MY 3 SONGS
May 9, 2009
**Sweet Nothin's by Brenda Lee**
**Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White**
**I'm Livin' In Shame by The Supremes**
common thread: mama...doing something
1) mama turned on the front porch light
2) her mama was working on the chain gang
3) mama was cookin' bread
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May 2, 2009
**Look Of Love by Lesley Gore**
**I Must Be Seeing Things by Gene Pitney**
**'Til I Kissed You by The Everly Brothers**
common thread: smootching(kissing) in the lyrics
1) look at the way he's kissing her
2) I can see him kissing her
3) it's in the title!
April 26, 2009
**Kansas City by Wilbert Harrison**
**Memphis by Lonnie Mack**
**Jackson by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood**
common thread: cities in the U.S.A!
April 18, 2009
**Happy Together by The Turtles**
**Busted by Ray Charles**
**M.T.A. by The Kingston Trio**
common thread: pocket change
1) call you up invest a dime
2) cotton is down to a quarter a pound
3) put ten cents in his pocket (or) Charlie handed in his dime (or) conductor told him one more nickel
April 11, 2009
**Smokey Joe's Cafe by The Robins**
**You're So Fine by The Falcons**
**Gee by The Crows**
common thread: Birds
April 4, 2009
**Popsicles And Icicles by The Murmaids**
**The Beat Goes On by Sonny & Cher**
**Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah by Allan Sherman**
common thread: Baseball references
1 - popsicle, icicles, baseball and fancy clothes
2 - electrically they keep a baseball score
3 - playing baseball, gee that's better
March 28, 2009
**Silver Bird by Mark Lindsay**
**The Great Airplane Strike by Paul Revere & The Raiders**
**Promised Land by Elvis Presley**
common thread: Airplane references
1 - a Silver Bird is an airplane
2 - (obvious)
3 - on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
March 21, 2009
**Percolator Twist by Billy Joe & The Checkmates**
**No Matter What Shape by The T-Bones**
**I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing by The New Seekers**
common thread: TV Commercials
1 - Maxwell House Coffee
2 - Alka-Seltzer
3 - Coca-Cola
March 14, 2009
**Bossa Nova Baby by Elvis Presley**
**Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha by Sam Cooke**
**The Twist by Hank Ballard**
common thread: dances
March 7, 2009
**It Never Rains In Southern California by Albert Hammond**
**Don't Pull Your Love by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds**
**Travelin' Band by CCR**
common thread:
February 7, 2009
** Yakety Yak by The Coasters **
** See You Later, Alligatr by Bill Haley & His Comets **
** Yakety Sax by Boots Randolph **
common thread: the Saxaphone
King Curtis (solo on Yakety Yak) would've been 74 today.
Adolph Sax (invented the sax) passed away on this date in 1894 at 79.
Boots got a gold record for Yakety Sax this day in 1967.
February 14, 2009
** Roses Are Red by Bobby Vinton**
** Cupid by Sam Cooke**
** Candy Man by Roy Orbison**
common thread: signs of Valentine's day!
February 21, 2009
** You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry**
** Good Old Rock 'N' Roll by Cat Mother & The All Night News Boys**
** Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival**
common thread: New Orleans in the lyrics
1--drove it down to New Orleans
2--all over LaHoya and down to New Orleans
3--pumped a lot of pane down in New Orleans
February 28, 2009
**Watching Scotty Grow by Bobby Goldsboro**
**Vacation by Connie Francis**
**Don't It Make You Want To Go Home by Joe South**
common thread: "drive_in" in the lyrics
1--you can have your drive-in picture show
2--hop in a jalopy to a drive-in movie
3--drive-in show where the meadow used to grow
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