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1. Hi Y'all ... let's grab some "Burgers And Fries" and play this quiz!
Who had a 1982 number one hit beginning with this line?
"Standing on a mountain looking down on a city
The way I feel is a dog-gone pity
Teardrops are fallin' down the mountainside
Many times I've been here, and many times I cried
We used to be so happy, when we were in love
High on a ______________" (no need to fill in, it's the song's title).
2. Over the years he's told us to "Talk To Me", "Stand By Me" and "Bring It On Home To Me".
He's also seen those "City Lights", that "Room Full Of Roses" and the "Window Up Above".
Can you name the singer of these number one hits?
3. Mel Tillis had a number one hit February of 1981, singing about what type of rain?
4. From the 1988 album "Diamonds & Dirt", it's conceivable he wrote this song for his then singer/songwriter wife (they sang the duet "It's Such A Small World")?
"The sun is coming up and I'm just going down
Everywhere I look the world keeps turning 'round
Though I said I never would be satisfied
Baby I lied, I couldn't leave you if I tried"
5. Realizing he couldn't "afford to feed a rich girl's appetite", who wound up "laying' by those (these) railroad tracks in Denver"?
"I still recall the morning that I met you
Standing out in front of Wilson's five and dime
Staring through the window at the jewelry
Hungry for the things you couldn't buy"
6. Here is the title track's chorus from the 1983 album by John ________" - can you choose the correct artist named John?
"And in my eyes
She just grows lovelier to me
And in my eyes
She's only aging gracefully
And a thousand strands of gray won't disguise
The woman she'll always be in my eyes"
7. Ricky Skaggs achieved number one status with each song listed below, but which song would the following verse be found?
"Well, who wouldn't notice the fire in your eyes
Or the bitter direction of impending goodbyes
I'm fallin', I'm folded, I'm welded in place
At the sight of you standin' with streaks down your face"
8. In this song, what exactly is Eddie Rabbitt's observation?
"I took a plane around the world
Trying to lose her memory
But every where that I touched down
I found it waiting there for me"
9. In 1975, he relayed a message to Hank Williams, Sr. through his song, "Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life". Then, four years later he recorded a song beginning like this ... who is the singer?
"After hundreds of lies, fake alibis
After too many times of playing, out all night
After too many women, too many times of actin' free
After all this time of cheatin', I've been cheatin' me"
10. "Don't Go To Strangers" for help on this question, "Darlene" knows the artist ... do you?
"Now baby don't worry, if he troubles your mind
It'll all wash away girl, in the river of time
If you need a shoulder, I'll be a-round
Be your rock to hold onto, till the river goes down"
11. Can you choose the correct words that begin this Ricky Van Shelton hit?
"_____________________"
Leave with my blessings
Once in a while, let me hear from you
If we never meet again, before my life is over
I'll leave this world loving you"
12. "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers", so he says. Then, a few years later, he co-wrote and recorded this number one ... can you name this highly credited singer/songwriter/guitarist?
"Well I've heard it said
The grass is always greener
We want what we can't have
Or so it seems
When I looked at you
The world never looked any sweeter
I go home to her
And see you in my dreams"
13. Here is the first verse to a number one hit by Gary Morris - do you know the title?
"8 AM, radio on, just for a little noise
Empty house, I just needed to hear
The sound of another voice
One more day
They're all runnin' together
One more day
They're all startin' to look the same"
14. Do you know who wrote America's most recognized patriotic song (released 1984), and had a number one hit beginning with this chorus?
"Oh it tears me up when you go all to pieces
Your cryin' eyes say you've been hurt enough
Tryin' hard don't always make it easy
'Cause hearts aren't made to break, they're made to love"
15. "Somebody's needin' somebody, the way I do
Somebody's wantin' somebody, they can hold on to
To be loved by somebody, that's the way it should be
Oh, there's got to be somebody, somewhere waitin' for me"
Who is this singer?
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