My Top Ten: Snapshots #351: A Top Ten Hat Songs

Sunday, 7 July 2024

Hats off to you if you identified all this week's artists... and worked out which hats they were wearing...

10. Corporal Hum is an enigma.

Corporal Hum is an anagram.

9. Discovered inside Electric Ladyland.

Electric Ladyland.

8. Take the skinheads for a nice mulligatawny.

Take the skinheads bowling... for soup!

7. Merciless villain becomes an American citizen.

Ming was Merciless, until he went to the US.

6. Pick up, before you get to Pace.

A pick up is a van. Hale 'n' Pace.

5. Sounds like you split up with a South African runner.

If Zola (Budd) became your ex, you would be...

4. Don't get tangled up in a sticky romance.

"Sticky romance" was an anagram...

3. Kamadeva and Rati.

Kamadeva and Rati were the Hindu deities in charge of romance.

(That's Warren Zevon & REM... minus Michael... if you're wondering.)

2. Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon found the answer within.

Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon is the artist also known as ShABBA Ranks.

1. Even my vision is impaired... I'm losing my hair.

And those are lyrics from Just Like Fred Astaire by James.

The top hat had to be a Top Hat...

Fred Astaire - Top Hat, White Tie & Tails

A few more hats to try on before we go...

And, of course,...

Throw your hats in the ring again next Saturday morning...