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Since the link to the 80's music quiz has been inoperative for some time, I decided to make my own music quiz, in the spirit of the original. Listed below are one or two lines from a song. All the songs were popular, at least in the U.S., and each one is by a different artist. Your challenge is to figure out the ARTIST, and SONG TITLE, from the words given. To a true music lover, this one is horribly cruel...the original quiz on 80's music had me tearing my hair out for months !! This one is 99% 70's music...there may be a couple that were actually early 80's that slipped by me, but definitely nothing later than 1985. (I have since been informed that there are also three late sixties ones on here as well).
Best of luck to you, email me with your answers (as many as you could get), and I'll send you the full answer list in return (unless you got them all, and then I'll be amazed and tell all my friends !).
I have to amend the statement that used to occupy this space about not asking me for the answers unless you've sent me the ones you've gotten.
I still won't send out the whole list, if you don't at least give it an attempt. I put a lot of hard work into this quiz, and the only feedback I get on it is from those hardy souls (bless you)
who've taken the time to email me with their answers. It's not fair to them, and it isn't fair to me, to expect to just be 'given' the answers. Though hard to believe, what prompted the original statement, and this one,
was that I'd occasionally get nasty emails DEMANDING that I send the list when they hadn't sent me anything but the demand itself. It's amazing how rude people can be, but fortunately they're the minority.
However, this does not extend to asking me about one or two songs on it. I know a lot of folks find the site because they have a snippet of lyric running around in their heads and are desperate to find out who did it.
That, I have NO problem with, and will be glad to give you the title and artist, just tell me which number you need answered.
A lot have emailed me as well to ask about the 80's quiz that I reference in my opening statement. Alas, it is no more. It wasn't mine, but belonged to a guy named Chris Hilberg. He never sent me the answers after I sent him the ones I got,
(the dirty dog!), so even if I still had a copy of it, I wouldn't have all the answers to it. He took his site down some time ago, and I only realized it was gone when a visitor to my music page notified me of the dead link.
Maybe someday I'll try to recreate it, but as of right now, it doesn't exist.
I also get a lot of 'who did this' emails, unrelated to the quiz, and I love those...and am glad to help when I can ! I know how frustrating it can be !
"Keep on Truckin'..."
1. "The night is young, and full of possibilities…well, come on, and let yourself be free"
2. "Before I go insane, I hold my pillow to my head, and spring up in my bed, screaming out the words I dread…"
3. "He was born on a summer's day, 1951"
4. "I can see all obstacles in my way"
5. "Suddenly, the day turns into night…far away from the city"
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"
7. "I was captured by your style, but I could not catch your eyes"
8. "Ocean Lady…child of nature, friend of man"
9. "I remember all my life, raining down as cold as ice"
10. "Hey, mister, can you tell me…where a man might find a bed"
11. "My mother, God rest her soul, couldn't understand why the only man she had ever loved had been taken"
12. "Cause you're the joke of the neighborhood…why should you care, if you're feeling good ?"
13. "One floor below me, you don't even know me, I love you"
14. "Lordy, mama…light my fuse"
15. "If you give a little more than you're asking for, your love will turn the key"
16. "And though you want to last forever, you know you never will…and the goodbye makes the journey harder still"
17. "Nobody else could ever know…the part of me that can't let go"
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"
19. "And when I'm gone, there'll be one child born in this world to carry on"
20. "You know, my dear mother left me when I was quite young…she said, "Lord, have mercy on my wicked son"…"
21. "All around my hometown, they're trying to track me down"
22. "Try to remember the magic that we shared…in time, your broken heart will mend"
23. "Them Creole babies…thin and brown, and downright lazy"
24. "I met up with a woman, she took my heart away"
25. "Oh, mirror in the sky…what is love ?"
26. "L.A. fever, made me feel alright, but I must admit it got the best of me"
27. "I got something that sho' nuff set your stuff on fire"
28. "Nothing lasts forever, but the earth and sky"
29. "Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul…I want to get lost in your rock-n-roll"
30. "So I took off my hat, and said, "Imagine that…me working for you"…"
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"
32. "Girl, you're getting that look in your eyes, and it's starting to worry me"
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"
34. "Thirteen month old baby, broke the looking-glass"
35. "Oooh, when I'm alone with you, I get a feeling through and through, telling me that love is coming on"
36. "You, you belong to me, now…ain't gonna set you free, now…when those girls start hanging around, talking me down…"
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"
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"
39. "I've got more important things to do, than spend my time growing old with you"
40. "It's written in the moonlight, and painted on the stars"
41. "He's got this dream about buying some land, he's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands"
42. "Soft and low, the music moans…I can't stop thinking about you"
43. "Where can you find pleasure, search the world for treasure, learn science, technology"
44. "Her and Bobby were stepping out…her and Bobby didn't know I'd found out"
45. "What's it like inside the bubble, does your head ever give you trouble ?"
46. "I'd rather live in his world, than live without him in mine"
47. "Long time, no see…short time, for you and me. So fine, so good…we're on the road like you knew we would"
48. "Open up your window, let some air into this room…I think I'm almost choking from the smell of stale perfume"
49. "If you need me, let me know…gonna be around…if you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down"
50. "Wouldn't you give your hand to a friend…maybe it's not the end"
51. "Feed her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice"
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"
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"
54. "Little light a-shining through the window, lets me know everything's all right"
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"
56. "He's just as proud as he can be, of his anatomy…and he's gonna give us a peek"
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"
58. "Let me tell you, it's always cool…and the boss don't mind sometimes, if you act the fool"
59. "Making my entrance again, with my usual flair…sure of my lines…no-one is there"
60. "Prepare yourself, you know it's a must…gotta have a friend in Jesus"
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"
62. "Close your eyes and dream, and you can be with me…'neath the waves, through the caves of owls…long forgotten now"
63. "Strolling along country roads with my baby, it starts to rain, it begins to pour"
64. "Like a rubber-necked giraffe, you look into my path…well, maybe you're just too blind to see"
65. "I know I keep you amused…but I feel I'm being used"
66. "I don't need a whole lot of money…I don't need a big, fine car…I got everything that a man could want, I got more than a man could ask for"
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"
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"
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"
70. "He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine"
71. "Ever since I met you…seems I can't forget you…the thought of you keeps running through the back of my mind"
72. "Some people say I've done all right for a girl"
73. "I've never had a dream that made sweet love to me"
74. "We've been together, since way back when…sometimes, I never wanna see you again"
75. "In my life, I felt so self-assured...but suddenly, it's all changed"
76. "To avoid complications, she never kept the same address"
77. "I want to go where the people dance...I want some action...I want to live"
78. "I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long...like a worn-out recording of a favorite song"
79. "Time was on my side when I was running down the street, it was a fight, fight, fight"
80. "Baby, if I think about you, I think about love...darling, if I live without you, I live without love"
81. "Have you never been happy, just to hear your song...have you never let someone else be strong"
82. "To look in the mirror, in total surprise...at the hair on your shoulders, and the age in your eyes"
83. "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right"
84. "I keep falling in and out of love with you"
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"
86. "Danger, danger...when you taste brown sugar" (and no, this is NOT the Stones' "Brown Sugar")
87. "You always smile, but in your eyes, your sorrow shows"
88. "Did you think I'd crumble, did you think I'd lay down and die...oh, no, not I"
89. "And the story it told of a river that flowed, made me sad to think it was dead"
90. "Sail on, silver girl...sail on by...your time has come to shine, all your dreams are on their way"
91. "Turned the stone and looked beneath it..."Peace on Earth" was all it said"
92. "Hey, shadow, summertime blues...jump up and down in your blue suede shoes"
93. "Seventy-three men sailed her, from the San Francisco Bay"
94. "So he takes a ladder, steals the stars from the sky...puts on Sinatra, and starts to cry"
95. "Baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you...now come on down and do what you've got to do"
96. "Tonight I'm gonna break away, just you wait and see"
97. "No cigarettes, no sleep...no light, no sound...nothing to eat, no books to read"
98. "This train's got the disappearing railroad blues"
99. "But the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach"
100. "He spoke through tears of fifteen years, how his dog and him traveled about"
101. "Starting soft and slow, like a small earthquake...and when he lets go, half the valley shakes"
102. "Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight"
103. "I'm a boy, and I'm a man"
104. "Cause I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee"
105. "Watching as the pretty panties run"
106. "We sing about beauty and we sing about truth, at ten thousand dollars a show"
107. "Little boy blue, and the man in the moon"
108. "Well, your friends with their fancy persuasion, don't admit that it's part of a scheme"
109. "See, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun"
110. "Just snap your fingers and I'm walking, like a dog, hanging on your leash"
111. "There's been a hoot owl howling by my window now, for six nights in a row"
112. "I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with"
113. "Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shining on me"
114. "They burned down the gambling house, it died with an awful sound"
115. "And if they shout, don't let it change a thing that you're doing"
116. "Cross the highways of fantasy...help me to forget today's pain"
117. "As I remember, your eyes were bluer than robin's eggs...my poetry was lousy, you said"
118. "There's a girl right next to you...and she's just waiting for something to do"
119. "Like a picture she was laying there...moonlight dancing off her hair"
120. "Every day in your indigo eyes...I watch the sun set, but I don't see it rise"
121. "You can rely on the old man's money"
122. "In the backroom, she was everybody's darling"
123. "Make a wish, baby, and I will make it come true...make a list, baby, of the things I'll do for you"
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"
125. "Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman but talked like a man"
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".."
127. "And I said I didn't like the way he got things done, sleeping on the job"
128. "If I promised you the moon and the stars, would you believe it"
129. "And he's quick with a joke, or to light up your smoke, but there's someplace that he'd rather be"
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"
131. "If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal...if her daddy's poor, just do what you feel"
132. "You left in the rain, without closing the door...I didn't stand in your way"
133. "The brakes are good, the tires...fair"
134. "They would not listen, they did not know how...perhaps they'll listen, now"
135. "Got to keep on dancing, keep on dancing"
136. "Mama says she's worried, growing up in a hurry"
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"..."
138. "Dialed about a thousand numbers lately, almost rang the phone off the wall"
139. "I wanna stick around until I can't see straight"
140. "Never could believe the things you do to me...I never could believe the way you are"
141. "All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado...trying to keep up a smile to hide the tears"
142. "Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see"
143. "My mama used to dance for the money they'd throw"
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"
145. "Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn"
146. "You put me high up on a pedestal...so high that I could almost see eternity"
147. "Let's move before they raise the parking rate"
148. "If I could only see that familiar sunrise through sleepy eyes, how happy I'd be"
149. "On the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true"
150. "If your broken heart should need repair, then I'm the man to see"
151. "Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo"
152. "Well, my old radio would play that old Opry show...so I never got lonesome or blue" (a hint: this artist had something to do with the previous artist in the past)
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"
154. "The 'morning after' blues, from my head down to my shoes"
155. "Staring blindly into space...getting up to splash my face...wanting just to stay awake...wond'ring how much I can take"
156. "With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats, you can't say we're satisfied"
157. "Something inside has died, and I can't hide, and I just can't fake it"
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"
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"
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"
161. "Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk"
162. "Into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown...like a dog without a bone, an actor out on loan"
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"
164. "And she's tryin' to make a devil out of me"
165. "The problem is all inside your head, she said to me...the answer is easy, if you take it logically"
166. "Do you love waking up next to me, as much as I love waking up next to you ?"
167. "In and around the lake...mountains come out of the sky and they stand there"
168. "Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting...little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear"
169. "You can't plant me in your penthouse...I'm going back to my plow"
170. "When evening rolls around and it's time to go to town, where do you go to rock and roll ?"
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"
172. "If you've got a problem, I don't care what it is...if you need a hand, I can assure you this..."
173. "Inventing lovers on the phone..who call to say, 'come dance with me'...and murmur vague obscenities"
174. "With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground"
175. "He say, 'one more job oughta get it...one last shot, 'fore we quit it...one for the road"
176. "I really learned a lot, really learned a lot...love is like a flame that burns you when it's hot"
177. "For you are beautiful...and I have loved you dearly, more dearly than the spoken word can tell"
178. "Then I lost myself in a familiar song...closed my eyes, and I slipped away"
179. "And I dreamed I saw the bomber-death planes riding shotgun in the sky...turning into butterflies above our nation"
180. "I'd rather hurt you honestly, than mislead you with a lie"
181. "And I'm telling you son, well, it ain't no fun...staring straight down a forty-four"
182. "My Maserati does 185...I lost my license, now I don't drive"
183. "They stand so low, you got to pick 'em up, just to say hello"
184. "Grab that cash with both hands, and make a stash"
185. "She was a black-haired beauty, with big dark eyes"
186. "And the first one said, to the second one there...'I hope you're having fun'..."
187. "Cause we were barely seventeen, and we were barely dressed"
188. "You can check out any time you like...but you can never leave..."
189. "Strumming my six-string, on my front porch swing"
190. "Must be the season when those love-lights shine all around us"
191. "People go just where they will...I never noticed them until I got this feeling that it's later than it seems"
192. "You got to lose, to know how to win"
193. "Reflections in the waves spark my memory...some happy, some sad"
194. "There's a feeling I get, when I look to the west...and my spirit is crying for leaving"
195. "When I was young, I never needed anyone...and making love was just for fun...those days are gone"
196. "Feed the babies, who don't have enough to eat...shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet"
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"
198. "You're the only light this empty room has ever had"
199. "You say he satisfies your mind, tells you all of his dreams...I know how much that means to you"
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"
Well, there it is...hope you enjoyed it !!
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