Since my decade lyrics quiz for the 1970s, which wrapped up yesterday, was the most successful I ever had, I'm going to hit the ground running for a quiz based on the 1950s. The difference between my quizzes and a lot of those out there is that PEOPLE ACTUALLY KNOW THESE SONGS! No money or prizes are involved here, but bragging rights are available. This quiz closes on December 18. For more information, or to be added to the mailing list for these quizzes, see my home page: http://www.nyx.net/~thill Just so there's no confusion, I have never asked for the name of an artist in my quizzes. I don't think that most songs can properly be associated with a single artist in the first place, and it is surprising the variety of answers respondents will give for artist. So all you need to provide is the song title. Good luck! 1. Since you went away, the days grow long. And soon I'll hear old winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling... 2. Winding roads that seem to beckon you. Miles of green beneath the skies of blue. Church bells chiming on a Sunday morn remind you of the town where you were born. 3. Totally unprepared are you to face a world of men. Timid and shy and scared are you of things beyond your ken. You need someone older and wiser telling you what to do. 4. Our love was born with our first embrace, and a page was torn out of time and space. 5. On the sidewalk, Sunday morning, lies a body oozing life. Someone's sneakin' round the corner. 6. Through the ripples how they shine. Just one wish will be granted. One heart will wear a valentine. Make it mine! Make it mine! Make it mine! 7. How many arms have held you and hated to let you go? How many, how many, I wonder. 8. Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. 9. They say that love's a word, a word we've only heard, and can't begin to know the meaning of. 10. There must have been some magic in that old top hat they found. 11. I've got the horse right here. His name is Paul Revere. 12. So I told a friendly star, the way that dreamers often do, just how wonderful you are, and why I'm so in love with you. 13. Once on a high and windy hill, in the morning mist, two lovers kissed and the world stood still. 14. Oh, the towering feeling, just to know somehow you are near. The overpowering feeling that you may suddenly appear. 15. I bless the day I found you. I want to stay around you. 16. There were bells on the hill, but I never heard them ringing. No, I never heard them at all 17. Things look swell! Things look great! Gonna have the whole world on a plate. Starting here, starting now... 18. You ask how much I need you, must I explain? I need you, oh, my darling, like roses need rain. You ask how long I'll love you, I'll tell you true 19. You have made my life complete, and I love you so. 20. Time goes by so slowly, and time can do so much. Are you still mine? I want your love. I need your love. God speed your love to me. 21. The night is bitter. The stars have lost their glitter. The winds blow colder, and suddenly you're older. 22. See the pyramids along the Nile. Watch a sunrise on a tropic isle. Just remember, darling, all the while 23. In a restless world like this is, love is ended before it's begun. And too many moonlight kisses seem to cool in the warmth of the sun. 24. Ours, a love I held tightly, feeling the rapture grow. Like a flame burning brightly, but when she left, gone was the glow 25. I hear singing and there's no one there. I smell blossoms and the trees are bare. All day long I seem to walk on air. I wonder why. I wonder why? 26. I know how it feels to have wings on your heels as you fly down the street in a trance. You fly down the street on the chance that you'll meet, and you meet not really by chance. 27. If I had it in my powers, I'd arrange for every girl to have your charms. Then, every minute, every hour, all the world would know what I hold in my arms. 28. First the tide rushes in. Plants a kiss on the shore. Then rolls out to sea, and the sea is very still once more. So I rush to your side, like the oncoming tide. 29. If you should survive to a hundred and five, think of all you'll derive out of being alive! And here is the best part: You have a head start 30. Look at me. I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree. 31. The new year's eve we did the town. The day we tore the goal posts down! 32. You know I can be found sittin' home all alone. If you can't come around, at least please telephone. 33. This is the moment I've waited for. I can hear my heart singing. Soon bells will be ringing. This is the moment of sweet "aloha." I will love you longer than forever. Promise me that you will leave me never. 34. Am I a fool without a mind or have I merely been too blind to realize? 35. When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie 36. I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine, anytime, night or day. Only trouble is, gee whiz! I'm dreamin' my life away. 37. I traveled on when hope was gone to find a rendezvous. I knew somewhere, sometime, somehow. You'd look at me and I would see the smile you're smiling now. 38. Where is that worn-out wish that I threw aside after it brought my lover near? 39. Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking. Or for that "woo" look in your eyes. 40. Ooh, eee, ooh ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang. Oooh eee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang. 41. Some people say a man is made of mud. A poor man's made of muscle and blood. Muscle and blood and skin and bones. A mind that's weak and a back that's strong. 42. In eighteen fourteen we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson on the mighty Mississipp' 43. Every day you love me less, each day I love you more. 44. I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my ev'ry dream. Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme. A mem'ry from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart. Why can't I free your doubting mind 45. I was takin' a bath. Long about a Saturday night. Rub dub, I was relaxin' in the tub 46. Clasped by the two loving arms that I'll die for, one little kiss then Felina, goodbye. 47. Goddess of love that you are, surely the thing I ask can't be too great a task. 48. Don't talk back. 49. Dawn's promising skies. Petals on a pool, drifting. Imagine these in one pair of eyes. 50. Who knows where the road will lead us? Only a fool would say. But if you let me love you, it's for sure that I will love you Now for the dreaded tie-breaker. Take your pick of the first one, which is actually from the 50's or the second (not from the 50's) that no one has been able to guess in any of my contests: a. The legend you are about to hear is true. Only the needle should be changed to protect the record. b. You take December and smile it into May. And then December comes back again while you're away.