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Rock 'n' Roll Arithmetic

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  • debbiemuz
    debbiemuz Posts: 194 Member
    The CC/Joni Mitchell song is actually "Big Yellow Taxi".

    Yep, you're right...
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,491 Member
    deckerp wrote: »
    I can throw one out. Looking for the singer in common and not the duo or groups that performed them.

    Stumblin' In + Living Next Door To Alice = [singer]

    Reminder....
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    deckerp wrote: »
    deckerp wrote: »
    I can throw one out. Looking for the singer in common and not the duo or groups that performed them.

    Stumblin' In + Living Next Door To Alice = [singer]

    Reminder....

    Not. A. Clue... :/

  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,112 Member
    Amy Grant also covered Big Yellow Taxi...

    and Chris Norman sang both Stumblin' In (w/ Suzi Quatro) and Living Next Door To Alice (as a member of the band Smokie)
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    edited April 2017
    deckerp wrote: »
    I can throw one out. Looking for the singer in common and not the duo or groups that performed them.

    Stumblin' In + Living Next Door To Alice = [singer]
    34618-Do-You-Want-To-Give-Up-.gif
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,491 Member
    snookeroo wrote: »
    Amy Grant also covered Big Yellow Taxi...

    and Chris Norman sang both Stumblin' In (w/ Suzi Quatro) and Living Next Door To Alice (as a member of the band Smokie)

    Correct. Good stuff for some not so big acts.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    deckerp wrote: »
    snookeroo wrote: »
    Amy Grant also covered Big Yellow Taxi...

    and Chris Norman sang both Stumblin' In (w/ Suzi Quatro) and Living Next Door To Alice (as a member of the band Smokie)

    Correct. Good stuff for some not so big acts.

    I was actually thinking of Amy Grant- I saw her perform it live :)
  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,112 Member
    FYI: Suzi Quatro ("Stumblin' In") was Happy Days' Leather Tuscadero
  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,112 Member
    Deep Cut trivia:

    Elton John + (labours x 12) = (song title)
  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,112 Member
    snookeroo wrote: »
    Deep Cut trivia:

    Elton John + (labours x 12) = (song title)


    Hint: this song is not considered a major hit. However, it did receive occasional air play on FM radio.
  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,112 Member
    snookeroo wrote: »
    snookeroo wrote: »
    Deep Cut trivia:

    Elton John + (labours x 12) = (song title)


    Hint: this song is not considered a major hit. However, it did receive occasional air play on FM radio.

    Elton John + (labors x 12) + mythology = (song title)
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    Go the Distance?
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,491 Member
    I scoped out his albums through 1978 and didn't see a track that seemed to fit.

    I thought maybe Sixty Years On, but the math isn't right there is it?
  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,112 Member
    RunTimer wrote: »
    Go the Distance?

    No. Last clue:

    The title of this song is also Elton John's middle name.

  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    :confused:
    I keep coming back to this song, but that's Bolton, not John..
    https://youtu.be/zgnHF2CwrPs
  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,112 Member
    RunTimer wrote: »
    :confused:
    I keep coming back to this song, but that's Bolton, not John..
    https://youtu.be/zgnHF2CwrPs

    What song?

  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    @snookeroo , click the pic...links to video: Hercules (Disney) theme song: I can go the distance (pressed on vinyl by Michael Bolton
  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,112 Member
    edited April 2017
    RunTimer wrote: »
    @snookeroo , click the pic...links to video: Hercules (Disney) theme song: I can go the distance (pressed on vinyl by Michael Bolton

    Ok. I just got it. I just realized it's a video.

    I guess you get half a point, and most importantly, the honors. The answer is "Hercules".

    The Elton John song comes from his album Honky Chateau, which also contains the hits "Rocket Man" and "Honky Cat", and the classic "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters". The song "Hercules" ends the album.

    Ok, too much information for one game...
    @RunTimer , you're up.
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    edited April 2017
    Thanks, @snookeroo :smile:

    I tapped Poesia, my inner muse, for his one:

    In the below Pseudo-PSonnet, decipher the 5 Artists (all bands) and the one song that answers the question.
    Cooperation welcome..no wagering

    In the heat of the moment, your words take my breath away.
    Forsooth, the closer you get to me,
    it's that much stronger, the feeling grows;
    Yea, it is more than a feeling, for without you,
    I'm as aimless as dust in the wind;
    crossing the desert,
    on _____________


    Artists
    1.___________ (title__________)
    2.___________ (title__________)
    3.___________ (title__________)
    4.___________ (title__________)
    5.___________ (title__________)

    On what (Song)? ________________


  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,491 Member
    1. Asia - Heat of the Moment
    2.
    3.
    4. Boston - More Than A Feeling (I have tickets for Boston in a month)
    5. Kansas - Dust In The Wind

    America - A Horse With No Name
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    edited April 2017
    deckerp wrote: »
    1. Asia - Heat of the Moment
    2. Berlin- Take My Breath Away ????
    3. Roberta Flack- The Closer I Get To You ?
    4. Boston - More Than A Feeling (I have tickets for Boston in a month)
    5. Kansas - Dust In The Wind

    America - A Horse With No Name

  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    Okay, @deckerp, and @Mustang_Susie , your soooooooo close.
    Look at your combined answers; one of them violates the puzzle theme..
    1. Asia - Heat of the Moment
    2. Berlin- Take My Breath Away ????
    3. Roberta Flack- The Closer I Get To You ?
    4. Boston - More Than A Feeling (I have tickets for Boston in a month)
    5. Kansas - Dust In The Wind

    America - A Horse With No Name

  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,491 Member
    edited April 2017
    Maybe Roberta Flack doesn't belong because the other groups are places.

    Rex Smith did a song called You Take My Breath Away, but still not a place.

    Oh wait, it's "the closer you get to me" that may need to change.


    OK, I found one with a quick search that could work. I have some of their stuff too.

    1. Asia - Heat of the Moment
    2. Berlin - Take My Breath Away
    3. Alabama - The Closer You Get
    4. Boston - More Than A Feeling (I have tickets for Boston in a month)
    5. Kansas - Dust In The Wind

    America - A Horse With No Name
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    deckerp wrote: »
    1. Asia - Heat of the Moment
    2. Berlin - Take My Breath Away
    3. Modern English- I Melt With You??
    4. Boston - More Than A Feeling (I have tickets for Boston in a month)
    5. Kansas - Dust In The Wind

    America - A Horse With No Name

  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    WINNER! (sorry @Mustang_Susie :sunglasses: )

    @deckerp , you're up!
    deckerp wrote: »
    Maybe Roberta Flack doesn't belong because the other groups are places.

    1. Asia - Heat of the Moment
    2. Berlin - Take My Breath Away
    3. Alabama - The Closer You Get
    4. Boston - More Than A Feeling (I have tickets for Boston in a month)
    5. Kansas - Dust In The Wind

    America - A Horse With No Name

  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,491 Member
    (biblical doubter + noise reduction) / (Ronnie Milsap + Einstein) = [artist/title]
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    edited April 2017
    I don't believe it
    There she goes again
    She's tidied up and I can't find anything!

    https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2VNxmn0lNA
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,491 Member
    Correct.
  • snookeroo
    snookeroo Posts: 2,112 Member
    "What?" says Snookeroo
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    snookeroo wrote: »
    "What?" says Snookeroo
    Thomas Dolby/ She Blinded Me With Science