Post by rayge on Jan 10, 2019 17:26:32 GMT
Answer as many or as few as you want - song title, and/or songwriter or if you're feeling really frisky, the performer I had in mind when I chose it. Or don't answer any, sneer and shrug or fulminate, I don't mind.
I've grouped them into three date categories to help. All of them are things I like and have publicly enthused over or entered in cups, so no prog and the vast majority are American. They are mostly singles – album tracks with no single release are tagged with an asterisk.
No prizes: have fun (or not - your call)
A - AnteBeatolian
1 Down by the shore an orchestra's playing / And even the palms seem to be swaying
Clue: US songbook classic from inter-war years, written on a cruise in 1935
3 He hit a chord that rocked the spinnet / and disappeared into the infinite
Clue: Written and performed by famous US songwriter in the 1930s. Not on youtube, horridly obscure and mildly racist by today's standards, I just love the rhyme.
7 I read in the papers that there were robbers / With flashlights that shine in the dark
How Much is that Doggie in the Window, Patti Page/Baby Jane & the Rockabyes - tg
10 Don't be too quick to pity me / Don't salve my heart with sympathy
Permanently Lonely, Willie Nelson/Timi Yuro - nolamike
11 One magic moment, and my heart seemed to know / That love said "Hello !" / Though not a word was spoken
Clue: my favourite single by my favourite doo-wop group
B - Golden Years 1963-76
1 Work and slave, slave and work, / Work and slave for what?
Clue: US vocal group, follow-up to big hit set in NYC
2 I placed my hand right over where my heart once used to be
Clue: solo single by former lead of group in B1
3 He grew up on the sidewalk, he grew up running free.
Shangri-Las, Out on the Streets - nolamike
4 I can't stand this laughter / I can't stand this fun
Clue: obscure female led US vocal group with fast/slow structure
6 Do the bop, sugar, flop til you blow your top/ Now you stomp, flip flop and you shake your mop
Clue: pandascream featured this in the novelty section of the H&A cup
7 Something warm running in my eyes / but I still found my baby somehow that night
J Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers, Last Kiss - Nolamike
8 Come with me / And we shall run across the sky / And illuminate the night
Supremes, Up the Ladder to the Roof - fearless freap
9 The PTA and all of the mothers / Say he ought to look like the others
Clue: anthemic song, minor US hit for black and white female artists
11 This is a fine mess I got myself in / And let me tell you, baby, you ain't helpin'
Clue: brotherly love song
12 * Five boys standing on the banks of the river / Waiting for the virgin snow
Laura Nyro, Beads of Sweat - fearless freap
14 * The conversation sparkles / As their wits are dipped in wine
Phil Ochs, The Party - Darkness Fish
16 * We're communicators with a cybernetic style, / We're too young to die with our phasers set on 'Smile'
Clue: from a favourite album featuring cameos from star trek and Kermit the frog
C Punk and Post
1 Their dicks droop like lilacs
Pattismith, Piss Factory - fearless freap
2 * Whimpering with joy as Mr Death / Receives his blue-eyed boy / Surrender unto Caesar or to God, / It makes no odds
Clue: Solo track from singer in a happy family
4 Outside fat women struggle up the hill / Bright red cardigans over printed dresses / Handbags ruthlessly under the arm
Clue: early DIY single by band whose name starts with a punctuation mark
5 They'd like to buy the O Level single / or Read about Seymour, / But they're not pressed in red / So they buy The Lurkers instead
7 And if things don't change I bet you'll scream / And then they'll just get worse
Clue: UK punk band at the end of the alphabet
8 Those who came before me lived through their vocations / From the past until completion, they'll turn away no more
New Order, Blue Monday - fange
9 *Whatever happened to the radio, / And where did all the fun songs go?
Clue My favourite song by a band beloved of preludiners
I've grouped them into three date categories to help. All of them are things I like and have publicly enthused over or entered in cups, so no prog and the vast majority are American. They are mostly singles – album tracks with no single release are tagged with an asterisk.
No prizes: have fun (or not - your call)
A - AnteBeatolian
1 Down by the shore an orchestra's playing / And even the palms seem to be swaying
Clue: US songbook classic from inter-war years, written on a cruise in 1935
2 He was blowing it out, really knocking ’em dead, / Playing rock and roll music through the horn in his head
Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley - driftin and O
3 He hit a chord that rocked the spinnet / and disappeared into the infinite
Clue: Written and performed by famous US songwriter in the 1930s. Not on youtube, horridly obscure and mildly racist by today's standards, I just love the rhyme.
4 The hens won't lay, we can't make hay / We work all day, we get no pay! / We're all miserable, so miserable
Misery Farm - Leslie Sarony - O
5 From Natchez to Mobile, / From Memphis to St. Joe
Blues in the Night - Johnny Mercer - fange & O
6 We headed for jail in a dazed condition/ They booked each one of us on suspicion
Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan - nolamike & O
7 I read in the papers that there were robbers / With flashlights that shine in the dark
How Much is that Doggie in the Window, Patti Page/Baby Jane & the Rockabyes - tg
8 Me all alone with jug of rum / Me stand and wait for boat to come
Chuck Berry Havana Moon - O
9 He drove his car to the racing grounds / He was the youngest driver there
Tell Laura I love Her - Ray Peterson or Ricky Vallance - DF and O
10 Don't be too quick to pity me / Don't salve my heart with sympathy
Permanently Lonely, Willie Nelson/Timi Yuro - nolamike
11 One magic moment, and my heart seemed to know / That love said "Hello !" / Though not a word was spoken
Clue: my favourite single by my favourite doo-wop group
12 If we go out on dates, / We go in a box on roller skates
The Coasters - What About Us? - O
B - Golden Years 1963-76
1 Work and slave, slave and work, / Work and slave for what?
Clue: US vocal group, follow-up to big hit set in NYC
2 I placed my hand right over where my heart once used to be
Clue: solo single by former lead of group in B1
3 He grew up on the sidewalk, he grew up running free.
Shangri-Las, Out on the Streets - nolamike
4 I can't stand this laughter / I can't stand this fun
Clue: obscure female led US vocal group with fast/slow structure
5 Be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex / I can make the most virile of men forget their sex
James Brown, King Heroin - Cousin Lou & O
6 Do the bop, sugar, flop til you blow your top/ Now you stomp, flip flop and you shake your mop
Clue: pandascream featured this in the novelty section of the H&A cup
7 Something warm running in my eyes / but I still found my baby somehow that night
J Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers, Last Kiss - Nolamike
8 Come with me / And we shall run across the sky / And illuminate the night
Supremes, Up the Ladder to the Roof - fearless freap
9 The PTA and all of the mothers / Say he ought to look like the others
Clue: anthemic song, minor US hit for black and white female artists
10 She's got stars in her eyes and knots on her knees, / Her crazy grass shift really sways in the breeze
Honolulu Lulu by Jan and Dean - O
11 This is a fine mess I got myself in / And let me tell you, baby, you ain't helpin'
Clue: brotherly love song
12 * Five boys standing on the banks of the river / Waiting for the virgin snow
Laura Nyro, Beads of Sweat - fearless freap
13 * Molly's gone to Blaze's / Boylan's crotch amazes
ReJoyce, Jefferson Airplane - O
14 * The conversation sparkles / As their wits are dipped in wine
Phil Ochs, The Party - Darkness Fish
15 * Insects are evil thoughts, thought of by selfish men
Ocean, Lou Reed or VU - G & O
16 * We're communicators with a cybernetic style, / We're too young to die with our phasers set on 'Smile'
Clue: from a favourite album featuring cameos from star trek and Kermit the frog
C Punk and Post
1 Their dicks droop like lilacs
Pattismith, Piss Factory - fearless freap
2 * Whimpering with joy as Mr Death / Receives his blue-eyed boy / Surrender unto Caesar or to God, / It makes no odds
Clue: Solo track from singer in a happy family
3 * Racetrack riff-raff of gin house mothers / Purposeless pickpockets, pigsty lodgers
Badger Boys, Dancing Did - DF
4 Outside fat women struggle up the hill / Bright red cardigans over printed dresses / Handbags ruthlessly under the arm
Clue: early DIY single by band whose name starts with a punctuation mark
5 They'd like to buy the O Level single / or Read about Seymour, / But they're not pressed in red / So they buy The Lurkers instead
TVPersonalities, Part-Time Punks - G & O
6 So impatient that your war be fought / Iron Lady with your stone heart / So eager that the lesson be taught
Crass, Mother of 1,000 Dead - Raskolnikov
7 And if things don't change I bet you'll scream / And then they'll just get worse
Clue: UK punk band at the end of the alphabet
8 Those who came before me lived through their vocations / From the past until completion, they'll turn away no more
New Order, Blue Monday - fange
9 *Whatever happened to the radio, / And where did all the fun songs go?
Clue My favourite song by a band beloved of preludiners
10 No language, just sound, that's all we need know / To synchronise love to the beat of the show
Joy Division, Transmission - Inspector Norse & O
11 When I see your eyes arrive / They explode like two bugs on glass
Mercury Rev, Goddess on a Highway - Inspector Norse
12 Seven brothers on their way from Avalon / Seven sisters shooting skyways for the sun
Felt, Rain of Crystal Spires - JC