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1. The incomparable Ella Fitzgerald recorded many songs composed by Cole Porter. In which of these songs does the voice suggest that its love can now be auctioned off, cuz it hasn't worked out so well the other way?
"Let the poets pipe of love In their childish way. I know every type of love better far than they. If you want the thrill of love, I've been through the mill of love. Old love, new love -- every love but true love."
2. Bob Dylan's 1969 album, "Nashville Skyline", contained a song in which we hear:
"Once I had mountains in the palm of my hand, and rivers that ran through every day. I must have been mad! I never knew what I had."
With 20/20 hindsight, what does the voice come to realize too late for salvaging a lost love?
3. The year 1969 also saw the release of an album called "Original Recordings" by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks. In this song, the voice sighs for the departed lover and yet figures out a consolation prize. From the hint in brackets, can you arrive at the correct song title?
"I think I finally learned my lesson: keep a good thing if you can. Keep your cool or she'll be on her way too, singing 'Happy Trails to You'. Then you'll find that you'll be just like me, singing to the [gentle zephyr wafting through the post-meridian hours]. Why oh why did she go and leave me? Now I do just as I please."
4. Anyone up for having it both ways? That seems to be Dionne Warwick's suggestion:
"Don't tell me what it's all about, cuz I've been there and I'm glad I'm out -- out of those chains, those chains that bind you. That is why I'm here to remind you -- what do you get when you fall in love? You only get lies and pain and sorrow. So for at least until tomorrow..."
What permanent-sounding vow does the voice make which is modified by that tricky little "tomorrow"?
5. Who can forget the haunting atmosphere of this song released by Roberta Flack in 1973?
"And so I came to see him, to listen for a while. And there he was, this young boy, a stranger to my eyes. I felt he'd found my letters and read each one out loud. I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words."
To put it another way, what was this musical young boy doing, according to the voice here?
6. One of Swedish supergroup ABBA's 1976 releases looked at the wearisome task of accepting that, when it comes to love, sometimes "best" means "least worst". Can you name the correct song title that would fit in each of these blanks?
"Memories, good days, bad days ... they'll be with me always. In these old familiar rooms, children would play. Now there's only emptiness -- nothing to say. _____, there is nothing we can do. _____, we just have to face it: this time we're through. Breaking up is never easy, I know, but I have to go. _____, it's the best I can do."
7. Not everyone is familiar with the band The Sons of Champlin, but their leader, Bill Champlin, co-wrote this song that Earth Wind & Fire released in 1979. Which EWF recording is it where the voice sorrowfully admits that sometimes love's ch-ch-ch-changes (thank you, David Bowie) are at bottom unfathomable?
"For a while, we paid no mind to the past. We knew love would last. Every night something right would invite us to begin the dance. Something happened along the way -- what used to be happy was sad. Something happened along the way ... and yesterday was all we had."
8. Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt united for a shatteringly beautiful duet, released in 1997. We have seen that in most of these "life after love" songs, the voice doesn't devote much verbiage to what will happen to the ex-significant other after the split. But what humble request is made after these forward-looking lyrics, which is also the song's title?
"When all our tears have reached the sea, a part of you will live in me, way down inside my heart. The days keep coming without fail. A new wind's gonna find your sail, and that's where your journey starts. You'll find better love, strong as it ever was, deep as a river runs, warm as the morning sun."
9. Who could have predicted that in 2002 the Dixie Chicks would have a hit with a song written by Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac in 1973? Here once again the voice waxes philosophical -- perhaps, like many of us, it sees no other choice.
"Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? Well, I've been afraid of changing, cuz I built my life around you. But time makes bolder, children get older ... I'm getting older too."
Clearly this voice is seeking more solid ground.
10. This one is out of the above chronological order, but I wanted to put it last because of its emphasis on the circularity of love's mysterious ways, a circularity sometimes visible, sometimes not. What was The Main Ingredient's incisive observation in their 1972 release where the voice describes the swirling dizziness before the fall?
"How can you help it when the music starts to play, and your ability to reason is swept away? Heaven on earth is all you see. You're out of touch with reality. And now you cry! But when you do ... next time around someone cries for you."
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