WEDNESDAY 11/14 QoD
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:07 pm
Please read the Rules
Identify the song from the description:
1. This Royal Guardsmen song inspired by a comic strip hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
2. This song immeidately preceded Elvis' "It's Now or Never" as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
3. This song is a lament about a man who no longer eats his favorite foods because he found his baby eating with some other man.
4. This #5 hit in 1960 was a re-make of a song titled "Blue Yodel #8"
5. This song from one-hit wonder Bobby Day was later re-made by both Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson.
6. This Dallas Frazier song is perhaps the only song inspired by a comic strip to ever hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
7. The only hit by the singer born Gil Hamilton.
8. This song was featured in The Simpsons episodes "The Heartbroke Kid" and "The Itchy & Scratchy Movie" as well as in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus titled "How Not to Be Seen"
9. This George Baker Selection song became a cult classic after being featured in the movie Resevoir Dogs.
10. One of the most famous parts of this song is actually based on a mis-hearing of a foreign language phrase that meant "You're a Lion."
11. The majority of the song's rapid fire lyrics are derived from two songs "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" and "The Bird Is The Word."
12. The second biggest hit for the band originally known as Sir Timothy & The Royals.
13. This Ray Stevens tune was later covered by then-future Texas gubernatorial candiate Kinky Friedman.
14. I wouldn't recommend using your QoDMeister's true first name of the name of the disappearing eldest son on Happy Days when singing this Shirley Ellis song.
15. Listen while I play play play, my _____ _________
16. The biggest U.S. hit from 1910 Fruitgum Company.
17. This song was performed in the first sketch of the first episode of The Muppet Show recorded.
18. Written by Robert Charles Guidry, this tune was most famously recorded by the group often credited with the first "Rock and Roll" hit.
19. This Playmates tune may have done more to help sales of the Nash Rambler than any ad campaign ever did.
20. This was the one hit from one-hit-wonder Jewel Akens.
21. This Billboard #8 song was a country/rock and roll crossover hit for the band that brought us "Summer in the City."
22. This 1960 tune is perhaps the only Billboard #1 song that commemorates a US Military battle defeat, including the singer's wish not to end up dead or bald.
23. This third single from Larry Williams was later covered by several artists, including John Lennon, The Who, and Freddy Fender.
24. The Ramones did a cover of the song "Indian Giver" by a band that had also sang this song, which was covered frequently by a band called The Artistics (but you probably know them as a much more familiar band they became later.
BONUS (WORTH FIVE POINTS):
What do all these songs have in common?
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Identify the song from the description:
1. This Royal Guardsmen song inspired by a comic strip hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
2. This song immeidately preceded Elvis' "It's Now or Never" as #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
3. This song is a lament about a man who no longer eats his favorite foods because he found his baby eating with some other man.
4. This #5 hit in 1960 was a re-make of a song titled "Blue Yodel #8"
5. This song from one-hit wonder Bobby Day was later re-made by both Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson.
6. This Dallas Frazier song is perhaps the only song inspired by a comic strip to ever hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
7. The only hit by the singer born Gil Hamilton.
8. This song was featured in The Simpsons episodes "The Heartbroke Kid" and "The Itchy & Scratchy Movie" as well as in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus titled "How Not to Be Seen"
9. This George Baker Selection song became a cult classic after being featured in the movie Resevoir Dogs.
10. One of the most famous parts of this song is actually based on a mis-hearing of a foreign language phrase that meant "You're a Lion."
11. The majority of the song's rapid fire lyrics are derived from two songs "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" and "The Bird Is The Word."
12. The second biggest hit for the band originally known as Sir Timothy & The Royals.
13. This Ray Stevens tune was later covered by then-future Texas gubernatorial candiate Kinky Friedman.
14. I wouldn't recommend using your QoDMeister's true first name of the name of the disappearing eldest son on Happy Days when singing this Shirley Ellis song.
15. Listen while I play play play, my _____ _________
16. The biggest U.S. hit from 1910 Fruitgum Company.
17. This song was performed in the first sketch of the first episode of The Muppet Show recorded.
18. Written by Robert Charles Guidry, this tune was most famously recorded by the group often credited with the first "Rock and Roll" hit.
19. This Playmates tune may have done more to help sales of the Nash Rambler than any ad campaign ever did.
20. This was the one hit from one-hit-wonder Jewel Akens.
21. This Billboard #8 song was a country/rock and roll crossover hit for the band that brought us "Summer in the City."
22. This 1960 tune is perhaps the only Billboard #1 song that commemorates a US Military battle defeat, including the singer's wish not to end up dead or bald.
23. This third single from Larry Williams was later covered by several artists, including John Lennon, The Who, and Freddy Fender.
24. The Ramones did a cover of the song "Indian Giver" by a band that had also sang this song, which was covered frequently by a band called The Artistics (but you probably know them as a much more familiar band they became later.
BONUS (WORTH FIVE POINTS):
What do all these songs have in common?
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
C
E
