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Country Blues => Weenie Campbell Main Forum => Books and Articles => Topic started by: Bunker Hill on December 08, 2005, 03:51:23 AM
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Having seen a Billboard blues chart which puts George Thorogood at no.1 and Aerosmith at 10 (say no more), I thought I'd dig out a poll Blues Unlimited conducted to mark their 10th anniversary and the 100th issue. It was of an "all time favourite" variety, the figure following the name are the votes cast. I realise there's no comparison to be made between the target audiences or the respective years in which published but....
FEMALE SINGER
1 MEMPHIS MINNIE 207
2 Bessie Smith 140
3 Big Mama Thornton 48
4 Lucille Bogan 33
5 Ma Rainey 23
5 Victoria Spivey 23
7 Tina Turner 22
S Etta James 17
9 Koko Taylor 15
10 Little Esther 11
BLUES SINGER
1 MUDDY WATERS 107
2 Robert Johnson 87
3 Elmore James 69
4 Son House 46
5 B. B. King 38
6 How1in' Wolf 33
7 Blind Willie McTell 32
8 Lightnin' Hopkins 28
8 Charlie Patton 28
10 Blind Lemon Jefferson 23
PIANO
1 OTIS SPANN 240
2 Jimmy Yancey 47
3 Leroy Carr 45
4 Johnny Jones 35
5 Cripple Clarence Lofton 32
6 Lafayette Leake 30
7 Pete Johnson 27
8 Little Brother Montgomery 26
9 Big Maceo Merriweather 25
10 Memphis Slim 25
HARMONICA
1 LITTLE WALTER 247
2 Sonny Boy Williamson 2 125
3 Walter Horton 79
4 Sonny Boy Williamson 1 56
5 Sonny Terry 37
6 Junior Wells 20
7 Noah Lewis 13
8 Whispering Smith 16
9 Papa Lightfoot 11
9 Jerry McCain 11
9 Snooky Pryor 11
BLUES - WRITER
1 PAUL OLIVER 232
2 Mike Leadbitter 79
3 David Evans 49
4 Samuel Charters 42
5 Charlie Gillett 28
6 Pete Welding 21
7 Bruce Bastin 14
GOSPEL
1 BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON 96
2 Blind Gary Davis 69
3 Staple Singers 51
4 Mahalia Jackson 48
5 Sister Rosetta Tharpe 24
6 Rev. Robert Wilkins 20
7 Washington Phillips 16
8 Blind Willie McTell 15
8 Stars Of Faith 15
10 Dixie Hummingbirds 14
BOOK
1? "STORY OF THE BLUES" (Paul Oliver) Cresset 217
2? "Blues & Gospel Records" (Godrich & Dixon) Storyville 45
3? "Nothin' But The Blues" (ed. Leadbitter) Hanover 44
4? "Blues Records 1943-66" (Leadbitter/Slaven) Hanover 40
4? "Sound Of The City" (Charlie Gillett) Souvenir/Arrow 40
4? "Conversation with the Blues" (Oliver) Cassell 40
7? "Blues Fell This Morning" (Oliver) Cassell 34
? ?(also published as "Meaning of the Blues" and points awarded)
8? "Tommy Johnson" (David Evans) Studio-Vista 30
9? "Screening The Blues" (Oliver) Cassell 15
10 "Crying For The Carolines" (Bruce Bastin) Studio-Vista 13
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Very interesting! I'd still agree with a lot of it today.
Notice you're not in the favourite blues writers column, Bunker Hill. Maybe next time...
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Very interesting!? I'd still agree with a lot of it today.
Notice you're not in the favourite blues writers column, Bunker Hill.? Maybe next time...
Of the books listed those by Oliver and Gillett have never been out of print.
Back then all I could do was string superlatives together - badly at that - which by no stretch of the imagination could be termed 'writing'! :)
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curious that there is/was no category "blues fingerpicker" or "guitarist".
tom
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Hello...
Polls????. Don?t talk me about polls... Somebody told me that polls are not interesting for anybody here on Weenie...
Do you believe in polls?. Even 70?s polls... ?
A lot of records companies buy lists,charts,hits,n? ones,grammys,oscars and even polls...
Thanks