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1. Number ten on ISLA's Tawdry Top Ten is a simple seductress. Frank Sinatra named this siren's technique in this 1958 song.
"Cause it's _______, wicked _______
And although, I know, it's strictly taboo
When you arouse the need in me
My heart says yes indeed in me
Proceed with what you're leading me to."
What is she practicing (which is also the name of the song)?
2. Our Number Nine heartbreaker is an uncaring tease. The songwriter protests, "Don't want your love anymore. Don't want you kisses that's for sure." He knows she tells lies, and he suspects that this heartless vixen cares nothing for the sincere tears he sheds. What is the name of the song?
3. Eighth on the list of shameless sirens is a real "little devil". She "runs around" and "breaks hearts" and clearly intends to make the songwriter her next victim. But the songwriter confidently asserts:
"Hey little devil everything is gonna be fine
'Cause someday soon I'm gonna make you all mine
There'll be no runnin' around
You met your Waterloo
Hey little devil I'm gonna make an angel out of you."
Who sang and wrote the song "Little Devil" in 1961?
4. Number seven on our list of heartbreakers belongs to a woman described as follows:
"Here's my story, sad but true
It's about a girl that I once knew
She took my love then ran around
With every single guy in town."
This tramp could only be which one of the following?
5. Sixth on the list of the Tawdry Top Ten is a woman so heartless and mean that she could tell Ray Charles to pack his bags and go. In which Ray Charles song was Ray told, "Don't care if you do, cause it's understood, you got no money, and you just ain't no good?"
6. The woman ranking fifth on the list of the Tawdry Ten did something even more heinous than putting Ray Charles out in the cold. Her cruelty to her man was so blatant that he chose a gruesome fate. He ran off to join the circus and became - oh, woe - "a broken hearted clown". In his anguish James Darren cries out,
"Shoot me out of a cannon, I don't care
Let the people point at me and stare
I'll tell the world that woman, wherever she may be
That mean, fickle woman made a cryin' clown outta me"
What was the name of the song?
7. The #4 ranking on the ISLA Tawdry Ten goes to a woman who threatened the health, rather than the hearts, of her paramours. According to the Coasters, who recorded the song in 1959, "You can look but you better not touch." They warn, "Late at night when you're sleeping _______________ comes a creeping all around."
Who is it that comes creeping around?
8. Wicked Felina is #3 on the ISLA Tawdry Top Ten. Her attentions toward a "handsome young cowboy" led to a gunfight that resulted in the young cowboy's death and forced the perpetrator to flee. Any thought that her involvement was innocent is dispelled by the lines: "Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina, Wicked and evil while casting a spell."
A posse chases and ultimately mortally wounds the murderer. He dies in her arms after receiving "one little kiss". What is the name of this 1959, Marty Robbins ballad?
9. A Marty Robbin's song also portrays the woman in the #2 spot on our Tawdry Ten. This evil woman seems to fail in her attempt to break up the songwriter's relationship with his true love. The song begins:
"I told Mary about us I told her about our great sin.
Mary cried and forgave me and Mary took me back again.
Said if I wanted my freedom I could be free evermore.
But I don't wanna be and I don't wanna see Mary cry anymore.
Oh _____ woman, _____ woman let go of me.
_____ woman let me be and leave me alone I wanna go home."
Which adjective belongs on the blank?
10. First place on the Insipid Song Lovers Association's Tawdry Top Ten is shared by...(drum roll please)...seven little girls. I can see the situation so clearly. Seven little girls sit in the back seat making out with some lucky dog while I...er... that is ...while the songwriter sits in the front seat ALONE!!! And when, swallowing his pride, the driver suggests that perhaps one, just one, of them might condescend to move to the front seat and provide a dollop of feminine companionship, how do the seven little girls respond? They say,
"Keep you mind on your drivin'
Keep you hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We're havin' fun sittin' in the back seat kissin' and a'huggin with ____."
Who was the "lucky dog" in the back seat?
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