| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $400: With a Bananarama-riffic title, this Taylor Swift song dominated the fall in 2023, staying at No. 1 for weeks "Cruel Summer" |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $600: "Now & then, I miss you, oh, now & then, I want you to be there for me", sang this band in a 2023 song written in the '70s The Beatles |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $600: The video for this Maroon 5 / Christina Aguilera hit features plenty of dancing by a certain other rock star "Moves Like Jagger" |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $800: "In the droptop ride with you, I feel like Scarface", says SZA on this tune, winner of a Grammy in 2024 for Best R&B Song "Snooze" |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $600: R.E.M. titled a 1981 song for this broadcasting service that aimed to inform people under the grasp of the Soviets Radio Free Europe |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | HAPPY HOUR $400: She won a Grammy for her song "If It Makes You Happy" & later wrote a cookbook, "If It Makes You Healthy" Sheryl Crow |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | SHALL WE DANCE? $1000: "España Cañi", a song with 2/4 marching rhythm that builds slowly, is a traditional choice for this "two-step" dance pasodoble |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | POP CULTURE DRAGONS $1200: "Where Dragons Dwell" is a swell song from this band that took its name from the Japanese word for Godzilla Gojira |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 1990s MUSIC $200: "Shakedown" is the first word of this Smashing Pumpkins song named for a year 1979 |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | LOW TECH $400: One book in the "Fold & Fly" series teaches how to make these; a 2007 M.I.A. song is named for them paper planes |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 5 FOR THE ROAD $600: Ray Charles started off a song with these 4 words; now it means scram! Hit the road, Jack |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | POP CULTURE VS. $200: In 1966 The Royal Guardsmen set the scene "in the clear blue skies over Germany" for a song titled "Snoopy Vs." this guy the Red Baron |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $200: An early citation for this term for jewelry goes back to a song featuring Lil Wayne bling |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $800: In this film Joseph Gordon-Levitt picks the right "day" for an impromptu dance to a Hall & Oates song 500 Days of Summer |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $1200: The classic anti-drug song "White Lines" by Grandmaster Melle Mel was fittingly remixed for this 2023 film Cocaine Bear |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | AMAZING ARMENIANS $2000: Charles Aznavour recorded more than 100 records as a master of this emotional style, French for "song" chanson |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Wake up" to this 1971 Rod Stewart song that's a perfect greeting for any Jedi "Maggie May" the force be with you |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $200: Careful! This washing machine cycle using cold water and low spin speed is suggested for lingerie & silk neckties delicate |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $1000: While crossing the George Washington Bridge from N.J., drivers are greeted by a sign with these 4 words (it's been waiting for you) Welcome to New York |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: China's Song Dynasty was noted for its contributions to the tz'u, a form of this a song |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ROGET'S BUTT $1500: Honky tonk! Trace Adkins chose this synonym for "butt" for a 2005 hit country song badonkadonk |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | MUSIC TERMS $1600: German for "song", it's a German folk or art song a lied |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $400: I'm just talkin' 'bout this composer who won a 1971 Oscar for best original song for "Theme From Shaft" Isaac Hayes |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | A FABRIC-ATED CATEGORY $1200: This lace named for a town in France was paired in song with "a pretty face and a ponytail hanging down" Chantilly lace |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $100: It ain't no lie--*NSYNC had a top 10 hit in 2000 with this song (and we'd love for you to do the "talking puppet hand" motion) "Bye Bye Bye" |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | & TAKIN' NAMES $800: The pseudonym he used for "The Running Man" in 1982 came to this author as he listened to a song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive Stephen King (Richard Bachman) |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | THE DNA OF MUSIC $1200: For their hit song "DNA", this K-pop band released a video in which they dance and form a double helix BTS |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $400: The bestselling holiday song recorded by a female artist is this 1994 hit by Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is You" |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | "R" SONG $400: An Ariana Grande song has this 3-letter title, an abbreviation for a phase of sleep "R.E.M." |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | REVIVAL $200: Fela Kuti has a song named for one of these creatures, the revived undead a zombie |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE HYPOCRITIC OAF $800: Before he freely sang a song of himself, Whitman was soused when he wrote a novel for this movement that led to prohibition the temperance movement |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | JOIN THE CLUB $400: "Hey there, hi there, ho there!" was a greeting in the theme song for this TV club that began in 1955 the Mickey Mouse Club |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $200: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) The song "At This Moment" became a hit after it was the backdrop on this show to show the romance of my character Alex P. Keaton & Ellen, played by Tracy Pollan, who, at this moment, has been my wife for almost 35 years Family Ties |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | DIANE WARREN $400: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) One of the top films of the '90s was "Armageddon", which features my song "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing", the first No. 1 hit for this group
"And I don't wanna miss a thing" Aerosmith |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | DIANE WARREN $1600: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) In a strange twist, both LeAnn Rimes & Trisha Yearwood were up for Grammys for my song from "Con Air" that asks this title question "How Do I Live" |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $1000: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) Long before winning the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Richard Pryor wrote for this '70s sitcom; the star next to Richard is a big hint & man, its theme song was fantastic Sanford and Son |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | SAX EDUCATION $2000: You may have "A Love Supreme" for the album of that name by this great jazz sax man who made "My Favorite Things" a signature song Coltrane |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $2000: From an Italian word for "boat", it was the type of song originally sung by Venetian boatmen a barcarolle |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S GERMAN FOR... $400: Christmas tree
(or just fir tree), as in a beloved song Tannenbaum |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | WALK, THE LINE $1200: Vanessa Carlton was nominated for 3 Grammys for her song that said, "You know I'd walk" this far to "just see you tonight" a thousand miles |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | A HEAVENLY BODY IN MUSIC $4,000 (Daily Double): This singer also from northern lands recorded "The Comet Song" for a film based on Finland's beloved Moomin books Björk |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: James Joyce's last book becomes a WHAM! song whose first word is "Jitterbug" Finnegans Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $600: A leader & producer of the Wu-Tang Clan, he composed music for "Kill Bill" & we can't help hoping he'll work on a song with SZA RZA |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | VERY ARTISTIC $600: Used as a doorstop in Long Island, a vase from this Chinese dynasty eventually sold for $1.3 million at auction in 2012 the Ming Dynasty |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $400: "Hey", this guy, "play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" Mr. Tambourine Man |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS $1200: Take a diphthong into this word for a sullen expression, which "you better not" do, "I'm telling you why" in a Christmas song pout |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $600: These tall timepieces were named for a 19th-century song that said, "It stopp'd short--never to go again--When the old man died" a grandfather clock |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $200: Though the title mentions a different car part, Nicky Youre is in a convertible in the video for this hit song heard here
"You got me stuck on the thought of you /
You're making me feel brand new /
You're more than the sunshine in my eyes /
La da la da da, la da dai /
La da la da di dai..." "Sunroof" |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | CLASSICAL IS IN $1600: A folk song that accompanied a pantomime character was the basis for this Debussy piece whose name means "moonlight" "Clair De Lune" |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | POP CULTURE $600: "Sincerely, Me" is a song from this Broadway show that won the 2017 Tony for Best Musical Dear Evan Hansen |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $600: "I'd catch a grenade for ya", he sang in a No. 1 song Bruno Mars |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $800: As the song says, "Life is a cabaret, old" this synonym for friend chum |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $800: "Well, it's a marvelous night for" this Van Morrison song that features Collin Tilton's tasty flute playing & tenor sax, too "Moondance" |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR $2,200 (Daily Double): Arthur MacArthur from Milwaukee won the Medal of Honor for a charge at Missionary Ridge shouting this, now a fight song title On, Wisconsin! |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1200: "Hodel, oh Hodel, have I made a match for you! He's handsome, he's young! Alright, he's 62" Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | ALL STARS $800: The music for this came from a festive British song titled "To Anacreon In Heaven" "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | THE CLASSIC SONG IN QUESTION $2000: On "How Soon Is Now?", Johnny Marr ran his rhythm guitar track through 4 amps to create a stunning tremolo effect for this band The Smiths |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | WITH A SONG IN YOUR BRAIN $200: This word for a song's main tune is from the Greek for "song" a melody |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | WITH A SONG IN YOUR BRAIN $1000: Publishing company Hal Leonard offers "the world's premier destination for digital" this loose-printed music; kind of an oxymoron sheet music |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | REMEMBERING OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN $800: Considered a little too sexy for some, this song worked out to be the top hit of the 1980s "Physical" |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | WE MAKE THAT VEHICLE $800: 4Runner looks like a Prince song title but it hits different notes for this brand Toyota |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | MAKING AN ASSONANCE OF YOURSELF $1000: In a song title from the 1920s, these 2-word noisemakers for nuptials "are breaking up that old gang of mine" wedding bells |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | THE NUMBER IN MUSIC $800: It would be a (disorganized) crime if you didn't know this group won an Oscar for their song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" Three 6 Mafia |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | IDINA MENZEL ACTS & SINGS $400: (Idina Menzel presents the clue.) I know all of you parents out there either love me or hate me for it, but I'm thankful this song from "Frozen" has such a lasting, resonating effect on people "Let It Go" |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POP MUSIC $800: Survivor had a No. 1 hit in 1982 with this song, the theme from "Rocky III" "Eye Of The Tiger" |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | DIONNE WARWICK $400: Dionne had a hit with this classic song that begins, "The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup" "I Say A Little Prayer" |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $600: In 2020 Taylor Swift had a No. 1 song named for this clothing item a cardigan |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A PRISONER OF YOUR OWN DEVICE $600: secretrickroll.com allows my annoying friend to create sneaky links to Rick Astley singing this song; I always fall for it "Never Gonna Give You Up" |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | METALLIC EXPRESSIONS $2000: A song in "Guys & Dolls" is called "Fugue For" these, slang for gamblers with more flash than cash Tinhorns |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | SADJECTIVES $1200: "M" is for mood, & a gloomy one at that; "Come to me" in a 1912 song, "My" this "Baby" melancholy |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS $1600: In 1989 Bobby McFerrin took home a Song of the Year Grammy for this, & he probably didn't, & was "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT $1600: A J.Lo song popularized this Spanish word for "daddy" or "sweetheart" papi |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | ALLITERATIVE SPORTS NO-NO's $1000: Time out for a penalty in hockey; it's also the name of the group that had the 2001 hit song "Superman" five for fighting |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | THE SILENT CONSONANT IN... $600: A word from the Greek for "a song in praise of God" like "Amazing Grace" N |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | FACE THE MUSIC $400: When Dolly Parton left singing partner Porter Wagoner for a solo career, she wrote this iconic love song for him "I Will Always Love You" |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | THE WWF $1200: The Beatles donated this fitting song to the album "No One's Gonna Change Our World", a fundraiser for the World Wildlife Fund "Across The Universe" |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | PICTURE THE SONG $1000: A posthumous hit for Jim Croce "Time In A Bottle" |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | INSTRUMENTAL TV THEMES $400: The jaunty "William Tell Overture" was the theme song for this old show about a masked man The Lone Ranger |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A SONG & A DANCE $800: For over half a century, partygoers have been flapping their arms to this novelty tune; even Weird Al covered it in a polka medley the "Chicken Dance" |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A SONG & A DANCE $1200: In 1992 country music fans hit the floor for a line dance accompanying this Billy Ray Cyrus hit "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #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 |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM $400: For "A Little Night Music", not a circus, Sondheim wrote the song "Send In" these, "don't bother, they're here" the clowns |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $800: The name of this bird is a synonym for singer; the yellow one has a song that sounds like "sweet, sweet, sweet, I'm so sweet" a warbler |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | THE MANY MUSICS OF MARK RONSON $1200: (Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) The longest I've worked on a song was more than six months on this one with Bruno Mars & Jeff Bhasker that came out on an album of mine; it worked out really well for all of us & Michelle Pfeiffer thinks it's cool too "Uptown Funk" |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE $2000: Though he sang, "Climb on the back & we'll go for a ride in the sky" in his 1974 hit "Jet", the song was named for his dog, Jet Paul McCartney |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | ON THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM $800: This colorful banner, title of a song to the tune of "O Tannenbaum", has symbolized socialism & communism for 150 years the red flag |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $1600: Kia:
"Holding Out For A Hero" by this '80s singer Bonnie Tyler |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT $600: There are kids at a fairground at the start of the video for this Springsteen song about a ride "Tunnel Of Love" |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MISMATCHED PAIRS $800: A nickname for the circus & a Tennessee state song big top & "Rocky Top" |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | SONGS TO JINGLES $600: This band re-recorded a version of its song "Whip It" for a Swiffer ad Devo |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $600: This 2-word phrase for a farewell performance is derived from the belief that a certain bird makes music as it dies a swan song |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | SONG OF MYSELF $1600: She & the Blackhearts had a top 10 hit with "I Hate Myself For Loving You" Joan Jett |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT $200: "Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note" "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | THEY'VE GOT AN EGOT $800: Composer Robert Lopez won both a Grammy & an Oscar for this song from "Frozen" "Let It Go" |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | GETTING CLOCK WISE $200: This name for a tall longcase clock comes from an 1870s song a grandfather clock |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $1200: "You must remember" this song that says, "A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh" "As Time Goes By" |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | NEW PHONE, WHO DISCO? $400: Hold the phone! Debbie Harry said this band tried "Heart Of Glass" as a ballad & reggae & called it "The Disco Song" for a bit Blondie |
| #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 |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | REAL-LIFE CARTOON CHARACTERS $600: This right-wing radio host joins the Griffins for dinner on "Family Guy" & assists Brian in a song & dance Rush Limbaugh |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $2,000 (Daily Double): "They chained me & left me for dead, just for stealing a mouthful of bread" Les Misérables |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $1600: This bird is famous for its lovely song heard after dark a nightingale (a nightin-gale) |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HIT SONGS OF THE 1960s $2000: This 1969 song that mentions "joo joo eyeball" & "toe jam football" started out as a campaign song for Timothy Leary "Come Together" |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $1200: Not the similarly named video app, this song made it to the top in 2010 for Ke$ha "TiK ToK" |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | OH, HELLO SONGS $800: A No. 1 song by him asks, "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" Lionel Richie |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | YOU MAKE MY HEART SING $200: Billy Ray Cyrus found disfavor with country purists for this song, a No. 4 crossover pop hit "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | YOU MAKE MY HEART SING $400: Celine Dion had to be convinced by her husband/manager to do a demo for this 1997 movie song; it worked out okay "My Heart Will Go On" |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | YOU MAKE MY HEART SING $1000: Heart, a group formed by sisters Ann & Nancy Wilson, had a hit in 1977 with this song named for a predatory fish "Barracuda" |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | MARIAH CAREY $400: (Mariah Carey presents the clue.) In 2019, I made a festive new video for this holiday song--the "Make My Wish Come True" edition "All I Want For Christmas Is You' |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | MARIAH CAREY $800: (Mariah Carey presents the clue.) In 2008, a song called "Touch My Body" gave me my 18th No. 1 hit, breaking this "King of Rock and Roll"'s record for the most No. 1 singles by a solo artist on Billboard's Hot 100 Elvis Presley |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | PLATFORMS $200: Many an old-time hobo song includes a lyric about "standing on a platform" waiting for one of these a train |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | POP CULTURE $800: For an ad, Preparation H wanted this song, a big hit in 1963; the singer's daughter Rosanne said "No" "Ring Of Fire" |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | CITY NICKNAMES $800: As heard at the start of the song "Molly Malone", "Fair City" is a nickname for this world capital Dublin |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | FURNITURE $600: A song said this timepiece was "too large for the shelf, so it stood 90 years on the floor" my grandfather's clock |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | BILLBOARD TOP 40 $400: Madonna touched No. 1 on the Billboard Top 40 "for the very first time" with this 1984 song "Like A Virgin" |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | OCCUPATIONAL SONG TITLES $400: "Any old music will do" for Tina Turner in her hit song about a "Private" one of these a dancer |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | ROCK BANNED $2000: 1968: "There's just no place for" this Rolling Stones song in many cities in a year of political demonstrations "Street Fighting Man" |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $1000: Among this band's many awards are Top Rock Artist 2014, 2018, 2019, & Top Rock Song for "Believer"
"My life, my love, my drive, it came from... pain! /
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer..." Imagine Dragons |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $800: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 1971 I earned my first Gold record for a single & the following year my first Grammy for this song written by Carole King "You've Got A Friend" |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE DRAKE PASSAGE $1000: The video for this 2018 Drake song says it had a budget of $996,631.90, all of which was given away--as seen in the video "God's Plan" |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | BASEBALL LINGO $1000: This term for the big leagues is also a pop song featured in the last scene of "Moneyball" "The Show" |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | LABORS OF "LOVE" $800: & Iiiiiiiiiii...want you to give us this title promise Whitney Houston made in a song that was No. 1 for 14 weeks "I Will Always Love You" |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THE OSCARS $800: In 1948 James Baskett won a special Oscar for playing this storyteller in "Song of the South" Uncle Remus |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | CLASSIC SONGS $800: "I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom, for me and you, and I think to myself" this "What A Wonderful World" |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | STOP IT! $1000: To not say anything impulsively, or another word for a song's chorus refrain |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | JUST A SAMPLE $400: My my my! It took 20 years for The Knack to notice that Run-DMC sampled this song on "It's Tricky" "My Sharona" |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | MARY: ME $800: "What's the 411?" She received a double Oscar nomination for Supporting Actress & Original Song for "Mudbound" Mary J. Blige |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $800: A song called this fruit "Man" became a classic for Herbie Hancock & a movie title for Melvin Van Peebles Watermelon |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $1000: The Oscar-winning song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" was by this hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | TIGER TALK $600: "Eye Of The Tiger" was a hit song for this band & the phrase has come to symbolize power & confidence Survivor |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | THE SONG (BY PARENTHETICAL TITLE) $800: Meat Loaf: "(But I Won't Do That)" (But do start the title with a contraction) "I'd Do Anything For Love" |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | THE SONG (BY PARENTHETICAL TITLE) $1000: A hit for Rob Thomas in 2019: "(Dying Young)" "One Less Day" |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | STAMPS $400: 5 phrases from this song are represented on a set of stamps; one shows a double rainbow over Kansas for "spacious skies" "America the Beautiful" |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $200: In an ode, John Keats called this bird, renowned for its song, light-winged Dryad of the trees a nightingale |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | SAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE $8,000 (Daily Double): In 1816 Lord Byron penned a "Song for" these loom-smashing rioters who were being displaced by new technology Luddites |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: (Ken Burns delivers the clue.) A star on Chicago's WLS Radio, "Oklahoma Cowboy" Gene Autry made the rendition of this song that was said to be a favorite of FDR
"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam / Where the..." "Home On The Range" |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | MUSICAL STYLES $1000: In Britain, Dave Clark's Tottenham Sound competed with the "Beat" named for this river that's in a song by Gerry & the Pacemakers Mersey |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | GRAMMY FOR SONG OF THE YEAR $400: The only Beatles tune ever to win, this song is a woman's first name "Michelle" |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | GRAMMY FOR SONG OF THE YEAR $800: This Bruce Springsteen tune from a Tom Hanks film won Grammy Song of the Year & the Oscar for Best Original Song "Streets Of Philadelphia" |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | GRAMMY FOR SONG OF THE YEAR $1600: It's what "he" is doing "With His Song" in a Roberta Flack hit "Killing Me Softly" |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | HOW ARE YOU GETTING AROUND? $600: "On" one of these "built for 2", as in a song a bicycle |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LIEDER $1200: The French followed the Germans' lied with a form called melodie, like Henri Duparc's this French word for song "Triste" chanson |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | "G.O." $800: "Precious metal" term for a song that was a hit decades ago a golden oldie |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | SOLITARY SINGERS $2000: This 3-named Canadian lass checks into a heartbreak hotel in the video for "Party For One", sort of a break-up song Carly Rae Jepsen |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | THE 2010s $400: At the Oscars held in 2019, this film that was nominated for 8 awards won only one, for Best Original Song A Star is Born |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | "FOR" A SONG $400: We know you remember this 1991 duet between Natalie Cole & her dad, because it's... "Unforgettable" |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | "FOR" A SONG $800: According to Katy Perry, these title gals will "melt your Popsicle" California girls |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | "FOR" A SONG $1200: Zayn Malik & Taylor Swift teamed up on this song from "Fifty Shades Darker" "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | "FOR" A SONG $1600: A Creedence classic says, "It ain't me, I ain't no" this title "Fortunate Son" |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | "FOR" A SONG $2000: "I would give the stars above" in exchange in this '60s classic by the Yardbirds "For Your Love" |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | HAPPY EARTH DAY TO YOU! $600: John Denver wrote a song called "Earth Day Every Day" but a concert for Earth Day 2011 was named for this bigger hit of his "Rocky Mountain High" |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | CAROL KAYE PLAYED BASS ON THAT $800: The score for this 1987 Ritchie Valens biopic; she'd played guitar on the 1959 song of the same title La Bamba |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | ACM AWARDS $1600: In 2018 she won 3 awards including Song of the Year for "Tin Man", for a total of 32, the most of any artist in ACM history Miranda Lambert |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | CALLED OUT IN SONG $400: This Detroit rapper had a "Warning" for Nick Cannon:
"Think I'm scared of you? You gonna ruin my career, you better get one" Eminem |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | THIS IS "MY" SONG $800: Toni Braxton topped the charts & won a Grammy for this song that pleads, "Say you'll love me again" "Un-Break My Heart" |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | THAT SONG SOUNDS FAMILIAR $1600: On Eminem's "Sing For The Moment", Joe Perry played the riff from this Aerosmith song with a 2-word title "Dream On" |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | MOVIE TITLE TUNES $1600: The Psychedelic Furs re-recorded a 5-year-old song for this 1986 Molly Ringwald film Pretty in Pink |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | EASY LISTENING $600: This Five for Fighting song that says, "I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane" is subtitled "It's Not Easy" "Superman" |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | RHYME TIME $2000: Sorrow for another's troubles is the subject of this cute little song pity ditty |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | ON THE RADIO $400: In 1991 a New Mexico radio station owner boosted ratings by playing this Led Zeppelin song for 24 hours straight "Stairway To Heaven" |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS $800: For her 1999 "Magic of Christmas" album, she recorded "The Christmas Song" as a duet with her father Natalie Cole |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | TROPHY HUNTER $400: A young man sits under a tree & writes down the song of a muse on the Nobel Medal for this field Literature |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $2,000 (Daily Double): First names in the dictionary that are synonyms for a Christmas song include Carol & this male name Noel |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | FRANK SINATRA $600: It was a very good 45 minutes it took for Ervin Drake to write this song that helped Frank make a comeback in the '60s "It Was A Very Good Year" |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | MAGAZINES $200: Founded in 1967 in San Francisco, this music & culture mag was named in part for a blues song by Muddy Waters Rolling Stone |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $400: The film "What's New Pussycat?", about a guy women chase, had a title song by this guy women chased Tom Jones |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST $1600: A decade after they were walking on sunshine, this group won the 1997 Eurovision contest for the United Kingdom Katrina and the Waves |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | THE GRAMMY PHONE $200: Adele picked up the phone in 2017 saying this title to win a Grammy for Song of the Year "Hello" |
| #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 |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | FOR A SONG $400: "When We Were Young" is found on her album "25" Adele |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | FOR A SONG $800: In 2016 Jimmy Page & Robert Plant testified in an L.A. court that they did not plagiarize when they wrote this classic song "Stairway To Heaven" |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | FOR A SONG $1200: Roy Orbison recorded this song years before Van Halen's 1982 hit "Oh, Pretty Woman" |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | FOR A SONG $1600: Ed Sheeran sang, "I'm in love with" this, the title of the song, "we push & pull like a magnet do" "The Shape Of You" |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | FOR A SONG $2000: In an Oasis song "someday you will find me, caught beneath the landslide, in a" this title "in the sky" "Champagne Supernova" |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | BASEBALL RECORDS $800: John Fogerty has a Louisville slugger-shaped guitar that he uses for live performances of this baseball song "Centerfield" |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE BAKER $1200: This Rodgers & Hart song perfect for Feb. 14 was a signature tune for jazzman Chet Baker "My Funny Valentine" |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | RICKENBACKER GUITARS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Rickenbacker Guitars HQ in Santa Ana, California.)
Rickenbacker changed the sound of the 1960s when it gave the second-ever Model 360 12-string to George Harrison, who used it for the opening chord of the theme song for this 1964 movie A Hard Day's Night |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | HELLO, DOLLY PARTON! $800: Dolly wrote this song, later a hit for Whitney Houston, about her former singing partner Porter Wagoner "I Will Always Love You" |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | SILENT-LETTER VOCABULARY $3,000 (Daily Double): The song entitled "Great Is Thy Faithfulness", for example a hymn |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | "LIKE" A SONG $400: The Bangles instructed us all with this 1986 hit that was fit for a pharaoh "Walk Like An Egyptian" |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | "LIKE" A SONG $600: Nirvana reached the charts for the first time in 1991 with this grunge anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | "LIKE" A SONG $800: This Madonna parody operated well for Weird Al in 1985 "Like A Surgeon" |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | PAIRS FAMOUS $800: A plant that grows & climbs around a support & the place that gets a "Hooray for" it in song vine and Hollywood |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | INSTRUMENTAL SONG TITLES $1600: "Hey" this person, "play a song for me; I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" Mr. Tambourine Man |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | INSTRUMENTAL SONG TITLES $2000: George Harrison wanted to get the "crying" effect without using a wah-wah pedal for this 1968 Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | A BEATLES SONG & MOVIE TITLE $200: "So may I introduce to you the act you've known for all these years" (a film inspired by but not starring the band) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $2000: On this song from "Channel Orange", Frank Ocean sings to a cab driver of his unrequited love for a man "Bad Religion" |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | MUSICALLY TITLED LIT $1200: Please allow me to introduce this Jerrilyn Farmer mystery with the same 4-word title as a Rolling Stones song Sympathy for the Devil |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | WOMEN OF MUSIC $1200: The song heard here was a 1982 hit for this band who didn't know how to play their instruments when they first formed the Go-Go's |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | WHAT '80s MOVIE IS THAT SONG FROM? $2000: "I'm Alright":
a Cinderella story Caddyshack |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | 1970s "SONG" TITLES $200: In 1972 this colorful tune was a No. 1 hit for Neil Diamond; "Everybody knows one" "Song Sung Blue" |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | MUSIC SOOTHES $1000: The song heard here at a Jewish wedding reception means that it's time for this Israeli round dance the hora |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $400: Meghan Trainor's title advice for how to respond to a boy who "ain't giving up"? This word "No" |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $1000: Omi was rah rah for this title gal who was "always right there when I need her" "Cheerleader" |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | ELEMENT-IUM $1600: It's used for rechargeable batteries; in a Nirvana song, its lyrics include "I love you, I'm not gonna crack" lithium |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | FUNERALS $600: In Poe's "Lenore" let this "funeral song be sung... for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young" a dirge |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $2000: Stephen Tyler went gaga for a beautiful blonde, who turned out to be Vince Neil of Motley Crue; thus this song was born "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | TONY BENNETT $1000: (Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In 2015 the 20th edition of this Las Vegas gala doubled as my birthday party; with the same name as a Celine Dion love song, it has raised over $100 million in its history; wow! "The Power of Love" |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | CLASSIC FILM MUSIC $1000: "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" made easy work of winning the Oscar for Original Song for this 2005 film Hustle and Flow |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | SOUTHERN HISTORY $200: This song was written in 1859 & by the end of the Civil War, its title was a nickname for the South "Dixie" |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | ROCK OF LOVE $1200: "I'm not gonna write you a love song 'cause you asked for it", this pianist/singer crooned in her 2007 chart debut Sara Bareilles |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | CLEVELAND $1600: This sitcom took place in Cleveland, had a Cleveland native for its star & used "Cleveland Rocks" as a theme song The Drew Carey Show |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | A BETTE MIDLER MEDLEY $400: In 1989 Bette scored a No. 1 hit with this song that says, "I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the..." "Wind Beneath My Wings" |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | "L"8 WORDS $1200: For the song "The Lady Is A Tramp", it was Lorenz Hart a lyricist |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | MUSIC FOR THE DENTIST'S CHAIR $1600: Gulp! I just heard the lyric "I thrill when I drill a bicuspid" from "Dentist!", a song in this movie musical Little Shop of Horrors |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | SONG OF SOLOMON $1600: At London's O2 Arena in 2007, this reunited band had a "Whole Lotta Love" for Burke, who played their aftershow party Led Zeppelin |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | SONG WORDS $200: This old word for a song also follows "Frito" on a bag of chips lay |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | SONG WORDS $1000: Tuneful sailors know this term for a small dingy dwelling often in a whole town of them a shanty |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | POLYSYLLABIC $4,000 (Daily Double): 5 syllables: a 19th c. song said, “I am” this / “then urge me not to pause / for joyfully do I enlist / in freedom’s sacred cause” abolitionist |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | GETTING READY FOR THE OLYMPICS $1600: I'm looking forward to a lot of beauty shots of this beach in Rio, famed in song for "The Girl From" it Ipanema |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | A MAJOR LEAGUER IN THE SONG $1000: Andrews Sisters:
"Drinkin' rum & Coca-Cola... both mother & daughter, workin' for the ____ dollar" Yankee |
| #7322, aired 2016-06-14 | DAVID BOWIE $1600: Bowie had a song & an album named for this alter ego who "played guitar" Ziggy Stardust |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: With music by Allie Wrubel, it's the winning song for 1947 heard here "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | ROMANTICS $1000: From the Italian for "open air", it's a love song sung perhaps beneath a sweetheart's window at night a serenade |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | THERE ARE STRINGS ATTACHED $600: Our term for a song's words was influenced by the name of this ancient instrument a lyre |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | WORK WITH KIDS $200: A freshman falls for a senior in the song "What I Go To School For" by these brothers, Nick, Joe & Kevin the Jonas Brothers |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | ANIMATED MOVIE SONGS $1600: Danny Elfman composed a "Wedding Song" for this unfortunate title gal Corpse Bride |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | "R" SONG $800: Adele took home a 2011 Grammy for doing this "Rolling In The Deep" |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | RECENT MUSIC $400: (Hi, I'm Eric Stonestreet of Modern Family.) I got to appear in this man's video for "Tacky", a parody of Pharrell's song "Happy" "Weird Al" |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | RECENT MUSIC $600: "Undertow" is a synonym for the title of this Vance Joy song that mentions Michelle Pfeiffer "Riptide" |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | RECENT MUSIC $1000: Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman" inspired John Legend to write this song for Chrissy Teigen "All Of Me" |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | NAME THAT TUNE $1000: "Now Paul is a real estate novelist, who never had time for a wife" in this signature Billy Joel song "Piano Man" |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | SILENT KNIGHT $600: Not known for verbosity, Gregor Clegane is the hulking "Mountain Who Rides" in these books A Song of Ice and Fire |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | A FABRIC-ATED CATEGORY $1200: This lace named for a town in France was paired in song with "a pretty face and a ponytail hanging down" Chantilly |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | "I" TUNES $2000: Bob Geldof wrote this song after hearing young Brenda Spencer's motive for a 1979 school shooting "I Don't Like Mondays" |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | "IT" IS A SONG $1200: Real gang members were featured in the video for this Michael Jackson hit "Beat It" |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1000: One of the greatest pieces for a baritone is the "Largo al factotum", a patter song that Figaro delivers with bravura as he enters this opera The Barber of Seville |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HOPE YOU REMEMBER THAT OLD SONG! $1000: The Monkees were No. 1 for 7 weeks in 1966-67 singing, "Then I saw her face, now" this title "I'm A Believer" |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | A SONG OF "ICE" & "FIRE" $800: 7-letter word meaning to be adequate enough for needs; that will... suffice |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | "BORN" TO BE A SONG $1200: You were destined to respond with this No. 2 hit for Steppenwolf in 1968 "Born To Be Wild" |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | NAME-DROPPING SONG LYRICS $1600: (Bob Costas gives the clue.) In "Hip Hop Quotabtes'", this rapper name-checked me with "Now I roll up torpedoes, get blunted with Rastas, & for a hefty fee, I'm on your record like Bob Costas" Ludacris |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | ISLANDS IN THE "C"s $400: An old song says, "26 miles across the sea" this island "is a-waitin' for me" Catalina |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | TV-"G" $1000: "Thank You For Being A Friend" was the theme song to this sitcom starring Bea Arthur Golden Girls |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | AT THIS HOUR $2000: The classic song "One For My Baby" begins, "It's quarter to" this hour, "there's no one in the place 'cept you and me" 3:00 |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | "B"ILLBOARD HITS $400: Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj teamed up for this song with a double-talk name "Bang Bang" |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $400: In 1983 & again in 1999, Prince had a Top 40 hit with this song "1999" |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | FROM THE FRENCH $800: French for "song for dancing" gives us this word for a type of sentimental or romantic song ballad |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | 1965 NO. 1 SONGS $2000: With a little help from Ecclesiastes, Pete Seeger wrote this song, a hit for The Byrds "Turn! Turn! Turn!" |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | THE GRAMMYS $2000: In 1978 there was a tie for Song of the Year: "You Light Up My Life" & this Streisand love theme from "A Star is Born" "Evergreen" |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | DISNEY MOVIES $800: "Colors of the Wind" from this 1995 film won a Golden Globe for Best Song as well as an Oscar Pocahontas |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | FOREIGN WORDS IN SONG TITLES $600: Umphrey's McGee has a tune called "No" this, Spanish for "devil" Diablo |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | NO. 2 HITS $800: Nicki Minaj hit No. 2 with this song named for a water snake "Anaconda" |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | THAT'S QUITE A MOUTHFUL! $1200: A song that's durchkomponiert has a different musical setting for each one of these sections verses |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | MUSICAL IDIOMS $400: Something at a very low price can be had "for" this a song |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | JUST FOR THE ELEPHANT $600: "Pink Elephants on Parade" is a song from this classic film Dumbo |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | CROSSWORD CLUES "D" $400: A song for 2
(4) a duet |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1000: "Smoke On The Water" is a Deep Purple song; "Knife in the Water" is a movie directed by him Roman Polanski |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | ON A BILLBOARD CHART IN 2014 $800: This one-named performer was looking for bargains in the song heard here Macklemore |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | MUSIC $1000: In 2004 he won a song of the year Grammy for "Daughters" John Mayer |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | STRAWBERRY $200: This Beatles song is named for a Salvation Army children's home in Liverpool "Strawberry Fields Forever" |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | COUNTRY MUSIC MOVERS & SHAKERS $400: Taylor Swift broke onto the scene with a song about this singer & in 2013 teamed up with him for "Highway Don't Care" Tim McGraw |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE "IRON" AGE $200: 666 was "the number of the beast" in a hit song for this heavy metal band Iron Maiden |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $1200: In a 19th century song, it precedes "Wake unto me, starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee" "Beautiful Dreamer" |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ARETHA FRANKLIN $1600: Keith Richards joined Aretha for her cover of this Stones song, the title track of a Whoopi Goldberg movie "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THAT '70s SONG $1600: "Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band" "Tiny Dancer" |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | WHO SANG IT FIRST? $800: This song was a hit for Ben E. King in 1961, for John Lennon in 1975 & for Ben again in 1986 "Stand By Me" |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | THE INCREDIBLES $1000: This synonym for "incredible" was the title of a 1991 No. 1 hit song from EMF "Unbelievable" |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | DON'T SONGS $200: In 1997 Madonna had a hit with this song from "Evita" that she sang in the movie "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1600: "I Meant You No Harm" is a song for James Thunder Early in this '60s & '70s-set show Dreamgirls |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1200: The prince's kiss awakens her with a "Grease" song that says, "No graduation day for you... flunked shampoo" Sleeping Beauty-School Dropout |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | LET'S PUT OUR BAND NAME IN THE SONG! $800: "We're" this English synth-pop dance band known for "West End Girls" / "Suburbia's a Slipstream to a Memory" the Pet Shop Boys |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | A SLAYING SONG TONIGHT $1600: His song "Kim", named for his ex-wife & the mother of his daughter, mentions double homicide & suicide Eminem |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | A SLAYING SONG TONIGHT $2000: In a song by The Killers, "there ain't no motive for this crime" because this girl "was a friend of mine" Jenny |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | SONGS FOR NEW YEAR'S $2000: 13 million have YouTubed a clip of Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt asking this in song about "New Year's Eve" What are you doing New Year's Eve? |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $400: Eric Clapton's song about this woman who's "got me on my knees" was for a Beatle's wife, Pattie Boyd Layla |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | CURRENT EVENTS $500 (Daily Double): In 2012 a Scottish skipper found one of these, also a song by the Police; it had been adrift for 97 years & 309 days a message in a bottle |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | AMERICANA $1600: (Vice President Biden reads the clue.) While the President has "Hail To The Chief" as his official song, the Veep has "Hail" this, once a poetic name for the United States; until the 1890s, it also served as de facto national anthem for America Columbia |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU $1600: She's tall & thin, she's blonde, she's a Best Country Solo Performance Grammy winner for her song "Mean" Taylor Swift |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | VIOLIN MUSIC $1200: Berceuse is French for this soothing type of song; Faure wrote one for a tiny little girl named Dolly a lullaby |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | EDIBLE RHYME TIME $400: Song for a dried plum a prune tune |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | SINGLE NAMED SINGERS $1200: In 2010 this rocker wrote a theme song for the Minnesota Vikings; is that why he's so into purple? Prince |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | TERMS WITH GREEK LETTERS $600: It was a No. 1 hit song for Helen Reddy "Delta Dawn" |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? $2000: Billy is an Aussie word for a type of pot, as in "he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled" from this song "Waltzing Matilda" |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | MUSIC & HISTORY $800: It was composed in one night during the French Revolution as a marching song for French troops "La Marseillaise" |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | SYNONYMS $800: This synonym for expectation is also the title of a song that was long used in Heinz ketchup commercials anticipation |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | ALPHANUMERIC TERMS $600: A 32-MB song on a CD compresses down to about 3 MB in this format; 21 million songs are at Amazon's store for it MP3 |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | IN A MUSICAL MOOD $400: 1970 unearthed this No. 1 hit song for Kentucky native Loretta Lynn "Coal Miner's Daughter" |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | GADGETS $400: This company's Galaxy Tab 2 is now available for a song Samsung |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | LET'S GO CAROLING $800: In "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge scares a caroler singing this song; so much for "comfort and joy" "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | CHRISTMAS PARTIES $800: This holiday song says, "I am a poor boy too...I have no gift to bring...shall I play for you" "The Little Drummer Boy" |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | TEACH ME A SONG $400: Playboy Playmate of the Year Lillian Muller played a teacher in this group's video for "Hot For Teacher" Van Halen |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | TEACH ME A SONG $800: The Hillside Singers had a hit with "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)", adapted from a jingle for this Coke |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): He won a Pulitzer for his nonfiction "The Armies of the Night" as well as for his fictional "The Executioner's Song" Norman Mailer |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | SING US A SONG, YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN $1000: In 1957 he had a "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On" Jerry Lee Lewis |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | YOU DESERVE A PRIZE $800: In 2012 he & Hal David became the first songwriting duo to win the Lib. of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Burt Bacharach |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | MUSIC TERMS $1600: German for "song", it's a German folk or art song Lied |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | TRANSPORTATION $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) Water and fuel for the train are carried in this car just behind the locomotive. It has a gentle-sounding name; think of an early Elvis Presley hit song a tender car |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | DRINKS $1200: Just another title for an Eagles song & a Michelle Pfeiffer film: "____ Sunrise" Tequila Sunrise |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $800: Arts Beat reported on the craze for "Zou Bisou Bisou", a song featured in this TV show about advertising Mad Men |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | & THE OSCAR GOES TO... $1200: This "global" song from "Aladdin"; it promised "a thrilling chase, a wondrous place for you and me" "A Whole New World" |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | BEHIND THE SONGS $200: Tom Higgenson's flirtation with a girl in New York & a promise to write her a song led to this megahit for the Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | BEHIND THE SONGS $600: This country singer wrote "When I Said I Do" for wife Lisa Hartman, who then recorded the song with him as a duet Clint Black |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | CURRENT MUSIC (GET IT?) $800: This lachrymose tune from the first of Julie London's 32 albums is the song she's remembered for "Cry Me A River" |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $400: In a Beatles song this street named for an 18th century slave ship owner runs "beneath the blue suburban skies" of Liverpool Penny Lane |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | PLAYING FOR CHANGE $400: This song title from the '80s precedes "25 for Haiti" in a 2010 project featuring 80 recording artists "We Are The World" |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | THEME $400: "I See You", the theme song for this movie, is a formal Na'vi greeting Avatar |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | COPPING OUT ON TV $800: This '70s show had 3 things going for it: Wo Fat, a killer theme song & a snappy catch-phrase ("Book 'em, Danno") Hawaii Five-O |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | ROCK & ROLL $2000: A song by the Bonzo Dog Band gave this "I Will Possess Your Heart" group its grisly name Death Cab for Cutie |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $200: The L. in Samuel L. Jackson stands for this, like a certain bad, bad Mr. Brown of song Leroy |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | MONSTERS OF ROCK $600: This Warren Zevon song about monsters includes one with perfect hair & a taste for pina coladas "Werewolves Of London" |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | EYE TUNES $1600: A 2011 commercial for Pretzel M&Ms used this song from the "Dirty Dancing" soundtrack "Hungry Eyes" |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | AUSTRALISMS $800: This name of a "Sweet Little" gal of song is also Australian slang for a young woman Sheila |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $400: In 2011 Bruno Mars blew up the charts with a song that says, "I'd catch a" this "for ya, throw my hand on a blade for ya" grenade |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | "EVER"S $2000: Eddie Rabbitt sang the title song for this 1978 Clint Eastwood movie about a boxer & his simian sidekick Every Which Way but Loose |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2 common names, one female, one male, that are synonyms for a Christmas song or hymn Carol and Noel |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | BIBLICAL BOOK TITLES $600: Macon "Milkman" Dead is on a quest for his identity in this novel by Toni Morrison Song of Solomon |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | GRADE AVIS $800: The red-winged this gets a "B" for its "konk-ka-reee" song; Mr. McCartney heard it "singing in the dead of night" a blackbird |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: China's Song Dynasty was noted for its contributions to the tz'u, a form of this a song |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | AFRO-DITTY $2,200 (Daily Double): A Peter Gabriel song is named for this activist whose 1977 death in a Pretoria jail turned him into a martyr Stephen Biko |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | SONG HITS FOR 2 $400: Percy Sledge in 1966; Michael Bolton in 1991 "When A Man Loves A Woman" |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | SONG HITS FOR 2 $600: The Monkees in 1966; Smash Mouth in 2001 "I'm A Believer" |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | "PEACE", BRO $400: The band Boston titled a song this 3-word term for absence of mental stress "Peace Of Mind" |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | DOUBLE CONSONANTS $200: A soft song for a child going to sleep a lullaby |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | POP MUSIC $600: At the 2009 Grammys, her "Still Unforgettable" won the award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Natalie Cole |
| #5946, aired 2010-06-21 | FOLK MUSIC OF THE WORLD $800: An Armenian horovel is a song for this farming activity; one stanza sometimes equals one furrow plowing |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | I LOVE A SHOW TUNE $800: A song from this show says, "Won't forget, can't regret, what I did for love" A Chorus Line |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 SONG $800: 1975:
John Denver explains why he's grateful for the simple, rural life "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | ROMEO ON THE RADIO $1600: This song that pairs Romeo & Juliet with Samson & Delilah was a hit for the Pointer Sisters "Fire" |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | ROMEO ON THE RADIO $2000: This band whose name implies a lack of romance is known for the song "Never Say Never" Romeo Void |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | GRAMMY SONG OF THE YEAR $1600: 1971:
Her for "You Got A Friend" Carole King |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | WAR & PEAS $400: A Civil War song popular with Confederate troops celebrated goober peas, another name for these peanuts |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | SONG STANDARDS $800: The teller of this song was "Goin' to Lou'siana", but it served as a theme for Forty-niners headin' to California "Oh! Susanna" |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | YOU'VE GOT BAGGAGE $1000: Sing a song about one of these, a sailor's bag for small articles a ditty bag |
| #5853, aired 2010-02-10 | NONFICTION $1600: Christopher McDougall tells of training for a 50-mile race in this book that shares its title with a Springsteen song Born to Run |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | "CHIN" MUSIC $600: Cash registers ring for Shania Twain in this song that says "We live in a greedy little world" "Ka-Ching!" |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | HULL OF FAME $2000: Made famous in a 1975 John Denver song & in documentaries, it was originally a minesweeper built for the Royal Navy Jacques Cousteau's Calypso |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | OH, WHAT A KNIGHT $1,400 (Daily Double): In the "Song of Roland", this code asked knights "to keep faith" & "to fight for the welfare of all" the code of chivalry (or the chivalric code) |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | RELATED SONG TITLES $600: He sang lead on "Three Times A Lady" & "Lady (You Bring Me Up)"; heck, he even wrote "Lady" for Kenny Rogers Lionel Richie |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | WHAT THE BLEEP? $200: A song:
"O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of bleep..." grain |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | YE OLDE JOBBE FAIRE $1200: Day-O! This job was for those who secured payments for goods on credit, like bananas maybe tallyman |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $200: This Toni Morrison novel won a 2006 Times survey of prominent literary types looking for the best fiction in the last 25 years Beloved |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | ISAAC HAYES $1600: Isaac co-wrote this song, a big hit for Sam & Dave in 1967 & the Blues Brothers 12 years later "Soul Man" |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | I HEAR BANJOS $800: This banjo-heavy minstrel show favorite became the South's unofficial anthem during the Civil War "Dixie" |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $1200: A narrative song of folk origin, from an old Provencal word for "dancing-song" ballad |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $400: Madonna as Evita:
"D.C.F.M.A." "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | THE ART OF WORK $2000: For the song "Gretchen at" this device, Schubert wrote a piano part to imitate its whirring a spinning wheel |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | ELVIS COSTELLO $800: Elvis was nominated for an Oscar & a Grammy for "The Scarlet Tide", a song from this 2003 Jude Law Civil War film Cold Mountain |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | FROM THE LATIN $1000: From the Latin for "of the mother", it's the type of song heard here a madrigal |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | "SUP" $1200: Snoopy hungers for this part of the day, a song title in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" suppertime |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | ELVIS A TO Z $200: "H" is for this 1956 song for which Elvis found "a new place to dwell"--at the top of the charts Heartbreak Hotel |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | ONE-WORD MOVIES $400: Due to a new rule this 2007 Amy Adams Disney film will be the last to have 3 songs nominated for the Best Song Oscar Enchanted |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | SCOTT LAND $1000: F. Scott Fitzgerald was named for this relative of his who wrote a famous song Francis Scott Key |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | I KNOW THAT SONG $2000: Five For Fighting flew high with this song that says, "I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane" "Superman" |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | MOVIE SONGS $1000: The Oscar for Best Song of 2007 went to a tune from this film about 2 Dublin musicians Once |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | ROCK $600: In 2007 she won an Oscar for "I Need To Wake Up", a song she wrote for "An Inconvenient Truth" Melissa Etheridge |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | TIME FOR A SNACK $600: As in the song, I'll have shoo-fly pie & this fruit pandowdy (they'll make my stomach say "Howdy!") apple (pandowdy) |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | BOOZE-A-PALOOZA $1200: This song that was a No. 1 hit for The Champs in 1958 always makes me want a Margarita "Tequila" |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | I'M GOING TO BE A JUNIOR $1600: This country star sang the Monday Night Football theme song for ABC from 1989 to 2005 Hank Williams, Jr. |
| #5448, aired 2008-04-23 | MUSICAL INITIALS $2000: BTO is for this band that's best known for a song whose acronym is "TCOB" Bachman-Turner Overdrive |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | I "LIKE" THIS SONG $200: This Bob Seger song was used in ads for Chevy trucks "Like A Rock" |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Left a good job in the city workin' for the man... whose fleece was white as snow", says this nursery rhyme rock song "Proud Mary Had A Little Lamb" |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | "LOVE" IS A BATTLEFIELD $200: In a Paul Anka song, they called it this "animal" term for temporary youthful infatuation puppy love |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | THE BIG APPLE $400: On the NYC subway this train will also take you to Harlem, but then it splits off & heads for Yankee Stadium the B train |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | PUBLIC DOMAIN JUKEBOX $800: Some big gloves might be a nice present for the guy in this song heard here "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | THE "IX" IS IN $400: From an 1859 song, it's a nickname for the Old South "Dixie" |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | CZECH KING $400: This Christmas song regarding a Czech king was written for kids by John Mason Neale to exemplify generosity Good King Wenceslas |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | MY NAME IS GEORGE $1200: In a 1971 ceremony, he & his 3 ex-bandmates won an Oscar for best music, original song score George Harrison |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | HOW INSTRUMENTAL $2000: Cyndi Lauper's "Body Acoustic" CD features her playing this old instrument, named from the Latin for "sweet song" a dulcimer |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | GRAMMY WINNERS $2000: Rage Against the Machine won for a song called this kind of "Radio" (the soldier, not the animal) Guerrilla |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | "M.G." $800: Burning Spear named a classic reggae song for this black nationalist leader of 1920s America Marcus Garvey |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | ALL THINGS CHINESE $1200: You can buy artifacts from this Chinese dynasty that ruled from 960 to 1279 for a--well, itself Song |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST $2000: They must have been "walking on sunshine" when they won in 1997 for the U.K. with "Love Shine A Light" Katrina & The Waves |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | TIME FOR "UNCH" $400: Collection of coconuts in a 1950 novelty song a lovely bunch |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | TIME FOR "UNCH" $800: In a 1961 song it's what Ray Charles wanted done with his heart unchain |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | PACK TENTH $400: Make room for 10 lords a-leaping when you receive them as your tenth gift in this holiday song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" |
| #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" |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE "UST" $1600: Just do this dance that was a hit song for Van McCoy back in 1975 Hustle |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | EPIC POEMS AS COUNTRY SONGS $2000: 11th century:
"If you're looking for a sure thing, baby, take a Chanson me" The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | COMPOSERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew adds to the decor of the Imperial Chapel in Vienna, Austria.) Here in the Imperial Chapel this great song composer was a Vienna Choir Boy until 1812; his parting note said he had "crowed" for the last time Franz Schubert |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | URBAN DICTIONARY $800: An "ear worm" is slang for one of these that you can't get out of your head a song |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | MY NAME IS ALFRED $1600: What, me worry about Alfred Newman, who won music Oscars for "With A Song In My Heart" & "The Song Of" her Bernadette |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | I AM CURIOUS: YELLOW $800: A Confederate marching song, this colorful 1850s ditty was a hit for Mitch Miller in the 1950s "The Yellow Rose of Texas" |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is waiting for me.) I'm on this California island of romance which, according to a Four Preps song, is "26 miles across the sea" (Santa) Catalina |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | THE KIDS LOVE THEIR MUSIC $800: A Coldplay song says, "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you... yeah they were all" this color yellow |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | THE GRAMMYS $800: A hit for Judy Collins, this tune from Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" was 1975's Song of the Year "Send In The Clowns" |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | '80s MUSIC $800: Sting wrote this song that was a No. 3 hit for The Police "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PROPER NAMES $400: General term for a Christmas song or hymn Carol |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | CITIES IN SONG $800: In this 1968 hit Dionne Warwick claimed that "L.A. is a great big freeway, put a hundred down and buy a car" "Do You Know The Way To San José" |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | "DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG? $400: Buenos Aires held back a sniffle when this Madonna hit went to No. 8 in 1997 "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | AT THE OK. CHORALE $200: A Tulsa chorale adapted this holiday song, with valkyries for milkmaids & 9 ladies waltzing to Strauss "The 12 Days Of Christmas" |
| #4977, aired 2006-04-11 | ELTON JOHN $1600: This man "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" a harmonica solo for Elton's song "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" Stevie Wonder |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | FAMILIAR SONGS $600: For a flat fee of $100, Stephen Foster sold this song adopted by the "Forty-Niners" "Oh! Susanna" |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | REMEMBERING RICKY NELSON $200: One of Ricky's first hits was this song heard here that was also a hit for Fats Domino
"I'm lonely as I can be /
And I've waited for your company..." "I'm Walkin'" |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $600: As a presenter at the 1942 Oscars, this composer announced himself as the winner for Best Song for "White Christmas" Irving Berlin |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: This 5-letter word refers to a joyous or triumphant song & is derived from Paia, a title for Apollo a paean |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | LET'S GO "2" THE MOVIES $1000: Jessie, a cowgirl doll, pines for her former owner in the song "When She Loved Me" in this 1999 sequel Toy Story 2 |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | BASS LINES $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew gives us the low down on bass.) This song was nominated for a 1984 Oscar... Who ya gonna call? "Ghostbusters" |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | SONG VERBS $800: Covered in 2004:
"___ A Little Bit" Give |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | A JOHN DENVER SONGBOOK $1000: "You fill up my senses like a night in a forest..." "Annie's Song" |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | THE WORLD OF NAT KING COLE $1200: The two things required of you in the title of this song
"A brother took a monkey for a ride in the air /
The monkey thought that everything was on the square /
The brother tried to throw the monkey off his back /
But the monkey grabbed his neck and said, 'Now listen, Jack...'" "Straighten Up And Fly Right" |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | CASH $200 (Daily Double): In a 1956 song Johnny had the "Blues" for this title place; he recorded a live album there in 1968 Folsom Prison |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | SONG HITS FOR TWO $1200: Power Station in 1985;
T. Rex in 1972 "Bang A Gong" |
| #4816, aired 2005-07-11 | JOEL SCHUMACHER $1600: (Joel Schumacher reads his clue.) In my life I've done a few things in excess, & one of them was directing the INXS video for this "satanic" song "Devil Inside" |
| #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 |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | THE LADIES OF ROCK $800: She won a 2002 Grammy for best female rock vocal for the song "Steve McQueen" Sheryl Crow |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | SWEET CAROLINA $400: This popular 1920s dance style was named for a 1923 song which was named for a city in South Carolina the Charleston |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | SONG SUNG "BLUE" $800: "Sometimes I wonder what I'm a gonna do, but there ain't no cure for" these the summertime blues |
| #4801, aired 2005-06-20 | JOHN/PAUL $400: For this Beatles song, Paul rhymed "She was just 17, never been a beauty queen"; John made it "you know what I mean" "I Saw Her Standing There" |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | WE RULE $800: This queen may be best known for a song she wrote, "Aloha Oe" Lili'uokalani |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | SING A SONG OF SING SING $600: The prison's first phase was completed in 1828; in 1839 a new wing was added at Sing Sing for this group women |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | SING A SONG OF SING SING $800: Creation of a special needs unit for HIV-positive inmates in the '80s prompted a visit from this famous nun Mother Teresa |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE BIG BAND ERA $1200: A 1941 hit for the Andrews Sisters, the song about this "boy" was also nominated for an Academy Award the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B |
| #4738, aired 2005-03-23 | BOB DYLAN CHRONICLES $600: "I got a head full of ideas that are drivin' me insane. It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor" "Maggie's Farm" |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | SING A SONG OF SIX PACKS $1000: One theory why "33" is on this beer's label is that Latrobe Brewing has 33 recipes for beer & it is number 33 Rolling Rock |
| #4733, aired 2005-03-16 | ROLLING STONE'S 500 GREATEST SONGS $400: We wonder "how does it feel" for him to be on his own with the No. 1 song "Like A Rolling Stone" Bob Dylan |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | CAAN $1600: In a classic 1970 TV movie, Caan portrayed this real-life cancer-stricken athlete Brian Piccolo |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | THE ENGLISH CHANNEL $600: A song & a dance were named for this lady who swam the channel in 1926 & passed away at age 98 in 2003 Gertrude Ederle |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | A HEAVENLY CATEGORY $200: A Lerner & Lowe song lyric goes, "Thank heaven for" these people, "they grow up in the most delightful way" little girls |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | HALLS OF FAME $600: If you're into a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants, a hall for these is in Milwaukee clowns |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | "EASY" FOR YOU TO SAY $1000: The musical "Annie" features a song about this proverbial place, home to folks like Daddy Warbucks Easy Street |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | YORES FOR A SONG $200: In a familiar set of lyrics for the melody heard here, this animal does some climbing a bear |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | YORES FOR A SONG $400: You might think of the good old Emerald Isle when listening to this song "Danny Boy" |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | YOURS FOR A SONG $400: Bing Crosby (with the Andrews Sisters) & Bruce Springsteen have recorded popular versions of this favorite "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | YOURS FOR A SONG $800: "Suds" lovers might know this song's original title was "Unrequited Love" "The Beer Barrel Polka" ("Roll Out The Barrel" also accepted) |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | YOURS FOR A SONG $1200: Classic song heard here that Sir Isaac Newton might have liked "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree" |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | YOURS FOR A SONG $1600: It's the patriotic march heard here "The Liberty Bell March" |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | YOURS FOR A SONG $2000: The title of the following is an alternation of a French word meaning this wake up |
| #4647, aired 2004-11-16 | MUSIC ON MY iPOD $1000: This group's song is more than great listening, it's a history lesson
"...Springsteen, Madonna /
Way before Nirvana there was /
U2 and Blondie..." Bowling for Soup |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | "DON'T" FORGET THIS SONG $400: Julie Covington made a popular recording of this song from "Evita" "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" |
| #4638, aired 2004-11-04 | TOP OF THE CHARTS, MA! $800: A No. 1 song says, "Did you ever know that you're my hero... I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are" this "The Wind Beneath My Wings" |
| #4625, aired 2004-10-15 | MUSIC IN "C" $1200: This song from "Abbey Road" originated as a campaign song for Timothy Leary "Come Together" |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | I NEED BACKUP $400: Claire Torry is a backup singer but her vocals were up front for Pink Floyd's song "Great Gig in the Sky" on this album The Dark Side of the Moon |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | PBS' ELECTRIC COMPANY $1000: She's gonna live forever as an "E.C." short circus member & an Oscar winner for a song from "Flashdance" (Irene) Cara |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $1600: The last song George Gershwin composed, its title is followed by the line "not for a year, but ever and a day" "Our Love Is Here To Stay" |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | SPANISH CLASS $1000: Many a Spanish love song mentions this Spanish word for "heart" corazon |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | IN A MUSICAL MOOD $400: Written for the movie "Chasing Rainbows", this hit became a campaign song in 1932 "Happy Days Are Here Again" |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | IN A MUSICAL MOOD $600: A 1972 No. 1 hit, this song would be great hold music for an eye doctor "I Can See Clearly Now" |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | FOLK MUSIC $1200: In 1968 she reached the Top 10 for the first & only time with "Both Sides Now", a song written by Joni Mitchell Judy Collins |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | A FEW "BAR"s OF MUSIC $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew sits in a gondola in Venice, Italy.) Venetian gondoliers are famous for singing this kind of boat song barcarolle |
| #4536, aired 2004-05-03 | MUSIC CLASS $200: It's the 2-word term for a country's official patriotic song national anthem |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | SINGING $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew sings.)
Swing low, sweet chariot...
Also meaning non-material, this type of song was used for a secret communication among slaves a spiritual |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | WANNA BETTE? $400: Bette Midler won an Emmy for an appearance in which she sang a goodbye song to this retiring host Johnny Carson |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | ___ OF ___ $1,000 (Daily Double): Term for a domestic animal used to pull or carry loads; it's also the title of a 1978 hit song beast of burden |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | COUNTRY $600: He won a 1967 Grammy for "Gentle on My Mind", which later became the theme song to his TV series Glen Campbell |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | SOLDIER OF MISFORTUNE $800: Sing a "song" for this nephew of Charlemagne, lost with the rear guard at the battle of Roncesvalles Roland |
| #4403, aired 2003-10-29 | MUSIC TO MY EARS $400: For many, this song is a tradition "Hava Nagila" |
| #4403, aired 2003-10-29 | MUSIC TO MY EARS $800: This contagious toe-tapper was a hit song for composer Harold Arlen in 1930 "Get Happy" |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | THE '60s MUSIC SCENE $200: Grammy voters certainly loved Aretha Franklin "just a little bit"; she won 2 1967 awards for this song "Respect" |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | COUNTRY SONGS $1000: (Hi, I'm Joe Nichols.) It may sound "unlikely", but in 2003 this song earned me a Grammy nomination for Best Male Country Vocal "The Impossible" |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Wizard of Oz" song that made it to the big screen with Tom Hanks as a hit man for the Irish mob Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Perdition |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | LET'S ROCK $400: This Paul Simon song begins, "I'm sitting in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination" "Homeward Bound" |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | WOMEN OF POP $400: Her rendition of "One Moment in Time" was used as a theme song for the 1988 Summer Olympics Whitney Houston |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A "LITTLE" MUSIC $2000: She worked as a babysitter for songwriter Carole King until hitting the big time with King's song "The Loco-Motion" Little Eva |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | THEY PUT ME ON HOLD AGAIN! $400: This song would be appropriate hold music for a maternity ward "New Kid In Town" |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | MUSIC FOR YOUR CAT $800: Your cat's least favorite song? "Misty", because of the line "Look at me, I'm" this as helpless as a kitten up a tree |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome) It's the title of a 1954 hit that won an Oscar for Best Song, & here's your big clue "Three Coins in the Fountain" |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | TRANSPORTATION $1200: According to a classic 1892 song, it's what I couldn't afford that caused me to get a bicycle built for 2 carriage |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | JAZZ TUNES $1600: John Coltrane's version of this song from "The Sound of Music" became a sort of theme song for him "My Favorite Things" |
| #4249, aired 2003-02-06 | ACTRESS/SINGER $400: While she was on this Keri Russell series, Amy Jo Johnson, seen here, did a song for the soundtrack Felicity |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | LITERARY TERMS $400: Perhaps from the Greek for "goat song", it's a drama that often has a fatal conclusion, such as "Othello" tragedy |
| #4245, aired 2003-01-31 | '80s ROCK $200: In December 1984 Madonna touched No. 1 for the very first time with this song "Like A Virgin" |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | INDIAN CINEMA $600: India's 1st talkie, 1931's "Alam Ara", began a pattern of stopping the action for an often irrelevant one of these song |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | DUET TO ME ONE MORE TIME $400: "Till I Loved You", her hit song with Don Johnson, was written for the musical concept album "Goya...A Life in Song" Barbra Streisand |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | McMUSIC $400: You might remember in 2000 this Lilith Fair maiden won a Grammy for her song "I Will Remember You" Sarah McLachlan |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | "TA" TA FOR NOW $600: In a Bobbie Gentry No. 1 hit song from 1967, Billie Joe MacAllister jumps off this Tallahatchie Bridge |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES $1,600 (Daily Double): The remains of a 3.2 million-year-old hominid, discovered in 1974, were nicknamed this, after a Beatles song Lucy |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | 21st CENTURY MUSIC $1000: In 2001 Alicia Keys won an MTV Award for Best New Artist in a Video for this song "Fallin'" |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | TALK TV $2000: She's the talk show host mentioned in the Offspring song "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" Ricki Lake |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | "MIS"QUOTES $1200: A 1929 song says, "Ain't" doin' this, "I'm savin' my love for you" Misbehavin' |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $400: An animation song a tune toon |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | STAR TRACK $1,600 (Daily Double): This actor born in London in 1972 was named for a Beatles song & an "Obscure" literary character Jude Law |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | THEATER TERMS $1,600 (Daily Double): It's the term for a song in a musical that gets big applause, causing a pause in the performance a showstopper |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | I WRITE THE SONGS $600: Just 5'2", his stature is huge for writing "An Old Fashioned Love Song" & a theme for "The Love Boat" Paul Williams |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | BOBBING FOR BOBS $400: In a 1960 hit song, this man's lover was waiting for him "Beyond The Sea" Bobby Darin |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | POP THE QUESTION $200: Elton John won his first Grammy as a solo artist for this song from "The Lion King" "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | MUSIC MAKERS $1600: The name of this instrument comes from the Latin for "sweet song" a dulcimer |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | BOOZE-A-PALOOZA $600: This song that was a No. 1 hit for the Champs in 1958 always makes me want a margarita "Tequila" |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | FILE UNDER "T" $1000: The hermit species of this bird is famous for its song a thrush |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | CARMEN $1600: In Act II the handsome Escamillo enters to the "song" named for these bullfighters the toreadors |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | DAY $1200: Doris said she has no love for this Oscar-winning tune from "The Man Who Knew Too Much"; it was "a children's song" "Que Sera, Sera" |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | SONGS FROM THE HART $800: Song that says, "I get too hungry for dinner at eight" "The Lady is a Tramp" |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | HOW...? $600: For this problem, the title of a 1971 Bee Gees song, the band should have seen Dr. Christiaan Barnard "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" |
| #4001, aired 2002-01-14 | WEBSTERS $400: Mankay, Enoch Sontonga & V.E. Webster did the music for Tanzania's one of these, basing it on a Bantu song national anthem |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | MUSIC FOR YOUR FISH $800: This B-52's song says, "There goes a dogfish chased by a catfish... watch out for that piranha!" "Rock Lobster" |
| #3991, aired 2001-12-31 | CHILDREN'S SONGS $200: The Reader's Digest Children's Songbook says, "For additional verses, add your own animals" to this song "Old McDonald" (Had A Farm) |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | YOU WEREN'T "THERE" $1000: Baby, this song was a top 10 hit for the Drifters in 1959 "There Goes My Baby" |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | SONG LYRICS $500: Christina Aguilera:
"Whatever makes me happy sets you free and I'm thanking you for knowing exactly..." "What A Girl Wants" |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | MUSIC OF THE '70s $500: In 1973 he won a Grammy for Best Country Song for "Behind Closed Doors" Charlie Rich |
| #3881, aired 2001-06-18 | THEY PUT ME ON HOLD AGAIN! $500: This song would be great hold music for a pediatrician "There Goes My Baby" |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | HAIR DON'TS $400: An adjective for dry, untamable hair, it sounds just like a Lenny Kravitz song title flyaway |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | NAME THE COUNTRY $300: A song in "The Producers" says, "Springtime for Hitler and" this country Germany |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | LITERATURE $1000: Great Chilean poet known for his "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" Pablo Neruda |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | "T"HEATER $800: Collective name for Harvey Fierstein's 3 plays about a drag queen named Arnold Torch Song Trilogy |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | POP MUSIC $400: His song "You Make Me Wanna" was nominated for a Grammy Usher |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: (Hi, I'm Marvin Hamlisch, here at the Hollywood Bowl) I composed the music for this Broadway smash that includes the song...
("One") "A Chorus Line" |
| #3739, aired 2000-11-30 | SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER $600: Song standard heard here if performed by Valentine & Proteus, a duo from a town in Italy: Tea for Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #3714, aired 2000-10-26 | 1820s AMERICA $200: "Be it ever so humble", John Howard Payne wrote this song with a 3-word title for the 1823 opera "Clari" "Home, Sweet Home" |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS $500: This 1971 winner for Specialized Journalism was the subject of a 1973 song by Dr. Hook Rolling Stone |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | "BRAND" NAMES $800: This suggestive song about roller skates was a No. 1 hit for Melanie in 1971 "Brand New Key" |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | SIMON SAYS $200: In a '70s song:
"...She kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be 50 ways to leave your lover" Paul Simon |
| #3631, aired 2000-05-22 | AT AUCTION $400: The handwritten lyrics to this John Lennon song, possibly inspired by a Lewis Carroll poem, sold in 1999 for $129,000 "I Am The Walrus" |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | WOODY GUTHRIE $500: The title of this 1943 Woody autobiography is lifted from a song about a train "Bound For Glory" |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | A CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK $400: This song heard here was a big hit for the King in 1964:
"Decorations of red, on a green..." "Blue Christmas" |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | HOLIDAY SONGS $300: (Hi, I'm Art Alexakis of the rock group Everclear.) In a 1998 holiday ad for The Gap, my band did a rendition of this song about an alienated animal "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | HOLIDAY SONGS $400: "Put on your yarmulke, it's time for Chanukah" is a line from his "Chanukah Song" Adam Sandler |
| #3517, aired 1999-12-14 | "CAL" STATE $200: For this lotion mentioned in a Coasters song, think pink Calamine lotion |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | JOHNNY GILBERT ROCKS! $300: This song was written for a 1967 film:
"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio /
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo)" "Mrs. Robinson" |
| #3493, aired 1999-11-10 | CIVIL WAR SONGS $500: Hurrah! Hurrah! This song speaks of a "hearty welcome then" for a returning soldier "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" |
| #3488, aired 1999-11-03 | POP QUIZ $400: Nirvana didn't sweat over the title of this 1991 song, they named it for a deodorant "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
| #3461, aired 1999-09-27 | AFRICAN ISLANDS $600: Now a part of Tanzania, this island known for its cloves was mentioned in "The Patty Duke Show" theme song Zanzibar |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | FEATURE FILM DEBUTS $400: She was nominated for a 1980 Oscar for writing the theme song of her first film, "9 to 5" Dolly Parton |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | "SING" & "DANCE" $400: In a Lerner & Loewe song, this title lyric is followed by "And still have begged for more" "I Could Have Danced All Night" |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | LET'S SPEAK SWAHILI! $400: Elton John & Tim Rice found this term for "no worries" in a Swahili phrase book & wrote a song about it "Hakuna Matata" |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | "HOUSE" MUSIC $800: This song was a hit for John Mellencamp in 1984: ain't that America? "Pink Houses" |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | I KNOW THAT SONG $300: "Love can touch us one time, and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we're gone..." "My Heart Will Go On" |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $200: A music major at SUNY-Binghamton, he later co-wrote the theme song for his TV series "Mad About You" Paul Reiser |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | THEATRE $2,811 (Daily Double): "Fate", the title of a song in this classic musical, is also a synonym for the musical's title Kismet |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | AD AGE $300: In a commercial for this company, 2 guys aimlessly drive around in a Golf while listening to the song "Da Da Da" Volkswagen |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | COLORFUL NAMES $500: A Top 10 hit for Cream in 1968, this song mentions "black curtains" "White Room" |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | YELLOW MUSIC $500: The title of a 1960 No. 1 song, it's what "she wore for the first time today... so in a blanket she wanted to stay" "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" |
| #3292, aired 1998-12-22 | PATRIOTIC SONGS $300: George M. Cohan was awarded a Congressional medal for writing this most famous song of World War I "Over There" |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE $300: Carole King co-wrote this song that was a No. 5 hit for The Drifters in 1962 "Up On The Roof" |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | HERBS & SPICE GIRLS $200: "Spanish Flea", the theme song of "The Dating Game", was a hit for this bandleader Herb Alpert |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | "GOOD" TIMES $400: This groovy song was a Top 10 hit for the Beach Boys in 1966 "Good Vibrations" |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $400: Much of the music for this 1959 film, including the song "Once Upon A Dream" was adapted from an 1890 ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | THE 19-AUGHTs $300: This barbershop favorite was a campaign song for "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald "Sweet Adeline" |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | DON'T BE AN "ASS" $600: The song "Cherish" was the first No. 1 hit for this L.A. band The Association |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | THE "EL" YOU SAY $200: Marty Robbins went to No. 1 with a song about this town, & won a Grammy for it in 1960 "El Paso" |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | THE BOSS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Boss turned down $12 million from Chrysler to use this "All-American" song in ads "Born In The U.S.A." |
| #3213, aired 1998-07-15 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: Classic song heard here in a remake by Randy Travis:
"Trailers for sale or rent..." "King Of The Road" |
| #3201, aired 1998-06-29 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $500: "A Song to Remember" portrayed this frail consumptive as a crusader for Polish independence Frederic Chopin |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | "G" MOVIES $600: Dennis Quaid marries a 13-year-old in the movie bio named for this 1957 song Great Balls of Fire! |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | SONGS $800: This somewhat obsessive love song was a No. 1 hit for the Police in 1983 "Every Breath You Take" |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | LUCKY DUCKS $100: The Kingsmen were lucky to stay out of jail for performing this this song, their biggest hit "Louie Louie" |
| #3140, aired 1998-04-03 | THEY COVERED THE BEATLES $1000: Written in 1966, this song was a Top 10 hit from the Beatles in 1976 & for Earth, Wind & Fire in 1978 "Got To Get You Into My Life" |
| #3138, aired 1998-04-01 | APRIL $200: This song, heard here, was one of 6 No. 1 hits for its performer:
"Every star's a wishing star that shines for you..." "April Love" |
| #3121, aired 1998-03-09 | THE DEVIL YOU SAY $200: In the Charlie Daniels song, the devil went down to this state for a fiddle contest Georgia |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | LET'S GET MARRIED! $300 (Daily Double): There wasn't a traditional song for this pair to dance to at the reception until the following was written:
"You filled my life /
With so much joy /
As I watched you grow /
From that little boy" the groom and his mom |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | CRYING $1000: Scientists have used this TV movie about Gale Sayers' doomed teammate to induce tears for study Brian's Song |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | MEDIEVAL BESTSELLERS $600: Yours for a "Song" is this French epic hero who is the nephew of Charlemagne Roland |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | "GO" FOR IT $5,500 (Daily Double): Title shared by a 1953 novel & the song heard here: "Go Tell It On The Mountain" |
| #3084, aired 1998-01-15 | SONGS $200: He was inspired to compose the melody for "The Christmas Song" by a poem, "Thoughts of Christmas" Mel Torme |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | IT CAME FROM SEATTLE $1,700 (Daily Double): The Melvins, heard here, were an early band in this rock genre that swept America in 1992: grunge |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | THAT NEWFANGLED ROCK 'N' ROLL $500 (Daily Double): The song heard here was a 1989 Top 10 single for this group: Aerosmith |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | THE OSCARS $200: Though he's acted on screen, as in "Tommy", his first nomination & win was for a song in "The Lion King" Elton John |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | MUSIC $1000: This "Pomp And Circumstance" composer wrote "Sea Pictures", a song cycle, for English contralto Dame Clara Butt Edward Elgar |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | ROCK LYRICS $300: The CCR song about her begins, "Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
| #2930, aired 1997-05-02 | THE GRAMMYS $500: Nominated for 12 Grammys, he picked up 3 for Producer of the Year, Record of the Yeat & Best R&B Song Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | SONG LYRICS $300: Springsteen sang, "You can't start a fire without a spark, this gun's for hire, even if we're just" doing this "Dancing In The Dark" |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | SONGS $100: Bob Dylan asked him to "Play a song for me, in the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you" Mr. Tambourine Man |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | WOMEN OF SONG $200: In 1993 she teamed up with Beavis & Butt-Head for a new recording of "I Got You Babe" Cher |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | WOMEN OF SONG $1000: In 1995 she won a Grammy for Female Rock Vocal for her hit "Come To My Window" Melissa Etheridge |
| #2807, aired 1996-11-12 | SINGERS $250 (Daily Double): This singer-songwriter won a 1988 Oscar for the song heard here Carly Simon |
| #2797, aired 1996-10-29 | SONG STANDARDS $200: A proposed title for this Oscar-winning Henry Mancini-Johnny Mercer song was "Blue River" "Moon River" |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | HILLS $400: The source of this major river known in song for its boatmen is near a small lake in the Valday Hills the Volga |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | BOB DYLAN SONGS $800: Dylan asked this person to "Play a song for me. In the jingle jangle mornin' I'll come followin' you" "Mr. Tambourine Man" |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | AMERICANA $400: A middle school in this state capital was named for Marie Drake, who wrote the lyrics to Alaska's state song Juneau |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | GENE KELLY MOVIES $800: Kelly's first on-screen song was a duet with this actress in the title tune of "For Me and My Gal" Judy Garland |
| #2680, aired 1996-04-05 | LITERARY TERMS $200: This term for a short, simple poem or song comes from dictatum, Latin for "dictated thing" Ditty |
| #2668, aired 1996-03-20 | SONGS $400: "Who Could Ask for Anything More?", a line from this song, was the title of Ethel Merman's autobiography "I Got Rhythm" |
| #2647, aired 1996-02-20 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $300: A symphony for the refrain of a song, or the group of people who might sing it chorus |
| #2640, aired 1996-02-09 | LOVE SONGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Singer heard here in a song that was also associated with her father:
"L is for the way you look at me" Natalie Cole |
| #2623, aired 1996-01-17 | '50s SONG LYRICS $500: "I believe for ev'ry drop of rain that falls" this "grows" a flower |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | SANDRA BULLOCK MOVIES $500 (Daily Double): 1992 film based on & named for the following golden oldie:
"I held my nose, I closed my eyes /
I took a drink" "Love Potion No. 9" |
| #2609, aired 1995-12-28 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $400: This phrase for an easygoing existence stems from a Vaudeville song about a man named O'Reilly the life of Reilly |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | WORD ORIGINS $100: A poem composed as a lament for the dead, its name comes from elegos, "mournful song" elegy |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | SONGS $300: This singer was nominated for a 1980 Oscar for writing "On The Road Again", but lost to the song "Fame" Willie Nelson |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | BASEBALL HISTORY $300: In 1889 Michael Kelly was so famous for doing this he inspired a song, "Slide Kelly Slide" stealing bases |
| #2472, aired 1995-05-09 | THE MOVIES $500 (Daily Double): 1995 movie comedy that features the song heard here: "I think I'll go for a walk outside now / The summer sun's callin my name / (I hear ya now) / I just can't stay inside all day / I gotta get out..." The Brady Bunch (Movie) |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | MUSIC & MUSICIANS $200: A noel is a song or instrumental piece for this holiday Christmas |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | POTPOURRI $100: Relatively speaking, this tall timepiece was named for a 19th C. song by Henry C. Work grandfather clock |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | SONG LYRICS $100: "When I was seventeen it was" this type of year "for small town girls and soft summer nights" a very good year |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This Ohio native won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1977 novel "Song of Solomon" Toni Morrison |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | POP MUSIC $100: These 2 writers won a 1966 Song of the Year Grammy for "Michelle" Lennon & McCartney |
| #2323, aired 1994-10-12 | ODDS & ENDS $500: A verse from this children's song was the 1st thing ever recorded by Thomas Edison for his phonograph "Mary Had A Little Lamb" |
| #2317, aired 1994-10-04 | THE 1994 GRAMMYS $300: Whitney Houston won a Grammy for Record of the Year for this song written by Dolly Parton "I Will Always Love You" |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | '40s FILM FACTS $500: Cornel Wilde was wild for Merle Oberon in "A Song to Remember"; he played Chopin & she played this novelist George Sand |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500 (Daily Double): Show that features the following: "I got the horse right here / The name is Paul Revere / And here's a guy that says if the weather's clear /Can do /Can do / This guy says the horse can do..." Guys and Dolls |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | REALLY OLD SONGS $100: George M. Cohan's original title for this song was "You're a Grand Old Rag"; he didn't mean it as an insult "You're a Grand Old Flag" |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | SINGING $400: This term for a sailor song can be spelled with a C or an S a shanty |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | SHOW TUNES $400: This "In Cold Blood" author & Harold Arlen wrote the song "A Sleepin' Bee" for the musical "House of Flowers" Truman Capote |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | SHOW TUNES $500: This song from "A Chorus Line" begins, "Kiss today goodbye, the sweetness and the sorrow..." "What I Did For Love" |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | MAGAZINES $600: This author of "The Executioner's Song" is a "writer-at-large" for Vanity Fair Norman Mailer |
| #2213, aired 1994-03-30 | MUSIC $200: It's the term for a song, like France's "La Marseillaise", sanctioned by a country for official occasions an anthem |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | STARTS WITH "L" $200: This term for a satire comes from lampons, which means "let's guzzle" in an Old French drinking song lampoon |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: A derogatory song during his campaign said, "His grandfather's hat is too big for his head" Benjamin Harrison |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | THE BELLS $400: Livingston & Evans who wrote the "Mr. Ed" theme wrote this Christmas song for a 1951 Bob Hope film "Silver Bells" |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | POP MUSIC $300: She won a Best Female Pop Vocal Grammy for her 1980 song "The Rose" Bette Midler |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | "EVE"s $500: In 1965 this "devastating" song became a No. 1 hit for Barry McGuire "Eve Of Destruction" |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | POP & ROCK MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): This group won 3 1992 Billboard Music Awards for the single heard here Boyz II Men |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | FILMS OF THE '40s $200: Bing Crosby introduced the song "Swinging On A Star" in this 1944 film for which he won an Oscar Going My Way |
| #2004, aired 1993-04-29 | SONG STANDARDS $600: "Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold, she's a bird in" one of these a gilded cage |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | DISNEYLAND $100: The theme song of this ride is "Yo-Ho, Yo-Ho—A Pirate's Life For Me" Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | DISNEYLAND $500: The voice of Brer Bear on Splash Mountain was provided by the same actor who did it for this 1946 film Song of the South |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BLACK AMERICA $800: These laws, named for a character in an old song, required segregation in some public places Jim Crow laws |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | "SONG" $300: Giving big excuses & explanations for something is going into this pair a song & dance |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): He's the subject of the following song from a 1969 Broadway musical:
"He plays the violin /
He tucks it right under his chin /
And he bows, oh he bows /
For he knows, yes he knows..." Thomas Jefferson |
| #1885, aired 1992-11-13 | ELVIS SONGS $300: "Well, a' bless my soul", this song stayed on the charts for 30 weeks, the longest of any Elvis single "All Shook Up" |
| #1878, aired 1992-11-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: Bayushki is the Russian term for this type of cradle song a lullaby |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | SONG STANDARDS $700 (Daily Double): It's the question asked in "I Got Rhythm" Who could ask for anything more? |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | KENTUCKY $400: There's a state park named for this Stephen Foster song & the mansion that inspired it is open for tours "My Old Kentucky Home" |
| #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 |
| #1806, aired 1992-06-08 | CYCLING $300: The song "A Bicycle Built for Two" is from this decade when cycling hit its peak in the U.S. 1890s |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | PIG LATIN $400: The pig provoker in the title of a popular porcine song, A.K.A. the Igbay Adbay Olfway the Big Bad Wolf |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | AWARDS $300: In 1961 this performer won a Grammy for best R & B recording for his song "Hit The Road Jack" Ray Charles |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | SONG $600: A song sung by sailors, or a synonym for shack a shanty |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | SONG $800: A soprano who specializes in "colorful" runs & trills, it's also an Italian word for "coloring" coloratura |
| #1688, aired 1991-12-25 | WORD ORIGINS $100: A variety show, from the French meaning "song of vau de vire", a region in France Vaudeville |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | SPRING $500: "Spring, Spring, Spring" is a song from this 1954 north woods musical based on "The Sobbin' Women" Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $100 (Daily Double): The operetta that features the following song:
"For I'm called Little Buttercup--dear Little Buttercup / Though I could never tell why / But still I'm called Buttercup-- poor little Buttercup / Sweet Little Buttercup I!..." H.M.S. Pinafore (Dear Little Miss Buttercup or The Lass That Loved a Sailor) |
| #1621, aired 1991-09-23 | MUSIC $2,200 (Daily Double): Title of the following, written for 1937s film version of the operetta "The Firefly":
"There's a song in the air /
But the fair senorita doesn't seem to care /
For the song in the air..." "The Donkey Serenade" |
| #1591, aired 1991-07-01 | "ISM"s $500: This term for aggressive patriotism comes from a 19th century music hall song jingoism |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | THE OSCARS $500 (Daily Double): Heard here, he won a 1984 Oscar for writing the following song:
"I just called to say I love you..." Stevie Wonder |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | SINGERS $200: In 1991 his 15-year-old son, Sean, wrote some timely new lyrics for his song "Give Peace A Chance" John Lennon |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | 1980s ROCK $700 (Daily Double): He had the only a capella hit ever to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart with the following:
"Here's a little song I wrote /
You might want to sing it note for note /
Don't worry, be happy..." Bobby McFerrin |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $500: "Get to the Heart" is the story of this singer who "was country when country wasn't cool" Barbara Mandrell |
| #1531, aired 1991-04-08 | MOVIE SONGS $400: Pat Boone sang that this “is for the very young, Ev’ry star’s a wishing star that shines for you” "April Love" |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | COUNTRY MUSIC $300 (Daily Double): Country star who had his first Top 10 hit on the pop charts with the following: "A white sports coat and a pink carnation / I'm all dressed up for the dance" Marty Robbins |
| #1524, aired 1991-03-28 | DISNEY SONGS $100: Peggy Lee co-wrote the song "He's a Tramp" for this film & she sang it, too Lady and the Tramp |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AIN'T IT "GRAND" $400: In this song from "State Fair", "The moon is flying high" "It's A Grand Night For Singing" |
| #1508, aired 1991-03-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: A Rimsky-Korsakov opus & Ravel's song cycles were named for this Arabian storyteller Scheherazade |
| #1508, aired 1991-03-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Term for a piece written for a funeral that's come to mean any slow-moving song a dirge |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | THEATRE $1,500 (Daily Double): Broadway musical that gave us the following song:
"I'm jist a girl who cain't say no / I'm in a turrible fix..." Oklahoma! |
| #1475, aired 1991-01-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: Barcarole is a French word for the type of song sung by these boatmen the gondoliers |
| #1457, aired 1990-12-25 | STATE PARKS $200: A state park near Bardstown, Kentucky, was named for this Stephen Foster song "My Old Kentucky Home" |
| #1439, aired 1990-11-29 | FAMOUS TAURUSES $400 (Daily Double): Singing Taurus for whom the following was 1 of at least 9 #1 hits:
"Find a wheel, and it goes 'round, 'round, 'round / As it skims along with a happy sound / As it goes, along the ground, ground, ground / 'Til it leads you to the one you love / Then your love, will hold you 'round, 'round, 'round" Perry Como |
| #1433, aired 1990-11-21 | THE JONESES $400: As a teenager, this producer of the hit song "We Are The World" played trumpet for Billie Holliday Quincy Jones |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | GIRLS IN SONG $200: In a 1969 hit Flying Machine told her to "Smile A Little Smile For Me" Rosemarie (Rosemary) |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | SAMMY DAVIS JR. $50 (Daily Double): This song, a hit for Sammy in 1969, was played at his memorial service: [Audio] Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong.. "I've Gotta Be Me" |
| #1373, aired 1990-07-18 | POTLUCK $400: In "Fugue For Tinhorns", a song from this musical, Paul Revere is the name of a horse Guys and Dolls |
| #1331, aired 1990-05-21 | FAMOUS COUPLES $100: When her spouse was found guilty on Oct. 5, 1989, she sang a religious song for the press Tammy Faye Bakker |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | DISNEYLAND $400: New Orleans Square restaurant, or a hit song for Linda Ronstadt & Roy Orbison Blue Bayou |
| #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" |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | "BLUE" MOVIES $500: Isabella Rossellini sang the title song, an old Bobby Vinton hit, in this 1986 film Blue Velvet |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | U.S. STATES $800: This future state song of Maryland was a battle song for Confederate soldiers "Maryland, My Maryland" |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | IT'S "MAGIC" $400: This song was a Top 10 hit for the Police in the fall of 1981 "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" |
| #1279, aired 1990-03-08 | AUSTRALIA $400: "Banjo" Paterson, known for his "bush ballads", wrote this song, 1st published in 1917 "Waltzing Matilda" |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | SONGS $200: "Bring me a dream, make him the cutest that I've ever seen" is a plea addressed to him Mr. Sandman |
| #1272, aired 1990-02-27 | ANIMAL TRIVIA $500 (Daily Double): The following song popularized a dance named for this animal:
"Now the dance that the people do, I don't know how it started, all I know..." Monkey ("Monkey Time" by Major Lance) |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | SINGIN' SAMS $400 (Daily Double): In 1988 she "sly"ly crept up the charts with the following:
"I've been told time and time again / That you can't treat love like a game / But I play rough with hearts that never mend / 'Cause some guys like you do the same / Love was just a four letter word / Never heard how... " Samantha Fox |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | SONGS OF THE '70s $800 (Daily Double): Though this country sibling duo had a No. 1 hit with the following, they lost money on the deal:
"There's a reason for the sun-shining sky / And there's a reason why I'm feeling so high..." The Bellamy Brothers |
| #1222, aired 1989-12-19 | CHRISTMAS SONGS $300: In "The Chipmunk Song" it's the item Alvin wants for Christmas a Hula Hoop |
| #1219, aired 1989-12-14 | "SUMMER" SONGS $400: According to a 1958 Eddie Cochran song, "There ain't no cure for" these the summertime blues |
| #1219, aired 1989-12-14 | "SUMMER" SONGS $500 (Daily Double): The Brothers Four, who weren't related but were fraternity brothers, had a hit with this song:
"A time just for plantin', a time just for ploughin' / A time to be courtin' a girl of your own / 'Twas so good to be young then..." "The Green Leaves Of Summer" |
| #1213, aired 1989-12-06 | ROCK 'N' ROLL $200: She won a 1984 Grammy for singing "the Song of the Year":
"What's Love Got To Do With It" Tina Turner |
| #1211, aired 1989-12-04 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1000: In 1989 Carly Simon won an Oscar for writing this song from "Working Girl" "Let The River Run" |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BROADWAY LYRICS $100: A song from "A Chorus Line" says, "Won't forget, can't forget, can't regret what I did for" this love |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BROADWAY LYRICS $300: According to the title of a song from "State Fair", "It's a grand night for" doing this singing |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Urbane Englishman heard here singing a song he wrote for one of his musicals:
I believe that since my life began, the most I've had is just a talent to amuse Noel Coward |
| #1167, aired 1989-10-03 | AWARD-WINNERS $1000: In 1983 this actor won a Drama Desk award & a Tony for his performance in "Torch Song Trilogy" Harvey Fierstein |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He lost a N.Y. mayoral race but won the Pulitzer for "The Executioner's Song" Norman Mailer |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $800: Famed for his 18-K. gold flute, this Irish flautist had a hit playing John Denver's "Annie's Song" Galway |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | 1976 $1,100 (Daily Double): Group heard here, singing the song for which they won a Grammy in 1976:
"If you leave me now /
You'll take away the biggest part of me / Ooh-ooh-hoo..." Chicago |
| #1115, aired 1989-06-09 | "LAST" $800 (Daily Double): Donna Summer won a 1978 Grammy for singing this Oscar-winning song:
"I need you by me / Beside me, to guide me..." "Last Dance" |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | FLOWERS $500 (Daily Double): Flower mentioned in the last line of the following song:
"I want some red roses for a blue lady /
Mister florist take my order please /
We had a silly quarrel..." white orchid |
| #1107, aired 1989-05-30 | MARCH $300 (Daily Double): On March 26, 1955 this "Ballad" hit No. 1 on the charts & stayed there for 5 weeks:
"Born on a mountain top in Tennessee /
Greenest state in the land of the free /
Raised in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree /
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three..." "Davy Crockett", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" |
| #1102, aired 1989-05-23 | SONGS $500: A song in "Porgy & Bess" is titled "There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For" this city New York |
| #1094, aired 1989-05-11 | FOOD $300 (Daily Double): Snack food title of the following tune; you can picture it cooking if you close your eyes: "instrumental music plays" "Popcorn" |
| #1079, aired 1989-04-20 | BICYCLES $200: She was told in song, "You'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two" Daisy |
| #1069, aired 1989-04-06 | 1979 $400 (Daily Double): Singer whose album "Blondes Have More Fun", as well as the following song from it, hit No.1 in 1979:
"She sits alone, waiting for suggestions..." Rod Stewart |
| #1043, aired 1989-03-01 | 1850s HITS $100: 1854 song Stephen Foster wrote for his wife Jane before their marriage became a nightmare "I Dream of Jeanie" |
| #1043, aired 1989-03-01 | OPERA $200: Italian for "air", it's a song from an opera & title of a 1988 opera film Aria |
| #1014, aired 1989-01-19 | MUSIC $200: German for "song collection", it's also the name of a soft cheese resembling a mild limburger Liederkranz |
| #1004, aired 1989-01-05 | ACTRESSES $600: She was the 1st actress to win an Oscar for composing a song, the 1977 hit "Evergreen" Barbra Streisand |
| #1003, aired 1989-01-04 | OPERETTAS $800: Rudolf Friml's "The Three Musketeers" features a song based on this, their motto One for all, and all for one |
| #1001, aired 1989-01-02 | OSCAR FIRSTS $800: This star of "The Song of Bernadette" was the 1st to win an Oscar for playing a saint Jennifer Jones |
| #983, aired 1988-12-07 | "DAY"s $500 (Daily Double): Title of the following, it was a hit for The Monkees in 1967 & for Anne Murray in 1980: "Daydream Believer" |
| #969, aired 1988-11-17 | SINGERS $400: The 1968 song about "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay" was a posthumous No. 1 hit for him Otis Redding |
| #965, aired 1988-11-11 | SILLY SONGS $100: Song that says, "Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun," is named for this type of barrel a beer barrel |
| #957, aired 1988-11-01 | SEA SONGS $200: "Beyond the Sea", his version of the French song "La Mer", was a 1960 hit for this singer Bobby Darin |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | SINGING CELEBRITIES $300 (Daily Double): She was one of the most talked-about women of 1987:
"Satan is a roaring lion / On Earth this very hour / We know he’s looking ‘round about for whom he may devour / But the Devil is defeated / The Victory’s yours today / So when he rears…" Tammy Faye Bakker |
| #951, aired 1988-10-24 | GEOGRAPHICAL SONGS $100 (Daily Double): It's where my baby's smile takes me in the following:
"My-oh me-oh / I go wild then I have to do the samba, then la bamba / Now I'm not the kind of person with a passionate persuasion for dancin' or romancin'..." Rio |
| #944, aired 1988-10-13 | "BABY" SONGS $300: After Mac Davis wrote a few Top 10 hits for Elvis, he wrote this song for himself that reached No. 1 "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me" |
| #932, aired 1988-09-27 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $700 (Daily Double): Built in 1918, Charlie Chaplin's movie studio has belonged for over 20 years to the musician heard here:
[Trumpet plays.] Herb Alpert |
| #928, aired 1988-09-21 | PERFUME $300 (Daily Double): Afro-Brazilian dance in title of the following; it's also the name of a new perfume:
"So I come back to my first note as I must come back to you / I will pour into that one note all the love I feel for you / Any one who wants the whole show..." the Samba |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | MOVIES $300 (Daily Double): Only No. 1 hit for Henry Mancini & His Orchestra was this movie theme written by Nino Rota:
[Instrumental music plays] "A Time For Us" |
| #923, aired 1988-09-14 | AMERICAN SONGS $100: According to the minstrel song, "There'll be" one of these "in the old town tonight" a hot time |
| #919, aired 1988-09-08 | WORD ORIGINS $500 (Daily Double): Type of song heard here, from the Latin word for "mother":
[Vocalists sing.] a madrigal |
| #918, aired 1988-09-07 | FOLK SONGS $100: A feminine version of this song is "For She's A Jolly Good Person" "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow" |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | IN OTHER WORDS... $300: Procure but with one melody buy it with (for) a song |
| #897, aired 1988-06-28 | FAMOUS QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): 1st line of the following song, it's a quote from Alexander Pope: Fools rush in |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | GIRLS IN SONG $200: In "Guys & Dolls", "Chances are he's insane as only a John can be for a" girl named this a Jane |
| #876, aired 1988-05-30 | SAINTS $600: A tradition that he picks up the souls of the dead may account for the boat rowing song Saint Michael |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | SONGS $300: In spite of the title, teaming up for this 1967 song was a smart move for Frank & Nancy "Something Stupid" |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | 1974 $200: Reportedly, "How I Love To Carry Fertilizer Up the Mountainside for the Commune" was a hit song in this country People's Republic of China |
| #851, aired 1988-04-25 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200 (Daily Double): Title of the following, it's metric equivalent is 41.8, not 40, kilometers:
"Santa Catalina is a-waitin' for me /
Santa Catalina, the island of romance /
Romance, romance, romance /
Water all around it everywhere..." "26 Miles" |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | HITS OF THE '80s $500: This song originally released in 1968 became a posthumous hit for Elvis in 1981 "Guitar Man" |
| #837, aired 1988-04-05 | CASABLANCA $200: As the song says, "It's still the same old story, a fight for" these 2 things love & glory |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | COLORS $1000: In song, "She wore it for her lover who was far, far away" a yellow ribbon |
| #789, aired 1988-01-28 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: An ex-slave was hired to sit on a porch & tell folk tales for 1946 Georgia premiere of this Disney film Song of the South |
| #785, aired 1988-01-22 | BARTLETT'S QUOTES $200: Bartlett's cites both a WWI army song & him for the phrase "Old soldiers never die..." (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #776, aired 1988-01-11 | GIRLS IN SONG $100: "Went to a dance lookin' for romance, saw" this girl, "so I thought I'd take a chance" Barbara Ann |
| #772, aired 1988-01-05 | TIME $3,000 (Daily Double): According to 1st line, time you'd hear the following being sung:
"We're drinking, my friend /
To the end /
Of a brief episode /
Make it one..." a quarter to 3:00 |
| #769, aired 1987-12-31 | CLOTHING IN SONG $200: When he was "all dressed up for the dance" Marty Robbins had a pink carnation on the lapel of this a white sportscoat |
| #762, aired 1987-12-22 | HIT TUNES $500: Only '80s song to top Billboard's pop chart for 10 weeks is this Olivia Newton-John hit "Physical" |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | OPPOSITES IN SONG $300: Tho The Platters preferred "Twilight Time", The 4 Seasons sang of a girl named for this time "Dawn" |
| #757, aired 1987-12-15 | “DARK” SONGS $400: “Relative”ly speaking, this 1970 song was a big hit for Tom Jones "Daughter Of Darkness" |
| #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" |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | ITALIAN IDIOMS $300: An Italian with a fondness for "il vino, le donne e le canzone" likes these wine, women & song |
| #743, aired 1987-11-25 | ANTIQUES $400: A popular song of 1875 popularized this name for tall case clocks grandfather clocks |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | "APRIL" SONGS $100: A 1957 No. 1 song says, "It's for the very young" "April Love" |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | GIRLS IN SONG $100: In various songs, she was a hit for Jimmy Clanton, Shocking Blue, Bananarama & Frankie Avalon Venus |
| #718, aired 1987-10-21 | STREET SONGS $500: Inspired by a NYC lounge, this song urged, "Meet me, baby, down on 45th Street" "The Peppermint Twist" |
| #713, aired 1987-10-14 | HOTELS $400: Billboard rated this song top single of the year for 1956, though it sounds like a sad place to stay "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | ONE SONG $500: A new video for the song features clips of the group singing it on this controversial '60s variety show The Smothers Brothers |
| #703, aired 1987-09-30 | RELIGION $2,500 (Daily Double): Religious affiliation associated with the following song: "Thee I love more than the meadow so green and still/More than the mulberries on the hill/More than the buds of a May apple tree I love thee/Arms have I, strong as the oak for this occasion/Lips have I, to kiss thee, too, in friendly persuasion" Quakers (Society of Friends) |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | #1 HITS $200: 1 of 4 #1 hits for John Denver "Annie's Song" (or "Sunshine On My Shoulders", "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" or "I'm Sorry") |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | DOUBLE TALK $800 (Daily Double): It was a group called the Tymes, not Johnny Mathis that made this song a Top 10 hit:
"Sometimes we walk, hand in hand by the sea /
And we breathe in the cool salty air /
You turn to me, with a kiss in your eyes..." "Wonderful! Wonderful!" |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | AMERICAN MUSIC $300: A poem written for a Montgomery Ward promotion became the words of this Yuletide animal song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" |
| #663, aired 1987-06-24 | '60s SONGS $500: This song asks, "Each night before you go to bed, my baby, whisper a little prayer for me, my baby" "This Is Dedicated To The One I Love" |
| #659, aired 1987-06-18 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: Its lyrics include the line "Roderigh vich alpine dhu, Ho! Ieroe!" "Hail To The Chief" |
| #658, aired 1987-06-17 | DINING OUT $400: For a series of McDonald's commercials, the song "Mack the Knife" became this "Mac Tonight" |
| #656, aired 1987-06-15 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $300 (Daily Double): Illness you can catch that's mentioned in the following song:
"What do you get when you fall in love?
A guy with a pin to burst your bubble / That's what you get for all your trouble..." pneumonia |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | EDUCATION $200 (Daily Double): 1st school subject mentioned in the following song:
"Don't know much trigonometry /Don't know much about algebra / Don't know what a slide rule is for / But I do know one and one is two..." history |
| #645, aired 1987-05-29 | COLORFUL NAMES $900 (Daily Double): Singer of the following, his name is a little dull for the category:
"And I'm feelin' the strain, ain't it a shame? / Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul / I wanna get lost in your rock 'n' roll and drift away..." Dobie Gray |
| #627, aired 1987-05-05 | ANIMALS IN SONG $200: A song written for but not used in the Disney film "Peter Pan" advised, "never smile at" 1 of these a crocodile |
| #624, aired 1987-04-30 | "FORT"s $300 (Daily Double): Home of TV cavalry unit whose theme was the following:
"His medal of honor pleased and thrilled / His proud little family group / While pinning it on some blood was spilled / And so it was planned he'd command F Troop / Where Indian fights are colorful sights and nobody takes a lickin'..." Fort Courage |
| #623, aired 1987-04-29 | NUMBERS IN SONG $100: Biggest hit for The Crests was about a birthday cake with this many candles 16 |
| #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 |
| #611, aired 1987-04-13 | TRAINS $700 (Daily Double): This was the 1st No. 1 hit for "The Monkees":
"Cause I'm leaving in the morning / And I must see you again / We'll have one more night together / Till the morning brings my train and I must go / Oh, no, no, no / Oh, no, no, no..." "Last Train To Clarksville" |
| #610, aired 1987-04-10 | SUMMER SONGS $500: Title of the song in which The Happenings asked "or will I lose you to a summer love?" "See You in September" |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | CONDUCTORS $600 (Daily Double): The following was early '60s pop hit for this 3-time Oscar winner, now a renowned conductor: André Previn |
| #603, aired 1987-04-01 | SENSORY SONGS $400: For Johnny Nash, this song doesn't mean a new pair of glasses, but that the rain is gone "I Can See Clearly Now" |
| #577, aired 1987-02-24 | TOYS & GAMES $200 (Daily Double): Toy in name of the group singing the following:
[Opening guitar riff plays]
"She's got legs, she knows how to use them..." top |
| #570, aired 1987-02-13 | SHOW BIZ BUSINESS $400: He directed 1970 movie M·A·S·H, but his son made more money for writing the "theme song" lyrics Robert Altman |
| #570, aired 1987-02-13 | YELLOW SONGS $400: Song which predicted a future craze for "electrical banana" "Mellow Yellow" |
| #564, aired 1987-02-05 | STARTS WITH "Z" $200: My oh my, what a wonderful day it was when Disney's "Song of the South" won an Oscar for this song "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" |
| #562, aired 1987-02-03 | "WORLD"LY SONGS $100: Debuted at 1964 World's Fair in N.Y., it's a "little" song for a big Disney attraction "It's a Small World" |
| #536, aired 1986-12-29 | #1 HITS $100: Sandwiched between Bee Gee's #1 hits "Stayin' Alive" & "Night Fever" was a #1 hit for 2 wks. by this brother Andy Gibb |
| #530, aired 1986-12-19 | WORLD WAR II $500 (Daily Double): World War II battleship that's the title subject of this song:
"For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail
Churchill told the people 'Put every ship a-sail
'Cause somewhere on that ocean...'" the Bismarck |
| #519, aired 1986-12-04 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400 (Daily Double): European capital in the title of the following:
[Instrumental music plays] Lisbon |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | DAYS IN SONG $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the following headbreaking, not heartbreaking, song:
"It's getting late have you seen my mates /
Ma tell me when the boys get here /
It's seven o'clock and I want to rock /
Want to get a belly full of beer..." "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" |
| #487, aired 1986-10-21 | '60s SONGS $400: In 1968, this sticky song
was a sweet chart topper for Bobby Goldsboro "Honey" |
| #474, aired 1986-10-02 | SPAIN $300 (Daily Double): City for which this song is named:
["Instrumental music plays"] Granada |
| #470, aired 1986-09-26 | WOOD LIVES! $100: In song, it's asked to "weep for me" a willow |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | U.S. HISTORY $400: This Confederate Civil War song became a hit single for Mitch Miller in 1955 The Yellow Rose of Texas |
| #462, aired 1986-09-16 | GIRLS IN SONG $500: Neil Sedaka told her, "I am but a fool, darling I love you, though you treat me cruel" Carol |
| #425, aired 1986-04-25 | WEAPONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Weapon mentioned in the following Tom Lehrer song:
"How then Indonesia claimed that they / Were gonna get one any day / South Africa wants two, that's right / One for the Black and one for the White / Who's next?" the bomb (A-bomb, H-bomb) |
| #424, aired 1986-04-24 | EASY LISTENING $400: Asked what song he wanted to be remembered for after he was gone, he popped up with "Bubbles" Lawrence Welk |
| #413, aired 1986-04-09 | MOVIES $1,700 (Daily Double): The 2 songs from "Flashdance" nominated for Best Song "What A Feeling" & "Maniac" |
| #412, aired 1986-04-08 | SOAP OPERAS $300 (Daily Double): Show responsible for more hit singles than any other daytime soap, including the following:
"Kissing you is not what I had planned / And now I'm not so sure just where I stand / I wasn't looking for true love / But now you're looking at me / You're the only..." General Hospital |
| #398, aired 1986-03-19 | FISH $500 (Daily Double): Fish mentioned in the title of the following:
"[Instrumental music plays]" the shark |
| #394, aired 1986-03-13 | RIVER SONGS $400 (Daily Double): In England many say this Phil Spector song written for T. Turner is greatest pop record ever: "When I was a little girl, I had a rag doll / It was the only doll that I've ever owned..." "River Deep, Mountain High" |
| #392, aired 1986-03-11 | GIRLS IN SONG $400: In the Bible, Delilah was a problem for Samson, but in a 1968 hit, she was a problem for this singer Tom Jones |
| #392, aired 1986-03-11 | GIRLS IN SONG $500 (Daily Double): Young singer for whom following ode to a girl was his biggest hit:
"Oh, Donna, oh, Donna / Oh, Donna, oh, Donna / I had a girl.." Ritchie Valens |
| #374, aired 1986-02-13 | #1 SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Amazingly this immortal rocker didn't have a No. 1 hit until 1972, w/ following:
"We got the new alma mater /
We must do our alma mater /
When I was..." Chuck Berry |
| #373, aired 1986-02-12 | "LAST" $1,000 (Daily Double): Unfortunately, this aptly titled 1975 song was 1st & only hit for Roger Whittaker:
There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine "The Last Farewell" |
| #372, aired 1986-02-11 | GOLDEN OLDIES $250 (Daily Double): This song, celebrating golden oldies, was a hit for them in 1973:
"Every sha-la-la-la, every wo-o-wo-o, still shines..." The Carpenters |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | "CRY"ING SONGS $200: Fall 1962 was a #1 season for the Four Seasons with "Sherry" & this song "Big Girls Don't Cry" |
| #361, aired 1986-01-27 | "TABLE" TALK $2,500 (Daily Double): The 1st line of "The Wiffenpoof Song" "To the tables down at Mory's" |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: From German for "song", they're German art songs lieder |
| #350, aired 1986-01-10 | BOND... JAMES BOND $1,000 (Daily Double): This was 1 of only 2 Bond films with a 2 word title:
[Instrumental music plays] Casino Royale |
| #346, aired 1986-01-06 | PERRY COMO $500 (Daily Double): In 1973, Perry had a hit with this song:
"And, yes, I know how lonely life can be. / The shadows follow me, / And the night won't set me free" "And I Love You So" |
| #345, aired 1986-01-03 | AFRICA $200 (Daily Double): Group which had a No. 1 hit with this 1982 song:
"It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you /
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do /
I bless the rains down in Africa /
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had..." Toto |
| #341, aired 1985-12-30 | BELLS $500 (Daily Double): Title of the following Christmas song:
"Ding, dong, ding, dong that is their song / With joyful ring all caroling / One seems to hear words of good cheer / From everywhere filling the air / O, how they pound raising the sound / Oer hill and dale telling their tale..." the "Carol Of The Bells" |
| #316, aired 1985-11-25 | LOVE $1,000 (Daily Double): Pop singer who was looking for love in in this song:
"Every night I hope and pray /
My dream lover will come my way..." Bobby Darin |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | LOVE $600: 1955 Jennifer Jones-William Holden film whose title song became #1 for the 4 Aces Love is a Many-Splendored Thing |
| #303, aired 1985-11-06 | THE CIVIL WAR $1,700 (Daily Double): A popular Yankee song calls for hanging Jeff Davis from this type of tree a sour apple tree |
| #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 |
| #297, aired 1985-10-29 | SONG BIRDS $1000: Title of this sacred song a major hit for Roy Acuff, comes from Biblical book of Jeremiah Great Speckled Bird |
| #284, aired 1985-10-10 | FAMOUS SHIPS $1,000 (Daily Double): Comic opera where you hear this song:
"We sail the ocean blue / And our saucy ship's a beauty / We're sober men and true / And attentive to our duty / When the balls whistle free / O'er the bright blue sea / We stand to our guns all day / When at anchor we ride / On the Portsmouth tide / We have plenty of time for play / Ahoy! Ahoy!..." H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | MULES $2,000 (Daily Double): Singer for whom this was an early hit:
"Mule train! Hyah! Get on! /
Mule train! /
Clippety cloppin' over hill and plain /
Seems as how they never stop, clippety clop, clippety clop /
Clippety, clippety..." Frankie Laine |
| #263, aired 1985-09-11 | 6-LETTER WORDS $500 (Daily Double): 6-letter word in the title of the following:
"Every single day /
Every word you say /
Every game you play /
Every night you stay /
I'll be watching you /
Oh, can't you see /
You belong to me?..." breath |
| #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 |
| #189, aired 1985-05-30 | POP MUSIC $500: Written by Bruce Springsteen, this song was a "hot" number for the Pointer Sisters in '79 "Fire" |
| #187, aired 1985-05-28 | MUSIC $300: Dance done to the song "I don't want her, you can have her, she's too fat for me" a polka |
| #164, aired 1985-04-25 | 1960 $800 (Daily Double): Conductor whose movie theme arrangements include "Moulin Rouge" & 1960's #1 song: Percy Faith |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | DIAMONDS $1,800 (Daily Double): In '73, this song really shone for Seals & Crofts:
"Oh, my love / You're like a precious stone / Part of earth where / Heaven has rained on" "Diamond Girl" |
| #147, aired 1985-04-02 | POP MUSIC $300: Title tune of his new album, "L.A. Is My Lady" is contender for that city's song Frank Sinatra |
| #122, aired 1985-02-26 | "BOYS" IN SONG $400: In '48, it was a "strange & enchanted" million seller for Nat "King" Cole "Nature Boy" |
| #120, aired 1985-02-22 | DRAMA $800: From Greek for "goat song", type of drama developed as sub. for ripping a goat apart as a sacrifice tragedy |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): State whose capital is mentioned in this song:
"They say to have her hair done, Liz flies all the way to France / And Jackie's seen in a discotheque doing a brand new dance / And the White House social season should be glittering and gay / But here in Topeka, the rain is a-falling / The faucet is a-dripping and the kids are a-bawling" Kansas |
| #107, aired 1985-02-05 | TRIVIA $400: Theme song of Leonard Slye & Frances Octavia Smith "Happy Trails To You" |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | ROCK 'N ROLL $400: A "bad season" song for Bananarama "Cruel Summer" |
| #97, aired 1985-01-22 | MUSIC $400: Italian for "air", it's a song sung solo in an opera an aria |
| #95, aired 1985-01-18 | FAIR "SHAKES" $1,200 (Daily Double): What Jimmy Buffet was searching for in this song:
"But there's booze in the blender / And soon it will render / That frozen concoction that helps me hang on / Wastin' away again in Margaritaville..." a lost shaker of salt |
| #86, aired 1985-01-07 | DIFFERENT BRIDGES $500 (Daily Double): Song for which the following is the musical bridge "MacArthur Park" |
| #65, aired 1984-12-07 | WATER SPORTS $400 (Daily Double): What an unlucky surfer has just experienced in this song wipeout |
| #51, aired 1984-11-19 | POETRY $1,400 (Daily Double): Scottish poet who wrote the poem on which this song is based: Rabbie Burns |
| #41, aired 1984-11-05 | ASTRONOMY $1,000 (Daily Double): Star followed in this song of escape from slavery:
"Follow the drinkin' gourd / Follow the drinkin' gourd / For the old man is a-waiting..." the North Star (Polaris) |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | TRIVIA $1,200 (Daily Double): Hemingway wrote the book, Rogers & Parton sang the song:
"Baby, when I met you there was peace unknown..." "Islands In The Stream" |
| #8, aired 1984-09-19 | EXPLORERS $700 (Daily Double): This song by John Denver is a tribute to Cousteau's research ship:
"Like the dolphin who guides you, you bring us beside you /
To light up the darkness and show us the way /
For though we are..." "Calypso" |
| #4, aired 1984-09-13 | TRANSPORTATION $500 (Daily Double): Vehicle Butch Cassidy rode during this song:
"Raindrops keep falling on my head /
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed..." a bicycle |
