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The Songfactors' Choice Top Ten # 17


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1. Ode To Billy Joe ~ Bobby Gentry (whoever nominated this: :thumbsup: The visual imagery in this song is palpable.)

2. Addicted To Love ~ Robert Palmer

3. Ramblin' Gamblin' Man ~ Bob Seger

4. Love The One You're With ~ Stephen Stills

5. Just Between You And Me ~ April Wine

6. I Heard It Through The Grapevine ~ Marvin Gaye

7. Take It On The Run ~ REO Speedwagon

8. Baby Come Back ~ Player

9. Mandy ~ Barry Manilow

10. Knock Three Times ~ Tony Orland and Dawn

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1. Just Between You And Me - April Wine

2. All Night Long - Joe Walsh

3. I Can Help - Billy Swan

4. Knock Three Times - Dawn feat. Tony Orlando

5. Take It On The Run - REO Speedwagon

6. Your Time Is Gonna Come - Led Zeppelin

7. Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer

8. Tainted Love - Soft Cell

9. Riders On The Storm - The Doors

10. Come As You Are - Nirvana

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1. Your Time Is Gonna Come - Led Zeppelin

2. Take It On The Run - REO Speedwagon

3. Riders On The Storm - The Doors

4. Grazing In The Grass - The Friends Of Distinction

5. Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer

6. Tainted Love - Soft Cell

7. Love The One You're With - Stephen Stills

8. Love Child - The Supremes

9. Ode To Billy Joe - Bobby Gentry

10. All Night Long - Joe Walsh

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1. Them Changes - Buddy Miles. I can't really say why I like this song so much. An avalanche of funk. Those horns, Buddy's drums and irrational lyrics. It has to be the original, though; in The Band of Gypsies version, Jimi and Buddy seem to be working at odds -- and not a great performance for either one.

2. Gloria - Them

3. Let's Stay Together - Al Green

4. Pastime Paradise - Stevie Wonder. This is the one Coolio stole to take a Grammy (Gangster's Paradise)

5. Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville. I can't enjoy the bizarre vocal style he developed later, or the facial tattoo -- but this early song really works if I can dodge the mental picture.

6. All Night Long - Joe Walsh

7. I Can Help - Billy Swan

8. Smooth Operator - Sade

9. What I Am - Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians

10.Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer. For old time's sake. And I can't really say how this beat out Paper Sun. Just louder and heavier, I guess. "Dig this...."

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Firestarter - The Prodigy

Come As You Are - Nirvana

Novocaine For The Soul - Eels

Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

David Watts - The Kinks

Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives

I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses

Ode To Billy Joe - Bobby Gentry

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

Love Child - The Supremes

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1. Gloria - Them

2. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye

3. Kooks - David Bowie

4. Not A Second Time - The Beatles

5. Riders On The Storm - The Doors

6. Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman

7. Knock Three Times - Dawn feat. Tony Orlando

8. I Put A Spell On You - Creedence Clearwater Revival

9. Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

10. Your Time I Gonna Come - Led Zeppelin

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1. Paper Sun - Traffic

2. Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman

3. Novocaine for the Soul - Eels

4. Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

5. Your Time is Gonna Come - Led Zeppelin

6. Wonderwall - Oasis

7. Riders on the Storm - The Doors

8. Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project

9. Gloria - Them

10. I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses

It makes me sad to leave Radiohead off the list..

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Well we are back from Blackwater. Our daughter and 2 grandchildren came with us and will be visiting for a couple of weeks. We were all pretty tired after 11 hours on the road. Our grandaughter kept requesting "My Boyfriend's Back"

by The Angels (again and again)from the 60s CDs I had playing.

:)

Farin and I were comparing notes last night (Oz Eastern time)and we found that Let's Stay Together - Al Green has already appeared in Top Ten #2.

All votes for it will be void of course, and we'll move the other songs of the 8 people who voted for it up one place. We won't have a new vote.

We're sorry it snuck through, and to try to prevent this happening again, we're preparing an alphabetical list of ALL songs that have appeared in the Top Tens. This list will be continually updated and appear at the start of each Top Ten thread in future.

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Farin will put on Top Ten #17 when he comes on line in around 4 hours. Everyone has now voted, and I think the BEST song got #1.

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I had to go check out some songs in a desperate rush! I don't get out much. :P

1: Irene - TobyMac

2: My Immortal - Evanscence (can't comprimise on those two, even when they're my nominations) :P

3: Unforgettable - Nat King Cole

4: Come As You Are - Nirvana

5: I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye

6: Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives

7: Take It On The Run - REO Speedwagon

8: Mandy - Barry Manilow

9: Grazing In The Grass - The Friends Of Distinction

10: I Put A Spell On You - Creedence Clearwater Revival

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Thanks for explaining everything about "Let's stay together" OleFiffy :)

Now the votes are closed, here's the

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Top Ten #17 for Period ending 25th June 2006

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (1967)

2. Unforgettable - Nat King Cole (1951)

3. Riders On The Storm - The Doors (1971)

4. Crazy - Patsy Cline (1961)

5. Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield (1969)

6. To Sir With Love - Lulu (1967)

7. Gloria - Them (1964)

8. Ode To Billy Joe - Bobby Gentry (1967)

9.Your Time Is Gonna Come - Led Zeppelin (1969)

10.Come As You Are - Nirvana (1991)

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* I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (I'm not a huge fan of soul/R&B music from any decade, but I really love this one. His voice just sounds so fantastic, like he really means and feels what he is singing).

Not bad for someone who ain't got the rhythm. ;)

Unforgettable - Nat King Cole

And Jenny nearly pulled the rabbit out of the hat. :)

Your Time is Gonna Come- Led Zeppelin

And the Fish snagged the Top Ten with her first nomination !!!

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Yay, I made #2!!!! I have loved that song from the first moment I heard it.

As for the voting for what you like vs. getting votes debate....I vote for what I like, and if at least one other songfactor votes for it, I'm happy. I've been in the Top Ten (not #1, though), and I've been at the bottom of the barrel.....either way, it's all good :cool:

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Next time Namahage. I don't even know TobyMac, nor would a lot of others here. That's why I don't nominate many old 50s ones, unless they're absolute classics that still get airplay.

:P

six of the top ten are individuals.

Good one Shawna. That's the first time that's happened, and also four of them ladies ! Great to see. It makes a change from having mostly Groups.

:)

Steel, 10 of us voted for Smooth Operator; the rest of us just didn't put it high enough to get it in. It may be worth re-nominating some time. There's been a couple of re-nominations that did much better second time around.

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