One Hit Wonder Lyrics Quiz

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Seemed like a good time for another one of these.

Identify the song & artist for the lyrics given below. Each line comes from an act that was a one-hit wonder (only one Top 40 Hit) in the US.

  1. “Meanwhile, back in the states.”
  2. “I want a brave man, I want a cave man.”
  3. “My social life’s a dud.”
  4. “It’s a good thing for me they don’t bottle the stuff.”
  5. “Poor old Johnny Ray.”
  6. “I gotta boogie-woogie like a knife in the back.”
  7. “CBS and Warner Brothers, RCA and all the others.”
  8. “Cancer…And my name is Larry.”
  9. “Take it seriously or take it somewhere else.”
  10. “Try some, buy some, fee-fi-fo-fum.”
  11. “I was the black sheep of the family.”
  12. “Got my sun roof down, got my diamond in the back.”
  13. “This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues.”
  14. “Give me southern kisses beneath the moon.”
  15. “We will live each day in springtime.”
  16. “Life’s for living, that’s our philosophy.”
  17. “Can’t get no love, can’t get satisfaction.”
  18. “He can’t even run his own life, I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine.”
  19. “Beware of the handshake that hides a snake.”
  20. “He’s never near you, to comfort and cheer you.”
  21. “I got pictures, candy, I’m a loveable man.”
  22. “I want a doctor to take a picture.”
  23. “I felt so left out 'til I got to know her.”
  24. “Go ahead and hate your neighbor.”
  25. “Don’t let the screen door hit you on your way out.”
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  1. come on eileen -dexys midnight runners
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5: Dexys Midnight Runners, “Come On Eileen”
10: M, “Pop Muzik”
22: Vapors, “Turning Japanese”
24: “One Tin Soldier”. I have no idea whose one-hit it was though.

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  1. “Try some, buy some, fee-fi-fo-fum.” - Pop Music by M?

  2. “Go ahead and hate your neighbor.” - One Tin Soldier (Ode to Billy Jack) by Coven

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  1. “He can’t even run his own life, I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine.”

Sunshine - Jonathan Edwards

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  1. “This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues.”
    City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie (whose father was not a one hit wonder)
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Thanks for getting the only ones I could, ruadh…
…except for number eight, which I think is “Float On” by The Floaters.

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  1. “I was the black sheep of the family.”

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jack

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    • Life is a Rock (but the Radio Rolled Me), by somebody or other.

  2. Kind of sounds like Nationwide by ZZ Top but I don’t specifically recognize it.

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  1. I Suck at This Game by Jack Batty and the Flaming Idiots.
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2)“Johnny Get Angry,” by…oh damn, is it Shelley Fabares?

  1. “Loving You,” by Minnie Riperton

  2. “I’m No Better Than Jack Batty,” by Persephone and the Hades Homeboys

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16 : In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry
21 : Vehicle by The Ides of March

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  1. “I want a brave man, I want a cave man.”
    Johnny Get Angry by Joanie Sommers

  2. “It’s a good thing for me they don’t bottle the stuff.” Double Shot (of my Baby’s Love) by The Swingin’ Medallions.

  3. “Don’t let the screen door hit you on your way out.”
    Smoke of a Distant Fire by Sandford-Townsend Band.

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The Small Faces, I believe. Unless I’m thinking of the wrong song.

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  1. “My social life’s a dud.”
    Talk Talk by Music Machine
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Shame, Shame, Shame by Shirley and Company. Covered in the early 90’s, by a girl. Another one hit wonder. Isabella? Something like that.

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(1) Stranded in the Jungle by the Coasters (?)

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“Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)” is by Reunion, the lead singer was the guy who sang that “Yummy yummy yummy, I’ve got love in my tummy,” song or however it went.

My sig also has a one-hit wonder lyric.

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Number 19 is the song “Smiling Faces” but I can’t remember the group that recorded it.

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