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1. Everyone enjoys the feelings that come with a nice, warm embrace and sometimes just the thought of sharing one can be enough to get us feeling happy.
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" was a lively song that first appeared in the 1937 film "On the Town" starring Dick Powell and Alice Faye.
Can you name the prolific composer who wrote this tune?
2. Who doesn't love summertime, when the living is easy? No school for the kids, vacations at the shore. OK, so TV is mostly re-runs, but you can't have everything. Nat King Cole reminded us of those good times when he sang about "Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer". The actual first line of the tune is "Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer". Can you complete the second line: "Those days of soda and pretzels and_______".
3. I fell in love with Anne Murray's voice the first time I heard her sing "Snowbird", which she recorded in 1970. "Snowbird" was written by Quebec native Gene MacLellan. It is considered one of Ms. Murray's signature songs.
Which of the following statements about it is NOT true?
(Please note, for space purposes I have shortened Hall of Fame to "H.O.F." below.)
4. Brrr! "Cold, Cold Heart" was written by legendary Country and Western singer-songwriter Hank Williams. He recorded it on the MGM label and it reached number one on U.S. pop charts. Popular around the world, it has been recorded in several languages. Who was the well known singer who had a hit Spanish version of it under the title of "Tu Frio Corazon" in 2006?
5. "Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky" is the lead into "Stormy Weather". It's a song about a broken relationship and the feelings of the jilted lover. Ted Kohler and Harold Arlen penned it in 1933. Considered one of the greatest songs ever written, it has been recorded by dozens of singers. Whose version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003? (The answer might surprise you.)
6. I suppose if you asked a lot of folks what their least favorite day of the week is, many of them would say Monday. The weekend is over and it's back to school or back to work. In 1971 a pair of siblings sang about another, weather related condition that contributed to the general malaise about the first workday of the week. Do you remember the title? What kind of days were they?
What days were they?
7. When you hear someone say they are "On cloud nine", you know they are euphorically happy and content. But not everyone is willing to share. Do you remember which band took the rather rude sounding, "Get off My Cloud", to the top of the charts?
8. "Frosty the Snowman" told the story of "a jolly happy soul, with a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal". This holiday song was written by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson in 1950 after the success of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" a year earlier. Many artists have recorded it, but who had the first version, the one that reached number seven on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart?
9. When folks step outside and see papers, cans and other assorted items flying by, everyone knows it's "Windy". Gary Lewis and the Playboys included it in their 1968 album, "Gary Lewis Now!". A year earlier however, another group had taken it to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 list, in July 1967.
Can you guess that group?
10. Irish lyricist Jimmy Kennedy loved to spend his evenings watching boats sail by, just as the sun was going down. He wrote about his feelings and then teamed up with Vienna born composer Will Grosz (writing as "Hugh Williams").
Together in 1935, they came up with a tune that reflected Kennedy's feelings about his sightings. Can you fill in the missing first word in the title of "______ Sails in the Sunset"?
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