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Game #162: Songwich

Identify the 100 songs in the clues below. (Most are from the pop charts, but we make several excursions elsewhere, including a few notable album cuts.) Then, match them into 45 foursomes according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

51 songs will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. 13 songs will be used three times, each time in a different capacity. One song will be used four times, each time in a different capacity. Yes, there are four ways a song can be used, though two of them are variations of the same usage. You’ll see, I hope.

At least two of the songs in every foursome are used more than once in the game. In twelve of the foursomes, all four songs are used more than once in the game.

A song cannot be used twice in the same foursome.

Where a song title is relevant, words in parentheses should be treated as part of the title.

Where an artist is relevant, I am usually looking for the original artist. There are a few exceptions where someone else arguably had the definitive and/or most successful version of a song.

I hope this proves an easier nut to crack than the last game. And I do hope those pesky alternate solutions don’t screw things up. Play on!

1. I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don't know.
Oh, no!

2. Fame and fortune is a magnet,
It can pull you far away from home.
With a dream in your heart you're never alone.

3. I ain't scared of your brother,
I ain't scared of no sheets,
I ain't scared of nobody,
Girl, when the goin' gets mean.

4. Something so deceiving
When you stop believing,
Turn me around again.
Said we couldn't do it,
You know I want to do it again.

5. With you I could bring out
All the love that I have.
With you there's a heaven
So Earth ain't so bad.

6. My baby makes me proud,
Lord, don't she make me proud.
She never makes a scene
By hanging all over me in a crowd.

7. I work for the county out on ninety five,
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by.
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss.
Someday, mister, I'm gonna lead a better life than this.

8. I'm so afraid to love you,
But more afraid to lose,
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.

9. Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.

10. I was a car hop,
You were into be-bop,
You sang doo-wop diddy-wop diddy-wop-doo.
All of them changes you put me through.

11. Lollipop
Must mistake me, you're a sucker
To think that I would be a victim, not another.
Say it, play it how you wanna
But no way I'm ever gonna fall for you.

12. When I am kissed
I want his lips to really kiss me,
When we're apart
I want his heart to really miss me.

13. I heard it all before
So don't knock down my door.
I'm a loser and a user, so I don't need no accuser
To try and slag me down, because I know you're right.

14. Every time I look into your lovely eyes
I see a love that money just can't buy.
One look from you, I drift away,
I pray that you are here to stay
.
15. Don't say words you're gonna regret.
Don't let the fire rush to your head.

16. And yes, I know
How lonely life can be,
The shadows follow me
And the night won't set me free.

17. People around every corner,
They seem to smile and say,
“We don't care what your name is, boy,
We'll never turn you away.”

18. I wake up, with blood-shot eyes,
Struggled to memorize
The way it felt between your thighs.

19. People say that I've found a way
To make you say that you love me.
Hey baby, you didn't go for that.
It's a natural fact
That I wanna come back,
Show me where it's at, baby.

20. Nothing means more to me than hearing you say,
"I'm going to marry you,
Will you marry me, Uncle Ray?"

21. A scooter for Jimmy
A dolly for Sue,
The kind that will even say, "How do you do?"

22. There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range.
His horse and his cattle are his only companions.
He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons,
Waiting for summer, his pastures to change.

23. Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb.
Maybe get a blister on your little finger,
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.

24. Nearer, nearer, by changing horses
Still so far away,
People fighting for their places
Just get in the way.

25. She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale,
Never coming near what he wanted to say,
Only to realize
It never really was.

26. If you're ready, I'm willing and able,
Help me lay my cards out on the table.
You're mine and I'm yours for the taking.
Right now the rules we made are meant for breaking.

27. But now the days grow short, I'm in the autumn of the year,
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear.

28. They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon
And watch 'em, they'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon.

29. Every whisper
Of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions,
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost, and blinded fool.

30. It still feels like our first night together,
Feels like the first kiss.
It's getting better, baby,
No one can better this.

31. This is my song for real, no doubt,
See the DJ is making me feel thugged out.

32. I need it when I want it,
I want it when I don't,
Tell myself I'll stop every day,
Knowing that I won't.

33. From this old world I try to hide my face,
From this loneliness there's no hiding place.
Inside this cold and empty house I dwell
In darkness with memories I know so well.

34. LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see,
Neon lights and the pretty, pretty girls
All dressed so scantily.

35. The hurting’s on me, yeah,
And I will never be free, no, my baby, no no.
You gave a promise to me, yeah,
And you broke it, you broke it.

36. Magic, it must be magic,
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly.
Easy for you to take me to a star,
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes.

37. I'd say her values are corrupted
But she's open to change,
Then one day she's satisfied
And the next I'll find her crying
And it's nothing she can explain.

38. If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.

39. You're honey, child, to a swarm of bees,
Gonna blow right through you like a breeze.
Give me one last dance,
We'll slide down the surface of things.

40. Unlucky in love, least that's what they say.
He lost his head and he gambled his heart away.
He still keeps searching, though there's nothing left,
Staked his heart and lost, now he has to pay the cost.

41. I tiptoe past the master bedroom where
My mother reads her magazines,
I hear her call sweet dreams
But I forgot how to dream.

42. Well, I bet you I'm-a gonna be a big star,
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell.
The movie's gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well.

43. I would like to get to know if I could be
The kind of girl that you could be down for,
’Cause when I look at you
I feel something tell me
That you're the kind of guy that I should make a move on.

44. You came to catch,
You thought I'd be naive and tame.
You met your match,
I beat you at your own game.

45. It's Friday night, and I feel all right,
The party is here on the West side,
So I reach for my 40 and I turn it up,
Designated driver take the keys to my truck.

46. I want you to love me, like I'm a hot pie
Keep thinkin' of me, doin' what you like.
So boy, forget about the world cause it's gon' be me and you tonight,
I wanna make you beg for it, then I'm-a make you swallow your pride.

47. Here we are,
What is left of a husband and a wife with four good kids
Who have a way of gettin' on with their lives,
And I'm not old but I'm getting a whole lot older every day.
It's too late to keep from goin' crazy,
I've got to get away.

48. I can't help it,
Everything's a mess.
I can't help it,
You're so treacherous
When it comes to tenderness.

49. Oh, under those white street lamps
There is a little chance they may see.

50. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever, friendship never ends.

51. There you are
Holding her hand.
I am lost,
Dying to understand
Didn't I
Cherish you right?
Don't you know
You were my life?

52. Something 'bout the way your hair falls in your face,
I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase.
You tell me where to go and
Though I might leave to find it,
I'll never let your head hit the bed
Without my hand behind it.

53. Drive-in movies,
Comic books and blue jeans,
Howdy Doody,
Baseball cards and birthdays.

54. I won't talk,
I won't breathe,
I won't move till you finally see
That you belong with me.

55. But she wears short skirts,
I wear t-shirts.
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers,
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.

56. Used to be my life was just emotions passing by,
Then you came along and made me laugh and made me cry,
You taught me why.

57. She dealt two cards, a queen and a three,
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me,
Then she turned up a two-eyed jack,
My eyes saw red, but the card still stayed black.

58. My man put me up for the share, one-fourth of a square,
Headed for Delaware with one change of gear.

59. Nutty-nutty-nutty my love for you,
I can't believe my dreams come true,
I've finally found somebody whose heart is true,
And best of all you love me, too.

60. I remember when-a we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites - yeah! -
Mingle with the good people we meet, yeah!

61. You're thinking up your white lies,
You're putting on your bedroom eyes,
You say you're coming home, but you won't say when,
But I can feel it coming,
If you leave tonight, keep running,
And you need never look back again.

62. It's the singer, not the song,
That makes the music move along.

63. You can understand everything to share,
Let your spirits dance, brothers, everywhere,
Let your head be free,
Turn the wisdom key,
Find it naturally,
See you're lucky to be.

64. It's noble and it's brutal,
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie.

65. Boy, you've been running around too long,
Now I think you're running out of time.
No more jumping in and out of my bed.
It's time for me to draw the line.

66. Each day I live I want to be
A day to give the best of me.
I'm only one, but not alone.
My finest day is yet unknown.

67. I told my mother, my brother, my sister and my friend,
I told the others, my lovers, both past and present tense.
Every time I see you, everything starts making sense.

68. There's one day I dream of,
The day I can bring
My token of true love,
Your engagement ring.
I love you.

69. Got a picture of you I carry in my heart,
Close my eyes to see it when the world gets dark,
Got a memory of you I carry in my soul,
I wrap it close around me when the nights get cold.

70. I turn my back and you're messin' around.
I'm not really jealous, don't like lookin' like a clown.
I think of you ev'ry night and day,
You took my heart, then you took my pride away.

71. Out in the distance
Always within reach,
There’s a crossroad
Where all the victims meet.

72. There was no risk that I wouldn't take
And not a promise that I didn't make.
All I asked was that you just hold on,
And now I'm wondering what I did wrong.

73. Took a walk down the street
Through the heat-whispered trees,
I thought I could hear (hear, hear, hear)
Somebody call out my name as it started to rain.

74. It’s morning, and we slept the night away.
It happened, now we can’t turn back the hands of time (oh no).
Yes, we’ve stolen this moment, we forgot to face, one simple fact:
We both belong to someone else as we slept the night away.

75. Baby, baby, I'll meet you
Same place, same time,
Where we can get together
And ease up our mind.

76. I've got thirty-six expressions,
Sweet as pie to tough as leather,
And that's six expressions more
Than all them Barrymores put together.

77. One, two,
I'll party you,
Three, four,
So get your butt on the floor,
Five, six,
Know you dig the mix,
Seven, eight,
Let it shake.

78. You're young and you're in a hurry,
You're eager for love but don't you worry,
We both want the sweetness in life
But these things don't come overnight.

79. Lord, I gave all my money and my time.
I know it's a shame
But I'm giving you back your name.

80. I need you in my arms, need you to hold,
You're my world, my heart, my soul,
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything good in my life.

81. I stumble into town just like a sacred cow,
Visions of swastikas in my head,
Plans for everyone.

82. Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane,
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again.
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt,
Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it.

83. I would walk home every evening
Through the pyramids of light,
I would feed myself on silence,
Wash it down with empty nights.

84. Sometimes I feel like I'm drunk behind the wheel,
The wheel of possibility.
However it may roll, give it a spin,
See if you can somehow factor in,
You know there's always more than one way
To say exactly what you mean to say.

85. You say my love has always been on your mind,
But how can I ever love you when you keep working overtime?
Too many empty nights could make almost any guy roam
To look for the love he don't get whenever he's alone at home.

86. Take one fresh and tender kiss,
Add one stolen night of bliss,
One girl, one boy,
Some grief, some joy.

87. Yo, this one here goes out to all my players out there,
Ya know, got to have one good girl whose always been there,
Like, ya know, took all the bulls*it
Then one day she can't take it no more and decides to leave.

88. This morning I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with,
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it,
And did not go and shout it when you walked into the room?

89. Troubled times
Caught between confusions and pain, pain, pain.
Distant eyes,
Promises we made were in vain, in vain, in vain.

90. Well, I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV,
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see.
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess,
And when it's gonna change, my friend,
Is anybody's guess.

91. We started dancing and love put us into a groove
As soon as we started to move.
The music played while our bodies displayed through the dance,
Then love picked us out for romance.

92. He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week,
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

93. I'll give the sun,
The rain,
The moon,
The stars and the mountains.
I'll give you the world
And all that you wish for
And even more.

94. Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain,
Ev'rybody knows
Baby's got new clothes,
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.

95. So lift your eyes if you feel you can,
Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan.
I figured it out,
What I needed was someone to show me.

96. I took Katie down by the river with a six dollar bottle of wine,
Just a fool tryin' to play it cool, hopin' she'd let me cross the line.

97. The music’s soft, lights are low,
The mood is one all lovers know.
Oh, my darling at last we are one.
The trip to heaven’s begun.

98. You say you're gonna go and call it quits,
Gonna chuck it all and break our love to bits.

99. You don't have to say what you did,
I already know, I found out from him.
Now there's just no chance for you and me, there'll never be,
And don't it make you sad about it.

100. Well-a bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree.

1. HELLO, GOOD-BYE - THE BEATLES
9. STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME - BILLY JOEL
22. SWEET BABY JAMES - JAMES TAYLOR
23. MONEY FOR NOTHING - DIRE STRAITS
35. LAUGHING - THE GUESS WHO
48. SINCE YOU'RE GONE - THE CARS
53. OLD DAYS - CHICAGO
62. JOIN TOGETHER - THE WHO
81. LET'S DANCE - DAVID BOWIE
82. GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS - PETER GABRIEL
89. SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS APART) - JOURNEY

Quick pass...

4. Something so deceiving
When you stop believing,
Turn me around again.
Said we couldn't do it,
You know I want to do it again.

EVERY MORNING, Sugar Ray

9. Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.

IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME, Billy Joel

10. I was a car hop,
You were into be-bop,
You sang doo-wop diddy-wop diddy-wop-doo.
All of them changes you put me through.

'65 LOVE AFFAIR, Paul Davis

13. I heard it all before
So don't knock down my door.
I'm a loser and a user, so I don't need no accuser
To try and slag me down, because I know you're right.

WHEN I COME AROUND, Green Day

14. Every time I look into your lovely eyes
I see a love that money just can't buy.
One look from you, I drift away,
I pray that you are here to stay

YOU GOT IT, Roy Orbison

15. Don't say words you're gonna regret.
Don't let the fire rush to your head.

EYE IN THE SKY, Alan Parsons Project

23. Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb.
Maybe get a blister on your little finger,
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.

MONEY FOR NOTHING, Dire Straits

25. She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale,
Never coming near what he wanted to say,
Only to realize
It never really was.

WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES, Doobie Brothers

26. If you're ready, I'm willing and able,
Help me lay my cards out on the table.
You're mine and I'm yours for the taking.
Right now the rules we made are meant for breaking.

LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME, Bon Jovi

30. It still feels like our first night together,
Feels like the first kiss.
It's getting better, baby,
No one can better this.

PLEASE FORGIVE ME, Bryan Adams

34. LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see,
Neon lights and the pretty, pretty girls
All dressed so scantily.

THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL, Huey Lewis & the News

38. If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.

DON'T STOP, Fleetwood Mac

45. It's Friday night, and I feel all right,
The party is here on the West side,
So I reach for my 40 and I turn it up,
Designated driver take the keys to my truck.

THIS IS HOW WE DO IT, Montell Jordan

50. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever, friendship never ends.

WANNABE, Spice Girls

57. She dealt two cards, a queen and a three,
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me,
Then she turned up a two-eyed jack,
My eyes saw red, but the card still stayed black.

WAG here... DEVIL WOMAN, Cliff Richard

6. My baby makes me proud,
Lord, don't she make me proud.
She never makes a scene
By hanging all over me in a crowd.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, CHARLIE RICH

27. But now the days grow short, I'm in the autumn of the year,
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear.

IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR, FRANK SINATRA (ANDY WILLIAMS?)

42. Well, I bet you I'm-a gonna be a big star,
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell.
The movie's gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well.

ACT NATURALLY, BUCK OWENS

80. I need you in my arms, need you to hold,
You're my world, my heart, my soul,
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything good in my life.

HOW DO I LIVE, LEANN RIMES

95. So lift your eyes if you feel you can,
Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan.
I figured it out,
What I needed was someone to show me.

LOST IN LOVE

fIRST PASS -- A BUNCH SEEM FAMILIAR BUT I CAN'T QUITE PLACE THEM

1. I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don't know.
Oh, no!

HELLO, GOODBYE - BEATLES

2. Fame and fortune is a magnet,
It can pull you far away from home.
With a dream in your heart you're never alone.

DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE? – DIONNE WARWICK

5. With you I could bring out
All the love that I have.
With you there's a heaven
So Earth ain't so bad.

WEEKEND IN NEW ENGLAND – BARRY MANILOW

6. My baby makes me proud,
Lord, don't she make me proud.
She never makes a scene
By hanging all over me in a crowd.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS – CHARLIE RICH

7. I work for the county out on ninety five,
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by.
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss.
Someday, mister, I'm gonna lead a better life than this.

WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

9. Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.

STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME – BILLY JOEL

10. I was a car hop,
You were into be-bop,
You sang doo-wop diddy-wop diddy-wop-doo.
All of them changes you put me through.

65 LOVE AFFAIR?

12. When I am kissed
I want his lips to really kiss me,
When we're apart
I want his heart to really miss me.

I WANT TO BE WANTED – BRENDA LEE

14. Every time I look into your lovely eyes
I see a love that money just can't buy.
One look from you, I drift away,
I pray that you are here to stay

YOU GOT IT – ROY ORBISON

16. And yes, I know
How lonely life can be,
The shadows follow me
And the night won't set me free.

AND I LOVE YOU SO – PERRY COMO

17. People around every corner,
They seem to smile and say,
“We don't care what your name is, boy,
We'll never turn you away.”

FERRY ACROSS THE MERSEY – GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS

20. Nothing means more to me than hearing you say,
"I'm going to marry you,
Will you marry me, Uncle Ray?"

CLAIRE – GILBERT O’SULLIVAN

23. Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb.
Maybe get a blister on your little finger,
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.

MONEY FOR NOTHING – DIRE STRAIGHTS

25. She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale,
Never coming near what he wanted to say,
Only to realize
It never really was.

WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES – THE DOOBIE BROTHERS

27. But now the days grow short, I'm in the autumn of the year,
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear.

IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR – FRANK SINATRA

33. From this old world I try to hide my face,
From this loneliness there's no hiding place.
Inside this cold and empty house I dwell
In darkness with memories I know so well.

MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU – THE SUPREMES

34. LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see,
Neon lights and the pretty, pretty girls
All dressed so scantily.

HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL – HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS

35. The hurting’s on me, yeah,
And I will never be free, no, my baby, no no.
You gave a promise to me, yeah,
And you broke it, you broke it.

THESE EYES – GUESS WHO

38. If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.

DON’T STOP – FLEETWOOD MAC

41. I tiptoe past the master bedroom where
My mother reads her magazines,
I hear her call sweet dreams
But I forgot how to dream.

THAT’S THE WAY I ALWAYS HEARD IT SHOULD BE – CARLY SIMON

42. Well, I bet you I'm-a gonna be a big star,
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell.
The movie's gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well.

ACT NATURALLY – CARL PERKINS

49. Oh, under those white street lamps
There is a little chance they may see.

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT – CYNDI LAUPER

55. But she wears short skirts,
I wear t-shirts.
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers,
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.

THIS IS A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG

56. Used to be my life was just emotions passing by,
Then you came along and made me laugh and made me cry,
You taught me why.

BABY, I’MA WANT YOU - BREAD

66. Each day I live I want to be
A day to give the best of me.
I'm only one, but not alone.
My finest day is yet unknown.

ONE MOMENT IN TIME -- ??

68. There's one day I dream of,
The day I can bring
My token of true love,
Your engagement ring.
I love you.

I’LL WAIT FOR YOU – FRANKIE AVALON

75. Baby, baby, I'll meet you
Same place, same time,
Where we can get together
And ease up our mind.

GET DOWN TONIGHT – KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

76. I've got thirty-six expressions,
Sweet as pie to tough as leather,
And that's six expressions more
Than all them Barrymores put together.

I’M THE GREATEST STAR – BARBRA STREISAND

78. You're young and you're in a hurry,
You're eager for love but don't you worry,
We both want the sweetness in life
But these things don't come overnight.

GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE TIME (OR AS HE SINGS TIE-UM) – CHAIRMEN O THE BOARD

85. You say my love has always been on your mind,
But how can I ever love you when you keep working overtime?
Too many empty nights could make almost any guy roam
To look for the love he don't get whenever he's alone at home.

STOP! – LUTHER VANDROSS (don’t think that’s the whole title though)

86. Take one fresh and tender kiss,
Add one stolen night of bliss,
One girl, one boy,
Some grief, some joy.

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS – DEAN MARTIN

88. This morning I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with,
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it,
And did not go and shout it when you walked into the room?

I THINK I LOVE YOU – PARTRIDGE FAMILY

91. We started dancing and love put us into a groove
As soon as we started to move.
The music played while our bodies displayed through the dance,
Then love picked us out for romance.

LET THE MUSIC PLAY -- ??

92. He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week,
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

COME DANCING – THE KINKS

97. The music’s soft, lights are low,
The mood is one all lovers know.
Oh, my darling at last we are one.
The trip to heaven’s begun.

ALONE AT LAST – JACKIE WILSON

98. You say you're gonna go and call it quits,
Gonna chuck it all and break our love to bits.

LET’S HANG ON – FOUR SEASONS

100. Well-a bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree.

ALL SHOOK UP -- ELVIS

1. Hello Goodbye, Beatles
21. The Most Wonderful Day of the Year
29. Losing My Religion, R.E.M.
50. Wannabe, Spice Girls
55. You Belong With Me, Taylor Swift

"Songwich" suggests a set of 3 songs (top, middle, bottom). But this game has sets of 4 songs.

1. I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don't know.
Oh, no!

Hello Goodbye - Beatles

9. Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.

Still Rock N Rolll To Me - Billy Joel

10. I was a car hop,
You were into be-bop,
You sang doo-wop diddy-wop diddy-wop-doo.
All of them changes you put me through.

WAG 65 Love Affair - Paul Davis
.
15. Don't say words you're gonna regret.
Don't let the fire rush to your head.

Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons

17. People around every corner,
They seem to smile and say,
“We don't care what your name is, boy,
We'll never turn you away.”

New kid in Town - Eagles

21. A scooter for Jimmy
A dolly for Sue,
The kind that will even say, "How do you do?"

The Most Wonderful Day of the Year - Misfit Toys

23. Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb.
Maybe get a blister on your little finger,
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

25. She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale,
Never coming near what he wanted to say,
Only to realize
It never really was.

What a Fool Believes - Doobie brothers

27. But now the days grow short, I'm in the autumn of the year,
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear.

It Was a Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra

28. They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon
And watch 'em, they'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon.

It's the Beach Boys. Surfin' Safari?

29. Every whisper
Of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions,
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost, and blinded fool.

Losing My Religion - REM

34. LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see,
Neon lights and the pretty, pretty girls
All dressed so scantily.

Heart of Rock and Roll - Huey Lewis

35. The hurting’s on me, yeah,
And I will never be free, no, my baby, no no.
You gave a promise to me, yeah,
And you broke it, you broke it.

These Eyes - The Guess Who

38. If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.

Don't Stop Thinking About tomorrow - Fleetwood Mac

40. Unlucky in love, least that's what they say.
He lost his head and he gambled his heart away.
He still keeps searching, though there's nothing left,
Staked his heart and lost, now he has to pay the cost.

Lonesome Loser - Little River Band

41. I tiptoe past the master bedroom where
My mother reads her magazines,
I hear her call sweet dreams
But I forgot how to dream.

I Guess That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon

42. Well, I bet you I'm-a gonna be a big star,
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell.
The movie's gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well.

Act Naturally - Debatable who had the better known version - the Beatles or the original by Buck Owens

50. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever, friendship never ends.

Oh Frank, how could you? Wannabe - Spice Girls

53. Drive-in movies,
Comic books and blue jeans,
Howdy Doody,
Baseball cards and birthdays.

WAG Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott - Statler Brothers

57. She dealt two cards, a queen and a three,
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me,
Then she turned up a two-eyed jack,
My eyes saw red, but the card still stayed black.

Dark Lady - Cher

81. I stumble into town just like a sacred cow,
Visions of swastikas in my head,
Plans for everyone.

China Girl - David Bowie

89. Troubled times
Caught between confusions and pain, pain, pain.
Distant eyes,
Promises we made were in vain, in vain, in vain.

Separate Ways - Journey

91. We started dancing and love put us into a groove
As soon as we started to move.
The music played while our bodies displayed through the dance,
Then love picked us out for romance.

Let the Music Play - Shannon

92. He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week,
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Come Dancing - Kinks

98. You say you're gonna go and call it quits,
Gonna chuck it all and break our love to bits.

Let's Hang On- Four Seasons

100. Well-a bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree.

All Shook Up - Elvis

First, very cursory pass....

franktangredi wrote:Game #162: Songwich

Identify the 100 songs in the clues below. (Most are from the pop charts, but we make several excursions elsewhere, including a few notable album cuts.) Then, match them into 45 foursomes according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

51 songs will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. 13 songs will be used three times, each time in a different capacity. One song will be used four times, each time in a different capacity. Yes, there are four ways a song can be used, though two of them are variations of the same usage. You’ll see, I hope.

At least two of the songs in every foursome are used more than once in the game. In twelve of the foursomes, all four songs are used more than once in the game.

A song cannot be used twice in the same foursome.

Where a song title is relevant, words in parentheses should be treated as part of the title.

Where an artist is relevant, I am usually looking for the original artist. There are a few exceptions where someone else arguably had the definitive and/or most successful version of a song.

I hope this proves an easier nut to crack than the last game. And I do hope those pesky alternate solutions don’t screw things up. Play on!

1. I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don't know.
Oh, no!

Hello, Goodbye -- The Beatles



5. With you I could bring out
All the love that I have.
With you there's a heaven
So Earth ain't so bad.

Weekend in New England -- Barry Manilow

6. My baby makes me proud,
Lord, don't she make me proud.
She never makes a scene
By hanging all over me in a crowd.

Behind Closed Doors -- Charlie Rich


9. Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.

Still Rock n Roll to Me -- Billy Joel


14. Every time I look into your lovely eyes
I see a love that money just can't buy.
One look from you, I drift away,
I pray that you are here to stay

You Got It -- Roy Orbison


17. People around every corner,
They seem to smile and say,
“We don't care what your name is, boy,
We'll never turn you away.”

Ferry Cross the Mersey -- Gerry and the Pacemakers



21. A scooter for Jimmy
A dolly for Sue,
The kind that will even say, "How do you do?"

When Christmas Day is Here -- from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

22. There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range.
His horse and his cattle are his only companions.
He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons,
Waiting for summer, his pastures to change.

Sweet Baby James -- James Taylor

23. Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb.
Maybe get a blister on your little finger,
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.

Money for Nothing -- Dire Straits


25. She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale,
Never coming near what he wanted to say,
Only to realize
It never really was.

What a Fool Believes -- Doobie Brothers


34. LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see,
Neon lights and the pretty, pretty girls
All dressed so scantily.

Heart of Rock n Roll -- Huey Lewis and the News

35. The hurting’s on me, yeah,
And I will never be free, no, my baby, no no.
You gave a promise to me, yeah,
And you broke it, you broke it.

These Eyes -- Guess Who


38. If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.

Don't Stop -- Fleetwood Mac


40. Unlucky in love, least that's what they say.
He lost his head and he gambled his heart away.
He still keeps searching, though there's nothing left,
Staked his heart and lost, now he has to pay the cost.

Lonesome Loser -- Little River Band

41. I tiptoe past the master bedroom where
My mother reads her magazines,
I hear her call sweet dreams
But I forgot how to dream.

The Way I've Always Heard it Should Be -- Carly Simon

42. Well, I bet you I'm-a gonna be a big star,
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell.
The movie's gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well.

Act Naturally -- Buck Owens or The Beatles


50. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever, friendship never ends.

Wannabe -- Spice Girls

53. Drive-in movies,
Comic books and blue jeans,
Howdy Doody,
Baseball cards and birthdays.

Old Days -- Chicago

55. But she wears short skirts,
I wear t-shirts.
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers,
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.

That Taylor Swift song -- Fifteen?

56. Used to be my life was just emotions passing by,
Then you came along and made me laugh and made me cry,
You taught me why.

Baby, I'm-a Want You -- Bread

57. She dealt two cards, a queen and a three,
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me,
Then she turned up a two-eyed jack,
My eyes saw red, but the card still stayed black.

Dark Lady -- Cher

61. You're thinking up your white lies,
You're putting on your bedroom eyes,
You say you're coming home, but you won't say when,
But I can feel it coming,
If you leave tonight, keep running,
And you need never look back again.

Take it on the Run -- REO Speedwagon

69. Got a picture of you I carry in my heart,
Close my eyes to see it when the world gets dark,
Got a memory of you I carry in my soul,
I wrap it close around me when the nights get cold.

Not a Day Goes By -- Lonestar


75. Baby, baby, I'll meet you
Same place, same time,
Where we can get together
And ease up our mind.

Get Down Tonight -- KC and the Sunshine Band


79. Lord, I gave all my money and my time.
I know it's a shame
But I'm giving you back your name.

Sail On -- Commodores

80. I need you in my arms, need you to hold,
You're my world, my heart, my soul,
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything good in my life.

How do I Live -- LeAnn Rimes or Trisha Yearwood




88. This morning I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with,
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it,
And did not go and shout it when you walked into the room?

I Think I Love You -- Partridge Family



92. He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week,
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Come Dancin' --Kinks



98. You say you're gonna go and call it quits,
Gonna chuck it all and break our love to bits.

Let's Hang On -- Four Seasons


100. Well-a bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree.

All Shook Up -- Elvis Presley

First consolidation:


Game #162: Songwich

Identify the 100 songs in the clues below. (Most are from the pop charts, but we make several excursions elsewhere, including a few notable album cuts.) Then, match them into 45 foursomes according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

51 songs will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. 13 songs will be used three times, each time in a different capacity. One song will be used four times, each time in a different capacity. Yes, there are four ways a song can be used, though two of them are variations of the same usage. You’ll see, I hope.

At least two of the songs in every foursome are used more than once in the game. In twelve of the foursomes, all four songs are used more than once in the game.

A song cannot be used twice in the same foursome.

Where a song title is relevant, words in parentheses should be treated as part of the title.

Where an artist is relevant, I am usually looking for the original artist. There are a few exceptions where someone else arguably had the definitive and/or most successful version of a song.

I hope this proves an easier nut to crack than the last game. And I do hope those pesky alternate solutions don’t screw things up. Play on!

1. I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don't know.
Oh, no!

HELLO, GOOD-BYE - THE BEATLES

2. Fame and fortune is a magnet,
It can pull you far away from home.
With a dream in your heart you're never alone.

DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE? – DIONNE WARWICK

3. I ain't scared of your brother,
I ain't scared of no sheets,
I ain't scared of nobody,
Girl, when the goin' gets mean.

4. Something so deceiving
When you stop believing,
Turn me around again.
Said we couldn't do it,
You know I want to do it again.

EVERY MORNING - SUGAR RAY

5. With you I could bring out
All the love that I have.
With you there's a heaven
So Earth ain't so bad.

WEEKEND IN NEW ENGLAND – BARRY MANILOW

6. My baby makes me proud,
Lord, don't she make me proud.
She never makes a scene
By hanging all over me in a crowd.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - CHARLIE RICH

7. I work for the county out on ninety five,
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by.
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss.
Someday, mister, I'm gonna lead a better life than this.

WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

8. I'm so afraid to love you,
But more afraid to lose,
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.

9. Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.

IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME - BILLY JOEL

10. I was a car hop,
You were into be-bop,
You sang doo-wop diddy-wop diddy-wop-doo.
All of them changes you put me through.

'65 LOVE AFFAIR - PAUL DAVIS

11. Lollipop
Must mistake me, you're a sucker
To think that I would be a victim, not another.
Say it, play it how you wanna
But no way I'm ever gonna fall for you.

12. When I am kissed
I want his lips to really kiss me,
When we're apart
I want his heart to really miss me.

I WANT TO BE WANTED – BRENDA LEE

13. I heard it all before
So don't knock down my door.
I'm a loser and a user, so I don't need no accuser
To try and slag me down, because I know you're right.

WHEN I COME AROUND - GREEN DAY

14. Every time I look into your lovely eyes
I see a love that money just can't buy.
One look from you, I drift away,
I pray that you are here to stay

YOU GOT IT - ROY ORBISON

15. Don't say words you're gonna regret.
Don't let the fire rush to your head.

EYE IN THE SKY - ALAN PARSONS PROJECT

16. And yes, I know
How lonely life can be,
The shadows follow me
And the night won't set me free.

AND I LOVE YOU SO – PERRY COMO

17. People around every corner,
They seem to smile and say,
“We don't care what your name is, boy,
We'll never turn you away.”

FERRY ACROSS THE MERSEY – GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS

18. I wake up, with blood-shot eyes,
Struggled to memorize
The way it felt between your thighs.

19. People say that I've found a way
To make you say that you love me.
Hey baby, you didn't go for that.
It's a natural fact
That I wanna come back,
Show me where it's at, baby.

20. Nothing means more to me than hearing you say,
"I'm going to marry you,
Will you marry me, Uncle Ray?"

CLAIRE – GILBERT O’SULLIVAN

21. A scooter for Jimmy
A dolly for Sue,
The kind that will even say, "How do you do?"

THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF THE YEAR - MISFIT TOYS

22. There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range.
His horse and his cattle are his only companions.
He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons,
Waiting for summer, his pastures to change.

SWEET BABY JAMES - JAMES TAYLOR

23. Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb.
Maybe get a blister on your little finger,
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.

MONEY FOR NOTHING - DIRE STRAITS

24. Nearer, nearer, by changing horses
Still so far away,
People fighting for their places
Just get in the way.

25. She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale,
Never coming near what he wanted to say,
Only to realize
It never really was.

WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES - DOOBIE BROTHERS

26. If you're ready, I'm willing and able,
Help me lay my cards out on the table.
You're mine and I'm yours for the taking.
Right now the rules we made are meant for breaking.

LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME - BON JOVI

27. But now the days grow short, I'm in the autumn of the year,
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear.

IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR - FRANK SINATRA

28. They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon
And watch 'em, they'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon.

SURFIN' SAFARI? - THE BEACH BOYS

29. Every whisper
Of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions,
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost, and blinded fool.

LOSING MY RELIGION - R.E.M.

30. It still feels like our first night together,
Feels like the first kiss.
It's getting better, baby,
No one can better this.

PLEASE FORGIVE ME - BRYAN ADAMS

31. This is my song for real, no doubt,
See the DJ is making me feel thugged out.

32. I need it when I want it,
I want it when I don't,
Tell myself I'll stop every day,
Knowing that I won't.

33. From this old world I try to hide my face,
From this loneliness there's no hiding place.
Inside this cold and empty house I dwell
In darkness with memories I know so well.

MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU – THE SUPREMES

34. LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see,
Neon lights and the pretty, pretty girls
All dressed so scantily.

THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL - HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS

35. The hurting’s on me, yeah,
And I will never be free, no, my baby, no no.
You gave a promise to me, yeah,
And you broke it, you broke it.

THESE EYES - THE GUESS WHO

36. Magic, it must be magic,
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly.
Easy for you to take me to a star,
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes.

37. I'd say her values are corrupted
But she's open to change,
Then one day she's satisfied
And the next I'll find her crying
And it's nothing she can explain.

38. If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.

DON'T STOP - FLEETWOOD MAC

39. You're honey, child, to a swarm of bees,
Gonna blow right through you like a breeze.
Give me one last dance,
We'll slide down the surface of things.

40. Unlucky in love, least that's what they say.
He lost his head and he gambled his heart away.
He still keeps searching, though there's nothing left,
Staked his heart and lost, now he has to pay the cost.

LONESOME LOSER - LITTLE RIVER BAND

41. I tiptoe past the master bedroom where
My mother reads her magazines,
I hear her call sweet dreams
But I forgot how to dream.

THAT’S THE WAY I ALWAYS HEARD IT SHOULD BE – CARLY SIMON

42. Well, I bet you I'm-a gonna be a big star,
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell.
The movie's gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well.

ACT NATURALLY - BUCK OWENS

43. I would like to get to know if I could be
The kind of girl that you could be down for,
’Cause when I look at you
I feel something tell me
That you're the kind of guy that I should make a move on.

44. You came to catch,
You thought I'd be naive and tame.
You met your match,
I beat you at your own game.

45. It's Friday night, and I feel all right,
The party is here on the West side,
So I reach for my 40 and I turn it up,
Designated driver take the keys to my truck.

THIS IS HOW WE DO IT - MONTELL JORDAN

46. I want you to love me, like I'm a hot pie
Keep thinkin' of me, doin' what you like.
So boy, forget about the world cause it's gon' be me and you tonight,
I wanna make you beg for it, then I'm-a make you swallow your pride.

47. Here we are,
What is left of a husband and a wife with four good kids
Who have a way of gettin' on with their lives,
And I'm not old but I'm getting a whole lot older every day.
It's too late to keep from goin' crazy,
I've got to get away.

48. I can't help it,
Everything's a mess.
I can't help it,
You're so treacherous
When it comes to tenderness.

SINCE YOU'RE GONE - THE CARS

49. Oh, under those white street lamps
There is a little chance they may see.

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT – CYNDI LAUPER

50. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever, friendship never ends.

WANNABE - SPICE GIRLS

51. There you are
Holding her hand.
I am lost,
Dying to understand
Didn't I
Cherish you right?
Don't you know
You were my life?

52. Something 'bout the way your hair falls in your face,
I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase.
You tell me where to go and
Though I might leave to find it,
I'll never let your head hit the bed
Without my hand behind it.

53. Drive-in movies,
Comic books and blue jeans,
Howdy Doody,
Baseball cards and birthdays.

OLD DAYS - CHICAGO

54. I won't talk,
I won't breathe,
I won't move till you finally see
That you belong with me.

55. But she wears short skirts,
I wear t-shirts.
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers,
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.

YOU BELONG WITH ME - TAYLOR SWIFT

56. Used to be my life was just emotions passing by,
Then you came along and made me laugh and made me cry,
You taught me why.

BABY, I’MA WANT YOU - BREAD

57. She dealt two cards, a queen and a three,
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me,
Then she turned up a two-eyed jack,
My eyes saw red, but the card still stayed black.

DARK LADY - CHER

58. My man put me up for the share, one-fourth of a square,
Headed for Delaware with one change of gear.

59. Nutty-nutty-nutty my love for you,
I can't believe my dreams come true,
I've finally found somebody whose heart is true,
And best of all you love me, too.

60. I remember when-a we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites - yeah! -
Mingle with the good people we meet, yeah!

61. You're thinking up your white lies,
You're putting on your bedroom eyes,
You say you're coming home, but you won't say when,
But I can feel it coming,
If you leave tonight, keep running,
And you need never look back again.

TAKE IT ON THE RUN -- REO SPEEDWAGON

62. It's the singer, not the song,
That makes the music move along.

JOIN TOGETHER - THE WHO

63. You can understand everything to share,
Let your spirits dance, brothers, everywhere,
Let your head be free,
Turn the wisdom key,
Find it naturally,
See you're lucky to be.

64. It's noble and it's brutal,
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie.

65. Boy, you've been running around too long,
Now I think you're running out of time.
No more jumping in and out of my bed.
It's time for me to draw the line.

66. Each day I live I want to be
A day to give the best of me.
I'm only one, but not alone.
My finest day is yet unknown.

ONE MOMENT IN TIME

67. I told my mother, my brother, my sister and my friend,
I told the others, my lovers, both past and present tense.
Every time I see you, everything starts making sense.

68. There's one day I dream of,
The day I can bring
My token of true love,
Your engagement ring.
I love you.

I’LL WAIT FOR YOU – FRANKIE AVALON

69. Got a picture of you I carry in my heart,
Close my eyes to see it when the world gets dark,
Got a memory of you I carry in my soul,
I wrap it close around me when the nights get cold.

NOT A DAY GOES BY - LONESTAR

70. I turn my back and you're messin' around.
I'm not really jealous, don't like lookin' like a clown.
I think of you ev'ry night and day,
You took my heart, then you took my pride away.

71. Out in the distance
Always within reach,
There’s a crossroad
Where all the victims meet.

72. There was no risk that I wouldn't take
And not a promise that I didn't make.
All I asked was that you just hold on,
And now I'm wondering what I did wrong.

73. Took a walk down the street
Through the heat-whispered trees,
I thought I could hear (hear, hear, hear)
Somebody call out my name as it started to rain.

74. It’s morning, and we slept the night away.
It happened, now we can’t turn back the hands of time (oh no).
Yes, we’ve stolen this moment, we forgot to face, one simple fact:
We both belong to someone else as we slept the night away.

75. Baby, baby, I'll meet you
Same place, same time,
Where we can get together
And ease up our mind.

GET DOWN TONIGHT – KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

76. I've got thirty-six expressions,
Sweet as pie to tough as leather,
And that's six expressions more
Than all them Barrymores put together.

I’M THE GREATEST STAR – BARBRA STREISAND

77. One, two,
I'll party you,
Three, four,
So get your butt on the floor,
Five, six,
Know you dig the mix,
Seven, eight,
Let it shake.

78. You're young and you're in a hurry,
You're eager for love but don't you worry,
We both want the sweetness in life
But these things don't come overnight.

GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE TIME (OR AS HE SINGS TIE-UM) – CHAIRMEN O THE BOARD

79. Lord, I gave all my money and my time.
I know it's a shame
But I'm giving you back your name.

SAIL ON - COMMODORES

80. I need you in my arms, need you to hold,
You're my world, my heart, my soul,
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything good in my life.

HOW DO I LIVE - LEANN RIMES or TRISHA YEARWOOD

81. I stumble into town just like a sacred cow,
Visions of swastikas in my head,
Plans for everyone.

CHINA GIRL - DAVID BOWIE

82. Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane,
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again.
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt,
Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it.

GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS - PETER GABRIEL

83. I would walk home every evening
Through the pyramids of light,
I would feed myself on silence,
Wash it down with empty nights.

84. Sometimes I feel like I'm drunk behind the wheel,
The wheel of possibility.
However it may roll, give it a spin,
See if you can somehow factor in,
You know there's always more than one way
To say exactly what you mean to say.

85. You say my love has always been on your mind,
But how can I ever love you when you keep working overtime?
Too many empty nights could make almost any guy roam
To look for the love he don't get whenever he's alone at home.

STOP! – LUTHER VANDROSS (don’t think that’s the whole title though)

86. Take one fresh and tender kiss,
Add one stolen night of bliss,
One girl, one boy,
Some grief, some joy.

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS – DEAN MARTIN

87. Yo, this one here goes out to all my players out there,
Ya know, got to have one good girl whose always been there,
Like, ya know, took all the bulls*it
Then one day she can't take it no more and decides to leave.

88. This morning I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with,
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it,
And did not go and shout it when you walked into the room?

I THINK I LOVE YOU – PARTRIDGE FAMILY

89. Troubled times
Caught between confusions and pain, pain, pain.
Distant eyes,
Promises we made were in vain, in vain, in vain.

SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS APART) - JOURNEY

90. Well, I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV,
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see.
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess,
And when it's gonna change, my friend,
Is anybody's guess.

91. We started dancing and love put us into a groove
As soon as we started to move.
The music played while our bodies displayed through the dance,
Then love picked us out for romance.

LET THE MUSIC PLAY - SHANNON

92. He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week,
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

COME DANCING – THE KINKS

93. I'll give the sun,
The rain,
The moon,
The stars and the mountains.
I'll give you the world
And all that you wish for
And even more.

94. Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain,
Ev'rybody knows
Baby's got new clothes,
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.

95. So lift your eyes if you feel you can,
Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan.
I figured it out,
What I needed was someone to show me.

LOST IN LOVE

96. I took Katie down by the river with a six dollar bottle of wine,
Just a fool tryin' to play it cool, hopin' she'd let me cross the line.

97. The music’s soft, lights are low,
The mood is one all lovers know.
Oh, my darling at last we are one.
The trip to heaven’s begun.

ALONE AT LAST – JACKIE WILSON

98. You say you're gonna go and call it quits,
Gonna chuck it all and break our love to bits.

LET’S HANG ON – FOUR SEASONS

99. You don't have to say what you did,
I already know, I found out from him.
Now there's just no chance for you and me, there'll never be,
And don't it make you sad about it.

100. Well-a bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree.

ALL SHOOK UP - ELVIS PRESLEY

Every definite answer is right, but you already knew that. That leaves one wrong answer and one incomplete answer (but you already knew that, too.)

jarnon wrote:First consolidation:


Game #162: Songwich

Identify the 100 songs in the clues below. (Most are from the pop charts, but we make several excursions elsewhere, including a few notable album cuts.) Then, match them into 45 foursomes according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

51 songs will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. 13 songs will be used three times, each time in a different capacity. One song will be used four times, each time in a different capacity. Yes, there are four ways a song can be used, though two of them are variations of the same usage. You’ll see, I hope.

At least two of the songs in every foursome are used more than once in the game. In twelve of the foursomes, all four songs are used more than once in the game.

A song cannot be used twice in the same foursome.

Where a song title is relevant, words in parentheses should be treated as part of the title.

Where an artist is relevant, I am usually looking for the original artist. There are a few exceptions where someone else arguably had the definitive and/or most successful version of a song.

I hope this proves an easier nut to crack than the last game. And I do hope those pesky alternate solutions don’t screw things up. Play on!

1. I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don't know.
Oh, no!

HELLO, GOOD-BYE - THE BEATLES

2. Fame and fortune is a magnet,
It can pull you far away from home.
With a dream in your heart you're never alone.

DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE? – DIONNE WARWICK

3. I ain't scared of your brother,
I ain't scared of no sheets,
I ain't scared of nobody,
Girl, when the goin' gets mean.

4. Something so deceiving
When you stop believing,
Turn me around again.
Said we couldn't do it,
You know I want to do it again.

EVERY MORNING - SUGAR RAY

5. With you I could bring out
All the love that I have.
With you there's a heaven
So Earth ain't so bad.

WEEKEND IN NEW ENGLAND – BARRY MANILOW

6. My baby makes me proud,
Lord, don't she make me proud.
She never makes a scene
By hanging all over me in a crowd.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - CHARLIE RICH

7. I work for the county out on ninety five,
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by.
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss.
Someday, mister, I'm gonna lead a better life than this.

WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

8. I'm so afraid to love you,
But more afraid to lose,
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.

9. Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.

IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME - BILLY JOEL

10. I was a car hop,
You were into be-bop,
You sang doo-wop diddy-wop diddy-wop-doo.
All of them changes you put me through.

'65 LOVE AFFAIR - PAUL DAVIS

11. Lollipop
Must mistake me, you're a sucker
To think that I would be a victim, not another.
Say it, play it how you wanna
But no way I'm ever gonna fall for you.

12. When I am kissed
I want his lips to really kiss me,
When we're apart
I want his heart to really miss me.

I WANT TO BE WANTED – BRENDA LEE

13. I heard it all before
So don't knock down my door.
I'm a loser and a user, so I don't need no accuser
To try and slag me down, because I know you're right.

WHEN I COME AROUND - GREEN DAY

14. Every time I look into your lovely eyes
I see a love that money just can't buy.
One look from you, I drift away,
I pray that you are here to stay

YOU GOT IT - ROY ORBISON

15. Don't say words you're gonna regret.
Don't let the fire rush to your head.

EYE IN THE SKY - ALAN PARSONS PROJECT

16. And yes, I know
How lonely life can be,
The shadows follow me
And the night won't set me free.

AND I LOVE YOU SO – PERRY COMO

17. People around every corner,
They seem to smile and say,
“We don't care what your name is, boy,
We'll never turn you away.”

FERRY ACROSS THE MERSEY – GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS

18. I wake up, with blood-shot eyes,
Struggled to memorize
The way it felt between your thighs.

19. People say that I've found a way
To make you say that you love me.
Hey baby, you didn't go for that.
It's a natural fact
That I wanna come back,
Show me where it's at, baby.

20. Nothing means more to me than hearing you say,
"I'm going to marry you,
Will you marry me, Uncle Ray?"

CLAIRE – GILBERT O’SULLIVAN

21. A scooter for Jimmy
A dolly for Sue,
The kind that will even say, "How do you do?"

THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF THE YEAR - MISFIT TOYS

22. There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range.
His horse and his cattle are his only companions.
He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons,
Waiting for summer, his pastures to change.

SWEET BABY JAMES - JAMES TAYLOR

23. Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb.
Maybe get a blister on your little finger,
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.

MONEY FOR NOTHING - DIRE STRAITS

24. Nearer, nearer, by changing horses
Still so far away,
People fighting for their places
Just get in the way.

25. She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale,
Never coming near what he wanted to say,
Only to realize
It never really was.

WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES - DOOBIE BROTHERS

26. If you're ready, I'm willing and able,
Help me lay my cards out on the table.
You're mine and I'm yours for the taking.
Right now the rules we made are meant for breaking.

LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME - BON JOVI

27. But now the days grow short, I'm in the autumn of the year,
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear.

IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR - FRANK SINATRA

28. They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon
And watch 'em, they'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon.

SURFIN' SAFARI? - THE BEACH BOYS

29. Every whisper
Of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions,
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost, and blinded fool.

LOSING MY RELIGION - R.E.M.

30. It still feels like our first night together,
Feels like the first kiss.
It's getting better, baby,
No one can better this.

PLEASE FORGIVE ME - BRYAN ADAMS

31. This is my song for real, no doubt,
See the DJ is making me feel thugged out.

32. I need it when I want it,
I want it when I don't,
Tell myself I'll stop every day,
Knowing that I won't.

33. From this old world I try to hide my face,
From this loneliness there's no hiding place.
Inside this cold and empty house I dwell
In darkness with memories I know so well.

MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU – THE SUPREMES

34. LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see,
Neon lights and the pretty, pretty girls
All dressed so scantily.

THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL - HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS

35. The hurting’s on me, yeah,
And I will never be free, no, my baby, no no.
You gave a promise to me, yeah,
And you broke it, you broke it.

THESE EYES - THE GUESS WHO

36. Magic, it must be magic,
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly.
Easy for you to take me to a star,
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes.

37. I'd say her values are corrupted
But she's open to change,
Then one day she's satisfied
And the next I'll find her crying
And it's nothing she can explain.

38. If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.

DON'T STOP - FLEETWOOD MAC

39. You're honey, child, to a swarm of bees,
Gonna blow right through you like a breeze.
Give me one last dance,
We'll slide down the surface of things.

40. Unlucky in love, least that's what they say.
He lost his head and he gambled his heart away.
He still keeps searching, though there's nothing left,
Staked his heart and lost, now he has to pay the cost.

LONESOME LOSER - LITTLE RIVER BAND

41. I tiptoe past the master bedroom where
My mother reads her magazines,
I hear her call sweet dreams
But I forgot how to dream.

THAT’S THE WAY I ALWAYS HEARD IT SHOULD BE – CARLY SIMON

42. Well, I bet you I'm-a gonna be a big star,
Might win an Oscar, you can never tell.
The movie's gonna make me a big star,
'Cause I can play the part so well.

ACT NATURALLY - BUCK OWENS

43. I would like to get to know if I could be
The kind of girl that you could be down for,
’Cause when I look at you
I feel something tell me
That you're the kind of guy that I should make a move on.

44. You came to catch,
You thought I'd be naive and tame.
You met your match,
I beat you at your own game.

45. It's Friday night, and I feel all right,
The party is here on the West side,
So I reach for my 40 and I turn it up,
Designated driver take the keys to my truck.

THIS IS HOW WE DO IT - MONTELL JORDAN

46. I want you to love me, like I'm a hot pie
Keep thinkin' of me, doin' what you like.
So boy, forget about the world cause it's gon' be me and you tonight,
I wanna make you beg for it, then I'm-a make you swallow your pride.

47. Here we are,
What is left of a husband and a wife with four good kids
Who have a way of gettin' on with their lives,
And I'm not old but I'm getting a whole lot older every day.
It's too late to keep from goin' crazy,
I've got to get away.

48. I can't help it,
Everything's a mess.
I can't help it,
You're so treacherous
When it comes to tenderness.

SINCE YOU'RE GONE - THE CARS

49. Oh, under those white street lamps
There is a little chance they may see.

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT – CYNDI LAUPER

50. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever, friendship never ends.

WANNABE - SPICE GIRLS

51. There you are
Holding her hand.
I am lost,
Dying to understand
Didn't I
Cherish you right?
Don't you know
You were my life?

52. Something 'bout the way your hair falls in your face,
I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase.
You tell me where to go and
Though I might leave to find it,
I'll never let your head hit the bed
Without my hand behind it.

53. Drive-in movies,
Comic books and blue jeans,
Howdy Doody,
Baseball cards and birthdays.

OLD DAYS - CHICAGO

54. I won't talk,
I won't breathe,
I won't move till you finally see
That you belong with me.

55. But she wears short skirts,
I wear t-shirts.
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers,
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.

YOU BELONG WITH ME - TAYLOR SWIFT

56. Used to be my life was just emotions passing by,
Then you came along and made me laugh and made me cry,
You taught me why.

BABY, I’MA WANT YOU - BREAD

57. She dealt two cards, a queen and a three,
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me,
Then she turned up a two-eyed jack,
My eyes saw red, but the card still stayed black.

DARK LADY - CHER

58. My man put me up for the share, one-fourth of a square,
Headed for Delaware with one change of gear.

59. Nutty-nutty-nutty my love for you,
I can't believe my dreams come true,
I've finally found somebody whose heart is true,
And best of all you love me, too.

60. I remember when-a we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites - yeah! -
Mingle with the good people we meet, yeah!

61. You're thinking up your white lies,
You're putting on your bedroom eyes,
You say you're coming home, but you won't say when,
But I can feel it coming,
If you leave tonight, keep running,
And you need never look back again.

TAKE IT ON THE RUN -- REO SPEEDWAGON

62. It's the singer, not the song,
That makes the music move along.

JOIN TOGETHER - THE WHO

63. You can understand everything to share,
Let your spirits dance, brothers, everywhere,
Let your head be free,
Turn the wisdom key,
Find it naturally,
See you're lucky to be.

64. It's noble and it's brutal,
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie.

65. Boy, you've been running around too long,
Now I think you're running out of time.
No more jumping in and out of my bed.
It's time for me to draw the line.

66. Each day I live I want to be
A day to give the best of me.
I'm only one, but not alone.
My finest day is yet unknown.

ONE MOMENT IN TIME

67. I told my mother, my brother, my sister and my friend,
I told the others, my lovers, both past and present tense.
Every time I see you, everything starts making sense.

68. There's one day I dream of,
The day I can bring
My token of true love,
Your engagement ring.
I love you.

I’LL WAIT FOR YOU – FRANKIE AVALON

69. Got a picture of you I carry in my heart,
Close my eyes to see it when the world gets dark,
Got a memory of you I carry in my soul,
I wrap it close around me when the nights get cold.

NOT A DAY GOES BY - LONESTAR

70. I turn my back and you're messin' around.
I'm not really jealous, don't like lookin' like a clown.
I think of you ev'ry night and day,
You took my heart, then you took my pride away.

71. Out in the distance
Always within reach,
There’s a crossroad
Where all the victims meet.

72. There was no risk that I wouldn't take
And not a promise that I didn't make.
All I asked was that you just hold on,
And now I'm wondering what I did wrong.

73. Took a walk down the street
Through the heat-whispered trees,
I thought I could hear (hear, hear, hear)
Somebody call out my name as it started to rain.

74. It’s morning, and we slept the night away.
It happened, now we can’t turn back the hands of time (oh no).
Yes, we’ve stolen this moment, we forgot to face, one simple fact:
We both belong to someone else as we slept the night away.

75. Baby, baby, I'll meet you
Same place, same time,
Where we can get together
And ease up our mind.

GET DOWN TONIGHT – KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND

76. I've got thirty-six expressions,
Sweet as pie to tough as leather,
And that's six expressions more
Than all them Barrymores put together.

I’M THE GREATEST STAR – BARBRA STREISAND

77. One, two,
I'll party you,
Three, four,
So get your butt on the floor,
Five, six,
Know you dig the mix,
Seven, eight,
Let it shake.

78. You're young and you're in a hurry,
You're eager for love but don't you worry,
We both want the sweetness in life
But these things don't come overnight.

GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE TIME (OR AS HE SINGS TIE-UM) – CHAIRMEN O THE BOARD

79. Lord, I gave all my money and my time.
I know it's a shame
But I'm giving you back your name.

SAIL ON - COMMODORES

80. I need you in my arms, need you to hold,
You're my world, my heart, my soul,
If you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything good in my life.

HOW DO I LIVE - LEANN RIMES or TRISHA YEARWOOD

81. I stumble into town just like a sacred cow,
Visions of swastikas in my head,
Plans for everyone.

CHINA GIRL - DAVID BOWIE

82. Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane,
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again.
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt,
Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it.

GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS - PETER GABRIEL

83. I would walk home every evening
Through the pyramids of light,
I would feed myself on silence,
Wash it down with empty nights.

84. Sometimes I feel like I'm drunk behind the wheel,
The wheel of possibility.
However it may roll, give it a spin,
See if you can somehow factor in,
You know there's always more than one way
To say exactly what you mean to say.

85. You say my love has always been on your mind,
But how can I ever love you when you keep working overtime?
Too many empty nights could make almost any guy roam
To look for the love he don't get whenever he's alone at home.

STOP! – LUTHER VANDROSS (don’t think that’s the whole title though)

86. Take one fresh and tender kiss,
Add one stolen night of bliss,
One girl, one boy,
Some grief, some joy.

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS – DEAN MARTIN

87. Yo, this one here goes out to all my players out there,
Ya know, got to have one good girl whose always been there,
Like, ya know, took all the bulls*it
Then one day she can't take it no more and decides to leave.

88. This morning I woke up with this feeling
I didn't know how to deal with,
And so I just decided to myself
I'd hide it to myself
And never talk about it,
And did not go and shout it when you walked into the room?

I THINK I LOVE YOU – PARTRIDGE FAMILY

89. Troubled times
Caught between confusions and pain, pain, pain.
Distant eyes,
Promises we made were in vain, in vain, in vain.

SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS APART) - JOURNEY

90. Well, I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV,
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see.
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess,
And when it's gonna change, my friend,
Is anybody's guess.

91. We started dancing and love put us into a groove
As soon as we started to move.
The music played while our bodies displayed through the dance,
Then love picked us out for romance.

LET THE MUSIC PLAY - SHANNON

92. He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week,
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

COME DANCING – THE KINKS

93. I'll give the sun,
The rain,
The moon,
The stars and the mountains.
I'll give you the world
And all that you wish for
And even more.

94. Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain,
Ev'rybody knows
Baby's got new clothes,
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.

95. So lift your eyes if you feel you can,
Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan.
I figured it out,
What I needed was someone to show me.

LOST IN LOVE

96. I took Katie down by the river with a six dollar bottle of wine,
Just a fool tryin' to play it cool, hopin' she'd let me cross the line.

97. The music’s soft, lights are low,
The mood is one all lovers know.
Oh, my darling at last we are one.
The trip to heaven’s begun.

ALONE AT LAST – JACKIE WILSON

98. You say you're gonna go and call it quits,
Gonna chuck it all and break our love to bits.

LET’S HANG ON – FOUR SEASONS

99. You don't have to say what you did,
I already know, I found out from him.
Now there's just no chance for you and me, there'll never be,
And don't it make you sad about it.

100. Well-a bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree.

ALL SHOOK UP - ELVIS PRESLEY

1. I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don't know.
Oh, no!
Hello Goodbye - Beatles

9. Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.
It's Still Rock And Roll To Me - Billy Joel

10. I was a car hop,
You were into be-bop,
You sang doo-wop diddy-wop diddy-wop-doo.
All of them changes you put me through.
'65 Love Affair - Paul Davis

17. People around every corner,
They seem to smile and say,
“We don't care what your name is, boy,
We'll never turn you away.”
Ferry Across The Mersey - Gerry & The Pacemakers

21. A scooter for Jimmy
A dolly for Sue,
The kind that will even say, "How do you do?"
Whatever that song is from the Rudolph special...

23. Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb.
Maybe get a blister on your little finger,
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

25. She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale,
Never coming near what he wanted to say,
Only to realize
It never really was.
Someone has probably already gotten this one...

28. They'll eat their words with a fork and spoon
And watch 'em, they'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon.
Catch A Wave - Beach Boys

29. Every whisper
Of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions,
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt, lost, and blinded fool.
See #25...

34. LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip
Is something everyone should see,
Neon lights and the pretty, pretty girls
All dressed so scantily.
Heart Of Rock And Roll - Huey Lewis & The News

35. The hurting’s on me, yeah,
And I will never be free, no, my baby, no no.
You gave a promise to me, yeah,
And you broke it, you broke it.
These Eyes - Guess Who

38. If you wake up and don't want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You'll see things in a different way.
Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac

40. Unlucky in love, least that's what they say.
He lost his head and he gambled his heart away.
He still keeps searching, though there's nothing left,
Staked his heart and lost, now he has to pay the cost.
Lonesome Loser - Little River Band

45. It's Friday night, and I feel all right,
The party is here on the West side,
So I reach for my 40 and I turn it up,
Designated driver take the keys to my truck.
This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan

50. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends,
Make it last forever, friendship never ends.
Wannabe - Spice Girls

52. Something 'bout the way your hair falls in your face,
I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase.
You tell me where to go and
Though I might leave to find it,
I'll never let your head hit the bed
Without my hand behind it.
Your Body Is A Wonderland - John Mayer

53. Drive-in movies,
Comic books and blue jeans,
Howdy Doody,
Baseball cards and birthdays.
Old Days - Chicago

55. But she wears short skirts,
I wear t-shirts.
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers,
Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
That what you're looking for has been here the whole time.
You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift (HA! The last line of #54 made me think of this song...)

57. She dealt two cards, a queen and a three,
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me,
Then she turned up a two-eyed jack,
My eyes saw red, but the card still stayed black.
Dark Lady - Cher

61. You're thinking up your white lies,
You're putting on your bedroom eyes,
You say you're coming home, but you won't say when,
But I can feel it coming,
If you leave tonight, keep running,
And you need never look back again.
Take It On The Run - REO Speedwagon

70. I turn my back and you're messin' around.
I'm not really jealous, don't like lookin' like a clown.
I think of you ev'ry night and day,
You took my heart, then you took my pride away.
I Hate Myself For Loving You - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

75. Baby, baby, I'll meet you
Same place, same time,
Where we can get together
And ease up our mind.
Get Down Tonight - KC & The Sunshine Band

81. I stumble into town just like a sacred cow,
Visions of swastikas in my head,
Plans for everyone.
China Girl - David Bowie

82. Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane,
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again.
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt,
Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it.
Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel

84. Sometimes I feel like I'm drunk behind the wheel,
The wheel of possibility.
However it may roll, give it a spin,
See if you can somehow factor in,
You know there's always more than one way
To say exactly what you mean to say.
See #25... again....

91. We started dancing and love put us into a groove
As soon as we started to move.
The music played while our bodies displayed through the dance,
Then love picked us out for romance.
Let The Music Play - Shannon

92. He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week,
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.
Come Dancing - Kinks.

100. Well-a bless my soul, what's wrong with me?
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree.
All Shook Up - Elvis Presley

I doubt I helped much.... I'm too tired this morning to try and beat cobwebs out of my brain to get the ten or so songs I know I know...

85. You say my love has always been on your mind,
But how can I ever love you when you keep working overtime?
Too many empty nights could make almost any guy roam
To look for the love he don't get whenever he's alone at home.

STOP! – LUTHER VANDROSS (don’t think that’s the whole title though)

I'm guessing you mean "Stop To Love." As much as I love that song, I can't quote a single lyric outside of the chorus...

lb13

95 Lost in Love is by Air Supply

If Act Naturally is the Buck Owens version, we might want to add "& His Buckaroos" to the group name.

One Moment in Time is usually credited to Whitney Houston, because of the Olympics.

Don't know what the incorrect one is right now.

jarnon wrote:"Songwich" suggests a set of 3 songs (top, middle, bottom). But this game has sets of 4 songs.

All of my sandwiches typically contain two things in the middle--peanut butter and jelly, meat and cheese, meat and veg, meat and meat, etc.

I was thinking of a word chain, where the last word of a title becomes the first word of a new title. But I think a game like that would open up the possibility of a crapload of unintentional matches. Since we're dealing with quartets here, rather than pairs or triplets, I suspect that Frank wants something very precise in order to narrow the field.

A couple of these songs already look out-of-place to me. Like why do we have an obscure Babs song, rather than one of her well-known hits? And why are the Misfit Toys here?

Finally, this one can stop torturing me...

84. Sometimes I feel like I'm drunk behind the wheel,
The wheel of possibility.
However it may roll, give it a spin,
See if you can somehow factor in,
You know there's always more than one way
To say exactly what you mean to say.
Out Of My Head - Fastball

Pastor Fireball wrote:A couple of these songs already look out-of-place to me. Like why do we have an obscure Babs song, rather than one of her well-known hits? And why are the Misfit Toys here?

BUT, it's the first song that she sings as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl -- obscurity is in the eyes of the theater-goer, Fireball!

littlebeast13 wrote:

85. You say my love has always been on your mind,
But how can I ever love you when you keep working overtime?
Too many empty nights could make almost any guy roam
To look for the love he don't get whenever he's alone at home.

STOP! – LUTHER VANDROSS (don’t think that’s the whole title though)

I'm guessing you mean "Stop To Love." As much as I love that song, I can't quote a single lyric outside of the chorus...

lb13

Yes - one of my favorite Vandross songs and doubtless the one that is incomplete.

WHICH leads me to believe that "stop to Love" could be a key.

An idea .....

Frank is my Facebook friend and he might have seen a recent Facebook thread in which I participated ..... movie mashups.

The Magnificent Seven Dwarfs
Midnight in the Secret Garden of Good and Evil
Breakfast Fight Club at Tiffany's
Brother Sun, Sister Moon Over Parador
Seven Groundhog Days in May
George of the Asphalt Jungle

Mashups. Sandwiches. SONGWICHES.

I am, of course, listening in on a WebEx meeting and cannot od ANYTHING with this but .....

Late to the party, but got one for you that I haven't seen solved yet...

64. It's noble and it's brutal,
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie.

LOVE IS A STRANGER - Eurythmics

3. I ain't scared of your brother,
I ain't scared of no sheets,
I ain't scared of nobody,
Girl, when the goin' gets mean.

Black or White - MJ


8. I'm so afraid to love you,
But more afraid to lose,
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.

I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan


11. Lollipop
Must mistake me, you're a sucker
To think that I would be a victim, not another.
Say it, play it how you wanna
But no way I'm ever gonna fall for you.

Womanizer - Britney Spears


18. I wake up, with blood-shot eyes,
Struggled to memorize
The way it felt between your thighs.

Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5


19. People say that I've found a way
To make you say that you love me.
Hey baby, you didn't go for that.
It's a natural fact
That I wanna come back,
Show me where it's at, baby.

Tired of Being Alone - Al Green


24. Nearer, nearer, by changing horses
Still so far away,
People fighting for their places
Just get in the way.

On a Carousel - The Hollies


36. Magic, it must be magic,
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly.
Easy for you to take me to a star,
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes.

I Just Fall in Love Again - Anne Murray


37. I'd say her values are corrupted
But she's open to change,
Then one day she's satisfied
And the next I'll find her crying
And it's nothing she can explain.

If She Knew What She Wants - Jules Shear (for Bangles)


39. You're honey, child, to a swarm of bees,
Gonna blow right through you like a breeze.
Give me one last dance,
We'll slide down the surface of things.

Even Better Than the Real Thing - U2


44. You came to catch,
You thought I'd be naive and tame.
You met your match,
I beat you at your own game.

Who's Zoomin' Who - Aretha Franklin


60. I remember when-a we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites - yeah! -
Mingle with the good people we meet, yeah!

No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley


71. Out in the distance
Always within reach,
There’s a crossroad
Where all the victims meet.

Even Now - Bob Seger


73. Took a walk down the street
Through the heat-whispered trees,
I thought I could hear (hear, hear, hear)
Somebody call out my name as it started to rain.

#9 Dream - John Lennon


83. I would walk home every evening
Through the pyramids of light,
I would feed myself on silence,
Wash it down with empty nights.

Nothing At All - Heart


94. Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain,
Ev'rybody knows
Baby's got new clothes,
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.

Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan

I don't know what it means (probably nothing with my luck) but there are quite a few songs here by well-known artists that come from pretty deep in their discography:

Catch a Wave - Beach Boys
I'm the Greatest Star - Barbra Streisand
Memories Are Made of This - Dean Martin
Love Is a Stranger - Eurythmics
On a Carousel - Hollies
Even Better Than the Real Thing - U2
Even Now - Bob Seger
#9 Dream - John Lennon
Nothing At All - Heart

43. I would like to get to know if I could be
The kind of girl that you could be down for,
’Cause when I look at you
I feel something tell me
That you're the kind of guy that I should make a move on.

I WANNA BE DOWN, Brandy

87. Yo, this one here goes out to all my players out there,
Ya know, got to have one good girl whose always been there,
Like, ya know, took all the bulls*it
Then one day she can't take it no more and decides to leave.

LONELY, Akon

[quote="kroxquo"]I don't know what it means (probably nothing with my luck) but there are quite a few songs here by well-known artists that come from pretty deep in their discography:

Catch a Wave - Beach Boys
I'm the Greatest Star - Barbra Streisand
Memories Are Made of This - Dean Martin
Love Is a Stranger - Eurythmics
On a Carousel - Hollies
Even Better Than the Real Thing - U2
Even Now - Bob Seger
#9 Dream - John Lennon
Nothing At All - Heart[/quote

DO ANY of the missing songs include FALLING??

CATCH a FALLING STAR by Perry Como

Songs get mashed into another song by one of the artists. It could be the reason why so many songs are used repeatedly.

It may not work but I am throwing it out there to see if it might

Wednesday consolidation:


Game #162: Songwich

Identify the 100 songs in the clues below. (Most are from the pop charts, but we make several excursions elsewhere, including a few notable album cuts.) Then, match them into 45 foursomes according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.

51 songs will be used twice, each time in a different capacity. 13 songs will be used three times, each time in a different capacity. One song will be used four times, each time in a different capacity. Yes, there are four ways a song can be used, though two of them are variations of the same usage. You’ll see, I hope.

At least two of the songs in every foursome are used more than once in the game. In twelve of the foursomes, all four songs are used more than once in the game.

A song cannot be used twice in the same foursome.

Where a song title is relevant, words in parentheses should be treated as part of the title.

Where an artist is relevant, I am usually looking for the original artist. There are a few exceptions where someone else arguably had the definitive and/or most successful version of a song.

I hope this proves an easier nut to crack than the last game. And I do hope those pesky alternate solutions don’t screw things up. Play on!

1. HELLO, GOOD-BYE - THE BEATLES
2. DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE? – DIONNE WARWICK
3. BLACK OR WHITE - MICHAEL JACKSON
4. EVERY MORNING - SUGAR RAY
5. WEEKEND IN NEW ENGLAND – BARRY MANILOW
6. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - CHARLIE RICH
7. WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
8. I WILL REMEMBER YOU - SARAH McLACHLAN
9. IT'S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME - BILLY JOEL
10. '65 LOVE AFFAIR - PAUL DAVIS
11. WOMANIZER - BRITNEY SPEARS
12. I WANT TO BE WANTED – BRENDA LEE
13. WHEN I COME AROUND - GREEN DAY
14. YOU GOT IT - ROY ORBISON
15. EYE IN THE SKY - ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
16. AND I LOVE YOU SO – PERRY COMO
17. FERRY ACROSS THE MERSEY – GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS
18. MAKES ME WONDER - MAROON 5
19. TIRED OF BEING ALONE - AL GREEN
20. CLAIRE – GILBERT O’SULLIVAN
21. THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF THE YEAR - MISFIT TOYS
22. SWEET BABY JAMES - JAMES TAYLOR
23. MONEY FOR NOTHING - DIRE STRAITS
24. ON A CAROUSEL - THE HOLLIES
25. WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES - DOOBIE BROTHERS
26. LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME - BON JOVI
27. IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR - FRANK SINATRA
28. CATCH A WAVE - THE BEACH BOYS
29. LOSING MY RELIGION - R.E.M.
30. PLEASE FORGIVE ME - BRYAN ADAMS

31. This is my song for real, no doubt,
See the DJ is making me feel thugged out.

32. I need it when I want it,
I want it when I don't,
Tell myself I'll stop every day,
Knowing that I won't.

33. MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU – THE SUPREMES
34. THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL - HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS
35. THESE EYES - THE GUESS WHO
36. I JUST FALL IN LOVE AGAIN - ANNE MURRAY
37. IF SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTS - JULES SHEAR (FOR BANGLES)
38. DON'T STOP - FLEETWOOD MAC
39. EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING - U2
40. LONESOME LOSER - LITTLE RIVER BAND
41. THAT’S THE WAY I ALWAYS HEARD IT SHOULD BE – CARLY SIMON
42. ACT NATURALLY - BUCK OWENS & HIS BUCKAROOS
43. I WANNA BE DOWN - BRANDY
44. WHO'S ZOOMIN' WHO - ARETHA FRANKLIN
45. THIS IS HOW WE DO IT - MONTELL JORDAN

46. I want you to love me, like I'm a hot pie
Keep thinkin' of me, doin' what you like.
So boy, forget about the world cause it's gon' be me and you tonight,
I wanna make you beg for it, then I'm-a make you swallow your pride.

47. Here we are,
What is left of a husband and a wife with four good kids
Who have a way of gettin' on with their lives,
And I'm not old but I'm getting a whole lot older every day.
It's too late to keep from goin' crazy,
I've got to get away.

48. SINCE YOU'RE GONE - THE CARS
49. ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT – CYNDI LAUPER
50. WANNABE - SPICE GIRLS

51. There you are
Holding her hand.
I am lost,
Dying to understand
Didn't I
Cherish you right?
Don't you know
You were my life?

52. YOUR BODY IS A WONDERLAND - JOHN MAYER
53. OLD DAYS - CHICAGO

54. I won't talk,
I won't breathe,
I won't move till you finally see
That you belong with me.

55. YOU BELONG WITH ME - TAYLOR SWIFT
56. BABY, I’MA WANT YOU - BREAD
57. DARK LADY - CHER

58. My man put me up for the share, one-fourth of a square,
Headed for Delaware with one change of gear.

59. Nutty-nutty-nutty my love for you,
I can't believe my dreams come true,
I've finally found somebody whose heart is true,
And best of all you love me, too.

60. NO WOMAN, NO CRY - BOB MARLEY
61. TAKE IT ON THE RUN -- REO SPEEDWAGON
62. JOIN TOGETHER - THE WHO

63. You can understand everything to share,
Let your spirits dance, brothers, everywhere,
Let your head be free,
Turn the wisdom key,
Find it naturally,
See you're lucky to be.

64. LOVE IS A STRANGER - EURYTHMICS

65. Boy, you've been running around too long,
Now I think you're running out of time.
No more jumping in and out of my bed.
It's time for me to draw the line.

66. ONE MOMENT IN TIME - WHITNEY HOUSTON

67. I told my mother, my brother, my sister and my friend,
I told the others, my lovers, both past and present tense.
Every time I see you, everything starts making sense.

68. I’LL WAIT FOR YOU – FRANKIE AVALON
69. NOT A DAY GOES BY - LONESTAR
70. I HATE MYSELF FOR LOVING YOU - JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS
71. EVEN NOW - BOB SEGER

72. There was no risk that I wouldn't take
And not a promise that I didn't make.
All I asked was that you just hold on,
And now I'm wondering what I did wrong.

73. #9 DREAM - JOHN LENNON

74. It’s morning, and we slept the night away.
It happened, now we can’t turn back the hands of time (oh no).
Yes, we’ve stolen this moment, we forgot to face, one simple fact:
We both belong to someone else as we slept the night away.

75. GET DOWN TONIGHT – KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND
76. I’M THE GREATEST STAR – BARBRA STREISAND

77. One, two,
I'll party you,
Three, four,
So get your butt on the floor,
Five, six,
Know you dig the mix,
Seven, eight,
Let it shake.

78. GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE TIME (OR AS HE SINGS TIE-UM) – CHAIRMEN O THE BOARD
79. SAIL ON - COMMODORES
80. HOW DO I LIVE - LEANN RIMES or TRISHA YEARWOOD
81. CHINA GIRL - DAVID BOWIE
82. GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS - PETER GABRIEL
83. NOTHING AT ALL - HEART
84. OUT OF MY HEAD - FASTBALL
85. STOP TO LOVE – LUTHER VANDROSS
86. MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS – DEAN MARTIN
87. LONELY - AKON
88. I THINK I LOVE YOU – PARTRIDGE FAMILY
89. SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS APART) - JOURNEY

90. Well, I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV,
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see.
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess,
And when it's gonna change, my friend,
Is anybody's guess.

91. LET THE MUSIC PLAY - SHANNON
92. COME DANCING – THE KINKS

93. I'll give the sun,
The rain,
The moon,
The stars and the mountains.
I'll give you the world
And all that you wish for
And even more.

94. JUST LIKE A WOMAN - BOB DYLAN
95. LOST IN LOVE - AIR SUPPLY

96. I took Katie down by the river with a six dollar bottle of wine,
Just a fool tryin' to play it cool, hopin' she'd let me cross the line.

97. ALONE AT LAST – JACKIE WILSON
98. LET’S HANG ON – FOUR SEASONS

99. You don't have to say what you did,
I already know, I found out from him.
Now there's just no chance for you and me, there'll never be,
And don't it make you sad about it.

100. ALL SHOOK UP - ELVIS PRESLEY

I can fill in a couple:


63. You can understand everything to share,
Let your spirits dance, brothers, everywhere,
Let your head be free,
Turn the wisdom key,
Find it naturally,
See you're lucky to be.

Everybody's Everything-Santana



72. There was no risk that I wouldn't take
And not a promise that I didn't make.
All I asked was that you just hold on,
And now I'm wondering what I did wrong.


Should've Known Better-Richard Marx