2022 FBG, 172 to 1 Beatles Countdown 1-25 lists... And 173 to 1 Countdown from 1-64 lists! (1 Viewer)

[Shaft41]

me right now

Was expecting it to be "I've got blisters on my fingers!"  

 

[Zegras11]

Was expecting it to be "I've got blisters on my fingers!"  

Thought crossed my mind after posting all the links in the Medley. 

 

[Zegras11]

Song I like x100 more than I did at the start

 

[falguy]

damn - sorry @falguy

and thanks to you as well!

No worries. I was just a session musician. The Fab 3 did all (you: none) of the heavy lifting. 

I'd like to say thank you to them for the hours upon hours of time they spent to the cause.  . Especially @krista4because she added so much more to her already significant write-ups.  I'll go back and read them one of these days.   I also enjoyed all the personal comments added by most everyone.  I don't have a huge history with the Beatles so it was pretty cool reading how their music has affected everyone.

 It's been a lot of fun but all things must pass.

I'll crunch some numbers tomorrow while at work  .  (I'm missing 3 # 1's in my tally so have to go back and check my input.)

 

[jwb]

I am quirky on EC. I loved Cream. And I liked some of his solo 80's stuff. Everything else doesn't move me much (which is actually a ton of his catalog).

I like Cream and Derek and the Dominoes / Blind Faith, but most of Clapton solo is colossally boring to me. 

 

[Shaft41]

Top 1-64 Lists Info

Please get you 1-64 lists to me by Saturday, April 2nd, 11pm.

PM me at any time, but please no changes this time.

Please number them from 1 to 64, with #1 at the Top and #64 at the bottom. Thanks!

There won't be any write ups.  I'll just post the results in a quick-like fashion along with the count down results from 2022 as a comparison. Will post results in this thread. Would really like to get at least 20 of them. Thanks!

Forgive me here, but maybe I missed this earlier in the thread.  Are we just doing this because many others also had 64 songs in their top 25?  

 

[Zegras11]

Forgive me here, but maybe I missed this earlier in the thread.  Are we just doing this because many others also had 64 songs in their top 25?  

that's the idea....

 

[jwb]

Great thread, and thanks for all who organized / compiled / did massive writeups / etc. I had to check out towards the end as work got busy / houseguests / etc, but I still read it all (even @krista4's posts) and enjoyed it immensely. 

 

[Zegras11]

The 423 Page Book

And yes, I cut and pasted the entire thing!

 

[Tom Hagen]

Song I like x100 more than I did at the start

  Of all the Beatles songs I've listened to since this started, this is the one I've been humming constantly.

 

[krista4]

My mom’s favorite Beatles song.  And mine.  We independently arrived at that conclusion — I don’t remember her playing Beatles songs much when I was a kid.  

Apparently the same for me on all of this!

 

[Shaft41]

I'm still waiting for someone to show me a more perfect song than "In My Life."  While my rankings changed quite a bit since 2019, I can't imagine the scenario where that song is not my #1.  

 

[Murph]

Thanks to Krista, Getzlaf, Guido, Falguy and everyone who made this thread fun.

1. I've Just Seen a Face (14)

2. Ticket to Ride (16)

3. Two of Us (41)

4. Let It Be (8)

5. Abbey Road (3)

6. I Want You (She's So Heavy) (60)

7. Nowhere Man (28)

8. Help! (11)

9. Any Time At All (90)

10. A Day In The Life (1)

11. I've Got a Feeling (46)

12. Dig A Pony (88)

13. Happiness is a Warm Gun (39)

14. Ballad of John and Yoko (61)

15. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (19)

16. Tomorrow Never Knows (17)

17. Good Morning Good Morning (113)

18. Don't Let Me Down (25)

19. In My Life (2)

20. Wait (117)

21. Yer Blues (82T)

22. Old Brown Shoe (147)

23.  Rain (42)

24. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey (96)

25. Taxman (22)

 

[krista4]

Binky right now

The cats did not enjoy this.

 

[krista4]

I'm just catching up during an especially brutal day of work, so reading all the cool personal thoughts and the nice comments is particularly meaningful to me.  Thank you all for such amazing participation in the thread and showing such passion for the music.  I love learning of everyone's personal connections to the songs.

I see @Shaft41 won the contest in a squeaker!  Please let me know your charity and I'll donate $300 to it.  Since it was such a close contest, I'd like to donate an additional $100 on behalf of @Tom Hagen and @ekbeats to their charities, too, so please let me know where to send.

 

[landrys hat]

Thanks to Krista, Getzlaf, Guido, Falguy and everyone who made this thread fun.

1. I've Just Seen a Face (14)

1. I've Just Seen a Face

2. I'm Only Sleeping

3. Nowhere Man

4. Abbey Road Medley

5. Eight Days a Week

6. Ticket To Ride

7. Rain

8. In My Life

9. And Your Bird Can Sing

10. She Said She Said

11. For No One

12. I'm So Tired

13. Something

14. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

15. Across the Universe

16. Help!

17. Strawberry Fields Forever

18. A Hard Days Night

19. We Can Work It Out

20. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

21. Here Comes the Sun

22. A Day In the Life

23. I Am the Walrus

24. Octopus's Garden

25. Tell Me What You See

 

[pecorino]

I'm still waiting for someone to show me a more perfect song than "In My Life."  While my rankings changed quite a bit since 2019, I can't imagine the scenario where that song is not my #1.  

I have Yesterday at #5 and In My Life at #7 so I'd say it is about 28% more perfect.

Ya know, no one is saying anything negative about In My Life, nor should they unless they're a grumpy old man. But I re-listened to it again today to confirm my tiniest pet peeve. The George Martin piano solo is great, I love it. But it has always bothered me that the final flourish, at the double-speed it was recorded, sounds rushed (at the least) and almost like a toy piano or a computer (at the most extreme). Honestly, it has distracted me every time I've listened to it--just something that I noticed that does not sound perfect. Still love it, but there's some evidence for you. 

 

[krista4]

Oops, somehow I managed to forget to thank the other movers and shakers in the thread specifically.  @falguy for doing the cool tallying of album stuff and other stats that nerds like me love.  @Guido Merkins for stepping in when I was in a panic...I realized I had to write more about each song and thought I wouldn't have much more to say (forgetting, you know, how I am), and I saw that he had written something about "Strawberry Fields Forever" in another thread that was so good I wanted more.  I invited him to contribute, and thankfully he accepted immediately!  Many of you will remember that he (under another name) was the OP in the original catch-all Beatles thread here and is as much of an expert as anyone I know on all things Beatles, so his input and bringing a different perspective was exactly what we needed for this thread!

And @Getzlaf15 for keeping the engine running and, even more astoundingly, (mostly) without complaint and (mostly) cheerfully spending ridiculous hours including all my links and bolds and italics and shading and god knows what, which is the most tedious and unrewarding aspect of this whole endeavor.

 

[Shaft41]

I have Yesterday at #5 and In My Life at #7 so I'd say it is about 28% more perfect.

Ya know, no one is saying anything negative about In My Life, nor should they unless they're a grumpy old man. But I re-listened to it again today to confirm my tiniest pet peeve. The George Martin harpsichord solo is great, I love it. But it has always bothered me that the final flourish, at the double-speed it was recorded, sounds rushed (at the least) and almost like a toy piano or a computer (at the most extreme). Honestly, it has distracted me every time I've listened to it--just something that I noticed that does not sound perfect. Still love it, but there's some evidence for you. 

Fair enough.  And that's the beauty of it.  I recall when I made my list of my favorite 13 individual moments in Beatles songs at the conclusion of the 2019 thread, I put that not-a-harpsichord solo on there, and the fact that George fit 235 notes into that last beat is what makes it special for me.  And I won't say anything bad about "Yesterday".  

 

[krista4]

I have Yesterday at #5 and In My Life at #7 so I'd say it is about 28% more perfect.

Ya know, no one is saying anything negative about In My Life, nor should they unless they're a grumpy old man. But I re-listened to it again today to confirm my tiniest pet peeve. The George Martin harpsichord solo is great, I love it. But it has always bothered me that the final flourish, at the double-speed it was recorded, sounds rushed (at the least) and almost like a toy piano or a computer (at the most extreme). Honestly, it has distracted me every time I've listened to it--just something that I noticed that does not sound perfect. Still love it, but there's some evidence for you. 

Not a harpsichord, but I see what you're saying.  I need to listen closely again to see if I think it's an imperfection.   

 

[Shaft41]

Got a rough cut going of my 1-64 that currently includes 202 songs.  

 

[krista4]

Got a rough cut going of my 1-64 that currently includes 202 songs.  

  Please tell me one of the two is "A Taste of Honey."  I know the other is "The Long And Winding Road."

 

[pecorino]

You all knew this was coming. Great job, everyone!

Phish plays A Day in the Life

And I am the Walrus

Michael Hedges doing You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

Audio only of Hedges doing Blackbird

 

[Zegras11]

  Please tell me one of the two is "A Taste of Honey."  I know the other is "The Long And Winding Road."

So had a doctor appointment this morning.   As I was leaving, I turned XM Beatles Channel on and immediately heard, "And that was a Taste Of Honey."


And then said to my self, " the delay checking out of here wasn't so bad now."

 

[heckmanm]

1    Eleanor Rigby
2    And Your Bird Can Sing
3    Two Of Us
4    Abbey Road medley
5    Taxman
6    Get Back
7    Ticket to Ride
8    A Day in the Life
9    I've Just Seen A Face
10    Don't Let Me Down
11    Day Tripper
12    Hey Bulldog
13    Tomorrow Never Knows
14    Drive My Car
15    Come Together
16    Happiness is a Warm Gun
17    Strawberry Fields Forever
18    Savoy Truffle
19    I've Got A Feeling
20    A Hard Day's Night
21    Back in the USSR
22    Penny Lane
23    Let it Be
24    Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
25    Wait

Thanks (Binky: #### off) to @krista4, @Getzlaf15, @Guido Merkins for all the work, along with Mr. Krista for making me several times, @falguy for stats, and everybody else that made this a fun exercise.

Working on my Top 64 list now. I'm a bit fortunate in that I had a block of just 54 that I whittled down to my 25.  So really I just need to skim the remaining 117 to find 10 that I may have overlooked in my initial set.

 

[krista4]

Thanks (Binky: #### off)

 

 

[Shaft41]

  Please tell me one of the two is "A Taste of Honey."  I know the other is "The Long And Winding Road."

Sorry.  I don't hate it.  You know "Fool on the Hill" is in there too.  But the bottom (Binky: top) for me is "Blue Jay Way."  

 

[simey]

I forgot to mention when talking about "A Day in The Life" that my favorite part is when John does the dreamy AHHHHHHH AHHHHHHH  after the line "and somebody spoke and I went into a dream." I know I mentioned it in the original k4 countdown, but it seems important to mention it again (even though it isn't).  Those dreamy AHHHs sum up what the ride has been like re-listening to all these Beatles tunes. 

 

[BobbyLayne]

Chalk Rankings of all 172 Songs. (1pt for #172, 2pts for #171......171pts for #2, 172 pts for #1)

1 --BobbyLayne---3848

2 --Tom Hagen---3821

3 --WorrierKing---3795

4 --pecorino---3779

5 --Krista4---3743

6 --falguy---3721

7 --Oliver Humanzee(Dad)---3713

8 --DocHolliday---3702

9 --Ilov80s---3702

10 --Just Win Baby---3662

11 --Krista (TJ/Slug)---3646

12 --Westerberg---3631

13 --Simey---3630

14 --Dr. Octopus---3624

15 --yankee23fan---3619

16 --Dinsy Ejotuz---3614.5

17 --Ted Lange as your Bartender---3600

18 --turnjose7---3597.5

19 --shuke---3597

20 --Lardonastick---3582

21 --WhoKnew---3577

22 --Gr00vus---3572

23 --Krista (Doug)---3561

24 --ekbeats---3546

25 --Alex P Keaton---3545

26 --Heckmanm---3536

27 --landryshat---3519

28 --Getzlaf15---3514

29 --AAABatteries---3511

30 --jamny---3509.5

31 --Dennis Castro---3502.5

32 --Shaft41(Son2)---3489

33 --prosopis---3443

34 --ConstruxBoy---3432

35 --Neal Cassady---3430

36 --Krista (TJ/Holly)---3391

37 --Shaft41(Son1)---3388

38 --jwb---3375

39 --ProsteticRKG---3361

40 --Oliver Humanzee---3358.5

41 --wikkidpissah---3351.5

42 --Uruk-Hai---3350

43 --Guido Merkins---3348

44 --Eephus---3337

45 --Dwayne Hoover---3326.5

46 --Pip's Invitation---3323.5

47 --Krista (TJ/Alex)---3310

48 --PIK 95---3300

49 --John Maddens Lunchbox---3291.5

50 --zamboni---3210.5

51 --Shaft41(Daughter)---3208.5

52 --rockaction---3175.5

53 --FairWarning---3171

54 --Mac32---3168

55 --fatguyinalttlecoat---3147

56 --murph---3136.5

57 --DaVinci---3091

58 --BinkyTheDoormat---2989.5

59 --Krista (Rob)---2977.5

60 --Krista (Craig)---2966

61 --Shaft41---2902

62 --Encyclopedia Brown---2806.5

63 --Wrighteous Ray---2756.5

64 --Man Of Constant Sorrow---2749.5

65 --OTB_Lifer---2717

66 --Krista (Worth)---2692.5

67 --ManOfSteelhead---2662.5

68 --Wrighteous Ray(Hub)---2654.5

69 --Krista (TJ/Michael)---2635

70 --Krista (Sharon)---2381.5

71 --anarchy99---2200

Didn’t expect this as I left the 8-song medley off my Top 25

Thanks to everyone - this was great fun, looking forward to seeing the 1-64 (after we take a break, right? right??)

Will be reading this thread for awhile (eventually I do read your write ups @krista4)

 

[BobbyLayne]

Watched Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years (Ron Howard) with my 13 y.o. daughter tonight 

just doing my part to keep this thing rolling for another 60 years

 

[BobbyLayne]

Top 1-64 Lists Info

Please get you 1-64 lists to me by Saturday, April 2nd, 11pm.

PM me at any time, but please no changes this time.

Please number them from 1 to 64, with #1 at the Top and #64 at the bottom. Thanks!

There won't be any write ups.  I'll just post the results in a quick-like fashion along with the count down results from 2022 as a comparison. Will post results in this thread. Would really like to get at least 20 of them. Thanks!

it’s cool if our 1-25 looks nothing like the one we did 2+ months ago right?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I ranked it as a medley but it does seem a little “unfair” to me - I wouldn’t rank any of the individual songs on my top 25 - most wouldn’t be top 75-100.  Collectively though it is all kinds of awesome though.

Golden Slumbers may sneak in at 25 if we had to rank them individually- but agree with the overall point.

 

[simey]

Song I like x100 more than I did at the start

When I hear this song now, I will envision k4 and WR cruising down the road singing, and then k4 performing her parallel parking wizardry.  

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I’m going to Pipple (TM Rockaction) this thread later tonight with my reactions to the last 4 songs, but I just wanted to get in my thanks to Krista, Getzlaf, Guido and everyone else who made this thread a must-read (Binky: skip) every day. 

FYI the 64 lists are due the same day as the U2 lists, for those that want to relive their college term-paper-writing days.

Also FYI, I did not dream about Frank Zappa last night. 

 

[DocHolliday]

WELL DONE!!!!  Thanks @Getzlaf15, @krista4, @Guido Merkins and everyone else who contributed.  I've always said this - 100 years from now people will still love the Beatles (and be haunted by their ear-worms).  Greatest band of all-time, and it's not even close.

Well said!

Thank you all for your hard work and vast amount of information shared about the greatest band that will ever grace this planet.  We were truly given a gift by four incredible musicians that joined forces to make the amazing music that never gets old.   

 

[ekbeats]

I'm just catching up during an especially brutal day of work, so reading all the cool personal thoughts and the nice comments is particularly meaningful to me.  Thank you all for such amazing participation in the thread and showing such passion for the music.  I love learning of everyone's personal connections to the songs.

I see @Shaft41 won the contest in a squeaker!  Please let me know your charity and I'll donate $300 to it.  Since it was such a close contest, I'd like to donate an additional $100 on behalf of @Tom Hagen and @ekbeats to their charities, too, so please let me know where to send.

Wow.  Thanks so much @krista4.  I kind of feel like I should be giving you money.   As for my charity, I'd like to donate it to @bigbottom's Chance for Hope Foundation.  In the past 30 days I've gotten to know BB - and through him Chance - and I'm a better person for it.

 

[simey]

Oh, I am definitely grumpy and I do not enjoy it when other people sing along. It's one reason I like instrumentals so much. The rise of karaoke and things like American Idol have absolutely stoked my grumpiness in this regard.

To be clear on my part, I am only talking about Hey Jude, and a specific part of that song. 

 

[krista4]

FYI the 64 lists are due the same day as the U2 lists, for those that want to relive their college term-paper-writing days.

I'm sure you couldn't be referring to me  , but @Getzlaf15, let's consider an extension (with half-grade penalty) on this deadline.  It seems fast to me even outside of the U2 conflict.  But it's up to you, and we could just see how things look on April 1 and decide then.

Wow.  Thanks so much @krista4.  I kind of feel like I should be giving you money.   As for my charity, I'd like to donate it to @bigbottom's Chance for Hope Foundation.  In the past 30 days I've gotten to know BB - and through him Chance - and I'm a better person for it.

Excellent choice!  Thank you for thinking of them.

 

[Zegras11]

I'm sure you couldn't be referring to me  , but @Getzlaf15, let's consider an extension (with half-grade penalty) on this deadline.  It seems fast to me even outside of the U2 conflict.  But it's up to you, and we could just see how things look on April 1 and decide then.

Excellent choice!  Thank you for thinking of them.

you've had like four months to do your U2 list 7,956 times.

 

[ConstruxBoy]

A Day In The Life
2022 Ranking: 1
2022 Lists: 51
2022 Points: 949
Ranked Highest by: @Guido Merkins (1) @worrierking (1) @BobbyLayne (1) @falguy (1) Slug (1) @Westerberg (1) @Oliver Humanzee (2) @DocHolliday (2) @Yankee23Fan (2) @wikkidpissah (2) @shuke (2) @Just Win Baby (2) @Alex P Keaton (2) @lardonastick (3) Holly (3) @ProstheticRGK (3) @pecorino (3) @simey (3) @ConstruxBoy (3)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 1/28/566

Getz: 26 Top 5 votes (tied for most) and 40 Top 10 votes (9 more than any other song). First place by 90 points! Back-to-back winner!

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  6

2019 write-up:

A Day In The Life (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)

It's opposite day in the write-ups; I'm not going to say much about this song, while I have comparatively a dissertation from Mr. krista. I'm not saying much, because c'mon.  There are like whole books that have written about just that final chord, so no one needs me talking about how much I love the drum fills (which are amazing, by the way).  I'm far from alone in stating that this is the best song the Beatles ever recorded.  It might be the best song anyone has ever recorded.

Mr. krista:  "That’s a pretty great song.  I like the part where you can hear someone talking, counting bars out loud on a shaker, that was supposed to be edited out but they ended up leaving it in.  The recording of that song took about 34 hours.  The entire Please Please Me album was 10:45.  Things were different then.  Can’t tell if it’s a major or a minor chord at the end.  Clearly many different instruments, but I don’t know if they’re all tuned differently.  I like the sped up part.  Always thought that was one’s life flashing before one’s eyes.  It might be the last time you hear the Beatles all working meaningfully toward the same goal.  The atonal, discordant crescendo – there’s whole genres of music based on that, and I really like a lot of those records.  It’s hard to believe that the most popular band in the world was doing stuff like this.  That’s just bonkers to me.  It’d be like if Taylor Swift put out a drony, death-metal record.  How is that possible?"

Suggested cover:  Chris Cornell

2022 Supplement:  I still resist the idea that I could write up in a few paragraphs a song about which entire books have been written. But I’ll give some of Paul’s most recent thoughts on that final orchestral section.  At the time, he had been into a lot of avant garde music, especially John Cage, and wanted to have an extraordinary instrumental piece in the song.  Paul talked to George Martin and gave the instruction for each musician to go from the lowest note on their instrument to the highest within a certain number of bars.  They were to get there however they wished:  “When we got to the session, George Martin had to plan it out for them.  Classically trained musicians are thought not to like the idea of improvisation. … The strings were like sheep:  ‘If you’re going up, I’m going up.  I’m not going to be left behind.’  But the trumpets and the wind instruments were very receptive to the idea of letting it all hang out… They were game for anything.”  He goes on:  “We ourselves were determined to really go for it and find way of bringing all these other components into what was known as ‘popular’ music.  We liked the idea that what we were attempting was an extension, rather than just a continuation, of the tradition.”

Well, now didn’t he just sum up The Beatles as a whole perfectly with that last sentence.  Taking the traditions and keeping a thread of them, but adding and expanding the notion of what music can be.  That sums them up for me.  

Guido Merkins

It is no secret that John struggled to come up with material for the Sgt Pepper album.  He got an idea for a song from a circus poster that became Being For the Benefit of Mr Kite and from a breakfast commercial that became Good Morning Good Morning.  So it is the height of irony that in John’s struggle to come up with material that one of his most endearing masterpieces should come from him reading the newspaper.  There were stories about the English Army winning a war and potholes on a street in Blackburn and about a car accident.  These stories were melded together to form a song which started life as “In the Life of” and ended up being called A Day in the Life.

The Beatles Anthology had a scene with George Martin listening to take 1 of the song and John counting in with the phrase “Sugar Plum Fairy Sugar Plum Fairy.”  What follows is, arguably, the most stunning vocal of Lennon’s career.  Filled with pathos and sending chills up your spine, even this first take is stunning in it’s simplicity and just as good as the final version.

John has this song and had an idea for a sound that would start at the bottom of the world and would get louder and louder and end with a climax.  George Martin hit upon an idea of using an orchestra, but knew that would be expensive, so settled for half an orchestra, although after tracking it, it sounded like 2 or 3 orchestras.  Because they didn’t know what would connect the middle part, they had Mal Evans standing there counting 24 bars drenched more and more in echo ending with an alarm clock to mark the 24 bars

For the middle part, Paul had a little ditty lying around that was bouncier than the other parts that begun “Woke up, fell out of bed…”  Then it went back to John’s verses and the final build up that ended with an E Major chord played on like 3 or 4 pianos simultaneously with the sustain pedal pushed down.  The original idea was for all of them to hum the closing note, but it wasn’t strong enough.  As the sound was fading, the engineers were slowly bringing up the faders, so what you are left with is this sound that takes like a minute to fully disappear.  You can faintly hear like a chair squeeking at the very end.  

A Day in the Life remains the ultimate of what the Beatles could do in a studio.  They put it on last on the album because nothing could realistically follow it.  You could almost argue that they did try to follow it, but for the next 3 years, they really wouldn’t come close to topping it.  I think it is literally the high point of their career.  John’s voice, Ringo’s drums and the orchestral buildup and closing chord are the stars of the show.  The song was banned, of course, for the phrase “I’d love to turn you on” which was an intentional reference to drugs.

I can only imagine what this sounded like to the people in 1967.  The first time I heard it in the early 80s, I could hardly believe it.

That Chris Cornell cover is insane. Holy ####. What a talent. 

 

[krista4]

you've had like four months to do your U2 list 7,956 times.

Oh I'm done* with my U2 list.

*ish

 

[simey]

Song I like x100 more than I did at the start

I realized during this countdown that I do love the song "I'll Be Back," and it is now tied as my second favorite on AHDN. "And I Love Her" is still my favorite.

 

[Zegras11]

Oh I'm done* with my U2 list.

*ish

I can move it back to April 9th.   I'm out April 10-17.  And I really don't want to wait a month to do this.

 

[shuke]

Nobody likes the "nananas". 

I do  

 

[DocHolliday]

I realized during this countdown that I do love the song "I'll Be Back," and it is now tied as my second favorite on AHDN. "And I Love Her" is still my favorite.

I realized that I love And Your Bird Can Sing a lot more than I thought.   It didn’t make my top 25 but now it feels like a top 10-15 song for me.   

 

[shuke]

Great thread!  Thank you!

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Nobody likes the "nananas". 

I do  

"It's like a mini Dead jam man"

 

[Shaft41]

Before my wife and I adopted our children from right here in the good ol' US of A, we were years deep in the process of adopting from Bulgaria.  Unfortunately, there were bureaucratic snafus in their government/country that caused all international adoptions to be put on hold while we were waiting, so we shifted gears to domestic.  Even before that, but certainly once we were involved in international adoption, we have had a heart for orphans.  So, for my charity, I'm choosing Orphans Promise.  We have given to them many times in the past, and, even before the last month, they did a lot of work with orphans in Ukraine.  Obviously, the need for help there is greater now than ever.  Thanks so much for the contest and the generosity!

 

[Zegras11]

Top 1-64 Lists Info.  *** DEADLINE DATE CHANGE ***

Please get you 1-64 lists to me by Saturday, April 9th, 8pm ET. - RESULTS posted Sat April 9th, 9pm ET.

PM me at any time, but please no changes this time.

Please number them from 1 to 64, with #1 at the Top and #64 at the bottom. Thanks!

There won't be any write ups.  I'll just post the results in a quick-like fashion along with the count down results from 2022 as a comparison. Will post results in this thread. Would really like to get at least 20 of them. Thanks!

please note the date change @BobbyLayne

 

[krista4]

Before my wife and I adopted our children from right here in the good ol' US of A, we were years deep in the process of adopting from Bulgaria.  Unfortunately, there were bureaucratic snafus in their government/country that caused all international adoptions to be put on hold while we were waiting, so we shifted gears to domestic.  Even before that, but certainly once we were involved in international adoption, we have had a heart for orphans.  So, for my charity, I'm choosing Orphans Promise.  We have given to them many times in the past, and, even before the last month, they did a lot of work with orphans in Ukraine.  Obviously, the need for help there is greater now than ever.  Thanks so much for the contest and the generosity!

Love it!!!  Thank you for this.