Lyrics meme answers

[pedanther]

Here are the answers to the lyrics meme:


#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", originally Albert Chevalier, sung here by Peter Sellers - identified by poinketh)

#2:
I never lived through the Great Depression
Sometimes I feel as though I did
("Cry Like a Baby", Kasey Chambers)

#3:
Close your eyes
Give me your hand, darling
("Eternal Flame", 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", 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
("Show Me", from My Fair Lady. This is the one I mentioned with a false start that's then interrupted by the real song.)

#6:
I'm like Humpty Dumpty
Up on the garden wall
("I'm Building Up To An Awful Let-Down", Fred Astaire)

#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.)

#8:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Come you sinners, gather 'round
("Get Happy", from The Nine-Fifteen Revue, sung here by Ella Fitzgerald)

#9:
In the year of '62, the land received a soul
A baby cried, a mother smiled, a hero made of gold
("Follow You Home", Kasey Chambers)

#10:
Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
("God Bless the Child", originally Billie Holiday, sung here by Grace Knight)

#11:
She walks in the room
And checks out the faces
("Bell Jar", The Bangles)

#12:
My baby, he don't talk sweet
He ain't got much to say
("Let's Hear It For the Boy", Deniece Williams, from Footloose - lost_spook and splanky both got the title, but not the artist or the source work)

#13:
Let's go surfing now
Everybody's learning how
("Surfin' Safari", 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", 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", 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
("Liebestraum", originally Franz Liszt, performed here by Spike Jones and His City Slickers, with Red Ingle on vocals)

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

#18:
Time will not wait for me
Time is my destiny
("Break Away", The Beach Boys)

#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", originally the Beatles - identifed by arcadiagt5, lost_spook. Sung here by Heather Nova, from the I Am Sam soundtrack.)

#20:
I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
("Kathy's Song", Simon and Garfunkel)

#21:
In me you see a sinner
And dancing is my crime
("Music Makes Me", from Flying Down to Rio, Fred Astaire)

#22:
These days my life seems somehow
Like a tired old cliché
("Scraps of Paper", Eric Bogle)

#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
("Rafiki Mourns", from The Lion King (stage version))

#25:
Time it was and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence
("Bookends", Simon and Garfunkel)

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

#27:
This is the truth sent from above
The truth of God, the God of love
("Fantasia on Christmas Carols", by Ralph Vaughan Williams, sung here by the Choir of King's College)

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

#29:
Every night I go to sleep
The blues fall down like rain
("Shot Gun Blues", The Blues Brothers)

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


I've now done this twice. Three songs have appeared both times: "Walk Like an Egyptian" (identified both times), "Get Me to the Church on Time" (identified by nobody or by nearly everybody, depending on whether I counted the backing singers' preamble as the first lines), and "Rafiki Mourns" (nobody recognised it either time, and frankly neither would I have).

Represented on both lists have been the Bangles, the Beach Boys, Harry Chapin (whose songs I don't actually like all that much), Kasey Chambers, Queen, and the soundtracks from I Am Sam (I really should get around to transferring my real Beatles albums onto the music device), My Fair Lady, and the Broadway version of The Lion King.

Special mention goes to Johnny Cash, who appeared first time round with the Folsom live version of "Folsom Prison Blues" and would, if it hadn't begun with its own title, have followed up this time with the San Quentin live version of "San Quentin".

Comments

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Honesty compels me to point out that I got the title of "Get Me To The Church On Time", but not the source. And the source and artist of "Fidelity Fiduciary Bank", but not the title.

[pedanther]

I chose to count "The Song About Investing Tuppence In The Bank From Mary Poppins" as an acceptable approximation of the title; it was obvious you knew which song it was, and I don't know if I'd have been able to get the exact title from memory either.

With "Get Me To The Church On Time", I think I just assumed that if you knew the song, you knew where it was from, and updated the list accordingly.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. I wondered when we'd finally get the answers! :-) Glad to know what 12 is at last...

[pedanther]

About a week after people stop answering, generally, in case there are any stragglers. (Optimistic, me. Or possibly just lazy.)