From: Rich Ardini <golq465@golq.org>
Subject: Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz 465 (GOLQ465)
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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 19:51:27 -0400 (EDT)
GOLDEN OLDIES LYRICS QUIZ #465 (GOLQ465)
Welcome to GOLQ465, the first quiz of my Final World Tour as a quizmaster.
I take note of two GOLQ anniversaries.
- 70 years ago, in November 1955, the first Top 100 was published by Billboard,
in addition to their existing minor charts like Sales, Radio Airplay, Jukebox.
The Top 100 would eventually morph into the Hot 100 chart in 1958.
- And 35 years ago, in September 1990, GOLQ #1 was published. Twelve entries
were received.
So today, by my account, the GOLQ is about half as old as the musical era
that makes up its quizzes.
Right now, there are GOLQ artists still active in the business. Some famous,
some obscure, some well past their sell-by date. Sadly, some artists did not
survive until GOLQ #1 and thus missed their tribute that a fellow QM provides
in his quizzes. And for some that did, they were recording or touring up to
their final day. These are all hints to the very broad theme that connects all
27 songs. And this quiz will be in the spirit of the early quizzes, which should
make this a relatively easy quiz. One of the tie-breakers was written by a major
GOLQ artist after an event in the 1960s, but not recorded until 2020.
And once again, Bob Bluestein has contributed a puzzler for your amusement
and enjoyment.
Good luck and enjoy!
Rich Ardini <golq465@golq.org>
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Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz
Recordings #01-25 were from 1955 through 1969
Due 5:00 P.M. EDT (GMT-4) on Friday, October 31, 2025
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I'm so young and you're so old
#01)
A-there's a strong West wind a-blowin'
And there's a big blue moon above
And pretty baby, I'll be knowin'
You need some heart-warming love
#02)
Well we can make it to the road in a homemade boat
For that the only thing we've got left that'll float
It's already over all the wheat and oats
#03)
Come on everybody, clap your hands
Ah, you're looking good
I'm gonna sing my song, it won't take long
#04)
See how the fluffy clouds move by us
(See how the clouds move by)
See how the morning mist can hide us away (hide us away)
And how the day is so much fun
#05)
I won't forget all those things
You have told to me
Pains in my heart
Won't let me forget your love
#06)
All through this long and sleepless night
I hear my neighbors talking (she don't love him)
Saying that out of my life
Into another's arms, you'll soon be walking
#07)
It seems a common sight
But people passing by, don't know the reason why
How could they know just what this message means?
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
#08)
He passed me at Doheny, then I started to swerve
But I pulled her out and there we were at
#09)
I bet you're wondering how I knew
#10)
You can say, you've been making out okay
She's in love, don't stand in her way
#11)
You've been knocking on my front door
And I know just what you're looking for, but
Even though you really look so fine
And we could have a good time, I'm gonna
#12)
I still remember
When I used to be nine years old, yeah, yeah
How I was all for you from the bottom of my soul
#13)
I'll love you 'til the bluebells forget to bloom
I'll love you 'til the clover has lost its perfume
I'll love you 'til the poets run out of rhyme
#14)
I see a yellow man, a brown man
A white man, a red man
Lookin' for Uncle Sam
To give you a helpin' hand
#15)
Going down the old mine with a transistor radio
#16)
Picture show, second balcony
Was the place we'd meet, second seat, go dutch treat
#17)
Over and over, my friend says I'm a fool
But over and over, I'll be a fool for you
#18)
I could not foresee this thing happening to you
#19)
Little girl, he's never dreaming of you
He'll break your heart, you wait and see
#20)
You play the same love song
It's the tenth time you've heard it
That's the beginning
Just one of the clues
You've had your first lesson
#21)
Frustrated women (I mean they're frustrated)
Have to be in by 12 o'clock (oh, that's a shame)
#22)
Mornin', mornin' glory
If you'd like to know where was I last night
Well, I saw a girl with a boy in her eyes
And she's so outta sight
#23)
If you found another guy who
Satisfies you more than I do
#24)
Dizzy in the head and I'm feeling blue
Things you'll say, well. maybe they're true
I'm getting' funny dreams again and again
I know what it means, but
#25)
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Tie-Breakers
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We traveled this land back in nineteen sixty-two
We played the places that were home to me and you
We drove to Memphis, we rocked a set
....
You were a star when you were standing on a stage
When I look back on it, I feel a burning rage
You sang "You Send Me", I sang "I Wonder Why"
I still wonder, you were way too young to die
#T1)
Well Mack the Finger said to Louie the King
I got forty red, white and blue shoe strings
And a thousand telephones that don't ring
Do you know where I can get rid of these things
#T2)
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PUZZLER
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Submission of an entry for this section is optional. Your participation
or performance has no bearing whatsoever on your quiz score or ranking.
Please note that the diagram below has been designed to be printed using
a fixed-width font such as Courier. Copying and pasting the diagram into
its own document may prove useful in getting it to fit on a single printed
page.
N O T O W N L I K E M O T O W N
This puzzle is an acrostic. It contains a grid followed by 23 clues (A to
W) whose answers' letters are used to fill the grid's boxes. Following
the clues is the Clue Answers section, which contains 23 lines with slots
in which to put the answers' letters. The number under a slot indicates
where its letter should be placed in the grid.
The quote in the grid is an excerpt from a speech by Richard Pryor in the
1983 TV special "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" describing as a
fairy tale Berry Gordy Jr.'s path to founding Motown Records. Irregular
spacing between words should be ignored.
Once the grid is filled in, each of four of its columns will contain letters
that rearrange (when spaces are added appropriately) to form a relevant
phrase of one or more words. The following are clues to these four phrases:
1) Title of the first single released on Motown's original record label,
Tamla
2) First Motown female solo artist to have a #1 single on Billboard's
pop chart
3) First name of Berry Gordy Jr.'s sister who married Marvin Gaye
4) Short-lived record label founded by members of the Gordy family a few
months after Tamla, notable for issuing the first national Motown hit,
Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)"
Once the Clue Answers section is filled in, each of two of its columns will
contain letters that spell out (when spaces and punctuation are added
appropriately) a relevant phrase of one or more words. The following are
clues to these two phrases:
1) A Motown nickname
2) The last name of a Motown executive
The combination 37-53-73-75-85-98-94-72-46-44-32-12-30-64-73-97 will
reveal a group that is responsible for more than two dozen top 10 pop
songs in the '60s.
Finally, the combination 67-58-50-16-37-40-49-61-65-78-88-89 will reveal
the name of a group that appeared on more U.S. #1 pop singles in the '60s
than The Beatles.
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Clues
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A) Language of the two non-English words in the three-word title of a '69
Stevie Wonder hit
B) Martha & the Vandellas' "Nowhere To ________"
C) The Temptations' ninth studio album, "Cloud ________"
D) Gladys Knight & the Pips' "Didn't You ________ (You'd Have To Cry
Sometime)"
E) Configuration of The Velvelettes after Betty Kelley left to join Martha
& the Vandellas
F) "I got five more miles to go now / Over the hill just around the
________ / Huh, although my feet are tired I can't lose my stride"
G) Fourth word of the 5-word title of a song mentioning Mary and Flo
H) "I'm tellin' you the natural facts / 'Cause findin' a good man, girls,
is like findin' a needle in a haystack / What ________ I say, girls?"
I) Martha & the Vandellas' "Heat ________"
J) David Ruffin's "My Whole World ________ (The Moment You Left Me)"
K) "But if you feel like lovin' me / If you got the ________ / I second
that emotion"
L) "I'm Still A Struggling Man", by Edwin ________
M) Last name of brothers O'Kelly, Ronald, and Rudolph
N) Four Tops' "Reach ________ I'll Be There"
O) Motown single "Here Comes The Judge", by Shorty ________
P) "When I became of age my mother called me to her side / She said,
________, you're growing up now, pretty soon you'll take a bride"
Q) Non-Motown single "Here Comes The Judge", by ________ Markham
R) Autry DeWalt II ________ Jr. Walker
S) Each member of the group who originally recorded "Do You Love Me"
T) Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers' "Does Your ________ Know About Me"
U) Kim who sang duets with Marvin Gaye
V) Last name of the first white British artist signed by Motown (an
artist who later signed with Elton John's Rocket Record Company)
or middle name of the actor who portrayed Diana Ross's character's
husband in Motown Productions' film "Lady Sings The Blues"
W) "And my number is Beechwood 4-5789 / You can call me up and have a
________ any old time"
Clue Answers
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A) __ __ __ __ __ __
67 33 97 01 76 65
B) __ __ __
39 69 44
C) __ __ __ __
50 35 81 12
D) __ __ __ __
23 91 06 83
E) __ __ __ __ __ __ __
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F) __ __ __ __
37 03 70 20
G) __ __ __ __
15 74 22 103
H) __ __ __
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I) __ __ __ __
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J) __ __ __ __ __
43 27 64 59 86
K) __ __ __ __ __ __
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L) __ __ __ __ __
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M) __ __ __ __ __
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N) __ __ __
49 04 100
O) __ __ __ __
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P) __ __ __
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Q) __ __ __ __ __ __ __
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R) __ __ __
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S) __ __ __ __ __ __ __
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T) __ __ __ __
93 80 11 75
U) __ __ __ __ __ __
42 38 29 61 68 14
V) __ __ __
30 78 66
W) __ __ __ __
71 28 48 102
Enjoy!
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