Snapshots #230: A Top Ten "All The Way..." Songs

It's Sunday. Let's Carrey on with the answers to yesterday's Snapshots.

Ten songs that go All The Way...

10. Modestly morphing into someone else.

"Modestly morphing" was an anagram.

The Mighty Lemon Drops - All The Way

9. Questionnaire may contain the answers too. 

Questionnaire may contain the answers too. 

REM - All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)

8. When Homer mixes his drinks, he uses this to the measure the shots.

Simpson stirs a gill (measure of drinks).

Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All The Way Down

7. The King's wives.

The King only had one wife...

The Priscillas - (All The Way To) Holloway

6. Rippling berets.

Raspberry ripples on Raspberry berets.

The Raspberries - Go All The Way

5. I am Jordana Grant.

Anagram!

Joan Armatrading - All The Way From America

4. Graceful antelopes.

The Impalas - Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home)

3. Mulder & Rocky.

Fox Mulder & Sly Stallone.

Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way

2. Formerly The Doc Thomas Group.

Then they changed their name to...

Mott The Hoople - All The Way From Memphis

1. Give him just a little more time.

The Chairmen of the Board sang Give Me Just A Little More Time.

The Chairman of the Board was...

Frank Sinatra - All The Way

Possibly my all time favourite Frank tune. His voice has never sounded better.

More next week. And in case I don't see you: good afternoon, good evening and good night! 

Saturday Snapshots #128 - The Answers

Sad to hear of the passing of Kenny Rogers yesterday. If I get chance, I'd like to run a Top Ten Kenny Songs... although they will probably be the obvious ones. Always had a lot of time for Kenny. I guess he knew when to fold them...

Here's yesterday's answers...

10. Sadder than a rug cutting Walrus.

Sad = blue. The Walrus (of Love) was Barry White. Cutting a rug is dancing.

Barry Blue - Do You Wanna Dance?

9. Once upon a time... the end. Peanut ballads.

Once upon a time... the end... that's cutting a long story short.

Peanut ballads is my anagram of the year!

Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short

8. Martin Luther ♡ $6,000,000 Man.

Martin Luther King adores The Bionic Man.

King Adora - Bionic

Don't worry if you don't remember them. They weren't that good. Although the NME thought they were the second coming for about a week.

7. Read Butler's smoking pal his rights and pour on the paraffin.

Butler's smoking pal is Lambert.

Your get read your Miranda Rights.

Miranda Lambert - Kerosene

6. Panic in the green streets leaves me wanting.

Panic In Detroit.

Emerald green.

Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me

5. Related to #1; wants to get to Homebase.

#1 is... explained below. Getting to home base is slang for going all the way.

Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way

4. Small openings for ordinary ladies.

The Slits - Typical Girls

3. Albert's brother, perhaps, without his cereal, catches 40 winks.

Albert Hall's brother?

Without his (John) Oates.

Daryl Hall - Dreamtime

2. Yo, Dad, Sir... accept your fate.

"Yo, Dad, Sir" is an anagram.

Doris Day - Que Sera Sera

1. Pressured by Blur? Can't handle it? Call for an ancient French trickster.

Blur sang about Pressure On Julian.

Can't cope?

The ancient French trickster is Reynard The Fox.


Stay safe and well till next Saturday.