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1. I couldn't sleep at all last night so I decided to work on this next fabulous Boomer installment. I had this great idea for presenting this song but I fell asleep before I wrote it down. The next morning I couldn't remember a thing and I had turned into a giant cockroach so even if I did remember, I couldn't write it down. Written by Ritchie Adams and Malou Rene, the Bobby Lewis version hit number one on the Hot 100 and stayed there for seven weeks. Use the Turing test to determine if there is intelligent behaviour and the name of this song. Which is?
"The clock downstairs was strikin' four
Couldn't get you off my mind
I heard the milkman at the door"
2. This song was derived from an African-American spiritual. The Highwaymen recorded a version that topped the Hot 100 chart. If you go merrily down your stream of consciousness you should get this one. Well, did you?
"The River Jordan is chilly and cold, hallelujah.
Chills the body but not the soul, hallelujah."
3. This song was written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard. Patsy Cline's version reached number twelve on the Hot 100 just before the "autumn" of 1961. Get it?
"You want me to act like we've never kissed
You want me to forget (to forget)
Pretend we've never met (never met)
And I've tried and I've tried
But I haven't yet"
4. "Calcutta" is the song. The music was written by Heino Gaze and English lyrics added by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss. An instrumental version made it to the a number one and a number two position on Hot 100. What surprising artist had a hit song with this? Lyrics included as a whim.
"I've kissed the girls in Naples, they're pretty as can be,
I've also kissed some French girls, who came from Paree."
5. This song written by Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy and recorded by the Miracles. It made it to number two on the Billboard Hot 100. This song reminds me of my days in high school when in that class I constructed my magnum opus: connected bookends with a horse head on either end. Painted yellow. Wish I had taken Home Ec. It had food. Can you name the song?
"When I became of age my mother called me to her side
She said, son, you're growing up now pretty soon you'll take a bride
And then she said, just because you've become a young man now
There's still some things that you don't understand now"
6. This song was written by Kay Rogers, Luther DIxon and Bob Elgin. Gene McDaniels recorded it in 1962 and guess what, on the Hot 100, it made number three. And it was?
"And they He said "Hey, listen"
"I'm gonna fix this-a world today"
"Because I know what's missin' "
Then He rolled his big sleeves up
And a brand-new world began"
7. The Marcels had a hit single with this song. The Marceaus had an instrumental version. The former's version made it to number one on the Hot 100, the latter's didn't do Bip. It was written by Rodgers and Hart. Yikes! Though I don't think they wrote the "Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom ba ba bom ba ba bom ba ba dang a dang dang Ba ba ding a dong ding" part. Can you name this doo-wop classic? .
"And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me"
8. The song was written by Paul Gayten and Robert Guidry. Clarence "Frogman" Henry's recording of it went to number four in 1961. Know it?
"I can't sleep nights because I feel so restless
I don't know what to do, I feel so helpless
And since you've been away, I cry both night and day"
9. Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector wrote this "S" song. You're may need to apply the proper rhythm to the following lyric in order to guess this Ben E. King song. To quote Gertrude Stein, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." Hope that helps. Song is, is a song is a song is?
"It is a special one, it's never seen the sun
It only comes out when the moon is on the run
And all the stars are gleaming
It's growing in the street right up through the concrete
But soft and sweet and dreaming"
10. Writers were Curtis Lee and Tommy Boyce. Curtis Lee recorded it in 1961 and it went to number seven on the Hot 100. Doo-wop struck again. The song puts together something from all of the options. The song is therefore?
"I know you were sent from heaven above
You rule my life with your wonderful love
I know we'll be happy for eternity
'Cause I know
That our love is really real"
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