Headbang votes (2)

From http://banchoryheadbangers.blogspot.com/

Section 2 was, as usual, those who had become Septuagenarians since the last Headbang, and there were 7 who fitted in to this category this time. Again, we had a very clear winner - and runaway last place too - Mark Wynter must be the first person to receive just the minimum 1 vote from each person present:

1	Andy Summers (Police)	63
2	Dave Clark	44
3	Michael Nesmith (Monkees)	43
4	Scott Walker	42
5	Norman Greenbaum	31
6	Johnny Rivers	20
7	Mark Wynter	9

Sticking to the old guys, we have now been formally voting for Most/Least Missed in the Obituaries section for 10 Headbangs, so I felt it was an appropriate time to do a Best of the Best of the Obituaries. There had been some very strange winners at previous Headbangs and voting this time afforded the opportunity for a certain amount of correction of prior misdeeds and this is how it worked out this time around:
                                                                                                                         

1	Gerry Rafferty	Stuck in the middle with you	11 March 2011	88.9%	79
2	Jon Lord	Smoke on the water	26 October 2012	89.5%	75
3	Bert Jansch	Black Waterside	11 November 2011	91.2%	68
4	Etta James	I'd rather go blind	03 February 2012	91.1%	64
5	John Martyn	May you never	13 February 2009	97.9%	49
6	Robin Gibb	Massachusetts	22 June 2012	45.7%	47
7	Clarence Clemons	Born to Run	24 June 2011	82.1%	40
8	Mick Green	Shakin' all over	05 March 2010	52.5%	35
9	Lena Horne	Stormy Weather	21 May 2010	75.0%	20
10	Les Paul	World is waiting for the sunrise	13 November 2009	77.1%	18

The dates are when they were voted Best of the Obituaries for that Headbang and the percentages reflect the proportion of available votes they got on that evening. The final column shows the votes cast this time around.

John Martyn, who originally almost got a maximum 100%, only came in at number 5 this time around, perhaps demonstrating how fickle we can be. By comparison, Gerry Rafferty received 79 of a potential 90 votes this time around (87.8%).

Gary must have managed to complete his voting in this section in record time, because he seemed to have plenty of time for doodling on his voting sheet:

Perhaps he might explain the significance of this to us all?

Two Obituaries, which appeared in the Times on Saturday, but just missed the cut for this Headbang were Cleotha Staples of the Staples Singers and Damon Harris from the Temptations:

So they'll be first up next time around.

More voting news to follow.