Posted on 01/29/2018 4:39:27 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel
ROUND 3 OF THE '70S TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS COMMENCES!
Votes due: Sunday, Feb 4 @ 6:00 pm Eastern.
32 songs, 16 pairs, 16 winners! Vote for your favorite in each pair shown.
No reply, no vote. (You may abstain from any pairs.)
Any ties will be broken with a run-off which will end the following Monday.
Format: Billboard rank/seed - year - song title - act
5 1975 My Eyes Adored You Frankie Valli (AGAIN!!!! TIED AGAIN!)
1 1976 Silly Love Songs Wings
3 1977 Best of My Love The Emotions
1977 Best of My Love The Emotions
Love will keep us together.
Silly Love Songs
5 1975 My Eyes Adored You Frankie Valli
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3 1977 Best of My Love The Emotions
3 1970 American Woman The Guess Who
2 1970 (They Long to Be) Close to You The Carpenters
3 1971 Its Too Late Carole King
7 1972 Lean on Me Bill Withers
3 1972 American Pie Don McLean
3 1973 Killing Me Softly with His Song Roberta Flack
2 1973 Bad, Bad Leroy Brown Jim Croce
3 1974 Loves Theme Love Unlimited Orchestra
5 1975 My Eyes Adored You Frankie Valli
2 1975 Rhinestone Cowboy Glen Campbell
4 1976 December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) The Four Seasons
3 1977 Best of My Love The Emotions
5 1976 Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry
1 1977 Tonights the Night (Gonna Be Alright) Rod Stewart
7 1978 Baby Come Back Player
6 1978 How Deep Is Your Love Bee Gees
1 1979 My Sharona The Knack
5 1975 My Eyes Adored You Frankie Valli
(Tough call because I liked both songs. I think this one has aged better, plus this one reminds me of the girl I had a hopeless crush on about the time this came out.)
1 1976 Silly Love Songs Wings
Half a vote for this song, half a vote against the other.
I never heard that song quite the same way after Rush Limbaugh's "My Hands Explored You" version.
TOURNAMENT OF CHART-TOPPERS 1970S PING LIST
(This is a temporary ping list, so dont worry!)
RUN-OFF FROM ROUND 3 RESULTS:
MY EYES ADORED YOU WINS! Beats Love Will Keep Us Together”. Makes it out of a run-off AGAIN! Pray will it be tied again the next round?
“SILLY LOVE SONGS” WINS! Beats “Best of My Love”
Happy with the first, sad with the second - where did all the disco go? Left only with BGs?
Thanks to all who helped break the tie!
Interesting tidbits on the survey from Round 3:
-MOST VOTES - tie of American Pie, “Bad Bad Leroy Brown and “Loco-Motion”!
-FEWEST VOTES - Seasons in the Sun! Gaaaah!!! I love that awesome song!
-ALL songs got some votes; no zeroes
-Most pairs were pretty clear run-aways, although some were rather close (as with our last run-off pair, for which “Best of My Love” rallied to come back for a tie).
On to Round 4!
I've never heard that one, although I haven't listened much the past 10 years. What was the topic? (TSA?)
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