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1. Tommy Roe wrote and recorded this song and it went to number one on the Hot 100. I know that sounds fishy but I need to know the title?
[She walked into my office. She was an Australian girl. She needed someone to tail her husband. She thought he was seeing someone else. She was like a '57 Chevy with the headlights on high beam. I told her I'd take the job. And I said to myself, "With luck this could be just the beginning."]
"Blue eyes and a ponytail
Her cheeks are rosy, she looks a little nosy
Man, this little girl is fine"
Guess it's time to name the song.
2. This is a song written by the duo of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Little Eva recorded it and it made it to the top of the Hot 100.
[I gave her a report after tailing her husband. He was seeing a dame in Chicago. He took the 20th Century Limited every other week. She wanted to confront him. So we went from here to there. On the 20th Century Limited. It went as expected. I got her on the rebound.]
What's the missing word in the lyric?
"My little baby sister can do it with me
It's easier than learning your A-B-C's
So come on, come on, do the ___ with me
Fill in the blank.
3. This is another song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King which was recorded by the Shirelles. It went to number one on the Hot 100 in 1960.
[The time we spent together was magic. We hit the heights every day. And "oh, those su-ummer nights". She'd ask me the question and I would always answer, "Yes, forever, baby."]
Have you a clue?
"Tonight you're mine completely
You give you love so sweetly
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes"
4. Don Gibson wrote this song. Ray Charles recorded it in 1962. It reached number one on the Hot 100, R&B, UK, Flanders, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia It didn't crack the Country chart. After such a worldwide success, Charles said, "You like me. Right now! You like me!" I may have messed up that quote. It may have been Mrs Gump, Forrest's mom.
[She was insecure. She wanted constant affirmation and would ask, "Will you still love me tomorrow.". As time went on, it got on my nerves. Now I'd answer, my voice dripping of sarcasm. Soon I found myself on the "20th Century Limited". Finally she confronted me.]
And the song was?
"Those happy hours that we once knew
Tho' long ago, they still make me blue
They say that time heals a broken heart
But time has stood still since we've been apart"
5. Greg Richards, Ted Daryll, and his other brother Daryll wrote the song and Jay and the Americans recorded it in 1962. It went to number five on the Hot 100.
[The months went on and she kept asking. Finally I couldn't take it anymore, "Doll, you're suffocating me. I need my freedom.", I sez. She responded as expected.]
The song is?
"And when I told her
I didn't love her anymore"
6. Music by Ernest Gold. Ferrante and Teicher's duelin' pianos recorded a version that reached number two on the Hot 100.
[Then I could see her steeling herself. Her eyes were as cold as John Dillinger's heart. And then she was gone, like the Israelites from Egypt. Out the door and out of my life. Forever.]
"This land is mine; God gave this land to me
This brave and ancient land to me
And when the morning sun reveals her hills and plain
Then I see a land where children can run free"
Song, ID and registration please.
7. This song written by George Burton and Paul Hampton and recorded by Ral Donner. It went to number four on the Hot 100.
[ I knew then I was stupid. I made a mistake, a big mistake. I tried to find her but she had disappeared. That's when I went on the skids. I started drinking too much. Too often.]
What did Ral sing?
"You gave me you-your love but I misused it
I never knew how lonely loneliness could be
And now I need you, dear, as you once needed me"
8. This song was written and recorded by Johnny Cash in 1961. It only made it to number 84 on the Hot 100 but it went to 11 on the Country chart.
[One night I found myself in a dive. There was a man playing a steel instrument. It had a plaintive sound, but one that signaled hope too. It struck a chord in me. I quit drinking that night.]
What instrument was the boy playing?
"In a little cabaret in a South Texas border town,
Sat a boy and his--, and the people came from all around.
And all the girls from there to Austin,
Were slippin' away from home and puttin' jewelery in hock."
9. Antonio Carlos Jobim wrote the song and recorded it in 1963. Norman Gimbel added English lyrics. R.H. Macy's lyric were rejected. Astrud Gilberto's version was released in 1965.
[I started traveling around the globe. I found myself in the Himalayas. I hooked up with a guru who taught me how search my inner self. To find my life's path. It wasn't easy. I had done a lot of things I'm not proud of. The path was strewn with them.]
"In my loneliness
When you're gone and I'm all by myself
And I need your caress
I just think of you
And the thought of you holding me near
Makes my loneliness soon disappear"
Om pretty sure you can get this one, so.
10. The song was written by two members of The Weavers. It was recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary and went to number three. Next year Trini Lopez's version went to number three. Peter, Paul and Candy's "Mounds" made it to number six.
[So I moved on like that Mickey Spillane dick. I'm back in the detective racket. And every now and then I think of Sheila. And smile. The End.]
"I'd ring out danger
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between
My brothers and my sisters
All over this land, oh
Did you get the gold ring?
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