# Name that cheesy '70 songs in 5 words

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 31, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730 "2008-01-31T17:28:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/41 "2008-01-31T20:33:24Z")

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[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher]  
Yep. Started out easy. 🙂  
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I couldn’t make the mental leap to the title of the Bee Gee’s song…I was sitting here going Forsolong, youandmebeenfindineachother etc. as fast as I could. Probably grooving around in my chair a little. 😃

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/42 "2008-01-31T20:53:17Z")

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[QUOTE=Biggirl]  
Don McLean’s Starry, Starry Night? Nah, too easy.

Apparently, not that easy. The name of the song is Vincent. Dur!

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/43 "2008-01-31T21:03:37Z")

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Here’s a tough one. The song became the theme for a movie of the same name:

Some men climb a mountain…

and by the same artist:

I would marry you…  
disclaimer: these may have been late 60s.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/44 "2008-01-31T21:07:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher]  
LS5: You live your life in…  
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_If I were u_, Boy George (How the hell I know that is beyond me).

“If a picture paints a…”

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**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/45 "2008-01-31T21:33:07Z")

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[QUOTE=John Mace]

“If a picture paints a…”  
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If, Bread

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**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/46 "2008-01-31T22:01:57Z")

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Oringal posts by various people…

DB3: Lovely is the feelin’ now, Fever …

LS3: Oh my little pretty one…  
LS4: A church house, gin house…  
LS5: You live your life in…

B12: I can turn the gray

1. She’s got style, she’s got…

DB3 ‘Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough,’ Michael Jackson  
LS3 ‘My Sharona’ The Knack  
LS4 ‘Nutbush City Limits’ Ike & Tina Turner  
LS5 ‘Jackie Blue,’ Ozark Mountain Daredevils  
B12: ‘I Can’t Get Next to You’ The Temptations  
15. ‘She’s a Lady,’ Tom Jones

I’m really starting to owe a large number of new ones here…

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/47 "2008-01-31T22:10:57Z")

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[QUOTE=Chefguy]  
Here’s a tough one. The song became the theme for a movie of the same name:

Some men climb a mountain…

disclaimer: these may have been late 60s.  
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LATE 60’s?? You have to be an old fart like me to remember “Baby the Rain Must Fall” by Glenn Yarbrough (1965). He used to be in the Limelighters before he tried to make it solo. Wasn’t that the only hit he ever had? That’s vintage cheese!

ETA: I forgot to post one. Here’s some cheese: “…I returned to my seat”

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/48 "2008-01-31T22:20:29Z")

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[QUOTE=Labdad]  
LATE 60’s?? You have to be an old fart like me to remember “Baby the Rain Must Fall” by Glenn Yarbrough (1965). He used to be in the Limelighters before he tried to make it solo. Wasn’t that the only hit he ever had? That’s vintage cheese!

ETA: I forgot to post one. Here’s some cheese: “…I returned to my seat”  
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Yarbrough had a following, of whom I was one for a time. He put a lot of Rod McKuen’s “poetry” to music, and put out a respectable discography. I even saw him perform when I was in college.

And yes, I AM an old fart.

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**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/49 "2008-01-31T22:37:49Z")

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F1: All of her days have (easyish)  
F2:People going, coming Traffic always (tough. possibly ridiculously so)  
F3:Love will abide, take thing (super easy)  
F4:He was born in the (pretty darned easy)

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**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/50 "2008-01-31T22:47:12Z")

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42A) “Seventy-three men sailed up from…”  
42B) “I’m a friendly stranger in…”  
42C) “Someone’s knockin’ at the door…”  
42D) “Danger in the shape of…”  
42E) “Baby, baby, let’s get together…”  
42F) “Once I was a boogie…”

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**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/51 "2008-01-31T22:56:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Finagle]  
F3:Love will abide, take thing (super easy)  
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_Long Time_; Linda Ronstadt

It’s “things”, not “thing”, though.

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**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/52 "2008-01-31T23:00:37Z")

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[QUOTE=JohnBckWLD]

JB3: _Hey little woman please make_ ([Album170842])

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I can’t believe that this is the one I get to answer.

**Little Woman** by Bobby Sherman

Here’s my contribution:

FB1: I remember to this day  
FB2: Evening, is a time of  
FB3: Last night, I turned out  
FB4: Don’t look so sad, I

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[QUOTE=Ferd Burfel]  
I can’t believe that this is the one I get to answer.

**Little Woman** by Bobby Sherman

Here’s my contribution:

FB1: I remember to this day  
FB2: Evening, is a time of  
FB3: Last night, I turned out  
FB4: Don’t look so sad, I  
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FB4: For The Good Times

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**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/54 "2008-01-31T23:03:42Z")

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[QUOTE=42fish]  
42A) “Seventy-three men sailed up from…”  
42B) “I’m a friendly stranger in…”  
42C) “Someone’s knockin’ at the door…”  
42D) “Danger in the shape of…”  
42E) “Baby, baby, let’s get together…”  
42F) “Once I was a boogie…”  
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42F: Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry  
42C: Paul McCartney or The Beatles - Let 'Em In (?)

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**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/55 "2008-01-31T23:06:31Z")

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[QUOTE=John Mace]  
_Long Time_; Linda Ronstadt

It’s “things”, not “thing”, though.  
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It’s “Long, Long Time”, though. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/56 "2008-01-31T23:07:28Z")

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[QUOTE=42fish]

42B) “I’m a friendly stranger in…”

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**Vehicle** : The Ides of March

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F4: Rocky Mountain High Bob Denver  
42F: Ride, Captain, Ride-- Dunno  
42C: Let 'Em In Wings

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**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/58 "2008-01-31T23:24:27Z")

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I am probably wrong since, like I said before, I’m blind.

1. I went “wow”, he’s the
2. I cried so many lonely
3. Everyone can see we’re together
4. It’s heaven in your arms

I know your eyes in

1. “Here she comes ridin’, rollin’…”

JB5: The love between the two ([Album378471])  
JB8: Heat of a summer night ([Album149206])

54F4. When I was a little . . .  
54F5. Oh, it’s been such a, . . . .

I returned to my seat

F1: All of her days have (easyish)  
F2:People going, coming Traffic always (tough. possibly ridiculously so)

42D) “Danger in the shape of…”  
42E) “Baby, baby, let’s get together…”

FB1: I remember to this day  
FB2: Evening, is a time of  
FB3: Last night, I turned out

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**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/59 "2008-02-01T00:08:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Biggirl]

54F4. When I was a little . . .

FB1: I remember to this day

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54F4) “My Ding-a-Ling” Chuck Berry  
FB1) “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo,” Lobo

42G) “Are you ready Steve? Uh-huh”  
42H) “I’m coming home, I’ve done…”

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**Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-cheesy-70-songs-in-5-words/435730/60 "2008-02-01T00:17:35Z")

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54F6. So I’d like to now where . . .  
54F7. You went to school to learn . . .  
54F8. Look at me I’m as . . .  
54F9. I used to be rolling . . . (guess who _wrote_ the lyrics)

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