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Musical monday #111

Elie and I switch off hosting Musical Monday. Figure out the songs from the lyrics and then the theme. No Googling. Enjoy it! Check out Musical Monday #110 for last week's answers

1) Is the theater really dead?
2) If every time your heart is hurtin' you turn from me and walk away
3) How's life in the big city, I hear the competition's tough
4) And though my conversation doesnt always rhyme
5) As cold as ice, I hope we live to tell the tale
6) Now wai-a-ait a minute! I feel aaaaaaallllllright!
7) Well, work it on out, honey.
8) I hear the secrets that you keep
9) I've been listenin' to your dreams
10) Common labourer by night, by day highbrow
11) When every choice that I make is yours
12) I feel so foolish, I never noticed
13) Calls to mind a silver screen, And all those sad goodbyes.
14) Wine-colored days warmed by the sun
15) You even worry my pet
16) Shouted for a drink over a screaming guitar
17) In the dark, I like to read his mind
18) Is bounded by a world of dreams
19) You know Im' falling, falling, falling at your feet,
20) People in the park, playing games in the dark
21) The touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall
22) and here is the man who needs to know where you stand
23) Before I put on my makeup
24) I said "No, no, no, you're wrong"
25) There's a very strange vibration
26) Not even the chair
27) I'm so wired-up, don't need no coffee in my cup
28) He said, "Come on out and said what's on your mind"
29) I met a little boy named Billy Joe
30) She called and said that I had mail waiting there for me
31) Collects it to go from the seven eleven

UPDATE:
32) If that guy's got into your blood, go out and get him
33) Aren't we the same two people who live through years in the dark?
34) I was waiting for the operator on the line
35) he'll send you flowers and paint the town with another guy

UPDATE II:
36) it's like trying to catch a falling star
37) You're gonna take away my energy.
38) There are some things you cant cover up with lipstick and powder
I think these last two fit. If you don't think so, let me know.
39) Smile an ever lasting smile, a smile could bring you near to me.
40) Hey, girl, you'll drive me to ruin.

Next scheduled Musical Monday (#112) will be in two weeks at Elie's Expositions.

Here are the answers for Musical Monday 109. Though Benjie and Clayton figured out the idea, it was TRN who explicitly said that the first song had references to the other artists in the group. This was a variation on Musical Monday 2, which was a little more obvious.

1) There's a voice in my head that drives my heel
Radar Love - Golden Earring
2) People all around but I don't hear a sound, just the lonely beating of my heart
All alone am I - Brenda Lee

3) Workin on a mystery, goin wherever it leads
Runnin down a dream - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
4) Wishin' you were here by me, To end this misery
Runaway - Del Shannon

5) Elegance in eloquence - for sale or rent or hire
When Smokey Sings - ABC
6) She's just a substitute, you're the permanent one
Tracks of my Tears - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

7) I'm so wired-up, dDon't need no coffee in my cup
Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison
8) Well, look-a there, look-a there, look-a there, look-a there, ooh wee!
Rett Petite - Jackie Wilson

9) These two lanes will take us anywhere
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
10) Maybe tomorrow, a new romance, no more sorrow
Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison

11) I bet you're singing proud, oh, I bet you'll pull a crowd
Night Shift - The Commodores
12) Don't punish me with brutality
What's goin on? - Marvin Gaye
13) My pillows never dry off
Lonely Tear Drops - Jackie Wilson

14) There's a spotlight waiting
Rock n' Roll Heaven - Righteous Brothers
15) Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me.
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
16) But I'm gonna show you, baby, that a woman can be tough.
Piece of my Heart - Janis Joplin
17) Watching the ships roll in
Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
18) No time to wallow in the mire
Light my fire - The Doors
19) Sat a girl named Doris
Bad Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
20) And it shows them pearly white
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

21) Who's gonna play the Opry?
Who's gonna fill their shoes - George Jones
22) And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when,
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
23) A place where even squares can have a ball
Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard
24) I gotta go now gotta try to find a way to lose these memories of a love so warm and true
Hello Darlin' - Conway Twitty
25) Slander my name all over the place
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley
26) Well, I used to pull your pigtails
Little Sister - Elvis Presley
27) I chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
28) I stood alone in the cold gray dawn
The most beautiful girl - Charlie Rich

29) ... rhythmic blues
American Pie - Don McLean
30) All your hugs and kisses and your money too
That'll be the day - Buddy Holly and the Crickets
31) You shouldve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing.
Jaihouse Rock - Elvis Presley
32) You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
Like a rolling stone - Bob Dylan
33) You're such a lovely audience,
Sgt Pepper's lonely heart club band
34) And I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
35) Round the squares huddled in storms
8 Miles High - the Byrds
36) I pulled my mouth harp, out of my dirty red bandana
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

37) I heard he sang a good song
Killing me softly - Roberta Flack, Lori Lieberman
38) The spinning don't stop when you leave the cradle
Dreidel - Don McLean

39) Lady take me, high upon a hillside
Could it be magic - Barry Manilow
40) One more time for all the old times
Midnight Blue - Melissa Manchester

41) Play me a country song
Don't Rock the Jukebox - Alan Jackson
42) I see a red door
Paint it black - The Rolling Stones
43) Oh she left me without mercy
The Grand Tour - George Jones

44) Focusing on nowhere, investigating miles
The Seeker - The Who
45) Before they're forever banned?
Blowin' in the wind - Bob Dylan
46) They had to count them all
A day in the life - The Beatles

47) I try to contemplate the cosmos
Try to think about Elvis - Patty Loveless
48) Does your memory stray to a bright sunny day
Are you lonesome tonight? - Elvis Presley
49) I wanna be famous, a star of the screen
Drive my car - The Beatles
50) No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones

51) Mugwumps, high jumps
Creeque Alley - The Mamas and the Papas
52) I'll meet you tomorrow, sort of late at night
Do you believe in magic? - The Lovin' spoonful
53) magic swirling ship
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds

54) My daily dose of destiny, under my sign
I feel lucky - Mary Chapin Carpenter
55) I hollered, "I don't need you," ah but honey, that's a lie
Please, Please Baby - Dwight Yoakam
56) She said I've got a 40-gallon stetson hat
Cowboy Man - Lyle Lovett

57) little umbrella-shaded margaritas
How forever feels - Kenny Chesney
58) All of those tourists covered with oil
Margarittavill - Jimmy Buffett

59) I rather drive a truck
Garden Party - Ricky Nelson
60) Pushing barriers, planting seeds,
Mind Games - John Lennon
61) I met a Mr. Grief - and he said
Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison

62) And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
Empty Garden - Elton John
63) Above us only sky
Imagine - John Lennon

64) "Well, I made the big-time at last"
Shooting Star - Bad Company
65) Someone to love, somebody new.
Love me do - The Beatles

66) He's been writin' songs speakin' out against wealth and privilege
Gone Country - Alan Jackson
67) Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again

68) And the white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
Much too young (to feel this damn old) - Garth Brooks
69) You'd be better off to try and rope the wind,
Whatcha Gonna do with a Cowboy - Chris LeDoux