Top 6@6 Week #28: Post 6 Fave Johnny Cash Songs WITH DC5 & Bonzo Results From Week 27

Cafe Society
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Subtitled: Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way. You’re a song stylist. Always do it your way.

Another Monday, Another Closed Poll.

Last Week’s Dave Clark 5 Poll Tally: A mere 4 Voters / 24 Selections, which, garnered more feedback than Week 27’s Bonzo Dog Band Supplemental Poll with: 1 Voters / 6 Selections…Even RealityChuck missed his requested poll.
Factoid of the Week: 1 voter crossed poll lines last week and voted in both polls.

On To Business:

1st: Honorable Mentions, Notes & Asides[ul][li]The handful of people who voted this week. []Spit: Who actually did prep work so he could vote in a poll for a band whose better days ended almost 2 generations ago.[]Labdad: Whose Bonzo Dog Band track recommendations will be cued up in my CD player when I get my copy of Cornology in the mail.grendel72’s who requested Cab Calloway for this week’s supplemental poll[/ul][/li]
2nd: Venus Fly Trap
“High Search Count” words used to control results through demographic alterations…This week’s desired demographic group: Inmates. Will these names attract Felons & Inmates? ABH ACR ADAP ADAR ADAs APD APS APVU ARD Baron Bird Block Borstal BOV Brek Burn Cat Con DCR Div E List Ghosted Jam roll MDT Peter Red Band Screw SO Starred up VO [sub]Warning: Cheap search gimmick employed above[/sub]

3rd: Increase the Hit Count
The Voters, Past & Present List – Designed for those who do vanity searches: [ul][li]Voting In 17 Polls: astorianVoting In 14 Polls: WSLer ♪ Labdad. [/li][li]Voting In 12 Polls: elfkin477 ♪ grendel72 ♪ Spit. [/li][li]Voting In 11 Polls: Fish42 ♪ Skijumper. [/li][li]Voting In 10 Polls: gex gex. [/li][li]Voting In 9 Polls: dead0man ♪ Dragon Phoenix ♪ Hugh Jass [/li][li]Voting In 8 Polls: chief. [/li][li]Voting In 7 Polls: Mudshark ♪ Treviathan. [/li][li]Voting In 6 Polls: Dryga_Yes ♪ Kevja ♪ Mr. Blue Sky ♪ RealityChuck [/li][li]Voting In 5 Polls: Narrad ♪ Newton meter ♪ thermalribbon ♪ Tit Whistle. [/li][li]Voting In 4 Polls: 5 time champ ♪ bibliophile ♪ capybara ♪ K364 ♪ Leifsmama ♪ pldennison ♪ plnnr ♪ tourbot ♪ WavyDavy [/li][li]Voting In 3 Polls: ArchiveGuy ♪ essvee ♪ gallows fodder ♪ galt (2X Posthumously) ♪ hazel-rah ♪ John Carter of Mars ♪ Ludovic ♪ Minor Irritant ♪ Sassy ♪ scout1222 ♪ widdershins. [/li][li]Voting In 2 Polls: cmkeller ♪ Corbomite ♪ epeepunk ♪ Fenris ♪ gonzoron ♪ Happy Lendervedder ♪ HoldenCaulfield ♪ Interrobang!? ♪ jolemale ♪ kawliga ♪ Living Dead Girl ♪ Leechbabe ♪ LunaSea ♪ Manduck ♪ panamajack ♪ pepperlandgirl ♪ SisterCoyote ♪ The Clawman ♪ Wartime Consigliori. [/li][li]Voting In 1 Poll: 5-HT ♪ Adam P. ♪ Airbeck ♪ AlbertRose ♪ andrew Dupont ♪ andros ♪ angelicate ♪ Annie-Xmas ♪ arachnidlove ♪ Auction Barn Messiah ♪ auntie em ♪ Bad Hat ♪ benlormat ♪ BlackKnight ♪ bouv ♪ bristlesage ♪ bugg ♪ cainxinth ♪ Cat Fight ♪ Chastain86 ♪ Cherry_Blossom_ ♪ chique ♪ ChristmasEve ♪ Chrome Spot ♪ da_pope ♪ dinahmoe ♪ easy e ♪ Eonwe ♪ even sven ♪ fizgig ♪ FriarTed ♪ Futile Gesture ♪ hajario ♪ hardygrrl ♪ Hastur ♪ hawthorne ♪ Helena ♪ HenrySpencer ♪ Homebrew ♪ horhay_achoa ♪ IJ Grieve ♪ Jeremy’s Evil Twin ♪ Jonathan Chance ♪ Kyomara ♪ lawoot ♪ Leechboy ♪ Legomancer ♪ LindyHopper ♪ Lockz ♪ longjohn ♪ lothos2002 ♪ matt_mcl ♪ mattymillhouse ♪ minty green ♪ Mr. Green Fool ♪ MsWhatsit ♪ Neidhart ♪ Nocturne Reeder ♪ PatrickM ♪ Politzania ♪ saoirse ♪ scott evil ♪ Second Echo ♪ Sigmundex ♪ singular1 ♪ Skip on ♪ stankow ♪ stylize ♪ Sunshine ♪ Supernate ♪ tavalla ♪ The Wrong Girl ♪ ThePyroWeasel ♪ TripleAnt ♪ Ukulele Ike ♪ Usram ♪ vibrotronica ♪ vinryk ♪ waterj2 ♪ White Lightning ♪ -zorch.[/ul][/li]
4th: Past polls and Results:
After the ZZ Top poll, sometime this decade, the plan is to compile all the votes from the SDMB & post them in a few threads. Then I’ll burn a several volume CD set & mail ‘em out to the voters who helped keep these threads going. The scrap-heap of past polls continues to grow: Dave Clark Five § Bonzo Dog Band§ Cake§ Beck (Hanson) § Jimmy Buffett § Jeff Buckley § The Byrds § Buffalo Springfield § Bush § Kate Bush § Jackson Browne § James Brown § Better Than Ezra § Banarama § David Bowie Boston § Bon Jovi § Blur § Belle & Sebastian§ Blue Öyster Cult § Blondie§ Blink 182§ Black Sabbath§ Black Crowes§ Bjork§ B-52’s§ Chuck Berry§ Beastie Boys§ Jeff Beck§ The Band§ Beach Boys§ Beatles§ Animals§ Tori Amos§ Allman Brothers§ AC/DC § Abba& Aerosmith polls.

5th: Week 26 Results:
Tabulation Notes: What a breeze. Compilation went by in the blink of an eye. The accounting department at the 6@6 corporate offices were very careful to not screw up the results…like they did with the Beatles “Day in The Life / A Day in the Life”…if you find any errors please report them. Side note: the posthumous has been removed from the supplemental template.

Here are your Dave Clark 5 Selections:

 1ST PLACE 
Bits And Pieces ¤ Glad All Over: With 4 Votes

 2ND PLACE 
Catch Us If You Can: With 3 Votes

 3RD PLACE 
Because ¤ Can’t You See That She’s Mine ¤ Having a Wild Weekend ¤ Over And Over ¤ You Got What It Takes: Tied With 2 Votes

 RUNNERS UP 
Anyway You Want It ¤ Do You Love Me ¤ I Like It Like That: All With 1 Vote Each.

6th: Week 26’s Supplemental Poll Results
Here are your Bonzo Dog Band Selections:

 RUNNERS UP 
I’m the Urban Spaceman ¤ Mickey’s Son and Daughter ¤ My Pink Half of the Drainpipe ¤ Rockaliser Baby ¤ Shirt ¤ The Intro and the Outro: All With 1 Vote Each. No Rutles stuff Labdad?

7th: Disclaimers & Tentative Schedule
Based on requests and the like: [ul][li]Week #29 will feature: Canned Heat with a JJ Cale supplemental poll. [/li][li]Week #30 will feature: The Cars as per elfkin 477’s & spit’s request with Interrobang!?’s requested Neko Case / New Pornographers supplemental poll. []Week #31 will feature: Captain Beefheart with a Nick Cave supplemental poll. []Week #32 will feature: Alice Cooper as per Chief’s request with Tit Whistle’s requested Cheap Trick supplemental poll. [/li][li]Week #33 will feature: The Clash with a Collective Soul supplemental poll. [/li][li]Week #34 will feature: Eric Clapton with a Tom Cochrane supplemental poll. []Week #35 will feature: Concrete Blond with a Cowboy Junkies supplemental poll. []Week #36 will feature: Elvis Costello with Skijumper’s requested Cocteau Twins supplemental poll.[] Week #37 will feature: Counting Crows as per Treviathan’s request with elfkin477’s & Treviathan’s requested Cheryl Crow supplemental poll.[]Week #38 will feature: Cream with a Creedence Clearwater Revival supplemental poll.[]Week #39 will feature: Cracker with a Camper Beethoven supplemental poll at Tit Whistle’s insistence.[]Week #40 will feature: Creed with a Crowded House supplemental poll.[]Week #41 will (maybe) feature: Crystal Method with gex gex’s requested Chemical Brothers. [/li][li]Week #42 will feature The Cure with a Cult supplemental poll.[/li][li]Week #43 will feature Jim Croce as per Sunshine’s request with room open for a requested supplemental poll (I still refuse to mention the MOR drummer by name in hopes that no one will ask).[/ul]If you feel I’ve alphabetically passed over a band, speak up. If I don’t hear to the contrary, we’ll be in the D’s in about 3 months. [/li]
8th: Week #27’s Supplemental Poll (In another, as yet unknown, thread)
I can’t provide a link to it because the featured poll and results get posted first. There will however be a link back to this thread in the supplemental poll but you can still access it one of 3 ways: [ol][li]Click the link on my signature.[]Access it through the Café Society page.Bog down the server and do a search on: The Week #28 Supplemental 6@6 Poll…At grendel72’s behest: Cab Calloway[/ol][/li]
9th: Week #27’s Featured Poll Artist’s Discography(Reader’s Digest Version)
If your memory of the featured artist isn’t exactly up to speed, here’s a link to the discography (usually) with 30 second previews of some of the tracks when you drill down through the albums: Man Comes Around  Boy Named Sue  Water From The Wells Of Home  The Best Of Johnny Cash - The Millennium Collection  Songs Of Our Soil  Sings The Ballads Of The True West  Sings His Best  Silver  Ride This Train  Orange Blossom Special  Man In Black International Johnny  Essential Sun Singles  At Madison Square Garden  At Folsom Prison/At San Quentin  20th Century Masters  Ring Of Fire  Ballad Of Ira Hayes  Highwaymen.
This link is provided by CD Now. Feel free to post any duets or corroborations, but avoid posting tribute songs performed by other artists.

10th & Lastly: Week #24’s Featured Poll Artist
Without further ado, the Man In Black…Johnny Cash.

Here are my 6 JOHNNY CASH selections:

  1. Personal Jesus It’s just a rip hearing him cover Depeche Mode
  2. I Walk The Line With The Tennessee Two, 1956
  3. Ring Of Fire
  4. A Boy Named Sue Only cuz I still remember all the words
  5. The Devil Comes Back To Georgia With Mark O’Connor & Charlie Daniels
  6. San Quentin Talk about playing to your audience…Love that B+W photo of him giving a lensman the finger while performing one of his prison shows

Damn, that was a lot harder than I thought it would be, I had to cut out a lot of great stuff to truncate it to 6.

Thanking you all in advance. Hope to see some of you over at the Cab Calloway Supplemental poll Have a great week!

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In no particular order

Get Rhythm
I’ve Been Everywhere
Long Black Veil
Cocaine Blues
Jackson
One Piece at a Time

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  1. Folsom Prison Blues
  2. Jackson (With June Carter Cash)
  3. I Walk The Line
  4. Lorena (obscure, from the “Silver” album, but great!)
  5. Hey, Porter
  6. Big River

It was hard to leave “Mean Eyed Cat” and “Katy Too” off, but one is only permitted six…:frowning:

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  1. Ring of Fire (now a TV commercial!)
  2. Boy Named Sue
  3. Ghost Riders in the Sky
  4. Daddy Sang Bass
  5. Orangeblossom Special
  6. Folsom Prison Blues
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Yippie, I get to play!

In no particular order. Hellish enough cutting the list down to this:

Mercy Seat: Heard this first over the noise of consumers in a Borders without realizing who it was.

Folsom Prison Blues

Jackson

One Piece At A Time

25 Minutes to Go

I’ve Been Everywhere

(If I was in a snarky mood, I’d include “You Are My Sunshine” which he did as a duet with a young Bob Dylan, or “The Wanderer” from U2’s Zooropa, which I rather liked but some people hate.)

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Really, how do you cut down about a hundred records of great stuff to come up with six songs?!?

Anyway, here are six that as of this minute rock my world (in no order - it’s hard enough cutting them down, let alone putting them in order):

  • Ballad of a Teenage Queen - love those harmonies, and a great story ta boot!

  • Were You There … - Exhibit #1 next time some turkey pulls out that old line about the Devil having all the good tunes.

  • Orange Blossom Special [live at Folsom Prison] - Try to find the film clip if you can, where he looks every inch the sex symbol, off drugs at last and coming to get you!

  • Let the Train Blow The Whistle - Along with the Stooges ‘Sick of You’ and the Urinals ‘Go Away Girl’, one of the great ‘I’m breaking up and I couldn’t be happier’ songs.

  • Solitary Man - OK, so it’s a Neil Diamond cover, but hell, if it doesn’t blow my head off every time …

  • The Man In Black - his signature tune, and close to the only sixties/early seventies political song that I don’t wish was in Spanish (so I wouldn’t have to understand it).

Next time make it a top 60, so it’s not so hard, OK :wink:

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  1. Daddy Sang Bass
  2. Ring Of Fire
  3. I Walk the Line
  4. (dont remember name of the song, but it had this line in it " …and the drummer was a methodist" in it)
  5. Folsom Prison Blues
  6. Orange Blossum Special

My mom used to play Johnny Cash while we cleaned the house as a kid. She only had one LP and it was some kind of greatist hits album. Good times.

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JohnBckWLD, I didn’t try to vote in the suplemental poll since I never heard of the group- though I wondered the connection to Dada until I figured out Dada was occasionally part of the band’s name much like Grace Slick’s frequently renamed band- but I never added my DC5 picks because the boards have been crashing constantly on me for the past week; I made up my list and everything, but the boards wouldn’t stay up long enough for me to post it. If it’s not just me having problems, that might account for the small number of voters.

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I’m glad to see everyone else is also having trouble deciding.

No way can I put these in any order.
**Delia’s Gone
Ring of Fire
Folsom Prison Blues
I Walk the Line
A Boy Named Sue
Tennesse Flat-Top Box **

Do not be fooled by my list; I chose the more radio friendly tunes because they were what I heard the most. However, when I was a child, my mother owned a trucking company, and all of the drivers made sure that the little kid in the office (me) got a heavy education of Cash. (Not to mention the rest of the “outlaws”)

Johnny Reb, Cry Cry Cry, John Henry’s Hammer, Vietnam Blues, Don’t Take Your Guns to Town…Geez, the list could go on & on. What a nostalgia trip.

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I Walk The Line
Tennessee Flat Top Box
Ring of Fire
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky
Highwayman (Does this count? I saw it in a few of his greatest hits CDs, but it’s not just him.)
Boy Named Sue

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  1. Five Feet High and Rising
  2. Cocaine Blues
  3. Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  4. Ring of Fire
  5. Sunday Morning Coming Down
  6. Big River
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Is this Nick Cave’s Mercy Seat?

I shouldn’t vote, since I’m not really familiar with the guys work, but I want to throw in a vote for The Wanderer (w/- U2). I feel justified in doing that because his voice really does do heaps for this song - I feel it is his just as much as U2’s. And it’s a good song.

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  1. Ring of Fire (I have an autographed copy of the original pressing of the album).
  2. I Walk the Line
  3. Folsom Prison Blues
  4. Big River
  5. It Ain’t Me, Babe
  6. Peace in the Valley (I think I may want this one played at my memorial service).

“Hello…I’m Johnny Cash.”

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I missed the Bonzo Dog Band??? Aiieeeee!!! :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:

For the record:

  1. Ali Baba’s Camel
  2. Monster Mash
  3. The Intro and the Outro
  4. Humanoid Boogie
  5. Tent
  6. Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold

OK. I’ve calmed down. Now for Johnny Cash:

  1. I Walk the Line
  2. Ring of Fire
  3. A Boy Named Sue (love Shel Silverstein)
  4. Orange Blossom Special
  5. Folsom Prison Blues
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Another poll that’s difficult to narrow down the choices to 6. With someone who has been performing as long as The Man in Black, you almost need to break it down into categories: The Sun Years, The Mercury Years, The Columbia Years, The Carter Family, The Highwaymen, The Hymns, etc.

[ol]
[li]Sunday Morning Coming Down[/li][li]Ring of Fire[/li][li]As Long As I Live [/li][li]Folsom Prison Blues[/li][li]Cry, Cry, Cry[/li][li]Guess Things Happen That Way[/li][/ol]

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Damn! This one’s tough!

  1. Ring of Fire
  2. Five Feet High and Rising
  3. Folsom Prison Blues
  4. I Walk the Line
  5. Big River
  6. Girl From the North Country (duet with Bob Dylan on Nashville Skyline)
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Hmm.

I walk the Line
Ring of Fire
Folsom Prison Blues
Delia’s Gone
Boy named Sue
25 Minutes to Go

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May I suggest Crosby, Stills & Young (& Nash) as the supplemental poll for week 43?

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At this point, I’m sure no one wants to hear that another person had a hard time boiling this down to 6, but damn if I didn’t have a tough time boiling this down to 6.’

  1. Delia’s Gone
  2. Ring of Fire (Love those horns)
  3. Walk the Line
  4. Folsom Prison
  5. Cry Cry Cry
  6. Jackson
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  1. Ring of Fire
  2. I Got Stripes
  3. Orleans Parish Prison
  4. Orange Blossom Special
  5. Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  6. Kneeling Drunkard’s Plea