musical parlor game: scores and answers

[cellio]

It's been three days since the last guess, so as promised, here's the followup from the music game. Thanks to everyone who played. First, the scores:

• fauxklore 18
• alaricmacconnal 16
• giddysinger 11
• siderea 9
• goljerp 7
• lensedqso 6
• akitrom 5
• tc_tick 4
• hlinspjalda 4
• dsrtao 4
• Joy (via goljerp) 4
• dr_zrfq 3
• dglenn 3
• rjmccall 1

And now the answers to the ones that weren't guessed:

"Then Jimmy came along and we set up a conjugation / we were busy every night with loving recreation / I spent my days at work so he could get an education / and now he's an engineer!" -- "I'm Gonna Be An Engineer", by Peggy Seeger (my recording is by Anne Feeney, who used to perform every Sunday night at Ryan's Pub before she became more well-known)

"The shadow hovers o'er us old and long, its power fuligin and vast" -- "Terminus Est" by Julia Ecklar

"Likewise do not ignite the dog, the snake, the gerbil or the frog" -- "Never Set the Cat on Fire" by Frank Hayes, who is known for forgetting lyrics, especially his own :-)

"Come on up, I've got a lifeline; come on up to this train of mine" -- "Harriet Tubman", sung by John McCutcheon

"You can watch the meatloaf grow in the most frightening place I know" -- "Where the Penicillin Grows" by Queen Anne's Lace (yes, it is a song about cleaning out the fridge)

"If you gave me a billion dollars, I'll tell you just what I'd do -- I'd buy a new stereo, buy up Nabisco, and make sweet love to you" -- "Music, Sex, and Cookies" sung by Michael Spiro (yeah yeah, I know, but a billion dollars meant more when the song was written)

"He led the fight to save Lake Pedder from the HEC" -- "Olegas" by Bruce Watson (that's Olegas Truchanas)

"Those quislings who sold out the patriot game" -- "The Patriot Game", sung by the Clancy Brothers (and lots of other folks, but that's the recording I have)

"Reuben was the eldest of the children of Israel" -- "Prologue" (or "Jacob and Sons") from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (hlinspjalda, you were so close!)

"Well they pulled upon the bell-rope but there was no tingaling" -- "Hang on the Bell, Nellie", sung by the Chad Mitchell Trio

"And the morning of the avalanche the yeti kidnapped Blanch" -- "Colorado Rockies" (or "Colorado's Calling Me"), sung by Clam Chowder

Comments

[alaricmacconnal.livejournal.com]

Dodn't know any of the other ones (although I recognize many of the authors / performers).

Good job fauxklore!

[cellio]

I had expected you to know "Colorado Rockies". Now I wonder if the Clams stopped performing it before you started paying attention to them.

[fauxklore]

It's been years since I heard "I'm Gonna Be an Engineer" so I won't beat myself up on that one.

But how could I have missed "Hang on the Bell, Nellie"? Oh, yeah, I was focused on trying to remember the part of That's Amore that has "the bells ring ting-a-ling-a-ling" but I alwas screw up that song since I tend to think of it as starting out with "When an eel lunges out and it bites off your snout, that's a moray."

[cellio]

:-)

If you send me your mailing address, I'll see what I can do about an appropriate prize. Fair's fair. :-)

[lensedqso.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I didn't get "I'm Gonna Be An Engineer" - I love that song and listen to it regularly.

The only other two I've heard are "Harriet Tubman" (once or twice) and "Patriot Games" so I don't feel too bad about those, but I'll be kicking myself over "I'm Gonna Be An Engineer" for a while.