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Phil Phillips With The Twilights (I have the 45 RPM record). And it's a better version than the one a quarter century later by The Honeydrippers, but you probably would have gotten more votes Ron if you'd nomianted their version, because......Robert Plant did the vocals (burp).

(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock is of course the song which oficially marked the beginning of the ROCK ERA when it reached #1 on Billboard's Pop Charts on 9 July 1955, and the first 45 I ever owned.

:thumbsup:

10 Points for that from me RonJon, and Sea Of Love will be in there too. I haven't nominated it before, and a lot of other 50s Classics too, as I can't bear to see them "desecrated" by missing our Top Ten because many voters don't know them.

:P

I picked those two songs because of their links to more recent events. Sea of Love because many people know the Honeydrippers version, but the original is much better. Rock Around The Clock because, not only is it famous and marvelous, but it was the opening theme song on Happy Days for a while.

Vote 'em in!!!

p.s. When I was a kid, there was a TV offer to buy a collection of 50's hits...this was probably 1970 or 1971. I ordered it and when it arrived, I listened to all the songs I knew. But when I then started to listen to the ones i didn't know...Sea of Love jumped out as a classic. I wondered for years why it wasn't covered by a later rock era band...then The honeydrippers did it, and not a terrible version....hard song to mess up.

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:) I believe everyone who wanted had the oportunity,

so here are the

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Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd

Are You Gonna Go My Way? - Lenny Kravitz

Bernadette - The Four Tops

Blurry - Puddle Of Mud

Born With A Broken Heart - Kenny Wayne Shephard

Candle In The Wind - Elton John

Counting The Beat - The Swingers

Dirty Water - The Standells

Do It Again - Steely Dan

Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

Don't You Want Me - Human League

Dreams - The Allman Brothers Band

Drowning In A Sea Of Love - Joe Simon

Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra

Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

For The Love Of Money - The O'Jays

Get Free - The Vines

Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group

Golden Years - David Bowie

Happy Jack - The Who

He's So Fine - The Chiffons

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury And the Blockheads

Hold On, I'm Comin' - Sam & Dave

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - Elton John

I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys

Kicks - Paul Revere and the Raiders

Leaning on the Lampost - Herman's Hermits

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

Lonely No More - Rob Thomas

Love And Only Love - Neil Young

Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' - Journey

Mercy Seat, The - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt

No Excuses - Alice in Chains

Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

Paranoid Android - Radiohead

Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana

Please Come To Boston - David Loggins

Raspberry Beret - Prince

Redneck Friend - Jackson Browne

Remedy - The Black Crowes

River - Joni Mitchell

Sea of Love - Phil Phillips with the Twilights

Song for You - Ray Charles

Song To The Siren - Tim Buckley

Soul Sacrifice - Santana

Take a Heart - The Sorrows

Tell Me - The Rolling Stones

Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chili Peppers

They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman

Trouble - Coldplay

Warm Love - Van Morrison

Way It Is, The - Bruce Hornsby & The Range

(We're gonna) Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and his Comets

You Are The Woman - Firefall

You Needed Me - Anne Murray

Your Woman - White Town

VOTE AWAY NOW!!!

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Yay me! last to nominate, first to vote. :)

1. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis

2. Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

3. Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & Bad Seeds

4. Paranoid Android - Radiohead

5. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

6. Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

7. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - Sir Elton John

8. Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & the Range

9. Happy Jack - The Who

10. Another Brick In The Wall (Pt. 2) - Pink floyd

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1. Song To The Siren - Tim Buckley

2. River - Joni Mitchell

3. Paranoid Android - Radiohead

4. Mercy Seat, The - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

5. Bernadette - The Four Tops

6. Song for You - Ray Charles

7. Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

8. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

9. Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

10. Hold On, I'm Comin' - Sam & Dave

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1] Song for You - Ray Charles

:bow: Spectacular version of a gorgeous song :bow:

2] Bernadette - The Four Tops

3] Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

4] Raspberry Beret – Prince

5] If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys

6] Lonely No More - Rob Thomas

7] For The Love Of Money - The O'Jays

8] You Are The Woman – Firefall

9] Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' – Journey

10] They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman

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1. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

2. Your Woman - White Town

3. Paranoid Android - Radiohead

4. Are You Gonna Go My Way? - Lenny Kravitz

5. Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

6. Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

7. Trouble - Coldplay

8. Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chili Peppers

9. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd

10. Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

putting them in order was a lot more difficult then choosing the songs... :crazy:

but there are some great songs here :)

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1- Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

2- Tell Me - The Rolling Stones

3- They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman

4- Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

5- Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

6- Don't You Want Me - Human League

7- Raspberry Beret - Prince

8- Soul Sacrifice - Santana

9- Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group

10-Your woman - White town

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1. Your Woman - White Town

2. Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chili Peppers

3. Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana

4. Remedy - The Black Crowes

5. Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

6. Are You Gonna Go My Way? - Lenny Kravitz

7. I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

8. Don't You Want Me - Human League

9. Get Free - The Vines

10. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

I'll be happy if any one of these makes it :)

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I mistreated the Peppers!
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1. Dreams - The Allman Brothers Band

2. Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chili Peppers

3. Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt

4. If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys

5. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group

6. Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' - Journey

7. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd

8. Way It Is, The - Bruce Hornsby & The Range

9. Hold On, I'm Comin' - Sam & Dave

10.Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

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1. Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin ~ Journey

2. Please Come To Boston ~ Dave Loggins

3. Candle In The Wind ~ Elton John

4. You Are The Woman ~ Firefall

5. Gimme Some Lovin' ~ Spencer Davis Group

6. For The Love Of Money ~ O'Jays

7. Evil Woman ~ ELO

8. Raspberry Beret ~ Prince

9. Rock Around The Clock ~ Bill Haley

10. Lonely No More ~ Rob Thomas

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1. Happy Jack - The Who

2. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - Elton John

3. Soul Sacrifice - Santana

4. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group

5. Tell Me - The Rolling Stones

6. He's So Fine -- The Chiffons

7. Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

8. Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra

9. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd

10. Candle In The Wind - Elton John

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1)I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - Elton John

2)Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury And the Blockheads

3)Raspberry Beret - Prince

4)Golden Years - David Bowie

5)Trouble - Coldplay

6)Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd

7)If I Ain't Got You - Alicia Keys

8)Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

9)Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

10)Happy Jack - The Who

Man, that was hard...

:P

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1) Mercy Seat, The - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

2) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury And the Blockheads

3) Don't You Want Me - Human League

4) Raspberry Beret - Prince

5) Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

6) Song To The Siren - Tim Buckley

7) Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana

8) Golden Years - David Bowie

9) Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

10) Counting The Beat - The Swingers*

Never thought i'd see the day when I voted for Depeche Mode in a Top Ten...just happen to quite like this one...

*Checked out The Swingers: not bad!

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Paranoid Android - Radiohead

Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd

Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

No Excuses - Alice in Chains

Don't You Want Me - Human League

Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana

Your Woman - White Town

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury And the Blockheads

(We're gonna) Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and his Comets

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