Question:
1960 Final 4
Option 1: 9 Shop Around - The Miracles
votes: 1
Option 2: 5 Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
votes: 5
Option 3: 3 Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison
votes: 7
Option 4: 2 The Twist - Chubby Checker
votes: 1
I get it. Old timey music + busy lives + there were only about ten of you that voted in the other polls at most = 3 people voted in this round. Totally cool with that. Just want to point something out in case it's being missed, you can vote for a song in each matchup. In fact, I encourage it. 'Shop Around,' won with one vote and yet, three people cast votes. So please, if you drop by, even if it's out of pity for me, take a minute and vote on all the matchups. (And yes, I posted this before the poll officially closed. But it has been up for two days and this all the response we got, so I feel pretty confident one less hour is going to make much difference.)
Now that I've gotten that whine off my chest, there is a really solid matchup in the 5/9 and what I think will be a runaway in the 2/3. Let's see what we get. Besides. it's only three days before I put up the 1970 poll. I think you may like that one a little better ;)
The 5/9
The 2/3
I still think of "Shop Around" as a Captain & Tennille song. I know Smokey Robinson recorded it first. I also know that my parents played the C&T version more when I was growing up.
Wow. I don't think I know that version. I have to imagine it's a bit different. The Miracles version is the one I know best. And it's a great song.
It's actually pretty close. A little more piano.
If you want a great Smokey Robinson cover tune, check Tears of a Clown from The English Beat
^The English Beat eventually morphed into The Fine Young Cannibals who did a pretty good cover of Elvis' Suspicious Minds. Their singer, Roland Gift, has a voice suited to evoking the time period in question.
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 14, 2017, 06:30:59 AM^The English Beat eventually morphed into The Fine Young Cannibals
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The English Beat
split into Fine Young Cannibals (w/ a new singer) and General Public (w/ a new bassist) :)
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Quote from: Staggerwing on April 14, 2017, 08:24:43 AM
Well, they say that the bass player is the backbone of the band so...
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