Death Impends

1/22/2024 25 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 22 The Troggs — Wild Thing 21 The Animals — We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 21 Petula Clark — Downtown 21 The Rolling Stones — Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown 21 The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset 21 The Beach Boys — God Only Knows +4 20 Chris Montez — Let’s Dance 20 Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas — Do You Want To Know A Secret? 20 The Crystals — Then He Kissed Me 20 The Yardbirds — Heart Full Of Soul 20 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 20 John Leyton — Wild Wind 20 Los Bravos — Black Is Black 20 The Spencer Davis Group — Gimme Some Lovin’ 20 The Drifters — Save The Last Dance For Me 20 Jimmy Dean — Big Bad John 20 The Who — My Generation 20 Barry Ryan — Eloise 20 The Kinks — All Day And All Of The Night 20 Little Eva — The Loco-Motion 18 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 14 Bobby Darin — Lazy River -6 14 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do 14 Chubby Checker — Let’s Twist Again

Think that's Grim Reaper's wheelhouse. I'll shoot him a PM.

1/22/2024 61 Barry Ryan — Eloise 41 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 35 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do 33 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 24 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 17 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World -6 17 The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup +4

I banned them outright. Clearly not going to use this site in good faith.

1/21/2024 57 Barry Ryan — Eloise 44 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 30 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No/Do What You Gotta Do 29 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 27 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World 23 The Foundations — Build me up Buttercup +4 21 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday -6 16 Stevie Wonder — Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday 13 The Edwin Hawkins Singers — Oh Happy Day

Want to feel ancient? At the claimed age of 111, the Sri Sri Sri Shivakumara Swami saga finally came to an end 5 years ago today. Still my favorite forum immortal meme after all these years.

1/20/2024 52 Barry Ryan--Eloise 41 Elvis Presley-- In The Ghetto 35 The Foundations-- Build me up Buttercup +4 33 Fleetwood Mac-- Oh Well 30 Stevie Wonder-- Yester-Me-Yester-You- Yesterday 26 The Small Faces-- Lazy Sunday -6 22 Fleetwood Mac---Man Of The World 18 The Edwin Hawkins Singers-- Oh Happy Day 15 Mary Hopkin--- Goodbye 14 Nina Simone-- Ain't Got No/Do What You Gotta Do 12 Tom Jones--- Delilah

I Can Never Go Home Anymore never fails to make me misty. Though Remember (Walking in the Sand) is my favorite. RIP to one of the girl group greats

These Cash Luna alts are bloody gnats, when I think I've killed them all suddenly another pops up. Clapped this one out anyway.

1/19/2024 44 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 39 Barry Ryan — Eloise 33 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday -3 33 Stevie Wonder — Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday 29 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 26 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition — Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town 22 The Foundations — Build me up Buttercup +4 21 The Edwin Hawkins Singers — Oh Happy Day 21 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World 19 Mary Hopkin — Goodbye 18 Tom Jones — Delilah 15 Lou Christie — I’m Gonna Make You Mine 08 The Casuals — Jesamine -3 06 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do

Mildly curious find as I tot up the stats for last year - despite 2023 smashing the hits total, no individual month from it makes the top 10 of the "Most hits in a month" statistic. 31 hits are needed to make the top 10, and the closest was February with 30.

Her Mary Poppins character was big on women's voting rights.

I'd find it somewhat amusing if he didn't reach that greater an age than Feinstein, given she was a crumbling corpse for years while he's generally looked well for his age. But I don't think it'll be that soon.

1/18/2024 44 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 41 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 34 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 32 Barry Ryan — Eloise 31 Stevie Wonder — Yester-Me, Yester-You 29 The Foundations— Build me up Buttercup +4 25 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition — Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town 24 Tom Jones — Delilah 21 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World 21 The Edwin Hawkins Singers — Oh Happy Day 21 Lou Christie — I’m Gonna Make You Mine 17 Mary Hopkin — Goodbye 15 The Casuals — Jesamine 09 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do 02 The Bee Gees — Don’t Forget To Remember -6

1/17/2024 41 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 40 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 36 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 32 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition — Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town 31 The Foundations — Build me up Buttercup +4 29 Stevie Wonder — Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday 27 Barry Ryan — Eloise 27 Tom Jones — Delilah 25 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World 24 The Edwin Hawkins Singers — Oh Happy Day 21 Lou Christie — I’m Gonna Make You Mine 21 The Casuals — Jesamine 20 Mary Hopkin — Goodbye 14 The Bee Gees — Don’t Forget To Remember 10 Nina Simone — Ain’t got no/ Do What you gotta do 0 O.C. Smith — Son Of Hickory Holler’s Tramp -5 0 Dean Martin — Killed the fucking thing -1

1/16/2024 36 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 36 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 36 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto +2 34 The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup +2 33 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition — Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town 31 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World 28 Tom Jones — Delilah 27 Stevie Wonder — Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday 24 The Edwin Hawkins Singers — Oh Happy Day 22 Barry Ryan — Eloise 21 Lou Christie — I’m Gonna Make You Mine 21 The Casuals — Jesamine 20 Mary Hopkin — Goodbye 20 The Bee Gees — Don’t Forget To Remember 16 Dean Martin — Gentle On My Mind 11 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do 10 O.C. Smith — Son Of Hickory Holler’s Tramp -6 4 Leapy Lee — Little Arrows

Fun fact - the Chipmunks franchise were dormant for years after Bagdasarian's death until a random DJ played "Call Me" sped up and joked that it was the Alvin and the Chipmunks version. This joke snowballed to the point that it ushered in a revival in Chipmunks popularity, including an album of Chipmunk-ified late 70s/early 80s hits, including an official Chipmunks "Call Me". And then in the 2010s someone slowed the album to a crawl.

Joe Biden Donald Trump Billy Connolly Andy Taylor Phil Collins Ozzy Osbourne Clint Eastwood Dick van Dyke Buzz Aldrin William Shatner Robert Wagner Tim Bilton Bruce Willis Michael J. Fox David Attenborough Rupert Murdoch Janey Godley Pope Francis Linda Nolan Prunella Scales Paul Spencer Erik Jensen Dave Myers Cleo Laine Eva Marie Saint SUB: Willie Nelson

It's very rare someone goes from 100+ picks one year to off Drop 40 the next (barring death obv). Even Wilko Johnson stayed on the Drop 40 one year after his miracle reprieve. The only exception I can think of was Schumacher, but that was a last-minute critical gamble.

The teams, celebs, and Drop 40 pages have all been posted, and you can now access them from the front page. @time is still working on updating for deceased celebs. As @gcreptile has said he's been brill so far. Not sure when I'll start posting obits, not all of them have been written yet. Been busy with the new celeb bios. time, @Banana, and I, plus Reptile in his outgoing capacity and like last year @Whitehouse in a guest capacity, have taken care of all the bios, and once again the 5-person crew has made it a lot more feasible.

Half a million.

It should be a matter of days til we're up and running. As usual, here's a list of 2024 names that were rejected under our FFBI rules. Selma Wilde - Apparently, a German supercentenarian. There's not even any mention of her on the 110 Club. The 110 Club FFS. Janet Gibbs - A centenarian, that's about it. Edwin Rayner - Old chap on YouTube who sings... to an audience of 1,000 followers. Jay Tenison - Terminally ill army veteran who got to fire a tank one final time. Gabriel Yeung Ka-piu - Terminal cancer patient who made the news for donating a lot of money to the Children's Cancer Foundation of Hong Kong. Clare Sacco - Cancer TikToker with nowhere near enough followers. Martin Butler - A food reviewer on YouTube who doesn't pass the follower quota. Gareth Morgan - As above. Emilio Betancourt - Cancer Tiktoker. Does have a sufficient amount of followers, but it was a following accrued entirely off his cancer. George Smith (x2) - There is a theme team of George Smiths. Lucky us. Two of them - George Smith of the Canadian Parks & Wildlife Society, and George Smith the centenarian schools engineer - were so obscure even by this team's barrel scraping standards that they were DQed. Ruth langsford mother joan langsford - I warned you she wouldn't count, and one of you didn't listen. David Marsh - Previously rejected in 2022. "He's a 60s musician I never heard of" might have been my greatest putdown of a no-name, and with him now dead I'm not going to get the chance to use it again... Jonathan Mills - Too low level a cricketer who never would've gotten attention without the cancer. Bruce Murray - The closest decision, while his camera assistant work is no doubt one of the many important cogs to Home and Away his public notability was very much embellished by the press. Phillip Mark Mehrtens - New Zealand pilot being held hostage by Indonesian insurgents. Terrorist hostages have been banned in the DDP since 2015, years before the more robust FFBI rules were set up.

I wrote his DDP bio, and it said "will be dead by the time you read this". Spot on.

1/15/2024 33 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition — Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town 33 The Foundations — Build me up Buttercup +4 31 Fleetwood Mac — Oh Well 30 Elvis Presley — In The Ghetto 30 The Small Faces — Lazy Sunday 28 Tom Jones — Delilah 26 Fleetwood Mac — Man Of The World 23 Stevie Wonder — Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday 22 The Edwin Hawkins Singers — Oh Happy Day 21 Lou Christie — I’m Gonna Make You Mine 21 The Casuals — Jesamine 21 Barry Ryan — Eloise 20 Mary Hopkin — Goodbye 20 The Bee Gees — Don’t Forget To Remember 16 Dean Martin — Gentle On My Mind 16 O.C. Smith — Son Of Hickory Holler’s Tramp 15 Nina Simone — Ain’t Got No / Do What You Gotta Do 14 Leapy Lee — Little Arrows 14 Herman’s Hermits — My Sentimental Friend 12 Robin Gibb — Saved By The Bell 6 The Tremeloes — (Call Me) Number One 4 Lulu — Boom Bang-A-Bang 4 Bobby Goldsboro — Honey -6