The Songs of 1967 - Round 1 Group X - Pick Your Favorites

To Sir With Love...one of my favourite songs...ever.

 

Reflections - Diana Ross & the Supremes

 

Chelsea Girls
The First Cut Is The Deepest
Down On Me (though I prefer Odetta's original)
And When I Die

 

The 1967 version of Janis' "Down On Me" is inferior to the ferocious live version that appears on "Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits"
I'd have voted for it if it wasn't the studio version.

 

My favorite out of that bunch is To Sir With Love.

 

California Nights needs more votes!

 

Thought Pata Pata would be seen as one of the stone cert classics. Fist time something I voted for hasn't done well, but c'est la vie...

 

A Natural Woman - undoubtedly the best record in the list

Reflections
California Nights
Pata Pata
Don't Sleep in the Subway
To Sir with Love
Tell Mama
Jimmy Mack

 

I'm going to have to work my way through these. Picked five so far but still have half the list. Never heard Jacqueline Taieb before! That's a good one.

 

Reflections - Diana Ross & the Supremes

Darryl

 

I like that one a lot.

 

same with You've Made Me So Very Happy.
A Motown classic.

 

Again, classy choices by the OP.
Don't sleep in the subway is a masterpiece, a producer's dream! California nights is awesome and the choice of the obscure Since you asked a touch of genius.

 

I'm guessing many here are only familiar with the BS&T cover.

 

Voted for "First Cut Is The Deepest" even though I think P.P.'s recording is far from the definitive version.

 

Dang. Not a single one if these in my collection, though I really like several here.

 

Pleasantly surprised by how well the lovely Lulu (as seen on my avatar) is doing. I know it was a big US hit but still surprised to see how it holds up after all these years.

 

My picks:

(You Make Me Feel) Like A Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin
To Sir With Love - Lulu
Don't Sleep In The Subway - Petula Clark
Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves and The Vandellas
Reflections - Diana Ross and The Supremes

 

All female: Aretha, Lulu, Etta, Janis, Tammy, Lesley, Martha, Sandy Posey.

 

Don't Sleep in the Subway
Be Not Too Hard
Pata Pata
The First Cut is the Deepest
Voila
Reflections
California Nights
Jimmy Mack

The order is approximate, from best down to least-best. I don't love any of these songs but they're all pretty good. I listened to several that I was unfamiliar with, including Be Not Too Hard, The First Cut and Voila.

I've never been a fan of To Sir With Love but its flip The Boat That I Row would have easily topped this poll. However, if I'm not mistaken, it was already in a previous poll.

 

"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" - Aretha Franklin
"You've Made Me So Very Happy" - Brenda Holloway
"And When I Die" - Laura Nyro
"The First Cut Is the Deepest" - P.P. Arnold
"Jimmy Mack" - Martha & the Vandellas
"Tell Mama" - Etta James
"(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me" - Dionne Warwick
"Chelsea Girls" - Nico