Not nearly as many new artists this year; the action this time has more to do with artists moving up the list, including a new #1 as Lady Soul moves past the Lizard King.

You should check out the 1967 results on the results thread if you haven’t yet.

Post your ballots on the 1968 voting thread.


HALL OF ACCLAIM: TOP 50 CANDIDATES FOR 1968 ELECTION

Only releases through December 31, 1968 included.

1968 releases indicated with an asterisk.

1. ARETHA FRANKLIN
ALBUM: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (84); Lady Soul (111)*; Aretha Now (2561)*.
SONGS: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (472); Respect (5); (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (669); Chain of Fools (28 ; Think (609)*; I Say a Little Prayer (205)*.

2. THE DOORS
ALBUMS: The Doors (21); Strange Days (645); Waiting for the Sun (1819)*.
SONGS: Break on Through (To the Other Side) (1110); Light My Fire (33); The End (559); People Are Strange (1141); Hello, I Love You (1676)*.

3. VAN MORRISON
ALBUM: Astral Weeks (13)*.
SONGS: Brown Eyed Girl (101); Sweet Thing (167 *; Madame George (47 *.

4. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
ALBUMS: Sounds of Silence (1286); Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (621); Bookends (284)*.
SONG: The Sound of Silence (21 ; Mrs. Robinson (536)*; America (1084)*.

5. CREAM
ALBUMS: Fresh Cream (1096); Disraeli Gears (177); Wheels of Fire (1096)*.
SONGS: I Feel Free (1501); Sunshine of Your Love (45 ; White Room (2352)*.

6. THE SUPREMES
ALBUM: Where Did Our Love Go (1984); The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland (1946).
SONGS: Where Did Our Love Go (211); Baby Love (71 ; Stop! In the Name of Love (143); You Can’t Hurry Love (421); You Keep Me Hangin’ On (81 .

7. SONNY ROLLINS
ALBUMS: Tenor Madness (1104); Saxophone Colossus (370); Way Out West (891); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (1021); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (1150); The Bridge (115 .
SONG: St. Thomas (2551).

8. LOVE
ALBUMS: Love (2423); Da Capo (1649); Forever Changes (50).
SONG: Alone Again Or (219).

9. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
ALBUMS: Surrealistic Pillow (163); After Bathing at Baxter’s (1333); Crown of Creation (2061)*.
SONGS: Somebody to Love (462); White Rabbit (215).

10. ORNETTE COLEMAN
ALBUMS: Something Else!!! (1861); The Shape of Jazz to Come (315); Change of the Century (762); Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (501); This Is Our Music (168 ; At the Golden Circle, Vol. 1 (1584).
SONGS: none.

11. PINK FLOYD
ALBUM: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (100); A Saucerful of Secrets (234 *.
SONGS: Arnold Layne (702); See Emily Play (257); Interstellar Overdrive (1642).

12. FRANK ZAPPA/THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
ALBUMS: Freak Out! (279); Absolutely Free (1060); We’re Only in It for the Money (169)*.
SONGS: none.

13. THE BAND
ALBUM: Music from Big Pink (73)*.
SONGS: Tears of Rage (2606)*; The Weight (192)*; I Shall Be Released (2403)*.

14. MARVIN GAYE
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Can I Get a Witness (2245); Ain’t That Peculiar (1553); Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (571); If I Could Build My Whole World Around You (2343); I Heard It Through the Grapevine ( *; Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (2886)*.

15. THE FOUR TOPS
ALBUM: Second Album (2587); Reach Out (1486).
SONGS: Baby I Need Your Loving (82 ; I Can’t Help Myself (1401); It’s the Same Old Song (1581); Reach Out (I’ll Be There) (36); Standing in the Shadows of Love (156 ; Bernadette (2587).

16. BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: Buffalo Springfield (1351); Buffalo Springfield Again (330).
SONGS: For What It’s Worth (102); Expecting to Fly (1156).

17. HOWLIN’ WOLF
ALBUMS: Moanin’ in the Moonlight (551); Howlin’ Wolf (402).
SONGS: Smokestack Lightnin’ (367); Wang Dang Doodle (2561); Back Door Man (2460); Spoonful (1247); The Killing Floor (2752).

18. STAN GETZ
ALBUMS: Hamp & Getz (2186); Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (2614); Focus (1769); Jazz Samba (81 ; Getz/Gilberto (394); Stan Getz and Bill Evans (2433).
SONGS: The Girl from Ipanema (53 ; Corcovado (207 .

19. NICO
ALBUMS: The Velvet Underground & Nico (4); Chelsea Girl (2482).
SONGS: All Tomorrow’s Parties (1336); Femme Fatale (2013); These Days (1032).

20. BILL EVANS
ALBUMS: Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1659); Portrait in Jazz (1689); Explorations (2257); Sunday at the Village Vanguard (479); Waltz for Debby (496); Undercurrent (2306).
SONG: Waltz for Debby (2639).

21. COUNT BASIE
ALBUMS: Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (1310); April in Paris (1000); At Newport (1447); The Atomic Mr. Basie (657).
SONGS: One O’Clock Jump (865); Lester Leaps In (2182); April in Paris (1447).

22. IKE AND TINA TURNER
ALBUM: River Deep Mountain High (90 .
SONGS: A Fool in Love (2560); It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (2061); River Deep Mountain High (22).

23. THE RONETTES
ALBUM: Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica (1497).
SONGS: Be My Baby (12); Baby, I Love You (2461); Walking in the Rain (2535).

24. THE DRIFTERS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Money Honey (921); There Goes My Baby (269); Save the Last Dance for Me (670); Up on the Roof (870); On Broadway (894); Under the Boardwalk (1456).

25. DIZZY GILLESPIE
ALBUMS: Bird & Diz (1644); Jazz at Massey Hall (514); Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge (1572); Groovin’ High (1547); Birk’s Works (2360); At Newport (2130).
SONGS: Groovin’ High (2672); A Night in Tunisia (2463); Manteca (116 .

26. THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Little Latin Lupe Lu (2589); You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (24); Unchained Melody (793).

27. THE TEMPTATIONS
ALBUMS: Meet the Temptations (2847); The Temptations Sing Smokey (1113).
SONGS: My Girl (106); Get Ready (2363); Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (1287); I Wish It Would Rain (1326)*.

28. MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Heatwave (655); Dancing in the Street (53); Nowhere to Run (1046).

29. ERIC DOLPHY
ALBUMS: Outward Bound (1943); Out There (1783); Live at the Five Spot, Vol. 1 (1834); Far Cry (2416); Iron Man (2297); Out to Lunch (300).
SONGS: none.

30. PATSY CLINE
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Walkin’ After Midnight (1407); Crazy (146); I Fall to Pieces (415); She’s Got You (1626); Sweet Dreams (Of You) (1895).

31. THE ANIMALS
ALBUMS: The Animals (2877); Animalisms (2421); Animalism (2937).
SONGS: House of the Rising Sun (62); Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (1371); We Gotta Get Out of This Place (814).

32. B.B. KING
ALBUMS: Singin’ the Blues (2483); Live at the Regal (249).
SONG: Sweet Little Angel (275 .

33. THE KINGSMEN
ALBUMS: none.
SONG: Louie Louie (11).

34. THE CRYSTALS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: He’s a Rebel (30 ; He’s Sure the Boy I Love (2494); Da Doo Ron Ron (169); Then He Kissed Me (972).

35. ART BLAKEY
ALBUMS: A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (1236); A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (2296); Moanin’ (781); Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (152 ; A Night in Tunisia (1787); Free for All (206 .
SONGS: none.

36. LEONARD COHEN
ALBUM: Songs of Leonard Cohen (182)*.
SONGS: Suzanne (1007)*; Winter Lady (2884)*; So Long Marianne (2146)*.

37. CHARLIE PARKER
ALBUMS: Charlie Parker with Strings (1735); Bird & Diz (1644); Jazz at Massey Hall (514).
SONGS: Koko (76 ; Ornithology (2456).

38. JACKIE WILSON
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet) (539); Lonely Teardrops (479); (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (264).

39. DION
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: I Wonder Why (819); A Teenager in Love (74 ; Runaround Sue (321); The Wanderer (1405); Abraham, Martin and John (201 *.

40. THE SMALL FACES
ALBUMS: There Are But Four Small Faces (2722); Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (355)*.
SONGS: All or Nothing (2742); Itchycoo Park (674); Tin Soldier (2699); Lazy Sunday (1812)*.

41. JANIS JOPLIN/BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY
ALBUM: Cheap Thrills (221)*.
SONG: Piece of My Heart (711)*.

42. BEN E. KING
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Spanish Harlem (583); Stand by Me (67).

43. BUD POWELL
ALBUMS: The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1 (792); Jazz at Massey Hall (514); The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 2 (2905).
SONG: Un Poco Loco (1616).

44. WOODY GUTHRIE
ALBUM: Dust Bowl Ballads (607).
SONG: This Land Is Your Land (163).

45. THEM
ALBUM The Angry Young) Them (803).
SONG: Gloria (116).

46. THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS
ALBUM: If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (982).
SONG: California Dreamin’ (97).

47. BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS
ALBUM: Rock Around the Clock (2042).
SONG We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock (45).

48. THE IMPRESSIONS
ALBUMS: Keep on Pushing (2636); People Get Ready (1325).
SONGS: Gypsy Woman (200 ; I’m So Proud (2736); People Get Ready (13 .

49. WILSON PICKETT
ALBUMS: The Exciting Wilson Pickett (2805); The Sound of Wilson Pickett (2414).
SONGS: In the Midnight Hour (89); Land of 1000 Dances (1610); Mustang Sally (2241).

50. DAVE BRUBECK
ALBUMS: Jazz Goes to College (2843); Time Out (324).
SONG: Take Five (730).

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MOVING UP: Aretha Franklin, Simon and Garfunkel, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention, The Temptations, Dion.

NEW TO THE LIST: Van Morrison, The Band, Marvin Gaye, Leonard Cohen, The Small Faces, Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company.

FELL OFF THE LIST: The Shangri-La’s, The Lovin’ Spoonful.

BUBBLING UNDER: Booker T. & the MG’s, Herbie Hancock, Traffic, Del Shannon, The Zombies.

OK, I know I disabled smilies that time...something weird is happening.

Sorry, folks. I know that looks very silly.

This might be a good year for some of the oldies to sneak in (now that the big British invasion bands are out of the way).

If I were going to name the 4 biggest figures in country music, I would say Hank (admitted), Johnny (admitted), George Jones (clawing his way slowly up the charts), and Merle Haggard (about to make an auspicious debut on my vote list).

Among other distinguished "oldies" we also have the inventor of bluegrass (Bill Monroe), a great bluesman (Howlin' Wolf), three key figures in the history of jazz (Charlie Parker, Count Basie, and Dizzy G.), and two heralded American folk artists (Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie).

Please think about these heroes of music before you pull the lever for the Doors or S&G.

good advice!

Yeah, I thought the same thing...I would also add Howlin' Wolf and maybe Big Joe Turner into the mix.

I promise I won't be voting for the Doors, at any rate.

good idea
I guess I'll do a 50-50 (as always)