jon (06/10/82)
Here it is: the long-awaited quiz on song titles with men's names.
I am grateful to a number of people for help in composing the list of titles
(you guys can pat yourselves on the back every time you see a song you
suggested) but I take sole responsibility for the clues.
I'll post the answers in a few days.
(1) His father gave him this name, then split.
(2) He's the leader of the bestest band.
(3) He stands 6'2" and that's a gun in his pocket.
(4) This amazing frontiersman even patched the crack in the liberty bell.
(5) It's Grayson's fault that he's hanging his head.
(6) Now that I'm not a kid anymore, he's the most important thing for me.
(7) Everybody picks on him because he's a clown.
(8) My older brother is leaving on a jet plane. At least, it looks like him.
(9) Here's a dance for all you dreamers.
(10) Again, I say, such a syncopated name.
(11) An intrepid tiger hunter, he was protected by Captain Marvel and
his mother.
(12) It's fun to run up and down the stairs of this home for wayward children.
(13) He and Billy got into an argument over a dice game.
(14) It's been a little over a year since his suicide (he jumped off a bridge).
(15) His young wife can bake a cherry pie.
(16) If he's hopping, can Easter be far behind?
(17) My wife has had many husbands, but it never gave her the willies.
(18) Oh, when is he coming back, anyway?
(19) He killed with his hammer, bang, bang.
(20) His hammer killed him, Lord, Lord.
(21) They killed him, but he claims never to have died
(22) If you're down at the bottom of the mine, don't give him no lip.
(23) They were lovers, but he was no good.
(24) I don't go on dates with other fellows, 'cause I love him.
(25) This go-go country boy can play guitar well.
(26) You should be mad at me for breaking up with you.
(27) At that point in time, men will cheer and everyone will be gay.
(28) This message is for your ears only, you dear old man.
(29) He wears fancy gloves, dear.
(30) No hard feelings, but he's a very strange man.
(31) Leave! you have no money, you are no good.
(32) We got into trouble at the schoolyard, and wound up on the cover of
Newsweek.
(33) This enviable rich man shot himself.
(34) Another suicide, he took his life one starry evening.
(35) He jumped over the wall, and now the sheriff is chasing him.
(36) Not a drummer but a gunslinger. In any case there's a star above his name.
(37) This young boy from Dakota was shot by "Danny Boy".
(38) He wasn't one of the original eight, but he's the most famous of all,
remember?
(39) Everyone knows about him and me, because I wrote it in chalk on the
sidewalk.
(40) It's a bad day to go into the woods: too many surprises.
(41) November is a bad month to sail on Lake Superior (or so says Gordon
Lightfoot).
(42) It's great down by the levee, but why is it never here on time?
(43) He sailed his boat across the sea, where his girl was waiting for him.
(44) He calls his girlfriend "the ginchiest."
(45) Ray Stevens suggests you pop a few of these.
(47) Who was that masked Swiss archer, anyway?
(48) When we were introduced that Sunday, his name was Bill;
so what is that other guy doing in the title? (maybe he's just a spector.)jon (06/14/82)
Although the orginal quiz didn't say so, I'm interested in how well people do on my men's names song title quiz (uwvax.412). Send me your answers and I'll announce the best score. Jon Mauney uwvax!jon