Voting "Peppermint Twist." A close call; gets the edge because I'm actually surprised to see it here, for some reason.
Next six, more or less this order: Shirley and Co, Chi-Lites, Dudley, Ryder, Spinners, Gladys.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"Ain't Too Proud To Beg" over "One Of A Kind (Love Affair)".
― Euler, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Some great choices here: 2 Temps, Elvis, Jackie, EWF, Chi-Lites, Five Satins, Dave Dudley, Joey Dee, Gladys, Spinners, Solomon, Nicks and the wild Shirley & Co. But this belongs to George Jones.
― jetfan, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Beg over Little Sister.
― Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeesh, I misread that as "Bend over little sister" for a split-second!
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Great selection up there, but "Shame Shame Shame" up there with "Rock Your Baby" and "I Feel Love" as a track I'll happily play a half-dozen times running, one of the great K-Tel smashes of all time, unstoppable and untoppable.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"Have You Seen Her" is such a perfect song.
How is the band's name pronounced? My friend says it "shy lights."
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty good group, but one of the easiest choices yet for me: "The Mountain's High," which sat somewhere on Billboard's Top 100 the week I was born. I'll be surprised if it gets a second vote, but one of my favorite songs ever. Some runners-up: "I Wish It Would Rain", Marvin Gaye (I'm sick of a lot of great Motown hits, but not those two), Blue Jays, and Joey Dee. And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to return to thoughts of how much Carly Simon loved having sex.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Shirley and Co. for me.
― sw00ds, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
James Brown - Night Train, over george jones and mitch ryder. marsh really liked putting two versions of the same song next to each other, eh?
― suggest friend (hmmmm), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link
like this version more than the single:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2aNifcy20
― amateurist, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, it's a total toss up between marvin gaye and the five satins. five satins win because of the sax solo.
1956 Five Satins In the still of the night1965 Marvin Gaye Ain't that peculiar1966 Sam and Dave You don't know like I know1975 Shirley and Company Shame shame shame1966 Temptations Ain't too proud to beg1968 Temptations I wish it would rain1952 Jimmy Forrest Night train1956 Drifters Your promise to be mine1980 George Jones He stopped lovin' her today1971 Chi-lites Have you seen her
― amateurist, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT3oDMCWpI
those backing vocals! shoo-dooit-shooby-do...
― amateurist, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
that sax solo is basically the sourcepoint for the first julee cruise album, people.
― amateurist, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Totally missed "Your Promise to Be Mine"--not as well known as the early-'60s hits, but one of the Drifters' greatest. I think it's still Clyde McPhatter singing, but I'm not sure.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm still listening my way through these. These polls have been a great source for YouTube searches.
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
The YouTube video of this is pretty great: Joey Dee and the Starlighters Peppermint twist
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
When I was in high school, the theater group I did performed a play in which an intrepid explorer is stranded on an island that worships the Temptations. We learned an elaborate bit of choreography for Ain't To Proud To Beg, which looks enough like real dancing that sometimes I break it out at parties (oh, box step, what can't you do?). The guy who wrote that play grew up to write for Lost and Charmed.
― Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Thursday, 5 November 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Chi-Lites. (and yes it's pronounced like yr friend says, they are from Chicago. but you can't say "shuh-lites")
― mojitos (a cocktail) (Cave17Matt), Saturday, 7 November 2009 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
word.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Saturday, 7 November 2009 09:34 (fourteen years ago) link
'Edge of Seventeen'. I'd never heard it before, but there was a Fleetwood Mac evening on BBC4 last night and this was on. I did not know it was the root of 'Bootylicious' either. I was loving it.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 7 November 2009 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 8 November 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey temps!
― Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Sunday, 8 November 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Scott & i otm re voting for Shirley & co; shame shame shame on the rest of y'all for not doing so.
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Sunday, 8 November 2009 07:55 (fourteen years ago) link
should went on my other instinct and tossed Gladys a vote
― Bad gal, war child, bookworm, Sierra Leone activist cat (The Reverend), Sunday, 8 November 2009 07:57 (fourteen years ago) link
& MVB too. (which one of us forgot to vote? probably me. ;_;)
xp
― the not-fun one (Ioannis), Sunday, 8 November 2009 08:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm...well, I THINK I voted, but I do have a history of forgetting! So I'll take the blame, blame, blame.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 8 November 2009 09:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Same, same, same: I sometimes forget to actually vote in these things (and I can't recall if I did so here or not).
― sw00ds, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe we ALL forgot and two lurkers voted instead?
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I voted for it twice so....
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link