Snapshots #296: A Top Ten Dolphin Songs

I wish I could swim like dolphins, like dolphins can swim. But the closest I got was the huge inflatable dolphin I clung onto during my earliest swimming lessons, while I was also wearing armband, a foam rubber float, and reaching out for the hooked pole the swimming teacher was offering from the side of the pool. And still I sank. I did eventually learn to swim, but my mum swears the instructor had a nervous breakdown first.

Here are ten songs about dolphins...

10. Ivan, Joni, Elton... how?

All one big anagram!

Olivia Newton John - The Promise (The Dolphin Song)

9. Hunter, like a Girl in a Ring.

Ian Hunter + Brown Girl In The Ring...

Ian Brown - Dolphins Were Monkeys

8. In concert.

They were Live.

Live - Dolphin's Cry

7. Henry... and Cher.

Henry Rollins + Sonny & Cher =

Sonny Rollins - On Green Dolphin Street

6. Polar fortnight.

Polar bears are iced. There are 14 days in a fortnight.

14 Iced Bears - Like A Dolphin 

5. Attributed to Tony Stark's dad.

Tony Stark was played by RDJ - Robert Downey Junior. His dad was RDS. If something was attributed to his dad, it would be BY RDS.

The Byrds - Dolphin's Smile

4. Colourful coat found in Jarvis's college.

Joseph wore a coat of many colours. Jarvis went to St. Martin's College, where he met a girl who studied sculpture.

Martyn Joseph - Dolphins Make Me Cry

3. Secret kids in a hut.

The Secret Seven get trapped in a Shed.

Shed Seven - Dolphin

2. A Playboy and a Diamond.

John Fred had a Playboy Band. Add that to Neil Diamond and you get...

Fred Neil - Dolphins

1. Far from stern, that is.

The bow on a boat is at the far end from the stern. That is = i.e.

David Bowie - Heroes

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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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