From: Howard Teitelbaum <golq466@golq.org>
Subject: Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz 466 (GOLQ466)
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Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2025 23:50:16 -0500 (EST)
GOLDEN OLDIES LYRICS QUIZ #466 (GOLQ466)
Welcome to the November edition! Roughly 2/3 of the songs honor musicians
or composers who passed away recently.
Another scary & fiendish Puzzler (sorry, writing this near Halloween!) by
Bob Bluestein is below the main quiz.
Enjoy!
-- Howard Teitelbaum <golq466@golq.org>
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Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz #466
Recordings #01-25 were from 1955 through 1968
Due 5:00 PM EST (GMT-5) on Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025
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It's so easy to be smart
With somebody else's heart
But I don't know how to start forgetting you
What can I do?
#01)
I love the way you soften my life with your love
Your precious love, uh-huh, oh
#02)
Because a friend would never doubt you
Or ever put you uptight
#03)
And I'm still searchin'
I'll find you someday
And you'll be looking
Like the Sunday we met
#04)
Will she stay
Close beside me
All the way?
#05)
I've dated so many chicks
But I still get my kicks
From the girl I love best
Better than all the re-e-e-est
#06)
'Cause I want (yeah, yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah, yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah, yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah, yeah, yeah)
#07)
I didn't mean to start it
Ooh, I wish it was all just a dream
#08)
Then you start walkin' toward me and my cool comes all undone
If I could get my feet to move, I'd turn around and run
My pulse is beatin' faster
And I'm headin' for disaster
#09)
Nothin' seems to be the same old way
Think about the love that burns within my heart for you
#10)
Just kiss me, dear
And hold me tight
For you know
This is not our last night
#11)
I gave you my heart
You gave me hurt (gave me hurt)
I gave you sugar
You gave me dirt (gave me dirt)
#12)
Won't you forget?
Won't you forgive?
Don't let us say goodbye
#13)
Oh, well I met a little girl about a week ago
And I felt that I ought to let her know
That since then my heart has broke a string
#14)
Tell all the sand and every blade of grass
Please tell the wind to let my love pass
#15)
I wanna dance until the darkest heavens turn gray
Until the dawn strolls in with the day
Then I'll say
Don't let the band get away
#16)
Remember, I remember all that you said
Told me love was too plebeian
Told me you were through with me and
Now you say you love me
#17)
You once thought of me
As a white knight on his steed
Now you know how happy I can be
#18)
My world is spinning around
Everything is lost that I found
#19)
I got perpetual-motion movement
High-speed gears and I won't cost a cent
The nicest thing you've ever seen
#20)
I look for my baby
But he ain't in view
I'm looking like crazy
What else could I do?
#21)
I don't wanna be your tiger
'Cause tigers play too rough
I don't wanna be your lion
'Cause lions ain't the kind you love enough
#22)
So just to see that you don't get chased
I think I ought to walk with you for a way
#23)
Can't you read in between the lines?
Sometimes I'm talking
And it doesn't seem too clear
#24)
In a whirl, see a girl with a smile in her eyes
Never thought I'd be brought right down by her lies
#25)
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Tie-Breakers
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I got my swimcap and comb and my paperback book that I'm almost through
I got my lipstick and mirror and my suntan lotion and my camera too
I got my beach bag full of all the necessary items for a day in the sun
#T1)
Let our love be a flame, not an ember
Say it's me that you want to dismember
Blacken my eye
Set fire to my tie
#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.
R E G A L R E S P E C T
This puzzle is an acrostic. It contains a grid followed by 18 clues (a to
r) whose answers' letters are used to fill the grid's boxes. Following
the clues is the Clue Answers section, which contains 18 lines with slots
in which to put the 1-or-more-word answers' letters (skipping spaces and
punctuation). The number-letter combination under a slot indicates the
row and column of the grid box in which that slot's answer letter should
be placed. The letter (a to r) occupying each grid box at the start
indicates which clue that box's answer letter comes from.
Once the grid is filled in, the remainder of the quote below will be
revealed, and the royal "huge influence" alluded to in the quote should
become obvious. The answer letters of one of the grid's columns will
rearrange to spell the first name (no last name needed!) of the quote's
royal source. The realm these two people rule will be revealed in some
manner by the boxes 7B-7E-5E-5B-3B-3H-7H-7K-3K-3E-3N-7N-7Q-3Q-3T-7T-7W.
Should you solve this entire Puzzler, kudos on your accomplishment!
The letters of one column of the Clue Answers section will spell out
(ignoring spacing) "what that accomplishment is", and another column's
letters will spell out (ignoring spacing) "what you should be doing to
celebrate that feat".
The quote:
"He had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one
point and went into the secular, and he had this huge hit. ...
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
____________________________________________________________________
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W
Clues
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a) The Searchers' "________ Your Love Away"
b) Chuck Negron, Danny Hutton, and Cory Wells' group, whose name came
from an Aboriginal Australian term for a freezing evening
c) "Take Good Care Of Her" and "The Writing On The Wall" recording
artist ________
d) The melody to "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)" is
Amilcare Ponchielli's 19th century composition "Dance Of ________"
e) "'Cause I wear a silly grin / The moment you come ________"
f) "So sure of himself, his head in the air / My heart was breaking /
________ would it be? / You turned around and walked away with me"
g) Flip side of Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel"
h) Willie ________, known as "Big Mama", who had a #1 R&B hit in '53
i) The major musical triad E,G#,B and the minor musical triad E,G,B
are both ________
j) The Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend The ________"
k) "Taller than the tallest ________ / That's how it's got to feel /
Deeper than the deep blue sea is / That's how deep it goes"
l) The Beach Boys' 409 has four-speed ________ quad Positraction
m) "No more will my green sea go turn ________ blue / I could not
foresee this thing happening to you"
n) Mark Dinning's "Top Forty, News, ________ Sports"
o) The Buckinghams' "Laudy ________", cover of a '52 single
p) Words preceding "My Love", "My Destiny", and "My Sunshine"
q) Gene Chandler's "You ________ Lucky Punch"
r) Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "The Love I Saw ________ Was Just
A Mirage"
Clue Answers
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a) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
2E 8E 4N 1T 5J 3J 4F 3F 9J
b) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
6P 3T 6V 4B 1N 2W 8R 4V 2D 5R 9H 5D 3I
c) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
6U 8H 6E 1D 4D 7L 4I 3K
d) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
8T 8K 5E 4R 7E 2R 1O 6K
e) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
3U 2V 8J 8V 4L 1R 7B 4A
f) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
6A 4W 3P 6T 9F 2Q 5N 2J
g) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
6Q 4T 8S 5Q 1M 7N 5H 4O
h) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
3B 2K 8L 6H 9C 5M 1V 8G 7F 3Q 7M
i) __ __ __ __ __ __ __
1B 8N 5K 7H 4J 7U 2T
j) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
8W 2G 5S 9I 4Q 7J 1K 7D 2U 5C 6D 3W 2L
k) __ __ __ __ __ __
9B 4S 7T 5O 9G 1Q
l) __ __ __ __
3O 7I 8O 1L
m) __ __ __ __ __ __ __
1E 6F 3C 4E 6N 9D 3M
n) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
3S 6R 9K 5U 2I 1U 8P 8C 3G 7P
o) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
1H 4M 5G 1S 7S 3V 3N 8F 2M 9L
p) __ __ __ __ __ __
2P 6I 4U 2C 8D 6B
q) __ __ __ __ __ __
6L 5T 1C 4G 7A 7Q
r) __ __ __ __ __
4K 7R 1I 6M 5I
Enjoy!
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