So, turnout for this was very impressive. I projected about fifteen, at most twenty lists to be submitted, but the final total was a whopping 29, something that hopefully bodes even better for the future decade polls. There's enough for a top 300, but in the interest of keeping the list a little bit exclusive, I'll only be counting down the top 250, which means a single had to get a minimum of two votes (over 120 points) to get in.

So I'm well rested, I'm well fed, and most importantly, I'm back in my old skin. It's time to shake, rattle and roll. So let's get started with those SOUND OPINION MESSAGE BOARDS TOP 250 SINGLES FROM 1950 TO 1964!!!!

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CONGRATULATE YOU ON RETURNING TO YOUR OLD NAME???












wait, oh shit, i didn't vote this time.

oh, before we get going, a couple singles that would have made it but were not included due to being out of the time frame:

Jimmie Rodgers - "Walking By Myself" (the dude died in '33!!!)
The Supremes - "Stop! In the Name of Love"
Jackie Wilson - "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"

I think everything else that made it was at least relatively kosher.

yay! GDB is back. Makes me long for my old nom de plume. I like the new one too, though.

AWE----SOME

more like...



AWE-----SOMB! lol!

Thread with the most REFRESH hits in SOMB history.

Let's get this over with quickly. Hopefully it won't be a total disaster.

cool man, cool

excited about this, most of the songs will probably be new to me.

hope we get some ysi's towards the end, at least

Makes me so happy I could slap my pappy.

I've BEEN looking forward to this.

The board has much better taste in '50-'64 music than it does 90s-00s music. "wink"

"Jules, you give that fucking nimrod fifteen hundred dollars and I'll shoot him on general principle."


#250.



The Lively Ones - "Surf Rider"

Year: 1963

US Chart Position: n/a (regional L.A. hit)

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Pulp Fiction Original Soundtrack

Ranked Highest By: MyKineticAndroid (#24)






oh and along the way, if there's info you guys want (which I may or may not have given on lists in the past) let me know and I'll see what I can do about making it happen.

Stellar opening volley, intro-wise. Kudos.

I hope this doesn't affect the results, but Dr. Bill I'm pretty sure this is Jimmy Rogers, the Chess blues guy, not the singing brakeman country guy.

interesting.

I suck. Sorry, Jimmy. You would've been #207 or smething.

YAY

"Well, the last thing I remember, Doc, I started to swerve..."


#249.



Jan & Dean - "Dead Man's Curve"

Year: 1964

US Chart Position: #8

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Jan & Dan's Greatest Hits

Ranked Highest By: Coolrock (#20)

I like the sax solo on Surf Rider

DICK DALE!
THE VENTURES!
DUANE EDDY!


#248.



Al Casey and the KC-Ettes - "Surfin' Hootenanny" / "Easy Pickin'"

Year: 1963

US Chart Position: #48

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Cowabunga! The Surf Rock Box

Ranked Highest By: Throughsilver (#37)











there is some non-surf rock on this list, though. Unfortunately.

John Peel approves

"DON'T fuck me, Kelly."


#247.



The Isley Brothers - "Twist and Shout"

Year: 1962

US Chart Position: #7 Pop, #2 R&B

UK Chart Position: #42

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #11 (year), #206 (decade), #771 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Isley Brothers Greatest Hits

Ranked Highest By: Midnite Vulture (#18)

Me and Peely. We were like that. *crosses fingers*

"Twist and Shout" is, I believe, the first of three songs that appear on our list more than once.



A classic crooner's chilling look into heathenism and the occult...


#246.



Frank Sinatra - "Witchcraft"

Year: 1958

US Chart Position: #6

UK Chart Position: #12

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Very Best of Frank Sinatra

Ranked Highest By: Norton (#26)

GDB is back. The list has started. And it's Friday.

It's Miller time.

Oh man, the pictures for all of these should totally be the products they are in commercials for.

Tweedly-deedly-dee


#245.



Bobby Day - "Rockin' Robin"

Year: 1958

US Chart Position: #2 Pop, #1 R&B

UK Chart Position: #29

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Golden Age of American Rock & Roll, Vol. 1

Ranked Highest By: Agrimorfee (#38)








But if it's not too much trouble...


#244.



Percy Mayfield - "Please Send Me Someone to Love"

Year: 1950

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #6 (year), #159 (decade), #1857 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Roots of Rock N Roll: 1946 - 1954

Ranked Highest By: Midnite Vulture (#17)

nothing more hip than a sinatra ysi in 2006

this is the best board on the internets

"I had come in one day going to a session and stopped at the light, and this little girl came over and was cleaning my windows. I saw her face--just the picture of her face and the clothes, tattered...with holes in her stockings and a little cap on her head..."


#243.



The Four Seasons - "Rag Doll"

Year: 1964

US Chart Position: #1

UK Chart Position: #2

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #44 (year), #467 (decade), #2291 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Very Best of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

Ranked Highest By: Coolrock (#27)












Coolrock and Luckyluc, I demand to know why out of all the great Four Seasons singles to be released before '65 you guys picked fucking "Rag Doll." What a horrible song.

I wish he used this pic:

So I don't have to dream alone


#242.



Bobby Darin - "Dream Lover"

Year: 1959

US Chart Position: #2

UK Chart Position: #1

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #28 (year), #202 (decade), #2338 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Hit Singles Collection

Ranked Highest By: Midnite Vulture (#30)

Kudos, Doc. You just made my friday..

I'll reiderate the point from my list posting. It was pulled from 'other lists' and I did it on the fly. I happen to think Four Seasons are highly underrated. I just went with the one mentioned. That is all.

Dum dum dum dum, dum-be-doo-be-dum, wah wah wah wahhhhh


#241.



The Del Vikings - "Come Go With Me"

Year: 1957

US Chart Position: #4 Pop, #2 R&B

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #16 (year), #98 (decade), #933 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Golden Era of Rock n Roll: 1954 - 1963

Ranked Highest By: Jdubs3 (#21)



boooooooooo

I heard the news...


#240.



Elvis Presley - "Good Rockin' Tonight"

Year: 1954

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Sun Sessions

Ranked Highest By: strangely absent, lists must not have made it to new board

Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me.

There's a song for Steve Earle in there somewhere.

Professor Griff just ordered the revolution to start now.

I can't seperate this song in my mind from the episode of Saved by the Bell where Zack, Slater, and Screech form a doo-wop group (for serious). However, the song sucks, so that's probably all for the best.

At one point in the episode they make an order for food at the Max by singing it doo-wop style. I felt horribly embarassed watching it for some reason.

Meh, the Jerry Lee version of "Good Rockin" >>>>> Elvis version.

What a fine thread you've made here Andrew.

No one who has never heard Wynonie Harris' original version should make a statement like that!

(Although Elvis' version was on the $$$, never heard Jerry Lee's.)

Yeah, that's true! His (i originally mistyped Her, but changed it when Don & Dewey busted my balls) version is best. I was listening to Jerry's version earlier this week, so it was on my mind.

PS Ann Cole's "Got My Mojo Workin" smokes the Muddy Waters version, FWIW.

I would have voted for that 'cept it's 1948.

Hmm... something is making me think of a Gun Club song.

They got some crazy little women there, and I'm gonna get me one...


#239.



Wilbert Harrison - "Kansas City"

Year: 1959

US Chart Position: #1

UK Chart Position: n/a

Acclaimed Music Ranking: #5 (year), #46 (decade), #338 (all-time)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Golden Era of Rock n Roll 1954 - 1963

Ranked Highest By: D Dewey (#21)

This is really suspensful and captivating. I am such a geek. Also, bored at work. PS Only one song I picked so far.

Got 'em all so far. Wonder if I can keep up.

"In the end an excellent combination of girl group rock and Brill Building pop with shades of orchestrated theatrical production and Latin music" - Richie Unterberger, AMG


#238.



The Exciters - "Tell Him"

Year: 1962

US Chart Position: #4

UK Chart Position: #46

Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Big Chill OST

Ranked Highest By: Midnite Vulture (#4)

I big-upped Wynonie Harris' version of "Good Rockin' Tonight" when someone replied:



Ah...HER version?

Sorry, my typo. I think Lovin' Machine is HIS best. Down Boy Down is also awesome. That's what I get for doing work email and calls and this. Whoops, now my cred has been shot down.