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1. A group named Harper's Bizarre had a Number 13 Hot 100 hit, also Number 34 in the U.K., with a ditty perhaps more closely identified with its composer. Can you identify this delightful "Sunshine Pop" song?
"Slow down you move too fast
You got to make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobble stones
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy"
2. An unusual song, think psychedelic folk music with a calypso beat, peaked at Number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 but rose to Number Eight in the U.K. There wasn't much to the lyric but I can give you two different lines, and it should suffice for you to nail the title.
"The lock upon my garden gate's a snail, that's what it is" and
"Caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within"
3. A Number six song in 1967 by Every Mother's Son performed sufficiently well on the Hot 100 chart to finish as the 33rd ranked song of the year. It would be the only Top 40 song the group would have and by the end of 1968 they ceased to exist. Here's a few lines from the lyric that should serve as a good clue as to its title. What song was this?
"Fish all day, sleep all night
Father never lets her out of his sight
Soon I'm gonna have to get my knife and cut that rope"
4. Over the years, South Africa has been under-represented in terms of providing recording acts that have achieved significant success on the global stage. Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Michael Lubowitz, who would ultimately become known as Manfred Mann, were individual artists who immediately came to my mind. However, only one group seems to have etched a place in the record book for having a record chart on the Hot 100 during the 20th century. It happened in the spring of 1968 and the group was Four Jacks and a Jill. What song of theirs turned the trick?
5. Dance songs should have been passé by 1968 and certainly original dance songs pretty much were. However, a group named the Human Beinz revived an old Isley Brothers song and struck pay dirt with their cover version. Lyrically, it starts with the singer apparently repeating the word "no" 31 times (I couldn't count 'em that fast so I can't confirm it... but that's close enough among friends) before breaking into these lines;
"Nobody can do the Shing-a-ling, like I do
Nobody can do the Skate, like I do
Nobody can do the Boogaloo, like I do
Nobody can do the Philly, like I do"
What song was it that peaked at Number Eight on the Billboard Hot 100?
6. In 1966, The Mamas and the Papas released their first single off of their debut album and it went absolutely nowhere. A few months later in 1967, another group also made it their initial single release and this time, it was a reasonable Number 16 hit. What was that song featuring this lyric sample?
"You don't understand that a girl like me can love just one man
You've been gone a week, and I tried so hard
Not to be the cryin' kind
Not to be the girl you left behind"
7. "Yeah, I was just thirteen
You might say I was a musical proverbial knee-high
When I heard a coupla new sounding tunes on the tubes
And they blasted me sky-high"
These lines are from a tribute song of sorts to 1,352 anonymous individuals admired by the song's composer, one John Sebastian. It reached Number Eight on the Hot 100 in early 1967, also peaking at Number 26 on the U.K. Chart. Do you know it?
8. A group from Dallas named The Five Americans had one big Number five Hot 100 hit in 1967. In it they sing the phrase "dit-da-dit" about a million times but also have other lines among those "dit-dits". Here are a few of them.
"I love you is my message
Just three words and no more
If she won't let you deliver
Slip it underneath her door"
What song are we highlighting here?
9. During this wonderful era, we had strange songs by strange groups with strange names and darned if it didn't work... at least to some extent. A group from San Francisco named Sopwith Camel released a song that sounded very much like something The Lovin' Spoonful might have recorded. It only reached Number 26 on the Hot 100, Number Nine in Canada and as far as I can tell, went nowhere anywhere else. A toughie, to be sure, only aficionados of music from this era will probably remember this modest hit featuring these lines.
"Would you like some of my tangerine
I know I'll never treat you mean
Never knew how I'd meet you
Didn't know how to greet you
When I saw you look that way
I knew I had to say"
10. "Children behave
That's what they say when we're together
And watch how you play, they don't understand
And so we're running just as fast as we can,
Holdin' onto one another's hand"
This slice of lyric comes from a Number Four Hot 100 hit in 1967 and the 19th ranked song for the year. It was covered twenty years later and went Number One just about everywhere in the English speaking world (except for Australia)! What song are we talkin' about?
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