Snapshots #227: A Top Ten Duke & Duchess Songs

The Duke introduces ten songs about Dukes and Duchesses...

10. Flowers! (Flowers! Flowers!)

Echo Bloom - The Duke

(Tough one, that. But worth a listen.)

9. Yes, a hefty Naazi!

Anagram!

Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy

8. Move to New York.

Manhattan Transfer - The Duke Of Dubuque

7. Joelynn's awning gets broken up.

Joelynn's awning was an anagram.

Waylon Jennings - The Dukes of Hazzard

6. Often found in the French towns of Genech and Le Robert.

GENE CH AND LERobert.

Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl

5. A Cure man in socks with REM ladies.

Robert becomes Bobbie in his bobby sox... with REM dream girls.

Bobbie Smith & The Dream Girls - Duchess of Earl

(Yep.)

4. Charlene's beau misses the bus.

Neighbours fans from the 80s will know that Charlene's beau was Scott. If he missed the bus, he would be a walker.

Scott Walker - Duchess

3. Simians in a circle.

In an Arctic Circle.

Arctic Monkeys - Put Your Dukes Up, John

2. Pull the choke, then full throttle.

The Stranglers - Duchess

And the Rodneys are queuing up

God forbid

1. Weirdo's event.

Anagram!

And the Rodneys will be queuing up again next Saturday, for more Snapshots.

 

Saturday Snapshots #66 - The Answers

Ground control to Major Tom - check your Saturday Snapshots answers and put your helmet on...

Let's hope Brexit (if it happems) doesn't put an end to our European friends from taking part in Saturday Snapshots... because this week saw our Danish and German blog-friends take a clear victory. Well done to Chris and Walter, who got seven of the answers before any of our U.K. contenders even got out of bed. Charity Chic, Rigid Digit and Mr. C solved the rest, but the hard work had been done by the time they (and Alyson) arrived.


10. Undetached hedgehog calls last orders.

Sonic the hedgehog.

An undetached house might be a semi.

Last orders comes at Closing Time.

Semisonic - Closing Time

9. American revolutionary soldiers visit Chinese medicine man.

Check your history books.

The Minutemen - Dr. Wu

8. DNA Friendly Bing, doubles the aristocracy.

DNA = Gene.

Chandler Bing was in Friends.

Duke & Earl are two titles of the aristocracy.

Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl

7. Afternoon cinema blackout starts World War.

WWI began when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assissinated.

Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee

6. Homer in space; Brooklynite.

Homer wrote the Odyssey... but not the Space Odyssey.

Odyssey - Native New Yorker

5. Old rope from terrible circumstances.

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

(Yes, that really is Dire Straits... at  their first ever gig!)

4. Feline superhero at home in the pub.

Cat Power - Lived In Bars

3. Broadway coffee award-winner found in Hammersmith Palais, eating greens with a gator girl.

A Tony is a Broadway Award.

Coffee is Joe.

White Man In Hammersmith Palais.

Listen to the song for the rest...

Tony Joe White - Poll Salad Annie

2. I am on swirl: the object of my desire.

I am on swirl is an anagram...

Mari Wilson - Just What I Always Wanted

1. Bob's future is in hand: great detective work.

Palm-readers tell the future.

Detectives look for clues.



Let's Dance again next Saturday morning...