O/T Mega Poptastic Pop Quiz (37)

[CAMiller]

A couple of days before the next game so wrap your head around these. The songs span over half a century, all are well known but weren't necessarily chart hits. There are some tough ones in there. Yet again there is a theme but you'll have to work it out for yourselves.

Song title and artists needed and limit 5 entries per poster (if you are going for 5 please try and put them all in one reply). You are allowed a 2nd set of 5 once the quiz has been up 24 hours so after 5:30pm Thursday. NO GOOGLING PLEASE. Pull the answers from the depths of your brain.

1. Now I work for the BBC Life is not what it used to be
2. Track 29! Boy you can give me a shine
3. And I need you more than want you And I want you for all time
4. But I'm taking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line
5. She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle
6. It's just gone noon half past monsoon On the banks of the river Nile
7. Round the outside, round the outside (You know it)
8. You burn in the street You burn in the ghetto With anxiety With anxiety
9. Super highways, coast to coast Easy to get anywhere
10. From Golders Green, change at Camden Town
11. I want a doctor to take your picture So I can look at you from inside as well
12. Ah only one day away from your arms
13. Come from greed Never born of the seed Took a life from a barren hand
14. A church house, gin house A school house, outhouse
15. Slanted eyes meet a new sunrise A race of bodies small in size
16. You can be here by 4:30 'Cause I've made your reservation
17. Perhaps one day we'll have a splash When Littlewoods provide the cash
18. And the walls kept tumbling down In the city that we love
19. That his simple sister slapped them down And they slavered on their smalls
20. Any evening, any day You'll find us all
21. Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain
22. Downtown the young ones are going Downtown the young ones are growing
23. He was born in the Bitterroot Valley in the early morning rain
24. Watching all the ships going down the line, they were leaving
25. You're gonna meet some gentle people there
26. As I stood there in the morning rain I had a feeling I can't explain
27. People they rush everywhere Each with their own secret care
28. Council estates or tower blocks Wherever you live you get the knocks
29. Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust
30. The boys of the NYPD choir Were singing Galway Bay
31. But Terry and Julie cross over the river Where they feel safe and sound
32. There'll be love and laughter And peace ever after
33. And when she shines, she really shows you all she can
34. She once was a true love of mine
35. Flew in from Miami Beach B.O.A.C
36. Put a hundred down and buy a car In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
37. I kept my promise Don't keep your distance
38. You'd see them wearing their baggies Huarache sandals too
39. A man in the dark in a picture frame so mystic and soulful
40. There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
41. My heart going "Boom-boom-boom"
42. The town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down
43. Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn So get those stakes up higher
44. Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way
45. Yesterday's paper Telling yesterday's news
46. Shine a light, shine the light Shine the light, won't you shine the light?
47. In my mind there's a face On my lips there's a name
48. She'll find the note I left hangin' On her door
49. You didn't do nothing You let her walk by
50. He said he's going back to find (Going back to find)
51. I'll be your clown or your puppet or your April Fool
52. Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
53. I'll be longing for the day That I will be in Greenville again
54. I'll give you eyes of blue I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world
55. Animal carpet wall-to-wall American ladies five-foot tall in blue
56. Now how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
57. The creme de la creme of the chess world In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
58. Foreign types with the hookah pipes say (Whey oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh)
59. Every night I've been hugging my pillow
60. Fly away on Coconut Airways Fly me high

[jakethemiller]

3. Wichita Lineman. Glen Campbell
6. Night Boat to Cairo. Madness
11. JTurnin Japanese. The Vapours
14. Nutbush City Limits. Ike & Tina Turner
17. Liverpool Lullaby. Cilla Black

Now that's a mixed bag

[BramleyMiller58]

52 - Englishman in New york = Sting
45 - Streets of London - Ralph Mctell
51 - Long Haired Lover from Liverpool - (Little) Jimmy Osmond
42 - Africa - Toto
25 - If you're going to San Fransisco - Mama's and the Papa's

[CAMiller]

3. Wichita Lineman. Glen Campbell
6. Night Boat to Cairo. Madness
11. JTurnin Japanese. The Vapours
14. Nutbush City Limits. Ike & Tina Turner
17. Liverpool Lullaby. Cilla Black

Now that's a mixed bag

All correct Jake and you didn't nab the BJ one I put in there especially for you. Saving it for later?

[CAMiller]

52 - Englishman in New york = Sting
45 - Streets of London - Ralph Mctell
51 - Long Haired Lover from Liverpool - (Little) Jimmy Osmond
42 - Africa - Toto
25 - If you're going to San Fransisco - Mama's and the Papa's

52, 45, 51, 25 correct. 42 wrong number?

A bonus point for getting the Little moniker on Jimmy Osmond. 25 is not the artist I have so a bonus point if you can get who that is?

[BramleyMiller58]

52, 45, 51, 25 correct. 42 wrong number?

A bonus point for getting the Little moniker on Jimmy Osmond. 25 is not the artist I have so a bonus point if you can get who that is?

42 should read 40 - Africa - Toto

25 - Thought it was. Would have to google correct answer so .......

[Brin]

25 - If you're going to San Fransisco - Scott Mckenzie....soz.
13. T'Pau - China in your hand
21. Marc Cohn - Walkng in Memphis
27. Gerry and the Pacemakers- Ferry cross the Mersey
31. Kinks - Waterloo sunset. (In the song, Terry meets Julie is in reference to Terence Stamp and actress Julie Christie) bonus point?

[BramleyMiller58]

25 - If you're going to San Fransisco - Scott Mckenzie....soz.

That's the one !

No worries bud, welcome home

[Brin]

That's the one !

No worries bud, welcome home

Thanks for both pal

[jakethemiller]

All correct Jake and you didn't nab the BJ one I put in there especially for you. Saving it for later?

Thanks for that Cam, Yes i'm keeping my powder dry, But don't compartmentalise me, i have an electic taste or just know losts of sheeite, hoping 10 is still there fro next round.