PUZZLES - CRYPTIC CLUES AND ANSWERS

[plaques]

You are right Wendy Roy Orbison but I had to look it up. Put it down to old age or just trying to be too clever.
I like this version especially the pretty woman. Pretty woman

[Wendyf]

8. Sunny Afternoon the Kinks!!

[plaques]

Last year left us with one song title in limbo.
2 And embellished with a curious tattoo. A little clue was the comment about nuns. The final result of 19 out of 20 was fantastic so why am I making a mountain out of this one. Because he's a YORKSHIRE MAN (sadly no longer with us). So do the right thing and keep his memory going.

[chinatyke]

I had to look it up so I've cheated! Starting the year as I intend to go on?

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Jake Thackray - Sister Josephine

[plaques]

Thank you China. I had to look it up so I've cheated! Starting the year as I intend to go on? Is that cheating or doing the right thing?
Sister Josephine

[Wendyf]

Of course it is, I should have known! So familiar and obvious now someone else has said it!!

[plaques]

Your next musical quiz. Same rules as before 'No Prizes' Perhaps the early rises could use the spoiler marker (the triangle with the apostrophe inside it) , all adds to the fun.
The quiz is based on the first lines of songs, some old, some new, some easy, some perhaps impossible. Name the title of the song.

1) Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine
2) We got married in a fever Hotter than a peppered sprout
3) The sons of the Prophet were brave men and bold And quite unaccustomed to fear.
4) I love you But I gotta stay true My morals got me on my knees
5) Let's go girls, come on I'm going out tonight, I'm feelin' alright Gonna let it all hang out
6) They used to tell me I was building a dream And so I followed the mob
7) Midnight, one more night without sleeping Watching till the morning comes creeping
8) I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window I saw the flickering shadow of love on her blind
9) The tax man's taken all my dough And left me in my stately home
10) Oh he treats me with respect He says he loves me all the time
11) The old home town looks the same As I step down from the train
12) Every mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive He stood six-foot-six and weighed two-forty-five
13) Up the West End, that's the best end, where the night clubs thrive Down into a dive you go
14) And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain
15) It won't be easy, you'll think it strange When I try to explain how I feel
16) Never know how much I love you Never know how much I care
17) Well, no one told me about her The way she lied
18) Well I don't know why I came here tonight, I got the feeling that something ain't right,
19) Well, it's one for the money Two for the show
20) Mama, just killed a man Put a gun against his head
21) Are you gonna take me home tonight? Ah, down beside that red firelight
22) I work all night, I work all day, To pay the bills I have to pay
23) You keep saying you got something for me Something you call love but confess
24) Some people say a man is made outta mud A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
25) A long long time ago I can still remember how That music used to make me smile
26) One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock

[PanBiker]

A quick run through..

2.

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Jackson- Johnny Cash/June Carter

7.

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Green Door - Frankie Vaughn and others

8.

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Delilah - Tom Jones

9.

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Sunny Afternoon - Kinks

11.

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Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones

12.

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Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean

14.

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My Way - Frank Sinatra

15.

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Don't Cry for me Argentina- Elaine Page and others

16.

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Fever - Peggy Lee

17.

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She's Not There - Zombies

18.

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Stuck in the Middle with You - Stealers Wheel

19.

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Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins and that other bloke Elvis

20.

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Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

23.

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These Boots are Made for Walking - Nancy Sinatra

24.

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16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford

25.

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American Pie - Don McLean

26.

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Rock Around The Clock - Bill Hayley and the Comets

[Tripps]

1.

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Subterranean Homesick Blues. Bob Dylan

2.

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Jackson --Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood.

3.

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Abdul Abulbul Amir.

[plaques]

Fantastic start. all answers so far correct. Both PanBiker and Tripps correct on No2. and both got one each on what I would have thought would have lasted longer.

The outstanding ones are.

4) I love you But I gotta stay true My morals got me on my knees
5) Let's go girls, come on I'm going out tonight, I'm feelin' alright Gonna let it all hang out
6) They used to tell me I was building a dream And so I followed the mob
10) Oh he treats me with respect He says he loves me all the time
13) Up the West End, that's the best end, where the night clubs thrive
21) Are you gonna take me home tonight? Ah, down beside that red firelight
22) I work all night, I work all day, To pay the bills I have to pay

[chinatyke]

13) Up the West End, that's the best end, where the night clubs thrive

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Fanlight Fanny. I know George Formby sang it but I'm not sure if he was the original artist

22) I work all night, I work all day, To pay the bills I have to pay

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Money money money ABBA

[plaques]

Definitely showing our age. No 13. I think Formby was the first in the mid 1930s then Clinton Ford brought out some slightly modified versions in the 1960s. you can still listen to them on You Tube.

Some clues. 4,5 & 7 are painfully newish.
No. 6 a real oldie generally Bing
No 21 Not heard on radio, 'for more than obvious reasons', Queen and others.

[plaques]

The passing of Kenny Rogers, "You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille". made me think about songs where a name crops up in the lyrics that isn't used in the title. For this quiz all songs with a name in the title are void.. The above example would not be allowed. If a song has multiple of different names it only counts as one song.
Please use the spoil facility for your answers.
Got It? Lets go...

1) Say, don't you remember, they called me Al
2) His mama named him Tommy, but folks just called him yellow.
3) In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red.
4) With Marie who's waitin' for me there.
5) Music would play and Felina would whirl.
6)You talk like Marlene Dietrich.
7) Huggin and a'kissin with Fred,
8) Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl.
9) He's the man, the man with the Midas touch.
10) Now John at the bar is a friend of mine.
11) This is Major Tom to Ground Control.
12) Ah, well done Figaro!
13) The boy said, "my name's Johnny.
14) I told Mary about us, told her about our great sin.
15) Little Jimmy Brown was born.
16) But I ain't gonna feed you no more, oh play it on Sam, oh!
17) Billy Ray was the preacher's son.

[PanBiker]

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Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers

3:

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Big Iron - Marty Robbins

4:

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Amarillo - Tony Christie

5:

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El Passo - Marty Robbins

I do this one at Karaoke

6:

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Where Do You Go To My Lovely - Petr Sarstedt

7:

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7 Little Girls Sitting In the Back Seat - Avons

8:

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Copa Cabanna - Barry Manilow

9:

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Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey

10:

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Piano Man - Billy Joel

11:

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A Space Oddity - David Bowie

14:

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Devil Woman - Marty Robbins

15:

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When the Angelus was ringing or Three Bells or Les' Trois Cloche's - Various including Edith Piaff for the latter

17:

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Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

Thinking about the rest.....

[chinatyke]

13.

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Devil went down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band

Surprised you didn't spot that one, Ian!

[plaques]

Absolutely fantastic. I really had to rack my brains putting this together in fact I could think of any more that's why it stopped at No 17. if anyone knows of others please post them. I generally finish up my evenings listening to these old and not so old songs.

[Wendyf]

How about this not so old favourite of mine....

"Wendy, let me in, I want to be your friend"

[Marilyn]

Peter Pan?

[Wendyf]

Not Peter Pan, though I can see why you might think that!

[PanBiker]

How about this not so old favourite of mine....

"Wendy, let me in, I want to be your friend"

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That will be The Boss, Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run I reckon

No 13: Grrrrr

[Wendyf]

You are right of course Ian.

[plaques]

Didn't know that one Wendy. Must play more of Springsteen.

Here's a paraphrased one.

In Barnoldswick, Barnoldswick
The town that Boris couldn't shut down.

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In Chicago, Chicago
The town that Billy Sunday could not shut down

[plaques]

Don't ask me to explain what this puzzle is about. I've no answers but I've spotted one or two things. Something for those who have nothing better to do.

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[Big Kev]

I got a few, the Californian Merlot doesn't help with logical thinking...

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Missing you (U)
Downtown
Lucky break
He's beside himself
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First Aid
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Six feet below ground
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Tricycle
Reading between the lines
Crossroads
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Jack in the box
Growing economy
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Apple pie
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Standing ovation
I understand you undertake to undermine my undertaking

[Tripps]

Ive done the easy ones Now I've remebered they are called rebus puzzles - but i won't cheat

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1 Seven seas
2 Split level
3Can't give it away
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5Downtown

6Lucky break
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8 See through blouse
9 First aid
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11 Six feet underground
12 Backward glance
13 Tricycle
14
15 Crossroads

16 Over qualified (?)
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18 Just between you and me
19 One in a million
20 Broken promise

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22 Life begins at forty
23 Jack in the box
24 Growing economy
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26 Just round the corner
27Apple Pie
28 Making up for lost time
29 Standing ovation
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