From: Rich Ardini <golq448@golq.org> Subject: Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz 448 (GOLQ448) Sender: GOLQ Mailing List <list@golq.org> Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 01:24:44 -0400 (EDT) GOLDEN OLDIES LYRICS QUIZ #448 (GOLQ448) Welcome to GOLQ448. AM radio is heading towards extinction. This week, a government hearing was held to discuss keeping AM radio accessible in automobiles. For me and many others, it was AM radio that introduced me to the music and lyrics that has fueled the GOLQ for all these years. So while this quiz has no official theme, I consider all the regular songs as AM radio songs first. The tie-breakers are somewhat easy for this quiz. And once again, Bob Bluestein has contributed a puzzler for your amusement and enjoyment. Good luck and enjoy! Rich Ardini <golq448@golq.org> =============================================================================== Blindly searching for lyrics on the Internet is not in the spirit of the GOLQs, and we disapprove of this practice. 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Your participation or performance has no bearing whatsoever on your quiz score or ranking. This Puzzler works exactly like a Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz, except that it's a Golden Oldies Trivia Quiz, that is to say, the clues are statements about 27 recordings instead of portions of those recordings' lyrics. One of the tie-breakers is neither a single nor an album cut. There is no particular theme. However, there is a secret message within the Puzzler's answers, encoded as follows: 21-4,10-2,11-3,03-7,09-2,15-1,13-4,23-3,25-2,06-3,23-5,13-2,05-4,04-2,18-2, 03-2,09-4,04-6,01-7,11-5,01-5,06-2,17-7/22-2,24-4,16-2,18-5,02-3,12-1,07-3, 12-5,19-3,16-3,20-1,14-3,25-5,08-1 Happy decoding! Hit that ended The Beatles' run of 3 consecutive #1's ("I Want To Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", and "Can't Buy Me Love") on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, recorded by the oldest artist to top the Hot 100 in the '60s #01) '68 funk single backed by the T.S.U. Toronadoes that begins with the speaker proudly declaring that the band is from Houston, Texas #02) Recording in '61 that became the first jazz instrumental to sell a million copies #03) 45 reaching #63 in '66 whose lyrics contain the phrase "tuberous vegetable" #04) Recording of a Cole Porter song (sung as a duet by two Academy Award-winning actors) that reached #3 on the pop chart in '56 #05) Single (whose sole spoken words are the song's 3-word title) that reached #60 on the pop chart about a month before The Beach Boys' debut 45, "Surfin", and is often regarded as the first surf rock instrumental #06) Cover version reaching #5 in '61 in the U.S. whose title and lyrics were changed in the U.K. because "Spearmint" was a registered trademark there #07) '57 chart topper whose sung lyrics include the phrase "ooh la la" #08) Single that Billboard gave just one Hot 100 chart listing despite Atlantic Records' releasing over two dozen versions (all recorded by the same artist), each specific to a different geographical or metropolitan area by customizing its lyrics to name many of that area's high schools #09) U.S. top 10 hit whose lyrics contain the phrase "the dance of love", by the spouse of the artist who recorded #12 below #10) Recording taken to #23 in '62 whose title included an appended "avian" parenthetical phrase not present in Percy Sledge's '69 version, Elvis Presley's '69 version (the B-side of "In The Ghetto"), or Ronnie Milsap's '82 version #11) Chart-topping hit in the '60s that was the first to have a cover version repeat that feat in the '70s #12) #2 hit in '66 (by a British Invasion group named after a '63 U.K. film concerning brainwashing) that was covered and taken to #1 in 1988 by Phil Collins #13) Single with a title translating to "In the blue that is painted blue (To fly)" that was the first post-1954 non-English language recording to reach #1 #14) '69 recording that only reached #66 on the pop chart, but was covered and taken to #5 by guitarist Todd Rundgren in '73 #15) U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart topper (and pop chart #25 in '65) backed by The Buckaroos and inspired by the song's writer noticing an Esso gas station sign containing the company's slogan #16) '57 recording of a Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller song that was #21 on the American Film Institute's 2004 "Greatest Songs in American Movies" list #17) First post-1954 solo artist posthumous #1 single #18) Single that was the highest charting TV theme song of the '60s, recorded for the opening titles of the American broadcast of the British series "Danger Man" #19) '62 Billboard Hot 100 chart topper that provided the background music for a '67 Noxzema Shaving Cream commercial in which Swedish model Gunilla Knutsson purred, "Take it off ... take it all off" #20) '63 single containing the words "poison ivy" in the lyrics but not in the title #21) '68 recording of a song performed 31 years later in center field at Yankee Stadium a month after the death of "The Yankee Clipper" #22) Single reaching #6 in '68 whose sung lyrics include the phrase "et cetera" #23) '63 chart topper that was a cover of a '51 hit for Tony Bennett and was part of the soundtrack of a 1986 psychological film noir thriller named for the song #24) Alphabetically last Billboard top 100 pop single of the alphabetically last recording artist (solo or group) to have a Billboard top 100 pop single debuting between '55 and '69 inclusive #25) Single released in '65 as Capitol Records 5503 (though it did not chart), performed live by a 6'9" actor on the Halloween '65 edition of TV's "Shindig" #T1) Jingle that advertised Rice Krispies in Great Britain in '64, performed by a group just about to make its U.S. music chart debut with "Not Fade Away" #T2)