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Musical monday #71

I always enjoy Musical Mondays. It's nice getting comments on my blog, and rarely do I get more than I get for Musical Monday. What's also nice is that I get to switch off with and sometimes work with my friend Elie (Happy Pearl Harbor day yesterday, BTW). Of course when I work with him I find out that ideas that are uncertain have a way of becoming fully realized when he points me to the necessary resources or shares his knowledge of pop music. That is a lot of fun.

Anyway, here's the latest Musical Monday. This week it's a collaborative effort and I thank Elie for helping me dig out these lyrics. For an extra challenge, If the answer isn't in the title, give the relevant lyrics. In 17 and 19, there are lyrics in addition to the titles that are appropriate answers. For an additional challenge, let me know which pairs of songs provide the greatest contrasts. (I was thinking 11 is a pretty strong contrast to 10 or to 7; or that 5 and 13 are pretty diametrically opposed.)

Please check out Musical Monday 70 for last week's answers!

Anyway, you know the drill, here are the lyrics, identify the songs and the underlying theme.

1) "Gonna keep on dancing to the rock and roll"
2) "But everybody's kickin' sand"
3)"Like to tell you 'bout my baby"
4) "And somebody else's favorite song"
5) "Out by the gas fires of the refinery"
6) "Put away the books, we're out of school"
7) "T-t-t-teachers gonna show you"
8) "Huarachi sandals too"
9)"Our little boy is four years old and quite a little man"
10) "You made me feel alive, but something died I fear"
11) "Lock up your back door and run for your life"
12) "I pushed her away, I walked to the door"
13) "And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me"
14) "Put your pride on the shelf"
15) "(sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me)"
16) "Did I miss the long freeway?"
17) "Honey disconnect the phone"
18) "Be back before it melts in the pan"
19) "We were two kids and I was was into AM rock"
20) "Which one of us is right if we always fight"
21) "With their pipedreams in their heads and very little money in their hands"
22) "Treasure these few words 'till we're together"
23) "Quick sack, 12 pack, back again"
24) "Mama had a time tryin' to raise nine kids"
25) "'Hiya, Mr. Jackson'"
26) "Mrs. Johnson wore her miniskirt into the room"
27) "Style is timeless and fashion's only now"
28) "You're my flavour of the week"
29) "I'll tell anyone whose heart can comprehend"
30) "Leave the real one far behind"
31) "The Cokes are in the icebox"

Enjoy!

Congratulations to ral for guessing that the theme was "siblings." The first group were of groups who were real or fictional siblings. The second group were pairs of siblings who recorded separately. Yitz got the "Glimmer Twins" which was the way that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards referred to themselves as producers. The other Extra Credit was a song from the Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg album, "Twin sons of different mothers." The "Is this legal question" were songs by brothers in law Jakob Dylan (of the Wallflowers) and Peter Himmelman. (I'm kind of surprised that no one got .38 Special.)

1) and we fly just like birds of a feather
We are family - Sister Sledge
2) Swing-swing-swinging to the cabaret
Twisting by the pool - Dire Straits
3) Like a fool I start grinnin' 'cause my head starts spinnin'
This old heart of mine - Isley Brothers
4) your Gall Is Never Ending
We're not going to take it - Twisted Sister
5) Now I'm calling all citizens from all over the world
Catch me now I'm falling - The Kinks
6) Look at our life now, tattered and torn.
Hold me now - Thompson Twins
7) Some guy brought sadness into your happy world.
One bad apple - The Osmonds
8) He's double-dealin' with your best friend
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap - AC / DC
9) I fell in love with you before the second show
Superstar - The Carpenters
10) Cruisin' on thru the junction, I'm flyin' 'bout the speed of sound
Sweet Hitchhiker - Credence Clearwater Revival
11) Suddenly your sycophants, are chanting slogans at your door
Hero takes a fall - The Bangles
12) A grip so tight, I couldn't tear it apart
Fire - The Pointer Sisters
13) Well it's all right, everyday is Judgment Day
End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys
14) So I made my mind up and made a sandwich
Little Goodbyes - She-Daisy
15) Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one
Flowers on the wall - Statler Brothers
16) So let the wonder take you into space
Let your love flow - Bellamy Brothers
17) She told me, It can break your heart, and leave you in misery
Too late to turn back now - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
18) Everytime I find the nerve to say I'm leaving
Neither one of us - Gladys Knight and the Pips
19) There's a very strange vibration, piercin' me right to the core
Never can say Goodbye - The Jackson 5
20) she lost her home and her family and she won t be coming back
Long Train Running - The Doobie Brothers
21) Orange birds and river cousins dressed in green
Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson
22) We can make it shine, we can take forever
More than a woman - The Bee Gees
23) The gentle, sweet singin' of leaves in the wind
Crazy on you - Heart
24) Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much.
Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers

25) We could go walking through a windy park,
I'd really love to see you tonight - England Dan and John Ford Coley
26) July is dressed up and playing her tune
Summer Breeze - Seals and Croft

27) No need to ever ask me twice oh no
So caught up in you - .38 Special
28) I got six hundred miles to ride, To do one more show, oh no
What's your name? - Lynyrd Skynyrd

These next two sets are double-dipping, I suppose
29) Shadows falling , baby , we stand alone
Guilty - Barbara Streisand (and Barry Gibbs)
30) Make it shine, make it rain , baby I know my way
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibbs

31) You feel you're not wanted anywhere
Ben - Michael Jackson
32) Your best friend wrote and told me, You had teardrops in your eyes
Daddy's Home - Jermaine Jackson
33) When I was 17, I did what people told me
Control - Janet Jackson

34 ) But I learned somethin' from my blue eyed girl
Life's a dance - John Michael Montgomery
35) She wanted her a real cowboy
She couldn't change me - Montgomery Gentry

Are these two legal?
36) When you're crossing the ocean, I've got a boat to row
Mission of my soul - Peter Himmelman
37) I had my world strapped against my back
6th Avenue Heartbreak - Wallflowers

Extra Credit:
EC1) If I could stick my pen in my heart
It's only Rock n Roll (but I like it) - The Rolling Stones
(Produced by the "Glimmer Twins.")
EC2) I'd have thought you'd have the decency to come and tell the truth to me
Tell me to my face - Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg
(Album: Twin sons of different mothers)