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.

2 comments:

  1. DOH! I should have got no. 3
    Good work Rol.

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  2. Worth all of the effort for the Roger Miller song title alone.

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