| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | CARTOON THEME SONGS $1600: "Long tails and ears for hats" Josie and the Pussycats |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | POP GOES THE MUSIC $800: Pop goes Christmas as this Canadian crooner's yuletide songs play all season long Bublé |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | BEATLES "LOVE" SONGS $800: "A love like ours could never die as long as I have you near me" "And I Love Her" |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | TRIPLE TALK SONGS $1200: This winter title follows "The fire is slowly dying, and, my dear, we're still goodbye-ing, but as long as you love me so..." "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | PARENTHETICAL SONGS $800: Elton John:
"(I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)" "Rocket Man" |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $200: In 1971 Don McLean served up this 8 1/2-minute anthem about "the day the music died" "American Pie" |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $400: This 8-minute-long classic begins, "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold" "Stairway To Heaven" |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $600: This "colorful" 1984 hit by Prince clocks in at over 8 1/2 minutes "Purple Rain" |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $800: In the version that's combined with "Where Did Our Love Go", this Soft Cell hit goes on for 9 minutes "Tainted Love" |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | LONG SONGS $1000: Set aside 17 minutes, baby, if you want to hear this Iron Butterfly hit in its entirety "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | THE SONGS OF BRIAN WILSON $600: Title that precedes "If we were older, then we wouldn't have to wait so long" "Wouldn't It Be Nice" |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | BROOKLYN IS BOOKLAND $2000: "There were songs and dancing on the Brooklyn streets in those long ago summers" in this Betty Smith novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | EPIC POEMS AS COUNTRY SONGS $800: 800s B.C., maybe:
"I might be a long-lost husband, but that don't mean you get my wife" the Odyssey |
| #4863, aired 2005-11-02 | SONGS FROM MUSICALS $400: "As Long As He Needs Me" & "You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two" Oliver! |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | TV THEME SONGS $200: "It feels so right it can't be wrong, rockin' and rollin' all week long" Happy Days |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | SNOWY SONGS $400: Title that follows "the fire is slowly dying, and, my dear, we're still goodbye-ing, but as long as you love me so..." "Let It Snow (Let It Snow, Let It Snow)" |
| #4660, aired 2004-12-03 | SONG BIRDS $400: This songs begins "He rocks in the tree tops all day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and singing his song" "Rockin' Robin" |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | SONGS EVERYBODY KNOWS $200: A Santa Cruz, California pub is named for this irritating ditty sung on long journeys "99 Bottles of Beer" |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | POLITICALLY INCORRECT SONGS $1000: This song by Sheila E. begins, "She wears a long fur coat of mink, even in the summer time" "The Glamorous Life" |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $800: Among baleen whales, they're known for their elaborate songs & their long, narrow flippers humpbacks |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | CARTOON THEME SONGS $1600: "Long tails and ears for hats" Josie and the Pussycats |
| #4238, aired 2003-01-22 | ANIMAL LIFE $600: The flippers of this large whale known for its "songs" may be a third as long as its body humpback whale |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TV THEME SONGS $1000: "Bay Boys" appeared on Inner Circle's 1987 album "One Way" long before it became the theme to this series Cops |
| #4026, aired 2002-02-18 | SONGS' LATER VERSES $600: One verse of this Foster song begins, "Oh, the long-tail filly and the big black horse" "Camptown Races" |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | TV SITCOM THEME SONGS $2000: "As Long As We Got Each Other" Growing Pains |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THEATRE $600: "Little Girls" & "You Won't Be an Orphan for Long" are songs from this ever-popular musical "Annie" |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | BEATLES' SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $400: "A Lengthy, Meandering Boulevard" "The Long and Winding Road" |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | THEY WROTE THE SONGS $400: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" & "(They Long To Be) Close To You" Burt Bacharach & Hal David |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | THE SONGS OF THE CARPENTERS $200: Title that completes, "That is why all the girls in town follow you all around, just like me, they long to be..." "Close To You" |
| #3424, aired 1999-06-24 | OLD, OLD SONGS $600: "She ain't what she used to be many long years ago" "The Old Gray Mare" |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | TV THEME SONGS $300: For the Professor, Mary Ann & the rest, the "tour" was only supposed to be this long 3 hours |
| #2921, aired 1997-04-21 | SONGS $300: This 1993 hit by UB40 remained in the Top 40 for 23 weeks, almost twice as long as Elvis Presley's 1961 version "Can't Help Falling in Love" |
| #2640, aired 1996-02-09 | LOVE SONGS $400: Date until which Johnny Mathis will "still be loving you"; "and that's a long, long time" "The Twelfth Of Never" |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | POP SONGS $300: "He rocks in treetop all the day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' his song" "Rockin' Robin" |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | "MY" SONGS $500: Title following "You don't remember me but I remember you—'twas not so long ago you broke my heart in two" "Tears On My Pillow" |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | MOVIE SONGS $600: "Something's Gotta Give" was introduced by this dancer in "Daddy Long Legs" Fred Astaire |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | SONGS FROM MUSICALS $300: "Consider
Yourself"
&
"As Long As
He Needs Me" Oliver! |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | FAMOUS WOODYS $200: This folk singer was bound for glory with songs like "So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)" Woody Guthrie |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | MOVIE SONGS $200: He introduced Johnny Mercer's "Something's Gotta Give" in the film "Daddy Long Legs" Fred Astaire |
| #1476, aired 1991-01-21 | COLORFUL PHRASES $500 (Daily Double): Bobby Vinton's first song to make the pop charts, it went all the way to No. 1:
"A long, long time ago, on graduation day, you handed me your book. I signed this way..." "Roses Are Red (My Love)" |
| #1429, aired 1990-11-15 | TRAIN SONGS $100: In the old standard it's what "I've" been doing "all the live-long day" working on the railroad |
| #1423, aired 1990-11-07 | FOLK SONGS $300: "Whenever we go out, the people always shout" this long name John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | SONGS $300: When a black dust storm blew into Texas April 14, 1935, Woody Guthrie wrote this farewell song "So Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh" |
| #1227, aired 1989-12-26 | "BABY" SONGS $500 (Daily Double): A No. 12 hit in 1976, it reached No. 1 in 1988 as part of a melody:
"Shadows grow so long before my eyes, and they're moving, across the stage, suddenly, the day turns into night..." "Baby, I Love Your Way" |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | POPULAR SONGS $500: Elton John & Bernie Taupin wrote this song that's subtitled "I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time" "Rocket Man" |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | "LONG" SONGS $100: Phil Spector overdubbed this last number-one Beatles hit; John and Paul's original version is not for sale "The Long And Winding Road" |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | "LONG" SONGS $300: Title line that follows "Just kiss me once, then kiss me twice, then kiss me once again" "It's Been A Long, Long Time" |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | "LONG" SONGS $400: In "Oliver!", Nancy, who's in love with Bill Sykes, sings this song of devotion "As Long As He Needs Me" |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | "LONG" SONGS $500 (Daily Double): In 1974 Neil Diamond scored a #5 hit with the following:
"Ride, c'mon baby ride..." "Longfellow Serenade" |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | "LONG" SONGS $500: A 1979 hit by Supertramp gave you these directions for finding your way to your abode "Take The Long Way Home" |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | COLE PORTER SONGS $100: "Is it a fancy not worth thinking of, or is it at long last" this love |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | "IF"FY SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Olivia Newton-John won the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year shortly after this song came out:
"You came when I was happy in your sunshine / I grew to love you more each passing day / Before too long..." "If You Love Me" (Let Me Know) |
| #840, aired 1988-04-08 | COUNTRY SONGS $400: According to Hank Williams Jr., "If I get stoned & sing all night long, it's" this a family tradition |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | ONE-WORD SONGS $300: Linda Ronstadt lamented that he'd "been out ridin' fences for so long now" "Desperado" |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | "IF"FY SONGS $300: Were this true, Tevye the Milkman would own "1 long staircase just going up & 1 even longer coming down" "If I Were A Rich Man" |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | "LONG" SONGS $100: At the 1984 Olympic closing, this Lionel Richie song came up hours short of its title promise "All Night Long" |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | "LONG" SONGS $200: No mention of the poet is mentioned in this 1978 Neil Diamond "Serenade" "Longfellow Serenade" |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | "LONG" SONGS $300: This comparative was the one-word title of a 1980 Dan Fogelberg hit "Longer" |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | "LONG" SONGS $400: The Beatles' aptly named last # hit, since they'd reached the end of one by 1970 "The Long And Winding Road" |
| #415, aired 1986-04-11 | "LONG" SONGS $500: Other than a bass, the only instrument used in this 1984 Billy Joel song was his voice "The Longest Time" |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | SONGS THAT "MAKE" IT $1000: This 1963 hit was 1st in a long series of hits for the Bacharach/David/Warwick triumvirate "Don't Make Me Over" |
| #42, aired 1984-11-06 | MYTHOLOGY $100: Long before Vanity 6, their songs drive men wild the Sirens |
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