Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Dusty Springfield song makes Top 100 Greatest Songs of Rock Internet Poll!

Dusty's "Son of A Preacher Man", has made #38 on a new Internet poll of the Top 100 Greatest Songs of Rock N'Roll! For each entry find in this order: rank, number of votes obtained, title, artist, and ranking in the Rolling Stone Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Here is the complete list:

01 (22) - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones) [2]
02 (19) - Sympathy For The Devil (The Rolling Stones) [32]
03 (17) - Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys) [6]
04 (16) - Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin) [31]
05 (15) - Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) [1]
06 (15) - All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix) [48]
07 (14) - Yesterday (The Beatles) [13]
08 (14) - Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen) [21]
09 (14) - Layla (Derek and the Dominos) [27]
10 (14) - The Weight (The Band) [41]
11 (14) - Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who) [133]
12 (13) - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) [9]
13 (13) - Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) [163]
14 (12) - Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry) [7]
15 (12) - London Calling (The Clash) [15]
16 (11) - Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones) [38]
17 (10) - A Day In The Life (The Beatles) [26]
18 (10) - Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones) [303]
19 (9) - Hey Jude (The Beatles) [8]
20 (9) - Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix) [17]
21 (9) - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel) [47]
22 (9) - Hotel California (The Eagles) [49]
23 (9) - Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen) [86]
24 (9) - Jumpin' Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones) [124]
25 (9) - American Pie (Don McLean) [-]
26 (8) - God Only Knows (The Beach Boys) [25]
27 (8) - Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream) [65]
28 (7) - She Loves You (The Beatles) [64]
29 (7) - Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan) [68]
30 (7) - Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd) [314]
31 (7) - How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths) [486]
32 (7) - Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones) [490]
33 (6) - River Deep, Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner) [33]
34 (6) - A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Procol Harum) [57]
35 (6) - Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin) [75]
36 (6) - California Dreamin (The Mamas and The Papas) [89]
37 (6) - Eight Miles High (The Byrds) [150]
38 (6) - Son Of A Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield) [240]
39 (6) - Baba O'Riley (The Who) [340]
40 (6) - Fairytale Of New York (The Pogues and Kirsty McColl) [-]
41 (6) - Riders On The Storm (The Doors) [-]
42 (6) - Sultans Of Swing (Dire Straits) [-]
43 (5) - What'd I Say (Ray Charles) [10]
44 (5) - Let It Be (The Beatles) [20]
45 (5) - Be My Baby (The Ronettes) [22]
46 (5) - (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding) [28]
47 (5) - I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye) [80]
48 (5) - You Can't Always Get What You Want (The Rolling Stones) [100]
49 (5) - Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison) [109]
50 (5) - House Of The Rising Sun (The Animals) [122]
51 (5) - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles) [135]
52 (5) - Kashmir (Led Zeppelin) [140]
53 (5) - The Sound Of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel) [156]
54 (5) - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) [179]
55 (5) - Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd) [191]
56 (5) - Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison) [222]
57 (5) - Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) [245]
58 (5) - Somebody To Love (Jefferson Airplane) [274]
59 (5) - Penny Lane (The Beatles) [449]
60 (5) - More Than A Feeling (Boston) [500]
61 (5) - Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues) [-]
62 (5) - This Charming Man (The Smiths) [-]
63 (5) - When The Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin) [-]
64 (4) - Imagine (John Lennon) [3]
65 (4) - What's Going On (Marvin Gaye) [4]
66 (4) - Respect (Aretha Franklin) [5]
67 (4) - My Generation (The Who) [11]
68 (4) - I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Beatles) [16]
69 (4) - Light My Fire (The Doors) [35]
70 (4) - That'll Be The Day (Buddy Holly) [39]
71 (4) - Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks) [42]
72 (4) - Heroes (David Bowie) [46]
73 (4) - Anarchy In The UK (The Sex Pistols) [53]
74 (4) - Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley) [67]
75 (4) - California Girls (The Beach Boys) [71]
76 (4) - You Really Got Me (The Kinks) [82]
77 (4) - Blitzkrieg Bop (The Ramones) [92]
78 (4) - The Boxer (Simon and Garfunkel) [105]
79 (4) - Mr Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan) [106]
80 (4) - Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles) [137]
81 (4) - Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin) [148]
82 (4) - A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles) [153]
83 (4) - Losing My Religion (REM) [169]
84 (4) - Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie) [277]
85 (4) - Black Dog (Led Zeppelin) [294]
86 (4) - Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) [316]
87 (4) - Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan) [332]
88 (4) - Piece Of My Heart (Janis Joplin) [344]
89 (4) - Marquee Moon (Television) [372]
90 (4) - Crossroads (Cream) [409]
91 (4) - White Man In Hammersmith Palais (The Clash) [430]
92 (4) - Come As You Are (Nirvana) [445]
93 (4) - Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles) [-]
94 (4) - Madam George (Van Morrison) [-]
95 (4) - Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield) [-]
96 (4) - Rock And Roll (Led Zeppelin) [-]
97 (4) - Tears Of A Clown (Smokey Robinson) [-]
98 (4) - Teenage Kicks (The Undertones) [-]

Interesting to note that Dusty ranks rather high, at 38/100! This is astounding! Especially since it's debatable whether "Son of a Preacher Man" is truly a "Rock N'Roll" song, since its roots are much more R&B/Soul...but hey, I'm not complaining! Obviously enough people consider it a "Rock" song for it to make the top 40. Also interesting to note that Dusty is the only solo female artist to make the top 40, and the only other solo female artists on the entire list are Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin! That's pretty good company for our lady!

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