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1. A song from back in 1959 told about a dying young cowpoke who was thinking back to better times as he sang:
"Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl
Night-time would find me in Rosa's cantina
Music would play and Felina would whirl"
But things got out of hand and he killed a man who was drinking with Felina. He hightailed it out of there, but felt the need to go back. A good idea? Not so much. Upon getting bushwhacked on his return, his final thoughts reveal "I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle
I feel the bullet go deep in my chest
From out of nowhere Felina has found me
Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side
Cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for
One little kiss and Felina, good-bye"
What Country Music Hall of Fame singer-song-writer took "El Paso" to Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart?
2. As a young lady I was fortunate to have a great boyfriend, but that didn't stop other guys from hitting on me. One day while I was out Jimmy called looking for a date, then a few days later I got a buzz from Bill who wanted to take me to the movies. Then, "Joey asked me for a date, he wanted to take me out to skate.
But I told Joey, he would have to make 'rangements with Norman.
Norman is my only love, Norman's all I'm thinking of,
Norman gives me all his lovin', kissin', huggin', lovey-dovin'.
Norman, ooh, ooh, ooh
Norman, hmm, hmm, hmm
Norman, Norman, my love"
Who was the lucky-in-love lass that took "Norman" to the number three spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart?
3. "In the Still of the Night" was one of the first doo-wop ballads of the Rock & Roll era.
The song was recorded in the basement of a Connecticut church in 1956 by a group led by the man who wrote the song, and was the group's lead singer, Fred Parris. Abetted by its inclusion in the score of the1987 movie "Dirty Dancing", it has sold over ten million copies.
Can you name the group?
4. Some people claim that age doesn't really matter when you meet that special someone. Woody Allen and Elizabeth Taylor both took spouses who were more than 25 years their juniors, and Hugh Hefner was 60 years older than Crystal Harris when they tied the knot. Unfortunately, not everyone feels that way. Case in point: In 1958 we heard about a young girl smitten with an older boy. The name of the song was "Born Too Late".
Can you name the group who told us about this unrequited love?
5. Folks, here's a story about "Minnie the Moocher", she was a red-hot hoochie-koocher. OK, this one goes back to even before I was born, but it has remained legendary for over 80 years. It was one of the early great "scat" style tunes, a format later made famous by Ella Fitzgerald.
Can you name the singer- songwriter, bandleader, also known as "The Hie-De-Ho-Man" who introduced the world to "Minnie the Moocher"?
6. Remember the idiom, "lucky at love, unlucky at cards"? Well, the young lady who sang "Wheel of Fortune", couldn't care less about canasta, she was too busy hoping for a bit of good luck in finding the man of her dreams. Feel free to sing along with these lyrics:
"While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning
I'll not dream of winning fortune or even fame
While the wheel is turning, turning, turning
I'll be yearning, yearning for love's precious flame
Oh, wheel of fortune, I'm hoping somehow
If you ever smile on me, please, let it be now".
Do you think you're lucky enough to identify the singer who took "Wheel of Fortune" to number one in 1952?
7. "Once I had a secret love, that lived inside the heart of me. All too soon, my secret love, became impatient to be free".(OH, NO!). But, not to worry, I had a little chat with a friendly star, and things are looking so much better, that "now I shout it from the highest hills, even told the golden daffodils.
At last my heart's an open door, and my secret love's no secret anymore".
Who was the cute-as-a-button, girl next door singer-actress who had a number one hit with "Secret Love" in 1954?
8. No other time makes a young lady feel as though she's walking on air quite as much as on the day she's going to church to swap vows with her husband to be. Such were the sentiments expressed in "Chapel of Love" (1964). C'mon and croon along with these lyrics:
"Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married
Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get married
Gee, I really love you and we're gonna get married
Goin' to the chapel of love.
Spring is here, the sky is blue, whoa oh oh
Birds all sing as if they knew
Today's the day we'll say, "I do"
And we'll never be lonely anymore.
Now, can you remember who took us to the "Chapel of Love"?
9. "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
If you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there".
And thus began this paean to the California "summer of love" life style/movement of the 1960s. "San Francisco" (1967) was a big hit for a singer-songwriter born with the moniker, Phillip Wallach Blondheim.
By what professional name do we know the singer of this beautiful, emotional ballad?
10. "Chantilly Lace" (1958) is a song that evokes both pleasant and sad memories. Pleasant because of its idiosyncratically styled recording which reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and sad because of the early, tragic death of the artist who sang it. While he didn't record many songs, this one was a whopper for The Big Bopper.
As you may suspect, that was not his birth name, do you know what was?
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