RESULTS - 1962 Albums - Qualifying Round
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1962. Not a lot of responses, but I think it'll pick up in the next round as we
get to a lot of more familiar stuff.
Martin Denny - A Taste Of Honey - Liberty 7237 vs. Walter Brennan - Old Rivers
- Liberty 3233
Sorry Walter, go cry about the mule somewhere else, Martin Denny advances 6 to
2
Frank Ifield - I Remember You - Vee Jay 1054 vs. Limeliters - Folk Matinee
Frank Ifield takes it. 4 to 2
Joey Dee - The Peppermint Twisters - Scepter 503 vs. Ray Stevens - 1,837
Seconds Of Humor - Mercury 60732
Joey Dee advances, 7 to 2
Earl Grant - Beyond The Reef - Decca 74231 vs. Jerry Wallace - Shutters And
Boards - Challenge 616
Not much action here, Wallaces takes it 3 to 2
Dickey Lee - The Tale Of Patches - Smash 67020 vs. Harry Belafonte - The
Midnight Special - RCA 2449
We can finally bury Patches for good, Harry advances, 6 to 1
Brian Hyland - Sealed With A Kiss - ABC 431 vs. Kenny Ball - Midnight In Moscow
- Kapp 1276
"Well we gotta say goodbye, forever," Hyland goes down, Kenny Ball wins it 5 to
3
Ferrante & Teicher - Golden Piano Hits - UA 8505 vs. Nancy Wilson - Hello Young
Lovers - Capitol 1767
F & T hold their own, but Nancy prevails here, 4 to 3
Burl Ives - It's Just My Funny Way Of Laughin' - Decca 4279 vs. Hank Crawford -
From The Heart - Atlantic 1387
Burl got 3 votes, but loses to Crawford, 5 to 3
Gypsy (Soundtrack - Russel/Wood/Malden) - WB 1480 vs. Sue Thompson - Two Of A
Kind - Hickory 107
Gypsy advances, 4 to 2
So far the album I voted for has won every matchup, but that can't last too
much longer, let's see....
Bobby Vinton - Roses Are Red - Epic 26020 vs. Conway Twitty - Sings Portrait Of
A Fool & Others - MGM 4019
Vinton goes down, Twitty takes it, 5 to 3
Linda Scott - Great Scott - Canadian American 1007 vs. State Fair (Soundtrack -
Boone/Darin/Ann-Margaret) Dot 29011
Linda Scott easy, 4 to 1
Lou Monte - Pepino The Italian Mouse and Others - Reprise 6058 vs. Tommy
Edwards - Stardust - MGM 4020
Sorry Pepino, Edwards advances, 6 to 3
Claude King - Meet Claude King - Columbia 8610 vs. Jim Reeves - Gentleman Jim -
RCA 2605
The first loss for something I voted for, as reeves edges King, 4 to 3
Castells - So This Is Love - Era 109 vs. Johnny Burnette - Roses Are Red -
Liberty 3255
My vote goes down again, Burnette takes this 4 to 2
Ray Conniff - So Much In Love - Columbia 1720 vs. Smothers Brothers - The Two
Sides Of - Mercury 20675
Tom and Dicky sandpaper Conniff, 7 to 1
Dean Martin - Dino - Italian Love Songs - Capitol 1659 vs. Johnny Mathis -
Rapture - Columbia 8715
Dean over Mathis, 5 to 2
Johnny Mathis - Live It Up! - Columbia 8511 vs. Stan Getz - Big Band Bossa Nova
- Verve 8494
Getz over mathis, 9 to 1 (I was the 1 for Johnny)
Bill Black's Combo - Let's Twist Her - Hi 12006 vs. Kingston Trio - College
Concert - Capitol 1658
The KT knock off BBC, 6 to 3
Perry Como - By Request - RCA 2567 vs. Pete Fountain - Music From Dixie - Coral
57401
Perry over Pete, 4 to 2
Ray Conniff - 'S Confidential vs. Steve Alaimo - Mashed Potatoes - Checker 2983
Our first whitewashing, as Alaimo wins it, 5 to 0
Lena Horne - Lena On The Blue Side - RCA 2465 vs. Lettermen - Jimmy, Tony & Bob
- Capitol 1761
Lena moves on, 6 to 2
Shelley Fabares - Shelley! - Colpix 426 vs. Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd - Jazz
Samba - Verve 8432
The biggest trouncing of the entire round, Getz and Byrd, 10 to 0
Joanie Sommers - Johnny Get Angry - WB 1470 vs. Mad "Twists" Rock 'n' Roll
(Parodies) - Big Top 1305
Joannie is angry, Mad moves on 6 to 3
Bert Kaempfert - Afrikaan Beat and other Favorites - Decca 74273 vs. Dave
Brubeck Quartet - Countdown - Time In Outer Space - Col. 8575
Brubeck wins it, 7 to 4
Sergio Franchi - Sergio Franchi - RCA 2640 vs. Stop The World - I Want To Get
Off (OC - Newley) - London 88001
A 3-3 tie, and I voted for Franchi, so amazingly Anthony fucking Newley
advances.
Lettermen - Once Upon A Time - Capitol 1711 vs. Ray Baretto - Charanga Moderna
- Tico 1087
Another defeat for the lettermen, Baretto moves on, 4 to 2
Chet Atkins - Down Home - RCA 2450 vs. Henry Mancini - Experiment In Terror -
RCA 2442
Atkins takes it, 8 to 2
Bert Kaempfert - That Happy Feeling - Decca 74305 vs. Chordettes - Never On
Sunday - Cadence 3056
The Chordettes hung in there, but Bert wins it, 4 to 3
Henry Mancini - Combo! - RCA 2258 vs. Limeliters - Sing Out! - RCA 2445
A 4-4 tie, drop my vote for the Limelighters, and Mancini moves on
Marvin Rainwater - Gonna Find Me A Bluebird - MGM 4046 vs. Robert Goulet -
Always You - Columbia 8476
Rainwater crushes Goulet, 8 to ZERO
Fleetwoods - Sing For Lovers By Night - Dolton 8020 vs. Mose Allison - I Don't
Worry About A Thing - Atlantic 1389
Mose moves on, 7 to 2
Andy Williams - Warm And Willing - Columbia 8679 vs. Connie Francis - Sings
Irish Favorites - MGM 4013
You know an album must suck (Connie) when it gets crushed by a pedestrian Andy
Williams album, 5 to 1
Harry Belafonte - The Many Moods Of Belafonte - RCA 2574 vs. Joe Henderson -
Snap Your Fingers - Todd 2701
Henderson wins, 5 to 3
Connie Francis - Country Music Connie Style - MGM 4079 vs. Ferrante & Teicher -
Tonight - UA 6171
Either Connie doing country is a lot better than Connie doing Irish, or
everybody just hates F & T, as Connie wins here, 5 to 2
Jennell Hawkins - Moments To Remember - Amazon 1002 vs. Limeliters - Through
Children's Eyes - RCA 2512
The Limelighters finally win one, 4 to 3, against a very god, but not well
known R & B album from Hawkins.
Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderly - Capitol 1657 vs. Sammy Davis Jr. - What Kind
Of Fool Am I - Reprise 6051
Nancy and the cannonball destroy Sammy, 6 to 2
Sherrys - At The Hop With The Sherrys - Guyden 503 vs. Tony Mottola - Roman
Guitar - Command 816
A 3-3 tie, I had the Sherrys, so amazingly Tony Motolla moves on
Lettermen - A Song For Young Love - Capitol - 1669 vs. No Strings (Orig. Cast -
Richard Kiley/Diahann Carroll) Cap. 1695
The Lettermen finally take one, 5 to 1
Eddie Cano - At P.J.'s - Reprise 6030 vs. Jimmy Smith - Bashin' - Verve 8474
A shutout for Smith, he wins it, 8 to 0
Al Hirt - Horn A-Plenty - RCA 2446 vs. Cliff Richard - 32 Minutes, 17 seconds -
UK Columbia 1368
Cliff puts a hurtin' on Hirt, 6 to 2
Herbie Mann - At The Village Gate - Atlantic 1380 vs. Lonnie Donegan - Sing
Hallelujah - Pye NPL18073 UK
Donegan moves on, 7 to 3
Carousel (Orig. Cast - Alfred Drake/Roberta Peters) - Command 843 vs. Gloria
Lynne - At Basin Street East - Everest 5137
The least action in the roubnd, a 2-2 tie, and I had Lynne, so Carousel moves
on
Alexis Korner - R & B At The Marquee - Ace ACL 1130 - UK vs. Calvin Carter -
Twist With Calvin Carter - Vee Jay 1041
Write-in candidate Korner wins it easily, 6 to 2
Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers - Capitol 1728 vs. Fleetwoods - Sing The
Best Of The Oldies - Dolton 811
Fleetwoods eek it out, 4 to 3
James Ray - James Ray - Caprice 1002 vs. Johnny Crawford - A Young Man's Fancy
- Del-Fi 1223
James ray, 4 to 1
Kris Jensen - Tortue - Hickory 110 vs. Marilyn Monroe - Marilyn - 20th Fox 5000
Marilyn marches on, 7 to 1
Pete Fountain (Al Hirt) - Bourbon Street - Coral 57389 vs. Shelley Fabares -
The Things We Did Last Summer - Colpix 431
Bourbon Street moves on, 5 to 3
Robert Goulet - Two Of Us - Columbia 8626 vs. Timi Yuro - Let Me Call You
Sweetheart - Liberty 3234
Goulet slaughtered again, 7 to 0
Ian & Sylvia - Ian & Sylvia - Vanguard 2113 vs. Oliver (Original Cast) - RCA
2004
I & S, 9 to 2
Connie Francis - Do The Twist - MGM 4022 vs. George Maharis - George Maharis
Sings! - Epic 26001
Even Connie Twisting was enough to destroy George, 5 to 1
Burl Ives - The Versatile Burl Ives - Decca 4152 vs. Four Preps - Campus Encore
- Capitol 1647
Preps prevail, 5 to 2
Henry Mancini - Hatari! - RCA 2559 vs. Jim Reeves - A Touch Of Velvet - RCA
2487
Reeves in a shutout, 5 to 0
Judy Garland - The Garland Touch - Capitol 1710 vs. Vincent Edwards - Vince
Edwards Sings - Decca 4311
Our voters would rather play doctor with Judy, 6 to 0
Ray Price - Sings San Antonio Rose - Columbia 8556 vs. Si Zenter - Up A Lazy
River - Liberty 7216
Ray Price, 6 to 1
Johnny Tillotson - It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' - Cadence 3058 vs. Music Man
(Soundtrack - Robert Preston/Shirley Jones) - WB 1459
Music Man, 6 to 2
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum - Capitol 1717 vs. Jerry Vale -
I Have But One Heart - Columbia 8597
Maybe the most surprising result in the round to me, as "The Forum" knocks Vale
out, 5 to 3.
NEXT ROUND IN A FEW MINUTES
Todd Lucas
>Peters) - Command 843 vs. Gloria
>Lynne - At Basin Street East - Everest 5137
>The least action in the roubnd, a 2-2 tie, and I
>had Lynne, so Carousel moves on
A 2-2 tie? Sheesh Bruce, maybe you need a contingency plan in case
something ends in a scoreless tie. ;)
Todd
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>A 2-2 tie? Sheesh Bruce, maybe you need a contingency plan in case
>something ends in a scoreless tie. ;)
I don't abstain very often.