TGIF everyone, hope you got great plans for the weekend.
Speaking of great plans I want to take this opportunity to let you know of a new upcoming contest that will be premiering soon. Well as soon as I get it all together and ready.
You may remember this poll.
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I know you do because you are the best, simply the best. Here is what I have planned.
I am going to set up a single elimination tournament for individual songs. The time period to be covered are the 1950s through the 2000s. It will cover Rock ‘n Roll and Country and Western. It will cover a lot ground. I hope to give you a week to vote and have two days a week for the contest. Right now that looks to be Wednesday and Friday. Hopefully that will work.
Further my plan is to use Billboard charts for the base of choosing the songs. Unless anyone can suggest a better starting point.
Now I know there are other styles out there like R&B, Jazz, Gospel and Rap but I am not really interested in including them as this is already going to be a huge list to start without them. But, if I can sense a desire for them, I will revisit that decision.
So, what do you guys think? Worth the effort?
Oops. Wrong poll. I will fix it after work. Tres embarassment.
Given the way they have merged of late, it’s harder to separate C&W from R&R … now. But in the 50s and 60s and such, they were very distinct styles.
You might want to consider trying to separate them anyway, despite the difficulty.
Or, perhaps you only separate them before the merger? That would make three contests, though, even more work, so likely that doesn’t appeal. But it would be more accurate.
No matter how you do it, I think you’d get a lot of votes. Comparing two songs at a time is easy. You’d (probably) get a high participation rate.
I was planning on R&R and C&W being on opposite sides of the brackets, only meeting in the final contest.
It’s no trouble at all – barely an inconvenience…