Snapshots #452: Songs About Girl's Names Beginning With P

Patti Smith introduced our quiz yesterday. Polly Jean takes to the stage today.

Here are some more ladies whose name begins with P...

15. Seven Council Fires steal an idea from Bob Marley's band.

Seven Council Fires, or Oceti Šakówiŋ, refers to the Great Sioux Nation. Bob Marley had some Wailers - which is just what Banshees do.

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dear Prudence

14. Champion... or Chumpion?

Wunderhorse - Poppy

13. What's with these homies dissin' my girl?

The opening line to Weezer's biggest hit...

Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue

12. What you might shout at a small Beatle.

Hey Paulette - I Really Do Love You, Penelope

11. A Pratt of the Toun.

Actor Chris Pratt goes to de Burgh.

Chris de Burgh - Patricia The Stripper

10. Not a lot of kids called this these days... he almost claims. 

You may recall a song we featured here a few weeks back about how there aren't many kids called Gary these days. It helps if you pay attention to the rest of this blog, not just the Snapshots.

Clail is almost a Claim.

Gary Clail & The On U-Sound System - Who Pays The Piper?

9. A way or an end... he's got a thing going on with the Mrs.

Howard's Way or Howard's End? Me and Mrs. Jones had a thing going on.

Howard Jones - Pearl In The Shell

8. PM's unruly airfares questioned.

"PM's unruly airfares" was an anagram.

Super Furry Animals - Hermann Loves Pauline

7. Could only eat half a cannibal.

Toto Coleo were known for eating Cannibals. These guys are half as good.

Toto - Pamela

6. Not named after Thomas, but some rocks off the coast of Cornwall.

It's Eddystone Lighthouse, if you want to be pedantic about it.

Edison Lighthouse - It's Up To You, Petula

5. Sounds like an appendage you don't want to stub - twice!

Men - try not to stub your cock-toe.

Cocteau Twins - Persephone 

...or you could have had...

Cocteau Twins - Pandora (for Cindy)

4. Piers is a Free Man.

Piers Morgan... or Morgan Freeman?

Morgan - Miss Parker

3. Good man makes a bullock of himself - let me die in your arms!

Len Goodman with his Ox.

"Let me die in your arms!" is a line from Annie's Song.

Annie Lennox - Precious

2. Ivan ran till he felt less confused.

"Ivan ran" was an anagram.

Nirvana - Polly

1. The Blair Rich Project. 

Lionel Blair gets Rich...ie.

Lionel Richie - Penny Lover

Incredibly, that is the first time Lionel Richie has ever appeared on Snapshots. I know - what's wrong with me!?

Hopefully you don't want Rid Of Me yet. If not, Snapshots will be back next week.

Snapshots #310 - A Top Ten Songs About Herbs

Because I couldn't find a picture of Herb Alpert taking a photo, here's Herbie the car. He's going bananas for today countdown of songs with herbs in them...

(Oh, and in case you were wondering about Marlene yesterday, the surname "Dill" is apparently "from a pet form of the personal name Dietrich", according to the people who know about such things.)

10. Makes a lot of parkin.

Parkin is a ginger cake. Some debate on the interweb about whether ginger is a herb or a root veg. That doesn't matter though, because we're not here for the ginger, we're here for the basil...

Ginger Baker - Basil

9. Sure-footed ungulates.

Ungulates are large mammals with hooves.

The Mountain Goats - Wild Sage

8. Death-, Funny-, Mountain-.

Death-wish, funny-bone, mountain-ash.

Wishbone Ash - Sorrel

7. Lost in fatheadedness and obscureness. 

FaTHEadedness and obsCUREness. 

Yes, obscureness is a word. Seems pretty obscure to me.

The Cure - Mint Car

Bob looks particularly bonkers in that video.

6. James Moir on an open fire.

James Moir is better known as Vic Reeves. Chestnuts go on an open fire.

Vic Chestnutt - Tarragon

5. Joan's cocktail, mixed with Punch.

The cocktail is a Joan Collins. Punch mixes with Judy.

Judy Collins - Wild Mountain Thyme

4. They've been on the Shari.

Shari Lewis had the puppet Lambchop on her hand.

Lambchop - D. Scott Parsley

3. Thomas built this to keep the ships safe.

Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

2. Half blonde bombshell and king of the jungle.

Half of Marilyn joined onto a lion.

Marillion - Lavender

1. I'm Son and Fluke Gran.

Anagram-tastic!

Although it's not in the title, this track was obvious from the outset...

1. Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair

Season your Saturday with more Snapshots next week...

Saturday Snapshots #140 - The Answers

Easy, riders - no need to Speed. The answers are here!


10. Between 11.59 and 12.01, approximately, the flying poison hits.

The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight

9. Add a diamond to mercury to create the smartest creatures in the sea.

Neil Diamond & Freddie Mercury...

Fred Neil - Dolphins

Classic.

8. Ex-otter steals cars.

"Ex-otter" is a very simple anagram.

Roxette - Joyride

7. Tiny News-man hits rocky patch.

Huey Lewis & The News?

Baby Huey - Hard Times

This featured on this blog a couple of weeks back, but this edition of Saturday Snapshots was compiled before that.

6. Munster & Allen meet Mary Poppins in New York.

Lily Allen. Lily Munster.

The Lilys - A Nanny In Manhattan

5. Hotrod boychild warns ships about adoring blooming herbs.

Eddie & The Hotrods.

Eddie's son?

Lighthouses warn ships.

Etc.

Etc.

I'm writing the answers on Thursday night and predicting that Alyson got that one from the photo alone. She wasn't the first, but she did end up supplying an important correction...

Just an observation but as I wrote about the song Love Grows by Edison Lighthouse quite recently I noticed that Tony Burrows isn't part of the line-up in that picture. They were a band made up of session musicians and their only big hit was when Tony was brought in on lead vocals. He had also been part of 2 other bands at the same time so had 3 singles in the Top 10 at the same time. He ended up being a 5 times 'one-hit wonder'.

Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows Where My Rosemary Grows

4. Black and white TV shows only repeats of Blind Date.

Cilla Black was the presenter of Blind Date. Apologies if that clue didn't cross the Atlantic.

The Monochrome Set - Cilla Black

3. Conceited carnival, 5am.

Vanity Fair - Early In The Morning

2. Sad river falls on Hollywood.

The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain

1. Beachy Headphones.

Beachy Head is a cliff.




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