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Musical monday #85

A few months ago Gail posted about Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers of all time.
I actually have heard most of these. Warning: the last two are the remakes, not the originals. I actually heard them, I think, back to back. I actually saw the issue while waiting in a doctor's office and was surprised to see that Rolling Stone had Jackson Browne writing about John Lennon. Why would that strike me as odd? And why would something like this occur to me. Benjie and Elie can't answer, since I assume they already know the answers!

While we're on the topic of the Beatles. Did you know that Liverpool Hope University now offers a Master's Degree in the Beatles? I enjoy the Beatles as much as anyone, but come on, is their lore really significant enough to be a new academic discipline?

And with those bits of music trivia out of the way, let's go back to our regularly scheduled Musical Monday.

Anyway, as you know Elie and I switch of hosting Musical Monday. But due to my traveling, he did the previous two weeks and now we're back to our alternating weeks schedule!

1) Just touch me and my troubles all fade
2) A not so very ordinary girl or name.
3) I read your mind, with no intentions of being unkind
4) Do you wanna be free, are you ready for me?
5) I never thought that a girl like you could ever care for me
6) And we just can't find the sound
7) You don't have to be cool to rule my world
8) Never let them shoot us down
9) Somewhere there's a hole in a window-pane.
10) Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley
11) In geometric order
12) Those beautiful sailors journeyed to the south
13) Now you've got soup in the laundry bag
14) He's married to Mabel
15) The history book on the shelf
16) I'm at the car park, the airport
17) I've got a picture of your house, And you're standing by the door
18) I'd wash the sand off the shore
19) Burnin' hot but you don't feel the pain
20) You go out at night, eatin' cars
21) Moving through the doorway of a nation
22) 'Cause I know that I am strong, I don't need you anymore
23) No opiates, to send me into outer space
24) Oh no, I see, A spider web is tangled up with me,
25) Fortune can wear a disguise Pride is a grand illusion
26) When youre hot, you're cold, you're in between
27) Knock on doors and empty halls
28) And two slightly used cars causes such regrets
29) Time is seasoned with endless love, Memories never fade
30) Sittin' in a restaraunt and she walked by
31) ... imagine that, me working for you
32) Her weapons were her crystal eyes
And whoops, I can't believe that I forgot:
33) Lazy day in bed, Music in my head

I thank Elie for switching with me so I could go on vacation and handling Musical Mondays #83 and #84.

Muscial Monday #81 was, as TRN guessed, cheating songs. Why'd I do cheating songs? Well, Gail had a mental block about Billy Paul's name. She recognized "Me and Mrs. Jones" on several previous Musical Monday's, but not the singer. So I needed a MM to help jog her memory. It worked! Here are the clues and answers:
1) You'll cry and cry and try to sleep
Your cheatin' heart - Hank Williams
2) who's car is parked next door
Who's cheating who - Alan Jackson
3) Why does she get the best of you
Stay - Sugarland
4) Leaving me alone and hurt
Stop (in the name of love) - Diana Ross and the Supremes
5) 'bout your plans to make me blue
I heard it through the grapevine - Gladys Knight and the Pips, Marvin Gaye, CCR
6) You hit once, Then break away clean
The other woman - Ray Parker Jr.
7) Then somebody hangs up when you answer the phone
When you're in love with a beautiful woman - Dr. Hook
8) Saw your head turned a bit too far to the right now
Restless - The Bangles
9) But that look's all over you
Woman, Woman - Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
10) And I just happened to find your name and number...
Woman to Woman - Barbara Mandrell
11) With flaming locks of auburn hair
Jolene - Dolly Parton
12) Every form of refuge has a price
Lyin' eyes - The Eagles
13) Till her husband came clean with the help of Jim Beam
Let that pony run - Pam Tillis
14) Over the river where we weren't well-known
I'd rather have what we had - Lee Ann Womack,
15) Take a chance tonight and untie the knot
Little Rock - Reba McEntire
16) And I dare not drown my sorrows in the warm glow of your wine
Silver threads and golden needles - Linda Ronstadt et al.
17) Now I won't need no chains to tie me down
One man woman, one woman man - Paul Anka and Odia Coates
18) No one gets to get it for free
Him - Rupert Holmes
19) Your mama and daddy say it's a shame
If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right - Luther Ingram, Gladys Knight et al.
20) Cause she's got her own obligations and so, and so do I
Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
21) Maybe it's time that you earned
I can't stand it - Eric Clapton
22) Call up, ring once, hang up the phone
Part Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
23) But I was proud to go, And do my patriotic chore
Ruby don't take your love to town - Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
24) And that ain't too cool
Hey, Joe - Jimi Hendrix
25) I put 2 and 1 together and you know that's not an easy sum
Smoking Gun - Robert Cray Band
26) A room full of noise and dangerous boys
Victim of Love - The Eagles
27) Cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem
How long - Ace
28) So if you don't wanna cry like I do
Runaround Sue - Dion Belmont
29) A-leavin' me home with a hand full of bills
Why baby Why - George Jones
30) And the storm will wreck our home
The window up above - George Jones
31) You mustn't think you failed me
Torn between two lovers - Mary MacGregor
32) The Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal
I can see for miles - the Who
33) And he knows that she knows
The thunder rolls - Garth Brooks
34) I got up to wash my face
Cecelia - Simon and Garfunkel
35) Oh, what a birthday surprise,
It's my party - Lesley Gore
36) Why'd you slip around secretly
Angel in your arms - Hot
37) I've never called and checked your story
Wish I didn't know now (what I didn't know then) - Toby Keith
38) I've been listening to your dreams and getting very low
You've been talking in your sleep - Crystal Gayle
39) I bought a novel, some perfume
Tempted - Squeeze
40) tracks too small for Andy to make.
The night the lights went out in Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
41) I pour myself a drink somewhere.
She's actin' single (I'm drinkin' doubles)
42) Through these walls so thin
Shake me, Wake me (When it's over) - The Four Tops
43) Finally the waiter said, "Should I bring another chair."
Good as I was to you - Lorrie Morgan
44) I never see his face in the early morning light
Does he love you? - Reba McEntire with Linda Davis
45) And would you cry if I told you that I lied
Let it Ride - Backman Turner Overdrive
46) She said, "Home James" and he hit the gas
Dark Lady - Cher
47) Told me you were goin' out for a soda pop
Lipstick on your collar - Connie Francis
48)I just threw my last bottle at the jukebox
I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today - Moe Brandy
49) I've got to admit I do some looking too
She just started likin' cheatin' songs - Alan Jackson

Musical Monday #82 were the first videos played on MTV as RAL guessed, Alas I ruined the surprise for other participant because of poor editing! As you can see not all of them had readily available lyrics. Biggest surprise: Two songs by Lee Ritenour. Who?

1) They took the credit for your second symphony.
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by Buggles - MTV Video
2) I said, what are ya tryin' a do to my head?
"You Better Run" by Pat Benatar - MTV Video
3) Waiting for the band to play a faster tune
"She Won't Dance" by Rod Stewart - MTV Video
4) But I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T-Rex
"You Better You Bet" by The Who - MTV Video
5)
"Little Suzi's on the Up" by Ph.D. - MTV Video
6) Used to feel we could sail away,
"We Don't Talk Anymore" by Cliff Richard - MTV Video
7) Intention I feel inventive
"Brass in Pocket" by The Pretenders - MTV Video
8) Who'll provide what the diagnosis says you're needing
"Time Heals" by Todd Rundgren - MTV Video
9) Theyre talkin about you and its bringin me down (One I left out from MM #81)
"Take It On the Run" by REO Speedwagon - MTV Video
10) Let's stick together and futurize our attitudes
"Rockin' the Paradise" by Styx - MTV Video
11)
"When Things Go Wrong" by Robin Lane and the Chartbusters- MTV Video
12) I lie awake with great ideas
"History Never Repeats" by Split Enz - MTV Video
13) And usually it's too late when you, realize what you had
"Hold On Loosely" by 38 Special - MTV Video
14) The silence can be so unkind
"Just Between You and Me" by April Wine - [3]
15) I am flying, passing high clouds,
"Sailing" by Rod Stewart - MTV Video
16) Won't you come into my room, I wanna show you all my wares.
"Iron Maiden" by Iron Maiden - MTV Video
17) All coiled up and hissin'
"Keep On Loving You" by REO Speedwagon - MTV Video
18) We are all of us in the gutter
"Message of Love" by The Pretenders - MTV Video
19) Business cards, big cigars
"Mr. Briefcase" by Lee Ritenour - MTV Video
20) You take your backseat rumble (Another one that would have been good for MM #81)
"Double Life" by The Cars - MTV Video
21) if you told me you were drowning
"In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins - MTV Video
22) I'm worried that the caller might have awful news,
"Looking For Clues" by Robert Palmer - MTV Video
23)
"Too Late" by Shoes
24) Now you're keeping some demons down
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - MTV Video
25) Halloween without a pumpkin
"Surface Tension" by Rupert Hine
26) Stay in motion, keep an open mind
"One Step Ahead" by Split Enz
27) Another year and then you'll be happy
"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
28) You see yourself as some kind of lily of the valley
"I'm Gonna Follow You" by Pat Benatar
29) Down on Fourth Street, Hidden out in the night
"Savannah Nights" by Tom Johnston
30)
"Lucille" by Rockestra
31) And I'll take any risk to tie back the hands of time
"The Best of Times" by Styx - MTV Video
32) You throw your misdemeanors right up in my face
"Vengeance" by Carly Simon
33) I'm gonna find my man, gonna travel around.
"Wrathchild" by Iron Maiden
34) Another loser working in a shopping mall
"I Wanna Be a Lifeguard" by Blotto
35) Hear it in the churches (Another candidate for MM #81)
"Passion" by Rod Stewart - MTV Video
36) Only takes one itchy trigger
"Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello - MTV Video
37) And he drives off in a Mercedes Benz,
"Don't Let Him Go" by REO Speedwagon
38)
"Remote Control/Illegal" by The Silencers
39) Maybe the sun's light will be dim and it won't matter anyhow.
"Angel of the Morning" by Juice Newton
40) Like that old boll weevil (Another candidate for MM #81)
"Little Sister" by Rockpile with Robert Plant
41)
"Hold On to the Night" by Bootcamp
42) 5 o'clock still walking around
"Dreaming" by Cliff Richard
43) Someone's trying to find an easy way inside
"Is it You?" by Lee Ritenour
44) Why don't you ask him who's the latest on his throne?
"Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac - MTV Video
45) That he knows how to mystify
"He Can't Love You" by Michael Stanley Band
46) She's gonna call your bluff, guys.
"Tough Guys" by REO Speedwagon
47) Almost comatose
"Rapture" by Blondie - MTV Video
48) I lost all contact with my only saviour
"Don't Let Go the Coat" by The Who - MTV Video