Sunday, 15 March 2020
Saturday Snapshots #127 - The Answers
Still 'ere?
(Get it? Still... Oh, please yourself.)
Here are this week's answers...
10. Carla Thomas = The Mighty Wah.
Carla Thomas sang Baby. The Mighty Wah! sang Come Back.
What's that inbetween?
The Equals - Baby Come Back
9. Ditto, like one member of an Ohio band.
Ditto... because the song title is the same.
The Ohio Band was The Ohio Players.
Player - Baby Come Back
8. Young Jack Kerouac expresses surprise at Go-Betweens album.
Gosh! The Go-Betweens album was Talulah.
Jack Kerouac was a beatnik.
Talulah Gosh - Beatnik Boy
7. Laugh and wake because it's no longer day.
Josh (laugh) and Rouse (wake).
Josh Rouse - It's The Nighttime
6. Pretty dixie single-hander.
Dixieland is The South.
A single-handler is a boat you sail on your own.
The Beautiful South - I'll Sail This Ship Alone
I don't care what you think of The Beautiful South - that is a beautiful tune.
5. At the start of the year, Pearl got a new partner in a swell town.
January is at the start of the year.
Pearl's original partner was Dean.
Swell is surf.
Jan & Dean - Surf City
4. Plane ticket, date unspecified, and cry forward.
"And cry forward" was an anagram.
Randy Crawford - One Day I'll Fly Away
3. Lodestone influences patriarchal bronco contest.
A Lodestone influences Magnetic Fields.
Patriarchal = Papa. Bronco = Rodeo.
The Magnetic Fields - Papa Was A Rodeo
2. Replacement, comes on knocking.
A replacement is a substitute.
Knock knock. Who's there?
The Who - Substitute
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
1. Forever tomorrow, minor 5th.
Morris Minor + E (the 5th letter).
How I dearly wish I was not here...
There's Something About More Saturday Snapshots... next week.
I'd never heard of Player before so I gave "Baby Come Back" a spin on UTube and wasn't much impressed. Of course this doesn't affect my feelings for your latest wunnerful quiz. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteI didn't expect you to be a fan. MOR soft rock slush, but it stuck in my memory from being a kid.
DeleteThe Josh Rouse track sounds very 2000s and lo and behold it's from 2005. Good tune.
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