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

Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive
Aretha Franklin Respect
Nina Simone Feelin Good
Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance

Reberetta

Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive 4-3 Michael Jackson Billie Jean 
Aretha Franklin Respect 5-3  v TLC  Waterfalls 
Little Eva Locomotion 1-5 Nina Simone Feelin Good 
Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance 5-4 v The Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight

Necro

Gloria Gaynor

I'll vote for Billie Jean

Not saying Michael Jackson was necessarily a wonderful person but it is the better song!

Nevermind

Reberetta

Fun Facts

Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight
A 1979 hip hop track produced by Sylvia Robinson. While it was not the first single to include rapping, "Rapper's Delight" is credited for introducing hip hop music to a wide audience, reaching the top 40 in the United States, as well as the top 3 in the UK and number-one in Canada.. The track interpolates Chic's "Good Times", resulting in Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards suing Sugar Hill Records for copyright infringement; a settlement was reached that gave the two songwriter credits.

"Rapper's Delight" is number 251 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and number 2 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. It is also included on NPR's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. It was preserved in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011. Songs on the National Recording Registry are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The song was recorded in a single take.

Little Eva Locomotion

Little Eva was born in Belhaven, North Carolina in 1943 and had twelve siblings. At the age of fifteen she moved to the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York. As a teenager, she worked as a maid and earned extra money as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin.

The song reached No. 1 in the United States in 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. After the success of "The Loco-Motion," Boyd was stereotyped as a dance-craze singer and was given limited material.

She continued to tour and record throughout the sixties, but her commercial potential plummeted after 1964. She retired from the music industry in 1971. She never owned the rights to her recordings. Although the prevailing rumor in the 1970s was that she had received only $50 for "The Loco-Motion," it seems $50 was actually her weekly salary at the time she made her records (an increase of $15 from what Goffin and King had been paying her as nanny). Penniless, she returned with her three young children to North Carolina, where they lived in obscurity.

Interviewed in 1988 after the success of the Kylie Minogue recording of "The Loco-Motion", Boyd stated that she did not like the new version; however, its then-current popularity allowed her to make a comeback in show business.

Her grey gravestone has the image of a steam locomotive prominently engraved on the front and the epitaph reads: "Singing with the Angels"

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Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive 5-3 Michael Jackson Billie Jean 

Purple Rain & Billie Jean both out in the second round.

Necro

Reberetta wrote:

Purple Rain & Billie Jean both out in the second round.

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Round 2
Seal Crazy v Janet Jackson Together Again

Phylis Nelson Move Closer v Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight

Earth, Wind & Fire September v Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On

Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack v Michael Jackson Thriller

Seal Crazy v Janet Jackson Together Again
Phylis Nelson Move Closer v Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Earth, Wind & Fire September v Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On 
Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack  v Michael Jackson Thriller

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Seal Crazy

Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight

Earth, Wind & Fire September

Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack

ShaneU

Janet Jackson Together Again
Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Earth, Wind & Fire September
Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack

JP Liz V1

I always associate The Locomotion with Kylie

Irish Aris

Seal Crazy v Janet Jackson Together Again
Phylis Nelson Move Closer v Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Earth, Wind & Fire September v Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On
Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack v Michael Jackson Thriller

The J Stands for Jay

Seal Crazy
Phylis Nelson Move Closer
Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On
Michael Jackson Thriller

Hopefully that's us rid of a few terrible songs

JohnGreenFan

Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Earth, Wind & Fire September

Zaph

Abstain
Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On
Michael Jackson Thriller

JohnGreenFan

Janet Jackson Together Again
Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack

JP Liz V1

Seal Crazy
Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Earth, Wind & Fire September
Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack  

Seal Crazy
Phylis Nelson Move Closer
Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On
Michael Jackson Thriller

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JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Seal Crazy v Janet Jackson
 

Is that a vote for Seal?

the purple tin

Seal Crazy
Phylis Nelson Move Closer
Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On
Michael Jackson Thriller

darklighter

Seal Crazy v Janet Jackson Together Again
Phylis Nelson Move Closer v Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Earth, Wind & Fire September v Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On
Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack v Michael Jackson Thriller

JP Liz V1

Reberetta wrote: »

Is that a vote for Seal?

Yes vote Crazy

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Seal Crazy 5-2 Janet Jackson Together Again
Phylis Nelson Move Closer 1-5 Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
Earth, Wind & Fire September 4-5 Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On 
Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack 4-5 Michael Jackson Thriller

JP Liz V1

I've just seen an ad for a Big Mac to the tune Return of the Mack, clever advertising and now I'm hungry

Haven't counted so these may already be decided, but if not then:

Janet Jackson - Together Again
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack

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Round 2
Nat King Cole The Christmas Song v  Mississippi Sheiks The World is Going Wrong

Bob Marley One Love v James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World

OutKast Ms. Jackson v Tracy Chapman Baby Can I Hold You

Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower v  Howlin' Wolf Smokestack Lightning  

Nat King Cole The Christmas Song v Mississippi Sheiks The World is Going Wrong
 Bob Marley One Love v James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World
Tracy Chapman Baby Can I Hold You v OutKast Ms. Jackson
Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower v  Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning  

the purple tin

Mississippi Sheiks The World is Going Wrong
James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World
Tracy Chapman Baby Can I Hold You
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning

It is getting harder now, some tough match-ups here!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Mississippi Sheiks The World is Going Wrong

James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World

Tracy Chapman Baby Can I Hold You ; argh, tough one, sticking with my own nomination, but happy to see either progress

Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower

ShaneU

Nat King Cole The Christmas Song
James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World
OutKast Ms. Jackson
Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower

Nat King Cole The Christmas Song
James Brown This is a Man's Man's Man's World
Tracy Chapman Baby Can I Hold You
Howlin' Wolf: Smokestack Lightning