Sunday, 14 November 2021

Snapshots #215: A Top Ten Candy Songs

I just read that in the early 70s, Charles Bronson was the world's Number One Box Office Star. I find that incredible to believe... but not as incredible as you guys not solving the Snapshots.

Here are this week's candy-coloured solutions...


10. Hoarse or Wonder Horse?

Hoarse would be gruff. Champion The Wonder Horse was a Super Furry Animal. As is a Candylion.

Gruff Rhys - Candylion 

9. Utopian lion.

Anagram!

Paolo Nutini - Candy

8. Where the Elephant Man likes to swim.

John Hurt was the Elephant Man. He likes to swim in the Mississippi.

Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man Blues

7. Juvenile boing!

A Teen spring.

Bruce Springsteen - Candy's Room

6. Bomb-loving doctors.

Doctor Strangelove, the movie, was also known as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

The Strangeloves - I Want Candy

The original version of this, which I would have included, except it has appeared here before.

Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

5. Dirty copper and his alter ego get tangled up with a Scottish octopus.

The Dirty Copper would be Detective Harry Calahan, aka Clint Eastwood. The Scottish Octopus would be Mc-Ock.

Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain

See what I did there?

4. Yo, Boris, Ron says you're all mixed up.

"Yo, Boris, Ron" was an anagram.

Roy Orbison - Candyman

Or you could have had "the candy coloured clown the call the Sandman"...

3. Lost Cleo joins a 10CC Army.

Lost Cleo is an anagram... for Costello.

Ten CC Army is an anagram... for McCartney.

Elvis Costello & Paul McCartney - So Like Candy

2. Cream Soda & Morgan's child.

Cream Soda is pop. Morgan's child would be Piers' son.

Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson - Candy

Classic lost Iggy tune... although it's hard to believe he ever had a haircut like Bryan Adams.

1. Listen to the wind blow... on the Mother & Child Reunion.

"Listen to the wind blow..." is the opening lyric to The Chain.

The mother and child were Mary and Jesus.

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking

Unless you've got a Death Wish, make sure you join me back here next Saturday morning for more Snapshots...

2 comments:

  1. A tough one this week, but it all makes sense when you read the answers!

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  2. Another good'un - the highlight of my Saturdays! You know how to keep us sweet, Rol.

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