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1. You will forget it for a while, but when October 31 arrives you hear it everywhere. First recorded in 1962 by Bobby "Boris" Pickett, what is this 'scary' holiday classic?
2. No, not that Charlie Brown created by Charles Schulz, but the one The Coasters sang about in 1959. Which of these did that Charlie Brown NOT do according to the song?
3. Hate nonsense songs? OK, How about writing your own? Shirley Ellis with Lincoln Chase wrote a song in which you could supply your own lyrics. Name the song that goes like goes like this:
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(Blank) (Blank), bo-ba-(Blank)
Bo-na-na fan-na, fo-fa-(Blank)
Fee fi mo-may-(Blank)
(Blank)!
4. In the 1940s it was rare for a song to be on both the Rhythm and Blues charts and number one on Billboard's "Honor Roll of Hits". This song concerns a man slightly inebriated who has lost his key and can't get into his house. And his roommate won't answer the door. What is the roommate's name?
5. Parents with kids in the car at Christmas time are also trapped with Simon, Theodore, and Alvin. It can became a garbled song-along. Alvin makes it clear that he wants a hula-hoop but what do Simon and Theodore want?
6. Which came first, the newspaper comic "Alley Oop" or song "Alley Oop"?
7. The Andrews Sisters and Fats Waller both recorded in 1939 this song that had the famous line "I want some seafood Mama" but that was not the name of the song. What was it? (Justin Bieber had a hit with a different song but the same title)
8. King Tutankhamen lived over 3000 years ago but actor Steve Martin revived him in 1978 and sold a million records. What was the name of the song?
9. Bobby Darin took a bet that you could not write a song starting with 'splish splash'. "Splish Splash"(1958) tells the story of taking a bath, and finding out that there is a wild party going on in his apartment. Darin in the lyrics mentions three songs that were popular in that era. Which was NOT one of them?
10. Although not a song as such but more a recitation, it has been recorded many times. T. Texas Tyler (1948) and Tex Ritter (1950) were among the first. What is the recording where a soldier is chastised for playing cards in church?
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