Showing posts with label Ultra Montanes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ultra Montanes. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 November 2024

Snapshots #371 - A Top Fifteen Songs About Film Stars (By Other Names)

It's a rather cumbersome title to this week's quiz... but I'm sure you all know what I mean.

Here are fifteen songs about what Ray Davies called Celluloid Heroes...


15. He allowed Zoe to get all messed up.

"He allowed Zoe" was an anagram...

Lee Hazlewood - The Performer

14. Invisible violet growing in the mountains.

If violet is invisible, it's ultraviolet. Montane means, "of or inhabiting mountainous country".

The Ultra Montanes - Aging Starlet

13. Birmingham City are a temperamental bunch.

Birmingham City are the Blues, or so I'm told.

The Moody Blues - The Actor

12. Found in Labradors and just outside Glasgow.

LaBRADors from Paisley.

Brad Paisley - Celebrity

11. Get high in a South End amusement park.

Kursaal Flyers - The Great Artiste

10. Frizzy.



That's not how I'd spell "idol", but the song fits.

9. Paranoid, like a pig.


Marvin was paranoid. Like a pig could be Ham-lish.


8. Secret panther is well hidden.


"Secret panther" is an anagram...


7. Elaborately ornamental furnishings.




I included that one just for George.

Because it's prog! No other reason...

6. Carson pulled a few.

"That's a cracker," said Frank Carson. Not Johnny.


5. Once had to deal with a sneezing baby, a broken toaster and a burnt soufflé, all in the same day.


Those are the lyrics of Coming Around Again. This is a lesser known offering...


4. How much do you want for this commotion?


Name your Price for Lloyd (Cole).


3. Michael and Marti's rat meets #4's Stagger. 


Michael and Marti both sang about Ben, the rat. Lloyd Price sang about Stagger Lee.


2. LGBTQ party doesn't get a passing grade.


The LGBTQ party, so I'm reliably informed, would be a Kiki. D is not a pass.


1. Pursue Dean Martin to find the answer.


Pursue Dean Martin...

Suede - Filmstar


You're nominated for another starring role next Saturday...

Sunday, 8 March 2020

Saturday Snapshots #126 - The Answers


Time for the answers. Yes. Yesss. Yesssss. YESSSSSS!!!


10. We say the Pope is boss. Young actress grows old.


Didn't think anyone would get this unless they used google. (Couldn't even find a proper version on youtube, sorry. But I do like this song.)

"Ultramontanism is a clerical political conception within the Catholic Church that places strong emphasis on the prerogatives and powers of the Pope."

The Ultra Montanes - Ageing Starlet

9. Jacob's daughter in capital craziness over backwards yob.


No problems with this one.

"Jacob, Jacob and son..." Turns out he had 12 lads... and only one daughter.

Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy

8. What Billy Ocean and Freddie Mercury had in common: the thought of Saturday Snapshots kept them going Monday - Friday.


Billy & Freddie both sang about loverboys.

Loverboy - Living For The Weekend

7. Remember when we couldn't defeat Michael Caine?


Amazulu is the full name of the largest ethnic group in South Africa... the ones who gave Michael Caine so much trouble in the film Zulu.

Amazulu - Too Good to Be Forgotten

6. Philosophical drinking debate mourns Rod Serling.


Another one you might have been able to google, because a "symposium" came from Greek banquets (it means "to drink together"... so next time you get invited to a symposium at work, remember that) where philosophy was debated.

Rod Serling created The Twilight Zone.

Symposium - Farewell To Twilight

5. Cross the rivers with the Keys to Silverstone and you'll find the evening entertainment is to die for.


Alyson worked out the Alicia bit (Keys & Silverstone)... well done for that.

Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife

4. Return to youth in REM Motel.


REM Motel was an anagram. Well done, Lynchie.

Mel Torme - Comin' Home, Baby

3. Naked copper in Motown.


Bobby Bare - Detroit City

2. Paranoid, but happy, request for information.


Marvin was the paranoid android. Gay used to just mean happy.

Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On?

1. Completely unaware, in Cat Maze Race.


I love that photo. And another anagram...


You've Got Mail... it says that Saturday Snapshots will be back next week.


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