Sunday, 14 June 2020

Saturday Snapshots #140 - The Answers


Easy, riders - no need to Speed. The answers are here!


10. Between 11.59 and 12.01, approximately, the flying poison hits.


The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight

9. Add a diamond to mercury to create the smartest creatures in the sea.


Neil Diamond & Freddie Mercury...

Fred Neil - Dolphins

Classic.

8. Ex-otter steals cars.


"Ex-otter" is a very simple anagram.

Roxette - Joyride

7. Tiny News-man hits rocky patch.


Huey Lewis & The News?

Baby Huey - Hard Times

This featured on this blog a couple of weeks back, but this edition of Saturday Snapshots was compiled before that.

6. Munster & Allen meet Mary Poppins in New York.


Lily Allen. Lily Munster.

The Lilys - A Nanny In Manhattan

5. Hotrod boychild warns ships about adoring blooming herbs.


Eddie & The Hotrods.

Eddie's son?

Lighthouses warn ships.

Etc.

Etc.

I'm writing the answers on Thursday night and predicting that Alyson got that one from the photo alone. She wasn't the first, but she did end up supplying an important correction...

Just an observation but as I wrote about the song Love Grows by Edison Lighthouse quite recently I noticed that Tony Burrows isn't part of the line-up in that picture. They were a band made up of session musicians and their only big hit was when Tony was brought in on lead vocals. He had also been part of 2 other bands at the same time so had 3 singles in the Top 10 at the same time. He ended up being a 5 times 'one-hit wonder'.

Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows Where My Rosemary Grows

4. Black and white TV shows only repeats of Blind Date.


Cilla Black was the presenter of Blind Date. Apologies if that clue didn't cross the Atlantic.

The Monochrome Set - Cilla Black

3. Conceited carnival, 5am.


Vanity Fair - Early In The Morning

2. Sad river falls on Hollywood.


The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain

1. Beachy Headphones.


Beachy Head is a cliff.




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Come back next week.



2 comments:

  1. Great to see The Blue Nile in a Saturday Snapshots quiz and speaking of Dolphins, the Byrds have a lovely hippy song called "Dolphin's Smile" which you should hear:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6fS2gLRBUc

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  2. Some really nice discoveries this week: Hard Times,Dolphins, Sometime Around Midnight, Early in the Morning, and the group The Monochrome Set.

    Thanks for the bonus info about by The Byrds FurryBoots.

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