Showing posts with label Ocean Blue. Show all posts
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Sunday, 11 May 2025

Snapshots #395: Hot & Cold Songs


The temperature's been zooming up and down so much lately that it robbed half of Spain and Portugal of electricity... and we hate to think of our Portuguese correspondent without the necessary means to read this blog.

Here are some hot songs and some cold ones... let's see if we can arrive at a happy medium before summer.

15. A can of #3.

#3 is Big Joe Turner, a tin a'...

Tina Turner - Steamy Windows

14. Billy's sad sea or Frank's mucky pond?

Two Oceans, both blue in their own way...

The Ocean Blue - Frigid Winter Days

13. Typical!

The Normal - Warm Leatherette

12. Eccles, in a hurry.

Jennifer Eccles, in a bit of a Rush.

Jennifer Rush - Ring Of Ice

11. Freeman's crane.

A derrick is a crane, for Morgan Freeman...

Derrick Morgan - Blazing Fire

10. It's in the air tonight, Einstein!

Little known fact: Phil Collins wrote In The Air Tonight, 'specially for Albert Einstein.

Albert Collins - Frosty

9. Hell's Bile III: This time it's perplexed.

Hell's Bile III was a perplexing anagram.

Billie Eilish - OverHeated

8. Church, Hatherley, Bronte.

The Charlottes - Cold

7. The man in the gabardine suit was a spy.

That's a lyric from America by S&G.

America - Molten Love

6. Filthy weasel.

Blue Mink - Melting Pot

5. Spasmodic fools. 

The Jerks - Cool

4. Mottled church.

A roan is a mottled horse...

Chappell Roan - Hot To Go

3. Large coffee for #15!

Cup of Joe for Tina...

Big Joe Turner - The Chill Is On

2. Book that will increase in value, thanks to a saxophone in the key of G... and 80s bin man.  

Kenny G played sax... Ted Rogers had a Dusty Bin...

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Something's Burning

1. Morally pure and chaste.

Or not, as the case may be.

Madonna - Frozen


The heat is back on next Saturday... cool!


Sunday, 12 February 2023

Snapshots #279: A Top Ten Skating Songs

This week's clues led to ten songs about skating - on rollerskates, ice skates, maybe even a skateboard. Here are the answers...


10. Not entirely tone deaf.

The Deftones - Rocket Skates

9. Slow cherry.

Anagram!

Sheryl Crow - Roller Skate

8. Inside the house, little minx sees all.

...little mINX Sees all.

INXS - Roller Skating

7. French vineyard for fools.

Vineyard in French is La Vigne. April is the month for Fools, Avril in French.

Avril Lavigne - Sk8ter Boi

No marks for spelling.

6. Loverboy gets sad.

Billy Ocean sang Loverboy... then got blue.

The Ocean Blue - Ice Skating At Night

5. The worst way to travel between seas.

On the dire straits...

Dire Straits - Skateaway

4. Napoleon Solo rolls up his trouser leg.

Napoleon Solo was played by Robert Vaughn. I don't think he was a Mason.

Vaughan Mason & Crew - Roller Skate

Or even...

Vaughan Mason & Crew - Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll

3. Andrew hated elks.

Anagram!

Kathleen Edwards - Hockey Skates

2. This Mr. Trotter was more than just a plonker.

Del was a bit of an a-soul.

De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays 

1. A great bond links Steve & Frankie.

Roger was a great Bond. Frankie and Steve are both Millers.

1. Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd


Get your skates on - there'll be more Snapshots next Saturday.

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