#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $1600: "Damn These Dreams" tells how Dierks Bentley was inspired by this superstar "Jr.", son of the '50s legend who died young Hank Williams Jr. |
#8662, aired 2022-06-14 | SUN UP $200: Songs he recorded for Sun Records in the mid-'50s included "Milkcow Blues Boogie" & "Mystery Train" Elvis Presley |
#7977, aired 2019-04-23 | WE WILL ROCK YOU $1000: In November 2018 this band flew high with 12 of 50 songs on the Hot Rock Songs chart, including "Bandito", "Morph" & "My Blood" Twenty One Pilots |
#7040, aired 2015-04-03 | 1965 NO. 1 SONGS $800: It was 50 years ago, July 1965, when this quintessential Rolling Stones song hit No. 1 "Satisfaction" |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | NAME-CHECKING SONGS $1600: Weezer:
"I look just like" this '50s singer, "& you're Mary Tyler Moore" Buddy Holly |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 BEST SONGS OF THE DECADE $400: No. 15:
This "Man in Black" performing "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails; Trent Reznor said, "That song isn't mine anymore" Johnny Cash |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 BEST SONGS OF THE DECADE $800: No. 10:
"Stan" by this rapper; take note of the "bloodcurdling climax" Eminem |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 BEST SONGS OF THE DECADE $1200: No. 4:
"Hey Ya!" by this group; "a genre-humping blur of acoustic guitars... and Andre 3000's funktastic charm" OutKast |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 BEST SONGS OF THE DECADE $1600: No. 6:
"Seven Nation Army" by this band; "the greatest riff of the decade" The White Stripes |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 BEST SONGS OF THE DECADE $2000: No. 1:
"Crazy", by this band with Cee-Lo & Danger Mouse; "Every sucky band on Earth tried a lame cover" Gnarls Barkley |
#5069, aired 2006-09-28 | STATE SONGS $4,000 (Daily Double): The title of this state song is simply the name of the state with an exclamation point after it "Oklahoma!" |
#4539, aired 2004-05-06 | HIT SONGS $1000: In April 2003 this rapper topped the Billboard chart with his song "In Da Club" 50 Cent |
#4129, aired 2002-07-11 | SONGS OF THE '70s $800: This instructional 1976 song was Paul Simon's first No. 1 hit as a solo artist "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" |
#3827, aired 2001-04-03 | '50s TV $800: In the 1950s bandleader Ray Anthony had 2 TV theme songs reach the Top 10: "Dragnet" & this one heard here Peter Gunn |
#3261, aired 1998-11-09 | SONGS BY THE NUMBER $100: According to Paul Simon, 2 of them are "Slip out the back, Jack" & "Make a new plan, Stan" "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" |
#2730, aired 1996-06-14 | SONGS OF THE '50s $100: Buddy Holly sang, "If you knew" this girl "then you'd know why I feel blue" Peggy Sue |
#2730, aired 1996-06-14 | SONGS OF THE '50s $200: In a song from 1959, it's where Paul Anka wanted you to "put your head" on my shoulder |
#2730, aired 1996-06-14 | SONGS OF THE '50s $300: He wrote "Your Cheatin' Heart" Hank Williams |
#2730, aired 1996-06-14 | SONGS OF THE '50s $400: In 1956 Gogi Grant sang about "The Wayward" one wind |
#2730, aired 1996-06-14 | SONGS OF THE '50s $500: He "calls the English teacher 'Daddy-O'" Charlie Brown |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | SONGS OF THE '50s $100: This 1957 million seller by Harry Belafonte is also known as "Day-O" "The Banana Boat Song" |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | SONGS OF THE '50s $200: Eddie Cochran told us "There ain't no cure for" this the "Summertime Blues" |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | SONGS OF THE '50s $300: In this Johnny Horton hit, "We fired our guns and the British kept a comin'" "The Battle Of New Orleans" |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | SONGS OF THE '50s $400: Do this & "whisper in my ear, baby, words I want to hear, tell me, tell me that you love me too" "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | SONGS OF THE '50s $500: This No. 1 hit by the Teddy Bears was inspired by the inscription on the grave of Phil Spector's father "To Know Him Is To Love Him" |
#1232, aired 1990-01-02 | COLORFUL SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Played here by Mantovani, this classic was a rock 'n' roll hit in the '50s, '60s & '70s:
Instrumental music plays. "Deep Purple" |
#1176, aired 1989-10-16 | POPULAR SONGS $400: In the '50s Patti Page had a major hit singing this song, now the state song of Tennessee "Tennessee Waltz" |
#1172, aired 1989-10-10 | '50s SONGS $100: It's the phrase following "See you later, alligator" After while, crocodile |
#1172, aired 1989-10-10 | '50s SONGS $200: Marty Robbins reached No. 2 in 1957 with a song about "a white sport coat and" this flower a pink carnation |
#1172, aired 1989-10-10 | '50s SONGS $300: He was "Born on a mountiantop in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free" Davy Crockett |
#1172, aired 1989-10-10 | '50s SONGS $500 (Daily Double): In 1956, this song from Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" made No. 2 on the pop charts:
"When I was just a little girl /
I asked my mother..." "Que Sera Sera" |
#1172, aired 1989-10-10 | '50s SONGS $500: About her, Paul Anka sang, "I'm so young and you're so old, this my darling I've been told" Diana |
#616, aired 1987-04-20 | MUSIC TRIVIA $400: In the '50s, his singles included "Danny Boy" & "Hava Nagela", but calypso songs made him a star Harry Belafonte |
#582, aired 1987-03-03 | STREET SONGS $400: In '50s song, "the naughty lady of" this street, "has the town in a whirl...!" Shady Lane |
#553, aired 1987-01-21 | BABY SONGS $600: In the first line of the '50s song, it follows "Be-bop-a-lula" "She's My Baby" |
#524, aired 1986-12-11 | '50s SONGS $100: "Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you, if you're" this "Young At Heart" |
#524, aired 1986-12-11 | '50s SONGS $200: Of Carl Perkins or Elvis, the one whose "Blue Suede Shoes" stepped higher on the charts Carl Perkins |
#524, aired 1986-12-11 | '50s SONGS $300: "If your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye, it's no secret you'll feel better if you" do this "Cry" |
#524, aired 1986-12-11 | '50s SONGS $400: In 1951, Jo Stafford announced "There's dancin' tonight" because these "is a-comin'" "Shrimp Boats" |
#524, aired 1986-12-11 | '50s SONGS $500: Rosemary Clooney's salutation to "You with the stars in your eyes" "Hey There" |
#398, aired 1986-03-19 | "ROCK" & "ROLL" SONGS $1000: Title song of 1973 concert film in which Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry rock down '50s memory lane "Let The Good Times Roll" |
#274, aired 1985-09-26 | '60s SONGS $600: While Paul Anka was a "Lonely Boy" in the '50s, this singer was "Mr. Lonely" of the '60s Bobby Vinton |
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