| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT? $2000: This band with songs like "1985" & "Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day", the "Phineas & Ferb" theme, riffed on a Steve Martin sketch for its name Bowling for Soup |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE $200: Songs from this 2016 film include "Another Day Of Sun" & "City Of Stars" La La Land |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SOME "HARD" SONGS $400: A 1964 chart-topper said, "It's been" this, "& I've been working like a dog" "A Hard Day's Night" |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | SONGS ON MY PLAY LIST $1600: This pop-punk band had a breakout hit in 1994 with "Come Out & Play" The Offspring |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EDUCATION FIRSTS $400: Friedrich Froebel started the first of these schools in Germany in 1837 & started the day with merry songs kindergarten |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | OLD TV THEME SONGS $1200: The title good ole boys of this show were "fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood" The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $800: The Beatles rejoiced, "Good Day" this & then rested "beneath a shady tree" Sunshine |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | CLASSIC SONGS $1600: Here's a little something you might have heard on St. Paddy's Day "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | FAMILIAR BRANDS IN SONGS $400: This Meghan Trainor tune says, "I see the magazines working that Photoshop, we know that...ain't real" "All About That Bass" |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | NO. 1 SONGS $2000: Her '90s No. 1s include "Dreamlover" & "One Sweet Day" Mariah Carey |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $600: From the Beatles, of course:
"I read the news today, oh boy" "A Day In The Life" |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | HOLIDAY SONGS $1000: This title promise was requested by Jim Lovell & Frank Borman during their 14-day space mission in December 1965 "I'll Be Home For Christmas" |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | INSTRUMENTAL SONG TITLES $400: Songs by both Emmylou Harris & Todd Rundgren instruct "bang" this instrument (slowly for her, all day for him) the drum |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | GREAT ROCK SONGS $400: It asks, "Do you recall what was revealed, the day the music died?" "American Pie" |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | GREAT ROCK SONGS $1000: It's the official title of Green Day's "Time Of Your Life" "Good Riddance" |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | TOM, DICK & HARRY $800: With songs like "Day-O", a 1950s fad for Calypso music was begun by this man Harry Belafonte |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | I'M IN LOVE WITH THAT SONG $600: (Hi, I'm Mark Kelly.) In 2006 my future wife Gabrielle Giffords chose one of the wake-up songs for me & my fellow crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery: "Beautiful Day" by this band U2 |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | POP CULTURE $800: In 2014 Billboard listed "Sunshine & Whiskey" & "Day Drinking" as "Hot Songs" in this genre country |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | RAINY SONGS $600: In "The Perfect" this genre "Song", "I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison, & I went to pick her up in the rain" country |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | PLAY INTO FILM $400: Songs in this 2012 film that came from the Broadway musical include "At The End Of The Day" & "Javert's Suicide" Les Miserables |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $1200: Funeral songs or hymns; "we sang" them "in the dark, the day the music died" dirges |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | DISNEY SONGS $800: The song titled "Some Day" he "Will Come" is from "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs" My Prince |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | LERNER & LOEWE SONGS $1600: "Thank heaven for" them; they "get bigger every day" & "grow up in the most delightful way" little girls |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | HATE SONGS $1600: This Joan Jett & The Blackhearts hit was the basis for "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night", the "SNF" theme song "I Hate Myself For Loving You" |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | ADVERBS IN SONGS $2000: The Beatles used a trio of adverbs in the title of this song from "Revolver" "Here, There And Everywhere" |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | SONGS FOR NEW YEAR'S $400: This Irish group's 1983 song "New Year's Day" was inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement U2 |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | TV SHOWS' THEME SONGS $400: "Sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away" Sesame Street |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $200: In 1971 Don McLean served up this 8 1/2-minute anthem about "the day the music died" "American Pie" |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | DAY SONGS $200: "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." is the title track of their album that also had the acoustic "Sound Of Silence" Simon & Garfunkel |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | DAY SONGS $400: Prince wrote this song that was the Bangles' first Top 10 hit "Manic Monday" |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | DAY SONGS $600: Katy Perry topped the charts with this song subtitled "(T.G.I.F.)" "Last Friday Night" |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | DAY SONGS $800: "Thursday" is one of the tunes on this late singer's classic album "I Got A Name" Jim Croce |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | DAY SONGS $1000: The Monkees mention "status symbol land" & "creature comfort goals" in this hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday" |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | 40 YEARS OF SESAME STREET $800: "Sesame Street" is full of great songs, like this one in which Ernie explains why tubby time is the best time of the day "Rubber Duckie" |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | TOP 40 SONGS' MISSING LINKS $800: Die Another ____
Tripper Day |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | SINGERS' SIGNATURE SONGS $1000: "Day-O"
(The Banana Boat Song) Harry Belafonte |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | U2 SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: Rosh Hashanah, for one; cheers! "New Year's Day" |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $200: A CCR title:
"Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | SNOWY SONGS $200: This guy "knew that the sun was out that day, so he said, 'let's run and have some fun now before I melt away'" Frosty the Snowman |
| #4660, aired 2004-12-03 | SONG BIRDS $400: This songs begins "He rocks in the tree tops all day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and singing his song" "Rockin' Robin" |
| #4243, aired 2003-01-29 | SUNNY SONGS $1,000 (Daily Double): George Harrison wrote this Beatles song in one day in Eric Clapton's garden "Here Comes the Sun" |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | I'VE GOT A LITTLE LISZT $1600: For one of his few songs in English, "Go Not Happy Day", Liszt took his text from this "Light Brigade" poet Tennyson |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | TV THEME SONGS $2000: "So while you're here enjoy the view, keep on doing what you do, so hold on tight, we'll muddle through" One Day at a Time |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | SONGS FROM THE HART $400: It ends, "Each day is Valentine's Day" "My Funny Valentine" |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | THIS ONE TIME AT BAND CAMP $400: We only had a day to learn the "Aggie War Hymn", which is, appropriately, one of these college "songs" a fight song |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS $100: "Sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet" Sesame Street |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | BEATLES' SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $500: "24 Hour Traveler" "Day Tripper" |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | THE SONGS OF THE CARPENTERS $800: This 1973 song, a No. 1 adult contemporary hit, was featured on "Sesame Street" "Sing" |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | NO. 1 HITS OF THE '90s $200: She's the only performer to have 3 songs debut at No. 1: "Fantasy" & "One Sweet Day" in 1995 & "Honey" in 1997 Mariah Carey |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | SONGS' OPENING LINES $200: Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
| #3463, aired 1999-09-29 | SONGS OF THE '60s $800: Bob Dylan numbered them 12 & 35 "Rainy Day Women" |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | COWBOY SONGS $800: "All day I face the barren waste without the taste of" this Cool water |
| #3283, aired 1998-12-09 | YALIES $400: He wrote songs like "Eli" while at Yale & "Begin The Beguine" & "Night And Day" later Cole Porter |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | SONGS BY THE NUMBER $200: This 1995-96 hit by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1 with 16 "One Sweet Day" |
| #3240, aired 1998-10-09 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $300: The first book printed in the colonies was Stephen Day's "Whole Book of" these biblical songs in 1640 Psalms |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | SONGS ABOUT THE MOVIES $200: Decades before Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know", Doris Day sang "You Oughta" this Be in Pictures |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | SONGS $1,500 (Daily Double): Beatles song whose opening chord is heard here: "A Hard Day's Night" |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | "FOOL"ISH SONGS $750 (Daily Double): In 1981 Diana Ross cracked the Top Ten with a remake of this 1956 Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers hit:
"Why do birds sing so gay /
And lovers await the break of the day..." "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | SILLY SONGS $100: In an Oscar-winning Disney song, this nonsense phrase precedes "My, oh my, what a wonderful day" "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | "DAY" SONGS $200: The Crickets in 1957 & Linda Ronstadt in 1976 had a hit with it "That'll Be The Day" |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | "DAY" SONGS $400: "Let us sing a song of cheer again" because of this "Happy Days Are Here Again" |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | "DAY" SONGS $600: Andy Williams & Henry Mancini had hits in 1963 with this film theme "Days of Wine And Roses" |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | "DAY" SONGS $800: In 1963 Ruby & The Romantics had their only No. 1 hit with this song "Our Day Will Come" |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | "DAY" SONGS $1000: In 1959 Dinah Washington found this out "What A Diff'rence A Day Makes" |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | FILMS OF THE '70s $200: "Peggy Sue", "That'll Be The Day" & other songs in this 1978 film were sung by its star, Gary Busey "The Buddy Holly Story" |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | BROADWAY SONGS $1,000 (Daily Double): The two men who wrote the Broadway song heard here:
"When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way /
From your first cigarette to your last dyin' day /
When you're a Jet if the spit hits the fan..." Stephen Sondheim & Leonard Bernstein |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | MUSICAL "EYE"s $400: This 1912 songs is perfect for St. Patrick's Day "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | POP SONGS $300: "He rocks in treetop all the day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' his song" "Rockin' Robin" |
| #2147, aired 1993-12-28 | COMPOSERS $1000: This Austrian composer wrote over 140 songs in 1815, including 8 lieder in a single day Franz Schubert |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | LERNER & LOEWE SONGS $400: "What a day this has been! What a rare mood I'm in! Why, it's almost like" this being in love |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | FOLK SINGERS $200: He's recorded folk songs like "Danny Boy" but is better known for Calypso numbers like "Day-O" Harry Belafonte |
| #1926, aired 1993-01-11 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $1000: While at Yale, this "Night and Day" composer wrote the football songs "Bingo Eli Yale" & "Bull Dog" Cole Porter |
| #1832, aired 1992-07-14 | MOVIE SONGS $500: "Secret Love", from this 1953 Doris Day film about a famous frontierswoman, won an Oscar for Best Song Calamity Jane |
| #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" |
| #1601, aired 1991-07-15 | COLE PORTER LYRICS $200: Title of the song that says, "From this happy day, no more blue songs, only whoop-dee-doo songs" "From This Moment On" |
| #1528, aired 1991-04-03 | LYRICISTS $200: He wrote the songs for "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" with Burton Lane, not Frederick Loewe (Alan Jay) Lerner |
| #1476, aired 1991-01-21 | COLORFUL PHRASES $500 (Daily Double): Bobby Vinton's first song to make the pop charts, it went all the way to No. 1:
"A long, long time ago, on graduation day, you handed me your book. I signed this way..." "Roses Are Red (My Love)" |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | SONGS OF THE '60s $100: In 1967, The Young Rascals were "Groovin'" in the afternoon on this day Sunday |
| #1429, aired 1990-11-15 | TRAIN SONGS $100: In the old standard it's what "I've" been doing "all the live-long day" working on the railroad |
| #1227, aired 1989-12-26 | "BABY" SONGS $500 (Daily Double): A No. 12 hit in 1976, it reached No. 1 in 1988 as part of a melody:
"Shadows grow so long before my eyes, and they're moving, across the stage, suddenly, the day turns into night..." "Baby, I Love Your Way" |
| #1097, aired 1989-05-16 | CHILDHOOD SONGS $500: Completes the line "Oh, I went down South for to see my Sal, sing polly-wolly-doodle..." all the day |
| #1012, aired 1989-01-17 | BEATLES SONGS $500: "Got a good reason/For taking the easy way out" "Day Tripper" |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | SONG $100: He wrote songs like "You Gotta Start Off Each Day With a Song" & "Inka Dinka Doo" Jimmy Durante |
| #1000, aired 1988-12-30 | BROADWAY SONGS $200: In "Cats", hour of the day that's the 1st word of "Memory" Midnight |
| #951, aired 1988-10-24 | GEOGRAPHICAL SONGS $200: On "A Foggy Day" in London Town, "I viewed the morning with alarm...", this museum "had lost its charm" British Museum |
| #940, aired 1988-10-07 | WESTERN SONGS $400 (Daily Double): 2nd-biggest hit single of 1949, it's subtitled "A Cowboy Legend"
"An old cowpoke went riding out one dark and windy day" "Ghost Riders In The Sky" |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | "IF"FY SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Olivia Newton-John won the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year shortly after this song came out:
"You came when I was happy in your sunshine / I grew to love you more each passing day / Before too long..." "If You Love Me" (Let Me Know) |
| #852, aired 1988-04-26 | SPIRITUAL SONGS $500: "So I'll cherish" it "till my trophies at last I lay down...& exchange it some day for a crown" "The Old Rugged Cross" |
| #834, aired 1988-03-31 | WINTER SONGS $100: "He was made of snow, but the children know how he came to life one day" "Frosty the Snowman" |
| #823, aired 1988-03-16 | GERSHWIN SONGS $800: "I'll build..." 1 of these, "...with a new step every day" a stairway to paradise |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | "ANGEL"IC SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Only Billboard Top 40 hit for Alan O'Day, it climbed all the way to No. 1:
"Cryin' on my pillow, lonely in my bed /
Then I heard a voice beside me, and she softly said /
Wonder is your night light, magic is your dream..." "Undercover Angel" |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | "MAY" DAY $200: Dustin & Warren didn't write most of those lousy songs in "Ishtar"; she & Paul Williams did Elaine May |
| #711, aired 1987-10-12 | SEA SONGS $300: Song which proclaims, "Farewell to college joys, we sail at break of day" "Anchors Aweigh" |
| #708, aired 1987-10-07 | "MY" SONGS $400: Musical invocation that worshipfully asks "to linger with you at the end of the day" "My Prayer" |
| #658, aired 1987-06-17 | ATMOSPHERIC SONGS $500: In 1966, Bob Dylan numbered them 12 & 35 "Rainy Day Women" |
| #658, aired 1987-06-17 | ATMOSPHERIC SONGS $600 (Daily Double): Title of the following:
"If I had a day that I could give you..." "Sunshine On My Shoulders" |
| #656, aired 1987-06-15 | QUESTIONABLE SONGS $1000: Title of song which also asks, "Now that you left me, how can I live through another day?" "What Now My Love" |
| #610, aired 1987-04-10 | SUMMER SONGS $200: The 3 rhyming adjectives that Nat King Cole used to describe "Those...Day of Summer" lazy hazy crazy |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | CAMPFIRE SONGS $200: "You got to jump down, turn around," & pick this amount "o'cotton" a day a bale |
| #374, aired 1986-02-13 | #1 SONGS $300: This rock legend only had one #1 hit, "That'll Be The Day" Buddy Holly |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | "CRY"ING SONGS $400: This Gerry & the Pacemakers 1964 hit suggests you should do you weeping at night "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying" |
| #311, aired 1985-11-18 | OSCAR SONGS $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 Oscar winners sung in the films by Doris Day "Que Sera, Sera" or ("Secret Love") |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | SONGS THAT "MAKE" IT $400: In 1959, "24 little hours" were important for Dinah Washington in this, her biggest hit "What A Difference A Day Makes" |
| #185, aired 1985-05-24 | SWEET SONGS $200: Also called "Day-O", this calypso song was most ap"peel"ing in 1957 "The Banana Boat Song" |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | OSCAR SONGS $500 (Daily Double): 1960 song named for day Melina Mercouri rested: "Never On Sunday" |
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