Boardsies Best Song of the 60s

08-02-2020 8:20pm

FINAL: Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the grapevine.

I would have to listen to this all day everyday for a year to get sick of it. Tbh (and I'm sorry if this upsets anyone) I'm already getting sick of California Dreamin' after listening to it a number of times over just the last couple of days.

Necro · 08-02-2020 8:22pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Tbh (and I'm sorry if this upsets anyone) I'm already getting sick of California Dreamin' after listening to it a number of times over just the last couple of days.

Electric Nitwit · 08-02-2020 8:32pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

FINAL: Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the grapevine.

I would have to listen to this all day everyday for a year to get sick of it. Tbh (and I'm sorry if this upsets anyone) I'm already getting sick of California Dreamin' after listening to it a number of times over just the last couple of days.

BuileBeag hitting the nail on the head there, I just don't get the love for California Dreaming, it's grand

But nothing compared to the stone cold classic that Marvin's offering, vote Heard It Through The Grapevine

Zaph · 08-02-2020 8:37pm

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

BuileBeag hitting the nail on the head there, I just don't get the love for California Dreaming, it's grand

But nothing compared to the stone cold classic that Marvin's offering, vote Heard It Through The Grapevine

I agree, I think California Dreaming is just a bit wishy-washy, for want of a better description. Like it's a pleasant enough song and all, but it's not one you'd get overly excited about.

As an alternative to the Marvin Gaye version, Creedence also did an epic 11 minute version of I Heard it Through the Grapevine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDulQ6qXDSE

08-02-2020 8:40pm

I really wanted Buffalo Springfield to win.

Tauriel · 08-02-2020 8:45pm

Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through The Grapevine

One of my nominations and as previously mentioned, it's a brilliant song that had defied the ages and shows how Marvin was agead of his time.

Rikand · 08-02-2020 9:14pm

I love California dreamin but I heard it through the grapevine is just a better song..has stood the test of time and marvin was just a superb vocal performer.

Vote Marvin

Haven't been really able to follow the thread and surprised these are the finalists, but grapevine would be a solid winner

Kolido · 08-02-2020 9:18pm

Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Had a listen to both, not heard them in years. Cali dreaming got boring pretty quick whereas marvin's is just a quality track overall. Great vocals and music.

ArnoldJRimmer · 08-02-2020 9:18pm

Not looking good for The Mamas and the Papas here, but I have to go for Marvin Gaye. One of the best openings to a song ever, the vocals are perfect, and just an absolutely banging tune

Day Lewin · 08-02-2020 9:28pm

California Dreamin' embodies the zeitgeist of the 1960's, to perfection.

AND it's a great song, and also very sing-able.

[Marvin Gaye may be all very well and fine but its not something you'd sing in the shower, now is it?]

Rikand · 08-02-2020 9:47pm

Day Lewin wrote: »

California Dreamin' embodies the zeitgeist of the 1960's, to perfection.

AND it's a great song, and also very sing-able.

[Marvin Gaye may be all very well and fine but its not something you'd sing in the shower, now is it?]

If we were looking for shower singing songs theres only one clear winner from the 60s

Collie D · 08-02-2020 10:37pm

Completely missed all of this but would have had California Dreamin’ as a contender from the beginning. To paraphrase another poster it’s a song that really sums up the 60s vibe and to agree with another poster it gets an airing in my shower every couple of weeks or so.

08-02-2020 10:46pm

Marvin Gaye

It’s just on a far superior level to California Dreamin’

rainbowtrout · 08-02-2020 11:00pm

RESULT:

California Dreamin - The Mamas and the Papas 3 - 10 I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye

A fairly one sided competition there. Thanks to all who have been voting the last week

rainbowtrout · 08-02-2020 11:01pm

Something just as interesting. A lot of songs got two nominations, but very few got 3 or 4 in comparison to the 70s competition....... Interesting to see that the competition ran out much like the nominations

I Heard it Through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye 4
California Dreamin The Mamas and the Papas 4
Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival 3
Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield 3
House of the Rising Sun The Animals 3
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 3

08-02-2020 11:09pm

Thanks rainbowtrout.

The 60s by far is the best decade for music. I’m so glad you hosted it.

Kolido · 08-02-2020 11:14pm

Thanks for running RBT, missed most of it but enjoyed following. A great winning song.

08-02-2020 11:18pm

Thanks Rainbowtrout! A very worthy winner, been humming it all day!

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 08-02-2020 11:19pm

Cheers for running rainbowtrout!

Great result, would've been happy either way between this final 2, but glad it was one of my nominations that ultimately won it.

Looking forward to the Best Song Ever tournament now.

rainbowtrout · 08-02-2020 11:23pm

Ya I would agree with the result. I find I'd listen to California Dreamin once but I'd never stick it on a playlist, I find it a bit flat.

I Heard it through the Grapevine is a great song though.

09-02-2020 12:16am

Ah jaysus, totally missed the final. Happy the right song won anyway, first time a song I nominated has won one of these! (I don't care if three others nominated it, I'm not letting that dilute my victory :P )

Some really great songs here that I wouldn't have thought about nominating, and also others that nobody nominated at all. My ten were:

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (Round 1)
Nico - These Days (Round 1)
Leonard Cohen - Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye (Round 1)
Skeeter Davis - The End of the World (Round 1)
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog (Round 2)
Roy Orbison - In Dreams (Round 2)
The Beatles - Helter Skelter (Round 2)
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Round 3)
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (Semi-Final)
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Final/WINNER!)

Deliberated for a while which Velvet Underground song to submit, very surprised nobody else submitted any.

Necro · 09-02-2020 12:22am

Best I think my noms have done too bar the 90s where Teen Spirit won.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (Semis)
The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Quarters)
The Animals - House of The Rising Sun (Round 3, I think)
The Temptations - My Girl (Round 3)
The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin (Runner Up)
Chub Checker - Let's Twist Again (Round 1)
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire (Round 1)
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (Round 2)
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (live version was number 1 in US in 1968) - (Round 1)
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (Round 1)

You savages obliterated 5 of my picks by Round 3 so to get 3 through to the quarters I'm quite happy with. Dropped the winner of my list for Ring of Fire too

Tauriel · 09-02-2020 12:30am

So happy to add the Best Song of the 60's to my belt

The rest of my nominations were the following:

Marvin Gaye - I heard it through the Grapevine
Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower
Elvis- Suspicious Minds
Dusty Springfield- Son of a Preacher Man
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
Ray Charles- Hit the Road Jack
The Shadows- Apache
Led Zeppelin- Whole Lotta Love
The Kinks - You Really Got Me

Thanks for running the comp rainbowtrout!!!

Zaph · 09-02-2020 1:11am

Another brilliantly run competition, so big thanks to rainbowtrout. Here's my list of nominations, not too surprised that some went out early, but I am surprised that at least one of Sympathy for the Devil or Good Vibrations didn't make the semis.

Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
All You Need is Love - Beatles
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Down on the Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
Everyday People - Sly and the Family Stone
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl

Day Lewin · 09-02-2020 1:31am

And these were mine:

Turn, turn, turn Pete Seeger 1962
The sound of silence, Simon & Garfunkel 1964
I can't get no Satisfaction Stones 1965
Hey Mr Tambourine Man Dylan '65
California Dreamin' Mamas and the Papas 1966
Waterloo Sunset The Kinks 1967
Are you going to San Francisco? Scott mackenzie 1967
Whiter shade of Pale, Procul Harum, 67
So long Marianne Leonard Cohen 1967
Hey Jude The Beatles 1968

Irish Aris · 09-02-2020 1:07pm

A worthy winner me thinks. Such a great song!

Thank you rainbowtrout for another excellent game!!

09-02-2020 7:35pm

I’m having a Chromecast off in the pub.

What should I play next. I’ve gotta follow wish you were here pink floyd

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