| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | SILENCE! $800: "There's a weapon that we must use in our defense--silence" in this song by Jane Wiedlin & Terry Hall about their secret romance "Our Lips Are Sealed" |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A certain ancient civilization that men obsess over in a TikTok trend time travels & becomes a Jay-Z song about NYC "The Roman Empire State Of Mind" |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | MICKEY'S MANTEL $800: Penned by Lin-Manuel Miranda, this song from "Encanto" won the Best Song Written for Visual Media Grammy in 2023 "We Don't Talk About Bruno" |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | SONG BIRDS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1960s Fleetwood Mac had an international hit with their song about one of these seabirds; Coleridge put one in a poem an albatross |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $1200: "Murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3, it's as easy to learn as your ABC", sang this group in 1983; someone should call them about that The Police |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Kermit's colorful theme song about the group that nominated Ralph Nader & always spoiled the fun at festivities "It's Not Easy Being Green" Party pooper |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | RICE PUDDING $1600: "A lot of shoes, a lot of rice" in this old song about a wedding that doesn't end in happily ever after "Makin' Whoopee" |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SOME OF THAT JAZZ $800: John Coltrane blew minds with his version of this "Sound of Music" song about "brown paper packages tied up with strings" "My Favorite Things" |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SOME OF THAT JAZZ $2000: Billie Holiday & frequent collaborator Arthur Herzog wrote this song about a youth "that's got his own" "God Bless The Child" |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | THESE SONGS REALLY MOVE $2000: The 1993 Breeders song about one of these projectiles makes a "crash" & a "splash" "Cannonball" |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A SONG & A DANCE $1600: People were already doing this dance when Van McCoy wrote a song about it, helping to usher in the disco era "The Hustle" |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $800: August Wilson got the title for his play about this singer from her song that became a dance craze, "The Black Bottom" Ma Rainey |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $400: The Righteous Brothers sang that "Rock And Roll" this place has a "hell of a band", including Otis & Janis Heaven |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $400: Sherwood Schwartz wrote the lyrics to this theme song about a group that "must somehow form a family" "The Brady Bunch" |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ABOUT THAT SONG $200: 43 million streams of his song "Happy" on Pandora led to only $2,700 in publisher & songwriting royalties Pharrell |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ABOUT THAT SONG $400: This Halloween novelty song was written to capitalize on a dance craze & at one point had "Potato" in its title the "Monster Mash" |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ABOUT THAT SONG $600: Dan Wilson of Semisonic said this song is about a baby leaving the womb as much as it is about the end of the night at a bar "Closing Time" |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ABOUT THAT SONG $800: Charlie Daniels was unhappy with the fact that the devil could win in the Guitar Hero version of his song titled this "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ABOUT THAT SONG $1000: Now considered a Christmas carol, the song "Do You Hear What I Hear" was written as a prayer for peace during this 1962 event Cuban Missile Crisis |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | POP MUSIC $2000: Ufologists took notice of Nicki Minaj's song about these title objects that were "meant to fly" starships |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $1200: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In my new audio memoir "Break Shot" I talk about my early days, including my time in London in the '60s & my association with The Beatles; in fact, my song "Something In The Way She Moves" inspired this Beatle to write his own song that begins with the same line George Harrison |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | MUSIC I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH $800: I'm not up on his song "Yikes", but I did hear that in 2018 he tweeted about abolishing the 13th Amendment Kanye West |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | SITCOMEDY $1000: On "Extras", David Bowie made up a song about this British comic that began, "Little fat man who sold his soul" & got so very much worse Ricky Gervais |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | NAT GEO $400: Raised in Chicago, Nat King Cole sang this song about a road that runs from the Windy City to L.A. "Route 66" |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $1000: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Bing Crosby introduced the timeless song "White Christmas" in this 1942 film about a hotel in the country Holiday Inn |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | ALL MY... $800: Paul McCartney said this 1963 song about what "I will send to you" was an oddity in that he wrote the lyrics first "All My Loving" |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | SPORTS STUFF $2,000 (Daily Double): The PGA says that this sports term dates to a 19th c. song about a monster who cackled, "Catch me if you can" a bogey |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $200: Picture it: Ed Sheeran wrote this hit about a memento of love while building a Lego X-Wing fighter in a hotel room "Photograph" |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | PUTTIN' OUT THE WELCOME MUTT $1600: The Beatles' song "Martha My Dear" was written about this British breed that the AKC says "requires diligent grooming" an Old English Sheepdog |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $400: In 2007 he said that "Sweet Caroline" was inspired by a photo of a young Caroline Kennedy Neil Diamond |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | CARRIE-OKE $1600: When Graham Nash wrote about this singer he was too shy to use her 1st name so he chose one that rhymed: "Carrie Ann" Marianne Faithfull |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | MUSIC FOR THE DENTIST'S CHAIR $2000: Should I worry about hearing this novelty holiday song that says, "Every time I try to speak all I do is whistle" "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HOPE YOU REMEMBER THAT OLD SONG! $200: Pre-Mellencamp, John Cougar had "a little ditty about" these 2 people Jack & Diane |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | THE MOST DOWNLOADED ROCK SONGS $800: No. 4 is this song by The Fray that actually is not about CPR "How To Save A Life" |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | NAME THAT SONG $1200: Chuck Berry's first Top 40 hit was this one about a girl in a Coupe de Ville "Maybellene" |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THAT '70s SONG $800: "I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside the day the music died" "American Pie" |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | SAY "HEY", KID $800: 1951 Hank Williams classic with a culinary query in the chorus "Hey, Good Lookin'" |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | THAT TITLE IS TAKEN $800: A Lillian Hellman title refers to the Song of Solomon line about how they "spoil the vine" the little foxes |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | SOUNDS LIKE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Prince song about the colorful drizzle that affected Robespierre's horrific French stewardship "Purple Reign of Terror" |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Aerosmith song that says, "She had the body of a Venus...imagine my surprise" & is a Disney movie about 2 dogs in love "Dude Looks Like A Lady and the Tramp" |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | '60s MUSIC $2000: This 1961 hit by Dion begins, "Here's my story, sad but true, it's about a girl that I once knew" "Runaround Sue" |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | STATE OBJECTS & SYMBOLS $400: This ditty about a pony-riding gentleman is Connecticut's state song "Yankee Doodle" |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | INSPIRED SONGS $200: The song heard here was written in the '70s for a movie about this boxer
"Because the greatest love of all..." Muhammad Ali |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | KING JAMES BIBLE BEASTS $800: The Song of Solomon 2:15 tells of these "little" critters "that spoil the vines" foxes |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | MUSIC OF YESTERYEAR $2000: It was this composer's "I'm Just Wild About Harry" that became a Truman campaign song Eubie Blake |
| #4394, aired 2003-10-16 | BOOK TITLES $7,000 (Daily Double): David Brock's book about "The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative" is called "Blinded by" this the Right |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | SUMMER CAMP $800: In a song about bad times at camp, "I went hiking with Joe Spivy / He developed" this outdoor danger poison ivy |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | IT'S A BOY! $600: "Giving Tree" author Shel Silverstein penned this 1969 Johnny Cash hit "A Boy Named Sue" |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) The Christmas tune I'm about to sing is based on this song that may have been written by Henry VIII:
"What child is this, who laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping?" "Greensleeves" |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Norman Mailer's "True Life Novel" about Gary Gilmore that featured Disney's Uncle Remus & Brer Rabbit The Executioner's Song of the South |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | THAT OLD TIME NEW WAVE MUSIC $1000: (Hi, I'm Jane Wiedlin) Among my credits is this song that starts, "Can you hear them? Talkin' about us, telling lies..." "Our Lips are Sealed" |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | BETTE DAVIS FILMS $1,100 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jeri Ryan.) In a March 1998 episode of my TV series, I sang "It Can't Be Wrong", a song from this 1942 Bette Davis film Now, Voyager |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | SONGS ABOUT THE MOVIES $1000: Appropriately, in the title of a 1961 song Sue Thompson sang that these movies "make me cry" Sad movies |
| #3145, aired 1998-04-10 | THE PASSOVER SEDER $1000: Many seders include a song about this animal that's eaten by a cat that's bitten by a dog Goat |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | ODDS $300: The odds against throwing a 6 with one die, or a Doors song that announced, "No one here gets out alive" 5 to 1 |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | OPERETTAS $900 (Daily Double): The 1879 operetta about this title group ends with the song heard here: The Pirates of Penzance |
| #2118, aired 1993-11-17 | POP MUSIC $300: No. 1 song that begins "Imagine me and you, I do, I think about you day and night..." "Happy Together" |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | POP LYRICS $300: This Bobbie Gentry song begins, "It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day" "Ode to Billie Joe" |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Commission referred to by its initials in the following song
"Well I pulled out of Pittsburgh rolling down that Eastern seaboard / I got my diesel wound up and she's a running like never before / There's a speed zone ahead, but alright / I don't see a cop in sight / Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight" the Interstate Commerce Commission (the ICC) |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | GOLDEN OLDIES $200: Jimmy Webb song about a "park" that was a No. 2 hit for Richard Harris & a No. 1 hit for Donna Summer "MacArthur Park" |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | WESTERN SONGS $300: "Hold That Critter Down" is a song about doing this to animals Branding them |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | DANCE $500 (Daily Double): Dance that Eydie Gorme sang about in the following 1963 hit:
"I was at a dance / When he caught my eye / Standin' all alone / Lookin' sad and shy..." the bossa nova |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | SAINTS $600: The patron saint of Czechoslovakia, we sing a song about this king at Christmastime Wenceslas |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | COLE PORTER SONGS $200 (Daily Double): Late comedian heard here, singing a 1941 Cole Porter tune on B'way in "Let's Face It":
"But honey, I suspect you all / Of bein’ intellectual / And so, instead of gushin’ on / Let’s have a big discussion on /Timidity, stupidity, solidity, frigidity / Avidity, turbidity, / Manhattan and viscidity / Fatality, morality, legality, finality / Neutrality, reality, or Southern hospitality / Pomposity, verbosity / You’re loosing your velocity / But let’s not talk about love" Danny Kaye |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $500 (Daily Double): New Yorker who topped pop charts in 1955 with the following song about a Texan:
"There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am gonna see / Nobody else could miss her..." Mitch Miller |
| #809, aired 1988-02-25 | "SONG" SONGS $1000: 1952 Susan Hayward film about singer Jane Froman; also 1 of Froman's signature songs With a Song in My Heart |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | ONE-WORD SONGS $200 (Daily Double): A time of rest, or title of the following lively Go-Go's hit:
"Can't seem to get my mind off of you / Back here at home, there's nothin' to do / Now that I'm away..." "Vacation" |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | HIGHWAY & BYWAYS $400: In song about "that toddling town", it's Chicago's "great street" State Street |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | TRANSPORTATION $400 (Daily Double): Group which topped the country charts with the following song about a truck driver:
[Truck noises]
"Roll on, highway /
Roll on along /
Roll on, Daddy, 'til you get back home /
Roll on family /
Roll on crew /
Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do /
And roll on eighteen wheeler, roll on /
(Roll on!)..." Alabama |
| #613, aired 1987-04-15 | WESTERN SONGS $500: Marty Robbins said he wanted to write a song about this town, because "that is where the West begins" El Paso |
| #606, aired 1987-04-06 | GOLDEN OLDIES $300: S/Sgt. Barry Sadler's song not about the hats, but the men beneath them "The Ballad Of The Green Berets" |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | O.R. $500 (Daily Double): Title & subject of the following:
"One of these days / I'm gonna climb that mountain / Walk up there among the clouds / Where the cotton's high / And the corn's a-growin' / And there ain't no fields to plow" "Old Rivers" |
| #496, aired 1986-11-03 | THE GREAT DEPRESSION $1,000 (Daily Double): Ironically, this song was introduced about the same time that the stock market crashed "Happy Days Are Here Again" |
| #463, aired 1986-09-17 | BOYS IN SONG $1000: Tho she told Jay & the Americans, "Come a little bit closer", the girl "belonged to that man" Jose |
| #460, aired 1986-09-12 | THE SOUTH IN SONG $500: Larry Gatlin song about a Texas city that "means I'm 1 day closer to you" "Houston" |
| #423, aired 1986-04-23 | ROCK ‘N ROLL $200: Beatles song about purchasing affection that was 1st to hit #1 in U.S. & Britain at same time "Can’t Buy Me Love" |
| #351, aired 1986-01-13 | TELEVISION $200 (Daily Double): Cable network that adopted this Pointer Sisters song as its jingle:
"We shouldn't even think about tomorrow / Sweet memories will last a long, long time / We'll have a good time, baby, don't you worry / And if we're still playing 'round, boy, that's just fine / Let's get excited, we just can't hide it" Showtime |
| #298, aired 1985-10-30 | INSECTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Insect that this song's about:
"...Just lookin' for a home / He was lookin' for a home..." a boll weevil |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | GIRLS IN SONG $300 (Daily Double): Girl Tony Orlando was singing to here:
"The stars won't come out if they know that you're about" Candida |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | U.S. STATES $1,000 (Daily Double): State in which this song takes place:
"And I dreamed about them cottonfields 'n' home /
I dreamed about my mother /
Dear old sister and papa and brother /
Dreamed about that sweetheart who's been waitin' for so long /
I wanna go home..." Michigan |
| #164, aired 1985-04-25 | 1960 $800 (Daily Double): Conductor whose movie theme arrangements include "Moulin Rouge" & 1960's #1 song: Percy Faith |
| #159, aired 1985-04-18 | POTENT POTABLES $400 (Daily Double): Liquor that this song's about:
"Jose Cuervo you are a friend of mine / I like to drink you with a little salt and lime / Did I kiss all the cowboys? / Did I shoot out the lights? / Did I dance on the bar? / Did I start a fight?" tequila |
| #156, aired 1985-04-15 | "UPS" & "DOWNS" $400 (Daily Double): Neil Sedaka proved it was easy twice, in '62 & '76 "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" |
| #149, aired 1985-04-04 | SILLY SONGS $200: '63 song that Peter, Paul & Mary insisted was not about marijuana "Puff The Magic Dragon" |
| #143, aired 1985-03-27 | WORLD WAR II $2,000 (Daily Double): Country which sank the subject of this song:
"We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss / We gotta sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us / Hit the decks a-runnin' boys and spin those guns around / When we find the Bismarck we gotta cut her down" England (Great Britain) |
| #121, aired 1985-02-25 | THE IRISH $400 (Daily Double): Irish group that this song is about:
"Oh! the drums go bang, and the cymbals clang, and the horns they blaze away /
McCarthy pumps the old bassoon while I the pipes do play /
And Hennessey Tennessey tootles the flute, and the music is somethin' grand..." McNamara's Band |
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