The Classic Top 10 Votes - May 28, 2020

MEL'S TOP 10 OLDIES + ALBUMS

It's Throwback Thursday (#TBT) once more and for this week I have a chart and a couple of videos. Leading off with the video showcase is this 1981 gem by REO Speedwagon. It's called "In Your Letter". It is off their Grammy winning album Hi Infidelity and a modest hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #20.

I think it is a great song, with kind of an early 60s throwback for me. A good rock n roll vibe surrounding what is a "Dear John" type of letter. Watching the video (posted above), check out the ancient IBM Selectric typewriter. You'd think the lady typing the letter was doing it on a computer... but no, it's a typewriter and the screen is a TV showing the video. Simple but good enough for this song. Enjoy.

The weekly top 10 votes are submitted to the Classic Top 30 website for inclusion into his weekly tabulation of oldies.

TOP TEN OLDIES - MAY 28,  2020

1. Just An Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night
2. In Your Letter - REO Speedwagon
3. Lazy Day -  Spanky & Our Gang
4. Eat At Home - Paul & Linda McCartney
5. Seven Year Ache - Roseanne Cash
6. Hearts - Marty Balin
7. White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day
8. Twistin' USA - Chubby Checker
9. Smiling Islands - Robbie Patton with Stevie Nicks
10. Only the Lucky -Walter Egan

LPs

1. Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
2. FM - Original Soundtrack
3. Tom Tom Club -  Tom Tom Club

Top 10 Oldies of the Week - May 22, 2020.

Listen to Roseanne Cash 1980 hit "Seven Year Ache".

TOP 10 OLDIES OF THE WEEK - May 22, 2020.

1. Just An Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night
2. In Your Letter - REO Speedwagon
3. White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day
4. Lazy Day -  Spanky & Our Gang
5. Eat At Home - Paul & Linda McCartney
6. Hearts - Marty Balin
7. Seven Year Ache - Roseanne Cash
8. Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
9. Twistin' USA - Chubby Checker
10. Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles

TOP 3 ALBUMS

1. Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
2. Tom Tom Club -  Tom Tom Club
3. FM - Original Soundtrack

Used for tabulation of the Classic Top 30 chart.

Mel's Top 10 Oldies of the Week

On the Classic Top 30 website, it's owner asks people to send in their weekly votes for the oldies of the week. I've participated off and on at this ongoing site for several years. The following are this week's best oldies:

TOP TEN OLDIES - May 15, 2020.

1. Just An Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night

2. In Your Letter - REO Speedwagon

3. White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day

4. Lazy Day -  Spanky & Our Gang

5. The Rain The Park and Other Things - Cowsills

6. Eat At Home - Paul & Linda McCartney

7. Hearts - Marty Balin

8. Seven Year Ache - Roseanne Cash

9. Sweet Nothins' - Brenda Lee

10. I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues - Elton John

LPs

1. The Beatles - The Beatles (white album)

2. Tom Tom Club -  Tom Tom Club

3. Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones

You can send your weekly votes to Chris, the site's publisher at the following email address: plannine@htdconnect.com.

Top 10 Oldies of the Week - March 23, 2013

Mel's Top 10 Oldies of the Week
March 24, 2013.

Starting this week I will start to list my weekly top 10 oldies. This is just a list of various songs that I submit to the Classic Top 30 website for compilation to their survey. The site owner Chris (Plannine) has been doing the Classic Top 30 for a number of years now. I have been sending these lists in for several years. It's fun to see where the songs I choose gets placed and more so what else is also voted into the survey for the week by other readers.

Plus Chris also has a list of top 30 albums and related videos to each week's survey. Like the Weekly Top 20 that I post here, this list will also include selected, embedded videos.

And now, the list.

Mel's Top 10 Oldies of the Week
Week of March 24, 2013.

1. Let It Be - The Beatles
2. Original Sin - INXS
3. We're On Our Way - Chris Hodge
4. Keep it in the Family - The Road Home
5. Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac
6. Goodbye - Mary Hopkin
7. That's Where I Went Wrong - Poppy Family
8. Like the Weather - 10,000 Maniacs
9. Get Off My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
10. Johnny One Time - Brenda Lee

Top 3 Albums

1. Let It Be - The Beatles
2. Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
3. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

INXS - Original Sin (1982)



The Road Home - Keep It In The Family (1971)


Listen or download Keep It In The Family for free on Prostopleer

What are your favorite oldies? Send me a list of your favorite 10, or post them here by leaving a comment.