Ok, name the song title and either the original performer of the song or the show/movie it was from, if applicable based on the snippet of lyrics I provide below.
See how many you can get!
Fer instance: …like the summer sunshine
Pour your sweetness over me
is “Sugar, Sugar” by The Archies
or What, never?!
Well, hardly ever!
He’ll never use the big, big “D”…
Is “The Captain of the Pinafore” from “H.M.S. Pinafore”
Get it? Got it? Good. Let’s play:
#1)Now his life is full of wonder,
but his heart still knows some fear #2)Oh no, that’s not the way
and you’re not listening to all I say… #3)Did the nose with it
All that goes with it
It’s a gas! #4)…'bout a sky of blue-a or tea for two-a
anything-a with a swing-a too, and I love you-a #5) But it’s only a dream and tonite is for real
you’ll never know what it means 'till you know how it feels #6) I am as a tall sailing ship
out on the sea
where only long breezes
reach out to me… #7)…and it mighten’t be so tangled
if you hadn’t had him strangled #8) *The genius strategic of Caesar or Hannibal
Skill of Sir Garnet in thrashing a Cannibal-
Flavor of Hamlet-the Stranger, a touch of him
Little of Manfred (but not very much of him) #9)He’s lookin’ oh so peaceful and so nice
he looks like he’s asleep, it’s a shame that he won’t keep
but it’s summer and we’re runnin’ outta ice #10)Mothers with their babes asleep
are rocking to the gentle beat
Have fun!
I’m impressed! Verrrry impressed. Obviously, you’re a brilliant, well-rounded person, with exquisite taste in music (ie: mine).
That said,
You’ve gotten #3 wrong entirely, #4, I believe is technically called “I Love to Singa”, but let’s not quibble; #5) Actually I’d rather give you the extra points for Fire Inc. since they were a made-up band for Jim Steinman.
#7: A clue: Think Broadway. Think important composer. Think flops.
#8: Close enough: You got the “Heavy Dragoon” bit, it’s from Patience.
#3 - “Dance:Ten, Looks: Three” from A Chorus Line.
#7 - Yikes. The only ones I can think of are either the musical about the “Acchille Lauro” (I have absolutely NO idea how to spell that!) or “Carrie”. [Probably neither.]
Okay, Fenris. Enough is enough.
This thread is slipping down the page and I am racking my bleary little brain thrying to think of a “MAJOR composer and/or lyricist” before the brain and body shut down for the night (I’m really tired and cranky right now and can’t sleep til I getthis one and if you make me stay up all night mentally singing Broadway tunes, I ain’t gonna be pleasant to deal with at work tomorrow, so all my co-workers will be after you with pitchforks and such.)
Thanks. Forgot about that one.
::wanders off to sleep with “Pretty lady in the pretty garden” ricocheting about among the few coherent brain cells left::
