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Post by Sm1ffj on Jun 6, 2011 11:02:26 GMT 1
Which of these songs in the year 1978 in your view should not have been #1, I am doing polls for the whole Seventies this time, once we have 10 winners (we have to split up some years there is not enough options on a poll to match the #1's in a year plus joint winners) we will have a last poll to decide which song out of the years 1970-1979 should not have been #1.
These are 3 day polls this time.
Happy Voting
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 6, 2011 11:17:07 GMT 1
None of these are truly awful, and some of the likely favourites are actually rather splendid pop songs. There's much worse to come in the early 70s.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 6, 2011 12:36:03 GMT 1
I actually like the Brotherhood Of Man one and also Brian & Michael. None of them really deserve a vote here. I do expect Brian & Michael to take it though.
The one I picked is by a singer who had 5 #1s during the 1970s and I won't be voting for any of his others.
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Post by rubcale on Jun 6, 2011 18:16:07 GMT 1
voted
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 6, 2011 21:54:27 GMT 1
Voted for a wretched song by that act's standards.
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Post by diamondgirl on Jun 7, 2011 9:37:14 GMT 1
voted
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Post by evansabove on Jun 8, 2011 21:25:05 GMT 1
voted
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Post by ROBERTLEE on Jun 8, 2011 21:37:38 GMT 1
voted
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Post by rubcale on Jun 9, 2011 13:54:10 GMT 1
Result hardly a surprise.
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Post by evansabove on Jun 9, 2011 17:17:49 GMT 1
Someone voted for You're The One That I Want
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 10, 2011 9:29:43 GMT 1
Not a surprise because people here don't appreciate something a bit different, and it's the "lazy" vote. You see something a bit novelty and think you must vote for it.
Perhaps though there wasn't any very weak song to vote for. I did vote for Rod Stewart, I didn't like it that much at the time, possibly hating it more for knocking the Boomtown Rats off the top than for its own sake, perhaps had gone off Rod a bit because of his world cup song that preceded it or perhaps just didn't think it lived up to his earlier songs other than that world cup one.
It didn't get any votes but I was considering voting for Rivers Of Babylon...
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Post by PurpleCareBear on Jun 10, 2011 16:58:48 GMT 1
I've never heard of the song that won this vote.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 10, 2011 17:33:13 GMT 1
Quite interesting that 3 of 4 consecutive #1s in the early part of the year covered the subject matter of an Emily Bronte novel, a famous painter and a biblical event.
Later in the year we would have a #2 hit about a Russian spiritual healer.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 10, 2011 21:11:42 GMT 1
Shame. Matchstalk Men was a rather sweet folk tune.
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 10, 2011 21:16:04 GMT 1
Shame. Matchstalk Men was a rather sweet folk tune. Agreed. Do 'Ya Think I'm Sexy got my vote = hard to believe just 7 years early he did the sublime Maggie May.
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Post by Sm1ffj on Jun 10, 2011 21:23:49 GMT 1
So Brian and Michael "Matchstalk Men" goes through to the decade final.
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Post by evansabove on Jun 10, 2011 22:21:16 GMT 1
So Brian and Michael "Matchstalk Men" goes through to the decade final. Totally deserved. The kids harmonies in it were gruesome to listen to
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 11, 2011 6:23:23 GMT 1
The kids were St Winifred's School Choir, so they still had some depths to plunge...
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Post by evansabove on Jun 11, 2011 7:01:08 GMT 1
The kids were St Winifred's School Choir, so they still had some depths to plunge... I never knew that. At least we were spared a lisping solo on Matchstalk
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