Date: 3 Feb 2005 02:26:44 -0000
Message-ID: <20050203022644.26417.qmail@nezumi.pair.com>
Subject: RESULTS and ANSWER KEY for Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz 216 (GOLQ216)
From: Howard Teitelbaum <golq216@golq.org>
RESULTS and ANSWER KEY for Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz #216 (GOLQ216)
Congratulations to Randy Price & Peter Morley for pitching a perfect game - 27
songs up, 27 songs down. Across the Boarder and The Village Idiots (2nd and
3rd place, respectively) made it into the ninth - the tiebreakers - before
surrendering a base hit. (OK, I'll drop the strained baseball metaphors now; I
guess I'm just eager for spring training to start in a few weeks!)
There were also fine performances by five teams clustered for 4th through 8th
place: The Genateam (in 4th by virtue of partial credit on a tiebreaker), The
Delphi Trivia Club, NAVAIRHEADS, James White, and L'Equipe.
Obligatory statistics: mean score was 349, median was 400.
As always, thanks to everyone who entered!
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After each score below are two characters representing the two tie-breakers:
+ indicates a tie-breaker answered correctly.
- indicates partial credit.
x indicates a totally incorrect guess.
. indicates no guess.
(For anti-spamming purposes, all occurrences of "@" in e-mail addresses have
been replaced with "&".)
Place ID # on
Score Name <E-mail address> team Age(s)
---+-----+--+------------------------------------------------------+--+-------
01 500++ RP Randy Price & Peter Morley <randypny&aol.com,
pmorley&nyc.rr.com> 2 35-52
02 500+x AB Across the Boarder <eriador1972&yahoo.com> 2 ??
03 500.. VI The Village Idiots (Andrew, Andy, Roxie, Doug, Ping)
<Clete6&aol.com> 5 <53
04 440-. GE The Genateam <ah.rh&bigpond.net.au> 4+ 36-57
T05 440x. DT Delphi Trivia Club (Logot, ClueLess, Beth, Hillary)
<billp49&concentric.net> 5 40-55
T05 440.. NA NAVAIRHEADS <thomas.pillion&navy.mil> 2 58,52
T05 440x. JW James White <jjwhite6&ameritech.net> 1 56
08 438.. LE L'Equipe <audriehepburn&hotmail.com> ? ??
09 422x. EM EMC and Friends <cochran_david&emc.com> 5 various
10 420-. EJ The EJ'S & Co.: Ellis, Steve, Kevin, Mitch, Kyra,
Danda, Vinnie, Bruce, Carlin <brombere&matc.edu> 9 18+
11 380x. TS Tom Adams, Sean Anglum, David Bailey, Lori Bailey,
Rick Crane, Warren Fellman, Larry Ferguson,
Dan Rector, Ed Toutant <baileyl&colorado.edu> 9 boomers
12 340.. RR Really Rockin' In Boston <bob&egh.com> 5 50s
13 339+. MW Mike Weaver <oldtunes&sbcglobal.net> ? ??
14 320+. CO The Coasters (Rick & Kathy Schubert, Magic Marc, Norm 6 52,55,52,
Katuna, Bigfoot Mae, Regina Litman) <rns&san.rr.com> 59,-,52
15 300+. WM Will McCorry <wmccorry&ca.inter.net> 1 47
16 258.. SS Sanford Stein <sanford_stein&rush.edu> 1 54
17 160.. CC Cole & Cole <jonathan.cole&siemens.com> 1 58
18 144.. JR Jessica Raine <jraine&bostonconservatory.edu> 1 30
19 140.. BT Bonnie Teitelbaum <no net access> 1 55
20 60.. MA Matthew Aument <Matteo Al Monty&aol.com> 1 16
---+-----+--+------------------------------------------------------+--+-------
Place ID # on
Score Name <E-mail address> team Age(s)
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The following table gives the individual scoring breakdown. For songs 01-25,
a '.' is used to indicate that no guess was made for a question, whereas a zero
indicates that a completely incorrect response was submitted. For tie-breakers
(songs T1 & T2), a "+" indicates full credit, a "-" indicates partial credit,
an "x" indicates an incorrect guess, and a "." indicates no guess.
Song# TT
ID 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 12
--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
RP 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 ++
AB 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 +x
VI 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 ..
GE 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 -.
DT 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 x.
NA 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 ..
JW 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 0 20 20 0 20 20 20 20 0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 x.
LE 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 . 20 18 20 20 20 20 20 20 ..
EM 20 20 20 20 15 20 15 20 . 20 20 . 19 20 20 20 . 17 20 20 20 16 20 20 20 x.
EJ 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 -.
TS 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 20 . . 20 20 20 x.
RR 20 20 20 20 20 . . 20 . 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 . 20 . 20 . 20 20 ..
MW 20 . 20 20 20 . 20 20 . 20 . 20 . 20 20 20 . . 19 20 20 20 . 20 20 +.
CO 20 . 20 20 20 20 . 20 . 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 . . . 20 20 . . 20 20 +.
WM 20 . 20 20 . . . 20 . 20 20 . 20 20 20 . . . . 20 20 20 20 20 20 +.
SS . . 19 20 . 20 . 20 . 20 . . 19 20 20 20 . 20 0 20 . . . 20 20 ..
CC . . 20 20 10 . . . . 10 . . 20 . 20 . . . . 20 20 . . 20 . ..
JR . . . . 15 . . 20 . 10 . . 19 20 10 . . . . 20 . . . 10 20 ..
BT . . 20 . . 20 . . . . . . . 20 . 20 . . . . . . 20 20 20 ..
MA . . 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 . . . . . 20 ..
--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
ID 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 12
Song# TT
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GOLDEN OLDIES LYRICS QUIZ #216 ANSWERS:
Answers are in the form:
#number) Artist: "Title" (year) [peak Pop] {peak R&B}
where:
"peak Pop" = Peak position achieved on the weekly Billboard Pop chart
"peak R&B" = Peak position on the weekly Billboard Rhythm & Blues chart
== NOTE: Recordings charting between late 1963 and early 1965
== show a "peak R&B" of {n/c}, meaning "no chart," as Billboard
== didn't publish an R&B chart from 11/30/63 thru 1/23/65.
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Oh, how I long to do the things we used to do
I'm lonely and I'm blue
Yet I'll try to get along without you
#01) Lee Andrews and The Hearts: "Tear Drops" (1957/58) [20] {4}
[Previously used in GOLQ #22 & #103.]
Funny, the hours seemed to go by so fast
I hope that this time won't be the last
I wanna see you again
#02) The Angels: "Thank You and Goodnight" (1963) [84] {-}
[This song was, for a time, the closing theme used by legendary
New York DJ "Murray the K." Previously used in GOLQ #57.]
It's a thousand pages, give or take a few
#03) The Beatles: "Paperback Writer" (1966) [1] {-}
[Previously used in GOLQ #98.]
Yeah, and I'm doin' all right in school
They ain't said I broke no rule
I ain't never been in Dutch
I don't browse around too much
#04) Chuck Berry: "Almost Grown" (1959) [32] {3}
[Backing vocals by The Moonglows. Previously used in GOLQ #36.]
This evening has been (Been hoping that you'd drop in)
So very nice (I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice)
My mother will start to worry (Beautiful, what's your hurry?)
And father will be pacing the floor (Listen to that fireplace roar)
#05) Ray Charles and Betty Carter: "Baby It's Cold Outside" (1962) [91] {-}
You say you want my lovin'
More than any other thing
Hey hey hey
#06) Dave Clark Five: "Any Way You Want It" (1964/65) [14] {n/c}
[Previously used in GOLQ #23.]
Please lend an ear
That you all may hear
Some shimmering sharps and flats
#07) Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong: "Now You Has Jazz" (1956) [88] {-}
[From the movie "High Society," starring Der Bingle and Frank Sinatra.]
My wife and my kids, they packed up and leave me
"Darling," she said, "I was yours to be seen"
#08) Desmond Dekker & The Aces: "Israelites" (1969) [9] {-}
[This song reflects the Rastafarian view of black Jamaicans as being
descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel.]
[In the last line, "be seen" is given in some sources as "deceive"
or "receive." I'm not sure which, if any, is correct; however,
none of them make much sense to me. Previously used in GOLQ #70.]
After years of acceptance,
That little phrase has been swept aside for the modern version:
Rhythm and blues, and rubber-soled shoes
#09) Tom Edwards: "What Is a Teenage Girl?" (1957) [57] {-}
[Spoken-word record by a prominent Cleveland DJ. This song, and the
flip-side, "What Is a Teenage Boy?," were spoofs of the old nursery
rhyme that declared that little girls were made of "sugar and spice
and everything nice," etc.]
Well, you wake up in the mornin', boy
You hear the ding-dong ring
Then you look upon the table, boy
You see the same darn thing
#10) Paul Evans: "Midnite Special" (1960) [16] {-}
[One of many versions of this song, written and first recorded
by Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) in the 1930's. The Johnny Rivers
version was previously used in GOLQ #42.]
Someday, you'll be feelin' so low (lower than low, nowhere to go)
Why don't you call on me, girl?
That's when I'll show (I love you so, I love you so)
#11) The 4 Seasons featuring the "Sound" of Frankie Valli:
"Girl Come Running" (1965) [30] {-}
[Previously used in GOLQ #116.]
Now the people come in here, all the same age
Asked a girl the other day, "How old are you?"
She say "Seventeen."
I say, "That's nice, how old you friend?"
She say "Seventeen."
I say, "How old you mother?"
She say "Seventeen."
"You father?" "Seventeen."
What's the matter, everybody seventeen?
#12) Buddy Hackett: "Chinese Rock and Egg Roll" (1956) [87] {-}
[Like song #09, another case of adults being befuddled by those
incomprehensible teens! Naturally, during this rant, the band is
playing a rendition of the 1955 hit song "Seventeen."]
Well, little things you say and do
Make me want to be with you
#13) Buddy Holly: "Rave On" (1957) [37] {-}
[Jonathan Cole appropriately chided me for not capturing Buddy's hiccup-y
pronunciation of "We-eh-eh-eh-ell"! All of the group's releases on Coral,
such as this one, were billed as by Buddy Holly, while their releases on
Brunswick were billed as by The Crickets. Previously used in GOLQ #18.]
[Jessica Raine noted: The British folk-rock group Steeleye Span recorded
an a cappella version of this which is surprisingly good.]
Satan should be her name
To me, they're about the same
#14) Ernie K-Doe: "Mother-in-Law" (1961) [1] {1}
[Written and produced by Allen Toussaint, who also accompanies on piano.
The CD "A Real Mother-in-Law for Ya" (a K-Doe best-of) includes an earlier
fragment (Take 5), which is at a much faster tempo. The lead-in to the
released version (Take 11) is also included, in which Toussaint is heard
demonstrating the new slower tempo he wants to try. Toussaint just
celebrated his 67th birthday on Jan. 14, but Ernie passed away in 2001.
Previously used in GOLQ #22 & #116.]
Sittin' in the classroom
Tryin' to read my book
My baby give me that special look
#15) Brenda Lee: "Sweet Nothin's" (1959/60) [4] {12}
[Previously used in GOLQ #57.]
And the moon, she filled our sails
And the stars, they steered our course
And on our bow
There was a golden horse
#16) The Mamas & The Papas: "Dancing Bear" (1967/68) [51] {-}
[Previously used in GOLQ #63.]
I sent that cat to chase you
Now you've got him chasing me
#17) Lou Monte: "Pepino's Friend Pasqual (The Italian Pussy-Cat)"
(1963) [78] {-}
[Followup to his biggest hit "Pepino the Italian Mouse." Like most
of Monte's material, the song features a combination of Italian and
English lyrics.]
Come on, baby, I love your honey-lovin' ways
Hey there, sweet thing
I love your honey-lovin', your honey-lovin' ways
#18) Roy Orbison: "Candy Man" (1961) [25] {-}
[Previously used in GOLQ #116.]
We gotta let this feeling grow, or let it end
You say you care
Well, if you do
Don't ever go, I'm begging you
#19) The Peppermint Rainbow: "Will You Be Staying After Sunday" (1969) [32] {-}
[Previously used in GOLQ #24.]
She's mean and she's evil
Like that little ol' boll weevil
#20) Elvis Presley: "Little Sister" (1961) [5] {-}
[A two-sided hit with "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame," both written
by the great team of Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman. Previously used in GOLQ #2.]
You are tired and your love is growing cold
My love is growing stronger
As our affair, affair grows old
#21) Otis Redding: "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)"
(1965) [21] {2}
[Previously used in GOLQ #82.]
Well, I was just passing the time
I'm all alone
Won't you give all your sympathy to mine?
#22) The Rolling Stones: "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the
Shadow?" (1966) [9] {-}
[Previously used in GOLQ #115.]
I see you're laughin' and-a
Tellin' everyone in town
That you've made a fool of me
Well, go and talk some more
'Cause, baby, I don't care no more
You don't bother me at all
#23) Del Shannon: "So Long Baby" (1961) [28] {-}
[Previously used in GOLQ #58.]
With her went my future
My life is filled with gloom
So, day after day
I stay locked up in my room
#24) The Temptations: "I Wish it Would Rain" (1968) [4] {1}
[Previously used in GOLQ #47.]
Don't tell me what it's all about
'Cause I've been there, and I'm glad I'm out
Out of those chains, those chains that bind you
That is why I'm here to remind you
#25) Dionne Warwick: "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (1969/70) [6] {17}
[From the Broadway show "Promises, Promises," written by Burt Bacharach
& Hal David, and starring the late actor Jerry Orbach. Previously used
in GOLQ #144.]
[Jessica Raine added: "The original cast recording of this show features
a lovely male-female duet rendition of 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again'
-- the male singer is the late Jerry Orbach." (Howard adds: The female
half of the original-cast duet was Jill O'Hara.)]
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Tie-Breakers
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Said one to the other, "Now listen, you two
There's a certain rumor that can't be true
That man descended from our noble race
The very idea is a big disgrace"
#T1) Dave Bartholomew: "The Monkey" (1957) [-] {-}
[A cute twist on the perennial evolutionist/creationist debate - a
monkey points out the many failings of human society, and declares
disgustedly that he is not related to us. Although he recorded quite
a bit on his own, Bartholomew is probably best-known for his longtime
collaboration with Fats Domino.]
I didn't get a chance (I didn't get a chance)
To ask her to dance (to ask her to dance)
It was love at first sight (love at first sight)
I just saw her tonight (just saw her tonight)
And I wish somebody would introduce her to me
#T2) The Isley Brothers: "Who's that Lady" (1964) [-] {n/c}
[Didn't chart, but their uptempo 1973 remake (as "That Lady") was
a Top-10 hit.]
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The following table ranks the songs from most recognized to least recognized.
The first column indicates the average number of points scored on that song
(total points divided by number of entrants). For comparison purposes,
tie-breakers are scored here on the usual 20-point scale.
Avg. Song
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19.00 #25) Dionne Warwick: "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (1969/70) [6] {17}
18.95 #03) The Beatles: "Paperback Writer" (1966) [1] {-}
18.50 #24) The Temptations: "I Wish it Would Rain" (1968) [4] {1}
18.00 #14) Ernie K-Doe: "Mother-in-Law" (1961) [1] {1}
18.00 #20) Elvis Presley: "Little Sister" (1961) [5] {-}
17.50 #15) Brenda Lee: "Sweet Nothin's" (1959/60) [4] {12}
17.00 #04) Chuck Berry: "Almost Grown" (1959) [32] {3}
17.00 #08) Desmond Dekker & The Aces: "Israelites" (1969) [9] {-}
17.00 #10) Paul Evans: "Midnite Special" (1960) [16] {-}
16.85 #13) Buddy Holly: "Rave On" (1957) [37] {-}
16.00 #16) The Mamas & The Papas: "Dancing Bear" (1967/68) [51] {-}
15.00 #01) Lee Andrews and The Hearts: "Tear Drops" (1957/58) [20] {4}
15.00 #05) Ray Charles and Betty Carter: "Baby It's Cold Outside"
(1962) [91] {-}
14.00 #06) Dave Clark Five: "Any Way You Want It" (1964/65) [14] {n/c}
14.00 #21) Otis Redding: "I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)"
(1965) [21] {2}
13.00 #23) Del Shannon: "So Long Baby" (1961) [28] {-}
12.85 #18) Roy Orbison: "Candy Man" (1961) [25] {-}
12.85 #19) The Peppermint Rainbow: "Will You Be Staying After Sunday"
(1969) [32] {-}
12.80 #22) The Rolling Stones: "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing
in the Shadow?" (1966) [9] {-}
12.00 #11) The 4 Seasons featuring the "Sound" of Frankie Valli:
"Girl Come Running" (1965) [30] {-}
11.75 #07) Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong: "Now You Has Jazz"
(1956) [88] {-}
10.00 #02) The Angels: "Thank You and Goodnight" (1963) [84] {-}
6.00 #12) Buddy Hackett: "Chinese Rock and Egg Roll" (1956) [87] {-}
5.50 #T1) Dave Bartholomew: "The Monkey" (1957) [-] {-}
3.00 #09) Tom Edwards: "What Is a Teenage Girl?" (1957) [57] {-}
3.00 #17) Lou Monte: "Pepino's Friend Pasqual (The Italian Pussy-Cat)"
(1963) [78] {-}
1.00 #T2) The Isley Brothers: "Who's that Lady" (1964) [-] {n/c}
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-- Howard Teitelbaum