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