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1. "Yeah, you should see my little sis"
From which 'dance craze' song did this line appear?
2. "You come on like a dream, peaches and cream.
Lips like strawberry wine.
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine."
AHA..."You're Sixteen"...Ringo Starr! Well, yes if this were a quiz about 1973 lyrics! Who first recorded the song in 1960 and had a #8 hit with it?
3. "Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina.
Wicked and evil while casting a spell.
My love was deep for this Mexican maiden.
I was in love, but in vain I could tell."
This was the first #1 song for the 1960's. It was?
4. "Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone.
Let's pretend that we're together all alone."
Name the song.
5. "Don't want your love anymore.
Don't want your kisses, that's for sure.
I die each time I hear this sound.
Here he comes, that's ___________."
Complete the lyric.
6. "Oh, I know that the music's fine like sparkling wine,
Go and have your fun.
Laugh and sing but while we're apart,
Don't give your heart to anyone."
Name the song.
7. "When I first saw you with your smile so tender.
My heart was captured, my soul surrendered.
I spent a lifetime waiting for the right time.
Now that you're near, the time is here at last."
The title of this #1?
8. "You used to be my honey, 'til you spent all my money.
No use for you to cry, I'll see you by and by."
The next line was?
9. "The tears I cried for you could fill an ocean.
But you don't care how many tears I cry.
And though you only lead me on and hurt me.
I couldn't bring myself to say goodbye."
Name the song.
10. "I don't claim to be an 'A' student, but I'm tryin' to be.
For maybe by being an 'A' student, baby, I can win your love for me."
This song was originally done in 1960. Who was the singer?
11. "There goes my baby, there goes my heart.
They're gone forever, so far apart.
But only the lonely know why I cry, only the lonely."
This was the first big hit for this star.
12. "I love every movement, there's nothing I would change.
She doesn't need improvement, she's much too nice to rearrange"
The song title and artist are?
13. "Now your daddy don't mind, and your mommy don't mind,
if we have another dance, yeah, just one more time."
The title of this #1 song?
14. A tricky one:
"You can shake an apple off an apple tree.
Shake-a, shake-a sugar,
But you'll never shake me"
The song was entitled?
15. "That fateful night the car was stalled upon the railroad track.
I pulled you out and we were safe, but you went running back."
The title of this "tear jerker"?
16. A little twist.
"Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92,
With George Pratt, his partner, and brother, Billy, too.
They crossed the Yukon River and found the bonanza gold.
Below that old white mountain just a little south-east of Nome."
The song was "North To Alaska", a #4 hit for Johnny Horton in 1960. They left Seattle, according to the lyric, in 1892. Later in the lyric it states "Yes, Sam McCord was a mighty man in the year of _____________. Fill in that blank!
17. "Please accept my apology, but love is blind and I was too blind to see." Who sang these apologetic words?
18. "My love for you is wider than the widest sea.
Longer than a memory, sweeter than a honey tree.
My love, oh oh, my love, mmm mmm, for you."
Do you recognize the title of this hit?
19. "Once there were valleys where rivers used to run.
Once there were blue skies with white clouds high above.
Once they were part of an everlasting love."
Name that song.
20. "Honey, you lied when you said you love me.
And I had no cause to doubt you.
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies.
Than to go on living without you."
The lines are spoken, not sung. It's a Presley song, his third and last #1 of the year. It rode the top of the charts for 6 weeks right to the calendar's end. Enough clues - name the song!
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