BOARDSIES DECIDE: Best Song Ever By Black/Partly Black Music Act.

Reberetta

We are now halfway through...the first round.:D

Results

Curtis Mayfield  Move On Up  6-3 Lou Bega Mambo No. 5
Eternal I Wanna Be The Only One 5-3 Puff Daddy I'll Be Missing You
Cameo Word Up 5-2  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles You've Really Got a Hold on Me
 T.I feat. Rihanna  Live Your Life 2-5 Five Star Rain or Shine

Luther Vandross  Never Too Much 5-4  Sam Cooke Wonderful World
Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin Something  5-4 Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate
Bill Withers Lean On Me  7-2 Fats Waller Ain't Misbehaving/Stormy Weather
Commodores  Nightshift  2-8 MC Hammer  U Can't Touch This

Kendrick Lemar King Kunta 4-3 Tupac Feat. Dr Dre California Love
Prince 1999 7-1 Craig David  7 Days
Sylvestor You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) 2-6 Stevie Wonder Superstition
2pac Changes 3-5 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five The Message

Barrett Strong Money (That's What I Want) 5-1 Little Richard Tutti Frutti  
Marvin Gaye Sexual Healing 4-5 The Shirelles Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Prince  When Doves Cry 5-1 Percy Sledge When A Man Loves A Woman
Drake Hold On We're Going Home 2-3 Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers Why Do Fools Fall in Love 1-3 Edwin Starr War
Al Green Let's Stay Together 2-3 The Supremes Stop! In the Name of Love
The Penguins Earth Angel 1-2 The Platters The Great Pretender
Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With Somebody 4-1 The Crystals He's A Rebel

MIA Paper Planes  5-4 Lionel Richie & Diana Ross Endless Love
Darius Rucker History In The Making 2-6 Booker T & The M.G's Green Onions
Boyz To Men  End Of The Road 3-4 Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child
Sister Sledge He's The Greatest Dancer 3-4 The Jacksons I Want You Back

 Ice Cube It Was A Good Day  3-2 Albert King Born Under A Bad Sign
Michael Jackson Human Nature 4-2 Mario Winans I Don't Want To Know
Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares For Me  5-1 Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling
The Ronettes Be My Baby 5-1 Stevie Wonder I Just Called To Say I Love You

Vanessa Williams Colors Of The Wind 2-1 Charles & Eddy Would I Lie To You
Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through The Grapevine 4-2 The Pointer Sisters I'm So Excited
Sade Ordinary Love 2-1 SWV Weak
Fats Domino Blueberry Hill 4-1 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Dream A Little Dream

The Fugees Killing Me Softly 1-5 En Vogue feat. Salt N Pepa Whatta Man
The Supremes Baby Love 4-2 Youssou N'Dour feat. Neneh Cherry 7 Seconds
Janelle Monae feat. Big Boi Tightrope 2-4 Toni Braxton Unbreak My Heart
Chic Le Freak  4-2 Parliament Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)

Al Wilson The Snake 5-4 Gladys Knight and the Pips Midnight Train To Georgia 
Little Willie John Fever 3-6 The Drifters Under The Boardwalk
Muddy Waters Mannish Boy 6-5 Run DMC It's Like That
Prince Purple Rain 7-3 Kool & The Gang Celebration

The Stylistics You Make Me Feel Brand New 2-5 Soul 2 Soul Back To Life
Big Mama Thornton Hound Dog 2-6 Four Tops I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
Mississippi John Hurt Talking Casey 2-6 The Supremes You Can't Hurry Love
Whitney Houston  I Have Nothing 5-3 Shaggy It Wasn't Me

Candi Staton Young Hearts Run Free   4-3 Beyonce Halo
Milli Vanilli Girl You Know It's True 0-6 Lenny Kravitz Fly Away
Ray Charles Hit The Road Jack! 7-0 Sarah Vaughan Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Ms. Dynamite It Takes More  1-5 Destiny's Child Say My Name

Aretha Franklin Respect  6-5 Lauryn Hill Doo Wop (That Thing)
TLC  Waterfalls 10-0 Busta Rhymes feat. Mariah Carey I Know What You Want
Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack 7-4 Dionne Warwick Walk On By
The Game and 50 Cent Hate It or Love It  1-8 Michael Jackson Thriller

Bruno Mars Just The Way You Are 2-7 Little Eva Locomotion
Nina Simone Feelin Good 6-3 Public Enemy Fight The Power
Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive  7-2 Dinah Washington What A Difference A Day Makes
Michael Jackson Billie Jean 7-2 The Isley Brothers Twist and Shout

Earth, Wind & Fire September 6-3 The Supremes Where Did Our Love Go
Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On 6-4 Johnny Nash I Can See Clearly Now
Sade Smooth Operator 4-5 Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance
The Emotions Best Of My Love 4-5 The Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight

 Blind Willie Johnson Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground 4-5 Seal Crazy
Jay-Z 99 Problems 5-6 Janet Jackson Together Again
Phylis Nelson Move Closer 5-2 Honeyz End Of The Line
Nicky Minaj, Ariana Grande & Jessie J Bang Bang 0-10 Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight

3 through 2 out

Declan A Walsh

3 through 3 out

Irish Aris

All of my nominations have already appeared, 8 through 2 out, not too bad!!

Declan A Walsh

Irish Aris wrote: »

All of my nominations have already appeared, 8 through 2 out, not too bad!!

I have high hopes for my four remaining nominations as they are just brilliant songs!:D

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Only 3 of mine have appeared so far, and all 3 are through.

the purple tin

Both out. Ho hum.

the purple tin

the purple tin wrote: »

2 through, both out. Ho hum.

Awwwww these lot have no taste you know that by now

Reberetta

Round 1
Diana Ross Love Hangover v  Nat King Cole The Christmas Song

Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower v   Aaliyah Try Again

Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning  v NWA Straight Outta Compton

Mississippi Sheiks: The World is Going Wrong v Labi Siffre I Got The

Diana Ross Love Hangover v  Nat King Cole The Christmas Song
Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower v   Aaliyah Try Again
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning  v NWA Straight Outta Compton
Mississippi Sheiks: The World is Going Wrong v Labi Siffre I Got The

Necro

Hendrix
NWA

the purple tin

Nat King Cole The Christmas Song
Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning

Mississippi Sheiks: The World is Going Wrong

Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (I like other Aaliyah songs better than that one)
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning
Don't know the last two so abstain for now

Declan A Walsh

My votes in bold.

Diana Ross Love Hangover v Nat King Cole The Christmas Song - Great disco tune: starts off slow and then builds up to a great tempo. And... it's one of my nominations!

Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower v Aaliyah Try Again - Fantastic guitar and vocals.

Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning v NWA Straight Outta Compton - Brilliant blues.

Mississippi Sheiks: The World is Going Wrong v Labi Siffre I Got The - Never heard either songs before but have to go for the latter for its funky chilled out sound.

Abstain - too tough to decide.
Aaliyah Try Again
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning
Mississippi Sheiks: The World is Going Wrong

Diana Ross Love Hangover
Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning
Labi Siffre I Got The

Declan A Walsh

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Diana Ross Love Hangover
Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning
Labi Siffre I Got The

Snap!:D

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Diana Ross - Love Hangover

Aaliyah - Try Again

NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Labi Siffre - I Got The

Declan A Walsh

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Snap!:D

That’s a brilliant Diana Ross tune

Lillyfae

Howling Wolf Smokestack Lightning

Public Enemy Harder Than You Think

https://youtu.be/pCx5Std7mCo

Stromae Tous Les Mêmes

https://youtu.be/CAMWdvo71ls

Mos Def Mathematics

https://youtu.be/m5vw4ajnWGA

OutKast Ms Jackson

https://youtu.be/MYxAiK6VnXw

Zaph

Nat King Cole The Christmas Song
Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning
Mississippi Sheiks: The World is Going Wrong

Love how this competition has the likes of Howlin' Wolf and the Mississippi Sheikhs in it, we'd never have seen artists like them in anything that's been run previously.

Declan A Walsh

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

That’s a brilliant Diana Ross tune

Great '70s disco tune and very different from some of the superb ballads she had sung earlier in that decade and much better than her '80s output.

Declan A Walsh

Lillyfae wrote: »

Howling Wolf Smokestack Lightning

Public Enemy Harder Than You Think

https://youtu.be/pCx5Std7mCo

Stromae Tous Les Mêmes

https://youtu.be/CAMWdvo71ls

Mos Def Mathematics

https://youtu.be/m5vw4ajnWGA

OutKast Ms Jackson

https://youtu.be/MYxAiK6VnXw

Too late for nominations I'm afraid. You can only vote on the ones presented to you at this stage.

Lillyfae

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Too late for nominations I'm afraid. You can only vote on the ones presented to you at this stage.

Missed that! Wondered why Harder Than You Think hadn’t featured already

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't know the last two so abstain for now

Having now listened to both, I enjoy Mississippi Sheiks more so will go with that please.

Reberetta

I'm going to vote for NWA.

Scores so far:

Diana Ross Love Hangover 3-3 Nat King Cole The Christmas Song
Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower 6-2 Aaliyah Try Again
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning 6-3 NWA Straight Outta Compton
Mississippi Sheiks: The World is Going Wrong 4-3 Labi Siffre I Got The

Voting closes at 10.31pm.

Reberetta

Round 1
Kanye Stronger  v   Bob Marley One Love

Tracy Chapman Baby Can I Hold You v Dobie Gray Drift Away

Blind Blake Diddie Wa Diddie v  James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World

OutKast Ms. Jackson v The Dixie Cups Chapel Of Love

Kanye Stronger  v   Bob Marley One Love
Tracy Chapman Baby Can I Hold You v Dobie Gray Drift Away
Blind Blake Diddie Wa Diddie v  James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World
OutKast Ms. Jackson v The Dixie Cups Chapel Of Love

Declan A Walsh

With Labi Siffre's I Got The, from about 2:30 in, you will hear a familiar piece of music that was sampled by Eminem. You learn something new everyday!

JohnGreenFan

Kanye Stronger
Tracy Chapman Baby Can I Hold You
James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World
OutKast Ms. Jackson

the purple tin

Bob Marley One Love
Dobie Gray Drift Away
Blind Blake Diddie Wa Diddie
The Dixie Cups Chapel Of Love

Ohhhhh gimme the beat boys and free my soul. I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away!!!!

Bob Marley One Love
Dobie Gray Drift Away
James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World
OutKast Ms. Jackson

Soz, Tracy.