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1. This novelty song was about a beast with an appetite for colorful humans.
2. This song was an unlikely hit in the US. Why? Because the original version was sung completely in Italian.
3. This song was by a group of three individuals, one of whom would return numerous times to the top forty, but as a producer and writer.
4. One of the first "teen death" songs to hit the charts, this sad tale tells the story of a stalled car, an oncoming train, and an evidently irreplacable class ring.
5. This song is by a poor guy who gets not a moment's peace at home, due to constant nagging by a particular family member.
6. This instrumental featured a hypnotic clarinet solo, just made for slow dancin' at the sock hop.
7. This song was the first ever Japanese import to make it to #1 in the States.
8. Here's another unlikely hit. In the midst of the British Invasion, with Beatlemania at it's height, a middle aged Canadian takes a spoken-word tale of the old west to #1. Can you name the "song"?
9. This novelty song featured a sound that was a throwback to the 1920's, in which the singer sang through a megaphone into the mike. It also contained those memorable lyrics "Oh vo-dee-oh-doe". Name the song.
10. This song, about small town gossip and hypocrisy, topped both the pop and country charts in 1968.
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