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October 27, 2008
Musical monday #65
Elie's been bugging me to put together a list of past themes and I haven't done it yet. I hope that he didn't do this one yet. I don't think so. You know the drill. No googling. Figure out the lyrics and the theme. Check out Elie's Musical Monday #64 for the complete solution!
1 I wanna wake up in a city that doesn't sleep
2 I'm taking a greyhound on the Hudson river line
3 To the left and to the right, buildings towering to the sky
4 ... have they given up and all gone home to bed
5 I learned a lot of lessons awful quick
6 Fly down to mexico
7 When you're sleeping on the 4th floor up
8 Voices leaking from a sad cafe
9 You'd rather see me paralyzed
10 They say there's always magic in the air
11 The Movie-Palace is now undone,
12 It only comes out when the moon is on the run
13 Hello lampost
14 Straight, straight through the heart of you
15 Up and down Park Avenue
16 And I nearly died from hospitality
17 Ya know the movement seems to soothe me
18 Asking only workman's wages
19 Can you tell me now, Before I'm leaving you
20 Not even the chair
21 This guy's the one that makes you feel so safe, so sane and so secure
22 Silence please, listen to the words I say
23 She made me stop and get ahold of myself
24 ... when you're short on your dough.
25 And he keeps his pockets full of spending loot
26 Baby when we touch, Love you so much
The guys who did #19 are better known for producing #5.
Good luck and happy guessing!
Here is the solution for Musical Monday #63
1) I got pictures, got candy
Vehicle - Ides of March
2) I can lock all my doors
Cars - Gary Numan
3) Wheels take the brunt. Pinion and a rack
Cars are Cars - Paul Simon
4) I wanna be famous, a star on the screen
Drive my car - Beatles
5) You told me we live in the shadows
Don't take my car out tonight - The Hooters
6) There's a wild man, wizard,
Taxi - Harry Chapin
7) With a pink hotel, a boutique
Big yellow taxi - Joni Mitchell
8) And I don't like Star Wars
Bicycle Race - Queen
9) We'll get matching jackets and helmets too.
Motorcycle Mama - Sailcat
10) That ain't my shadow on the wall
That ain't my truck - Rhett Aikens
11) Arrows of neon and flashing marquees
Truckin' - The Grateful Dead
12) From just one kiss I am inspired
Keep on Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks, Temptations
13) the major was a lady suffragette
Jet - Wings
14) I might get rich you know I might get busted
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
15) You're gonna hear electric music
Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
16) I tell you now, they don't mean a thing
Leaving on a Jet Plane - PP & M, John Denver
17) Zero hour nine a.m.
Rocket Man - Elton John
18) there's always been a quiet place to harbor you and me
Rock the boat - The Hues Corporation
19) And the gold and the cotton and pearls
Ship of fools - World Party
20) Smog will get you pretty soon.
Ship of fools - The Doors
21) I won't slave for beggars pay, likewise gold and jewels,
Ship of fools - The Grateful Dead
22) Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead!
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
23) Thinking of a sweet romance, beginning in a queue
Bus Stop - The Hollies
24) Every day I get in the queue
Magic Bus - The Who
25) Climb up in the loft sit and talk with the radio on
She thinks my tractor's sexy - Kenny Chesney
26) I put her out in a town that was so small
Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
27) So he pawned all his hopes and he even sold his old car
Midnight train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
28) Then you left me, said you felt trapped
Train in vain - The Clash
29) goodbye pretty mama, get yourself a money man
Train, train - Blackfoot
30) On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Magic carpet ride - Steppenwolf
31) Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of june
Convoy - C.W. McCall
32) Who's gonna plug their ears when you scream
Drive - The Cars
Congratulation to Clayton for getting the answer first. (I was thinking "vehicle" but "methods of transportation" would be accurate too!)
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1 - New York, New York - Frank Sinatra, and many others
2 - New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
10 - On Broadway - George Benson
13 - 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon and Garfunkel
15 - Puttin' On the Ritz - the 80s version by Taco is the one I'm most familiar with. Also by Peter Boyle as Frankenstein's monster in "Young Frankenstein".
16 - Couldn't Get it Right - Climax Blues Band
18 - The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel
20 - I Am, I Said - Neil Diamond
24 - YMCA - The Village People
25 - Boy From New York City - Manhattan Transfer
The theme must be songs about New York.
No, we didn't do this theme yet, though of course a few New York songs appeared in my "States" theme.
Clayton beat me to most of the ones I know off the bat. I'll think about a couple others that are familiar.
Posted by: Elie at October 27, 2008 10:15 AM5) "New York's Not My Home", Jewish Jim Croce
Posted by: Elie at October 27, 2008 10:56 AM9. Positively 4th Street--Dylan
Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at October 27, 2008 11:01 AM1.New York New York-Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli
2.New York State of Mind-Billy Joel
3.New York Groove-Ace Frehley
13.Feelin Groovy-Simon and Garfunkel
20.I know this is Neil Diamond but I can't recall the song.
16) Climax Blues Band, "Couldn't Get It Right"
Posted by: Elie at October 27, 2008 3:25 PM18.The Boxer-Simon and Garfunkel
A list of past themes would be great, Soccer Dad and Elie! I have had some ideas but have wondered whether they have already been done.
For this edition, the ones I recognized immediately -- 1, 2, and 13 -- have been identified.
I keep thinking now of the Ghostbusters song.
Does anyone else remember a Jewish parody of New York, New York called Boro Park?
Hahaha, Jewish Jim Croce.
My bonus lyric in #63, "Guess I'll set a course and go," was indeed Wooden Ships, as Elie identified, though I credit it to CSN, not CSNY.
Yitzchak and Clayton, what were your bonus songs?
Posted by: trn at October 27, 2008 4:45 PMCan I post a bonus song for today's theme? Don't think it is there:
27) "You're no tramp, but you're no lady"
Posted by: Elie at October 27, 2008 5:05 PMYitzchak and Clayton, what were your bonus songs?
Mine was "Supersonic Rocket Ship" by the Kinks (from about 1972).
A new bonus question could be to name all the Steely Dan songs with New York references.
Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at October 27, 2008 5:58 PMtrn: My bonus lyric for #63 ("Pulled out of San Pedro late one night") was Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.
Posted by: Clayton at October 27, 2008 6:20 PMI should point out that 21 - 26 are slightly different from 1 - 20 and that I probably should have switched 25 and 21.
And please try Elie's #27. When I first thought of this, I really had intended to include it. But when I got around to putting it together, somehow I forgot it.
Posted by: soccer dad at October 27, 2008 11:46 PMHere is a list of the guesses thus far, merged with the remaining clues:
1 - New York, New York - Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli, et al.
2 - New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
3 - New York Groove - Ace Frehley
4 ... have they given up and all gone home to bed
5 - New York's Not My Home - "Jewish Jim" Croce
6 Fly down to mexico
7 When you're sleeping on the 4th floor up
8 Voices leaking from a sad cafe
9 - Poitively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
10 - On Broadway - George Benson
11 The Movie-Palace is now undone,
12 It only comes out when the moon is on the run
13 - 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon and Garfunkel
14 Straight, straight through the heart of you
15 - Puttin' On the Ritz - Taco, Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle
16 - Couldn't Get it Right - Climax Blues Band
17 Ya know the movement seems to soothe me
18 - The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel
19 Can you tell me now, Before I'm leaving you
20 - I Am, I Said - Neil Diamond
21 This guy's the one that makes you feel so safe, so sane and so secure
22 Silence please, listen to the words I say
23 She made me stop and get ahold of myself
24 - YMCA - The Village People
25 - Boy From New York City - Manhattan Transfer
26 Baby when we touch, Love you so much
27) "You're no tramp, but you're no lady"
21.The group is the Brooklyn Bridge but I can't recall the name of the song.
Posted by: Laura at October 30, 2008 3:20 AMThanks for the answers to your bonuses, Yitzchak and Clayton.
Thanks for the updated list, Clayton.
So for 21 through 26, it is the group name rather than the title that expresses the theme, except for 25, which has the theme expressed in both title and artist, which is why Soccer Dad says 25 would have been better placed at 21, where it would have straddled both sub-groups.
We don't know to which group Elie's bonus, 27, belongs.
Are either Give My Regards to Broadway or Lullaby of Broadway in there? How about Bleeker Street?
Posted by: trn at October 31, 2008 3:54 PM6 - The Only Living Boy in New York - Simon and Garfunkel
Posted by: Clayton at November 8, 2008 2:06 PM8 - Bleeker Street - Simon and Garfunkel