From: Howard Teitelbaum <golq387@golq.org>
Subject: RESULTS and ANSWER KEY for Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz 387 (GOLQ387)
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Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 18:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
RESULTS & ANSWER KEY for Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz #387 (GOLQ387)
Congratulations to Village Idiots, who finished first with a perfect score.
Just behind were Delphi Trivia Club, missing only a partial artist name.
The micro-theme in this quiz is a tribute to the great session drummer
Hal Blaine, who died 3/11/19 at 90. He was active until the end, playing
the month prior at his 90th birthday party. He was estimated to have played
on thousands of songs. In a 2011 interview, he identified a few favorites,
and I have included his quotes about several of these.
Each song has one or more audio links (quality and permanence not guaranteed).
As always, thanks to everyone who entered! The May 2019 quiz (GOLQ #388)
has been posted.
-- Howard Teitelbaum
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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)
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01 500++ VI Village Idiots (Doug, Michael, Andrew, Andy, Roxanne) 5 --
<MrJaded/MFPing/ARE7/Clete6/Roxie1971&aol.com>
02 497++ DT Delphi Trivia Club <Russ_Wilkerson&ksinst.com, 6 grey
rcwkid99&me.com>
T03 380++ EJ The EJ'S & Co.: Ellis, Sandy, Kevin, Kyra, Denise, 8 32+
Mitch, Vinnie, Everett <ellisbromberg&gmail.com>
T03 380++ RR Really Rockin' In Boston <rardini&cox.net> 6 60s,70s
05 380.. WM Will McCorry <wmccorry&ca.inter.net> 1 61
06 340++ MW Mike Weaver <oldtunes&sbcglobal.net> 1 --
07 280.. NA NAVAIRHEADS <tom pillion&skybest.com> 1 72
08 240.+ CO The Coasters (Rick & Kathy Schubert, Magic Marc, 5 66,70,67,
Bigfoot Mae, Regina Litman) <rns&san.rr.com> -,66
09 220.+ VS Vito & the Salutations <baileyl&colorado.edu> 3 boomers
T10 100.. BT Bonnie Teitelbaum (Team Teitelbaum North) <no email> 1 --
T10 100.. TA Team Asia (Mitch Herczeg) <yherczeg&gmail.com> 1 --
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Place ID # on
Score Name <E-mail address> team Age(s)
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The following table gives the individual scoring breakdown:
#01-#25 #T1-#T2
. no answer .
0 incorrect answer x
1-19 partial credit -
20 full credit +
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
--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
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 ++
DT 17 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 ++
EJ 20 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 . . 20 ++
RR 20 20 20 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 20 20 20 . 20 ..
MW 20 20 20 20 . 20 . . 20 . 20 20 . 20 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 . 20 . 20 ++
NA 20 20 20 20 20 20 . 20 . . . 20 20 20 . 20 20 20 . . . . 20 . . ..
CO 20 20 . 20 20 20 . 20 . . . 20 . 20 . 20 20 20 20 . . . . . . .+
VS 20 20 . 20 0 20 . 20 . . . . . 20 . 20 20 20 20 . . . . 20 . .+
BT . 20 . . . 20 . . . . . . . . . . 20 20 . . . . . 20 . ..
TA . 20 . 20 . 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 #387 ANSWERS:
Answers are in the form:
#number) Artist: "Title" (chart year) [peak Pop] {peak R&B} <xxx>...<yyy>
where:
"peak Pop" = Peak position achieved on the weekly Billboard Pop chart.
"peak R&B" = Peak position on the weekly Billboard Rhythm & Blues chart.
(Billboard didn't publish an R&B chart between 11/30/63 and 1/23/65,
so recordings in that interval show peak R&B of {n/c} ("no chart").)
"xxx",...,"yyy" = prior GOLQ(s) in which the song appeared, if any.
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At the first moment
Turn away from unclean thinking
At the first moment
#01) Anka, Paul - Geo. Hamilton IV - Johnny Nash: "The Teen Commandments"
(1958/59) [29] {-} <69><307>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZk2Jo43BDI
Preventing juvenile delinquency and impure thoughts for over 60 years!
Oh, that's how elementary
It's gonna be
#02) Barry, Len: "1-2-3" (1965/66) [2] {11} <9><150><267>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5wwIBc_lao (Supremes, "Ask Any Girl", 1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtSbC9otIM (Len Barry, 1965)
Co-writer David White died 3/17/19 at 79. The song's other authors were his
frequent collaborator John Medora (a.k.a. John Madara), and Barry himself.
The composers were sued by Motown, claiming that it was too similar to
H-D-H's "Ask Any Girl" (the B-side of The Supremes'"Baby Love" in '64).
After two years of legal wrangling, an agreement was reached to give H-D-H
a portion of the song's royalties.
Eight o'clock in the morning
And I'm movin' on out to school
With an open book and a sleepy look
The teacher can't be fooled
#03) Berry, Chuck: "Anthony Boy" (1959) [60] {-} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak5ePYkd7Is
As I look back on a love so sweet, now
#04) Box Tops, The: "Cry Like A Baby" (1968) [2] {-} <11><135><288>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKEKWfYYuM
Reggie Young, a prominent session guitarist of the '60s & '70s, died 1/17/19
at 82. On this song (as with B.J. Thomas' "Hooked on a Feeling"), he
performed on electric sitar.
Spooner Oldham described how he and Dan Penn wrote the song:
"We got together in the studio one evening with our little notes of our five
or ten best ideas or titles. ... they eventually ended up in the garbage.
The next morning, we were getting tired and decided to call it quits. So we
locked the doors, went across the street to the little cafe ... There was
nobody in there but us and the cook. And I tiredly put my head on the
table, my arms under my head, just for a few seconds. Then I lifted my head
up and looked at Dan, and because I felt sorry that he needed another record
and we were no help to each other that evening, I said, "Dan, I could just
cry like a baby." And he says, "What did you say?" And I said it again.
He says, "I like that." So unbeknownst to me, we had a song started. By
the time we walked across the street back to the studio, we had the first
verse written. ..."
Well, Friday night has finally come around
And me and my baby gonna head for a spot we found
We're gonna forget our cares and dance on into the night
#05) Drifters, The: "At The Club" (1965) [43] {10} <107>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quPylRljBjE
We could float among the stars together
You and I
#06) 5th Dimension, The: "Up-Up And Away" (1967) [7] {-} <50><204><310>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE1vTrrS13k
Hal Blaine: "I played my blue sparkle Ludwig kit on the track ...
It was an easy song to play. I used a stick and a brush because I didn't
want to do anything flashy; I wanted to hear the tune. What's funny is,
Tommy Tedesco did all of these amazing guitar runs, really incredible stuff
-- and he didn't get in the way! Everything he played worked like a charm."
The backwood majority
No hold bar-ity
Come as you are-ity
#07) Gentry, Bobbie: "Okolona River Bottom Band" (1967) [54] {-} <274>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcAERnjFlag
Oh, way up high
Up in the sky
Oh, tell me why
Oh, tell me why
You've lost your splendor
#08) Guitar, Bonnie: "Dark Moon" (1957) [6] {-} <112><201><281>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCjCQeh4Lp8
Died 1/12/19 at 95. In addition to her prowess as singer and (naturally)
guitarist, she was a producer and label owner in the late '50s, a rarity
for women at that time.
You go through life
Making fools out of others
Pretending you're just giving them love
But remember, sister or brother
You've got to answer to the one up above
#09) Heartbeats, The: "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (1957) [78] {-} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGI9AGZmmak
Unrelated to the identically titled Connie Francis hit.
If I made a scene
Each time you were mean
We'd be quarrelin' all the time
#10) Jackson, Wanda: "If I Cried Every Time You Hurt Me" (1962) [58] {-} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD5wlEYr3NA
In March 2019, Wanda announced she was retiring from live performances.
I've got a feeling, I feel so strange
Everything about me seems to have changed
Step by step, I got a brand new walk
I even sound sweeter when I talk
#11) James, Etta: "Something's Got A Hold On Me" (1962) [37] {4} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4RZSt4A3jU (the song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQnk5vsj4U (Citi ad, 2018)
Song was featured in several recent ads; one for an LG phone in 2017, and
another for a Citi banking app in 2018.
You're doin' something no one can
Because believin' and deceivin'
It's drivin' me to grievin' now
#12) Little Richard: "Miss Ann" (1957) [56] {6} <140>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BghdHABk-l8
Although I know you said goodbye to me-ee
I can't help thinkin' how it used to be
I guess I'll always be in love with you-ou
I can't forget the things we used to do
#13) McGuire Sisters, The: "Just For Old Time's Sake" (1961) [20] {-} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNficaYfWgQ
Christine McGuire, the eldest of the three sisters, died 12/28/18 at 92.
It's my belief
Pride is the chief cause
In the decline
In the number
#14) Miller, Roger: "Husbands And Wives" (1966) [26] {-} <179>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZc_GZ-L_0
Give me heartaches
Scold me
Give me cause to hurt again
Hear me well now
Give me blame
#15) Newbeats, The: "Shake Hands (And Come Out Crying)" (1966) [92] {-} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFevEpz8b_4
When I want some lovin'
You're gone
Don't you know you're treatin'
Your daddy wrong
#16) Presley, Elvis, with The Jordanaires: "Too Much" (1957) [1] {3} <62><228>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBbVxgF611c (Bernard Hardison, 1955)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPc8XNtlDk4 (Elvis, 1957)
Song was first released in 1955 by Bernard Hardison.
And if I had the chance
I'd never let you go
#17) Ronettes, The: "Be My Baby" (1963) [2] {4} <9><99><182><257>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfLDQNx6vw
Hal Blaine was the drummer; see the following song for a related comment.
Something in your eyes
Was so inviting
Something in your smile
Was so exciting
#18) Sinatra, Frank: "Strangers In The Night" (1966) [1] {-} <78><326>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lBT5OsBmJw (Bert Kaempfert, "Beddy Bye")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N85cwvwGBak (Kaempfert, later instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5h_EW4odWw (Sinatra)
Originally an instrumental titled "Beddy Bye," part of the soundtrack
written by Bert Kaempfert for the 1966 movie "A Man Could Get Killed"
(1st link above; familiar melody starts at 7:22). Kaempfert later
released another version (2nd link) on his "Strangers in the Night" LP,
shortly after Sinatra's vocal version became a hit.
Hal Blaine: "From a drummer's standpoint, here's what's funny about this
song: The beat I played on 'Be My Baby' ... is the same beat I played on
'Strangers In The Night.' 'Boom-boo-boom-BANG! Boom-boo-boom-BANG!'.
Exactly the same, only much softer."
Despite this song being one of his biggest late-career hits, Sinatra himself
was unequivocal about disliking it. For example: "Here's a song, the first
time I heard Don Costa play it for me some years ago, I hated it! I hated
this goddamn song the first I've heard it. And I still hate it!"
I don't carry a pistol
I don't wear a false mustache
And you never see me carryin'
Around a little black bag
#19) Starr, Edwin: "Agent Double-O-Soul" (1965) [21] {8} <51>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bny9V67xQU
You only want to break us up
And use me for a time
Then you'll leave my cryin'
I've heard it all before
Your other boys have told me
#20) Stuart, Chad, and Jeremy Clyde: "What Do You Want With Me"
(1965) [51] {-} <167>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K_sZWhJOZw
I need your kiss (I need your kiss)
My whole life through (my whole life through)
There is no me without you
Don't want nobody else's lips touching you (nobody else's lips)
Don't want no one to feel the sweet things that you do
#21) Tempo, Nino, & April Stevens: "I Can't Go On Livin' Baby Without You"
(1967) [86] {-} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfNVv9mX3R0
Have your fling, be gay with your new love
I'm setting you free
Dance and sing, pretend that it's true love
Don't worry 'bout me
#22) Thompson, Sue: "Have A Good Time" (1962) [31] {-} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK2do5_OOoo
Written by Boudleaux & Felice Bryant.
I was strollin' thru the park one night
And oh, I felt so blue
When I heard a little voice say
"I'm so lonely too"
#23) Turner, Jesse Lee: "The Little Space Girl" (1959) [20] {-} <61><155>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be8zOB6OjWg
And all about me
They know you have departed without me
And we, we wondered why
#24) Valente, Caterina: "The Breeze And I (Andalucia)" (1955) [8] {-} <254>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G35oUvfqnsk
My love for you is too strong
We've been together for all too long
I've told my mother and father too
I'd give them both up before I lose you
#25) Warwick, Dee Dee: "Foolish Fool" (1969) [57] {14} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXbDrUn0IfE
Written by Ed Townsend.
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Tie-Breakers
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Tell me (tell me)
That you really love me (I love you)
Tell me you really need me
So I am sure
#T1) Honeycombs, The: "That's the Way" (1965) [-] {-} <->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUU1Lt0KCQg
Anne "Honey" Lantree, the group's drummer, died 12/23/18 at 75. She duets
on this one with the group's usual lead, Denis D'Ell. Although a #12 hit
in the UK, it failed to chart in the US.
I remember when the answers seemed so clear
We had never lived with doubt or tasted fear
It was easy then to tell truth from lies
Selling out from compromise
#T2) Monkees, The: "Shades Of Gray" (1967) [-] {-} <148>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCF1IatF8TU (Will-o-Bees, 1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ZxRjItD1o (Monkees, 1967)
Peter Tork died 2/21/19 at 77. This duet with Davy Jones, from their
"Headquarters" LP in 1967, was one of the few Monkees tracks that featured
Peter's vocals prominently. The song was written by Barry Mann &
Cynthia Weil, and was first recorded in late '66 by The Will-o-Bees.
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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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20.00 #02) Barry, Len: "1-2-3"
20.00 #06) 5th Dimension, The: "Up-Up And Away"
20.00 #17) Ronettes, The: "Be My Baby"
20.00 #18) Sinatra, Frank: "Strangers In The Night"
18.18 #04) Box Tops, The: "Cry Like A Baby"
16.36 #14) Miller, Roger: "Husbands And Wives"
16.09 #01) Anka, Paul - Geo. Hamilton IV - Johnny Nash: "The Teen Commandments"
14.55 #08) Guitar, Bonnie: "Dark Moon"
14.55 #16) Presley, Elvis, with The Jordanaires: "Too Much"
14.55 #19) Starr, Edwin: "Agent Double-O-Soul"
12.73 #03) Berry, Chuck: "Anthony Boy"
12.73 #05) Drifters, The: "At The Club"
12.73 #12) Little Richard: "Miss Ann"
12.73 #T2) Monkees, The: "Shades Of Gray"
10.91 #11) James, Etta: "Something's Got A Hold On Me"
10.91 #23) Turner, Jesse Lee: "The Little Space Girl"
9.09 #20) Stuart, Chad, and Jeremy Clyde: "What Do You Want With Me"
9.09 #21) Tempo, Nino, & April Stevens: "I Can't Go On Livin' Baby ..."
9.09 #22) Thompson, Sue: "Have A Good Time"
9.09 #25) Warwick, Dee Dee: "Foolish Fool"
9.09 #T1) Honeycombs, The: "That's the Way"
7.27 #07) Gentry, Bobbie: "Okolona River Bottom Band"
7.27 #09) Heartbeats, The: "Everybody's Somebody's Fool"
7.27 #13) McGuire Sisters, The: "Just For Old Time's Sake"
7.27 #24) Valente, Caterina: "The Breeze And I (Andalucia)"
5.45 #10) Jackson, Wanda: "If I Cried Every Time You Hurt Me"
5.45 #15) Newbeats, The: "Shake Hands (And Come Out Crying)"
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Howard Teitelbaum <golq387@golq.org>