[Answers added]
So I took my normal ride today and considered what kinds of questions I would ask. Had a partial list ready to hammer into final form. But while I was at home, I happened to throw an album on my new toy (a turntable) and my mind was hijacked. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Y'all know how I feel about The Goddess Patsy Cline.In the hierarchy of chanteuses that make me quiver, send shivers up and down my spine, and reduce me to a quavering blob of testosterone-laced protoplasm, she is at the top. Number Three on the list is The Sainted Gladys Knight (I'm sorry, my dear, darling, Sainted Gladys, you know I love you to Pips but alas, another takes the Number Two position). And that is The Sainted Marilyn McCoo.
Just for the record, there is one other lady who qualifies for the title Goddess, though it's not specifically for her singing; possibly she would, but I don't believe I've ever actually heard her sing. That would be The Goddess Laura Nyro, who qualifies as Goddess based on the incredible body of outstanding songs she has written (some of which are sampled below). I will dedicate an edition to The Goddess Laura Nyro sometime, but for tonight my heart belongs to The Sainted Marilyn.
UPDATE: Oh my goodness. Thornharp jogged my mind into realizing that I can actually hear bits of The Goddess Laura Nyro on Amazon. Oh my goodness. She is, indeed, a Goddess.
1) I lay awake and watched until when? [Nightfly: until the morning light]
2) The world's a nicer place where? [Spoiler: In my beautiful balloon]
3) Will there come a time when I grow tired of you? [Brian gets it with Never My Love]
4) If you can surrey (and really, who can't?) where are you going? [Thornharp gets Stone Soul Picnic]
5) Each time the doorbell rings, what do I do? [Spoiler: I still run]
6) Together let's do what? [Spoiler: Find love]
7) Four leaves on a clover, I'm just a bit what? [Spoiler: Just a bit of a shade hungover]
8) Where can we sing a song and sail along? [Spoiler: The silver sky; TH has right vehicle, wrong line]
9) I heard your number ringing and what happened? [Spoiler: I went cold inside]
10) Please don't tell my mother I'm what? [Spoiler: I'm a saloon and moonshine lover]
11) One less egg to fry and what do I do? [Angie gets all I do is cry]
12) In your voice I hear what? [Angie gets a choir of carousels]
13) I was the one who came running when? [Nightfly: when you were lonely]
14) Gonna do what to that devil? [Spoiler: Gonna lay that devil down]
15) Love runs deep like what? [Spoiler: Like a tunnel with a pendulum beat; no, I don't get that either]
16) Why couldn't I close my eyes? [Nightfly: because you were on my mind]
17) Suspended where? [Spoiler: Under the twilight canopy]
18) Where will we chase your dream? [Spoiler: Across the sky]
19) Don't let Daddy hear it. Why not? [Spoiler: He don't believe in the gin mill spirit]
20) If devotion rules my heart, I do what (or not)? [Spoiler: I take no bows]
Posted by Ken S at July 7, 2007 08:59 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Rock 'n' Roll TriviaIf you don't add Sarah Vaughn to that list, I will fight you. That's no lie.
Posted by: Boy Named Sous at July 8, 2007 01:17 AMThe Goddess list? I don't know, man. There are some tough standards in place. But she's definitely on the "turns my soul to jelly" list.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at July 8, 2007 07:14 AM#4 Stone Soul Picnic (written by Laura Nyro)
#8 (?) my beautiful balloon
#11 -- I just wish I remembered the title to this one; such a sweetly melancholy song.
About Laura Nyro - I'd be really surprised if you hadn't heard her sing Wedding Bell Blues - a really big alto voice.
Posted by: thornharp at July 8, 2007 08:44 AM#3 and #4 - Keerekt.
#8 - Not what I was going for (and I want folks to be pretty specific about lyrics on these)
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at July 8, 2007 03:24 PM1) One less egg to fry and what do I do?
All I do is cry. ("One Less Bell to Answer", I think is the name of the song.)
12) In your voice I hear what?
Well, I want to say "a choir of carousels" but that just sounds stupid. And I forget the name of the song -- "Come on, Bill"? "Wedding Bell Blues"?
Also:
In the hierarchy of chanteuses that make me quiver, send shivers up and down my spine, and reduce me to a quavering blob of testosterone-laced protoplasm, she is at the top.
So, you fall to pieces, is that what you're trying to say?
Is #5 "I say a little prayer for you"?
Posted by: Kate P at July 9, 2007 06:01 AMThat is exactly what I'm trying to say, Angie.
And yes, #11 and #12 are correct and it doesn't sound stupid to me.
#5 is not correct (I think that's Diana Ross)
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at July 9, 2007 06:16 AMOop. It's not Diana Ross, it's Dionne Warwick.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at July 9, 2007 06:20 AMYeah, I didn't think it was Ms. Marilyn (whom I loved on Solid Gold).
Of course the "It's a Wonderful Life" people might insist an angel gets its wings. . .
Posted by: Kate P at July 9, 2007 06:36 AM#1 - is "until the morning light." (That sleeping pill you took was just a waste of time.)
#13 - I was the one who came running when you were lonely. (And this is, indeed, "Wedding Bell Blues," Angie.)
#16 - I think perhaps this is "because you were on my mind."
I'm annoyed that there are a couple of these I should know but don't - and of course I did know a few that other people beat me to. ("Never My Love" is actually going to be the first dance at my wedding.)
Posted by: nightfly at July 9, 2007 07:12 AMCorrect on all three counts, NF. And I must say that "Never My Love" is an excellent choice. Especially since that will probably be the answer to the very first question you ask your blushing bride.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at July 9, 2007 07:22 AM