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1. Connie Stevens scored a #3 hit in 1960 with a song listing the reasons why she loved her beau. Here's a sampling:
"The way you comb your hair
Your freckled nose
The way you say you care
Your crazy clothes"
How many of these reasons does she enumerate, essentially the title of the song?
2. In 2004, a movie about Bobby Darin was released. Kevin Spacey wrote the script, directed the movie and took the lead Darin role. It was entitled "Beyond The Sea", also the title of a top ten hit for Darin in 1960. Four of the five verses of the song end with the same word. I'll give one two line segment, you supply that final word.
"Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again I'll go _________"
3. The Fendermen had a big #5 hit in 1960 with a rock-a-billy tune originally done in the 1920s by the great country legend Jimmie Rodgers. Here's a sample of the lyric.
"Well, good morning, Captain
Well, good morning to you
Do you need another _________
Down on your new mud run"
What job are they applying for that completes the lyric?
4. Jimmy Jones had two hits in 1960. His debut "Handy Man" charted at #2. His follow-up peaked at #3. In the latter, he draws an analogous comparison between David, Goliath's slayer, and Christopher Columbus. What trait or fortune did they share?
5. A #2 hit from 1960 featured these lines.
"Someone, help me, help me, help me please
Is the answer up above
How can I, how can I tell them
This is not a puppy love"
Another example of the insipid lyrics the singer of this song crafted on his way to amassing a fortune! An "Uglybird" favorite, who was this artist?
6. "The Old Lamplighter" was another old classic that was reborn in 1960 courtesy The Browns. In the lyric, the title character does things in certain ways. In this question, you are to identify the characterisation that does NOT appear in the lyric.
7. "Well, way down yonder in ________ in the land of dreamy scenes
There's a Garden of Eden, you know what I mean"
Freddy Cannon sang this #3 hit, a standard originally composed in 1922! Where is this Garden of Eden?
8. "The honey suckle is bloomin' on the honeysuckle vine
And love is bloomin' there all the time
Every Southern belle is a Mississippi queen
Down the Mississippi down in ___________"
Where was Gary U.S. Bonds singing about in this 1960 #6 rocker.
9. One of the more clever lyrical efforts of 1960 came from a Perry Como ditty. It deserved to chart higher than the #22 it achieved. This was the concept - the names of selected American States were sung in such a way to give them a "new" meaning. One example - "How did Wisconsin?" becomes "How did Wiscon sin?". The answer - "She stole a Nebraska" or, the way Como presented it, a "New-brass-key". It goes on, "Too bad Arkansas (Arkan-saw) and so did Tennessee (Tenne-see)". Does anyone remember the title of this novelty number?
10. Some WWII history courtesy of Johnny Horton.
"In May of nineteen forty-one the war had just begun
The Germans had the biggest ship that had the biggest guns"
What was the name of the ship?
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