The Answers

Okay, here we go—the answers, behind the cut in case anyone still wants to play.  (Emily? Liz?  I know there’s some stuff you’d recognize …) Also, because I’m pompous, you can have commentary, too!

( The Answers )

 

Anyone want to play again?

Behold My Heavenly, Silky Locks!

Birthday - Martha Stewart (Domestic Goddess)
Independence Day (Niger)

 

( What's left of them, I mean. )

And now … Music Quiz, Round Two, since I had so much fun the first time. I omitted all instrumental songs (name that tune: da dat dat da doot DOOT, doo!) and one or two that had already come up on the last quiz, and was left with these:

 

1. I’ve been cheated, been mistreated, when will I be loved?
thewrongcrowd; bluetara2020; neonnurse; queenlyzard;

2. Pretty woman, walking down the street! Pretty woman, the kind I’d like to meet!

skellington1; thewrongcrowd; bluetara2020; neonnurse; queenlyzard;

3. Oh komm doch, komm zu mir, du nimmst mir den Verstand ...*
neonnurse;

4. Well, beat the drum and hold the phone—the sun came out today!
alexvdl;

5. Come save me from things I shouldn’t do! I need you; every word is true.*

6. I love my friends, and they love me—we’re just as close as we can be!
Emily(?)

7. Are you gonna take me home tonight? Oh, down beside that red firelight …
skellington1; thewrongcrowd; queenlyzard;

8. Let me fly like an eagle free, run like a deer that’s how I want to be …*

9. Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand …
skellington1; thewrongcrowd; bluetara2020; neonnurse; queenlyzard;

10. Lord a’mighty, I feel my temperature rising … higher and higher, it’s burning through to my soul!
thewrongcrowd; alexvdl; neonnurse;

11. They showed up on my doorstep just a couple weeks ago. They looked so sweet and harmless; tell me, how was I to know?

12. In line, in line, it’s all in a line!  My ducks are all in a row!*

13. There is a man who lives a life of danger…
alexvdl; spotweld; bluetara2020; neonnurse; queenlyzard;

14. A young man strumming his guitar in the corner of the bar, singing ’bout a broken heart for hours and hours.

15. Baby, let me be your lovin’ teddy bear! Put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere!
pixel39; neonnurse;

16. Inspector Mills, I’d like to tell you ’bout a girl I saw at a party just the other night in Beverly Hills.

17. You’ve got a friend in me.
alexvdl; spotweld; bluetara2020; Emily(?); neonnurse; queenlyzard;

18. Here come old flat top he come, groovin’ up slowly …
alexvdl; neonnurse; queenlyzard;

19. Two in the morning, too hot to sleep, tossing and turning and twisting the sheets …

20. Why do you laugh at me when you know I really care? You sometimes act as though I’m not even there. *

21. When I die and they lay me to rest, gonna go to the place that’s the best …
skellington1; thewrongcrowd; alexvdl; neonnurse; queenlyzard;

22. Way down, way way down, way way down deep …*

23. I see a bad moon rising! I see trouble on the way!
skellington1; thewrongcrowd; alexvdl; bluetara2020; neonnurse; queenlyzard;

24. Nibblin’ on spongecake, watchin’ the sun bake all of those tourists covered with oil …
skellington1; thewrongcrowd; alexvdl; bluetara2020; Emily (if that is Emily) gets the artist; neonnurse; queenlyzard;

25. Picture yourself on a boat in a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies …
skellington1; thewrongcrowd; alexvdl; Emily(?); neonnurse; queenlyzard;

26. Sometimes I wonder if I’m ever gonna make it home again. It’s so far and out of sight.
thewrongcrowd;

27. When the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof …
pixel39; neonnurse;

28. I’m telling you people, tell you no lies. My heart is aching; I’ll tell you why …*

29. Para bailar la bamba … para bailar la bamba se necesita una poca de gracia!
pixel39; bluetara2020; queenlyzard;

30. First she sees her hypnotist, then she rushes to her psychiatrist, sees her acupuncturist; she’s got to got to get fixed!*

Have at them! (Bonus points to anyone who can tell me where my subject line came from, too.) (Winners of that: alexvdl; bluetara2020 (and thanks for the compliment!);)