90's Lyric Quiz

[Kim]

OK - No artists or songs are repeated. Virtually every song received
significant radio or video airplay, although only some actually placed high
on the pop charts. A few songs may have been originally released prior to
1990, but all achieved their major exposure in the nineties.

1. "Can you tell me? No, you can't, because you don't know."
2. "A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio."
3. "But I've said nothing so far, and I can keep it up as long as it takes."
4. "Excuse me, but can I be you for awhile?"
5. "She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, she wears a cross around her
neck."
6. "So take your hat off when you're talking to me."
7. "Everybody move to the back of the bus."
8. "I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you wake.'"
9. "So listen up, 'cause you can't say nothin'- you'll shut me down with a
push of your button."
10. "I'll be your whatever you want, the bong in this reggae song."
11. "Well, I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud."
12. "You know I'm such a fool for you."
13. "Baby got a problem sayin' bye-bye, just another hazard of a fly guy."
14. "Life is hard, and so am I-better give me something, so I don't die."
15. "There's a blood that's flowing through the feeling, with a knife to
open up the sky's vein."
16. "Parody of yourself in color, giving it to everybody but your mother."
17. "It is thrown, just scream it from the wall."
18. "I have come to save the day, and I won't leave until I'm done."
19. "Girls, what's my weakness?"
20. "They say they're better than you, and you agree."
21. "Watching the world wake up from history."
22. "Stand in the way of love, and we will smoke them all."
23. "Why they changed it, I can't say-people just liked it better that way."
24. "I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad, but I did it anyway."
25. "Don't you think I've heard the talk? Nobody's gonna tell me who to
love."
26. "The sun has gone down, and the moon has come up."
27. "I want to be the girl with the most cake."
28. "Sit down and watch the tube, but nothing's on."
29. "To me, my life is more than my erection."
30. "You know your culture from your trash, you know your plastic from your
cash."
31. "And when the car broke down, they started walking."
32. "Good God, I'm a believer!"
33. "I said, you shouldn't have worn that dress."
34. "Rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells."
35. "I'm standing in cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines."
36. "I'm the bitch you hated."
37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."
38. "I walk in the air between the rain, through myself and back again."
39. "But both girl and boy were glad-one kid had it worse than that."
40. "We'd take a limousine, 'cause it costs more."
41. "She grew up tall and she grew up right."
42. "Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it."
43. "I don't care what they say-what do they know about this love, anyway?"
44. "Cut me Sammy, and you'll understand-in my veins, hot music man."
45. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbor."
46. "I got my head shaved by a jumbo jet."
47. "We kissy kiss in the rearview-so bored, you're to blame."
48. "Makeup on their faces, actors took their places next to me."
49. "I don't know why you couldn't just stay with me."
50. "I recommend biting off more than you can chew to anyone."
51. "And I'm glad I haven't yet, because I'm sure it isn't good."
52. "What's with these homies dissin' my girl? Why do they gotta front?"
53. "Take all of your money, give it up to charity."
54. "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel."
55. "I'll throw away a chance at greatness, just to make this dream come
into play."
56. "And would my clique do the score?"
57. "She comes around, and she goes down on me."
58. "Played a track from your record collection, it's your mix,
congratulations."
59. "Will you please let me stay the night? No one will ever know!"
60. "But it's you I fell into."
61. "When your mom is not around, there's no telling what we'll do when
we're free."
62. "Tell me, am I very far?"
63. "And all the roads we have to walk are winding."
64. "One goes to the morgue, and the other jail. One got wasted, and the
other's a waste."
65. "So don't let me have any rights. Oh, I've had it up to here."
66. "One dance left, this world is gonna pull through."
67. "Our little group has always been and always will until the end."
68. "They hung out with folks like Dennis Hoppper, Bob Seger, and Sonny &
Cher."
69. "Show me where to look, and tell me what will I find."
70. "Sweet like candy to your soul, sweet you rock, and sweet you roll."
71. "A million lies to sell yourself is all you ever had."
72. "You can see I'm in no shape for driving."
73. "I've been downhearted, baby, ever since the day we met."
74. "I don't care if you don't care, as long as you don't go."
75. "It really don't matter if you're white or black."
76. "Won't you please come around, 'cause I wanna share forever with you,
baby."
77. "I am wearing my new dress tonight!"
78. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"
79. "I'm a goddess on my knees."
80. "I'm gonna show you how, all in together now."
81. "So they put me in the back of their car at the station."
82. "Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town."
83. "Some got hopes and dreams, we got ways and means."
84. "But I know you can tell I'm excited, oh girl."
85. "Am I sexual?"
86. "I've been watching you like a hawk in the sky."
87. "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom."
88. "I see some ladies tonight that should be havin' my baby, baby."
89. "Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?"
90. "Ain't nothin' better, we beat the odds together."
91. "It was time for me to make my presence felt, so sit back, relax, and
strap on your seat belt."
92. "She said she'd never turn on me (you lied to me!)."
93. "Baby, you're a perfect ten/Can I get in?"
94. "Just once if I had the chance, the things I would do to you."
95. "No, no, we don't die, yes, we multiply."
96. "Hey, don't you want to go down like some chunky cosmonaut?"
97. "So I made a big mistake- try to see it once my way."
98. "The night is my companion, and solitude my guide."
99. "Help me think I'm somebody else."
100. "What would you ask if you had just one question?"
101. "Life limped along at subsonic speeds."
102. "You never know just how you look through other people's eyes."
103. "Twenty-five years old- my mother, God rest her soul."
104. "Deep inside I know you feel it too."
105. "But there's got to be an open lane, somewhere here in front of me."
106. "Hey, I know it's just a song, but it's spice for the recipe."
107. "Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm."
108. "Be colorblind-don't be so shallow."
109. "A woman is a woman, and a man ain't nothin' but a male."
110. "All of the things you try to hide will be revealed on the other side."
111. "I don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence."
112. "Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal."
113. "Times are gone for honest men."
114. "How on Earth did I get so jaded? Life's mysteries seem so faded."
115. "This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon."
116. "I'd like to propose a two-week limit on going steady."
117. "I never worry, now that is a lie."
118. "Don't believe everything that you breathe."
119. "I'll smile, and you'll wave. We'll pretend it's okay."
120. "I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul."
121. "Not vicious or malicious, just de-lovely and delicious."
122. "Do you mean what you say when there's no one around?"
123. "Even white boys got to shout."
124. "Lord, I really love this place."
125. "I may not know what you're going through, but time is the space
between me and you."
126. "I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant."
127. "She'll make you breakfast, she'll make you toast."
128. "Strange you never knew."
129. "So I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was
singing my song."
130. "It's not your fault that you're always wrong. The weak ones are there
to justify the strong."
131. "She calls my name, pulls my train, no one else could heal my pain."
132. "I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio- still I can't escape
the ghost of you."
133. "The air outside so soft is saying everything."
134. "When I feel down, I want you above me."
135. "I'll just put her right back with the rest- that's the way it goes, I
guess."
135. "Too many Porter singers, not enough Porter songs- until you came
along."
136. "Oh, how can heaven hold a place for me, when a girl like you has cast
a spell on me?"
137. "All they can say is, he's not your kind."
138. "(song title) was the color of her hair."
139. "It's like you're always stuck in second gear."
140. "No way I'm disco dancing."
141. "You can't tell me it's not worth dying for."
142. "The wrong guy, the wrong situation."
143. "Stumble you might fall, stumble you might fall."
144. "Did you do too many drugs?"
145. "If I had my time again, I would do it all the same."
146. "I think sex is overrated too."
147. "Do you wanna bang heads with me?"
148. "Life is demanding without understanding."
149. "Follow me, follow me, follow me, but don't lose your grip."
150. "They all want me, they can't have me."
151. "My mind's tellin' me no, but my body's tellin' me yes."
152. "Though I mess around, it's only cause I need some affection."
153. "I don't even own a TV."
154. "'It is always nice to see you,' says the man behind the counter."
155. "Her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind, and she wonders
without knowing, where did we begin?"
156. "I see you drunk, I start to laugh."
157. "Throw your hands in the air, don't ever disrespect."
158. "All the stones that are thrown are building up a wall."
159. "The devil's not in the details, no, the devil's in my pants."
160. "And you're all dressed up like the Cure."
161. "You let life get in the way."
162. "The world was made up of this brotherhood of man, for whatever that
means."
163. "I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed."
164. "I know it's hard to keep an open heart."
165. "You're always askin' what it's all about, so listen to my reply."
166. "She said days go by, I'm hypnotized."
167. "If I was broke, would you want me?"
168. "Come on, come on, love me for the money."
169. "I know the song you're singin', the lyrics haven't changed."
170. "If you put two and two together, you will see what our friendship is
for."
171. "I don't wanna leave you lonely- you gotta make me change my mind."
172. "Shucks, for me there is no other. You're the only shoe that fits."
173. "I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is."
174. "It's strange what desire will make foolish people do."
175. "And nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground."
176. "Well, it's just a simple fact. When I want something, I don't wanna
pay for it."
177. "Yeah, I'm tangled up in blue."
178. "So close, no matter how far."
179. "If rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram."
180. "Take it hip to hip, rocketing through the wilderness."
181. "Rap is seamless."
182. "And it's a sad, sad world, when a girl will break a boy just because
she can."
183. "We are about ready to rock steady."
184. "Please, please understand-I'm in love with another man."
185. "We don't need to talk about it anymore. Yesterday's just a memory,
when you close the door."
186. "I'll make it through the day with some help from Johnnie Walker Red."
187. "We'll take the trail marked on your father's map."
188. "Cause you were a dream that just should not have been, a fantasy
real."
189. "You're a slave to money, then you die."
190. "When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to
you."
191. "Saying 'I love you' is not the words I want to hear from you."
192. "They think that your early ending was all wrong."
193. "I would like a place I can call my own."
194. "I'm not black like Barry White, no, I am white like Frank Black is."
195. "Sunday always comes too late."
196. "Nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do."
197. "I wanna drive it all night long."
198. "You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere."
199. "Don't call it a comeback."
200. "One last call for alcohol."

Kim

*Never in my wildest dreams did I think my life would turn out the way it
has -- mainly because in my wildest dreams, that guard at the bank never had
the cojones to go for his gun when I started taking hostages. (Mike Lopez)*

[Lesmond]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 15:36:46 GMT, Kim wrote:

Ok, I listened to almost no popular music in the '90s, but I'll see what I
know.

>6. "So take your hat off when you're talking to me."

"Feed the Tree", Belly (good song)

>8. "I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you wake.'"

"No Rain", Blind Melon

>9. "So listen up, 'cause you can't say nothin'- you'll shut me down with a
>push of your button."

"Sabotage", Beastie Boys

>10. "I'll be your whatever you want, the bong in this reggae song."

"Cannonball", The Breeders

>12. "You know I'm such a fool for you."

"Linger", The Cranberries (yech)

>21. "Watching the world wake up from history."

"Right Here, Right Now", I can't who it is.

>22. "Stand in the way of love, and we will smoke them all."

"All 7", Prince

>23. "Why they changed it, I can't say-people just liked it better that way."

"Constantinople", They Might Be Giants

>27. "I want to be the girl with the most cake."

Something by Courtney Love

>28. "Sit down and watch the tube, but nothing's on."

Something by Greenday.

>31. "And when the car broke down, they started walking."

"The Way", Fastball

>37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."

"All I Wanna Do", Sheryl Crow (yech)

>39. "But both girl and boy were glad-one kid had it worse than that."

"Mmm, Mmm, Mmm", Crash Test Dummies (I was just thinking about this song...)

>40. "We'd take a limousine, 'cause it costs more."

"If I Had a Million Dollars", Barenaked Ladies

>41. "She grew up tall and she grew up right."

Something by Tom Petty

>45. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbor."

"Tubthumping", Chumbawumba

>51. "And I'm glad I haven't yet, because I'm sure it isn't good."

"Knock on Wood", Mighty, Mighty Bosstones. This song never made any sense to
me.

>53. "Take all of your money, give it up to charity."

"What I Got", Sublime

>63. "And all the roads we have to walk are winding."

"Wonderwall", Oasis

>66. "One dance left, this world is gonna pull through."

That song by the New Radicals.

72. "You can see I'm in no shape for driving."

"Hey Jealousy", Gin Blossoms

>78. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"

"Tears in Heaven", Eric Clapton

>79. "I'm a goddess on my knees."

"Bitch", Meredith Brooks

87. "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom."

"Humpty Dance", by some guy with a fake nose, wasn't it?

>89. "Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?"

"Sex and Candy", Marcy Playground

>96. "Hey, don't you want to go down like some chunky cosmonaut?"

"Low", Cracker (chunky? I thought it was junkie...)

That's enough for now. I'll do the other half later.

__
I came to stay, but I got swept away.

[Paul L. Madarasz]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 15:36:46 GMT, "Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org>
wrote, perhaps among other things...:

>OK - No artists or songs are repeated. Virtually every song received
>significant radio or video airplay, although only some actually placed high
>on the pop charts. A few songs may have been originally released prior to
>1990, but all achieved their major exposure in the nineties.

>37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."

Got this one. Crow just set music to one of my favorite poems.

>75. "It really don't matter if you're white or black."

Zappa used this in the 60s.

>96. "Hey, don't you want to go down like some chunky cosmonaut?"

That band that became Cracker (before they were Cracker)? Some junkie
tune.

>200. "One last call for alcohol."

Mose Allison, but this one's from the 50s.

Well, three out of 200. And I'm a musician, too. Different music, I
guess.
--
Paul L. Madarasz
Tucson, Baja Arizona
"How 'bout cuttin' that rebop?
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[Oriole Adams]

>6. "So take your hat off when you're talking to me."

Feed the Trees, Belly

>8. "I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you wake.'"

No Rain, Blind Melon

>21. "Watching the world wake up from history."

Right Here, Right Now, Jesus Jones

>22. "Stand in the way of love, and we will smoke them all."

7, Prince

>27. "I want to be the girl with the most cake."

Doll Parts, Hole

>39. "But both girl and boy were glad-one kid had it worse than that."

Mmmmm X 5, Crash Test Dummies

>40. "We'd take a limousine, 'cause it costs more."

If I Had $1000000, Bare Naked Ladies

>45. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbor."

Tubthumping, Chumbawumba

>54. "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel."

Mysterious Ways, U2

>68. "They hung out with folks like Dennis Hoppper, Bob Seger, and Sonny &
>Cher."

Lullaby, Shawn Mullins

>87. "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom."

Humpty Dance, Digital Underground

>89. "Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?"

Sex and Candy, Marcy Playground

>103. "Twenty-five years old- my mother, God rest her soul."

Fly, Sugar Ray

>114. "How on Earth did I get so jaded? Life's mysteries seem so faded."

Runaway Train, Soul Asylum

>123. "Even white boys got to shout."

Baby Got Back, Sir Mix-A-Lot

>124. "Lord, I really love this place."

Tennessee, Arrested Development

>126. "I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant."

Nothing Compares 2 U, Sine-Aid O'Connor

>134. "When I feel down, I want you above me."

I Touch Myself, Divinyls (Both my husband and my brother used to drop
everything and run to the TV when this video was on.)

>"I'll just put her right back with the rest- that's the way it goes, I
>guess."

Set Adrift on Memory Bliss, PM Dawn

>135. "Too many Porter singers, not enough Porter songs- until you came
>along."

A Girl Like You, Edwyn Collins (does he sound like David Bowie, or what?)

>139. "It's like you're always stuck in second gear."

That song from "Friends", the Rembrandts

>140. "No way I'm disco dancing."

I'm Too Sexy, Right Said Fred (I thought he said "The way I'm disco
dancing...")

>150. "They all want me, they can't have me."

Macarena, Los Del Rios

>154. "'It is always nice to see you,' says the man behind the counter."

Tom's Diner, Suzanne Vega (TVLand's "I Dream of Jeannie" parody was hilarious)

>162. "The world was made up of this brotherhood of man, for whatever that
>means."

What's Up, Four Non-Blondes

>170. "If you put two and two together, you will see what our friendship is
>for."

Say You'll Be There, Spice Girls

>174. "It's strange what desire will make foolish people do."

Wicked Game, Chris Isaak

>179. "If rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram."

Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice

>180. "Take it hip to hip, rocketing through the wilderness."

Roam, B-52s

>190. "When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to
>you."

500 Miles, Proclaimers

>197. "I wanna drive it all night long."

Life is a Highway, Tom Cochrane

The 1900s is when I first got a CD player in my car, so I didn't listen to the
radio as much in the latter half of the decade. Heck, I hate to sound like my
parents, but half the time I couldn't understand the lyrics anyway. It wasn't
like the good ol' days, back in the 1970s, when I knew *all* the songs on the
radio, by cracky....

Oriole ~
.:* feel smart again <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com">mental floss</a>

[Mark Hanson]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote in message
news:iobx9.8004$t1....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...

> OK - No artists or songs are repeated. Virtually every song received
> significant radio or video airplay, although only some actually placed
high
> on the pop charts. A few songs may have been originally released prior to
> 1990, but all achieved their major exposure in the nineties.

...

> 78. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"

Eric Clapton, "Tears in Heaven"

...

Wow. Even though I spend most of the 90s actively avoiding the sappy, pappy,
derivative, loathsome dreck that makes up the pop charts, I sort of thought
I'd get more than *one* out of 200 lyrics. Four or five others seemed sort
of familiar, but I think they just reminded me other other songs from
another era. Do the 70s next, and I promise I'll do better.

Mark

[Kim]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote in message
news:iobx9.8004$t1....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...

> OK - No artists or songs are repeated. Virtually every song received
> significant radio or video airplay, although only some actually placed
high
> on the pop charts. A few songs may have been originally released prior to
> 1990, but all achieved their major exposure in the nineties.

> 5. "She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, she wears a cross around her
> neck."

"She Talks to Angels" - Black Crowes

> 8. "I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you
wake.'"

"No Rain" Blind Melon

> 21. "Watching the world wake up from history."

"Right Here, Right Now" - Van Halen

> 37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."

"All I Wanna Do" - Sheryl Crow

> 48. "Makeup on their faces, actors took their places next to me."

"Carnival" - Nancy Merchant

> 78. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"

"Tears in Heaven" - Eric Clapton

> 79. "I'm a goddess on my knees."

"Bitch" - Meredith Somebody

> 103. "Twenty-five years old- my mother, God rest her soul."

"Fly" - Sugar Ray

> 108. "Be colorblind-don't be so shallow."

"Free Your Mind" - En Vogue

> 129. "So I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was
> singing my song."

"Torn" - Natalie Imbruglia

> 141. "You can't tell me it's not worth dying for."

"Everything I do" - Bryan Adams

> 142. "The wrong guy, the wrong situation."

"Roll To Me" - Dell Shannon's or something like that.

> 163. "I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed."

"Crying" - Aerosmith

> 184. "Please, please understand-I'm in love with another man."

"All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You" - Heart

> 185. "We don't need to talk about it anymore. Yesterday's just a memory,
> when you close the door."

"Can You Take Me High Enough" - Damn Yankees

> 190. "When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next
to
> you."

"500 Miles" - Proclaimers

> 191. "Saying 'I love you' is not the words I want to hear from you."

"More Than Words" - Extreme

[Jim Shaffer, Jr.]

>1. "Can you tell me? No, you can't, because you don't know."

Hanson, "Mmmmbop"

>2. "A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio."

Goo Goo Dolls, "Name"

>3. "But I've said nothing so far, and I can keep it up as long as it takes."

Blues Traveler, "The Hook"

>5. "She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, she wears a cross around her
>neck."

The Black Crowes, "She Talks to Angels"

>6. "So take your hat off when you're talking to me."

Belly, "Feed the Tree"

>8. "I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you wake.'"

Blind Melon, "No Rain"

>15. "There's a blood that's flowing through the feeling, with a knife to
>open up the sky's vein."

Meat Puppets, "Backwater"

>21. "Watching the world wake up from history."

EMF, "Right Here, Right Now"

>22. "Stand in the way of love, and we will smoke them all."

Prince, "Seven"

>23. "Why they changed it, I can't say-people just liked it better that way."

They Might Be Giants, "Istanbul"

>30. "You know your culture from your trash, you know your plastic from your
>cash."

Peter Gabriel, "Steam"

>31. "And when the car broke down, they started walking."

Fastball, "The Way"

>34. "Rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells."

Rage Against the Machine (I don't remember the title)

>35. "I'm standing in cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines."

REM, "What's the Frequency Kenneth"

>37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."

Sheryl Crow, "All I Want to Do"

>41. "She grew up tall and she grew up right."

Tom Petty, "Mary Jane's Last Dance"

>42. "Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it."

Pearl Jam (I don't remember the title)

>43. "I don't care what they say-what do they know about this love, anyway?"

Melissa Etheridge, "Come to my Window"

>45. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbor."

Chumbawamba, "Tubthumping"

>48. "Makeup on their faces, actors took their places next to me."

Natalie Merchant, "Carnival"

>50. "I recommend biting off more than you can chew to anyone."

Alanis Morissette, "You Learn"

>54. "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel."

U2, "Mysterious Ways"

>57. "She comes around, and she goes down on me."

Third Eye Blind, "Semi-Charmed Life"

>62. "Tell me, am I very far?"

Dishwalla, "Counting Blue Cars"

>63. "And all the roads we have to walk are winding."

Oasis, "Wonderwall"

>68. "They hung out with folks like Dennis Hoppper, Bob Seger, and Sonny &
>Cher."

Shawn Mullins(?), "Rockabye"

>70. "Sweet like candy to your soul, sweet you rock, and sweet you roll."

Dave Matthews Band, "Crash Into Me"

>72. "You can see I'm in no shape for driving."

Gin Blossoms, "Hey Jealousy"

>77. "I am wearing my new dress tonight!"

Paula Cole, "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone"

>78. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"

Eric Clapton, "Tears In Heaven"

>79. "I'm a goddess on my knees."

Meredith Brooks, "Bitch"

>82. "Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town."

Spin Doctors, "Little Miss Can't-Be-Wrong"

>87. "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom."

Digital Underground, "The Humpty Dance"

>89. "Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?"

Marcy Playground, "Sex and Candy"

>96. "Hey, don't you want to go down like some chunky cosmonaut?"

Cracker, "Low"

>100. "What would you ask if you had just one question?"

"What If God Was One Of Us" (can't remember the artist)

>103. "Twenty-five years old- my mother, God rest her soul."

Sugar Ray, "Fly"

>104. "Deep inside I know you feel it too."

Extreme, "I'm The One Who Wants To Be With You"

>107. "Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm."

Depeche Mode, "Enjoy the Silence"

>108. "Be colorblind-don't be so shallow."

TLC(?), "Free Your Mind"

>109. "A woman is a woman, and a man ain't nothin' but a male."

The Brian Setzer Orchestra (can't remember the title)

>111. "I don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence."

Temple of the Dog, "Hunger Strike"

>113. "Times are gone for honest men."

Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun"

>115. "This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon."

John Mellencamp, "Key West Intermezzo"

>131. "She calls my name, pulls my train, no one else could heal my pain."

I want to say "There She Goes" by Sixpence None The Richer, but then #187 is a
repeated artist. (I don't know when the original version was recorded.)

>135. "I'll just put her right back with the rest- that's the way it goes, I
>guess."

PM Dawn, "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss"

>138. "(song title) was the color of her hair."

Aerosmith, "Pink" (If I'm right, you're wrong about not repeating any artists.)

>139. "It's like you're always stuck in second gear."

The Rembrandts, "I'll Be There For You"

>142. "The wrong guy, the wrong situation."

"Roll With Me" (can't remember the artist)

>150. "They all want me, they can't have me."

Los Del Rio(?), "Macarena"

>162. "The world was made up of this brotherhood of man, for whatever that
>means."

4 Non Blondes, "What's Going On"

>163. "I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed."

Aerosmith, "Cryin'"

>166. "She said days go by, I'm hypnotized."

"Sunny Came Home" (I want to say Paula Cole, but I'm not sure)

>176. "Well, it's just a simple fact. When I want something, I don't wanna
>pay for it."

Jane's Addiction, "Caught Stealing"

>178. "So close, no matter how far."

Metallica, "Nothing Else Matters"

>180. "Take it hip to hip, rocketing through the wilderness."

The B-52s, "Roam"

>184. "Please, please understand-I'm in love with another man."

Heart, "All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You"

>185. "We don't need to talk about it anymore. Yesterday's just a memory,
>when you close the door."

I think this is Tommy Shaw's band that I can't think of the name of.

>187. "We'll take the trail marked on your father's map."

Sixpence None The Richer, "Kiss Me"

>194. "I'm not black like Barry White, no, I am white like Frank Black is."

The Bloodhound Gang, "Fire Water Burn"

>200. "One last call for alcohol."

"Closing Time" (can't remember the artist)

[artyw]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote in message news:<iobx9.8004$t1....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>...

> OK - No artists or songs are repeated. Virtually every song received
> significant radio or video airplay, although only some actually placed high
> on the pop charts. A few songs may have been originally released prior to
> 1990, but all achieved their major exposure in the nineties.
>
> 1. "Can you tell me? No, you can't, because you don't know."

> 5. "She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, she wears a cross around her
> neck."
I think at least one of these is by Train. 1 sounds like Drops of
Jupiter (But this may be post 2000). I know it has the line "can you
tell me?"
#5 Meet Virginia?

> 6. "So take your hat off when you're talking to me."

(Damn that sounds familiar)
>

>
>

>
> 73. "I've been downhearted, baby, ever since the day we met."

(This song has a very long title IIRC. Something about a phonebooth?
May also feature B.B. King. Or maybe I am confusing it with several
other songs....)

>
> 82. "Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town."

Little Miss Cant Be Wrong by the Spin Doctors (I cant be wront on this
one, can I)

>
> 89. "Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?"

(Damn I know this one too....)

>
> 107. "Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm."

Depeche Mode

>
>
>
> 139. "It's like you're always stuck in second gear."

>(Damn I know this one too....)

[Rick B.]

"Jim Shaffer, Jr." wrote:

> >166. "She said days go by, I'm hypnotized."
> "Sunny Came Home" (I want to say Paula Cole, but I'm not sure)

Shawn Colvin

[Rick B.]

Kim wrote:
>

> > 129. "So I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was
> > singing my song."
>
> "Torn" - Natalie Imbruglia

Mmmm...how 'bout "Stay" (Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories)

[Kim]

"Mark Hanson" <mark.h...@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:F%cx9.75537$wG.2...@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...

OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't be too
difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the 90's one,
which surprised me. But I knew more of the songs themselves than the
artists. Too many of them seem to be described as "oh, you know, that
*guy*..."

1 February made me shiver
2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover
3 Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough
4 You don't have to be coy, Roy
5 Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
7 He gave his life for tourism
8 Colored lights can hypnotize
9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay
10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned
11 Almost rang the phone off the wall
12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps
13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.
15 Hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?
16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand
17 Well we got no class and we got no principles
18 Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll
19 At a tombstone bar in a juke-joint car
20 I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old.
21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday
22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance
23 I never knew me a better time
24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word
25 Give me a dime so I can phone my mother
26 Too much of anything is not good for you
27 With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done
29 Vernon'll meet me when the Boac lands
30 I wanna be your be your rubber ball
31 I feel a warmth in my heart and my soul that I never knew
32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru
33 Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?
34 You gave away the things you loved
35 I'm not supposed to be alone with you
36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year
37 The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows
39 Born a man-child of the sun
40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared
41 Mount your horses draw your sword
42 I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room
43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark
45 Mama, take this badge off of me
46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
47 Well, it's no big sin to stick your two cents in
48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man
49 I'll shine up my old brown shoes
50 Everyday is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
51 Do you think I'm home just sitting around?
52 We've come too far to leave it all behind
53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money
54 Your kisses lift me higher
55 Now, I really want to see you
56 You drink the night away and forget about everything
57 Did I hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today
58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
59 Don't know the reason that I stayed here all season
60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside
61 You know that's a game that I hate to lose
62 Don't you know that it's wrong to take what is given you
63 Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
64 If you give a little more then you're asking for
65 I'm savin' all my lovin' for someone who's lovin' me
66 Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
68 Let the music take your mind
69 Thunder is your night light
70 Til forever on it goes,through the circle fast and slow
71 Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking
72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.
73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire
74 I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay
75 I don't understand what you're lookin' to find
76 Young and beautiful, but someday your looks'll be gone
77 Turned on some music to start my day
78 I might have to move heaven and earth to prove it to you, baby
79 He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name
81 Close your eyes and think of me
82 Honey doggone it I depend upon it
83 Reflexes got the better of me
84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
85 He came on a summer's day bringin' gifts from far away
86 I won't share you with another boy
87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed
88 Running around as you do with your head up in the clouds
89 The rich relationed hometown queen married into what she needs
90 I knew her smile in an instant
91 There's a reason why I'm feelin' so high
92 I've been waiting in the hall, been waiting on your call
93 You had me down, 21 to zip
94 There's something wrong here, there can be no denying
95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes
96 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday
97 So if I call you, don't make a fuss
98 Your ability to reason is swept away
99 Stranger dressed in black, she's a hungry child
100 You got your spell on me, baby.
101 Like a picture she was layin' there
102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
103 Players only love you when they're playing
37% 104 You better get yourself together darlin'
105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean
106 The sudden motion made me skip
107 I'm a loveable man and I can take you to the nearest star
108 Sail on silver girl
109 You got your demons, you got desires
110 I never understood a single word he said
111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff
112 Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school
113 Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young
114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud
115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream
116 You'll always be the only one for me
117 I would kiss the ground she walks on
118 I can see in your eyes, I'm happy you know it
119 Never heard nothin' but bad things about him
120 I got no fare to ride a train
121 These are the lips that can't help callin' your name
122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself
123 There is wonder in most every thing I see
124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
125 Whatever you want to do is all right with me
126 They stand when I walk through the neighborhoods
127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny
128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces
129 Togetherness, well that's all I'm after
130 Oh, babe I wanna taste your lips
131 You like your life in a free-form style
132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
133 She danced without a net upon the wire
134 Everything I do always takes me home to you
135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black
136 Take time to make time, make time to be there
137 You started this fire down in my soul
138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley
139 There's too many places I gotta see
140 I looked at your face every day
141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
142 She's wearing my high school ring on her chain
143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician
144 You make my motor run, my motor run
145 The boss don't mind sometimes if you act the fool
146 You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot
147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove
148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
149 Way down around Vicksburg around Louisiana way
150 We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit
151 Used to be's don't count anymore
152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you
153 Things ain't what they used to be, no, no
154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind
155 I gotta catch a noon train
156 When the music stopped I returned to my seat
157 At night we ride through mansions of glory
158 Demonstrating sweet love and affection
159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice
160 On board I'm the captain so climb aboard
161 When it all was over we had to find another place
162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
163 You've brought a lot of sunshine into my life
164 The dying embers of the night, a fire that slowly fades to dawn
165 We've just begun to get our share of the world's delights
166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind
167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter
168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us
169 If anyone should ever write my life story
170 So many nights I'd sit by my window
171 Some people call me the space cowboy
172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms
173 There are times when all the world's asleep
174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly
175 We let so many dreams just slip through our hands
176 The breakup we had has made me lonesome and sad
177 See the curtains hanging in the window
178 There'll be no parade, no TV or stage
179 Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
180 There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now
181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
183 No man does it all by himself
184 You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away
185 You're fine and you're mine and you look so divine
186 You're a genie in disguise
187 Your dreams were your ticket out
188 I'm a soldier in the war on poverty
189 Fever, temperature's risin' now
190 I broke a heart, that's gentle and true
191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act
193 Talk about your childhood wishes
194 Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
195 Ah, peace throughout the land
196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
197 Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through
198 Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed
199 There is none so blind as he who will not see
200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants

[Kim]

"Rick B." <deep...@sprynet.com> wrote in message
news:3DC5848C...@sprynet.com...

Crap - you're right. Duh!!! (I knew that, I really did).

[Carlos Hernandez]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> writes:

>OK - No artists or songs are repeated. Virtually every song received
>significant radio or video airplay, although only some actually placed high
>on the pop charts. A few songs may have been originally released prior to
>1990, but all achieved their major exposure in the nineties.

Wow, that's a lot of lyrics. And I know so very, very few of them. The
ones I left in but left blank are songs I could sing along to but can't
remember artist or song.

>19. "Girls, what's my weakness?"

Salt 'n' Peppa (sp?), I think it's Let's Talk About Sex

>21. "Watching the world wake up from history."

Jesus Jones, Right Here Right Now

>23. "Why they changed it, I can't say-people just liked it better that
way."

>27. "I want to be the girl with the most cake."
Hole, but I can't remember the name of the song

>28. "Sit down and watch the tube, but nothing's on."

Green Day, Longview?

>31. "And when the car broke down, they started walking."

Fastball, The Way

>37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."

Sheryl Crow, All I Wanna Do

>39. "But both girl and boy were glad-one kid had it worse than that."

Crash Test Dummies, Mmm mmm mmm mmm?

>40. "We'd take a limousine, 'cause it costs more."

Barenaked Ladies, One Million Dollars

>45. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbor."

Madonna's version of Don't Cry For Me Argentina?

>46. "I got my head shaved by a jumbo jet."

Blur, Song 2 (and I thought it was "checked" not "shaved")

>52. "What's with these homies dissin' my girl? Why do they gotta front?"

Weezer, Buddy Holly

>54. "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel."

U2, Mysterious Ways

>63. "And all the roads we have to walk are winding."

>64. "One goes to the morgue, and the other jail. One got wasted, and the
>other's a waste."

Offspring, the "Keep em separated" song but I don't think that's the title

>68. "They hung out with folks like Dennis Hoppper, Bob Seger, and Sonny &
>Cher."

Shawn Mullin (?), Lullaby

>74. "I don't care if you don't care, as long as you don't go

The Cardigans, ???

>78. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"

Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven

>79. "I'm a goddess on my knees."
Meredith Brooks, Bitch

>87. "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom."

???, the Humpty Dance

>89. "Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?"

>98. "The night is my companion, and solitude my guide."
Sarah McLachlan, ????

>100. "What would you ask if you had just one question?"

Joan Osborne, One of Us

>101. "Life limped along at subsonic speeds."

Presidents of the U.S.A., Lump

>106. "Hey, I know it's just a song, but it's spice for the recipe."

????, All Star

>108. "Be colorblind-don't be so shallow."

En Vogue, ????

>114. "How on Earth did I get so jaded? Life's mysteries seem so faded."

????

>116. "I'd like to propose a two-week limit on going steady."

No idea, but I can see the video in my head, and it is cool.

>121. "Not vicious or malicious, just de-lovely and delicious."

Dee-lite, ????

>129. "So I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was
>singing my song."

Lisa Loeb, Stay

>137. "All they can say is, he's not your kind."

>139. "It's like you're always stuck in second gear."
The Rembrandts, The "Friends" Theme (I'll Be There For You)

>140. "No way I'm disco dancing."

Right Said Fred, I'm Too Sexy

>143. "Stumble you might fall, stumble you might fall."

Stereo MCs, ???

>148. "Life is demanding without understanding."

>151. "My mind's tellin' me no, but my body's tellin' me yes."
Christina Aguilera, Genie in a Bottle

>155. "Her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind, and she wonders
>without knowing, where did we begin?"

????, Mary Moon (??)

>170. "If you put two and two together, you will see what our friendship is
>for."

Spice Girls, Say You Will

>173. "I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is."

Bon Jovi, Bed of Roses

>179. "If rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram."

Sounds like something from Ice, Ice Baby but I'm not sure

>187. "We'll take the trail marked on your father's map."

Sixpence None the Richer, Kiss Me

>190. "When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to
>you."

The Proclaimers, 500 Miles

>197. "I wanna drive it all night long."

Tom Cochrane, Life is a Highway

>198. "You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere."

Aqua, Barbie Girl

>199. "Don't call it a comeback."

LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out

>200. "One last call for alcohol."

????, Closing Time

--
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[Mark Hanson]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote in message

news:PJfx9.9353$t1....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...

> OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't be
too
> difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the 90's one,
> which surprised me. But I knew more of the songs themselves than the
> artists. Too many of them seem to be described as "oh, you know, that
> *guy*..."
>
> 1 February made me shiver

Don McLean, "American Pie" -- heck, I've already tied my score!!!

> 4 You don't have to be coy, Roy

Paul Simon, "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover."

> 7 He gave his life for tourism

Steve Martin, "King Tut."

> 13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Janis Joplin, "Bobby McGee."

> 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

Erm. The Kinks? Or is that from the 60s quiz?

> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

I think this is from "Rock-n-Roll Music," but I don't know who did it in the
70s.

> 69 Thunder is your night light

I have no idea, but I like it.

> 96 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday

Bob Seger, I think.

> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, "Ohio."

> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean

Well, I have the song going through my head, but...

> 109 You got your demons, you got desires

This one too. :-(

> 111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff

And again... :-P

> 112 Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school

Aerosmith, "Walk This Way."

> 122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself

Ricky Nelson, "Garden Party."

> 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces

Um...um...um...

> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite

10cc, "Afternoon Delight."

> 136 Take time to make time, make time to be there

Er...

> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

> 143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician

Agh!

> 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

Bruce Springsteen?

> 150 We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit

Bob Seger, "Night Moves."

> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

The Band, "The Weight."

> 171 Some people call me the space cowboy

Steve Miller Band, "Space Cowboy."

> 192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act

Grand Funk Railroad, "American Band."

---

Well, I definitely did better -- I improved from 1/200 answered to 12/200. I
even think most of my answers are right. :-)

Mark

[Max C. Webster III]

>> 96 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday
>
>Bob Seger, I think.

You're probably think along the lines of "Night Moves", but that line is the
opening line from Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"

- Max -
=======
We were parking by the lake and there was
not another car in sight.

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old "Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote in
alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:32:47 GMT that ...

>1 February made me shiver

Don Maclean, "American Pie"

>2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover

Jim Croce "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"

>3 Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough

Charlie Daniels Band, "Devil Went Down to Georgia"

>4 You don't have to be coy, Roy

Paul Simon "Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover"

>5 Fly me away to the bright side of the moon

Gary Wright "Dreamweaver"

>6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay

Harry Nilsson "Cats in the Cradle"

>7 He gave his life for tourism
>8 Colored lights can hypnotize
>9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay
>10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned
>11 Almost rang the phone off the wall
>12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps
>13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Janis Joplin "Me and Bobby McGee"

>14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.
>15 Hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?

Some guy did it, but I prefer Joan Baez's version. "Please Come to
Boston"

>16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand
>17 Well we got no class and we got no principles
>18 Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll
>19 At a tombstone bar in a juke-joint car
> 20 I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old.
> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday
> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance
> 23 I never knew me a better time
> 24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word
> 25 Give me a dime so I can phone my mother
>26 Too much of anything is not good for you
> 27 With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
>28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

Cher "Half Breed"

>29 Vernon'll meet me when the Boac lands

Bobby Bloom "Montego Bay"

> 30 I wanna be your be your rubber ball
>31 I feel a warmth in my heart and my soul that I never knew
>32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru
>33 Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?
>34 You gave away the things you loved

Carly Simon "You're So Vain"

> 35 I'm not supposed to be alone with you
> 36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year

John Denver "Rocky Mountain High"

>37 The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
>38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows
> 39 Born a man-child of the sun
> 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared
> 41 Mount your horses draw your sword

Coven, "One Tin Soldier"

> 42 I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room

Rod Steward "You're in My Heart"

> 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

B.J. Thomas "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head"

>44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark
>45 Mama, take this badge off of me
> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
> 47 Well, it's no big sin to stick your two cents in
> 48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man

Joanie Mitchell ?

> 49 I'll shine up my old brown shoes
>50 Everyday is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
> 51 Do you think I'm home just sitting around?
>52 We've come too far to leave it all behind
>53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money
> 54 Your kisses lift me higher
> 55 Now, I really want to see you
> 56 You drink the night away and forget about everything
> 57 Did I hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today

Helen Reddy "Delta Dawn"

> 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
>59 Don't know the reason that I stayed here all season

Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville"

> 60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside
>61 You know that's a game that I hate to lose
> 62 Don't you know that it's wrong to take what is given you
>63 Used to be my life was just emotions passing by

Bread "Baby I'm a Want You"

>64 If you give a little more then you're asking for
>65 I'm savin' all my lovin' for someone who's lovin' me

Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive"

>66 Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
>67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
>68 Let the music take your mind
>69 Thunder is your night light
> 70 Til forever on it goes,through the circle fast and slow
>71 Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking
> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.
> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire
>74 I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay

Bobbie Gentry "The Day Billy Joe McAllister Jumped off the
Tallahatchee Bridge" (pretty sure that's wrong, too)

> 75 I don't understand what you're lookin' to find
>76 Young and beautiful, but someday your looks'll be gone

Gary Puckett and the Union Gap "Young Girl"

> 77 Turned on some music to start my day
>78 I might have to move heaven and earth to prove it to you, baby
>79 He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name
> 81 Close your eyes and think of me
>82 Honey doggone it I depend upon it
> 83 Reflexes got the better of me
>84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me

Beatles "Let it Be"

> 85 He came on a summer's day bringin' gifts from far away

"Brandy"

>86 I won't share you with another boy
> 87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed
>88 Running around as you do with your head up in the clouds
> 89 The rich relationed hometown queen married into what she needs

Janis Ian "17"

> 90 I knew her smile in an instant
> 91 There's a reason why I'm feelin' so high
>92 I've been waiting in the hall, been waiting on your call

Blondie "Hanging on the Telephone" (bet that's wrong though)

>93 You had me down, 21 to zip
> 94 There's something wrong here, there can be no denying

Carole King "It's Too Late"

> 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes

Captain Hook "Sylvia's Mother"

> 96 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday
> 97 So if I call you, don't make a fuss

10cc "I'm not in Love"

>98 Your ability to reason is swept away
> 99 Stranger dressed in black, she's a hungry child
> 100 You got your spell on me, baby.
>101 Like a picture she was layin' there
> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
>103 Players only love you when they're playing

Fleetwood Mac

> 104 You better get yourself together darlin'
> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean
> 106 The sudden motion made me skip
> 107 I'm a loveable man and I can take you to the nearest star

Ides of March "Vehicle"

>108 Sail on silver girl

Simon and Garfunkle "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

> 109 You got your demons, you got desires

Eagles "One of These Nights"

> 110 I never understood a single word he said

Three Dog Night "Joy to the World"

>111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff
> 112 Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school
> 113 Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young
> 114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud

Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly"

> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream
> 116 You'll always be the only one for me
>117 I would kiss the ground she walks on

"Ain't no Woman Like the One I Got"

> 118 I can see in your eyes, I'm happy you know it
>119 Never heard nothin' but bad things about him
>120 I got no fare to ride a train
>121 These are the lips that can't help callin' your name

"These Eyes"

>122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself

Rick Nelson "Garden Party"

>123 There is wonder in most every thing I see
> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
> 125 Whatever you want to do is all right with me
>126 They stand when I walk through the neighborhoods
>127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny
> 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces
> 129 Togetherness, well that's all I'm after
> 130 Oh, babe I wanna taste your lips
> 131 You like your life in a free-form style
> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite

Starland Vocal Band "Afternoon Delight"

>133 She danced without a net upon the wire
>134 Everything I do always takes me home to you
> 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black
>136 Take time to make time, make time to be there
> 137 You started this fire down in my soul
> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley
>139 There's too many places I gotta see
> 140 I looked at your face every day
> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

Carl ... Kung Fu Fighting

>142 She's wearing my high school ring on her chain
>143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician
>144 You make my motor run, my motor run

The Knack, "My Sharona"

> 145 The boss don't mind sometimes if you act the fool

? O'Jays? "Everybody Plays the Fool"

> 146 You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot
>147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove
> 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
> 149 Way down around Vicksburg around Louisiana way
> 150 We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit

Bob ... "Night Moves"

>151 Used to be's don't count anymore

Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"

> 152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you

"Love Train"

>153 Things ain't what they used to be, no, no
> 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind

Heart?

>155 I gotta catch a noon train
> 156 When the music stopped I returned to my seat
> 157 At night we ride through mansions of glory

Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run"

>158 Demonstrating sweet love and affection
> 159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice

Neil Diamond "Song Song Blue"

> 160 On board I'm the captain so climb aboard

Styx "Carry On"

> 161 When it all was over we had to find another place
> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
>163 You've brought a lot of sunshine into my life
> 164 The dying embers of the night, a fire that slowly fades to dawn
>165 We've just begun to get our share of the world's delights
> 166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind

Steely Dan "Ricky Don't Lose that Number"

> 167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter
>168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us

Tony Orlando and Dawn "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"

>169 If anyone should ever write my life story

Gladys Knight and the Pips "You're the Best Thing (That Ever Happened
to Me""

>170 So many nights I'd sit by my window

Debbie Boone "You Light Up My Life"

>171 Some people call me the space cowboy

Steve Miller Band

>172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms

Alan O'Day? "Undercover Angel"

> 173 There are times when all the world's asleep
>174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly

Lynn ... "I Never Promised you a Rose Garden"

>175 We let so many dreams just slip through our hands
> 176 The breakup we had has made me lonesome and sad
> 177 See the curtains hanging in the window
> 178 There'll be no parade, no TV or stage

Marilyn McCoo "You Don't Have to be a Star"

> 179 Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
> 180 There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now

Michael Murphy "Wildfire"

> 181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

Terry Jacks "Seasons in the Sun"

>183 No man does it all by himself
> 184 You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away
>185 You're fine and you're mine and you look so divine
>186 You're a genie in disguise
> 187 Your dreams were your ticket out

John Sebastian "Welcome Back"

>188 I'm a soldier in the war on poverty

"Will it Go Round in Circles"

>189 Fever, temperature's risin' now
>190 I broke a heart, that's gentle and true

Linda Ronstadt "You're No Good"

> 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
>192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act
>193 Talk about your childhood wishes

Sammy Davis Jr. "Candy Man"

> 194 Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
> 195 Ah, peace throughout the land
>196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
>197 Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through
> 198 Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed

Barbra Streisand "Evergreen"

>199 There is none so blind as he who will not see
> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants

"Mr. Bojangles"

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it…. Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
-Marcus Aurelius

[Jason Quick]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote :

For some reason, I felt the need to go through all 200 songs and see how
many I could get. So here 'tis:

> 2. "A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio."

Name - Goo Goo Dolls

> 3. "But I've said nothing so far, and I can keep it up as long as it
takes."

Hook - Blues Traveler

> 5. "She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, she wears a cross around her
> neck."

She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes

> 6. "So take your hat off when you're talking to me."

Feed The Tree - Belly

> 8. "I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you
wake.'"

No Rain - Blind Melon

> 9. "So listen up, 'cause you can't say nothin'- you'll shut me down with a
> push of your button."

Sabotage - Beastie Boys

> 11. "Well, I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud."

Good - Better Than Ezra

> 12. "You know I'm such a fool for you."

Linger - The Cranberries

> 13. "Baby got a problem sayin' bye-bye, just another hazard of a fly guy."

I Get Around - 2Pac

> 14. "Life is hard, and so am I-better give me something, so I don't die."

> 15. "There's a blood that's flowing through the feeling, with a knife to
> open up the sky's vein."

Backwater - Meat Puppets

> 16. "Parody of yourself in color, giving it to everybody but your mother."

Here and Now - Letters To Cleo

> 17. "It is thrown, just scream it from the wall."

> 18. "I have come to save the day, and I won't leave until I'm done."

Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz

> 19. "Girls, what's my weakness?"

Shoop - Salt N Pepa

> 21. "Watching the world wake up from history."

"Right Here Right Now" - Jesus Jones

> 22. "Stand in the way of love, and we will smoke them all."

7 - Prince

> 23. "Why they changed it, I can't say-people just liked it better that
way."

"Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants

> 24. "I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad, but I did it anyway."

Far Behind - Candlebox

> 25. "Don't you think I've heard the talk? Nobody's gonna tell me who to
> love."

> 26. "The sun has gone down, and the moon has come up."

The Distance - Cake

> 27. "I want to be the girl with the most cake."

Doll Parts - Hole

> 30. "You know your culture from your trash, you know your plastic from
your
> cash."

Steam - Peter Gabriel

> 31. "And when the car broke down, they started walking."

The Way - Fastball

> 33. "I said, you shouldn't have worn that dress."

Sex Type Thing - STP

> 34. "Rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells."

Bulls On Parade - RATM

> 37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."

All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow

> 39. "But both girl and boy were glad-one kid had it worse than that."
Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies

> 40. "We'd take a limousine, 'cause it costs more."

If I Had A Million Dollars - Barenaked Ladies

> 41. "She grew up tall and she grew up right."

Last Dance w/ Mary Jane - Tom Petty

> 42. "Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it."

Daughter - Pearl Jam

> 43. "I don't care what they say-what do they know about this love,
anyway?"

Come To My Window - M. Etheridge

> 44. "Cut me Sammy, and you'll understand-in my veins, hot music man."

Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin' Daddies

> 45. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbor."

Tubthumping - Chumbawamba

> 46. "I got my head shaved by a jumbo jet."
> 47. "We kissy kiss in the rearview-so bored, you're to blame."
> 48. "Makeup on their faces, actors took their places next to me."

Carnival - Natalie Merchant

> 49. "I don't know why you couldn't just stay with me."

Push - Matchbox 20

> 50. "I recommend biting off more than you can chew to anyone."

You Learn - A. Morrisette

> 51. "And I'm glad I haven't yet, because I'm sure it isn't good."

The Impression That I Get - Bosstones

> 52. "What's with these homies dissin' my girl? Why do they gotta front?"

Buddy Holly - Weezer

> 53. "Take all of your money, give it up to charity."
> 54. "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel."

Mysterious Ways - U2

> 55. "I'll throw away a chance at greatness, just to make this dream come
> into play."
> 56. "And would my clique do the score?"
> 57. "She comes around, and she goes down on me."

Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

> 58. "Played a track from your record collection, it's your mix,
> congratulations."

Down - 311

> 60. "But it's you I fell into."

Big Me - Foo Fighters

> 61. "When your mom is not around, there's no telling what we'll do when
> we're free."

> 62. "Tell me, am I very far?"

Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla

> 63. "And all the roads we have to walk are winding."

Wonderwall - Oasis

> 65. "So don't let me have any rights. Oh, I've had it up to here."

Just A Girl - No Doubt

> 67. "Our little group has always been and always will until the end."

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

> 68. "They hung out with folks like Dennis Hoppper, Bob Seger, and Sonny &
> Cher."

Rockabye - Sean Mullin(s)

> 69. "Show me where to look, and tell me what will I find."

Shine - Collective Soul

> 70. "Sweet like candy to your soul, sweet you rock, and sweet you roll."

Crash - DMB

> 71. "A million lies to sell yourself is all you ever had."

Stupid Girl - Garbage

> 72. "You can see I'm in no shape for driving."

Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms

> 73. "I've been downhearted, baby, ever since the day we met."

Standing Outside [Blah Blah] - Primitive Radio Gods

> 74. "I don't care if you don't care, as long as you don't go."

Lovefool - Cardigans (and it's 'I don't care if you really care...')

> 76. "Won't you please come around, 'cause I wanna share forever with you,
> baby."

Dreamlover - Mariah Carey

> 77. "I am wearing my new dress tonight!"

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone - Paula Cola

> 78. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"

Tears in Heaven - E. Clapton

> 79. "I'm a goddess on my knees."

Bitch - Meredith Brooks

> 82. "Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town."

Little Miss Can't Be Wrong - Spin Doctors

> 87. "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom."

The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground

> 88. "I see some ladies tonight that should be havin' my baby, baby."

Big Poppa - Notorious BIG

> 89. "Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?"

Sex & Candy - Marcy Playground

> 90. "Ain't nothin' better, we beat the odds together."

Still The One - Shania Twain

> 91. "It was time for me to make my presence felt, so sit back, relax, and
> strap on your seat belt."

Nuthin But A G Thang- Dr Dre

> 92. "She said she'd never turn on me (you lied to me!)."

Return of The Mack - Mark Morrison

> 93. "Baby, you're a perfect ten/Can I get in?"

No Diggity - Blackstreet

> 94. "Just once if I had the chance, the things I would do to you."

> 95. "No, no, we don't die, yes, we multiply."

The Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze

> 96. "Hey, don't you want to go down like some chunky cosmonaut?"

Get off This - Cracker

> 97. "So I made a big mistake- try to see it once my way."

Would? - Alice In Chains

> 98. "The night is my companion, and solitude my guide."

Possession - S. Maclachlan

> 99. "Help me think I'm somebody else."
> 100. "What would you ask if you had just one question?"

One of Us - Joan Osborne

> 101. "Life limped along at subsonic speeds."
> 102. "You never know just how you look through other people's eyes."

Pepper - Butthole Surfers

> 103. "Twenty-five years old- my mother, God rest her soul."

Fly - Sugar Ray

> 104. "Deep inside I know you feel it too."

To Be With You - Mr Big (really an 80s song)

> 105. "But there's got to be an open lane, somewhere here in front of me."

One Headlight - Wallflowers

> 107. "Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm."

Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode

> 108. "Be colorblind-don't be so shallow."

Free Your Mind - En Vogue

> 109. "A woman is a woman, and a man ain't nothin' but a male."
Jump Jive and Wail - Brian Setzer Orch.

> 110. "All of the things you try to hide will be revealed on the other
side."

Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers

> 111. "I don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence."

Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog (and it's 'decadents')

> 112. "Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal."
> 113. "Times are gone for honest men."
> 114. "How on Earth did I get so jaded? Life's mysteries seem so faded."

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

> 117. "I never worry, now that is a lie."

Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers

> 120. "I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul."

Creep - Radiohead

> 121. "Not vicious or malicious, just de-lovely and delicious."

Groove Is In The Heart - Dee-lite

> 123. "Even white boys got to shout."

Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot

> 125. "I may not know what you're going through, but time is the space
> between me and you."

Prayer For The Dying - Seal

> 126. "I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant."

Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor

> 127. "She'll make you breakfast, she'll make you toast."

She Don't Use Jelly - Flaming Lips

> 128. "Strange you never knew."

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

> 129. "So I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was
> singing my song."

Stay - Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories

> 131. "She calls my name, pulls my train, no one else could heal my pain."

There She Goes - The La's (or Sixpence None The Richer)

> 132. "I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio- still I can't escape
> the ghost of you."

Ordinary World - Duran Duran

> 133. "The air outside so soft is saying everything."

All I Want - Toad The Wet Sprocket

> 134. "When I feel down, I want you above me."

I Touch Myself - Divinyls

> 138. "(song title) was the color of her hair."

Suicide Blonde - INXS

> 139. "It's like you're always stuck in second gear."

I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts

> 140. "No way I'm disco dancing."

> 141. "You can't tell me it's not worth dying for."

Everything I Do - Bryan Adams

> 142. "The wrong guy, the wrong situation."

Roll To Me - Del Amitri

> 143. "Stumble you might fall, stumble you might fall."

Connected - Stereo MCs

> 145. "If I had my time again, I would do it all the same."

? - Big Audio Dynamite II

> 147. "Do you wanna bang heads with me?"
> 148. "Life is demanding without understanding."

The Sign - Ace of Base

> 149. "Follow me, follow me, follow me, but don't lose your grip."

What's My Name - Snoop Dogg

> 150. "They all want me, they can't have me."

Freakin' Macarena

> 152. "Though I mess around, it's only cause I need some affection."

Creep - TLC

> 154. "'It is always nice to see you,' says the man behind the counter."

Hmm...Tom's Diner, Suzanne Vega

> 155. "Her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind, and she
wonders
> without knowing, where did we begin?"

New Age Girl - Deadeye Dick

> 158. "All the stones that are thrown are building up a wall."

Cumbersome - 7 Mary 3

> 160. "And you're all dressed up like the Cure."

Underground - Ben Folds Five

> 162. "The world was made up of this brotherhood of man, for whatever that
> means."

What's Up - 4 Non Blondes

> 163. "I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed."

Cryin - Aerosmith

> 165. "You're always askin' what it's all about, so listen to my reply."

Unbelievable - EMF

> 166. "She said days go by, I'm hypnotized."

Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin

> 168. "Come on, come on, love me for the money."

Money Talks - AC/DC

> 170. "If you put two and two together, you will see what our friendship is
> for."

I'll Be There - Spice Girls (BLEAH)

> 171. "I don't wanna leave you lonely- you gotta make me change my mind."

Gimme One Reason - Tracy Chapman

> 172. "Shucks, for me there is no other. You're the only shoe that fits."

Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover - Sophie B Hawkins

> 174. "It's strange what desire will make foolish people do."

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

> 175. "And nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground."

Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil

> 176. "Well, it's just a simple fact. When I want something, I don't wanna
> pay for it."

Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction

> 177. "Yeah, I'm tangled up in blue."

Only Wanna Be With You - Hootie & The Blowfish

> 178. "So close, no matter how far."

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

> 179. "If rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram."

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

> 180. "Take it hip to hip, rocketing through the wilderness."

Roam - B52s

> 182. "And it's a sad, sad world, when a girl will break a boy just because
> she can."

Criminal - Fiona Apple

> 184. "Please, please understand-I'm in love with another man."

All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You - Heart

> 185. "We don't need to talk about it anymore. Yesterday's just a memory,
> when you close the door."

High Enough - Damn Yankees

> 187. "We'll take the trail marked on your father's map."
Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer

> 189. "You're a slave to money, then you die."

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

> 190. "When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next
to
> you."

500 Miles - The Proclaimers

> 191. "Saying 'I love you' is not the words I want to hear from you."

More Than Words - Extreme

> 195. "Sunday always comes too late."
Friday I'm In Love - The Cure

> 197. "I wanna drive it all night long."

Life Is A Highway - Tom Cochrane

> 199. "Don't call it a comeback."

Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J

> 200. "One last call for alcohol."

Closing Time - Semisonic

[Lesmond]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 17:33:56 GMT, Kim wrote:

>
>> 21. "Watching the world wake up from history."
>
>"Right Here, Right Now" - Van Halen

No, it was a different song. I think whoever said Jesus Jones was right.

[John Dean]

Kim wrote:
>
> OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't
> be too difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the
> 90's one, which surprised me. But I knew more of the songs themselves
> than the artists. Too many of them seem to be described as "oh, you
> know, that *guy*..."
>
> 1 February made me shiver

American Pie - Don MacLean

> 2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover

''and the men just call him 'Sir' '' Bad Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce

> 4 You don't have to be coy, Roy

50 Ways to leave your lover - Rhymin Simon

> 13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Me & Bobbie McGee - Kris Kristofferson

> 28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

Gypsies Tramps & Thieves - Cher

> 36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year

Rocky Mountain High - John Denver

> 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

Rain Drops Keep Fallin' on my Head - Slasher Distel

> 45 Mama, take this badge off of me

Knockin on Heaven's Door - Little Bobby Zimmerman

> 67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

Land Sakes we got us a CON-voy Someone McCall

> 84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me

Let it Be - Macca

> 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes

Sylvia's Mother - Dr Hook

> 108 Sail on silver girl

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Tom & Jerry

> 114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud

Killin me Softly - Roberta Flack

> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

Kung Fu Fightin - Carl mumble

> 159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

>167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter

Lucille - Kenny Rogers

> 168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us

Tie a Yellow Ribbon - ?

> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

Seasons in the Sun Terry mumble

> 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants

Mr Bojangles - mumble

--
John Dean
Oxford
De-frag to reply

[Paul L. Madarasz]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 21:03:35 GMT, "Mark Hanson"
<mark.h...@attbi.com> wrote, perhaps among other things...:

>"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote in message
>news:PJfx9.9353$t1....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
>> OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't be
>too
>> difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the 90's one,
>> which surprised me. But I knew more of the songs themselves than the
>> artists. Too many of them seem to be described as "oh, you know, that
>> *guy*..."
>>

>> 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

>
>Erm. The Kinks? Or is that from the 60s quiz?

"Lola," the Kinks

>> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean

>Well, I have the song going through my head, but...

Heart Like a Wheel, by the McGarricles (sp?)

>> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
>
>10cc, "Afternoon Delight."

Starland Vocal Band, no?

>> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

Queen? ("Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening")
>

>
>> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
>
>The Band, "The Weight."

Or, maybe, "Up on Cripple Creek."

>Well, I definitely did better -- I improved from 1/200 answered to 12/200. I
>even think most of my answers are right. :-)
>
>Mark
>

--

[PAVELB1]

>> I'd get more than *one* out of 200 lyrics. Four or five others seemed sort
>> of familiar, but I think they just reminded me other other songs from
>> another era. Do the 70s next, and I promise I'll do better.
>
>OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't be too
>difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the 90's one,
>which surprised me. But I knew more of the songs themselves than the
>artists. Too many of them seem to be described as "oh, you know, that
>*guy*..."
>
>1 February made me shiver

"American Pie"

>2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover

"Bad bad leroy Brown"

>3 Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough

"Devil went down to Georgia"

>4 You don't have to be coy, Roy

"50 ways to Leave Your Lover"

>5 Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
>6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay

"Cats in The Cradle"

>7 He gave his life for tourism

"King Tut"

>8 Colored lights can hypnotize
>9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay
>10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned
>11 Almost rang the phone off the wall
>12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps
>13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

"Me and Bobby Mgee"

>14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

"Lola"

>15 Hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?

"Please Come to Boston"

>16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand
>17 Well we got no class and we got no principles

"Schools Out"

>18 Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll
>19 At a tombstone bar in a juke-joint car
> 20 I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old.
> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday
> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance
> 23 I never knew me a better time
> 24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word
> 25 Give me a dime so I can phone my mother
>26 Too much of anything is not good for you
> 27 With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
>28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

"Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves"

>29 Vernon'll meet me when the Boac lands
> 30 I wanna be your be your rubber ball
>31 I feel a warmth in my heart and my soul that I never knew
>32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru
>33 Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?
>34 You gave away the things you loved
> 35 I'm not supposed to be alone with you
> 36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year
>37 The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
>38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows
> 39 Born a man-child of the sun
> 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared
> 41 Mount your horses draw your sword

"One Tin Soldier"

> 42 I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room
> 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
>44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark
>45 Mama, take this badge off of me
> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
> 47 Well, it's no big sin to stick your two cents in
> 48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man
> 49 I'll shine up my old brown shoes
>50 Everyday is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
> 51 Do you think I'm home just sitting around?
>52 We've come too far to leave it all behind
>53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money
> 54 Your kisses lift me higher
> 55 Now, I really want to see you
> 56 You drink the night away and forget about everything
> 57 Did I hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today

"Delta Dawn"

> 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
>59 Don't know the reason that I stayed here all season
> 60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside

"Billy Dont Be a Hero"

>61 You know that's a game that I hate to lose
> 62 Don't you know that it's wrong to take what is given you
>63 Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
>64 If you give a little more then you're asking for
>65 I'm savin' all my lovin' for someone who's lovin' me
>66 Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
>67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
>68 Let the music take your mind
>69 Thunder is your night light
> 70 Til forever on it goes,through the circle fast and slow
>71 Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking
> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.
> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire

"I can Dance"

>74 I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay
> 75 I don't understand what you're lookin' to find
>76 Young and beautiful, but someday your looks'll be gone

"Love Will Keep us Together"

> 77 Turned on some music to start my day
>78 I might have to move heaven and earth to prove it to you, baby
>79 He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name

"Ol Black Water"

> 81 Close your eyes and think of me
>82 Honey doggone it I depend upon it
> 83 Reflexes got the better of me
>84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
> 85 He came on a summer's day bringin' gifts from far away
>86 I won't share you with another boy
> 87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed
>88 Running around as you do with your head up in the clouds
> 89 The rich relationed hometown queen married into what she needs
> 90 I knew her smile in an instant

"The Pena Colada Song"

> 91 There's a reason why I'm feelin' so high
>92 I've been waiting in the hall, been waiting on your call
>93 You had me down, 21 to zip
> 94 There's something wrong here, there can be no denying
> 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes
> 96 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday
> 97 So if I call you, don't make a fuss

"I'm not in Love"

>98 Your ability to reason is swept away
> 99 Stranger dressed in black, she's a hungry child
> 100 You got your spell on me, baby.
>101 Like a picture she was layin' there
> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

"Ohio"

>103 Players only love you when they're playing
>37% 104 You better get yourself together darlin'
> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean

"Rock the Boat"

> 106 The sudden motion made me skip
> 107 I'm a loveable man and I can take you to the nearest star
>108 Sail on silver girl

"Bridge Over Troubled Water"

> 109 You got your demons, you got desires

"Voulez vous??"

> 110 I never understood a single word he said

"joy to the world"

>111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff
> 112 Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school
> 113 Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young
> 114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud

"killing me softly"

> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream
> 116 You'll always be the only one for me
>117 I would kiss the ground she walks on
> 118 I can see in your eyes, I'm happy you know it
>119 Never heard nothin' but bad things about him
>120 I got no fare to ride a train
>121 These are the lips that can't help callin' your name
>122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself

"garden party"

>123 There is wonder in most every thing I see
> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

"Some donovan song"

> 125 Whatever you want to do is all right with me
>126 They stand when I walk through the neighborhoods
>127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny
> 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces
> 129 Togetherness, well that's all I'm after
> 130 Oh, babe I wanna taste your lips
> 131 You like your life in a free-form style
> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
>133 She danced without a net upon the wire
>134 Everything I do always takes me home to you
> 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black
>136 Take time to make time, make time to be there
> 137 You started this fire down in my soul
> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley
>139 There's too many places I gotta see
> 140 I looked at your face every day
> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

"Ballroom Blitz"

>142 She's wearing my high school ring on her chain
>143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician
>144 You make my motor run, my motor run
> 145 The boss don't mind sometimes if you act the fool
> 146 You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot
>147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove
> 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
> 149 Way down around Vicksburg around Louisiana way

"Jerry Reed?"

> 150 We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit
>151 Used to be's don't count anymore

"You don't Bring me Flowers"

> 152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you
>153 Things ain't what they used to be, no, no
> 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind
>155 I gotta catch a noon train
> 156 When the music stopped I returned to my seat
> 157 At night we ride through mansions of glory
>158 Demonstrating sweet love and affection
> 159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice
> 160 On board I'm the captain so climb aboard
> 161 When it all was over we had to find another place
> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
>163 You've brought a lot of sunshine into my life
> 164 The dying embers of the night, a fire that slowly fades to dawn
>165 We've just begun to get our share of the world's delights
> 166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind
> 167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter
>168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us

"Tie a Yellow Ribon"

>169 If anyone should ever write my life story
>170 So many nights I'd sit by my window
>171 Some people call me the space cowboy

"The Joker"

>172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms
> 173 There are times when all the world's asleep
>174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly
>175 We let so many dreams just slip through our hands
> 176 The breakup we had has made me lonesome and sad
> 177 See the curtains hanging in the window
> 178 There'll be no parade, no TV or stage
> 179 Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
> 180 There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now

"wildfire"

> 181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

"Seasons in the Sun"

>183 No man does it all by himself
> 184 You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away
>185 You're fine and you're mine and you look so divine
>186 You're a genie in disguise
> 187 Your dreams were your ticket out

"Welcome Back"

[Mark Hanson]

"Paul L. Madarasz" <pl...@dakotacom.net> wrote in message
news:br7bsu489c5rvvqrf...@4ax.com...

> >> 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.
> >
> >Erm. The Kinks? Or is that from the 60s quiz?
>
> "Lola," the Kinks

That's what I thought, but isn't that from the 60s?

> >> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
> >
> >10cc, "Afternoon Delight."
>
> Starland Vocal Band, no?

Er, maybe. What did 10cc do?

> >> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
>
> Queen? ("Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening")

Don't think so. I'm thinking "Kung Foo Fighting," but I know that's wrong
too.

> >> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
> >
> >The Band, "The Weight."
>
> Or, maybe, "Up on Cripple Creek."

You're right.

Mark

[Paul L. Madarasz]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 22:26:26 GMT, "Mark Hanson"

<mark.h...@attbi.com> wrote, perhaps among other things...:

>"Paul L. Madarasz" <pl...@dakotacom.net> wrote in message

>news:br7bsu489c5rvvqrf...@4ax.com...
>> >> 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.
>> >
>> >Erm. The Kinks? Or is that from the 60s quiz?
>>
>> "Lola," the Kinks
>
>That's what I thought, but isn't that from the 60s?

January 1971.

>
>> >> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
>> >
>> >10cc, "Afternoon Delight."
>>
>> Starland Vocal Band, no?
>
>Er, maybe. What did 10cc do?

Dunno. They were always under my radar. (Maybe, "The Things We Do For
Love?")

>
>> >> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
>>
>> Queen? ("Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening")
>
>Don't think so. I'm thinking "Kung Foo Fighting," but I know that's wrong
>too.

Nope. You're right with that one. Carl someone-or-another.

>
>> >> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
>> >
>> >The Band, "The Weight."
>>
>> Or, maybe, "Up on Cripple Creek."
>
>You're right.
>
>Mark
>

--

[Harvey V]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 21:03:35 GMT, Mark Hanson wrote

-snip-

>
>> 13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
>
> Janis Joplin, "Bobby McGee."

Or alternatively, to be associated with guy what wrote it.

--
Cheers,
Harvey

For e-mail, harvey becomes whhvs.

[kay w]

Bill did the list before I read it...I'm just filling in the ones that I know
that he didn't get, and we can pretend I knew all the ones he did get (since
once I read them, I remember them NOW, but that's no good.)

I betcha this would be a hoot to do in teams, in person, after a drink or two.

When I read the words, I can hear the rythym in which they're sung much faster
than I can hear the notes and place the song...why is that?

Are Show Tunes next??

>>7 He gave his life for tourism

King Tut Steve Martin

>>8 Colored lights can hypnotize

AMerican Woman Guess Who

>>9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay

ALone Again, Naturally by whatsis

>>10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned

I swear to God I know this one.....

>>14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

Lola, lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-la Kinks

>>16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand

Respect Yourself...Staple SIngers?

>> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance

damn damn damn

>> 23 I never knew me a better time

Elton John...Crocodile ROck?

>> 24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word

Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me Baby by somebody who shoulda known better

>> 30 I wanna be your be your rubber ball

Boogie Man....somebody

>>38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows

Bungle in the Jungle Jethro Tull

>>44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark

Jim Morrison Doors Doncha Love Her Madly

>> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

If you wanna dance with me?

>> 48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man

Help Me I think I'm falling. Rita COolidge? Joni Mitchell?

>>52 We've come too far to leave it all behind

If you leave me now...Chicago

>>53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money

Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody, I got some money 'cause I just
got paid.

>> 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain

Bill Withers Lean On Me

>>61 You know that's a game that I hate to lose

Gimme the beat boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock and roll
and Drift Away. Somebody.

>>67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

Damnit...that trucking song...somebody McCall

>>68 Let the music take your mind

Maybe Smokey Robinson?

>>71 Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking

Damn it, damn it, damn it.

>> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.

Led Zep....Stairway to Heaven

>> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire

I Can Dance Leo Sayre

>> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name

Black Water Kansas?

>> 81 Close your eyes and think of me

You've got a Friend Sung by everybody...James Taylor wrote it, maybe, or
Carole King

>> 87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed

Peter Frampton, I think....

>> 90 I knew her smile in an instant

Stupid Pina COlada Song

>>98 Your ability to reason is swept away

Everybody Plays the Fool

>>101 Like a picture she was layin' there

That Chevy Van song. I dunno....

>> 104 You better get yourself together darlin'

John Lennon?

>> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean

Don't Rock the Boat...um...Peaches and Herb?

>> 106 The sudden motion made me skip

>> 113 Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young

>> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream

>>123 There is wonder in most every thing I see

>> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

Ah, damn it..leaping gnome ... Spill The Wine....Eric Burdon/War

>>127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny

Love Grows where my Rosemary goes

>> 129 Togetherness, well that's all I'm after

I'm so ashamed...Jackson Five. I'll Be There.

>>133 She danced without a net upon the wire

Melissa Manchester Don't Cry Out Loud...

>>136 Take time to make time, make time to be there

Little RIver Band...Lady I do?

>> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

YES...Roundabout?

>>139 There's too many places I gotta see

FREEBIRD Lynyrd Skynyrd
(What's one thing you'll never heard a Southerner say?
"Oh no, not Freebird again!")

>>155 I gotta catch a noon train

I know this....
Swee-ee-ee-ee-eet, Sweet City Woman by somebody I don't know

>> 156 When the music stopped I returned to my seat

Now I really *am* ashamed.
Disco, Disco Duck Rick Dees

>> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Cripple Creek

>> 167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter

Kenny ROgers...um...Lucille?

>>172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms

Bill: >Alan O'Day? "Undercover Angel"
Or wasn't it Neil Sedaka...You're Sixteen?

>> 173 There are times when all the world's asleep

Supertramp Logical

>> 177 See the curtains hanging in the window

SUmmer Breeze....seals and Crofts?

>> 181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust In The Wind?

>> 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody

>> 195 Ah, peace throughout the land

The Coke Song?

>>196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain

I'm gonna slit my wrists
Glen Campbell Rhinestone Cowboy

>>199 There is none so blind as he who will not see

Everything Is Beautiful Ray STevens

This is harder than I thought, and now my brain's tired.

--
kay w
Address munged. AOL isn't necessarily comatose, evidence to the contrary not
withstanding.

[kay w]

Following myself:

>>> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance
>damn damn damn

Barry Manilow...no wonder my brain didn;t want to tell me.
I Write The Songs.

[Paul L. Madarasz]

On 03 Nov 2002 22:45:22 GMT, scu...@aol.comatose (kay w) wrote,
perhaps among other things...:

>Bill did the list before I read it...I'm just filling in the ones that I know

>that he didn't get, and we can pretend I knew all the ones he did get (since
>once I read them, I remember them NOW, but that's no good.)
>
>I betcha this would be a hoot to do in teams, in person, after a drink or two.
>
>When I read the words, I can hear the rythym in which they're sung much faster
>than I can hear the notes and place the song...why is that?
>
>Are Show Tunes next??
>
>>>7 He gave his life for tourism
>King Tut Steve Martin
>
>>>8 Colored lights can hypnotize
>AMerican Woman Guess Who
>
>>>9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay
>ALone Again, Naturally by whatsis

Gilbert O'Sullivan

>
>>>10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned
>I swear to God I know this one.....

"Carefree Highway," Gordon Lightfoot

C. W. McCall (William Fries)

>
>>>68 Let the music take your mind
>Maybe Smokey Robinson?
>
>>>71 Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking
>Damn it, damn it, damn it.
>
>>> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.
>Led Zep....Stairway to Heaven
>
>>> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire
>I Can Dance Leo Sayre
>
>>> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name
>Black Water Kansas?

Think it was the Doobie Bros.

Stampeders?

--

[Mark Hanson]

"Paul L. Madarasz" <pl...@dakotacom.net> wrote in message

news:g69bsu0bv1hsqd9hg...@4ax.com...

> >> >Erm. The Kinks? Or is that from the 60s quiz?
> >>
> >> "Lola," the Kinks
> >
> >That's what I thought, but isn't that from the 60s?
>
> January 1971.

Wow. I *so* thought that was a 1965-ish special.

Mark

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old Paul L. Madarasz <pl...@dakotacom.net> wrote in
alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Sun, 03 Nov 2002 15:18:28 -0700 that ...

>On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 21:03:35 GMT, "Mark Hanson"
><mark.h...@attbi.com> wrote, perhaps among other things...:
>
>>"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote in message
>>news:PJfx9.9353$t1....@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
>>> OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't be
>>too
>>> difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the 90's one,
>>> which surprised me. But I knew more of the songs themselves than the
>>> artists. Too many of them seem to be described as "oh, you know, that
>>> *guy*..."
>>>
>
>>> 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.
>>
>>Erm. The Kinks? Or is that from the 60s quiz?
>
>"Lola," the Kinks
>
>>> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean
>
>>Well, I have the song going through my head, but...
>
>Heart Like a Wheel, by the McGarricles (sp?)
>
>
>>> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
>>
>>10cc, "Afternoon Delight."
>
>Starland Vocal Band, no?
>
>>> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
>
>Queen? ("Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening")

ah .. .that was the tickle I needed. It's "Ball Room Blitz" ISTR
it's the same guys who did "Little Willy Won't Go Home".

Bill

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old "Mark Hanson" <mark.h...@attbi.com> wrote in
alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Sun, 03 Nov 2002 22:26:26 GMT that ...

>"Paul L. Madarasz" <pl...@dakotacom.net> wrote in message
>news:br7bsu489c5rvvqrf...@4ax.com...
>> >> 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.
>> >
>> >Erm. The Kinks? Or is that from the 60s quiz?
>>
>> "Lola," the Kinks
>
>That's what I thought, but isn't that from the 60s?
>
>> >> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
>> >
>> >10cc, "Afternoon Delight."
>>
>> Starland Vocal Band, no?
>
>Er, maybe. What did 10cc do?

"I'm Not in Love" and "The Things We Do For Love". SVB was John
Denver's back up band.

[Jim Shaffer, Jr.]

>>8 Colored lights can hypnotize

"American Woman", The Guess Who

>>9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay
>>10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned
>>11 Almost rang the phone off the wall
>>12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps

"Blinded by the Light", Bruce Springsteen, later Manfred Mann

>>14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

"Lola", The Kinks

>>16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand
>>17 Well we got no class and we got no principles

"School's Out", Alice Cooper

>>18 Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll

That thing where the chorus goes "Kept on looking for a sign to get me through
the night."

>>19 At a tombstone bar in a juke-joint car

"Lido Shuffle", Boz Scaggs

>> 20 I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old.
>> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday

"Grease"

>> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance
>> 23 I never knew me a better time

"Crocodile Rock", Elton John

>> 24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word
>> 25 Give me a dime so I can phone my mother
>>26 Too much of anything is not good for you
>> 27 With a bit of rock music, everything is fine

>> 30 I wanna be your be your rubber ball
>>31 I feel a warmth in my heart and my soul that I never knew
>>32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru

"Afternoon Delight"?

>>33 Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?

>> 35 I'm not supposed to be alone with you

>>37 The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz

"Horse With No Name", America

>>38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows

"Bungle in the Jungle", Jethro Tull

>> 39 Born a man-child of the sun
>> 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared

"I Can See Clearly Now"

>>44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark

Is this from the Doors, "Love Her Madly"?

>>45 Mama, take this badge off of me

"Knocking On Heaven's Door", Bob Dylan

>> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

"Rock and Roll Music" (the Beatles?)

>> 47 Well, it's no big sin to stick your two cents in

>> 49 I'll shine up my old brown shoes
>>50 Everyday is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
>> 51 Do you think I'm home just sitting around?
>>52 We've come too far to leave it all behind
>>53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money
>> 54 Your kisses lift me higher
>> 55 Now, I really want to see you
>> 56 You drink the night away and forget about everything

>> 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain

>> 60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside
>>61 You know that's a game that I hate to lose
>> 62 Don't you know that it's wrong to take what is given you

>>64 If you give a little more then you're asking for

>>66 Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
>>67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

"Convoy", CW(?) McCall

>>68 Let the music take your mind
>>69 Thunder is your night light

"Undercover Angel", Alan O'Day?

>> 70 Til forever on it goes,through the circle fast and slow
>>71 Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking

"Stayin' Alive", The Bee Gees

>> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.

"Stairway to Heaven", Led Zeppelin

>> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire

>> 75 I don't understand what you're lookin' to find

>> 77 Turned on some music to start my day

"More Than A Feeling", Boston

>>78 I might have to move heaven and earth to prove it to you, baby
>>79 He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
>> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name

"Black Water" (Doobie Brothers?)

>> 81 Close your eyes and think of me
>>82 Honey doggone it I depend upon it
>> 83 Reflexes got the better of me

>>86 I won't share you with another boy

"Roxanne", The Police

>> 87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed

"Show Me The Way"(?), Peter Frampton

>>88 Running around as you do with your head up in the clouds

>> 90 I knew her smile in an instant
>> 91 There's a reason why I'm feelin' so high

>>93 You had me down, 21 to zip

>> 96 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday

"Paradise by the Dashboard Light", Meat Loaf

>>98 Your ability to reason is swept away
>> 99 Stranger dressed in black, she's a hungry child
>> 100 You got your spell on me, baby.
>>101 Like a picture she was layin' there
>> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

"Ohio", Crosby Stills Nash & Young

>> 104 You better get yourself together darlin'

"Instant Karma", John Lennon

>> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean
>> 106 The sudden motion made me skip

>>111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff
>> 112 Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school

"Walk This Way", Aerosmith

>> 113 Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young

>> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream

"Magic Man"(?), Heart

>> 116 You'll always be the only one for me

>> 118 I can see in your eyes, I'm happy you know it
>>119 Never heard nothin' but bad things about him
>>120 I got no fare to ride a train

>>123 There is wonder in most every thing I see
>> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
>> 125 Whatever you want to do is all right with me
>>126 They stand when I walk through the neighborhoods
>>127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny
>> 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces

"Sultans of Swing", Dire Straits

>> 129 Togetherness, well that's all I'm after
>> 130 Oh, babe I wanna taste your lips
>> 131 You like your life in a free-form style

>>133 She danced without a net upon the wire
>>134 Everything I do always takes me home to you
>> 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black

"Bang a Gong (Get It On)", T. Rex

>>136 Take time to make time, make time to be there
>> 137 You started this fire down in my soul
>> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

"Roundabout", Yes

>>139 There's too many places I gotta see
>> 140 I looked at your face every day

>>142 She's wearing my high school ring on her chain
>>143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician

"Taking Care of Business", BTO?

>> 146 You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot
>>147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove
>> 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

"Money", Pink Floyd

>> 149 Way down around Vicksburg around Louisiana way

>>153 Things ain't what they used to be, no, no
>> 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind
>Heart?

"What the Man Says"?, Paul McCartney

>>155 I gotta catch a noon train
>> 156 When the music stopped I returned to my seat

>> 160 On board I'm the captain so climb aboard
>Styx "Carry On"

"Come Sail Away"

>> 161 When it all was over we had to find another place
>> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

"Up on Cripple Creek", The Band?

>>163 You've brought a lot of sunshine into my life
>> 164 The dying embers of the night, a fire that slowly fades to dawn
>>165 We've just begun to get our share of the world's delights

>> 167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter

>> 173 There are times when all the world's asleep

"The Logical Song", Supertramp

>>175 We let so many dreams just slip through our hands
>> 176 The breakup we had has made me lonesome and sad
>> 177 See the curtains hanging in the window

"Summer Dreams", Seals & Crofts, later Type O Negative

>> 179 Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields

>> 181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

"Dust in the Wind", Kansas

>>183 No man does it all by himself
>> 184 You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away

"Who Are You", The Who

>>185 You're fine and you're mine and you look so divine
>>186 You're a genie in disguise

>>189 Fever, temperature's risin' now

>> 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

"Bohemian Rhapsody", Queen

>>192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act

"We're An American Band", Grand Funk Railroad

>> 194 Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
>> 195 Ah, peace throughout the land
>>196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
>>197 Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through

[Lesmond]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 21:27:54 GMT, Putain d'Enculé wrote:

>Good old "Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote in
>alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:32:47 GMT that ...

I don't feel like doing the whole thing, so I'll just do the ones that Bill
left out.

>>1 February made me shiver
>Don Maclean, "American Pie"
>>2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover
>Jim Croce "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
>>3 Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough
>Charlie Daniels Band, "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
>>4 You don't have to be coy, Roy
>Paul Simon "Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover"
>>5 Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
>Gary Wright "Dreamweaver"
>>6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
>Harry Nilsson "Cats in the Cradle"

Right song, but it was Harry Chapin.

>>7 He gave his life for tourism

Steve Martin, "King Tut"

>>8 Colored lights can hypnotize

Guess Who, "American Woman"

>>9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay

Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Alone Again, Naturally"

>>10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned
>>11 Almost rang the phone off the wall
>>12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps

Bruce Springsteen, "Blinded by the Light"

>>13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
>Janis Joplin "Me and Bobby McGee"
>>14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

Kinks, "Lola"

>>15 Hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?
>Some guy did it, but I prefer Joan Baez's version. "Please Come to
>Boston"
>>16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand

>17 Well we got no class and we got no principles

Alice Cooper, "School's Out"

>>18 Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll

"Couldn't Get it Right", don't remember the band.

>>19 At a tombstone bar in a juke-joint car

Boz Scaggs, "Lido Shuffle" - One of my favorite songs ever.

>> 20 I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old.

"Heard it in a Love Song"...I don't remember who it was.

>> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday
>> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance

Barry Manilow, "I Write the Songs"

>> 23 I never knew me a better time

Elton John, "Crocodile Rock"

>> 24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word
>> 25 Give me a dime so I can phone my mother

Rod Stewart, "Do You Think I'm Sexy"

>>26 Too much of anything is not good for you
>> 27 With a bit of rock music, everything is fine

Abba, "Dancing Queen"

>>28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done
>Cher "Half Breed"
>>29 Vernon'll meet me when the Boac lands
>Bobby Bloom "Montego Bay"

>> 30 I wanna be your be your rubber ball
>>31 I feel a warmth in my heart and my soul that I never knew
>>32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru

Bay City Rollers, "Saturday Night"

>>33 Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?

>>34 You gave away the things you loved
>Carly Simon "You're So Vain"
>> 35 I'm not supposed to be alone with you

Donny Osmond, "Go Away Little Girl"

>> 36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year
>John Denver "Rocky Mountain High"
>>37 The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz

America, "You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand
"

>>38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows

Jethro Tull, "Bungle in the Jungle"

>> 39 Born a man-child of the sun
>> 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared

Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now"

>> 41 Mount your horses draw your sword
>Coven, "One Tin Soldier"
>> 42 I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room
>Rod Steward "You're in My Heart"
>> 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
>B.J. Thomas "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head"
>>44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark

>>45 Mama, take this badge off of me

Bob Dylan, "Knocking on Heaven's Door"

>> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

The Beatles, "Rock and Roll music"

>> 47 Well, it's no big sin to stick your two cents in

Billy Joel, "Big Shot"

>> 48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man
>Joanie Mitchell ?

>> 49 I'll shine up my old brown shoes
>>50 Everyday is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
>> 51 Do you think I'm home just sitting around?

>>52 We've come too far to leave it all behind

Chicago, "If you Leave Me Now"

>>53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money

"Another Saturday Night and I ain't got no hot sex"

>> 54 Your kisses lift me higher
>> 55 Now, I really want to see you

>> 56 You drink the night away and forget about everything

Gerry Rafferty, "Baker Street"

>> 57 Did I hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today
>Helen Reddy "Delta Dawn"
>> 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain

Bill Withers, "Lean on Me"

>>59 Don't know the reason that I stayed here all season
>Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville"
>> 60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside

Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, "Billy Don't Be a Hero."

>>61 You know that's a game that I hate to lose
>> 62 Don't you know that it's wrong to take what is given you

>>63 Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
>Bread "Baby I'm a Want You"
>>64 If you give a little more then you're asking for
>>65 I'm savin' all my lovin' for someone who's lovin' me
>Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive"
>>66 Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head

Partridge Family, "I Think I Love You"

>>67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

CW McCall, "Convoy"

>>68 Let the music take your mind
>>69 Thunder is your night light

>> 70 Til forever on it goes,through the circle fast and slow

Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Have you Ever Seen the Rain"

>>71 Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking

Bee Gees, "Stayin' Alive"

>> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.

Led Zepplin, "Stairway to Heaven"

>> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire

Leo Sayer, "I Can Dance"

>>74 I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay
>Bobbie Gentry "The Day Billy Joe McAllister Jumped off the
>Tallahatchee Bridge" (pretty sure that's wrong, too)

"Ode to Bobby Joe"

>> 75 I don't understand what you're lookin' to find

>>76 Young and beautiful, but someday your looks'll be gone
>Gary Puckett and the Union Gap "Young Girl"
>> 77 Turned on some music to start my day

Boston, "More Than A Feeling"

>>78 I might have to move heaven and earth to prove it to you, baby

Jefferson Starship, "Miracles"

>>79 He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee

Something about Muhammed Ali

>> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name

Doobie Brothers, "Black Water"

>> 81 Close your eyes and think of me

Jmaes Taylor, "You've Got a Friend"

>>82 Honey doggone it I depend upon it
>> 83 Reflexes got the better of me

>>84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
>Beatles "Let it Be"
>> 85 He came on a summer's day bringin' gifts from far away
>"Brandy"
>>86 I won't share you with another boy

The Police, "Roxanne"

>> 87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed

Peter Frampton, "Show me the Way"

>>88 Running around as you do with your head up in the clouds

>> 89 The rich relationed hometown queen married into what she needs
>Janis Ian "17"

>> 90 I knew her smile in an instant
>> 91 There's a reason why I'm feelin' so high

>>92 I've been waiting in the hall, been waiting on your call
>Blondie "Hanging on the Telephone" (bet that's wrong though)
>>93 You had me down, 21 to zip

>> 94 There's something wrong here, there can be no denying
>Carole King "It's Too Late"
>> 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes
>Captain Hook "Sylvia's Mother"
>> 96 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday

Meatloaf, "Paradise By the Dashboard Light"

>> 97 So if I call you, don't make a fuss
>10cc "I'm not in Love"

>>98 Your ability to reason is swept away
>> 99 Stranger dressed in black, she's a hungry child

Nick Gilder, "Hot Child in the City"

>> 100 You got your spell on me, baby.
>>101 Like a picture she was layin' there

>> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

Neil Young, "Ohio"

>>103 Players only love you when they're playing
>Fleetwood Mac
>> 104 You better get yourself together darlin'

John Lennon, "Instant Karma"

>> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean

Hughes Corporation, "Rock the Boat"

>> 106 The sudden motion made me skip
>> 107 I'm a loveable man and I can take you to the nearest star
>Ides of March "Vehicle"
>>108 Sail on silver girl
>Simon and Garfunkle "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
>> 109 You got your demons, you got desires
>Eagles "One of These Nights"
>> 110 I never understood a single word he said
>Three Dog Night "Joy to the World"
>>111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff

Foreigner, "Hotblooded"

>> 112 Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school

Aerosmith, "Walk this Way"

>> 113 Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young

David Bowie, "Young Americans"

>> 114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud
>Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly"
>> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream

Heart, "Magic Man"

>> 116 You'll always be the only one for me

"Could it be I'm Falling in Love"

>>117 I would kiss the ground she walks on
>"Ain't no Woman Like the One I Got"

>> 118 I can see in your eyes, I'm happy you know it

Paul Anka, "Having my Baby"

>>119 Never heard nothin' but bad things about him

"Papa Was a Rolling Stone"

>>120 I got no fare to ride a train

>>121 These are the lips that can't help callin' your name
>"These Eyes"
>>122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself
>Rick Nelson "Garden Party"

>>123 There is wonder in most every thing I see
>> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

"Spill the Wine"

>> 125 Whatever you want to do is all right with me
>>126 They stand when I walk through the neighborhoods

David Naughton, "Makin' It". I watched the series, too.

>>127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny
>> 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces

Dire Straits, "Sultans of Swing"

>> 129 Togetherness, well that's all I'm after
>> 130 Oh, babe I wanna taste your lips
>> 131 You like your life in a free-form style

Ozark Mountain Daredevils, "Jackie Blue"

>> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
>Starland Vocal Band "Afternoon Delight"

>>133 She danced without a net upon the wire
>>134 Everything I do always takes me home to you
>> 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black

T.Rex, "Bang a Gong"

>>136 Take time to make time, make time to be there
>> 137 You started this fire down in my soul
>> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

Yes, "Roundabout"

>>139 There's too many places I gotta see

Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Freebird"

>> 140 I looked at your face every day

Orleans, "Still the One"

>> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
>Carl ... Kung Fu Fighting

>>142 She's wearing my high school ring on her chain
>>143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician

Bachman-Turner Overdrive, "Taking Care of Business"

>>144 You make my motor run, my motor run
>The Knack, "My Sharona"
>> 145 The boss don't mind sometimes if you act the fool
>? O'Jays? "Everybody Plays the Fool"

>> 146 You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot
>>147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove

Stevie Wonder, "Sir Duke"

>> 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

Pink Floyd, "Money"

>> 149 Way down around Vicksburg around Louisiana way

>> 150 We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit
>Bob ... "Night Moves"
>>151 Used to be's don't count anymore
>Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"
>> 152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you
>"Love Train"

>>153 Things ain't what they used to be, no, no

>> 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind
>Heart?

No, it's Paul McCartney, "What the Man Said"

>>155 I gotta catch a noon train
>> 156 When the music stopped I returned to my seat

>> 157 At night we ride through mansions of glory
>Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run"
>>158 Demonstrating sweet love and affection

>> 159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice
>Neil Diamond "Song Song Blue"
>> 160 On board I'm the captain so climb aboard
>Styx "Carry On"

>> 161 When it all was over we had to find another place
>> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

The Band, "Cripple Creek"

>>163 You've brought a lot of sunshine into my life
>> 164 The dying embers of the night, a fire that slowly fades to dawn
>>165 We've just begun to get our share of the world's delights

>> 166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind
>Steely Dan "Ricky Don't Lose that Number"

>> 167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter

>>168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us
>Tony Orlando and Dawn "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"
>>169 If anyone should ever write my life story
>Gladys Knight and the Pips "You're the Best Thing (That Ever Happened
>to Me""
>>170 So many nights I'd sit by my window
>Debbie Boone "You Light Up My Life"
>>171 Some people call me the space cowboy
>Steve Miller Band
>>172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms
>Alan O'Day? "Undercover Angel"

>> 173 There are times when all the world's asleep

Supertramp, "The Logical Song"

>>174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly
>Lynn ... "I Never Promised you a Rose Garden"

>>175 We let so many dreams just slip through our hands

Diana Ross, "Theme From Mahoghany"

>> 176 The breakup we had has made me lonesome and sad
>> 177 See the curtains hanging in the window

Seals & Crofts, "Summer Breeze"

>> 178 There'll be no parade, no TV or stage
>Marilyn McCoo "You Don't Have to be a Star"
>> 179 Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields

>> 180 There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now
>Michael Murphy "Wildfire"
>> 181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

>> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
>Terry Jacks "Seasons in the Sun"

>>183 No man does it all by himself
>> 184 You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away

The Who, "Who Are You"

>>185 You're fine and you're mine and you look so divine

"Come and Get Your Love"

>>186 You're a genie in disguise

>> 187 Your dreams were your ticket out
>John Sebastian "Welcome Back"
>>188 I'm a soldier in the war on poverty
>"Will it Go Round in Circles"
>>189 Fever, temperature's risin' now
>>190 I broke a heart, that's gentle and true
>Linda Ronstadt "You're No Good"
>> 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody"

>>192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act
>>193 Talk about your childhood wishes
>Sammy Davis Jr. "Candy Man"

>> 194 Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
>> 195 Ah, peace throughout the land

I should really know this...

>>196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
>>197 Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through

>> 198 Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed
>Barbra Streisand "Evergreen"
>>199 There is none so blind as he who will not see

>> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
>"Mr. Bojangles"

Okay, my brain is fried...Still missed a lot. Someone else can fill in the
stragglers.

[Paul L. Madarasz]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 23:20:17 GMT, Putain d'Enculé
<putain...@billdiamond.com (Le Putain d'Enculé)> wrote, perhaps
among other things...:

>>>> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
>>
>>Queen? ("Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening")
>
>ah .. .that was the tickle I needed. It's "Ball Room Blitz" ISTR
>it's the same guys who did "Little Willy Won't Go Home".

Oh, Lord! Sweet, 27 years ago.

[Max C. Webster III]

Putain d'Enculé done said:

>>>> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
>>
>>Queen? ("Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening")
>
>ah .. .that was the tickle I needed. It's "Ball Room Blitz" ISTR
>it's the same guys who did "Little Willy Won't Go Home".

Sweet, "Ballroom Blitz" from *Desolation Boulevard*. The same album had "Fox
on the Run" and AC/DC. I'm not usually one for glam-bands, but I really liked
Sweet for some reason. "Love is like Oxygen" was another big hit for them, but
"Little Willie" is probably my favorite by them -- it's just so silly!

- Max -
=======
Westside, Eastside,
Little Willie Willie wears the crown
He's the King around town

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old maxx...@aol.com.mil.gov (Max C. Webster III) wrote in
alt.fan.cecil-adams back on 03 Nov 2002 23:30:08 GMT that ...

>Putain d'Enculé done said:
>
>>>>> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
>>>
>>>Queen? ("Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening")
>>
>>ah .. .that was the tickle I needed. It's "Ball Room Blitz" ISTR
>>it's the same guys who did "Little Willy Won't Go Home".
>
>Sweet, "Ballroom Blitz" from *Desolation Boulevard*. The same album had "Fox
>on the Run" and AC/DC. I'm not usually one for glam-bands, but I really liked
>Sweet for some reason. "Love is like Oxygen" was another big hit for them, but
>"Little Willie" is probably my favorite by them -- it's just so silly!

You wouldn't like it if it were sung to you on the school bus on a
regular, loud, and highly atonal basis.

[Jim Shaffer, Jr.]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 22:26:26 GMT, "Mark Hanson" <mark.h...@attbi.com> wrote:

>> >> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
>>
>> Queen? ("Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening")
>
>Don't think so. I'm thinking "Kung Foo Fighting," but I know that's wrong
>too.

"Ballroom Blitz", by Sweet (I think)

[Carlos Hernandez]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> writes:

>"Mark Hanson" <mark.h...@attbi.com> wrote in message
>news:F%cx9.75537$wG.2...@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...

>> another era. Do the 70s next, and I promise I'll do better.

>OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't be too

>difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the 90's one,
>which surprised me. But I knew more of the songs themselves than the
>artists. Too many of them seem to be described as "oh, you know, that
>*guy*..."

>1 February made me shiver
Don McLean, American Pie

>3 Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough

Charlie Daniels, Devil Went Down to Georgia

>4 You don't have to be coy, Roy

Paul Simon, 50 ways to leave your lover

>6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay

Chapin, Cat's Cradle

>8 Colored lights can hypnotize

The Guess Who, American Woman

>13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee

> 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared

I Can See Clearly Now, but I associate it with Holly Cole

> 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

????, Raindrops keep Fallin' on my Head

> 54 Your kisses lift me higher

Elvis, Burning Love

>67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

???, Convoy

> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.

Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven

> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

Neil Young, ????

>103 Players only love you when they're playing

Fleetwood Mac, Dreams

> 110 I never understood a single word he said

Jefferson Airplane (?), Joy To The World

> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

Time Warp?

> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

CCR (?), ??

>171 Some people call me the space cowboy

Steve Miller Band, The Joker

> 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

--

[Greg Goss]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote:

>67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

"Arizona at noon, on the seventh of June" (movie version)

I never saw the movie, but the novelization of the movie did the
impossible. Take a song or movie written to celebrate explosions and
big crashes, and make the plotline make sense. But the song had to be
rewritten cuz the "Jaguar haulin ass" was now the primary supporting
character.

[Max C. Webster III]

Putain d'Enculé done said:

>Max C. Webster III wrote:
>
>> Sweet, "Ballroom Blitz" from *Desolation Boulevard*. The same album had
>> "Fox on the Run" and AC/DC. I'm not usually one for glam-bands, but I
>> really liked Sweet for some reason. "Love is like Oxygen" was another
>> big hit for them, but "Little Willie" is probably my favorite by them --
it's
>> just so silly!
>
>You wouldn't like it if it were sung to you on the school bus on a
>regular, loud, and highly atonal basis.

Sorry, but I think I was one of those singing it regularly, loudly, antonally,
and, yes, out of tune.

- Max -
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Mea Culpa!

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old maxx...@aol.com.mil.gov (Max C. Webster III) wrote in

alt.fan.cecil-adams back on 03 Nov 2002 23:40:53 GMT that ...

Then I owe you a fat lip for singing "Little Willy won't go homo!"
twice a day for a month.

[Max C. Webster III]

Le Putain d'Enculé done said:

>Max C. Webster III wrote in

>
>>Sorry, but I think I was one of those singing it regularly, loudly,
>antonally,
>>and, yes, out of tune.
>
>Then I owe you a fat lip for singing "Little Willy won't go homo!"
>twice a day for a month.

No, that wasn't me. But if you want to get even with the guy who changed "Okie
from Muskogee" to "Asshole from El Paso", then bring it on.

- Max -
=======
I'll be here all week.

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old maxx...@aol.com.mil.gov (Max C. Webster III) wrote in

alt.fan.cecil-adams back on 03 Nov 2002 23:55:10 GMT that ...

That was you? But .. you were my hero.

Bill "I survived a month on Winthrop Drive"
"A man must first govern himself ere he is fit
to govern a family; and his family ere he be
fit to bear the government of the commonwealth."
--Sir Walter Raleigh

[kay w]

Another one came to me....

>>>186 You're a genie in disguise

That's that "I betcha By Golly Wow" by,,,not the Temps, maybe the Stylistics?

[Robin Colleen Moore]

Kim <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote:

> OK - No artists or songs are repeated. Virtually every song received
> significant radio or video airplay, although only some actually placed high
> on the pop charts. A few songs may have been originally released prior to
> 1990, but all achieved their major exposure in the nineties.

There's a number of them that I *KNOW* I know (I can just about hear the
line in my head), but the title & artist elude me..anyway, here goes:

>
> 1. "Can you tell me? No, you can't, because you don't know."
> 2. "A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio."

"Name", Goo Goo Dolls

> 3. "But I've said nothing so far, and I can keep it up as long as it takes."
> 4. "Excuse me, but can I be you for awhile?"

"Silent All These Years", Tori Amos

> 5. "She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket, she wears a cross around her
> neck."

"She Talks to Angels", Black Crowes

> 6. "So take your hat off when you're talking to me."

"Feed the Tree", Belly

> 7. "Everybody move to the back of the bus."
> 8. "I just want someone to say to me, 'I'll always be there when you wake.'"

"No Rain", Blind Melon

> 9. "So listen up, 'cause you can't say nothin'- you'll shut me down with a
> push of your button."

"Sabotage", Beastie Boys"

> 10. "I'll be your whatever you want, the bong in this reggae song."

"Cannonball", The Breeders

> 11. "Well, I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud."
> 12. "You know I'm such a fool for you."

"Linger", The Cranberries

> 13. "Baby got a problem sayin' bye-bye, just another hazard of a fly guy."
> 14. "Life is hard, and so am I-better give me something, so I don't die."
> 15. "There's a blood that's flowing through the feeling, with a knife to
> open up the sky's vein."
> 16. "Parody of yourself in color, giving it to everybody but your mother."
> 17. "It is thrown, just scream it from the wall."
> 18. "I have come to save the day, and I won't leave until I'm done."
> 19. "Girls, what's my weakness?"
> 20. "They say they're better than you, and you agree."
> 21. "Watching the world wake up from history."

"Right Here, Right Now"--Jesus Jones

> 22. "Stand in the way of love, and we will smoke them all."
> 23. "Why they changed it, I can't say-people just liked it better that way."

"Istanbul Not Constantinople", They Might Be Giants

> 24. "I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad, but I did it anyway."
> 25. "Don't you think I've heard the talk? Nobody's gonna tell me who to
> love."
> 26. "The sun has gone down, and the moon has come up."
> 27. "I want to be the girl with the most cake."

"Doll Parts", Hole

> 28. "Sit down and watch the tube, but nothing's on."

"Longview", Green Day

> 29. "To me, my life is more than my erection."
> 30. "You know your culture from your trash, you know your plastic from your
> cash."

"Steam", Peter Gabriel

> 31. "And when the car broke down, they started walking."

"The Way", Fastball

> 32. "Good God, I'm a believer!"
> 33. "I said, you shouldn't have worn that dress."

"Sex Type Thing", Stone Temple Pilots

> 34. "Rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells."
> 35. "I'm standing in cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines."
> 36. "I'm the bitch you hated."
> 37. "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."
> 38. "I walk in the air between the rain, through myself and back again."
> 39. "But both girl and boy were glad-one kid had it worse than that."
> 40. "We'd take a limousine, 'cause it costs more."

"If I Had a Million Dollars", Barenaked Ladies

> 41. "She grew up tall and she grew up right."

"Last Dance with Mary Jane", Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

> 42. "Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it."

"Daughter", Pearl Jame

> 43. "I don't care what they say-what do they know about this love, anyway?"
> 44. "Cut me Sammy, and you'll understand-in my veins, hot music man."
> 45. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbor."
> 46. "I got my head shaved by a jumbo jet."
> 47. "We kissy kiss in the rearview-so bored, you're to blame."
> 48. "Makeup on their faces, actors took their places next to me."
> 49. "I don't know why you couldn't just stay with me."
> 50. "I recommend biting off more than you can chew to anyone."
> 51. "And I'm glad I haven't yet, because I'm sure it isn't good."
> 52. "What's with these homies dissin' my girl? Why do they gotta front?"
> 53. "Take all of your money, give it up to charity."
> 54. "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel."

"Mysterious Ways", U2

> 55. "I'll throw away a chance at greatness, just to make this dream come
> into play."
> 56. "And would my clique do the score?"
> 57. "She comes around, and she goes down on me."

"Semi-Charmed Life", Matchbox 20

> 58. "Played a track from your record collection, it's your mix,
> congratulations."
> 59. "Will you please let me stay the night? No one will ever know!"
> 60. "But it's you I fell into."
> 61. "When your mom is not around, there's no telling what we'll do when
> we're free."
> 62. "Tell me, am I very far?"

"Counting Blue Cars", Dishwalla

> 63. "And all the roads we have to walk are winding."

"Wonderwall", Oasis

> 64. "One goes to the morgue, and the other jail. One got wasted, and the
> other's a waste."
> 65. "So don't let me have any rights. Oh, I've had it up to here."
> 66. "One dance left, this world is gonna pull through."

"You Get What You Give", New Radicals

> 67. "Our little group has always been and always will until the end."

"Smells Like Teen Spirit", Nirvana

> 68. "They hung out with folks like Dennis Hoppper, Bob Seger, and Sonny &
> Cher."
> 69. "Show me where to look, and tell me what will I find."
> 70. "Sweet like candy to your soul, sweet you rock, and sweet you roll."

"Crash Into You", Dave Matthews Band

> 71. "A million lies to sell yourself is all you ever had."
> 72. "You can see I'm in no shape for driving."

"Hey Jealousy", Gin Blossoms

> 73. "I've been downhearted, baby, ever since the day we met."
> 74. "I don't care if you don't care, as long as you don't go."
> 75. "It really don't matter if you're white or black."
> 76. "Won't you please come around, 'cause I wanna share forever with you,
> baby."
> 77. "I am wearing my new dress tonight!"
> 78. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"

"Tears in Heaven", Eric Clapton

> 79. "I'm a goddess on my knees."
> 80. "I'm gonna show you how, all in together now."
> 81. "So they put me in the back of their car at the station."
> 82. "Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town."

"Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", Spin Doctors

> 83. "Some got hopes and dreams, we got ways and means."
> 84. "But I know you can tell I'm excited, oh girl."
> 85. "Am I sexual?"
> 86. "I've been watching you like a hawk in the sky."
> 87. "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom."
> 88. "I see some ladies tonight that should be havin' my baby, baby."
> 89. "Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?"
> 90. "Ain't nothin' better, we beat the odds together."
> 91. "It was time for me to make my presence felt, so sit back, relax, and
> strap on your seat belt."
> 92. "She said she'd never turn on me (you lied to me!)."
> 93. "Baby, you're a perfect ten/Can I get in?"
> 94. "Just once if I had the chance, the things I would do to you."
> 95. "No, no, we don't die, yes, we multiply."
> 96. "Hey, don't you want to go down like some chunky cosmonaut?"

"Low", Cracker (Isn't it "junkie cosmonaut"? It works better that way)

> 97. "So I made a big mistake- try to see it once my way."

"Would?", Alice in Chains

> 98. "The night is my companion, and solitude my guide."

"Possession", Sarah MacLachlan

> 99. "Help me think I'm somebody else."

"Closer", Nine Inch Nails

> 100. "What would you ask if you had just one question?"
> 101. "Life limped along at subsonic speeds."
> 102. "You never know just how you look through other people's eyes."
> 103. "Twenty-five years old- my mother, God rest her soul."
> 104. "Deep inside I know you feel it too."
> 105. "But there's got to be an open lane, somewhere here in front of me."
> 106. "Hey, I know it's just a song, but it's spice for the recipe."
> 107. "Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm."
> 108. "Be colorblind-don't be so shallow."
> 109. "A woman is a woman, and a man ain't nothin' but a male."
> 110. "All of the things you try to hide will be revealed on the other side."
> 111. "I don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence."

"Hunger Pains", Temple of the Dog (Eddie Vedder on lead vocals)

> 112. "Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal."
> 113. "Times are gone for honest men."
> 114. "How on Earth did I get so jaded? Life's mysteries seem so faded."
> 115. "This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon."
> 116. "I'd like to propose a two-week limit on going steady."
> 117. "I never worry, now that is a lie."
> 118. "Don't believe everything that you breathe."
> 119. "I'll smile, and you'll wave. We'll pretend it's okay."
> 120. "I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul."
> 121. "Not vicious or malicious, just de-lovely and delicious."

"Groove is in the Heart", Dee-Lite

> 122. "Do you mean what you say when there's no one around?"
> 123. "Even white boys got to shout."

"Baby Got Back", Sir Mix-a-Lot

> 124. "Lord, I really love this place."
> 125. "I may not know what you're going through, but time is the space
> between me and you."
> 126. "I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant."

"Nothing Compares to U", Sinead O'Connor (Prince wrote it, though)

> 127. "She'll make you breakfast, she'll make you toast."
> 128. "Strange you never knew."
> 129. "So I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was
> singing my song."
> 130. "It's not your fault that you're always wrong. The weak ones are there
> to justify the strong."
> 131. "She calls my name, pulls my train, no one else could heal my pain."
> 132. "I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio- still I can't escape
> the ghost of you."
> 133. "The air outside so soft is saying everything."

"All I Want", Toad the Wet Sprocket

> 134. "When I feel down, I want you above me."

"I Touch Myself", Divinyls

> 135. "I'll just put her right back with the rest- that's the way it goes, I
> guess."

"Set Adrift on Memory's Bliss", P.M. Dawn

> 135. "Too many Porter singers, not enough Porter songs- until you came
> along."
> 136. "Oh, how can heaven hold a place for me, when a girl like you has cast
> a spell on me?"
> 137. "All they can say is, he's not your kind."
> 138. "(song title) was the color of her hair."
> 139. "It's like you're always stuck in second gear."
> 140. "No way I'm disco dancing."
> 141. "You can't tell me it's not worth dying for."
> 142. "The wrong guy, the wrong situation."
> 143. "Stumble you might fall, stumble you might fall."
> 144. "Did you do too many drugs?"

"American Music", Violent Femmes (apparently the reaction to this line
when they sang it while opening for--I kid you not--the Grateful Dead
was, erm, impressive...)

> 145. "If I had my time again, I would do it all the same."
> 146. "I think sex is overrated too."
> 147. "Do you wanna bang heads with me?"
> 148. "Life is demanding without understanding."
> 149. "Follow me, follow me, follow me, but don't lose your grip."
> 150. "They all want me, they can't have me."
> 151. "My mind's tellin' me no, but my body's tellin' me yes."
> 152. "Though I mess around, it's only cause I need some affection."
> 153. "I don't even own a TV."
> 154. "'It is always nice to see you,' says the man behind the counter."

"Tom's Diner", Suzanne Vega (probably the remix w/DNA)

> 155. "Her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind, and she wonders
> without knowing, where did we begin?"
> 156. "I see you drunk, I start to laugh."
> 157. "Throw your hands in the air, don't ever disrespect."
> 158. "All the stones that are thrown are building up a wall."
> 159. "The devil's not in the details, no, the devil's in my pants."
> 160. "And you're all dressed up like the Cure."
> 161. "You let life get in the way."
> 162. "The world was made up of this brotherhood of man, for whatever that
> means."
> 163. "I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed."
> 164. "I know it's hard to keep an open heart."
> 165. "You're always askin' what it's all about, so listen to my reply."
> 166. "She said days go by, I'm hypnotized."

"Sunny Came Home", Shawn Colvin (and why people give Marilyn Manson a
hard time when Shawn here won the Grammy for "Song of the Year" with a
song about a vengeful arsonist is beyond me...)

> 167. "If I was broke, would you want me?"
> 168. "Come on, come on, love me for the money."
> 169. "I know the song you're singin', the lyrics haven't changed."

"I Know", Dionne Ferris

> 170. "If you put two and two together, you will see what our friendship is
> for."
> 171. "I don't wanna leave you lonely- you gotta make me change my mind."
> 172. "Shucks, for me there is no other. You're the only shoe that fits."

"Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover", Sophie B. Hawkins

> 173. "I wanna be just as close as the Holy Ghost is."
> 174. "It's strange what desire will make foolish people do."

"Wicked Game", Chris Isaak

> 175. "And nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground."
> 176. "Well, it's just a simple fact. When I want something, I don't wanna
> pay for it."

"Been Caught Stealing", Jane's Addiction

> 177. "Yeah, I'm tangled up in blue."
> 178. "So close, no matter how far."
> 179. "If rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram."
> 180. "Take it hip to hip, rocketing through the wilderness."

"Roam", B-52s

> 181. "Rap is seamless."
> 182. "And it's a sad, sad world, when a girl will break a boy just because
> she can."

"Criminal", Fiona Apple

> 183. "We are about ready to rock steady."
> 184. "Please, please understand-I'm in love with another man."
> 185. "We don't need to talk about it anymore. Yesterday's just a memory,
> when you close the door."
> 186. "I'll make it through the day with some help from Johnnie Walker Red."
> 187. "We'll take the trail marked on your father's map."
> 188. "Cause you were a dream that just should not have been, a fantasy
> real."
> 189. "You're a slave to money, then you die."
> 190. "When I wake up, well I know I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to
> you."

"500 Miles", The Proclaimers

> 191. "Saying 'I love you' is not the words I want to hear from you."
> 192. "They think that your early ending was all wrong."
> 193. "I would like a place I can call my own."
> 194. "I'm not black like Barry White, no, I am white like Frank Black is."
> 195. "Sunday always comes too late."
> 196. "Nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do."

Something by Portishead...

> 197. "I wanna drive it all night long."
> 198. "You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere."
> 199. "Don't call it a comeback."
> 200. "One last call for alcohol."
>
Hope this helps...

Robin the mad photographer (now let's see how I do on the '70s quiz)

Black Sheep Studios, Cambridge, MA -ro...@mindspring.com
Brownie Yenta/Heater Shirt Queen/Minor Net Goddess
"Fortunately, Robin has never asked anyone to kill for her
brownies. She's very sweet that way."--Aimee Lortskell

[Mark Hanson]

"Putain d'Enculé" <putain...@billdiamond.com (Le Putain d'Enculé)> wrote

in message news:upbbsu05f1t9tmf3a...@4ax.com...

> >> >10cc, "Afternoon Delight."
> >>
> >> Starland Vocal Band, no?
> >
> >Er, maybe. What did 10cc do?

> "I'm Not in Love" and "The Things We Do For Love". SVB was John
> Denver's back up band.

That's going into my personal Trivia Question Hall of Fame.

Mark

[Stan]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote:

>
>OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't be too
>difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the 90's one,
>which surprised me. But I knew more of the songs themselves than the
>artists. Too many of them seem to be described as "oh, you know, that
>*guy*..."
>
>1 February made me shiver

American Pie
>2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover

Don't mess with Jim

>3 Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough

Devil Went Down to Georgia
>4 You don't have to be coy, Roy

50 ways to leave your lover

>5 Fly me away to the bright side of the moon

Dreamweaver

>6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay

Cats in the Cradle

>7 He gave his life for tourism

>8 Colored lights can hypnotize

American Woman
>9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay

>10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned
>11 Almost rang the phone off the wall
>12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps

Blinded By the Light

>13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Me and Bobby McGee
>14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

LOLA

>15 Hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?

>16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand
>17 Well we got no class and we got no principles

School's Out for Summer

>18 Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll

>19 At a tombstone bar in a juke-joint car

> 20 I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old.
Heard it in a Love Song

> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday
> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance

> 23 I never knew me a better time

Crocodile Rock

>45 Mama, take this badge off of me

I shot the Sheriff

> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

Rock and Roll Music

> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name

Black Water

> 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes

Sylvia's Mother

> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

Ohio

> 109 You got your demons, you got desires

One of These Nights

> 110 I never understood a single word he said

>111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff

> 112 Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school

Walk This Way?

> 113 Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young

Young Americans

> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

Spill The Wine

> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

Roundabout

> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

Monster Mash?

>142 She's wearing my high school ring on her chain
>143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician

Johnny B Goode

>144 You make my motor run, my motor run

Wild Thing?

> 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

Money

> 157 At night we ride through mansions of glory

Born To Run

> 160 On board I'm the captain so climb aboard

I'm the Captain

> 161 When it all was over we had to find another place

What's Your Name

> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Sugar Mag!

>171 Some people call me the space cowboy

Gangster of Love

> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
Mr. Bojangles

Gee, that was fun. Thanks, Kim. I know there were many more I
recognized, but couldn't place.

>
>Kim
>
>*Never in my wildest dreams did I think my life would turn out the way it
>has -- mainly because in my wildest dreams, that guard at the bank never had
>the cojones to go for his gun when I started taking hostages. (Mike Lopez)*
>
>

--
Read a book, volunteer, smell a flower, smoke a cigarette, have a drink, go
for a walk, take a bubble bath, give to charity, pet a dog, play with a kid,
but for God's sake, don't pee in peoples' cokes....Amy, AFCA

[Stan]

Putain d'Enculé <putain...@billdiamond.com (Le Putain d'Enculé)>

wrote:

>>6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay

>Harry Nilsson "Cats in the Cradle"

Pet Peeve! Pet Peeve!
Nilsson shmilsson!
Harry _Chapin_. But most people confuse it with Cat Stevens' "Father
& Son". "Cats in the Cradle" is probably one of the most mis-named
songs in Gnutella land, IME.

[Stan]

"John Dean" <john...@frag.lineone.net> wrote:

>> 67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
>

>Land Sakes we got us a CON-voy Someone McCall

How did John Dean from Oxford know this one? Please tell me that it
didn't make it across the ocean. And if it did, why didn't you send
it back?

[Rick B.]

Kim wrote:

>
> 1 February made me shiver

American Pie/Don McLean

> 2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown/Jim Croce

> 3 Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough

The Devil Went Down to Georgia/Charlie Daniels Band

> 4 You don't have to be coy, Roy

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover/Paul Simon

> 5 Fly me away to the bright side of the moon

Dream Weaver/Gary Wright

> 6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay

Cat's in the Cradle/Harry Chapin

> 8 Colored lights can hypnotize

American Woman/Guess Who

> 9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay

Alone Again, Naturally/Gilbert O'Sullivan

> 10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned

Carefree Highway/Gordon Lightfoot

> 12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps

Blinded by the Light/Manfred Mann's Earth Band (orig. B. Springsteen)

> 13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Me and Bobby McGee/Janis Joplin (also Kristofferson, Lightfoot, Roger
Miller, etc.)

> 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

Lola/Kinks

> 15 Hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?

Please Come to Boston/Dave Loggins

> 17 Well we got no class and we got no principles

School's Out/Alice Cooper

> 18 Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll

Couldn't Get It Right/Climax Blues Band

> 19 At a tombstone bar in a juke-joint car

Lido Shuffle/Boz Scaggs

> 20 I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old.

Heard It In a Love Song/Marshall Tucker Band

> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday

Grease/Frankie Valli

> 23 I never knew me a better time

Crocodile Rock/Elton John

> 25 Give me a dime so I can phone my mother

Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?/Rod Stewart

> 27 With a bit of rock music, everything is fine

Dancing Queen/ABBA

> 28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia/Vicki Lawrence

> 29 Vernon'll meet me when the Boac lands

Montego Bay/Bobby Bloom

> 33 Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?

Easy/Commodores

> 34 You gave away the things you loved

You're So Vain/Carly Simon

> 36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year

Rocky Mountain High/John Denver

> 37 The first thing I met was a fly with [no] buzz
A Horse With No Name/America

> 38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows

(Bungle In The Jungle/Jethro Tull)?

> 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared

I Can See Clearly Now/Johnny Nash

> 41 Mount your horses draw your sword

One Tin Soldier/Coven, The Original Caste

> 42 I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room

Oh What a Night (December 1963)/Four Seasons

> 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head/B.J. Thomas

> 44 Seven horses seem to be on the [march]
Love Her Madly/Doors

> 45 Mama, take this badge off of me

Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Bob Dylan

> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

Rock and Roll Music/Beach Boys (orig. C. Berry)

> 48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man

Help Me/Joni Mitchell

> 53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money

Another Saturday Night/Cat Stevens (orig. Sam Cooke)

> 55 Now, I really want to see you

Really Wanna Know You/Gary Wright?

> 57 Did I hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today

Delta Dawn/Helen Reddy (or Bette Midler)

> 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
Lean On Me/Bill Withers

> 59 Don't know the reason that I stayed here all season

Margaritaville/Jimmy Buffet

> 60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside

Billy, Don't Be A Hero/Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods

> 61 You know that's a game that I hate to lose

Drift Away/Dobie Gray

> 64 If you give a little more then you're asking for

I Just Want to Be Your Everything/Andy Gibb

> 67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

Convoy/C.W. McCall

> 68 Let the music take your mind

Rock Your Baby/George McCrae

> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.

Stairway to Heaven/Led Zeppelin

> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire

Long Tall Glasses/Leo Sayer

> 74 I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay

Me & You & a Dog Named Boo/Lobo

> 76 Young and beautiful, but someday your looks'll be gone

Love Will Keep Us Together/The Captain & Tenille

> 77 Turned on some music to start my day

More Than A Feeling/Boston

> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name

Black Water/Doobie Brothers

> 82 Honey doggone it I depend upon it

Lay A Little Lovin' On Me/Robin McNamara

> 83 Reflexes got the better of me

I Shot the Sheriff/Eric Clapton

> 84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me

Let It Be/Beatles

> 85 He came on a summer's day bringin' gifts from far away

Brandy/Looking Glass

> 86 I won't share you with another boy

Roxanne/Police

> 89 The rich relationed hometown queen married into what she needs

At Seventeen/Janis Ian

> 90 I knew her smile in an instant

Escape (The Piña Colada Song)/Rupert Holmes

> 91 There's a reason why I'm feelin' so high

Let Your Love Flow/Bellamy Brothers

> 94 There's something wrong here, there can be no denying

It's Too Late/Carole King

> 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes

Sylvia's Mother/Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

> 97 So if I call you, don't make a fuss

I'm Not In Love/10cc

> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

Ohio/Crosby Still Nash & Young

> 103 Players only love you when they're playing

Dreams/Fleetwood Mac

> 104 You better get yourself together darlin'

If You Don't Know Me By Now/Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean

Rock the Boat/Hues Corporation

> 107 I'm a loveable man and I can take you to the nearest star

Vehicle/Ides of March

> 108 Sail on silver girl

Bridge Over Troubled Water/Simon & Garfunkel

> 109 You got your demons, you got desires

One Of These Nights/Eagles

> 110 I never understood a single word he said

Joy to the World/Three Dog Night

> 114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud

Killing Me Softly/Roberta Flack

> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream

Magic Man/Heart

> 117 I would kiss the ground she walks on

Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got/Four Tops

> 119 Never heard nothin' but bad things about him

Papa Was A Rolling Stone/Temptations

> 121 These are the lips that can't help callin' your name

Show and Tell/Al Wilson

> 122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself

Garden Party/Rick Nelson

> 123 There is wonder in most every thing I see

Top of the World/Carpenters

> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

Spill the Wine/Eric Burdon & War

> 127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)/Edison Lighthouse

> 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces

Sultans of Swing/Dire Straits

> 130 Oh, babe I wanna taste your lips

Kiss You All Over/Exile

> 131 You like your life in a free-form style

Jackie Blue/Ozark Mountain Daredevils

> 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black

Bang a Gong/T. Rex

> 137 You started this fire down in my soul

Don't Leave Me This Way/Thelma Houston

> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

Roundabout/Yes

> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

Ballroom Blitz/Sweet

> 143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician

Takin' Care of Business/Bachmann-Turner Overdrive

> 147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove

Sir Duke/Stevie Wonder

> 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

Money/Pink Floyd

> 150 We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit

Night Moves/Bob Seger

> 151 Used to be's don't count anymore

You Don't Bring Me Flowers/Neil Diamond & Barbara Streisand

> 152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you

Love Train/O'Jays

> 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind

Listen To What the Man Said/Wings

> 155 I gotta catch a noon train

Sweet City Woman/Stampeders

> 157 At night we ride through mansions of glory

Born to Run/Bruce Springsteen

> 159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice

Song Sung Blue/Neil Diamond

> 161 When it all was over we had to find another place

Smoke on the Water/Deep Purple

> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

The Weight/The Band

> 166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind

Rikki Don't Lose That Number/Steely Dan

> 168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us

Tie a Yellow Ribbon.../Tony Orlando & Dawn

> 169 If anyone should ever write my life story

You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me/Gladys Kinght & the
Pips

> 171 Some people call me the space cowboy

The Joker/Steve Miller Band

> 172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms

You're Sixteen/Ringo Starr (orig. Johnny Burnette, '50s or early '60s)

> 173 There are times when all the world's asleep

The Logical Song/Supertramp

> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly

Rose Garden/Lynn Anderson

> 177 See the curtains hanging in the window

Summer Breeze/Seals and Crofts

> 179 Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields

Running On Empty/Jackson Browne

> 180 There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now

Wildfire/Michael Murphy

> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

Seasons in the Sun/Terry Jacks

> 184 You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away

Who Are You/The Who

> 185 You're fine and you're mine and you look so divine

Come and Get Your Love/Redbone

> 186 You're a genie in disguise

Betcha By Golly Wow/Stylistics

> 187 Your dreams were your ticket out

Welcome Back/John Sebastian

> 190 I broke a heart, that's gentle and true

You're No Good/Linda Ronstadt

> 192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act

We're An American Band/Grand Funk Railroad

> 194 Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire

Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)/Reunion

> 196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain

Rhinestone Cowboy/Glen Campbell (orig. Larry Weiss)

> 197 Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through

Hello It's Me/Todd Rundgren

> 199 There is none so blind as he who will not see

Share Your Love/Kenny Rogers

> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants

Mr. Bojangles/Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (orig. Jerry Jeff Walker, '60s)

[Oriole Adams]

Trying to cover some of the ones that haven't been answered yet...

>11 Almost rang the phone off the wall

Hot Stuff, Donna Summer

>>12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps

Blinded by the Light, Manfred Mann's Earth Band

> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday

Grease, Frankie Valli

>> 27 With a bit of rock music, everything is fine

Dancing Queen, Abba

>>32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru

Saturday Night, Bay City Rollers

>>34 You gave away the things you loved

You're So Vain, Carly Simon

>42 I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room

December 1963, Four Seasons

> 49 I'll shine up my old brown shoes

I Want You to Want Me, Cheap Trick

>> 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain

Lean On Me, Bill Withers

>62 Don't you know that it's wrong to take what is given you

Rich Girl, Hall and Bloats

>64 If you give a little more then you're asking for

I Just Want to be Your Everything, Andy Gibb

>66 Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head

I Think I Love You, Partridge Family

> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire

Long Tall Glasses, Leo Sayer

> 75 I don't understand what you're lookin' to find

Bad Blood, Neil Sedaka

>>79 He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee

Black Superman, Johnny Wakelin and the Kinsasha Band

>> 83 Reflexes got the better of me

I Shot the Sheriff, Eric Clapton

>86 I won't share you with another boy

Roxanne, The Police

>> 87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed

Show Me the Way, Peter Frampton

>88 Running around as you do with your head up in the clouds

Have You Never Been Mellow, Olivia Puke - n- Yawn

>>92 I've been waiting in the hall, been waiting on your call

Miss You, Rolling Stones

>>93 You had me down, 21 to zip

Back Case of Loving You, Robert Palmer

>98 Your ability to reason is swept away

Everybody Plays the Fool, Main Ingredient (I've always loved this song)

> 99 Stranger dressed in black, she's a hungry child

Hot Child in the City, Nick Gilder (I preferred his lesser hits - You Really
Rock Me, Roxy Roller, and Here Comes the Night)

>>101 Like a picture she was layin' there

Chevy Van, Sammy Johns

>>103 Players only love you when they're playing

Dreams, Fleetwood Mac

>111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff

Hot Blooded, Foreigner

> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream

Magic Man, Heart

>118 I can see in your eyes, I'm happy you know it

Havin' My Baby, Paul Anka

>120 I got no fare to ride a train

Hitchin' a Ride, Vanity Fair

>>134 Everything I do always takes me home to you

Whenever I Call You "Friend", Kenny Loggins (with Stevie Nicks on uncredited
backing vocals)

> 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black

Bang a Gong, T Rex

>137 You started this fire down in my soul

Don't Leave Me This Way, Thelma Houston

>>144 You make my motor run, my motor run

My Sharona, the Knack

>> 145 The boss don't mind sometimes if you act the fool

Car Wash, Rose Royce

>> 146 You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot

Rock and Roll All Night, Kiss

>>147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove

Sir Duke, Stevie Wonder (my fave by him)

> 152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you

Love Train, O'Jays

> 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind

Listen to What the Man Said, Wings

>>155 I gotta catch a noon train

Sweet City Woman, Stampeders

>> 160 On board I'm the captain so climb aboard

Come Sail Away, Styx

>> 166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind

Rikki, Don't Lose that Number, Steely Dan

>169 If anyone should ever write my life story

You're the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me, Gladys Knight and the Pips

>170 So many nights I'd sit by my window

You Light Up My Life, Debby Boone (Gaaaaaaaack!!!!)

>>174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly

Rose Garden, Lynn Anderson (Also Kon Kan)

>> 178 There'll be no parade, no TV or stage

You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show), Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis
Jr

>>188 I'm a soldier in the war on poverty

Nothing from Nothing, Billy Preston

>189 Fever, temperature's risin' now

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Michael Jackson (the one and only MJ record I
ever bought)

>>190 I broke a heart, that's gentle and true

You're No Good, Linda Ronstadt

>> 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

BoRhap, Queen

>>192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act

We're An American Band, Grand Funk

>>193 Talk about your childhood wishes

Candyman, Sammy Davis Jr

>>199 There is none so blind as he who will not see

Everything is Beautiful, Ray Stevens

> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants

Mr Bojangles, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Oriole ~
.:* feel smart again <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com">mental floss</a>

[John Dean]

Stan wrote:
> "John Dean" <john...@frag.lineone.net> wrote:
>
>>> 67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
>>
>> Land Sakes we got us a CON-voy Someone McCall
>
> How did John Dean from Oxford know this one? Please tell me that it
> didn't make it across the ocean. And if it did, why didn't you send
> it back?

Pigpen this here's the Rubber Duck ...

Why would we send it back? I*loved* it.
--
John Dean
Oxford
De-frag to reply

[Robin Colleen Moore]

Kim <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote:
>
> OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't be too
> difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the 90's one,
> which surprised me. But I knew more of the songs themselves than the
> artists. Too many of them seem to be described as "oh, you know, that
> *guy*..."
>

> 1 February made me shiver

"American Pie", Don McLean

> 2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover

"Bad Bad Leroy Brown", Jim Croce

> 3 Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia", Charlie Daniels Band

> 4 You don't have to be coy, Roy

"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", Paul Simon

> 5 Fly me away to the bright side of the moon

"Dreamweaver", Gary Wright

> 6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay

"Cat's in the Cradle", Harry Chapin

> 7 He gave his life for tourism

> 8 Colored lights can hypnotize

> 9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay

> 10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned

"Carefree Highway", Gordon Lightfoot

> 11 Almost rang the phone off the wall

> 12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps

> 13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

"Me and Bobby McGee", Janis Joplin

> 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

"Lola", The Kinks

> 15 Hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?

"Please Come to Boston", Dave Loggins

> 16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand

> 17 Well we got no class and we got no principles

"School's Out", Alice Cooper

> 18 Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll

> 19 At a tombstone bar in a juke-joint car

> 20 I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old.

> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday

> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance

"I Write the Songs", Barry Manilow

> 23 I never knew me a better time

> 24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word

> 25 Give me a dime so I can phone my mother

> 26 Too much of anything is not good for you

> 27 With a bit of rock music, everything is fine

> 28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

"Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves", Cher

> 29 Vernon'll meet me when the Boac lands

> 30 I wanna be your be your rubber ball
> 31 I feel a warmth in my heart and my soul that I never knew

> 32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru

> 33 Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?

> 34 You gave away the things you loved
"You're So Vain", Carly Simon

> 35 I'm not supposed to be alone with you

> 36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year

"Rocky Mountain High", John Denver

> 37 The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz

> 38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows

"Bungle in the Jungle", Jethro Tull

> 39 Born a man-child of the sun

> 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared

> 41 Mount your horses draw your sword

> 42 I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room

"Oh What a Night (December 1963)", The Four Seasons

> 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", B.J. Thomas

> 44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark

> 45 Mama, take this badge off of me

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door", Bob Dylan

> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

"Rock & Roll Music", I think either Beach Boys or John Lennon (didn't
they both do it?)

> 47 Well, it's no big sin to stick your two cents in

> 48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man

"Help Me", Joni Mitchell

> 49 I'll shine up my old brown shoes

> 50 Everyday is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
> 51 Do you think I'm home just sitting around?
> 52 We've come too far to leave it all behind

> 53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money

"Another Saturday Night", Cat Stevens

> 54 Your kisses lift me higher

> 55 Now, I really want to see you

> 56 You drink the night away and forget about everything

> 57 Did I hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today

"Delta Dawn", Helen Reddy (or Tanya Tucker)

> 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain

> 59 Don't know the reason that I stayed here all season

"Margaritaville", Jimmy Buffett

> 60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside

"Billy, Don't Be a Hero", Bo Donnelly and the Heywoods)

> 61 You know that's a game that I hate to lose

> 62 Don't you know that it's wrong to take what is given you

> 63 Used to be my life was just emotions passing by

"Baby I'm-a-Want-You", Bread

> 64 If you give a little more then you're asking for

"I Just Want to Be Your Everything", Andy Gibb

> 65 I'm savin' all my lovin' for someone who's lovin' me

"I Will Survive", Gloria Gaynor

> 66 Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head

> 67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

> 68 Let the music take your mind

> 69 Thunder is your night light
> 70 Til forever on it goes,through the circle fast and slow

> 71 Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking

> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.

> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire

"Long Tall Glasses", Leo Sayer

> 74 I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay

> 75 I don't understand what you're lookin' to find

> 76 Young and beautiful, but someday your looks'll be gone

"Love Will Keep Us Together", The Captain & Tennille (sp?)

> 77 Turned on some music to start my day

> 78 I might have to move heaven and earth to prove it to you, baby

> 79 He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee

> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name

"Black Water", Doobie Brothers

> 81 Close your eyes and think of me

> 82 Honey doggone it I depend upon it

> 83 Reflexes got the better of me

> 84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me

"Let It Be", Beatles

> 85 He came on a summer's day bringin' gifts from far away

"Brandy", Looking Glass

> 86 I won't share you with another boy

"Roxanne", the Police

> 87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed

"Show Me the Way", Peter Frampton

> 88 Running around as you do with your head up in the clouds

> 89 The rich relationed hometown queen married into what she needs

"At Seventeen", Janis Ian

> 90 I knew her smile in an instant

> 91 There's a reason why I'm feelin' so high

"Let Your Love Flow", but damned if I can remember by whom...

> 92 I've been waiting in the hall, been waiting on your call

> 93 You had me down, 21 to zip

> 94 There's something wrong here, there can be no denying

"It's Too Late", Carole King

> 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes

> 96 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday

"Paradise by the Dashboard Light", Meat Loaf

> 97 So if I call you, don't make a fuss
"I'm Not in Love", 10CC

> 98 Your ability to reason is swept away

> 99 Stranger dressed in black, she's a hungry child

> 100 You got your spell on me, baby.

> 101 Like a picture she was layin' there
"Chevy Van", Sammy Johns

> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
"Ohio", Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

> 103 Players only love you when they're playing
"Dreams", Fleetwood Mac

> 37% 104 You better get yourself together darlin'

"Instant Karma", John Lennon

> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean
"Rock the Boat", Hues Corporation (God, I love this song...)

> 106 The sudden motion made me skip

> 107 I'm a loveable man and I can take you to the nearest star

> 108 Sail on silver girl

"Bridge Over Troubled Waters", Simon & Garfunkle

> 109 You got your demons, you got desires

"One of These Nights", the Eagles

> 110 I never understood a single word he said

> 111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff

> 112 Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school
"Walk This Way", Aerosmith

> 113 Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young
"Young Americans", David Bowie

> 114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud

"Killing Me Softly", Roberta Flack (about Don McLean, FWIW)

> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream
"Magic Man", Heart

> 116 You'll always be the only one for me

> 117 I would kiss the ground she walks on

> 118 I can see in your eyes, I'm happy you know it

"You're Having My Baby", Paul Anka (speaking of cruel & unusual
punishment...)

> 119 Never heard nothin' but bad things about him

> 120 I got no fare to ride a train

> 121 These are the lips that can't help callin' your name

"Show and Tell", Bill Withers (I think)

> 122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself

"Garden Party", Rick Nelson

> 123 There is wonder in most every thing I see

> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

"Spill the Wine", War

> 125 Whatever you want to do is all right with me
> 126 They stand when I walk through the neighborhoods

> 127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny

"Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes", Edison Lighthouse

> 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces

> 129 Togetherness, well that's all I'm after

> 130 Oh, babe I wanna taste your lips

> 131 You like your life in a free-form style

"Jackie Blue", Ozark Mountain Daredevils

> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite

> 133 She danced without a net upon the wire

> 134 Everything I do always takes me home to you

> 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black

"Get It On (Bang a Gong)", T-Rex

> 136 Take time to make time, make time to be there

> 137 You started this fire down in my soul

"Don't Leave Me This Way", Thelma Houston

> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

> 139 There's too many places I gotta see

> 140 I looked at your face every day

> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

"Ballroom Blitz", Sweet

> 142 She's wearing my high school ring on her chain

> 143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician

> 144 You make my motor run, my motor run

> 145 The boss don't mind sometimes if you act the fool

> 146 You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot

> 147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove

> 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash

"Money", Pink Floyd

> 149 Way down around Vicksburg around Louisiana way

> 150 We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit

"Night Moves", Bob Seger

> 151 Used to be's don't count anymore

> 152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you
"Love Train", O'Jays

> 153 Things ain't what they used to be, no, no

> 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind

"Listen to What the Man Says", Paul McCartney & Wings

> 155 I gotta catch a noon train

> 156 When the music stopped I returned to my seat

> 157 At night we ride through mansions of glory

"Born to Run", Bruce Springsteen (and, of course, the E Street Band)

> 158 Demonstrating sweet love and affection

> 159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice

> 160 On board I'm the captain so climb aboard

> 161 When it all was over we had to find another place

"Smoke on the Water", Deep Purple

> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

> 163 You've brought a lot of sunshine into my life
> 164 The dying embers of the night, a fire that slowly fades to dawn
> 165 We've just begun to get our share of the world's delights

> 166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind

"Rikki Don't Lose That Number", Steely Dan

> 167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter

"Lucille", Kenny Rogers

> 168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us

"Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree", Tony Orlando & Dawn

> 169 If anyone should ever write my life story

> 170 So many nights I'd sit by my window

> 171 Some people call me the space cowboy

"The Joker", Steve Miller Band

> 172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms

"You're Sixteen", Ringo Starr

> 173 There are times when all the world's asleep

> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly

> 175 We let so many dreams just slip through our hands

> 176 The breakup we had has made me lonesome and sad

> 177 See the curtains hanging in the window

"Summer Breeze", Seals & Crofts

> 178 There'll be no parade, no TV or stage

> 179 Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields

> 180 There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now

"Wildfire", Michael Murphey

> 181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

> 183 No man does it all by himself

> 184 You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away

> 185 You're fine and you're mine and you look so divine

> 186 You're a genie in disguise

> 187 Your dreams were your ticket out

> 188 I'm a soldier in the war on poverty

"Nothing From Nothing", Billy Preston

> 189 Fever, temperature's risin' now

> 190 I broke a heart, that's gentle and true

"You're No Good", Linda Rondstadt

> 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

"Bohemian Rhapsody", Queen

> 192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act

"We're an American Band", Grand Funk Railroad

> 193 Talk about your childhood wishes

"Candy Man" (probably the Sammy Davis, Jr. version)

> 194 Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire

> 195 Ah, peace throughout the land

> 196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain

> 197 Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through

"Hello, It's Me", Todd Rundgren

> 198 Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed

"Evergreen", Barbra Streisand

> 199 There is none so blind as he who will not see

"Everything is Beautiful", Ray Stevens

> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants

"Mr. Bojangles"--I seem to think this was a Dylan song, but I don't
think he did the version that got all the airplay

I think I'll quit while I can still see straight...

Robin the mad photographer (who came of age during the '70s, God help
me)

[Greg Goss]

"John Dean" <john...@frag.lineone.net> wrote:

>> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
>

>Mr Bojangles - mumble

Didn't EVERYONE do this one? Even Jim Stafford.

[Greg Goss]

"John Dean" <john...@frag.lineone.net> wrote:

>> How did John Dean from Oxford know this one? Please tell me that it
>> didn't make it across the ocean. And if it did, why didn't you send
>> it back?
>
>Pigpen this here's the Rubber Duck ...
>
>Why would we send it back? I*loved* it.

Arizona at noon on the seventh of June
When they highballed over the pass
Bulldog Mac with a can on back
And a Jaguar haulin ass

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old Stan <sze...@hotmail.com> wrote in alt.fan.cecil-adams
back on Sun, 03 Nov 2002 19:23:44 -0500 that ...

> Putain d'Enculé <putain...@billdiamond.com (Le Putain d'Enculé)>
>wrote:
>
>>>6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
>>Harry Nilsson "Cats in the Cradle"
>
>
>Pet Peeve! Pet Peeve!
>Nilsson shmilsson!
>Harry _Chapin_. But most people confuse it with Cat Stevens' "Father
>& Son". "Cats in the Cradle" is probably one of the most mis-named
>songs in Gnutella land, IME.

It was a shot. Frankly, I really couldn't tell
Chapin from Nilsson anyway. They were both kind of lanky geeks. But
then, it was the 70's and a most singer/songwriters were lanky geeks.

Bill

[Greg Goss]

Stan <sze...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "John Dean" <john...@frag.lineone.net> wrote:
>
>>> 67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
>>
>>Land Sakes we got us a CON-voy Someone McCall
>
>How did John Dean from Oxford know this one? Please tell me that it
>didn't make it across the ocean. And if it did, why didn't you send
>it back?

The song had a sequel, and a movie was made. The song was rewritten
(inferior) for the movie. I have the book from the movie. It ain't
great literature, but it's a better novel than might be expected.

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old "Mark Hanson" <mark.h...@attbi.com> wrote in
alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Mon, 04 Nov 2002 00:19:58 GMT that ...

Heaven's Sakes - keep it under your hat. You have no idea the looks of
death you get when you mention SVB to people of a certain age in a
social setting. Worse, if it's a group of people that -liked- that
song, they'll start singing it.

[Stan]

Putain d'Enculé <putain...@billdiamond.com (Le Putain d'Enculé)>
wrote:

>Good old Stan <sze...@hotmail.com> wrote in alt.fan.cecil-adams
>back on Sun, 03 Nov 2002 19:23:44 -0500 that ...
>> Putain d'Enculé <putain...@billdiamond.com (Le Putain d'Enculé)>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>>6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
>>>Harry Nilsson "Cats in the Cradle"
>>
>>
>>Pet Peeve! Pet Peeve!
>>Nilsson shmilsson!
>>Harry _Chapin_. But most people confuse it with Cat Stevens' "Father
>>& Son". "Cats in the Cradle" is probably one of the most mis-named
>>songs in Gnutella land, IME.
>
>It was a shot. Frankly, I really couldn't tell
>Chapin from Nilsson anyway. They were both kind of lanky geeks. But
>then, it was the 70's and a most singer/songwriters were lanky geeks.

No big. I just realized I made at least two mistakes in my answers.
--
It's a well known fact that the only thing harder than herding cats is
winning an argument with your wife. - groo

[Bill Kinkaid]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 22:22:58 GMT, PAV...@EARTHLINK.NET (PAVELB1)
wrote:

>>8 Colored lights can hypnotize

American Woman - Guess Who, 1970

>>9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay

Have You Seen Her - Chi-lites, 1971

>>10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned

Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot, 1975

>>16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand

Respect Yourself - Staple Singers (I thought it was "bottle") 1972

>>17 Well we got no class and we got no principles

> "Schools Out"
by Alice Cooper, 1972

>> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday

Grease is the Word - Frankie Valli, 1977

>> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance

I Write the Songs - Barry Manilow (no, he didn't write it) 1975

>> 23 I never knew me a better time

Crocodile Rock - Elton John, 1972

>> 24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word

Don't Pull Your Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, 1971

>>28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

> "Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves"
by Cher, 1971

>>29 Vernon'll meet me when the Boac lands

Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom, 1970

>>32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru

Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers, 1975

>>34 You gave away the things you loved

You're So Vain - Carly Simon, 1972

>> 36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year

Rocky Mountain High - John Denver, 1973

>>37 The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz

A Horse with No Name - America, 1972

>>38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows

Bungle in the Jungle - Jethro Tull, 1973

>> 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared

I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash, 1972

>> 41 Mount your horses draw your sword

> "One Tin Soldier"
by the Original Caste, 1970

>> 42 I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room

Oh What a Night - Frankie Valli, 1977

>> 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

Raindrops Keep Fallin - BJ Thomas
(1969, wasn't it?)

>>44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark

Love Her Madly - Doors, 1971

>>45 Mama, take this badge off of me

Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan, 1971

>> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

Rock & Roll Music - Chuck Berry in 1950s, Beatles in 1960s;
who in the 70s?

>> 48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man

Help Me - Joni Mitchell, 1974

>>52 We've come too far to leave it all behind

If You Leave Me Now - Chicago, 1976

>>53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money

Another Saturday Night - Cat Stevens (cover of Sam Cooke original)
1974

>> 56 You drink the night away and forget about everything

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty, 1977

>> 57 Did I hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today
> "Delta Dawn"

Helen Reddy or Tanya Tucker (released about the same time) 1975

>> 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain

Lean on Me - Bill Withers, 1972

>>59 Don't know the reason that I stayed here all season

Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett, 1978?

>> 60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside

> "Billy Dont Be a Hero"
by Paper Lace or Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods
(released about the same time 1974)

>>63 Used to be my life was just emotions passing by

Baby I'm-a Want You - Bread, 1970

>>64 If you give a little more then you're asking for

I Just Want to Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb, 1978

>>66 Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head

I Think I Love You - Patrridge Family, 1970

>> 70 Til forever on it goes,through the circle fast and slow

Have You Ever Seen the Rain - CCR, 1971

>> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin, 1972

>> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire

> "I can Dance"
by Leo Sayer, 1975

>>74 I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay

Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo, 1971

>> 75 I don't understand what you're lookin' to find

Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka

>>76 Young and beautiful, but someday your looks'll be gone

> "Love Will Keep us Together"
by Captain & Tennille (written by Neil Sedaka; during the fade at the
end of the song they sing "Sedaka's back") 1975

>> 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name

> "Ol Black Water"
by the Doobie Brothers, 1976

>> 81 Close your eyes and think of me

You've Got a Friend - Carole King (covered and a bigger hit by James
Taylor 1971)

>>82 Honey doggone it I depend upon it

>>84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me

Let it Be - Beatles, 1970

>> 85 He came on a summer's day bringin' gifts from far away

Brandy - Looking Glass, 1973

>>86 I won't share you with another boy

Roxanne - the Police, 1978

>>88 Running around as you do with your head up in the clouds

Have You Never Been Mellow - Olivia Newton-John, 1976

>> 91 There's a reason why I'm feelin' so high

Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers, 1976

>> 94 There's something wrong here, there can be no denying

It's Too Late - Carole King, 1971

>> 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes

Sylvia's Mother - Dr Hook, 1972

>> 97 So if I call you, don't make a fuss

> "I'm not in Love"
by 10cc, 1973

>> 100 You got your spell on me, baby.

Black Magic Woman - Santana, 1970

>>101 Like a picture she was layin' there

Chevy Van - Sammy Johns, 1974

>> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
> "Ohio"

by Crosby Stills Nash & Young, 1970

>>103 Players only love you when they're playing

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac, 1975

>104 You better get yourself together darlin'

If You Don't Know Me by Now - Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes, 1972

>> 106 The sudden motion made me skip

Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Dougles, 1974

>>108 Sail on silver girl
> "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

by Simon & Garfunkel, 1970

>> 110 I never understood a single word he said

> "joy to the world"
by Three Dog Night, 1971 (written by country singer Hoyt Axton)

>> 114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud

> "killing me softly"
by Roberta Flack, 1972 (supposedly written about Don McLean)

>> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream

Magic Man - Heart, 1973

>>119 Never heard nothin' but bad things about him

Papa Was a Rolling Stone - Temptations, 1971

>>120 I got no fare to ride a train

Hitching a Ride - Vanity Fare, 1970

>>121 These are the lips that can't help callin' your name

Show and Tell - Al Wilson, 1974

>>122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself

> "garden party"
by Rick Nelson, 1971

>>123 There is wonder in most every thing I see

Top of the World - Carpenters, 1973

>> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

Spill the Wine - War, 1970

>> 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces

Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits, 1978

>> 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black

Bang a Gong - T Rex, 1972

>>136 Take time to make time, make time to be there

Lady - Little River Band, 1977

>> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

Roundabout - Yes, 1971

>>142 She's wearing my high school ring on her chain

Happy Days - ?

>>143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician

Taking Care of Business - BTO, 1975

>>147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove

Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder, 1976

>>151 Used to be's don't count anymore

> "You don't Bring me Flowers"
by Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond, 1977
(done by Neil, covered by Barbra, then together)

>> 152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you

Love Train - O'Jays, 1972

>>153 Things ain't what they used to be, no, no

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye, 1971

>> 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind

Listen What the Man Said - Wings, 1976

>>155 I gotta catch a noon train

Sweet City Woman - Stampeders, 1971

>> 159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice

Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond, 1972

>> 161 When it all was over we had to find another place

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple, 1972

>> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

Up on Cripple Creek - the Band, 1970

>> 166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind

Rikki Don't Lose that Number - Steely Dan, 1973

>> 167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter

Lucille - Kenny Rogers, 1977

>>168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us

> "Tie a Yellow Ribon"
by Tony Orlando & Dawn, 1975

>>169 If anyone should ever write my life story

You're the Best Thing (that Ever Happened to Me) - Gladys Knight, 1972
(covered around 1976 by Ray Price)

>>170 So many nights I'd sit by my window

You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone, 1977

>>171 Some people call me the space cowboy
> "The Joker"

by Steve Miller Band, 1972

>>172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms

You're Sixteen - Ringo Starr, 1973
(cover of Jimmy Jones original from the 60s)

>> 173 There are times when all the world's asleep

The Logical Song - Supertramp, 1976

>>174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly

(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson, 1970

>> 177 See the curtains hanging in the window

Summer Dream - Seals and Crofts, 1972

>> 180 There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now

> "wildfire"
by Michael (Martin) Murphey, 1975

>> 181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the Wind - Kansas, 1977

>> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

> "Seasons in the Sun"
Terry Jacks, 1973

>> 187 Your dreams were your ticket out

> "Welcome Back"
by John Sebastian (theme from Welcome Back Kotter) 1976

>>190 I broke a heart, that's gentle and true

You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt

>>193 Talk about your childhood wishes

Candy Man - Sammy Davis, 1972 (cover of song from Willie Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory)

>>196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain

Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell, 1976

>>197 Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through

Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren, 1974

>> 198 Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed

>>199 There is none so blind as he who will not see

Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens, 1970

>> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants

Mr Bojangles - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 1971

Bill in Vancouver

[Bill Kinkaid]

On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 01:43:35 GMT, ro...@mindspring.com (Robin Colleen
Moore) wrote:
>
>> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
>"Mr. Bojangles"--I seem to think this was a Dylan song, but I don't
>think he did the version that got all the airplay
>

Writted by Jerry Jeff Walker.

Bill in Vancouver

[Bill Kinkaid]

On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 23:47:19 GMT, Putain d'Enculé

<putain...@billdiamond.com (Le Putain d'Enculé)> wrote:

>Good old maxx...@aol.com.mil.gov (Max C. Webster III) wrote in
>alt.fan.cecil-adams back on 03 Nov 2002 23:40:53 GMT that ...
>>Putain d'Enculé done said:
>>>Max C. Webster III wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sweet, "Ballroom Blitz" from *Desolation Boulevard*. The same album had
>>>> "Fox on the Run" and AC/DC. I'm not usually one for glam-bands, but I
>>>> really liked Sweet for some reason. "Love is like Oxygen" was another
>>>> big hit for them, but "Little Willie" is probably my favorite by them --
>>it's just so silly!
>>>
>>>You wouldn't like it if it were sung to you on the school bus on a
>>>regular, loud, and highly atonal basis.
>>
>>Sorry, but I think I was one of those singing it regularly, loudly, antonally,
>>and, yes, out of tune.
>
>Then I owe you a fat lip for singing "Little Willy won't go homo!"
>twice a day for a month.
>

He was probably one of the ones who also sang "My Girl Bill".
The Sweet and Jim Stafford (and the Fifth Dimension, for that matter)
have an awful lot to answer for from guys named Bill who were in high
school in the early 1970s.
Though I've known women named Rhonda and Wendy who would like the
Beach Boys exterminated.

Bill in Vancouver

[Blinky the Shark]

Robin Colleen Moore wrote:

[Blinky gives up on spoilers, since he's see not another soul bothering
to use them]

>> 8 Colored lights can hypnotize

"American Woman" - Guess Who

>> 44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark

Shit. And I can sing it, too. Grrrrr....

>> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

> "Rock & Roll Music", I think either Beach Boys or John Lennon (didn't
> they both do it?)

Beatles. All of them.

>> 67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

"Convoy" - C.W.Mcall

>> 110 I never understood a single word he said

"Joy To The World" - Three Dog Night

>> 172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms
> "You're Sixteen", Ringo Starr

Cover. Johnny Burnette, 1960.

>> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly

"Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Brenda Lee.

>> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

"Seasons In The Sun", Terry Jacks (I had to look up the performer)

>> 187 Your dreams were your ticket out

"Welcome Back" (Welcome Back Kotter TV theme) - John Sebastian

>> 192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act
> "We're an American Band", Grand Funk Railroad

That was Connie Hamzy, by the way.

Recap from a site: "Connie Hamzy of Little Rock, rock-music's most
notoriously lubricious groupie of the 1970s. Known throughout the rock
world as Sweet Sweet Connie. Backstage exploits at Barton Coliseum
chronicled in Cosmopolitan magazine and memorialized in song by Grand
Funk Railroad. Played herself in a 1974 movie titled "Sweet Sweet
Connie." Announced 1995 she might run for Congress in 1996 but didn't."

She also did an autobiographical book.

>> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants

> "Mr. Bojangles"--I seem to think this was a Dylan song, but I don't
> think he did the version that got all the airplay

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's version of Bojangles is, I believe the one
that's the best known.

--
Blinky

[Blinky the Shark]

Oriole Adams wrote:

>>>32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru
>
> Saturday Night, Bay City Rollers

This could be a new poll:

1) Are you astounded that someone remembers BCR lyrics?

2) Is this also a little bit scary?

> Hot Child in the City, Nick Gilder (I preferred his lesser hits - You Really
> Rock Me, Roxy Roller, and Here Comes the Night)

And *Roxy Roller*, too.

It's Roller Day in...aff-kuh!

--
Blinky

[Blinky the Shark]

Bill Kinkaid wrote:

> Rock & Roll Music - Chuck Berry in 1950s, Beatles in 1960s;
> who in the 70s?

Beach Boys charted it midseventies.

--
Blinky

[Estron]

Previously on alt.fan.cecil-adams, Kim wrote:

This represents one sitting, with no reference works uses, all off the
top of my head.

> 1 February made me shiver

"American Pie," Don McLean

> 2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover

"Bad Bad Leroy Brown," Jim Croce

> 3 Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia," Charlie Daniels Band

> 4 You don't have to be coy, Roy

"Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover," Paul Simon

> 5 Fly me away to the bright side of the moon

"Dream Weaver," Gary Wright

> 6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay

"Cats in the Cradle," Harry Chapin

> 7 He gave his life for tourism

"King Tut," Steve Martin

> 8 Colored lights can hypnotize

"American Woman," Guess Who

> 9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay

"Alone Again Naturally," Gilbert O'Sullivan

> 10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned

"Carefree Highway," Gordon Lightfoot

> 11 Almost rang the phone off the wall

"Hot Stuff," Donna Summer

No idea on 12.

> 13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

"Me and Bobby McGee," Janis Joplin

> 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.

"Lola," The Kinks

> 15 Hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?
"Please Come to Boston," Dave Loggins

No idea on 16.

> 17 Well we got no class and we got no principles

"School's Out," Alice Cooper

No idea on 18, 19, 20.

> 21 Conventionality belongs to yesterday

"Theme from 'Grease,'" The Bee Gees

> 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance

"I Write the Songs," Barry Manilow

> 23 I never knew me a better time

"Crocodile Rock," Elton John

> 24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word

"Don't Pull Your Love," Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds

> 25 Give me a dime so I can phone my mother

"Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Rod Stewart

No idea on 26, 27.

> 28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done

"Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves," Cher

No idea on 29, 30, 31, 33. 32 sounds familiar, but can't place it.

> 34 You gave away the things you loved

"You're So Vain," Carly Simon

> 35 I'm not supposed to be alone with you

"Go Away Little Girl," Donny Osmond

> 36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year

"Rocky Mountain High," John Denver

> 37 The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz

"Horse With No Name," America

> 38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows

"Bungle in the Jungle," Jethro Tull

No idea on 39.

> 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared

"I Can See Clearly Now," Johnny Nash

> 41 Mount your horses draw your sword

"One Tin Soldier," Coven

42 is familiar, but I can't place it.

> 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," B.J. Thomas

> 44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark

"Love Her Madly," The Doors

> 45 Mama, take this badge off of me

"Knockin' On Heaven's Door," Bob Dylan

> 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it

"Rock and Roll Music," The Beach Boys

47 is familiar but I can't place it.

> 48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking-ladies man

"Help Me," Joni Mitchell

No idea on 49, 50, 51.
52 sounds familiar, but I can't place it.

> 53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money

"Another Saturday Night," Cat Stevens

No idea on 54, 55.

> 56 You drink the night away and forget about everything

"Baker Street," Gerry Rafferty

> 57 Did I hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today

"Delta Dawn," Helen Reddy

No idea on 58.

> 59 Don't know the reason that I stayed here all season

"Margaritaville," Jimmy Buffett

> 60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside

"Billy Don't Be a Hero," Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods

No idea on 61, 62.
63 sounds familiar, but I can't place it.

> 64 If you give a little more then you're asking for

"I Just Want To Be Your Everything," Andy Gibb

> 65 I'm savin' all my lovin' for someone who's lovin' me
"I Will Survive," Gloria Gaynor

No idea on 66.

> 67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

"Convoy," C.W. McCall

No idea on 69, 70, 71.

> 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.

"Stairway To Heaven," Led Zeppelin

> 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire

"Long Tall Glasses," Leo Sayer

> 74 I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay
"Me And You And A Dog Named Boo," Lobo

No idea on 75.

> 76 Young and beautiful, but someday your looks'll be gone

"Love Will Keep Us Together," The Captain & Tenille

No idea on 77, 78, 79, 80.

> 81 Close your eyes and think of me

"You've Got a Friend," James Taylor

No idea on 82, 83.

> 84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me

"Let It Be," The Beatles

> 85 He came on a summer's day bringin' gifts from far away

"Brandy," Looking Glass

No idea on 86.

> 87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed
"Show Me the Way," Peter Frampton

No idea on 88.

> 89 The rich relationed hometown queen married into what she needs
"At Seventeen," Janis Ian

No idea on 90, 91, 92, 93.

> 94 There's something wrong here, there can be no denying

"It's Too Late," Carole King

> 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes

"Sylvia's Mother," Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

No idea on 96.

> 97 So if I call you, don't make a fuss

"I'm Not in Love," 10 cc

> 98 Your ability to reason is swept away

"Everybody Plays the Fool," don't remember artist

No idea on 99.

> 100 You got your spell on me, baby.

"Black Magic Woman," Santana

> 101 Like a picture she was layin' there

"Chevy Van," don't remember artist

> 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

"Ohio," Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

> 103 Players only love you when they're playing

"Dreams," Fleetwood Mac

> 104 You better get yourself together darlin'

"Instant Karma," John Lennon

> 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean

"Rock the Boat," The Hues Convention

No idea on 106, 107.

> 108 Sail on silver girl

"Bridge Over Troubled Water," Simon & Garfunkel

> 109 You got your demons, you got desires

"One of These Nights," The Eagles

> 110 I never understood a single word he said

"Joy To the World," Three Dog Night

No idea on 111, 112, 113.

> 114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud

"Killing Me Softly With His Song," Roberta Flack

> 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream

"Magic Man," Heart

No idea on 116, 117, 118, 119, 120.

> 121 These are the lips that can't help callin' your name

"Show and Tell," don't remember artist

> 122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself

"Garden Party," Rick Nelson

> 123 There is wonder in most every thing I see

"Top of the World," The Carpenters

> 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

"Spill the Wine," Eric Burdon

No idea on 125, 126.

> 127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny

"Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes," don't remember artist.

> 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces

"Sultans of Swing," Dire Straits

No idea on 129, 130.

> 131 You like your life in a free-form style

"Jackie Blue," Ozark Mountain Daredevils

> 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite

"Afternoon Delight," Starland Vocal Band

> 133 She danced without a net upon the wire

"Don't Cry Out Loud," Melissa Manchester

No idea on 134.

> 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black

"Bang a Gong," T. Rex

> 136 Take time to make time, make time to be there

"Lady," Little River Band

No idea on 137.

> 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

"Roundabout," Yes

No idea on 139, 140.

> 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening

"Ballroom Blitz," The Clash

No idea on 142.

> 143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician

"Takin' Care of Business," Bachman-Turner Overdrive

> 144 You make my motor run, my motor run

"My Sharona," The Knack

No idea on 145, 146, 147.

> 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
"Money," Pink Floyd

No idea on 149.

> 150 We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit
"Night Moves," Bob Seger

> 151 Used to be's don't count anymore
"You Don't Bring Me Flowers," Neil Daimond & Barbra Streisand

> 152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you

"Love Train," The O'Jays

> 153 Things ain't what they used to be, no, no

"Mercy Mercy Me," Marvin Gaye

> 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind

"Listen What The Man Said," Paul McCartney & Wings

> 155 I gotta catch a noon train

"Sweet City Woman," The Stampeders

No idea on 156, 157, 158.

> 159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice

"Song Sung Blue," Neil Diamond

No idea on 160.

> 161 When it all was over we had to find another place

"Smoke On the Water," Deep Purple

> 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

"Up On Cripple Creek," The Band

No idea on 163, 164, 165.

> 166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind

"Rikki Don't Lose That Number," Steely Dan

No idea on 167.

> 168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us

"Tie a Yellow Ribbon," Tony Orlando & Dawn

> 169 If anyone should ever write my life story

"You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me," don't remember
artist

No idea on 170.

> 171 Some people call me the space cowboy

"The Joker," Steve Miller Band

> 172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms
"You're Sixteen," Ringo Starr

> 173 There are times when all the world's asleep
"The Logical Song," Supertramp

> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly

"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden," don't remember artist

No idea on 175, 176.

> 177 See the curtains hanging in the window

"Summer Breeze," Seals & Crofts

No idea on 178.
179 sounds so familiar I'm going to kick myself when I find out what
it is, but I can place it.

> 180 There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now

"Wildfire," Michael Martin Murphey

> 181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

"Dust In the Wind," Kansas

> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

"Seasons In the Sun," Terry Jacks

> 183 No man does it all by himself

"YMCA," The Village People

No idea on 184.

> 185 You're fine and you're mine and you look so divine

"Come and Get Your Love," don't remember artist

No idea on 186, 187.

> 188 I'm a soldier in the war on poverty

"Nothin' From Nothin' Leaves Nothin'," Billy Preston

No idea on 189, 190.

> 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
"Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen

> 192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act

"We're an American Band," Grand Funk Railroad

> 193 Talk about your childhood wishes
"Candy Man," Sammy Davis, Jr.

No idea on 194, 195.

> 196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain

"Rhinestone Cowboy," Glen Campbell

> 197 Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through

"Hello It's Me," Todd Rundgren

No idea on 198, 199.

> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants

"Mr. Bojangles," Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

111 lyrics remembered. Only 55.5 percent. I thought I would have
done better.

--
All opinions expressed are only that.
Pax vobiscum.
est...@tfs.net
Kansas City, Missouri

[Blinky the Shark]

Bill Kinkaid wrote:

> Though I've known women named Rhonda and Wendy who would like the
> Beach Boys exterminated.

There are probably some Barbara Anns that aren't very happy with 'em,
either.

Went to a dance, lookin' for romance
Saw Bobberann and I got into her pants...

Speaking of nonlyrics (that was how we used to sing it; I'm not saying
it's on any mis-heard lyrics sites), I think my favorite misunderstood
line comes from "Help Me Rhonda":

Well since she put me down
There've been owls pukin' in my bed

--
Blinky T. "got me rockin' and a-rollin'" Shark

[Rick B.]

Worth looking out for: David Bromberg's _Demon In Disguise_ album,
which contains a live rendition of Mr. Bojangles and an amusing
version of how the song came to be written. It really did come from an
encounter with an old man in a New Orleans drunk tank.
("Jerry wasn't there on a research project...")

[Estron]

Previously on alt.fan.cecil-adams, Blinky the Shark wrote:

> >> 44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark

> Shit. And I can sing it, too. Grrrrr....

There were quite a few lines quoted by Kim that I felt that way about.
"Geez. I know this. The tune goes 'hm hm HMM HMM hm hm hm . . .'
What the hell song is it?"

[Estron]

Previously, in alt.fan.cecil-adams, Kim wrote:

> > OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't
> > be too difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the
> > 90's one, which surprised me.

Kim, I had lots of fun attempting to answer the '70s lyrics quiz, and I'm
sure many of the younger posters here had as much fun with the one from the
'90s. Did you compile these quizzes yourself, or did you obtain them from
someone or somewhere?

--
All opinions expressed above are nothing more than that.

[Estron]

Previously, in alt.fan.cecil-adams, John Dean wrote:

> > How did John Dean from Oxford know this one? Please tell me that it
> > didn't make it across the ocean. And if it did, why didn't you send
> > it back?

> Pigpen this here's the Rubber Duck ...

> Why would we send it back? I*loved* it.

It took the US that long to come up with a suitable revenge for some of the
songs that the UK exported here in the '60s, such as "I'm Henry VII, I Am"
and "Mellow Yellow."

--
All opinions expressed above are nothing more than that.
Pax vobiscum.
est...@tfs.net

"quite rightly"

[Boron Elgar]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:54:54 -0600, Estron <est...@tfs.net> wrote:

>Previously, in alt.fan.cecil-adams, John Dean wrote:
>
>> > How did John Dean from Oxford know this one? Please tell me that it
>> > didn't make it across the ocean. And if it did, why didn't you send
>> > it back?
>
>> Pigpen this here's the Rubber Duck ...
>
>> Why would we send it back? I*loved* it.
>
>It took the US that long to come up with a suitable revenge for some of the
>songs that the UK exported here in the '60s, such as "I'm Henry VII, I Am"
>and "Mellow Yellow."

Boy...it MUST have taken a long time...By the time I heard of it, it
was about Henry VIII. Lyrics sounded better, too.

Boron

[Bill Kinkaid]

On 4 Nov 2002 05:01:50 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no....@box.invalid>
wrote:

>Bill Kinkaid wrote:
>
>> Though I've known women named Rhonda and Wendy who would like the
>> Beach Boys exterminated.
>
>There are probably some Barbara Anns that aren't very happy with 'em,
>either.
>

Probably, but living up here where most people only have one name I've
never encountered anyone named Barbara Ann.

Bill in Vancouver

[John Dean]

"Boron Elgar" <boron...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:vf6dsu80hk9bqgrj7...@4ax.com...

There was a learning curve. Back in the Music Hall Days there was 'I'm
Henry'. That was popular so the same guy wrote 'I'm Henry Too'. 'Henry III
The Summoning' was a failure, as was 'Henry IV the Intravenous'. But 'I'm
Henry V' as sung by Bobby V was a smash. Then came 'I'm Henry VI Warshawski
I am' and the rest is, er, history.
--
John 'Got married to the widow next door, back to Immazaz' Dean
Oxford
De-frag to reply

[Estron]

Previously, in alt.fan.cecil-adams, I have to admit that I wrote:

> >It took the US that long to come up with a suitable revenge for some of the
> >songs that the UK exported here in the '60s, such as "I'm Henry VII, I Am"
> >and "Mellow Yellow."

To which Boron Elgar responded:

> Boy...it MUST have taken a long time...By the time I heard of it, it
> was about Henry VIII. Lyrics sounded better, too.

Curses! For the lack of an "I," the point was lost!

--
All opinions expressed above are nothing more than that.
Pax vobiscum.
est...@tfs.net

Kansas City, Missouri

[chris greville]

"Rick B." <deep...@sprynet.com> wrote in message
news:3DC67305...@sprynet.com...

It really did come from an
> encounter with an old man in a New Orleans drunk tank.
> ("Jerry wasn't there on a research project...")

But Whinnona was?

[Kim]

"Estron" <est...@tfs.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.183053675...@news.birch.net...

> Previously, in alt.fan.cecil-adams, Kim wrote:
>
> > > OK - no problem. Now keep your word and "do better", which shouldn't
> > > be too difficult - hell, *I* did better on this one than I did on the
> > > 90's one, which surprised me.
>
> Kim, I had lots of fun attempting to answer the '70s lyrics quiz, and I'm
> sure many of the younger posters here had as much fun with the one from
the
> '90s. Did you compile these quizzes yourself, or did you obtain them from
> someone or somewhere?

*ME* compile them. Hahahaha. I was surprised I got like 4 of the 90's quiz
correct. And I think that was just because my kids must have played the
song - I hardly ever listen to the radio or MTV. I did better on the 70's
quiz, but I still don't think I got as many correct as *anyone* who posted
their answers.

No, I got the quizzes from some Games magazines I was going through before
dumping them in my yard sale. Although it did end up that I kept them all -
couldn't bear to part with them, especially after going through them all
again. They are just a treasure trove of useless crap - and I *do* love the
quizzes.

And I did find one cool thing when going through the closets for junk to
sell - a baseball signed by the 1993 White Sox team. Our resident "Mayor of
the Bleachers" ID'd the team and year for me. Pretty neat.

Kim ~ glad you are enjoying the quizzes!

*I heard on the news that "fire raced through a nursing home." Somehow, I
doubt it was much of a race. (Dan Greenberg)*

[Al Yellon]

"Kim" <ki...@NOSPAMfamily-net.org> wrote in message
news:W0Dx9.20000$7W2....@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...

>
> No, I got the quizzes from some Games magazines I was going through before
> dumping them in my yard sale. Although it did end up that I kept them
all -
> couldn't bear to part with them, especially after going through them all
> again. They are just a treasure trove of useless crap - and I *do* love
the
> quizzes.

The quizzes -- wow, what memories. You didn't happen to find a 60's lyric
quiz in there, did you?

>
> And I did find one cool thing when going through the closets for junk to
> sell - a baseball signed by the 1993 White Sox team. Our resident "Mayor
of
> the Bleachers" ID'd the team and year for me. Pretty neat.

My pleasure.

--
"If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way." -- John
Mellencamp

[Greg Goss]

Blinky the Shark <no....@box.invalid> wrote:

That's weird. In my market it was Chuck Berry in the seventies,
presumably a re-issue.

[Paul L. Madarasz]

On 4 Nov 2002 04:01:19 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no....@box.invalid>
wrote, perhaps among other things...:

>>> 44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark
>
>Shit. And I can sing it, too. Grrrrr....
>

That three-note range helps.

>>> 110 I never understood a single word he said
>
>"Joy To The World" - Three Dog Night

Cover. Hoyt Axton

>
>>> 172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms
>> "You're Sixteen", Ringo Starr
>
>Cover. Johnny Burnette, 1960.
>
>>> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly
>
>"Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Brenda Lee.

"I Never Promised You a Holly Jolly Xmas"

>
>>> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
>
>"Seasons In The Sun", Terry Jacks (I had to look up the performer)

He's still around, living here in Tucson. Met him a couple times.
>

>>> 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
>
>> "Mr. Bojangles"--I seem to think this was a Dylan song, but I don't
>> think he did the version that got all the airplay
>
>Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's version of Bojangles is, I believe the one
>that's the best known.

Cover. Jerry Jeff Walker.

--
Paul L. Madarasz
Tucson, Baja Arizona
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[Blinky the Shark]

I wasn't actually talking "markets". My reference shows it as reaching
#5 on the Billboard national chart, entering that listing the week of
6/19/76, on the Brother label, #1354. It was on the chart for 13 week.

The same source does not show Berry charting it nationally after its
original 1957 run. It entered the chart 11/11/57, hit #8 and, like the
Beach Boys' cover, was on the chart for 13 weeks (Chess 1671). Through
the book's 1991 cut-off, Berry did make the Top 40 after the early 1973
release of "Reelin' & Rockin'", which only made it to #27. He'd just
scored his *only* hit #1 with "My Ding-A-Ling", which charted in
September 1972.

--
Blinky

[Blinky the Shark]

Paul L Madarasz wrote:

>>>> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly
>>
>>"Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Brenda Lee.
>
> "I Never Promised You a Holly Jolly Xmas"

Never heard of that one. Country? It's not in my book of every song
that hit #40 or higher on the Billboard pop charts, from the first
through some date in 1991.

Seems like they drag out an old Burl Ives tune every Christmas, that has
a line about "holly jolly Christmas" (might be in the title, as well),
but it's upbeat (as versus "never promised you..."). That never made
the Top 40.

--
Blinky

[Bill Kinkaid]

On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:40:15 -0700, Paul L. Madarasz
<pl...@dakotacom.net> wrote:

>>
>>>> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
>>
>>"Seasons In The Sun", Terry Jacks (I had to look up the performer)
>
>He's still around, living here in Tucson. Met him a couple times.
>>
>

He was fairly active in the environmentalist movement a few years ago
in B.C. and lived up on the Sunshine Coast. The current Vancouver
phone book actually lists him with an address in Madeira Park (about
20km out of Sechelt, about 60-70km from Vancouver via ferry). Unless
there's another Terry Jacks on the Sunshine Coast. Maybe he spends
part of the year in Tucson, but I'd say he's still one of ours.

Bill in Vancouver

[Greg Goss]

Blinky the Shark <no....@box.invalid> wrote:

>Greg Goss wrote:
>> Blinky the Shark <no....@box.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>Bill Kinkaid wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rock & Roll Music - Chuck Berry in 1950s, Beatles in 1960s; who in
>>>> the 70s?
>>>
>>>Beach Boys charted it midseventies.
>>
>> That's weird. In my market it was Chuck Berry in the seventies,
>> presumably a re-issue.
>
>I wasn't actually talking "markets". My reference shows it as reaching
>#5 on the Billboard national chart, entering that listing the week of
>6/19/76, on the Brother label, #1354. It was on the chart for 13 week.

My city had one radio station, with a partial franchise to the
Canadian government CBC chain, but with an idiosyncratic attitude
towards choosing its songs.

They would play the top 163 songs at the end of each year according to
the established charts, but on a given evening could well be playing
something nobody else knows. They could well have chosen the Berry
one after the Beach Boys (Beach Boys??) version made the US charts.
Or it might have been some Canadian singer who just SOUNDED like
Berry. I don't remember when in the mid seventies our Canadian
Content rules dropped into place. It may be that the older Berry song
was not rated by nationality where the newer BB version was explicitly
non Canadian, and the two versions might rate differently under the
content rules.

It is from about this period when I learned the song "Summer in the
City" by Ball and Chain. Ever since, I think of the Loving Spoonful
version as inferior. But I've never met anyone else who has ever
heard of Ball and Chain.

[Blinky the Shark]

Greg Goss wrote:

> It is from about this period when I learned the song "Summer in the
> City" by Ball and Chain. Ever since, I think of the Loving Spoonful
> version as inferior. But I've never met anyone else who has ever
> heard of Ball and Chain.

I would be one of those who have not.

Similarly, I rilly like BS&T's cover of "Sympathy For The Devil", versus
the Stones' original.

--
Blinky

[Stan]

Blinky the Shark <no....@box.invalid> wrote:

Brittney Spears and who?

--
It's a well known fact that the only thing harder than herding cats is
winning an argument with your wife. - groo

[Oriole Adams]

Paul said:

>>"Seasons In The Sun", Terry Jacks (I had to look up the performer)
>
>He's still around, living here in Tucson. Met him a couple times.

Really? How cool. I never cared for "Seasons in the Sun", but I do love the
follow-up single, "Christina." And "Where Evil Grows" (back when he was still
with wife Susan) was one of the first 45s I bought as a kid.

Oriole ~
.:* feel smart again <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com">mental floss</a>

[Barbara]

>>>>> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly
>>>
>>>"Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Brenda Lee.
>>
>> "I Never Promised You a Holly Jolly Xmas"
>
>Never heard of that one. Country? It's not in my book of every song
>that hit #40 or higher on the Billboard pop charts, from the first
>through some date in 1991.
>

The correct answer to the lyric in the quiz in "I Never Promised You a Rose
Garden" by Lynn Anderson.

Although I'm not claiming that no one ever did a Christmas parody of it, and
that parody may have very well contained the referenced lyric.

Barbara -

"I've got something inside me
Not what my life's about
Cause I've been letting my outside tide me
Over 'til my time runs out."

Taxi
Harry Chapin

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old Bill Kinkaid <kin...@telus.net> wrote in
alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Tue, 05 Nov 2002 05:32:29 GMT that ...

More than you can say for his departed sister, Susan. As I recall she
died of a heroin overdose just after their hit single "Which Way You
Going Billy"?

Terry Jacks went solo and did Seasons in the Sun about two years
later, I think.

Bill
"A man must first govern himself ere he is fit
to govern a family; and his family ere he be
fit to bear the government of the commonwealth."
--Sir Walter Raleigh

[Paul L. Madarasz]

On 05 Nov 2002 14:16:02 GMT, accident...@aol.compuserve (Barbara)

wrote, perhaps among other things...:

>>>>>> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly

>>>>
>>>>"Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Brenda Lee.
>>>
>>> "I Never Promised You a Holly Jolly Xmas"
>>
>>Never heard of that one. Country? It's not in my book of every song
>>that hit #40 or higher on the Billboard pop charts, from the first
>>through some date in 1991.
>>
>The correct answer to the lyric in the quiz in "I Never Promised You a Rose
>Garden" by Lynn Anderson.
>
>Although I'm not claiming that no one ever did a Christmas parody of it, and
>that parody may have very well contained the referenced lyric.

Sorry. Lame attempt at humor. Sorry. Sorry.

"I'm Sorry...
So sorry...
Please accept my apology.
Blah blah something
But I was too blind to see."

[Estron]

Previously, in alt.fan.cecil-adams, Paul L. Madarasz wrote:

> >"Joy To The World" - Three Dog Night

> Cover. Hoyt Axton

Am I projecting, or do I detect a slight pejorative connotation to your
identifying a recording as a "cover"?

Did Axton release a version of "Joy To the World" before Three Dog Night?
Although, technically, I guess a "cover" is any performance of a song by
anyone other than its author, my conception of a "cover" is of a second
performance later in time than the original version.

Anyway, my answers to Kim's quiz were the artists who recorded the most
popular version of the song. That's why I associated, for example, "Me &
Bobby McGee" with Janis Joplin, not with its author, Kris Kristofferson.

[Bill Kinkaid]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:51:29 GMT, Putain d'Enculé
<putain...@billdiamond.com (Le Putain d'Enculé)> wrote:
>Good old Bill Kinkaid <kin...@telus.net> wrote in
>alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Tue, 05 Nov 2002 05:32:29 GMT that ...
>>On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:40:15 -0700, Paul L. Madarasz
>><pl...@dakotacom.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
>>>>
>>>>"Seasons In The Sun", Terry Jacks (I had to look up the performer)
>>>
>>>He's still around, living here in Tucson. Met him a couple times.
>>>
>>He was fairly active in the environmentalist movement a few years ago
>>in B.C. and lived up on the Sunshine Coast. The current Vancouver
>>phone book actually lists him with an address in Madeira Park (about
>>20km out of Sechelt, about 60-70km from Vancouver via ferry). Unless
>>there's another Terry Jacks on the Sunshine Coast. Maybe he spends
>>part of the year in Tucson, but I'd say he's still one of ours.
>>

>More than you can say for his departed sister, Susan. As I recall she
>died of a heroin overdose just after their hit single "Which Way You
>Going Billy"?
>
>Terry Jacks went solo and did Seasons in the Sun about two years
>later, I think.
>

Susan was his wife, not sister. They divorced a couple of years after
WWYGB (1970); I think the last single they had together was Where Evil
Grows in 1971. Susan had several more singles through at least 1974,
notably Good Friends and a deadly cover of Love Has No Pride (better
known as done by Linda Ronsdadt).

Bill in Vancouver

[Bill Kinkaid]

On 5 Nov 2002 07:31:36 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no....@box.invalid>
wrote:

>Greg Goss wrote:

Around 1971, I recall some forgotten band doing a cover of
"Satisfaction". Sounded a bit like Rare Earth, a bit like Canned Heat,
a bit like Grateful Dead. Didn't have the guitar riff but it blew away
the Stones' version.

Bill in Vancouver

[Paul L. Madarasz]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 05:32:29 GMT, Bill Kinkaid <kin...@telus.net>

wrote, perhaps among other things...:

>On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:40:15 -0700, Paul L. Madarasz

Hmm... Maybe he was here on vacation or something. It was a few
years ago. You're welcome to him, anyway.

[Paul L. Madarasz]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:11:54 -0600, Estron <est...@tfs.net> wrote,
perhaps among other things...:

>Previously, in alt.fan.cecil-adams, Paul L. Madarasz wrote:

>
>> >"Joy To The World" - Three Dog Night
>
>> Cover. Hoyt Axton
>
>Am I projecting, or do I detect a slight pejorative connotation to your
>identifying a recording as a "cover"?

Never a big fan of Three Dog Night, but no, it wasn't pejorative.

>Did Axton release a version of "Joy To the World" before Three Dog Night?
>Although, technically, I guess a "cover" is any performance of a song by
>anyone other than its author, my conception of a "cover" is of a second
>performance later in time than the original version.

Not sure, but I think it's on the same album as "Tijuana Taxi."

>
>Anyway, my answers to Kim's quiz were the artists who recorded the most
>popular version of the song. That's why I associated, for example, "Me &
>Bobby McGee" with Janis Joplin, not with its author, Kris Kristofferson.

Well, popular around my house, then :-)

[Putain d'Enculé]

Good old Bill Kinkaid <kin...@telus.net> wrote in

alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:14:00 GMT that ...

Was the part about her dying of a heroin OD a UL?

[Blinky the Shark]

Didn't hit Top 40, but Otis Redding did, with a cover in 1966.

--
Blinky

[Blinky the Shark]

Stan wrote:
> Blinky the Shark <no....@box.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Greg Goss wrote:
>>
>>> It is from about this period when I learned the song "Summer in the
>>> City" by Ball and Chain. Ever since, I think of the Loving Spoonful
>>> version as inferior. But I've never met anyone else who has ever
>>> heard of Ball and Chain.
>>
>>I would be one of those who have not.
>>
>>Similarly, I rilly like BS&T's cover of "Sympathy For The Devil", versus
>>the Stones' original.
>
> Brittney Spears and who?

Timberlake.

--
Blinky

[Blinky the Shark]

Barbara wrote:
>>>>>> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly
>>>>
>>>>"Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Brenda Lee.
>>>
>>> "I Never Promised You a Holly Jolly Xmas"
>>
>>Never heard of that one. Country? It's not in my book of every song
>>that hit #40 or higher on the Billboard pop charts, from the first
>>through some date in 1991.
>>
> The correct answer to the lyric in the quiz in "I Never Promised You a
> Rose Garden" by Lynn Anderson.

I remember that one...

> Although I'm not claiming that no one ever did a Christmas parody of
> it, and that parody may have very well contained the referenced lyric.

...and when did she do it? The Brenda Lee song I mentioned was released
in 1960.

--
Blinky

[Al Yellon]

"Blinky the Shark" <no....@box.invalid> wrote in message
news:aq97j...@enews3.newsguy.com...

Not nearly as good as the *original* BS&T, IMO.

[Blinky the Shark]

Barbara wrote:

>>>>>> 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly
>>>>
>>>>"Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Brenda Lee.
>>>
>>> "I Never Promised You a Holly Jolly Xmas"
>>
>>Never heard of that one. Country? It's not in my book of every song
>>that hit #40 or higher on the Billboard pop charts, from the first
>>through some date in 1991.
>>
> The correct answer to the lyric in the quiz in "I Never Promised You a Rose
> Garden" by Lynn Anderson.
>
> Although I'm not claiming that no one ever did a Christmas parody of it, and
> that parody may have very well contained the referenced lyric.

You're right about the quiz line -- the Brenda Lee lyrics were:

Voices singing let's be jolly
Deck the halls with boughs of holly

I didn't realize [someone unattributed] was joking with the "I Never
Promised You a Holly Jolly Xmas" thing. And I wrote my other response
to you before I figured out that I had the line wrong anyway -- thus
making parody a nonissue, as the only common language is, simply, "lets
be jolly". I guess the meter tricked me, since the Anderson line can be
sung like the Brenda Lee line with which I was familar.

--
Blinky