FNGD Q5 - SONGS OF 1965

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FNGD Q5 - SONGS OF 1965

#1 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:34 pm

B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"

Moon over _______

1 - Madrid
2 - Moscow
3 - Naples
4 - Frankfurt .

G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____

1 - Horses
2 - Rivers
3 - Problems
4 - Mondays

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#2 Post by christie1111 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:36 pm

Wow!

WAGging yet again!

Madrid

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#3 Post by SportsFan68 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:36 pm

etaoin22 wrote:B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"

Moon over _______

1 - Madrid
2 - Moscow
3 - Naples
4 - Frankfurt .

G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____

1 - Horses
2 - Rivers
3 - Problems
4 - Mondays
I'll guess Madrid.

I'll guess Mondays.
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#4 Post by KillerTomato » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:37 pm

The only thing I know about Bert Kaempfert I learned from the Barenaked Ladies.

B: 3. It's doubtful Al Martino didn't know Naples is in Italy, but...

G: 1. Just cuz.
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#5 Post by hermillion » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:37 pm

Madrid?

Rivers
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#6 Post by kayrharris » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:37 pm

Madrid

Rivers
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#7 Post by T_Bone0806 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:40 pm

etaoin22 wrote:B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"

Moon over _______


2 - Moscow

G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____


2 - Rivers
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#8 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:40 pm

Moscow

Mondays

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#9 Post by frogman042 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:41 pm

etaoin22 wrote:B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"

Moon over _______

1 - Madrid
2 - Moscow
3 - Naples
4 - Frankfurt .

G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____

1 - Horses
2 - Rivers
3 - Problems
4 - Mondays
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#10 Post by T_Bone0806 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:43 pm

Dagnabbit. I bet I'm wrong. Madrid would make sense, wouldn't it? SPANISH eyes.

I'm thinking of Midnight in Moscow by Kenny Ball.

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#11 Post by KillerTomato » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:45 pm

That's nuthin' T-Bone. I was s caught up in the fact that Naples wasn't in Spain, I forgot Madrid WAS! But Martino's Italian.....
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#12 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:46 pm

B - What KT said.

Even on at least 1980's Kaempfert anthologies, of which I bought one in the dollar ninetyeight bin, this is labelled as Spanish Eyes. Despite the mandolins.

Moon Over Naples.

G - Too Many Rivers.

G team wins by two or three points.

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#13 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:48 pm

Woohoo, Gs! I was no help, but I will attend the victory celebration.

Magnificent, gentlemen. This was fun!

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#14 Post by kayrharris » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:48 pm

KillerTomato wrote:That's nuthin' T-Bone. I was s caught up in the fact that Naples wasn't in Spain, I forgot Madrid WAS! But Martino's Italian.....
But your reasoning worked out after all. :D
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#15 Post by KillerTomato » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:49 pm

OMG. I thought Madrid HAD to be right!

I suppose "Neopolitan Eyes" just doesn't have the right cadence....
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#16 Post by SportsFan68 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:49 pm

silvercamaro wrote:Woohoo, Gs! I was no help, but I will attend the victory celebration.

Magnificent, gentlemen. This was fun!
Same here!! GREAT work, Ladies!

It was way fun. :mrgreen:
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#17 Post by christie1111 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:51 pm

Congrats girls, sorry I didn't help more.

Thanks for coming by KT!
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#18 Post by T_Bone0806 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:51 pm

Wow. I dint even realize we were on Q5 already. Time DOES fly when you're havin' fun!

Congratulations, G's!!

'Twas a fun game, with fun peoples, and a meister beyond compare!

See you next episode.

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#19 Post by kayrharris » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:55 pm

Worst thing about this question is I'm old enough to actually remember Brenda Lee's song.
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#20 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:59 pm

When I first heard "Spanish Eyes" my reaction was "you've got to be joking", or something like. It seemed to me Martino had not bought into the song at all, but was singing it for BS because some A and R man had said -- Spanish is big this year, look at Herb Alpert.....

Of course it became his biggest charted hit.

Brenda Lee was still very young IIRC but her sound was beginning to be heard as a bit old-fashioned, and that fact is there on "Too Many Rivers", IIRC her last big pop hit.

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#21 Post by ulysses5019 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:44 pm

etaoin22 wrote:B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"

Moon over _______

1 - Madrid
2 - Moscow
3 - Naples
4 - Frankfurt .

G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____

1 - Horses
2 - Rivers
3 - Problems
4 - Mondays

naples

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