Lyrics meme

[pedanther]

Memed from justice_turtle:

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up that do not give away the name. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist.
4. Least hapless internet denizen wins admiration. That's right, just like a computer when you don't have power, the points don't matter.


House rule, following the confusion last time: For anything with a spoken lead-in, or a lead-in by the backing singers, the first line is considered to be the first line sung by the lead singer. (But if a song has a false start, sung by a different lead singer, the first line is the first line. Just to keep you on your toes.)


Skipped:
- Music without words: 24
- Words without music: 1
- Title in the first couple of lines: 10
- Second track in a row by the same artist: 2
- Embarrassing ones: 0


#1:
I've got a pal, a regular out-and-outer
She's a dear, good old gal, and I'll tell you all about her
("My Old Dutch", sung here by Peter Sellers - identified by poinketh)

#2:
I never lived through the Great Depression
Sometimes I feel as though I did

#3:
Close your eyes
Give me your hand, darling
("Eternal Flame" by the Bangles - identifed by arcadiagt5, lost_spook)

#4:
Steve walks warily down the street
With the brim pulled way down low
("Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen - identified by seawasp. I wouldn't have got this; all the times I've listened to those two lines, and I had no idea what most of the words were.)

#5:
Speak, and the world is full of singing
And I am winging
Higher than the birds

#6:
I'm like Humpty Dumpty
Up on the garden wall

#7:
I'm getting married in the morning
Ding-dong, the bells are going to chime
("Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady - identifed by arcadiagt5, daibhid_c, lost_spook, seawasp. I'm amused that so many people are getting this, because it was on the list last time as well and nobody got it. That's why this time there's the new house rule about where the song starts.)

#8:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Come you sinners, gather 'round

#9:
In the year of '62, the land received a soul
A baby cried, a mother smiled, a hero made of gold

#10:
Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news

#11:
She walks in the room
And checks out the faces

#12:
My baby, he don't talk sweet
He ain't got much to say

#13:
Let's go surfing now
Everybody's learning how
("Surfin' Safari" by the Beach Boys - identifed by justice_turtle; arcadiagt5 and lost_spook got the artist, but not the title)

#14:
It's not time to make a change
Just relax, take it easy
("Father and Son" by Cat Stevens - identified by ariaflame)

#15:
All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance, don't you know
("Walk Like an Egyptian" by the Bangles - identified by arcadiagt5, daibhid_c, lost_spook, seawasp; justice_turtle got the title, but not the artist)

#16:
Thine love is mine
Thine heart with mine entwined, love

#17:
When you're weary, feeling small
And tears are in your eyes
("Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel - identifed by justice_turtle, lost_spook)

#18:
Time will not wait for me
Time is my destiny

#19:
Try to see it my way
Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?
("We Can Work It Out" by the Beatles - identifed by arcadiagt5, lost_spook. It wasn't actually the Beatles performing it, but I'm not going to make you guess which obscure cover version it was.)

#20:
I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls

#21:
In me you see a sinner
And dancing is my crime

#22:
These days my life seems somehow
Like a tired old cliché

#23:
If you invest your tuppence
Wisely in the bank
("Fidelity Fiduciary Bank" from Mary Poppins - identifed by daibhid_c, justice_turtle)

#24:
Madi ao
Leka sebete chia ho oele sebatha

#25:
Time it was and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence

#26:
it was raining hard in Frisco
I needed one more fare to make my night
("Taxi" by Harry Chapin - identified by arcadiagt5)

#27:
This is the truth sent from above
The truth of God, the God of love

#28:
Another red letter day
So the pound has dropped and the children are creating
("Friends Will Be Friends" by Queen - identified by arcadiagt5)

#29:
Every night I go to sleep
The blues fall down like rain

#30:
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you never come around
("Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler - identifed by daibhid_c, lost_spook, seawasp)


Update: Answers here.

Comments

[pedanther]

The tip-off that it's not a proper music hall song, to me, is that the refrain's only one line long, instead of being a full stanza for the audience to power up and sing along to.