So you think you know 70's music?

This quiz started off as something I did just for fun - and it took on a life of its own, became quite popular in its own right and keeps my site near the top of the search engines even though I have done absolutely nothing to promote it, ever. All this time later, it still racks up visitors on a daily basis, and people still write to tell me how much they enjoyed the trip down memory lane. I have to admit that I enjoyed it as well, when I was going through all these songs to pick out lyrics.

Your challenge is to come up with the song title and artist from the lyric given. If you need a hint, click on the blue note (if present) to hear a clip of that lyric. I won't claim that all the songs are seventies (actually a couple are very late sixties, and there may be one or two that were very early eighties), but the majority are.

There aren't any repeat artists, though the same artist may appear within a group and then again as a solo act (e.g., Paul McCartney solo would be one artist, Wings would be another, and the Beatles yet another). There are also some songs that were covered by more than one artist, so if the artist you were thinking of isn't included in the answer, you're still right, *grin*. I did include multiple artists when I remembered them, but I'm sure there are some that I didn't. One of these days I'll finish this quiz, I've actually got at least another hundred songs to add to it (and now that I've got the technology to do clips, I can add in some of the more popular instrumentals from the decade too).

Enjoy, and keep on truckin!

 
Answer 1. "The night is young, and full of possibilities…well, come on, and let yourself be free"
Answer 2. "Before I go insane, I hold my pillow to my head, and spring up in my bed, screaming out the words I dread…"
Answer 3. "He was born on a summer day, 1951"
Answer 4. "I can see all obstacles in my way"
Answer 5. "Suddenly, the day turns into night…far away from the city"
Answer 6. "Like walkin' in the rain and the snow, when there's nowhere to go, and you're feeling like a part of you is dying"
Answer 7. "I was captured by your style, but I could not catch your eyes"
Answer 8. "Ocean Lady…child of nature, friend of man"
Answer 9. "I remember all my life, raining down as cold as ice"
Answer 10. "Hey, mister, can you tell me…where a man might find a bed"
Answer 11. "My mother, God rest her soul, couldn't understand why the only man she had ever loved had been taken"
Answer 12. "Cause you're the joke of the neighborhood…why should you care, if you're feeling good ?"
Answer 13. "One floor below me, you don't even know me, I love you"
Answer 14. "Lordy, mama…light my fuse"
Answer 15. "If you give a little more than you're asking for, your love will turn the key"
Answer 16. "And though you want to last forever, you know you never will…and the goodbye makes the journey harder still"
Answer 17. "Nobody else could ever know…the part of me that can't let go"
Answer 18. "Did you know I'd go to sleep and leave the lights on, hoping you'd come by and know that I was home and still awake"
Answer 19. "And when I'm gone, there'll be one child born in this world to carry on"
Answer 20. "And my dear mother left me when I was quite young…she said, "Lord, have mercy on my wicked son"…"
Answer   21. "All around my hometown, they're trying to track me down"
Answer 22. "Try to remember the magic that we shared…in time, your broken heart will mend"
Answer 23. "Them Creole babies…thin and brown, and downright lazy"
Answer 24. "I met a devil woman, she took my heart away"
Answer 25. "Oh, mirror in the sky…what is love?"
Answer 26. "L.A. fever, made me feel alright, but I must admit it got the best of me"
Answer 27. "I got something that sho' nuff set your stuff on fire"
Answer 28. "Nothing lasts forever, but the earth and sky"
Answer 29. "Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul…I want to get lost in your rock-n-roll"
Answer 30. "So I took off my hat, and said, "Imagine that…me working for you"…"
Answer 31. "When the lights go down, I'm holding you so tight…got you in my arms, and it's paradise until the morning light"
Answer 32. "Girl, you're getting that look in your eyes, and it's starting to worry me"
Answer 33. "Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip and see…take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with me"
Answer 34. "Thirteen month old baby, broke the looking-glass"
Answer 35. "Oooh, when I'm alone with you, I get a feeling through and through, telling me that love is coming on"
Answer 36. "You, you belong to me, now…ain't gonna set you free, now…when those girls start hanging around, talking me down…"
Answer 37. "Took away our ways of life…the tomahawk and the Bowie knife…took away our native tongue, and taught their English to our young"
Answer 38. "Didn't I hear you cry this morning…didn't I feel you weep…teardrops falling down on me, like rivers in my sleep"
Answer 39. "I've got more important things to do, than spend my time growing old with you"
Answer 40. "It's written in the moonlight, and painted on the stars"
Answer 41. "He's got this dream about buying some land, he's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands"
Answer 42. "Soft and low, the music moans…I can't stop thinking about you"
Answer 43. "Where can you find pleasure, search the world for treasure, learn science, technology"
Answer 44. "Her and Bobby were stepping out…her and Bobby didn't know I'd found out"
Answer 45. "What's it like inside the bubble, does your head ever give you trouble?"
Answer 46. "I'd rather live in his world, than live without him in mine"
Answer 47. "But in the gray of the morning, my mind becomes confused...between the dead, and the sleeping, and the road that I must choose"
Answer 48. "Open up your window, let some air into this room…I think I'm almost choking from the smell of stale perfume"
Answer 49. "If you need me, let me know…gonna be around…if you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down"
Answer 50. "Wouldn't you give your hand to a friend…maybe it's not the end"
Answer 51. "Feed her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice"
Answer 52. "Hand me down my walking cane, hand me down my hat…hurry now and don't be late, cause we ain't got time to chat"
Answer 53. "Falling in love is such an easy thing to do, and there's no guarantee that the one you love is gonna love you"
Answer 54. "Little light a-shining through the window, lets me know everything's all right"
Answer 55. "Think of me, you know that I'd be with you if I could…and come around to see you once in a while…or if I ever need a reason to smile…and spend the night, if you think I should"
Answer 56. "He's just as proud as he can be, of his anatomy…and he's gonna give us a peek"
Answer 57. "There's a port on a western bay, and it serves a hundred ships a day…lonely sailors pass the time away, and talk about their homes"
Answer 58. "Let me tell you, it's always cool…and the boss don't mind sometimes, if you act the fool"
Answer 59. "Making my entrance again, with my usual flair…sure of my lines…no-one is there"
Answer 60. "Prepare yourself, you know it's a must…gotta have a friend in Jesus"
Answer 61. "I don't know what I'd do without you, babe, don't know where I'd be…you're not just another lover, no, you're everything to me"
Answer 62. "Close your eyes and dream, and you can be with me…'neath the waves, through the caves of owls…long forgotten now"
Answer 63. "Strolling along country roads with my baby, it starts to rain, it begins to pour"
Answer 64. "Like a rubber-necked giraffe, you look into my path…well, maybe you're just too blind to see"
Answer 65. "I know I keep you amused…but I feel I'm being used"
Answer 66. "I don't need a whole lots of money…I don't need a big, fine car…I got everything that a man could want, I got more than I could ask for"
Answer 67. "Well, you're where you should be all the time…and when you're not, you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend"
Answer 68. "I met all the girls, and I loved myself a few, and to my surprise…like everything else that I've been through, it opened up my eyes"
Answer 69. "There are times when a woman has to say what's on her mind, even though she knows how much it's going to hurt"
Answer 70. "He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine"
Answer 71. "Ever since I met you…seems I can't forget you…the thought of you keeps running through the back of my mind"
Answer 72. "Some people say I've done all right for a girl"
Answer 73. "I've never had a dream that made sweet love to me"
Answer 74. "We've been together, since way back when…sometimes, I never wanna see you again"
Answer 75. "In my life, I felt so self-assured...but suddenly, it's all changed"
Answer 76. "To avoid complications, she never kept the same address"
Answer 77. "I want to go where the people dance...I want some action...I want to live"
Answer 78. "I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long...like a worn-out recording of a favorite song"
Answer 79. "Suitcase and an old guitar, and something new to occupy my mind, mind, mind..."
Answer 80. "Baby, if I think about you, I think about love...darling, if I live without you, I live without love"
Answer 81. "Have you never been happy, just to hear your song...have you never let someone else be strong"
Answer 82. "To look in the mirror, in total surprise...at the hair on your shoulders, and the age in your eyes"
Answer 83. "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right"
Answer 84. "I keep falling in and out of love with you"
Answer 85. "And all your friends, they're calling you a fool...cause you don't know a good thing when you've got it in your hands"
Answer 86. "Danger, danger...when you taste brown sugar"
Answer 87. "You always smile, but in your eyes, your sorrow shows"
Answer 88. "Did you think I'd crumble, did you think I'd lay down and die...oh, no, not I"
Answer 89. "And the story it told of a river that flowed, made me sad to think it was dead"
Answer 90. "Sail on, silver girl...sail on by...your time has come to shine, all your dreams are on their way"
Answer 91. "Turned the stone and looked beneath it..."Peace on Earth" was all it said"
Answer 92. "Hey, shadow, summertime blues...jump up and down in your blue suede shoes"
Answer 93. "Seventy-three men sailed her, from the San Francisco Bay"
Answer 94. "So he takes a ladder, steals the stars from the sky...puts on Sinatra, and starts to cry"
Answer 95. "Baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you...now come on down and do what you've got to do"
Answer 96. "Tonight I'm gonna break away, just you wait and see"
Answer 97. "No cigarettes, no sleep...no light, no sound...nothing to eat, no books to read"
Answer 98. "This train's got the disappearing railroad blues"
Answer 99. "But the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach"
Answer 100. "He spoke through tears of fifteen years, how his dog and him traveled about"
Answer   101. "Starting soft and slow, like a small earthquake...and when he lets go, half the valley shakes"
Answer   102. "Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight"
Answer   103. "I'm a boy, and I'm a man"
Answer   104. "Cause I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"
Answer   105. "Watching as the pretty panties run"
Answer   106. "We sing about beauty and we sing about truth, at ten thousand dollars a show"
Answer   107. "Little boy blue, and the man in the moon"
Answer   108. "Well, your friends with their fancy persuasion, don't admit that it's part of a scheme"
Answer   109. "See, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun"
Answer   110. "Just snap your fingers and I'm walking, like a dog, hanging on your leash"
Answer   111. "There's been a hoot owl howling by my window now, for six nights in a row"
Answer   112. "I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with"
Answer   113. "Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shining on me"
Answer   114. "They burned down the gambling house, it died with an awful sound"
Answer   115. "And if they shout, don't let it change a thing that you're doing"
Answer   116. "Cross the highways of fantasy...help me to forget today's pain"
Answer   117. "As I remember, your eyes were bluer than robin's eggs...my poetry was lousy, you said"
Answer   118. "There's a girl right next to you...and she's just waiting for something to do"
Answer   119. "Like a picture she was laying there...moonlight dancing off her hair"
Answer   120. "Every day in your indigo eyes...I watch the sun set, but I don't see it rise"
Answer   121. "You can rely on the old man's money"
Answer   122. "In the backroom, she was everybody's darling"
Answer   123. "Make a wish, baby, and I will make it come true...make a list, baby, of the things I'll do for you"
Answer   124. "Sometimes late at night, when there's nothing here except my old piano, I'd almost give my hands to make you see my way"
Answer   125. "Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman but talked like a man"
Answer   126. "I got silly and I found a frog, in the water by a hollow log, and I shook it at her, and said, "This frog's for you".."
Answer   127. "And I said I didn't like the way he got things done, sleeping on the job"
Answer   128. "If I promised you the moon and the stars, would you believe it"
Answer   129. "And he's quick with a joke, or to light up your smoke, but there's someplace that he'd rather be"
Answer   130. "Out of work, I'm out of my head, out of self-respect, I'm out of bread...I'm underloved, I'm underfed, I wanna go home"
Answer   131. "If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal...if her daddy's poor, just do what you feel"
Answer   132. "You left in the rain, without closing the door...I didn't stand in your way"
Answer   133. "The brakes are good, the tires...fair"
Answer   134. "They would not listen, they did not know how...perhaps they'll listen, now"
Answer   135. "Got to keep on dancing, keep on dancing"
Answer   136. "Mama says she's worried, growing up in a hurry"
Answer   137. "The door was open, and the wind appeared...the candles blew and then disappeared...the curtains flew, and then he appeared, saying, "Don't be afraid"..."
Answer   138. "Dialed about a thousand numbers lately, almost rang the phone off the wall"
Answer   139. "I wanna stick around until I can't see straight"
Answer   140. "Never could believe the things you do to me...I never could believe the way you are"
Answer   141. "All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado...trying to keep up a smile to hide the tears"
Answer   142. "Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see"
Answer   143. "My mama used to dance for the money they'd throw"
Answer   144. "This lady she asked me if I would be her man...and you know that I told her, I'd do what I can"
Answer   145. "Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn"
Answer   146. "You put me high up on a pedestal...so high that I could almost see eternity"
Answer   147. "Let's move before they raise the parking rate"
Answer   148. "If I could only see that familiar sunrise through sleepy eyes, how happy I'd be"
Answer   149. "On the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true"
Answer   150. "If your broken heart should need repair, then I'm the man to see"
Answer   151. "Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo"
Answer   152. "Well, my old radio would play that old Opry show...so I never got lonesome or blue"
Answer   153. "Lovers appear in your room each night, and they whirl you across the floor...but they always seem to fade away, when your Daddy taps on the door"
Answer   154. "The 'morning after' blues, from my head down to my shoes"
Answer   155. "Staring blindly into space...getting up to splash my face...wanting just to stay awake...wond'ring how much I can take"
Answer   156. "With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats, you can't say we're satisfied"
Answer   157. "Something inside has died, and I can't hide, and I just can't fake it"
Answer   158. "Let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms...let me lay down beside you, let me always be with you"
Answer   159. "No-one else can make me feel the colors that you bring...stay with me, while we grow old, and we will live each day in springtime"
Answer   160. "Once, I said I wanted you, I don't remember why...I often wonder if it's true that you could make me cry"
Answer   161. "Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk"
Answer   162. "Into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown...like a dog without a bone, an actor out on loan"
Answer   163. "Well, the kids don't eat, and the dog can't sleep, there's no escape from the music in the whole damn street"
Answer   164. "And she's tryin' to make a devil out of me"
Answer   165. "The problem is all inside your head, she said to me...the answer is easy, if you take it logically"
Answer   166. "Do you love waking up next to me, as much as I love waking up next to you?"
Answer   167. "In and around the lake...mountains come out of the sky and they stand there"
Answer   168. "Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting...little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear"
Answer   169. "You can't plant me in your penthouse...I'm going back to my plow"
Answer   170. "When evening rolls around and it's time to go to town, where do you go to rock and roll?"
Answer   171. "You say you feel so empty, that our house just ain't a home...cause I'm always somewhere else, and you're always there alone"
Answer   172. "If you've got a problem, I don't care what it is...if you need a hand, I can assure you this..."
Answer   173. "Inventing lovers on the phone..who call to say, 'come dance with me'...and murmur vague obscenities"
Answer   174. "With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground"
Answer   175. "He say, 'one more job oughta get it...one last shot, 'fore we quit it...one for the road"
Answer   176. "I really learned a lot, really learned a lot...love is like a flame that burns you when it's hot"
Answer   177. "For you are beautiful...and I have loved you dearly, more dearly than the spoken word can tell"
Answer   178. "Then I lost myself in a familiar song...closed my eyes, and I slipped away"
Answer   179. "And I dreamed I saw the bomber-death planes riding shotgun in the sky...turning into butterflies above our nation"
Answer   180. "I'd rather hurt you honestly, than mislead you with a lie"
Answer   181. "And I'm telling you son, well, it ain't no fun...staring straight down a forty-four"
Answer   182. "My Maserati does 185...I lost my license, now I don't drive"
Answer   183. "They stand so low, you got to pick 'em up, just to say hello"
Answer   184. "Grab that cash with both hands, and make a stash"
Answer   185. "She was a black-haired beauty, with big dark eyes"
Answer   186. "And the first one said, to the second one there...'I hope you're having fun'..."
Answer   187. "Cause we were barely seventeen, and we were barely dressed"
Answer   188. "You can check out any time you like...but you can never leave..."
Answer   189. "Strumming my six-string, on my front porch swing"
Answer   190. "Must be the season when those love-lights shine all around us"
Answer   191. "People go just where they will...I never noticed them until I got this feeling that it's later than it seems"
Answer   192. "You got to lose, to know how to win"
Answer   193. "Reflections in the waves spark my memory...some happy, some sad"
Answer   194. "There's a feeling I get, when I look to the west...and my spirit is crying for leaving"
Answer   195. "When I was young, I never needed anyone...and making love was just for fun...those days are gone"
Answer   196. "Feed the babies, who don't have enough to eat...shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet"
Answer   197. "Falling in love was the last thing I had on my mind...holding you is a warmth that I thought I could never find"
Answer   198. "You're the only light this empty room has ever had"
Answer   199. "You say he satisfies your mind, tells you all of his dreams...I know how much that means to you"
Answer   200. "Now if I'd known they'd line up just to see him...I'd have taken all my money, and bought me a museum"