Welcome back to Saturday Snapshots, where we're always aiming for a new Lowe.
Sometimes people complain that certain of the artists featured on this quiz are a bit too modern: young, hip and contemporary pop stars that those of a certain advancement in years might struggle to identify (or even have heard of). This week's quiz is for those of you who might feel that way. You'll be pleased to know that the most recent act on today's countdown last had a hit in 1997. None of that post-millennial nonsense today!
Who are the old folks below... and how are their songs connected?
12. Nathan is Best!
11. Ugly Kenny.
10. Kaine, coded.
9. American sandwich in the automobile with George.
8. James was outlawed from Arfur's Club.
7. Where you might get trapped by a preacher.
6. Father Christmas meets Quasi-Girl.
5. Uncle, and resident of Dagenham.
4. Liverpudlian egg scramblers.
3. Night train.
2. Unsolve Zara Arch.
1. Not Rod Stewart's baby.
4. Easybeats
ReplyDeleteJM
They were Australian and five of them, I think it's the Merseybeats
Delete5 Sam & Dave
ReplyDelete1. Cher?
ReplyDeleteCould be. Rod Stewart's baby was Jane but not sure that helps with identifying them.
DeleteNit Cher.
DeleteNot nit!
DeleteThanks for the non-Millennial snapshots but I still seem to be rubbish.
Delete12 George Jones
ReplyDelete11 Betty Everett?
3. Sleeper
ReplyDeleteThink 4 is the Merseybeats not The Easybeats
ReplyDelete6. Santa Esmeralda?
8. Jesse Winchester
9. Hoagy Carmichael
8. Jesse Winchester
ReplyDeleteIs it to do with the solar system?
ReplyDeleteJM
7 Amen Corner
ReplyDeleteGood spot!
DeleteSong titles that were all tv shows?
ReplyDeleteGoing by the eyes and nose could 2 be a young Charles Asnavour?
ReplyDeleteNo idea on the answer but working off the Nick Lowe photo it could be something to do with cruelty, kindness, peace, love, understanding, breaking glass or brides who like to rock and roll. Or something else entirely.
Personal pronouns even?
DeleteJM
It could be something else entirely. Although you're correct that Nick Lowe is an extra clue. I can't always shoehorn one into the top image, but this week I did.
DeleteAnd I've done pronouns already, John.
DeleteCharles Aznavour - he definitely improved with age!
DeleteGone?
ReplyDelete1 is Yoko "Oh No Not My Baby" (interestingly, done by Cher as well as Rod so I think Alyson should get a bonus point).
ReplyDeleteRol implying that I had not got the right Nick Lowe song suggests that the link isn't glass or windows (if you haven't heard Yoko's "I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window" you really should)
The only other song of hers I can think of is "Walking On Thin Ice" so is it something to do with perilous situations?
Drat I was going to suggest Yoko but didn't want to make a fool of myself twice.
DeleteI wasn't necessary saying you had the wrong Nick Lowe song... I was just saying that none of those things were the link...
DeleteIs it to do with having the blues - being 'low' ?!
ReplyDeleteYikes!
ReplyDeleteIf it's not song titles that are tv shows or songs about illegally made alcohol, is there a Beatles connection in song titles?
ReplyDeleteHaven't the foggiest. One last wild guess before I go to Dartford for nefarious reasons - the onset of winter?
ReplyDeleteLateral thinking required this week...
ReplyDeleteNick Lowe
George Jones
Charles Aznavour
Sam & Dave
Betty Everett
Those are probably the most obvious ones to make the link from, along with 10, which nobody has got...
referencing George Jones, Aznavour and Nick Lowe is not much of a clue they have probably recorded or written 2000 songs between them
ReplyDeleteSong titles that are the names of films.
DeleteIt's nothing to do with the song titles this week...
DeleteIronically.... is it about not knowing?
ReplyDeleteNo, but I like that idea...
DeleteAh, I just saw your last comment so scrub that.
DeleteCoincidentally there were quite a few that fitted!
DeleteThey have all recorded songs written by Isaac Hayes (who could possibly forget Charles Aznavour's version of Shaft?)
ReplyDeleteThis is actually closer than any of the other answers today.... but nothing to do with Isaac.
Deleteall recorded Lennon and McCartney songs
DeleteIt's more the other way around, but not Lennon & McCartney...
DeleteElvis Costello covered songs performed or made famous by those 12
DeleteTa dah! Parsley for the win!
Delete(Well done, George.)
I'd never have got that. Well done that man (and his dog).
Deleteor is Parsley the goat?!
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