Topic Playlist (Part 3)

Lunar Tune and a Looney Tune

  1. Moonshadow - Cat Stevens / Yosemite Sam
  2. Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne / Wile E. Coyote
  3. Man on the Moon - REM / Marvin the Martian
  4. Harvest Moon - Neil Young / Foghorn Leghorn
  5. Blue Moon - The Marcells / Road Runner
  6. Get Out And Get Under The Moon - Cliff Edwards / Pepe le Pew
  7. How High the Moon - Les Paul and Mary Ford / Daffy Duck
  8. Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival / Ralph Wolf
  9. Moon Wiver - Kate Smith and Elmer Fudd

I laughed.

Lunar Tune and a Looney Tune

  1. Moonshadow - Cat Stevens / Yosemite Sam
  2. Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne / Wile E. Coyote
  3. Man on the Moon - REM / Marvin the Martian
  4. Harvest Moon - Neil Young / Foghorn Leghorn
  5. Blue Moon - The Marcells / Road Runner
  6. Get Out And Get Under The Moon - Cliff Edwards / Pepe le Pew
  7. How High the Moon - Les Paul and Mary Ford / Daffy Duck
  8. Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival / Ralph Wolf
  9. Moon Wiver - Kate Smith and Elmer Fudd
  10. Goodnight Moon - Shivaree and Sylvester the Cat

pass

(I’m proceeding as if we have the permission of the OP to proceed with clever wordplay.)

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).
  2. Puttin’ on the Ritz / Ballroom

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).
  2. Puttin’ on the Ritz / Ballroom
  3. Keeping The Faith / The Hand Jive

The third verse:

We wore matador boots
Only Flagg Brothers had them with the Cuban heel
Iridescent socks with the same color shirt
And a tight pair of chinos
Oh, I put on my shark skin jacket
You know the kind with the velvet collar
And ditty bop shades
Oh, yeah

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).
  2. Puttin’ on the Ritz / Ballroom
  3. Keeping The Faith / The Hand Jive
  4. Sharp Dressed Man / Time Warp

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).
  2. Puttin’ on the Ritz / Ballroom
  3. Keeping The Faith / The Hand Jive
  4. Sharp Dressed Man / Time Warp
  5. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / The Continental

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).
  2. Puttin’ on the Ritz / Ballroom
  3. Keeping The Faith / The Hand Jive
  4. Sharp Dressed Man / Time Warp
  5. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / The Continental
  6. Short Skirt/Long Jacket / The Electric Slide

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).
  2. Puttin’ on the Ritz / Ballroom
  3. Keeping The Faith / The Hand Jive
  4. Sharp Dressed Man / Time Warp
  5. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / The Continental
  6. Short Skirt/Long Jacket / The Electric Slide
  7. Yo Me Estresso / Waltz

Both are 3/4 time.

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).
  2. Puttin’ on the Ritz / Ballroom
  3. Keeping The Faith / The Hand Jive
  4. Sharp Dressed Man / Time Warp
  5. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / The Continental
  6. Short Skirt/Long Jacket / The Electric Slide
  7. Yo Me Estresso / Waltz
  8. Time Bomb / Thriller (“Zombie Dance”)

“Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac
Yeah, the boy’s a time bomb”

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).
  2. Puttin’ on the Ritz / Ballroom
  3. Keeping The Faith / The Hand Jive
  4. Sharp Dressed Man / Time Warp
  5. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / The Continental
  6. Short Skirt/Long Jacket / The Electric Slide
  7. Yo Me Estresso / Waltz
  8. Time Bomb / Thriller (“Zombie Dance”)
  9. Caught in a Mosh / Mosh

Seems obvious.

Zoot Suit and a Boot Scoot: Songs That Mention Dressing Up / a Dance

  1. Zoot Suit Riot / Boot Scootin’ Boogie (also a song but never mind that).
  2. Puttin’ on the Ritz / Ballroom
  3. Keeping The Faith / The Hand Jive
  4. Sharp Dressed Man / Time Warp
  5. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / The Continental
  6. Short Skirt/Long Jacket / The Electric Slide
  7. Yo Me Estresso / Waltz
  8. Time Bomb / Thriller (“Zombie Dance”)
  9. Caught in a Mosh / Mosh
  10. Tacky / Czech Polka

Squeezing a lot of syllables into one bar:

  1. “Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti,” “Africa” by Toto.

Squeezing a lot of syllables into one bar:

  1. “Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti,” “Africa” by Toto.
  2. “Toledo was just another stop along the good king’s highway” - “Our Song,” by Yes

Squeezing a lot of syllables into one bar:

  1. “Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti,” “Africa” by Toto.
  2. “Toledo was just another stop along the good king’s highway” - “Our Song,” by Yes
  3. “I like the sushi 'cause it’s never touched a frying pan” - “One Week”, Bare Naked Ladies

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@HeyHomie , believe it or not, that Toto lyric is “ … rises like Olympus”. I thought it was “empress” for decades, also.

I’ll be damned.

When I was a teenager, and the song first came out, I thought it was “a leopress,” which I assumed was a female leopard. :smiley:

Squeezing a lot of syllables into one bar:

  1. “Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti,” “Africa” by Toto.
  2. “Toledo was just another stop along the good king’s highway” - “Our Song,” by Yes
  3. “I like the sushi 'cause it’s never touched a frying pan” - “One Week”, Bare Naked Ladies
  4. "Man says, “Freddy!” I say, “Freddy who?” He says, “Freddy or not here I come.” - “Po’ Boy”, by Bob Dylan

Squeezing a lot of syllables into one bar:

  1. “Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti,” “Africa” by Toto.
  2. “Toledo was just another stop along the good king’s highway” - “Our Song,” by Yes
  3. “I like the sushi 'cause it’s never touched a frying pan” - “One Week”, Bare Naked Ladies
  4. "Man says, “Freddy!” I say, “Freddy who?” He says, “Freddy or not here I come.” - “Po’ Boy”, by Bob Dylan
  5. “Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television”, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel

Squeezing a lot of syllables into one bar:

  1. “Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the Serengeti,” “Africa” by Toto.
  2. “Toledo was just another stop along the good king’s highway” - “Our Song,” by Yes
  3. “I like the sushi 'cause it’s never touched a frying pan” - “One Week”, Bare Naked Ladies
  4. "Man says, “Freddy!” I say, “Freddy who?” He says, “Freddy or not here I come.” - “Po’ Boy”, by Bob Dylan
  5. “Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television”, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel
  6. “You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right? Right,” “t’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” - R.E.M.