"Back in 1995 Bob Birch (EJ's bassist) was hit by a vehicle in Montreal on the MADE IN ENGLAND tour. Bob was badly hurt and David Paton received a call from the Elton John HQ and was asked to fill in IMMEDIATELY on the tour! David graciously agreed and helped save the rest of the tour. In fact, David was the bassist at the next city (Detroit - Palace of Auburn Hills) and was excellent...I was fortunate enough to be there for it. I was worried that he wouldn't be able to play that huge 2 3/4 hour setlist but he was simply great.
That 1995 performance wasn't the only time that I was fortunate enough to see David Paton. I also went to see EJ and the Band in an all-time record rainfall in August of 1986 at the Toronto CNE. Whoa! Lightning, thunder, and buckets of cold rain! But a really hot show!
The band's version of "One Horse Town" remains, to this moment, one of my most enjoyable concert memories. After the eerie intro to the song, they just blew us away. "Can I Get A Witness" as an encore was pure heaven - David Paton always seemed to enjoy playing live and the band had a great sound on that tour. Songs like "Sad Songs" and "This Town" (check the great live version of this from 1985 on Youtube) really excelled live with this line-up."Doug
The Story Behind "AllSongsList"
AllSongsList tries to find the best Elton John ever song, in a multiple points of views. There are 23 categories to evaluate:
US Singles & Albums Music Charts
Canada Singles & Albums Music Charts
UK Singles & Albums Music Charts
Ireland Singles & Albums Music Charts
France Singles & Albums Music Charts
Germany Singles & Albums Music Charts
Austria Singles & Albums Music Charts
Italy Singles & Albums Music Charts
Switzerland Singles & Albums Music Charts
Spain Singles & Albums Music Charts
Norway Singles & Albums Music Charts
Sweden Singles & Albums Music Charts
Japan Singles & Albums Music Charts
Australia Singles & Albums Music Charts
New Zeland Singles & Albums Music Charts
Brazil Singles & Albums Music Charts
Southafrica Singles & Albums Music Charts
There's a table of the positions and points by position of the songs that reach the charts, depending the category of singles, "B" sides of the singles and albums. For example, a Nº 1 means 10.000 points if it was reached as a single, 2.500 points for its "B" side and 5.000 points for the album (Elton's album or another artist album). That is ponderate by the importance of the country in world's music sales terms. That is increased by the award acreditation of platinum, gold or silver albums. 100 points are for the weeks in the number one chart and 50 for times in other positions.
Single Category
The points of that category are for the "A" singles (500 points) and "B" singles (250 points).
Albums Category
The points of that category are for the album tracks: 500 if it is an original album and 750 points for the compilations. Soundtracks and other artist albums are counting as 500 points.
Video (DVD) Category
The points of that category are for the tracks, couting 750 points for the video-clip singles and 500 points for being in a original release.
Cover Category
650 points meant that any artist did a cover of one of Elton's songs. 350 points are for the mixes and remixes.
Live Category
The points of that category are 1.000 if the song was in a Tour Set List. The points are increased by 100 for the times the song is in the set list. 850 points means to be in a guest appearance concert or special show or event (outside the official tour).
Others
Other puntuations depending if the song win an award (grammy, brits, etc.) or for the nomination; for the duets, for Elton's own covers. In addition of other chart lists of magazines, the radio airplay or TV appearance, the ringtones or eltonites' votes.
Example
Your Song has now 1.747.130 points and it is the number two of the list. Is the song most played live with 341.500 points, and has 181.575 points in the category of US Singles & Albums Charts, for example.
That all began in 1984, one year after I became an eltonite. There are three copies of security of allsongslist. AllSongsList has all the chart successes in all the countries I told before, all the set lists since the beginning of Elton's career, most of them validate (others are aproximated); the covers, the duets, the listing albums tracks, etc. It has been a such hard work of documentation through the years.
Your votes will aid your favourite songs to go up and down the allsongslist charts. Help me to find the best Elton's song.
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Eltonite's Day: AllSongsList Golden Honor Roll
Argentina
MonaLisas
Australia
Amoreena J.
Dixie Lily
Belgium
Herci II
Brazil
Kissy bissy
MarioFromBrazil
Canada
BlueBird
Islandgirl75
Mookie
Richard Antoine
Colombia
Ana Milena
Croatia
Nix
Denmark
Anja
Finland
BiteUrLip
Jera
France
Laurent Bonnore
Germany
Jump Up
Stephan Heimbecher
Holland
Linda A. Stienstra
TheFox
Italy
Andrea Grasso
Andrea Sganzerla
Beppe
Mexico
Patty Perrin
New Zeland
Dazza
Northern Ireland
BoogiePilgrim
Russia
Nataliaej
TheFox1981
Spain
AnnaBCN
Julio V.G.
Sweden
Tanja_Friend
Switzerland
Patrick Andrey
UK
Laura Taylor
Midnight Creeper
Rocketwoman
Sue.uk
US
Always EJ
BlueJeanBaby
David Hallstrom
ej&ej4ever
GJEJ
Honeybee
J.Fillow (Billy Joel fan)
Janel
Latitude
Lukesbox
Marissaluvselton
Maryinfl8
Missy01
Newloneranger
Pam Quier
Sacrifice
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