John Coltrane – Blue Train
John Coltrane - Cousin Mary
John Coltrane - Lush Life
John Fahey – Sligo River Blues
John Lee Hooker - Dimples
Johnnie Ray - Cry
Johnnie Ray - The Little White Cloud That Cried
Johnny & The Hurricanes - Red River Rock
Johnny Ace – Pledging My Love
Johnny Burnette - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Johnny Burnette - Honey Hush
Johnny Burnette - The Train Kept A-Rollin'
Johnny Cash – Belshazzar
Johnny Cash - Big River
Johnny Cash - Cry! Cry! Cry!
Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Johnny Cash - Five Feet High and Rising
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash - Get Rhythm
Johnny Cash - Guess Things Happen That Way
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Johnny Dollar - Action Packed
Johnny Griffin - Mil Dew
Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love
Johnny Guitar Watson - Space Guitar
Johnny Mathis - Chances Are
Johnny Mathis - Misty
Johnny Mathis - Wonderful Wonderful
Judy Garland – The Man That Got Away
Julie London – Cry Me A River
Juliette Gréco - La Valse brune
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Etude
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge
Ken Nordine - Flibberty Jib
Kico Rangel Band featuring The Rangel Sisters - Ábrete Sésamo
Kid Thomas - Rockin' This Joint To-nite
Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean a Lot
Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
La Niña de los Peines (Pastora Pavón) - A la Sierra de Armenia
LaVern Baker - Jim Dandy
LaVern Baker - Soul on Fire
LaVern Baker - Tweedlee Dee
Lee Andrews and the Hearts - Long Lonely Nights

Lee Andrews and the Hearts - Teardrops
Lee Andrews and the Hearts - The Girl Around the Corner
Lefty Frizzell - If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time
Lefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil
Lefty Frizzell - Look What Thoughts Will Do
Leonard Bernstein - "On the Waterfront" Theme
Leonard Bernstein - America
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Tonight (West Side Story)
Lerner & Loewe - I Could Have Danced All Night
Lerner & Loewe - On the Street Where You Live
Les Paul & Mary Ford - How High the Moon
Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con Dios
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Link Wray & His Ray Men - Rumble
Little Anthony and The Imperials – Tears On My Pillow
Little Junior and the Blue Flames - Feelin' Good
Little Richard - Keep a Knockin'
Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
Little Richard - Lucille
Little Richard - Ooh! My Soul
Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
Little Richard and His Band - Jenny, Jenny
Little Walter - Too Late
Little Willie John - I'm Shakin'
Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Lloyd Price – Stagger Lee
Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap
Lonnie Donegan - Lost John
Lord Kitchener - Ah Bernice
Lord Kitchener - London Is The Place For Me
Lord Kitchener - Trouble in Arima
Lord Kitchener - Victory Calypso
Lord Rockingham's XI - Hoots Mon
Lorrie & Larry Collins - Mercy
Lotte Lenya – Pirate Jenny
Lou Harrison - Strict Songs III: Here is Tenderness
Louis & Bebe Barron - Battle with the Invisible Monster
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime
Louis Jordan - Salt Pork, West Virginia
Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby
Lucho Gatica - Historia de un Amor
Luiz Bonfá – Manha De Carnaval (Theme from Black Orpheus)
Marian Anderson – If He Change My Name
Marie Bryant - Tomato
Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Martin Denny - Quiet Village
Marty Robbins - A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation)
Marty Robbins – Big Iron
Marty Robbins - El Paso
Marty Robbins - The Story of My Life
Michael Holliday - The Story of My Life
Michigan J. Frog - The Michigan Rag
Mickey and Sylvia - Love Is Strange
Mighty Sparrow — Jean and Dinah
Mighty Sparrow - Short Little Shorts
Miles Davis - Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Miles Davis - Blue in Green
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
Miles Davis – Gone, Gone, Gone
Miles Davis – So What
Mills Brothers - Be My Life's Companion
Mills Brothers - Glow Worm
Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
Mitzi Gaynor - I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair
Moondog – All Is Loneliness
Moondog - Dog Trot
Muddy Waters – Blow Wind Blow
Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working
Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man
Muddy Waters - Louisiana Blues
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
Mukesh - Awara Hoon
Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable
Nervous Norvous - Transfusion
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me
Nolan Strong & The Diablos - Since You're Gone
Nolan Strong & The Diablos - The Wind
Odetta - Midnight Special
Olavi Virta ja Harmony sisters - Sinitaivas
Olivier Messian - Catalogue d'oiseaux - Livre I - II. Le Loriot
Ornette Coleman - Congeniality
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
Otto Luening - Fantasy in Space
Oum Kalthoum – Sahran Lewahdi
Oum Kalthoum - Ya Zalemni
Oum Kalthoum – Zekrayat
Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby
Patience & Prudence - Gonna Get Along Without You Now
Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes (In an Ashtray)
Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz
Paul Anka - Put Your Head on My Shoulder
Peggy Lee — Fever
Percy Mayfield - Life Is Suicide
Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love
Perez Prado - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
Perez Prado - Mambo No. 5
Peruchin - Guaguanco Callejero
Phil Harris - The Thing
Phil Phillips - Sea of Love
Pierre Schaeffer - Erotic
Preston Epps - Bongo Rock
Professor Longhair - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans
Professor Longhair - No Buts - No Maybes
Professor Longhair - Tipitina
Ray Charles - (Night Time Is) The Right Time
Ray Charles – Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
Ray Charles - Drown in My Own Tears
Ray Charles - Hallelujah I Love Her So
Ray Charles - I Got A Woman
Ray Charles - Lonely Avenue
Ray Charles - This Little Girl of Mine
Ray Charles - What'd I Say
Ray Price - Crazy Arms
Ray Price - You Done Me Wrong
Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium
Richard Berry & The Crowns - The Big Break
Richie Valens - La Bamba
Ricky Nelson - Poor Little Fool
Ricky Nelson – Travelin' Man
Robert & Johnny - We Belong Together
Robert Mitchum - Jean And Dinah
Rodgers & Hammerstein - Getting to Know You
Rodgers & Hammerstein - My Favourite Things
Rodgers & Hammerstein - The Sound of Music
Ronnie Dawson - Action Packed
Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks - Mary Lou
Rosemary Clooney - Come On-A My House
Rosemary Clooney - Half As Much
Roy Hamilton - Don't Let Go
Ruth Brown - Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
Sam Cooke - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
Sam Cooke - Only Sixteen
Sam Cooke - You Send Me
Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers - Touch the Hem of His Garment
Sandy Nelson - Teen Beat
Sanford Clark - The Fool
Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk
Sarah Vaughan - He's My Guy
Sarah Vaughan – Lullaby of Birdland
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Little Demon
Serge Gainsbourg - L'Alcool
Serge Gainsbourg - Le femme des uns sous le corps des autres
Sheriff & The Ravels - Shombalor
Shirley & Lee - Let The Good Times Roll
Shirley Collins - The Cherry Tree Carol
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - That's All
Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call
Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knocking
Sonny Boy Williamson - All My Love in Vain
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Don't Start Me Talkin'
Sonny Knight - But, Officer!
Sonny Rollins – St. Thomas
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Sparkle Moore - Killer
Sparkle Moore - Skull and Crossbones
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Caffeine Patrol
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie
Stan Freberg - John and Marsha
Stan Freberg - The Yellow Rose of Texas
Stelios Kazantzidis - Zigkouala
Sun Ra – Kingdom of Not
Sun Ra and the Cosmic Rays – Dreaming
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
Teresa Brewer - Music, Music, Music
The "5" Royales - Say It
The "5" Royales - Tears of Joy
The Accents - Ching a Long
The Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble - Cubano Chant
The Blenders - Don't Fuck Around With Love
The Bobbettes – Mr. Lee
The Bosstones - Mope-Itty-Mope
The Cadets - Stranded in the Jungle
The Cadillacs - Gloria
The Cadillacs - Speedoo
The Capris - There's a Moon Out Tonight
The Cellos - Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman)
The Champs - Tequila
The Chantels - Maybe
The Charts - Desiree
The Chips - Rubber Biscuit
The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman
The Chordettes – Soft Sands
The Chords - Sh-Boom
The Clovers - Love Potion Number 9
The Clovers - Love, Love, Love
The Coasters – Charlie Brown
The Coasters - Poison Ivy
The Coasters - Searchin'
The Coasters - What About Us?
The Coasters - Yakety Yak
The Coasters - Young Blood
The Collins Kids - Whistle Bait
The Cookies - In Paradise
The Crests – Sixteen Candles
The Crows - Gee
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Blue Rondo a la Turk
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
The Del Vikings - Come Go With Me
The Dells - Oh What a Night
The Diamonds - Little Darlin'
The Diamonds - The Stroll
The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man
The Drifters - Money Honey
The Drifters - There Goes My Baby
The Dubs - Could This Be Magic
The Duponts - Screamin Ball (At Dracula Hall)
The Edsels - Rama Lama Ding Dong
The Elegants - Little Star
The Eternals - Rockin' in the Jungle
The Everly Brothers - ('Til) I Kissed You
The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do Is Dream
The Everly Brothers – Bye Bye Love
The Everly Brothers - Claudette
The Everly Brothers - Problems
The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie
The Fabulous Wailers - Tall Cool One
The Fiestas - So Fine
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi - Jesus Gave Me Water
The Five Blobs - The Blob
The Five Keys - Close Your Eyes
The Five Keys - The Glory Of Love
The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night
The Flamingos – Golden Teardrops
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
The Harptones - Life Is But a Dream
The Harptones – Sunday Kind of Love
The Heartbeats - 1000 Miles Away
The Hollywood Flames - Frankenstein’s Den
The Impalas with LeRoy Holmes Orchestra - Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)
The Ink Spots - Java Jive
The Isley Brothers - Shout
The Jacks - Why Don't You Write Me?
The Johnny Otis Show - Hand Jive
The Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl
The Louvin Brothers - You're Learning
The Manhattan Brothers - Baby Ntsoare
The Marcels - Blue Moon
The Marshall Brothers - It All Comes Back to Me Now
The Miller Sisters - Got You on My Mind
The Monotones - Book of Love
The Moonglows - Sincerely
The Moonglows - Sweeter Than Words
The Olympics - Western Movies
The Orioles - Crying in the Chapel
The Pastels - Been So Long
The Pastels - So Far Away
The Penguins - Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
The Phaetons - I Love My Baby
The Platters - Only You
The Platters - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
The Platters – The Great Pretender
The Poni-Tails - Born Too Late
The Rays - Silhouettes
The Revels - Midnight Stroll
The Sheppards - Island of Love
The Shirelles - I Met Him on Sunday
The Silhouettes - Get a Job
The Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You
The Sonics - This Broken Heart
The Soul Stirrers - By and By
The Spaniels - Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite
The Stanley Brothers - Man of Constant Sorrow
The Stanley Brothers - Pretty Polly
The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle
The Students - So Young
The Swallows - It Ain't The Meat, It's the Motion
The Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is To Love Him
The Three Cats - Yellow Cherries
The Treniers - Poontang
The Velvetones - The Glory of Love
The Viscounts – Harlem Nocturne
The Weavers - Goodnight, Irene
The Willows - Church Bells May Ring
Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Ruby, My Dear
Theophilus Beckford - Easy Snappin'
Thurston Harris - Little Bitty Pretty One
Tito Puente – Hong Kong Mambo
Tito Rodriguez – Sabroso Mambo
Tito Rodriguez - Tremendo Cumban
Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the 2nd Moon
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
Tony Bennett - Stranger in Paradise
Tyrone Schmidling - You're Gone, I'm Left
Varetta Dillard - Mercy Mr. Percy
Vince Taylor - Brand New Cadillac
Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama
Webb Pierce - There Stands The Glass
Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City
Woody Guthrie - Why, Oh Why
Wynonie Harris - Bloodshot Eyes
Wynonie Harris - Lovin' Machine
Yma Sumac - Taki Rari
Yma Sumac - Virgin of the Sun God (Taita Inty)
Yves Montand - Rue St Vincent

Don't forget to lobby and listen over here: 1950s Tracks Poll Campaigning Thread (youtube, etc.) (Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s)

Just noticed you have "Summertime" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong down twice.

May as well repost the link to my Spotify playlist from the noms thread, 511 of the 604 are on there:

http://open.spotify.com/user/gcwright/playlist/4dZR1lNRm0gmFVX5Ovg7vH

I've listened to about half of it so far... Very much looking forward to voting though!

One is for Ella and one is for Pops.

The Ink Spots - Java Jive

this is 1940 unless it's a less famous recording

Thanks for the police work, folks. Voters, pay attention! :)

1st edit (tracks I've heard and tracks I'm interested in checking out) cuts it down to 240.

I, on the other hand, after whining about 50 not being enough picks, can hardly come up with that many.

Don't rush it. You've got two weeks to vote. Check out some unfamiliar things!

i feel very underqualified to participate in this poll, but support the idea and want the turnout to be good, so i went ahead and whittled the list down to familiar titles, picked out 50 i felt good about voting for, and sent in an unranked ballot.

i feel very underqualified to participate in this poll

That was a general feeling in the 20c poll thread last year re: the 50s. I decided to do this as more of a discovery project than other polls i've/we've done on ILM. Over the past month, as nominations have rolled in, I've found some really really good music that I've never heard before. Hopefully other people are having the same experience.

yeah...it's possible i'll be exposed to a lot of unfamiliar stuff i enjoy in the results (or in the campaigning thread, if i find time to listen and maybe decide to change my ballot before the deadline), but at the very least i wanted to make sure i voted just to be involved

^ The right approach imo. Normally I'd put together an instant ballot too, but I'm going to take a bit of time to broaden my horizons first with this one. Cos it'd be 50 rock & roll records, which is fine and all - but there's too much other and very possibly better stuff out there, which deserves more attention.

Listening to all this stuff is a blast, but I'm finding this whole voting lark a little difficult conceptually. I mean,

Benny More y Pedro Vargas - Obsesion

is amazing, but how do I sensibly put it on a list of the best things from the 50s? I only just heard it. What if Benny More y Pedro Vargas went into the studio the next day and recorded something else that blows 'Obsesion' right out the water?

Right now I like it more than Elvis' 'Hound Dog', but I've known 'Hound Dog' for years and its place in my Elvis/rock & roll hierarchy is pretty settled. It would thus feel pretty strange to vote for it now, if it's so easily displaced by one song from an artist and genre I haven't even scraped the surface of.

Other decades were *so* much easier this way.

I've decided that, for me, this week is for trying to hear all or at least most of the list that I don't already know. Next week is for voting.

Yeah, this poll isn't like the other decade polls in that most of us are entering the decade mostly blind. Everybody knows a little bit, hardly anyone knows a lot. That's why it's okay if you want to vote for a song you just heard an hour ago.

thanks for that spotify playlist, gavin! huge help. while i could easily make a short list w a couple hundred obvious favorites and whittle down from there, i'm looking forward to spending a couple weeks digging through songs i half-remember or have never heard in the first place.

thanks also to everyone who actually got a ballot in. i put one together a couple days after the poll started but decided that i should wait and do some serious research before submitting. which i somehow (of course) never quite got around to. but geez, 600+some candidates ought to be plenty, right?

is amazing, but how do I sensibly put it on a list of the best things from the 50s? I only just heard it. What if Benny More y Pedro Vargas went into the studio the next day and recorded something else that blows 'Obsesion' right out the water?

Right now I like it more than Elvis' 'Hound Dog', but I've known 'Hound Dog' for years and its place in my Elvis/rock & roll hierarchy is pretty settled. It would thus feel pretty strange to vote for it now, if it's so easily displaced by one song from an artist and genre I haven't even scraped the surface of.

feel this, but you shouldn't worry about it so much, imo. no matter who you are, there's always music you haven't heard, and new favorites always threaten to topple old hierarchies. the redefining, chaos-introducing excitement of discovery is half the fun of musical exploration. and "obsesion" is wonderful. i'd never heard it before, either, and might have to make room for it somewhere. not sure yet. "hound dog" is pretty great...

"Obsesion" is a Latin standard, and I'm not sure what the definitive version is, but there are dozens (more than that, I'm sure) of recordings of it. Even the Spanish Harlem Orchestra (who typically bore me) did a strong version of it.

yeah, i lack the context for any kind of informed appreciation of "obsesion", and on that level, i get where ismael k's coming from. that's okay, though, as in this contest, "obsesion" doesn't need to stand up against other versions or a definitive original or whatever. it's just one song out of 604. (in all honestly, it probably won't even make my first cut, but i do like it.)

3 ballots in so far. I expect the first week to be slow, but I'm bumping the thread anyway.

I really want to hand in a ballot in this one, but will try and find some weekend time to go through the excellent Spotify list and hundreds of youtube videos before I do.

working my way through the spotify list. my first draft short list is gonna be like 200, 250 songs D:

Slight correction to the points distribution: on an unranked ballot each song gets 51 points rather than 49.

oops. good catch.

Wait, just did some math in my head.

50x49=2,450
50x51=2,550 (which is 100 more points than the ballot should be worth.)

Unless I mess up the original ballot total, that is.

messed

I've never done the hard work to organize and tabulate one of these large-scale polls, so it's easy for me to talk, but:

I've always thought it would make more sense to add some kind of ballast to the points awarded that would better reflect the not-overwhelming difference between (using this poll as an example) your #1 and your #50 pick. Right now, the #1 on a ranked ballot would be worth 50 times as many points as your #50 (100 vs. 2). Instead, I'd go from 200 points for a #1 down to 102 for a #50; a #1 is worth only twice as much as a #50, and two #50 votes would be worth a little more than one #1.

^ this is what you did w the pavement poll, isn't it, johnny? points went from 40 for the #1 pick to 10 for #22. that kind of buffered distribution makes sense to me, for the reason clemenza suggests.

I'll have to recount but I think the points total is actually 2,550.

Yep, 2 + 4 + ... + 100 = 2,550.

You could be right. Perhaps I forgot to select "100" when I was doing my addition function in Excel.

So 2,550 it is!

Right now, the #1 on a ranked ballot would be worth 50 times as many points as your #50 (100 vs. 2). Instead, I'd go from 200 points for a #1 down to 102 for a #50; a #1 is worth only twice as much as a #50, and two #50 votes would be worth a little more than one #1.

I think we discussed this some in previous polls and both methods had pluses and minuses, but I totally get what you're saying. The main reason it's not just 50-1 (which would be the simplest approach) is to avoid fractional scores. That's the real reason it's 100-2 with even steps downward. I suppose it would've been just as easy to do it with more ballast, but we hadn't unnecessarily inflated point values in either the 20th Century Poll or the most recent EOY polls and it didn't occur to me to do it this time.

We could still use that method here if no one objects. (Three people who have voted...do you object?)

I hate this 50 votes is not enough for me. Just did a draft and ended up with 80 songs. No idea which ones to cut out.

I've always added 'ballast' in mine, but tbh it doesn't really matter unless you really care about your #50. If you care about, say, thirty tracks then that in effect builds in ballast for them, and nos.31 onwards become basically free extra votes (which the split option allows for really well imo).

Ultimately all that matters is getting a decent countdown and Johnny hasn't let us down yet.

Definitely. The "really care" bar would move around for me depending upon the poll. In a '70s poll, I'd really care about my #50 pick; in a '50s poll, less so; in a Doctor & the Medics Tracks poll, not so much.

This is *such* a joy, listening to all this!

What I'm doing is working through Gavin's playlist and writing a half-dozen-word review for each tune - looks like I'm going to have to step up to pay-Spotify to do the whole thing justice. The ones which really leap out are getting a star and will receive votes from me; those less immediate get circles and may or may not get votes, but will certainly get attention at some future time.

What's really noticeable is how prominent doo-wop is on our list. I always had it down as one of pop's sidelines, but now I'm wondering if it wasn't actually the fifties' big story. We probably have more rock & roll, but it's so unsophisticated in comparison that it's a bit like punk duking it out with funk to be the true sound of the seventies.

Consequently both genres are having to do much more to stand out for me; anything else is automatically of some interest for sounding a bit different straight away. Rock & roll in particular is getting increasingly disappointing - the same twelve bars, the silly lyrics, the unimaginative arrangements, almost none of it is worth more than a few seconds right now.

It's the timidity of the playing that's getting to me most, I think. Elvis really suffers here - fabulous voice, great songs, but then there's the band tinky-dinking away in the background, and it's not helping him at all. Gene Vincent is probably the rocker who's impressed me most so far, he sounds a bit more evil than the rest, but even half of his stuff sounds like that too.

Looking forward to your ballot!

Not being able to access spotify, I'm having to go the youtube route. Not all bad, though. A lot of the "similar" videos that show up in the adjacent column provide new joy.

Outstanding singing so far from (A-J): Abbey Lincoln, Big Mama Thornton, Benny Moré, Connie Fancis, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald on 'Summertime', Jacques Brel, Howlin' Wolf, The Everley Brothers, The Harptones, Elvis on 'Heartbreak Hotel'.

Now we have FOUR ballots!

Starting to worry we may never get enough to bother rolling out results (but there's a week+ plus left and we can extend voting time if necessary).

i'm gonna get a ballot in, trust me. it's just taking, uh, some time. worst comes to worst and i don't get done sorting through everything, i'll just hack together a ballot at the last minute.

but C'MON, ILX! i know you've got it in you!

I'm definitely going to do this, if it kills me, which it feels as if it might at the moment.

I will vote in a few days.

Obviously I'm going to vote, and I might be able to persuade the missus to vote as well. It'll take a while though, I'm still at L. Got to say that doing the research has been so rewarding that an actual countdown feels like an add-on at the moment.

We'd need about what, thirty ballots before this becomes viable? Some stepping up to be done. In a way I wouldn't want to see dozens of half-hearted ballots though, for fear that that'd mean mediocre rock & roll squeezing out all the wonderful variety.

I'll be voting, but have my head in PSB mode at the moment.

Still working my way through the noms list, the shortlist for my actual ballot has 77 tracks on it so far, narrowing it down hopefully won't be too difficult. Hopefully.

I'm kind of glad not many ballots have come in yet as I have to get off my arse and do some more lobbying in the other thread.

Already voted. Not looking back. Let me know if you received it without any errors johnny boy.

I hope people who didn't nominate anything are going to vote. I know some here were vehemently opposed to the idea of doing a 50s poll, I guess because most of us weren't even born yet in the 50s and have a pretty limited knowledge of the decade.

I've solicited one from the missus, which we will submit later. She's a very occasional poster and certainly bigger on the 50s than I was, so no funny business.

To my horror, though, we have completely independently picked the same #1. I feel bad about this - I didn't even like it 'til about a week ago! We haven't gamed it, I promise - other than it being one of the things we've been singing round the house recently, there's no reason why this should've happened.

30 ballots now, so any that come in for the rest of the day are absolute gravy. Yay!

Ismael, mine and the mister's have a fair few correspondences, but we've lived together for five years and play music to each other all the time, so it's inevitable that we're going to know and like a lot of the same things. I wouldn't worry about it, really - the poll is meant to reflect what its participants like best, you and the missus are two of the participants, if you both like song x best then it should reflect that.

We generally don't, though! Nowt in common musically at all, bar Fleetwood Mac.

I'm mostly just amazed. I've been going on about the poll for weeks, and the tunes I've loved, but was very careful not to give away my ballot. Those were long odds!

'Gamaliel, do you want to come out and see some ceiling frescos on a boiling hot Sunday?'
'No, I'm feeling a bit tired today, might stay in if that's ok.'

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Nearly done.

Warning: perceived ballots from above photo may not represent actual votes cast.

WHOA SRS BIZ!

no artist had more than one song on my ballot. afraid this might hurt some all time favorites like Jerry Lee or Little Richard (didn't vote for the canon picks).

― gospodin simmel, Sunday, July 10, 2011 6:06 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, i eventually caved to a "one per artist" rule, just so i could fit in everyone (if not everything) i felt i had to. and yeah, that did make me agonize about safe bet canon picks vs. personal favorites that might not make the cut.

oh man that was hard. DONE

Sorry (I ran all the way to the polling booth)

done. kept doing 'I like that one more than that one' circles but got there in the end. All sorts of stuff I should have put on, and I might wake up screaming about some unintentional omissions. But it's done.

I'm not going to make it, sadly...

Nooooooooooooooo. Not even a top 20?

Aside from maybe the top 15 mine could have ended up in a completely different order at any other time, and there were a good 30+ songs that might have made it another day, but I kept it fully ranked anyway. It's a reflection of what I thought the top 50 songs of the '50s were at that precise moment.

Is it nearly 2pm EDT? If so I have some hours left right?

Don't want electronics to lose out, I'll see what I can do Em ;-)

Just checked and it looks like it is 2pm EDT, yeah. So a full 10 hours. You can do it! And that goes for anyone else who is umming and aahing about submitting.

that was hard, but it's done. did it get through jf? i had internet down time at the crucial sending point.

LBI (and anyone wavering) - the real deadline is about 10am Britisher time tomorrow, depending on when I get up. And a short ballot is much much better than none.

whatever - we got your ballot, we're up to 33 now.

is it too late to submit a ballot?

Thanks Seandalai. One thing, do I add "1.", "2." in front of the songs, or will that screw up the syntax?

Preferably not - just list the song titles.

Viceroy, it's not too late!

Voted!

submitted my ballot!

Sweet! That's 37 ballots now. Maybe we'll get to 40?

Vote, even if you don't vote a full ballot. Just pick your top 15-20 songs from the list and send 'em in!

I thought Goodfellas might be a nice lead-in to countdown week - but I dunno what's got into me, I can hardly watch this stuff anymore. Great soundtrack though.

submitted my ballot!

It's going to be a big coup if the 50s poll gets more ballots than the Beatles poll!

Frantically trying to get down to 50. Just noticed that Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters's version of "Money Honey" is in there twice, once under Clyde and under under "The" Drifters.

down to 73 with lots of crazy good stuff falling by wayside. this is impossible

OK, just voted. Please let me know if you didn't receive.

About eight hours left for anyone who still wants to vote!

Just checked and the "Money Honey" thing isn't a problem...yet. If anyone else votes for "Money Honey," plz to make sure you vote for the Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters entry!

What? I'm shocked, simply shocked that on an overnominated undervoted ILX poll one of the greatest pieces of art ever created almost got no votes at all

You see, I came to ILX for the waters, but I was misinformed

Just checked and the "Money Honey" thing isn't a problem...yet.

Didn't say it hadn't been voted for. Just that it had only been voted for in the proper format.

Sorry. Was just trying to get into a Little Richard "Never in the history of art!"-style rant and failing

failure is where your standards aren't low enough yet

37 minutes to go

Actually, seandalai has graciously offered to accept any ballots that come in by the time he wakes up Monday morning. So that's cool.

Ok folks, we're done. There were 40 ballots, 533 tracks got a vote. Lots of surprises in store...

Can't wait!

When will the roll out start?

About 20 minutes from now!

Woo! Glad we got up to 40, that makes it a bit more rounded. Still slightly narked about all the single artist polls causing poll fatigue, though - I bet we could have got way more if not for that.

No, 40's great - this was a hard, hard thing to pull off, I'm delighted we made it.

Ohhh starting already!

Will try and be around for this, exciting!

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did my votes get through seandalai?

Yes, you were ballot #33.

just saw this, woulda voted if i knew, reading the results thread as a back and forth to here

thanks jf! loving the poll. i'll buy you and seandalai a pint the next time you're round this way.