From: Rich Ardini <golq475@golq.org>
Subject: Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz 475 (GOLQ475)
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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 20:42:11 -0400 (EDT)
GOLDEN OLDIES LYRICS QUIZ #475 (GOLQ475)
Welcome to GOLQ475. Due to unforeseen circumstances, there was a pause in the
GOLQ QuizMaster Retirement Tour. But now, before resuming the tour, the band
must first get back into shape. How many activities can we do that involve
moving the body?
There is a broad theme that connects all 27 radio-friendly songs, a theme
somewhat borrowed from a past quiz (and probably a few others). The quiz, as
before, includes a few lesser known songs that likely received more airplay in
the Boston area I grew up in than elsewhere. Neither tie-breaker is from the
Bubbling Under charts, but neither can be considered obscure.
And once again, Bob Bluestein has contributed a puzzler for your amusement and
enjoyment.
Good luck and enjoy!
Rich Ardini <golq475@golq.org>
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Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz #475
Recordings #01-25 were from 1955 through 1969
Due 5:00 P.M. EDT (GMT-4) on Monday, August 31, 2026
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I only stopped to look around
And as I walked along the thoroughfare
There was music playing everywhere
#01)
Said her boyfriend had a gun
Sorry, baby, but you have to run
But I was gone before she was done, I left my skin
Flew through the window as the door came tumblin' down
#02)
Today, we passed on the street
And you just walked on by
My heart just fell to my feet
And once again, I began to cry
#03)
When you see me walking down the street
When the fellas want to speak
On their faces, they wear a silly smirk
#04)
Cheat on your taxes, don't be a fool
Now what was that they said about a golden rule
Never mind the rules, just play to win
And hate your neighbor for the shade of his skin
#05)
Barefoot girl dancin' in the moonlight
#06)
But when you're walking down that street
And you ain't had enough to eat
#07)
That we were walkin'
And we were talkin'
The way-ay-ay
That lovers do-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oooh
#08)
Was it so bad, girl
Just think of what we had
I need you so (come on baby, come on baby)
Don't ever go (come on baby, come on baby)
You're gonna get lost feelin' so blue
#09)
I didn't mean to make you cry
Let's make amends
After all, we're more than friends
#10)
I saw her walkin' on down the line
#11)
And then, you guys
You're gonna have to tell her something, too
So, you walk up to that girl and you say
He, he buys you diamonds, bright sparkling diamonds
#12)
Walkin' though the park
It wasn't quite dark
There was a man sitting on a bench
#13)
You might have heard my footsteps
Echo softly in the distance through the canyons of your mind
I might have even called your name
As I ran searching after something to believe in
#14)
I'd look in your eyes and here's what I'd say
I don't want you, I don't need you
I don't love you anymore
And I'd walk out the door
#15)
Bobbies on bicycles, two by two
#16)
Sways with a wiggle, with a wiggle when she walks
Sways with a wiggle when she walks
#17)
He couldn't swim the ragin' river
'Cause the river was too wide
#18)
I'll be the weeping willow, drowning in my tears
And you can go swimming when you were here
And I'll be the rainbow after the tears are gone
Wrap you in my colors and keep you warm
#19)
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no no no no no
#20)
He follows me, to every town
And if he gets me, he'll bring me down
So we run, yeah we run, yeah we run
#21)
But I got a woman waiting for me
That's gonna make this trip worthwhile
You see she's got the kind of lovin' and a-kissin'
A-make a-man go stone wild
So I got to keep on walkin'
#22)
Knee deep in flowers, we'll stray
We'll keep the showers away
And if I kiss you in the garden, in the moonlight
Will you pardon me?
#23)
You may do a Rhumba or a Tango
Mambo, Calypso or a Strand
Lights are turned down low
Aah, you go hand in ...
#24)
Where there's hope for everyone
Where my poor, restless heart gotta run
#25)
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Tie-Breakers
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Sail the ship (bompa bom)
Chop the tree (bompa bom)
Skip the rope (bompa bom)
Look at me
#T1)
Something told me it was over
When I saw you and her talking
Something deep down in my soul said, cry girl
When I saw you and that girl walking out
#T2)
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PUZZLER
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.
This Puzzler's grid is a hexagon divided into 96 smallest-size ("unit")
triangles. Each unit triangle is to be filled with a letter. 33 of the
unit triangles have numbers in them. Each of these numbers refers to a
clue below (or, in the case of 6 numbers, two clues labelled a) and b)).
Each of the 39 clues' 1-or-more-word answers is to be entered in the grid
with its first letter occupying the unit triangle with that clue's number
in it. Succeeding letters are to be entered (with spaces omitted) in a
straight line heading either east, west, northeast, southeast, northwest,
or southwest in unit triangles side-abutting each other. For example, if
the answer to clue 28b) were "TUBA PLAYER" (it's not!), then "T" would go
in the unit triangle marked "28". The "R" would end up in either the unit
triangle marked "07" or the unit triangle directly above the one marked
"08". Your task is to use crossing entries to determine the direction in
which an answer should be entered.
When the grid is filled in, the letters in one of the hexagons composed of
six unit triangles will in some order spell out the answer to this final
clue:
The first name of someone in what was known in the music industry as
the "triangle marriage that worked"
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/\ /\ /\ /\ /\
/ \ /02\ / \ / \ /04\
/ \01/ \ / \ / \03/ \
/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
/ \ / \ / \ /06\ / \ /07\
/ \05/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \
/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \08/ \09/ \ / \ / \ / \
/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
/ \ / \ /11\ / \ /12\ / \ / \ / \
/ \ / \10/ \ / \ / \13/ \ / \ / \
/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\
\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /
\ /15\ /16\ / \ /18\ / \ / \ / \ /
\14/ \ / \17/ \ / \19/ \ / \20/ \21/
\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/
\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /
\ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /
\ / \ / \ / \22/ \ / \ / \23/
\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/
\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /
\ /24\ /26\ / \ / \ /29\ /
\ / \25/ \27/ \28/ \ / \30/
\/______\/______\/______\/______\/______\/
\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /
\ / \ /32\ /33\ / \ /
\ / \31/ \ / \ / \ /
\/______\/______\/______\/______\/
Clues
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01 a) "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", a #1 '64 single by ________ Mann
b) When she's rockin' and a-rollin', she can't hear her momma call
02 "Paper Roses", a '60 single by ________ Bryant
03 Last name of the titular character of a #1 '58 single that begins
"Throughout history there have been many songs written about the
eternal triangle"
04 In a song on Tom Lehrer's '65 album "That Was The Year That Was", "'In
German ________ Englisch I know how to count down / Und I'm learning
Chinese!' says Wernher von Braun"
05 "If morning's echo says we've ________ / Well, it was what I wanted now"
06 a) Neil Sedaka's first RCA Victor single, "The ________", in which he'd
"like to look into that little book"
b) Classics IV singer ________ Yost
07 "Little Arrows", a '68 single by ________ Lee
08 Ike & ________ Turner
09 "When the night has come / And the land is dark / And the moon is the
only light we'll see / ________ won't be afraid"
10 a) Each of Fred Parris, Ed Martin, Jim Freeman, and Al Denby was a
________
b) "Slow Walk", a '56 instrumental by ________ Austin
11 Kilmer who portrayed Jim Morrison in the '91 movie "The Doors"
12 "Triangle", a '61 single by Janie ________
13 "The wedding march was beginning when Jim appeared that day / With a cry
I ________ him, but they all heard Jim say, 'Go on with the wedding'"
14 "Leavin' On ________", the A-side of Patsy Cline's "Tra Le La Le La
Triangle"
15 Blackwell who wrote or co-wrote "Don't Be Cruel", "Handy Man", "Fever",
and "Breathless"
16 "Tweedlee Dee", a '55 single by ________ Baker and the Gliders
17 "Incense And Peppermints", a #1 '67 single by Strawberry ________ Clock
18 "Headin' down to the drugstore to get a soda ________ / Throw a nickel
in the jukebox, then we start to rock"
19 "(Today I ________) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry", a '63 single by Darlene
Love
20 a) Each member of Harold Melvin's group was a Blue ________
b) Bernard Webb, a ________ de plume
21 Brother of April Stevens
22 "And all at once it seems so nice / The folks are throwin' shoes and
rice / You hurry to a spot that's just a dot on the ________"
23 Henry Mancini and His Orchestra's '64 single "The ________ Theme", whose
instrumentation includes some background triangle
24 "________ that the number is far from being small / And I'll bet that
I'm the biggest fool of all"
25 "Tra La La La ________", a '63 single by Dean and Jean
26 "And what about your dad? / Did you think of what he'll say? / Will he
be understanding / Or does he think the ________ way?"
27 Last name of the artist who released the album "Hot Rats" in '69
28 a) Each member of Bill Haley's band was a ________
b) Dinah Shore's single "I Could Have Danced All Night", written by
lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and ________ Frederick Loewe
29 "Great Balls Of Fire", a '57 single labeled as by "Jerry Lee Lewis and
His ________ Piano"
30 "I'm livin', livin', livin' life / With all its ________ and downs /
I'm givin', givin', givin' love / And smilin' at the frowns"
31 "All ________ playin' in the bright, warm sun / Flippin' like a pancake,
poppin' like a cork / Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snork"
32 a) "You take ________ marked 'Lakewood Drive' / And you keep on ridin'
till you're out of the city"
b) "Look Through ________ Window", a '65 single by The Hollies
33 The Beatles' "White Album" cut "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except
Me ________"
Enjoy!