I have... no idea why that one posted with so much of it crossed out.

probably my least favorite from Sarah... that 1 rating is criminal tho. 

I liked it but that solo felt like it went on forever  

its dull

 

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@Meloetta Carey

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this is like the classiest song about age gap relationships

@Vixen Eyes

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that last note in the outro was pretty shaky. serving Taylor Swift - Change OG version.

 

@Achilles.

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So this song originated in a Broadway play that equated FDR's New Deal policies with fascism, and it only exists because Anjelica Huston's grandfather demanded a solo number in the show. Sarah and Ella both deliver their typically incredible vocals, but the song itself just doesn't do anything for me.

@John Slayne

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A bonus point for the long solo, but otherwise a very average song. Much like most of her songs.

Wow. @conatus really said I don't give a **** what you ******* have to say.

1 minute ago, Antisocialites said:

probably my least favorite from Sarah... that 1 rating is criminal tho. 

I was going to say, a 1???  ok

 

Spoiler

The way this will be said for some of my 1s 

4 minutes ago, John Slayne said:

one of the better Julie songs 2nd out, oh ok...

Naw

are you guys Dinah stans or something?

 

2 minutes ago, John Slayne said:

are you guys Dinah stans or something?

 

 

 

#61. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"

""Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight

When it's exactly twelve o'clock that night…"

Average: 6.972121212

Highest score: 10 (@MP2K, @trainsskyscrapers)

Lowest score: 1 (@Taylor fanboy)

 

A top 20 hit for Nancy in 1967, the Frank Loesser-penned "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" made its debut twenty years prior and quickly became a melancholy festive staple. Funnily enough, despite cementing itself as somewhat of a Christmas classic and being covered for Christmas albums by a variety of artists such as Patti LaBelle, Azealia Banks, and Kacey Musgraves, it actually annoyed Loesser when the song was sung during the holidays. In his 2000 biography, his daughter Susan Loesser explains this by saying that in the song, "the singer, madly in love, is making a (possibly rash) commitment far into the future." Sure, Nancy's version might have been released in December, but aside from that twinkling intro, it feels markedly less Christmassy than some other versions, while still retaining all of that quiet desperation needed to make the song effective.

 

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@Meloetta Carey

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my second-favorite rendtion of the song (i've only heard Ella Fitzgerald's and Azealia Banks')

 

@Achilles.

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By doing this rate in the height of summer, we are listening to this song the way that the songwriter intended: not anywhere near New Year's Eve. The whole point of the song is that you're so into someone that you want to make plans for the holiday way too far in advance, but the song mentions New Year's Eve so we can only listen to it in December!!

@John Slayne

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I'm gonna give this a 7 because it's the best song of her bunch but I have to say I am not that impressed by Ms Wilson, sorry

not my fav songs from the girls getting chopped first 

Yeah this was an old maiden type song, oozed misery.

 

Peggy's happiness about her bills and her morning **** deserved to outlast it

4 minutes ago, conatus said:

 

#61. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"

""Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight

When it's exactly twelve o'clock that night…"

Average: 6.972121212

Highest score: 10 (@MP2K, @trainsskyscrapers)

Lowest score: 1 (@Taylor fanboy)

 

A top 20 hit for Nancy in 1967, the Frank Loesser-penned "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" made its debut twenty years prior and quickly became a melancholy festive staple. Funnily enough, despite cementing itself as somewhat of a Christmas classic and being covered for Christmas albums by a variety of artists such as Patti LaBelle, Azealia Banks, and Kacey Musgraves, it actually annoyed Loesser when the song was sung during the holidays. In his 2000 biography, his daughter Susan Loesser explains this by saying that in the song, "the singer, madly in love, is making a (possibly rash) commitment far into the future." Sure, Nancy's version might have been released in December, but aside from that twinkling intro, it feels markedly less Christmassy than some other versions, while still retaining all of that quiet desperation needed to make the song effective.

 

What the GP had to say:

 

@Meloetta Carey

 

@Achilles.

@John Slayne

Okay, kinda pissed about this one. It’s very sexy!

My Funny Valentine has already wildly overperformed. 
 

 

 

Fun fact about the Peggy Lee honorable mention (and her only Grammy winning song) "Is That All There Is?" is the favorite song of all time of the man currently occupying the White House.

 

#60. "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"

"You like potato, and I like potahto

You say tomato, and I like tomahto…"

Average: 6.995151515

Highest score: 10 (@Album Leak, @Meloetta Carey, @StonedSoulPicnic, @trainsskyscrapers)

Lowest score: 0 (@mellenthin)

 

One of the many George and Ira Gershwin standards Ella took on in her career, "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" was introduced in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers vehicle Shall We Dance in 1937, in which they perform the song on roller skates! First appearing on her 1957 duets album with Louis Armstrong Ella and Louis Again, Ella's solo version was released in 1959 as part of her Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook album. The song has been highlighted for not only using the differences in pronunciation conveyed in its lyrics to poke a little fun at regional forms of English, but also, as historian Stuart Berg Flexner noted, to identify and satirise class differences. This was still the time of the Transatlantic accent, after all.

 

What the GP had to say:

 

@mellenthin

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I HATE this song with a passion.

@Aqua

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War flashbacks from secondary school music curriculum didn't work in this classic's favour unfortunately

@Vixen Eyes

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Havana oh na na

 

@Achilles.

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Such a fun concept for a song, and perfectly executed. I love the switch to "we'd better call the calling off off." I've never heard "oysters" pronounced like that, and I hope I never do again. Interesting that Ella was the only one of the three that recorded this to actually sing the full song. Billie cut the opening verse and some of the later bits while Sarah called it quits after pajamas. Both enjoyable renditions, though. Love how Billie sings the final "off" like she's confused.

@John Slayne

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It's quirky and fun!

nnn I couldn't tell how people felt about Let's Call the Whole Thing Off based on some of the comments, so I'm glad I wasn't the only low-scorer

 

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@Achilles.

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Such a fun concept for a song, and perfectly executed. I love the switch to "we'd better call the calling off off." I've never heard "oysters" pronounced like that, and I hope I never do again. Interesting that Ella was the only one of the three that recorded this to actually sing the full song. Billie cut the opening verse and some of the later bits while Sarah called it quits after pajamas. Both enjoyable renditions, though. Love how Billie sings the final "off" like she's confused.

@John Slayne

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It's quirky and fun!

@Achilles. taste! 

Okay, this is the 1st one here with a 8+ I gave

 

#hidetheballots

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my second-favorite rendtion of the song (i've only heard Ella Fitzgerald's and Azealia Banks'

 

I... was not aware 

 

#59. "Go Slow"

"Take it easy on the curves..."

Average: 7.053939394

Highest score: 10 (@StonedSoulPicnic)

Lowest score: 0 (@Wicked)

 

A defining characteristic of Julie's music was the pure sexuality of it, and very few songs in her output exemplify that better than "Go Slow," the third track from her appropriately titled 1957 album Make Love to Me. Penned by Russell Garcia and Debbie Cronk, this brief little number is a shining example of the unrivalled eroticism that runs through so much of Julie's most iconic work, from the slinky flute that opens the track to the breathy purr that she sings her lines with, climaxing with that last, sultry whisper.

 

What the GP had to say:

 

@Achilles.

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Nice but it has an inessential air to it despite the seductive vocal performance.

@Meloetta Carey

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we used to have bombshells

Still not one of her best songs so we're good 

 

The random 0

Pissed I missed this!

It's... a little on the nose

 

I like my sex songs pretending to not be sex songs

 

 

#58. "God Bless the Child"

"Rich relations give crust of bread and such

You can help yourself, but don't take too much…"

Average: 7.106060606

Highest score: 10 (@HarajukuPrincess, @MP2K, @StonedSoulPicnic, @trainsskyscrapers)

Lowest score: 1 (@Curaga)

 

Co-written by Billie with Arthur Herzog Jr., according to her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues, "God Bless the Child" was inspired by an argument with her mother over money. A song she would return to on recording and in performance many times over the rest of her career, its first recording came in May 1941. The 1956 recording, which we rated here, is notably slower and more dejected. Life had clearly made Billie weary, which should come as no surprise anyone who knows anything about her life story. Every part of that weariness comes through crystal clear on her crestfallen vocal performance.

 

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@Curaga

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I'm atheist

@Vixen Eyes

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i prefer the Liza Minnelli version she recorded for Liza with a "Z" film

@Achilles.

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Cowritten by Billie and quite personal to her, but it may be among my less favorite songs in this rate. Naturally, her rendition is better than the covers by Julie and Ella, but it's not a song I really care to listen to regardless of who's singing it.

@Meloetta Carey

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Not Nepo baby discourse in the 1940s

Edited August 10, 20251 yr by conatus

you know it's bad when @Achilles. just write one single sentence for your track instead of a whole ass paragraph...