Musical antichrist of pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll?

[NightTrain]

With a big tip o' the hat to undisclosedlocation! :yourock:

[Bossy Monkey]

1. Brenda Lee for that Rockin' Around the Xmas Tree abomination

I voted Annette out of this crop. They're all loathsome, though.

Thanks for the tip of the cap!

[NightTrain]

5. Yeah, but she made a number of good records, too.

"Jambalaya," "One Step At A Time," "Dynamite," "Let's Jump The Broomstick," "Sweet Nothin's," "I'm Sorry," "That's All You Gotta Do," "I Want To Be Wanted," "Emotions," "Dum Dum," "Fool #1," "Break It To Me Gently," "All Alone Am I," "Losing You," "The Grass Is Greener," "As Usual," "Too Many Rivers," "Coming On Strong".... All decent records, IMHO.

[Norbert]

2. Fabian Forte

I heard Turn Me Loose just a couple weeks ago so if there were any chance of voting for someone else it went out the window.

Besides, unlike Fabian, Anka, Vee, Avalon, Boone and, my God, Bobby Vinton had some degree of musical talent.

[OneBlueSky]

11. it wasn't the song . . . it was the rendition . . .

"Turn Me Loose" is actually a Doc Pomus song which, when done properly, is pretty good . . . check out Dion's rendition on the Doc Pomus tribute album . . . great stuff . . .

[teach1st]

3. Pat Boone, by a mile

But Annette comes in second, but only because I was struck as a young boy by her ever-swelling Mickey Mouse Club sweater. I'm playing her "Luau Cha-Cha-Cha" right now as a tribute.

[Wickerman]

4. Congrat! I didn't think it possible, but you were successful

at putting togethre a list that makes Paul Anka look good. :P

I couldn't vote in it at all - it was so hideous.

[Kahuna]

9. LOL! True that.

:thumbsup:

I voted for Pat Boone. And I agree that Brenda Lee did have some good songs. I was very young when these artists were appearing on American Band Stand. I gotta admit, Boone was down right scary. :scared:

[starroute]

6. If we're talking antichrist, it has to be Pat Boone

Just being bad isn't enough. Just being lame isn't enough. It takes being the soul-destroying antithesis of everything that is true and holy about rock 'n' roll.

That's Pat Boone.

[NightTrain]

7. Well said!

Couldn't have put it better myself. :hi:

[radiclib]

8. WHERE'S RONNY DOVE ??

Who can forget "One Kiss For Old Times Sake", "Right or Wrong", "Kiss Away" and "Say You" ???

[NightTrain]

10. He was horrid, to be sure, but he wasn't pre-Beatles.

Ronnie Dove's string of syrupy pop hits began in 1964, at the height of U.S. Beatlemania. I guess not every teen record-buyer of that era was cool! :shrug:

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. Pat Boone is the only possible answer.

Before the Holy Trinity plus Ringo, Elvis was the Christ of rock and roll. And Pat Boone was, in every way imaginable, the anti-Elvis, from his Brylcreemed hair to his white buck shoes to his ability to defang and neuter even such (for the era, especially) sexually agressive and raw songs as Tutti Fruti. Rock and roll was subversive and rebellious, the music of a generation learning to rebel against the stultifying conventional morality and blandness of the Eisenhower years, and Pat Boone managed to make it into something your parents would approve of.

If there be a hell, he surely has a reserved seat right next to Kenny G in the eighth circle.