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Post by someguy on Dec 23, 2020 16:49:27 GMT -5
#3 - Silent NightWriters: Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr Total Points: 36 bboat11 - 2 castleoblivion26 - 3 someguy - 3 kamala 2024 truther - 4 tim - 12 .indulgecountry - 12 Coming in at #3 is "Silent Night", Trisha's collaboration with Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire from Kelly's album Wrapped In Red. It was also included on the deluxe edition of Reba's My Kind Of Christmas. The trio's version of the song reached #39 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, and #51 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. The song did extremely well here, picking up four top 4 ranks including bboat11's #2. Had it not been for a pair of #12s, it would have been a very strong contender for #1. This is easily my favourite version of the carol. Written in 1818, the song has been performed and recorded countless times. Some of the more notable versions include recordings by Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, The Carpenters, Mariah Carey, Faith Hill and Lady A.
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Post by someguy on Dec 23, 2020 16:52:16 GMT -5
That leaves us with our top 2, the final two remaining tracks from The Sweetest Gift. Each song received two #1 rankings apiece, and are the only two songs to be in everyone's top 10.
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Post by someguy on Dec 23, 2020 17:16:25 GMT -5
#2 - Take A Walk Through BethlehemWriters: Ashley Cleveland, John Barlow Jarvis, Wally Wilson Total Points: 29 .indulgecountry - 1 someguy - 1 kamala 2024 truther - 3 bboat11 - 4 tim - 10 castleoblivion26 - 10 "Take A Walk Through Bethlehem" finishes in our runner-up spot. I'm thrilled with how well this did here, as it's a more obscure song in Trisha's Christmas discography. It was always in the top 5, and was a strong contender for #2, where it ultimately placed. Both .indulgecountry and I lose our #1s, while everyone else had it in their top 10.
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Post by someguy on Dec 23, 2020 17:16:39 GMT -5
#1 - It Wasn't His ChildWriter: Skip Ewing Total Points: 24 castleoblivion26 - 1 kamala 2024 truther - 1 someguy - 2 tim - 3 bboat11 - 8 .indulgecountry - 9 Released as the single from The Sweetest Gift in 1994, "It Wasn't His Child" is probably Trisha's best-known Christmas song. It reached #60 on Billboard's Country Singles chart. It led for nearly the entire submission process. Both castleoblivion26 and kamala 2024 truther lose their #1s, while everyone else had it in their top 10. Though I ranked "Take A Walk Through Bethlehem" higher, this is a very fitting winner, and I'm glad that it was able to pull it off. It hasn't been recorded very often over the years. Its writer, Skip Ewing, has a version recorded. Julianne Hough and Phil Vassar recorded a mash-up version of this and "Mary Did You Know" and, most recently, Tim McGraw recorded it this year.
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Post by someguy on Dec 23, 2020 17:17:43 GMT -5
And there we have it - Trisha's Christmas rankdown is finished! Thanks to everyone who participated. Hope you all have a fantastic Christmas, no matter how different it might look this year.
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Post by tim on Dec 23, 2020 18:52:03 GMT -5
Even though I didn’t put “Hard Candy Christmas” in my top 5, I’m happy it made it in because Trisha does a really good job with it and I found myself resisting it more than I thought I might. This has gone on to become a classic and therefore it’s hard not to compare any version to Dolly’s, but I’m glad to see more artists starting to cover it for their holiday albums. Considering that Rosie O’Donnell’s name was attached to “Santa On the Rooftop” I really had no clue as to what to expect, but I’d also put this somewhere in my top five favorite discoveries of the holiday rankdowns this year. I just couldn’t get enough of it and had it on repeat for a good day or two. I went back and forth about wether or not to put this in my top 5 and I almost wish I had just left it in there now. Not surprised to see “Silent Night” make it into the top 3 as this version has always performed well in holiday rankdowns. I made mention prior to the reveals that I kind of had a hard time finding a spot for this amongst the rest of Trisha’s holiday songs. In the end I just couldn’t justify putting this in my top 10 and so therefore placed it just outside of that. I wouldn’t have necessarily considered “Take A Walk Through Bethlehem” as a top 2 contender, but it seemed to be well-liked amongst everyone overall. I think with a couple of more edits I likely would’ve put this a few spots higher in my top 10. “It Wasn’t His Child” flirted with my top 2 so if my own top ranking song wasn’t going to come out ahead I’m glad it was this one. Trisha does such a standout job on it and really makes it all her own as I’ll likely always compare any other versions of this to hers. Thanks someguy for hosting this as I now have myself another great holiday playlist added to my Christmas library! Hope you have a very Merry Christmas yourself!!
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Post by .indulgecountry on Dec 23, 2020 19:17:34 GMT -5
"Bethlehem" was ROBBED! It should've won. :'(
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Post by bboat11 on Dec 24, 2020 21:43:25 GMT -5
Very impressed with how well "Silent Night" did here! Easily one of the best versions of that song. Now I'm eager to see how well it does on Reba's third Christmas album rankdown next year, because she honestly comes across as the "lead" singer even though it's Kelly's song. "Take A Walk Through Bethlehem" has a great groove to it! I kept coming back to it as I was making my list. Definitely happy to see it in the top 2! "It Wasn't His Child" is nice, but I'm a little surprised to see it win. I was a little bored by it at first, but it did grow on me enough to put it in my top 10. I think I might like Tim's new version more than Trisha's though. at the point distribution for "Santa On The Rooftop". Literally everybody put it in the top 7.....and then kamala 2024 truther at #16 This song was an unexpected JAM! I was not expecting much from Rosie O'Donnell, but she and Trisha actually put together a really fun song! Trisha's version of "Hard Candy Christmas" is good. Dolly's is better of course, but honestly my favorite version is easily Reba's newish one!
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Post by someguy on Jan 10, 2021 7:53:45 GMT -5
I will open an extras rankdown soon!
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Post by someguy on Jan 16, 2021 0:59:17 GMT -5
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Post by bboat11 on Jan 16, 2021 3:02:31 GMT -5
"Shallow" is currently available on castleoblivion26 's website, thanks to our December New Releases rd castleoblivion20.wixsite.com/musicEdit: If you can't find a link for "Squeeze Me In", that's okay. Y'all can just take my word for it that it's deserving of last place anyway
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Post by bboat11 on Jan 16, 2021 3:07:40 GMT -5
Also, if we're looking to shorten that list at all, are any of these just background vocal parts? I know "Another Try" is kinda pushing it, but I love that one so I'd be fine keeping it But we probably don't need to include anything that is just a background vocal part.
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Post by bboat11 on Jan 16, 2021 3:14:39 GMT -5
Ooo, apparently Trisha has a feature on Hailey Whitters' new album coming out next month!
16. How Far Can It Go? (feat. Trisha Yearwood)
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Post by someguy on Jan 16, 2021 5:09:31 GMT -5
And I just thought of “Getting Good”.
Let’s refine this over the weekend!
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Post by someguy on Jan 16, 2021 5:37:53 GMT -5
So far, let’s go with that as our list of 40 songs. I will update when I get back to my computer. I don’t want to get to anymore than that.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Jan 16, 2021 9:51:00 GMT -5
Also, if we're looking to shorten that list at all, are any of these just background vocal parts? I know "Another Try" is kinda pushing it, but I love that one so I'd be fine keeping it But we probably don't need to include anything that is just a background vocal part.When initially putting together my list for the upcoming Carrie Underwood Extras RD, I compiled every one of her studio appearances and went ahead and got rid of whatever she was nothing more than a background vocal on. For instance, she appears on "This Side of Heaven" by the Swon Brothers, but they take up literally the entire song, making it...not a CU extra, lol. Having Trisha as just a background vocal doesn't really make it a Trisha song in my opinion, which means it would make no sense on this list. That's just my .02 but of course the host has final say!
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Post by someguy on Jan 16, 2021 10:06:34 GMT -5
Thanks! I’ll make it look better when I get back to my computer, but there are the 40 songs that we can go on. I hope for a March 5 date, with always the option of extending a tiny bit based on peoples availability.
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Post by bboat11 on Jan 16, 2021 20:29:25 GMT -5
FYI, if we added Hailey Whitters' new song to the list, it's not being released until February 26th, so that might cause conflict with the early March deadline.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jan 17, 2021 0:04:25 GMT -5
FYI, if we added Hailey Whitters' new song to the list, it's not being released until February 26th, so that might cause conflict with the early March deadline. He ignored you the first time so I don't think he intended on adding it, lol.
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Post by bboat11 on Jan 17, 2021 0:31:47 GMT -5
FYI, if we added Hailey Whitters' new song to the list, it's not being released until February 26th, so that might cause conflict with the early March deadline. He ignored you the first time so I don't think he intended on adding it, lol. I mean, we had 38 songs, and I suggested that one and then he remembered "Getting Good", after which he said we had 40 songs. So based on math I'm not feeling quite as ignored as you think I am
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jan 17, 2021 9:26:08 GMT -5
"Shallow" is currently available on castleoblivion26 's website, thanks to our December New Releases rd castleoblivion20.wixsite.com/musicEdit: If you can't find a link for "Squeeze Me In", that's okay. Y'all can just take my word for it that it's deserving of last place anyway I actually have "Squeeze Me In" on my website as well under the Garth Brooks Rankdown playlist but I'll add it below "Shallow" in order to make it easier to access, same with any other songs not easily accessible, just let me know!
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jan 17, 2021 10:39:22 GMT -5
so I went through my music of what I have from Trisha and checked out Spotify and Wiki to see what extras she has. I have a list of 52 songs, all of which I do have copies of. I didn't include any songs that are background vocals, which means both "Something Stupid" with the Mavericks and "Another Try" with Josh Turner are not on this list. There are a couple live tracks too so those would probably make sense to cut. Any songs that are not easy to access I'll upload to my website and I can make a youtube video for it as well.
Forever's As Far As I'll Go (Duet with Alabama) My Love Is Your Love (The Passion) Hands (The Passion) I Won’t Give Up (The Passion) You’ll Never Walk Alone (The Passion) Broken (The Passion) The Flame (Your Love Amazes Me Compilation) I'm Talkin' Love (Sesame Street: Songs From The Street. Vol. 5) You’re Where I Belong (Stuart Little soundtrack) Coming Back To You (Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen) Blue Beyond (Fox and the Hound 2 Soundtrack) (You’re The) Devil In Disguise (Honeymoon In Vegas soundtrack) Bartender Blues (w/George Jones) (Thinkin’ About You bonus international track) She Can’t Save Him (Reba McEntire duet from Reba Duets) I Fall To Pieces (Aaron Neville duet from Rhythm, Country & Blues) Getting Good (Duet with Lauren Alaina) Follow the Wind (Life Soundtrack) Softly And Tenderly (with Kelly Clarkson & Reba McEntire from Sing It Now) When Two Worlds Collide (Duet with John Prine) How Do I Live (Songbook) In Another’s Eyes (Garth Brooks duet from Songbook) Perfect Love (Songbook) Just A Cup Of Coffee (Greatest Hits) Nothing To Lose (Greatest Hits) Prizefighter (Kelly Clarkson duet from Prizefighter) I Remember You (Prizefighter) End Of The World (Prizefighter) Met Him In A Motel Room (Prizefighter) Your Husband’s Cheatin’ On Us (Prizefighter) You Can’t Trust The Weatherman (Prizefighter) Breaking Apart (Duet with Chris Isaak) After The Fire Is Gone (Duet with Garth Brooks) Love Will Always Win (Garth Brooks duet) Wild As The Wind (Garth Brooks duet from Double Live) Squeeze Me In (Garth Brooks duet from Scarecrow) The Call (Garth Brooks duet) Shallow (Garth Brooks duet from Fun) Whiskey To Wine (Garth Brooks duet from Gunslinger) Maggie's Dream (Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams) New Kid In Town (Common Thread: Songs Of The Eagles) The Chance I Take (Everybody Knows international bonus track) One More Chance (Where Your Road Leads bonus track) Jackie’s House (Thinkin’ About You bonus international track) On My Own (with Reba McEntire, Martina McBride & Linda Davis from Starting Over) For Only You (Sex And The City soundtrack) I Have A Love (The songs of West Side Story) Something So Right (For Love Of The Game soundtrack) Adeste Fideles (Pavarotti & Friends) Good Guy (Stormy Weather) To Make You Feel My Love (from Hope Floats) I Can't Understand (The Thing Called Love Soundtrack) Til I Get It Right (Tammy Wynette Remembered)
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Post by ccarter1023 on Jan 17, 2021 10:58:49 GMT -5
Trisha is one of my favorite artists! I have a few other suggestions that might get considered?
I Want To Live Again (Everybody Knows) That Ain't The Way I Heard It (Where Your Road Leads) Try Me Again (Real Live Woman) Too Bad You're No Good (Real Live Woman) Seven Year Ache (Inside Out) Workin' On Whiskey (Every Girl) Find a Way (Every Girl)
Great list you came up with. Can't wait for this one! Chuck
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Jan 17, 2021 11:42:50 GMT -5
Trisha is one of my favorite artists! I have a few other suggestions that might get considered? I Want To Live Again (Everybody Knows) That Ain't The Way I Heard It (Where Your Road Leads) Try Me Again (Real Live Woman) Too Bad You're No Good (Real Live Woman) Seven Year Ache (Inside Out) Workin' On Whiskey (Every Girl) Find a Way (Every Girl) Great list you came up with. Can't wait for this one! Chuck We've already ranked those songs in the album rankdowns. The Extras Rankdown is for songs not on any of her studio albums
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jan 17, 2021 12:38:22 GMT -5
He ignored you the first time so I don't think he intended on adding it, lol. I mean, we had 38 songs, and I suggested that one and then he remembered "Getting Good", after which he said we had 40 songs. So based on math I'm not feeling quite as ignored as you think I am I guess but how is anyone supposed to actually do the rankdown for another month then. It was how he was like 'okay, we're good to go now' that made me laugh like he had glossed over your suggestion, lol.
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Post by bboat11 on Jan 18, 2021 4:01:55 GMT -5
Trisha is one of my favorite artists! I have a few other suggestions that might get considered? I Want To Live Again (Everybody Knows) That Ain't The Way I Heard It (Where Your Road Leads) Try Me Again (Real Live Woman) Too Bad You're No Good (Real Live Woman) Seven Year Ache (Inside Out) Workin' On Whiskey (Every Girl) Find a Way (Every Girl) Great list you came up with. Can't wait for this one! Chuck To add on to what Castle told you, this Extras rd is for her songs that are not on regular studio albums. We have been ranking her albums for the last several months, and now that we have finished all of them we are basically ranking songs that were not on any of the albums. However, after we have finished the Extras rd, we will be having a rankdown of all of her best album tracks! Several of your suggestions will be in that one So hopefully you will participate in this one and then that one!!
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Post by ccarter1023 on Jan 18, 2021 10:24:13 GMT -5
Thank you for the explanation, bboat11. I'm a newbie but I'll catch on! Thanks again!
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Post by someguy on Jan 18, 2021 16:43:22 GMT -5
so I went through my music of what I have from Trisha and checked out Spotify and Wiki to see what extras she has. I have a list of 52 songs, all of which I do have copies of. I didn't include any songs that are background vocals, which means both "Something Stupid" with the Mavericks and "Another Try" with Josh Turner are not on this list. There are a couple live tracks too so those would probably make sense to cut. Any songs that are not easy to access I'll upload to my website and I can make a youtube video for it as well. Forever's As Far As I'll Go (Duet with Alabama) My Love Is Your Love (The Passion) Hands (The Passion) I Won’t Give Up (The Passion) You’ll Never Walk Alone (The Passion) Broken (The Passion) The Flame (Your Love Amazes Me Compilation) I'm Talkin' Love (Sesame Street: Songs From The Street. Vol. 5) You’re Where I Belong (Stuart Little soundtrack) Coming Back To You (Tower of Song: The Songs of Leonard Cohen) Blue Beyond (Fox and the Hound 2 Soundtrack) (You’re The) Devil In Disguise (Honeymoon In Vegas soundtrack) Bartender Blues (w/George Jones) (Thinkin’ About You bonus international track) She Can’t Save Him (Reba McEntire duet from Reba Duets) I Fall To Pieces (Aaron Neville duet from Rhythm, Country & Blues) Getting Good (Duet with Lauren Alaina) Follow the Wind (Life Soundtrack) Softly And Tenderly (with Kelly Clarkson & Reba McEntire from Sing It Now) When Two Worlds Collide (Duet with John Prine) How Do I Live (Songbook) In Another’s Eyes (Garth Brooks duet from Songbook) Perfect Love (Songbook) Just A Cup Of Coffee (Greatest Hits) Nothing To Lose (Greatest Hits) Prizefighter (Kelly Clarkson duet from Prizefighter) I Remember You (Prizefighter) End Of The World (Prizefighter) Met Him In A Motel Room (Prizefighter) Your Husband’s Cheatin’ On Us (Prizefighter) You Can’t Trust The Weatherman (Prizefighter) Breaking Apart (Duet with Chris Isaak) After The Fire Is Gone (Duet with Garth Brooks) Love Will Always Win (Garth Brooks duet) Wild As The Wind (Garth Brooks duet from Double Live) Squeeze Me In (Garth Brooks duet from Scarecrow) The Call (Garth Brooks duet) Shallow (Garth Brooks duet from Fun) Whiskey To Wine (Garth Brooks duet from Gunslinger) Maggie's Dream (Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams) New Kid In Town (Common Thread: Songs Of The Eagles) The Chance I Take (Everybody Knows international bonus track) One More Chance (Where Your Road Leads bonus track) Jackie’s House (Thinkin’ About You bonus international track) On My Own (with Reba McEntire, Martina McBride & Linda Davis from Starting Over) For Only You (Sex And The City soundtrack) I Have A Love (The songs of West Side Story) Something So Right (For Love Of The Game soundtrack) Adeste Fideles (Pavarotti & Friends) Good Guy (Stormy Weather) To Make You Feel My Love (from Hope Floats) I Can't Understand (The Thing Called Love Soundtrack) Til I Get It Right (Tammy Wynette Remembered) Sounds great! We can absolutely go with this as the list. I did want to take bboat11’s suggestion, but after thinking about it, I agree with .indulgecountry that the late Feb. release date will make it too hard to include. I would suggest cutting the live songs, and then hopefully we are good to go. Some of these I’ve never heard before, so I am really looking forward to it. Thank you for doing this! We’ll open the rankdown when yo get a chance to upload the songs, and then I will update the list based on what songs you are able to include.
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Post by someguy on Jan 21, 2021 18:18:05 GMT -5
Here's our final list of songs. There are 52 in total. 1. (You're The) Devil In Disguise 2. New Kid In Town 3. I Can't Understand 4. Bartender Blues 5. I Fall To Pieces 6. On My Own 7. Jackie's House 8. Coming Back To You 9. The Chance I Take 10. Even A Cowboy Can Dream 11. Find A River 12. I Have a Love 13. How Do I Live 14. Perfect Love 15. In Another's Eyes 16. Wild As The Wind 17. To Make You Feel My Love 18. Good Guy 19. 'Til I Get It Right 20. One More Chance 21. Something So Right 22. Follow The Wind 23. The Flame 24. You're Where I Belong 25. For Only You 26. Squeeze Me In 27. I'm Talkin' Love 28. Love Will Always Win 29. Blue Beyond 30. Just A Cup Of Coffee 31. Nothin' To Lose 32. She Can't Save Him 33. Breaking Apart 34. The Call (Ft. Garth Brooks) 35. Forever's As Far As I'll Go 36. After the Fire is Gone 37. PrizeFighter (Feat. Kelly Clarkson) 38. I Remember You 39. End Of The World 40. Met Him In A Motel Room 41. Your Husband's Cheatin' On Us 42. You Can't Trust The Weatherman 43. My Love Is Your Love 44. Hands 45. I Won't Give Up 46. You'll Never Walk Alone 47. Broken 48. Whiskey To Wine 49. Maggie's Dream 50. Softly And Tenderly (Ft. Reba McEntire & Kelly Clarkson) 51. Getting Good (Ft. Lauren Alaina) 52. Shallow (Ft. Garth Brooks) Thanks to castleoblivion26, who has put all of these songs on his website to listen to: castleoblivion20.wixsite.com/music/trishayearwoodLet's try for a March 5 due date, but I can extend it a little bit when it gets closer to if people need a little more time, since it is a bigger list.
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