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1. First, a country song, a 1993 hit for Dwight Yoakam: "I got heartaches in my pocket / I got echoes in my head / And all that I keep hearing / Are the cruel cruel things that you said." Name that tune!
2. Alright, how about current pop, and a 2008 hit for Tori Amos: "And if it seems / I'm floating in the darkness / Well, I can't believe that I would keep / Keep you from flying." Which song is this?
3. Back in 1935 Betty Boop sang a song called "No! No! a Thousand Times, No!!" But if you google the title and add "eric bogle," you find a song in 1982 by Bogle, sometimes referred to with the same title as Betty's, and sometimes as "Traditional Folksinger's Lament." So if the Betty Boop title is the answer, what is Eric Bogle's musical question?
4. At age 15 'way back in 1960, what made Kathy Young "Realize / You are the one love that I'll adore. / Tell me you love me / Tell me you're mine once more."?
5. A little off the beaten path on this one. We're going well past just one thousand to mention an album and single by metal band Disturbed from 2005 which became their second consecutive number 1 on the "Billboard" 200 in the US. Which title is it?
6. Let's do the big numbers one more time. As a matter of fact, let's go back to 1967 and the Rolling Stones' "Their Satanic Majesties Request" album. "Sun turnin' 'round with graceful motion / We're setting off with soft explosion." Which of these is it?
7. OK, Baby Boomers, this should be easy: Bobby Vee, 1963. "They say that you're a runaround lover / Though you say it isn't so..." Name that tune!
8. OK, our next title is "A Thousand Miles." But, there are also song titles listed as "1000 Miles." So whose version, released in 2002 and originally entitled "Interlude," includes these lyrics: "Making my way down town / Walking fast / Faces pass / And I'm home bound. // Staring blankly ahead / Just making my way / Making a way / Through the crowd."?
9. I first heard the Chad Mitchell Trio sing "The Great Historical Bum" in the early Sixties. Also known as "I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago," what is one achievement the singer does NOT brag about having done?
10. Alright, this is as contemporary as I can get compared with other questions in this quiz). Released in July of 2015, which of these song titles is by Alicia Keys?
"I'm telling you that life's too short to just throw it away
So have the time of your life, so have the time of your life"
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