Our third week of voting has concluded, and sadly the next ballot will not know Diddley. Congratulations to our newest inductees: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and The Beach Boys. The Supremes and Marvin Gaye survived the cut and will remain on the ballot. Several more highly qualified acts enter the ballot this year, having released their debut recordings in 1964.
Vote for your THREE top choices.
The Stones and Stevie Wonder were easy votes for me. The third was tough but I went with the Supremes. Did you know that the core members of the Supremes and the Temptations all lived in the same Detroit housing project and met in junior high? Crazy!
Ditto here. I was torn between Marvin and Otis, but Marvin had the longer career (although no less tragically cut short.)
Maybe we should just put all the Motown artists together to ensure they get into our Hall somehow..
I’m happily surprised not to be the only Dion vote. His Doowop was among the best and his later folk-rock included the wonderful
Also, title and OP updated with link to 4th year poll.
This is the week when it really starts to become obvious how loaded those first three ballots were. Clearly the Stones and Stevie deserve induction, but I would put many of the folks that have fallen off the ballot in ahead of the Supremes: Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson.
I’ll just keep voting to try to keep as many of the folks I think are worthy of being in a 120-act hall on the ballot.