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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 19 🎉

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 30/12/2020 22:39

Thread 19 🎉🥂

Come on over

Post some lyrics of a song from 70s, 80s, 90s (may push slightly either way) with the decade & we will try & guess the song & singer

@Honeyroar
@ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf
@Fleamaker123
@FlouncingBabooshka
@shinynewapple2020
@xsquared
@Willow2017
@Iggi999
@ThatLibraryMiss
@CrepuscularCritter
@NeedToKnow101
@perditaplum
@TwigTheWonderKid
@idlevice
@midgeghost
@WhipperSnapperSteve
@CarnageAtTheElfsXmasParty
@AJumpedUpPantryBoy
@zaphodbeeble
@everythingisginandroses
@FortunesFave
@Bluesheep8

Apologies if I have missed anyone. Let me know if you spot any omissions.

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NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:18

@midgebabe

I'll lay 10p on siblings
🤪
NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:19

@Honeyroar

Yes I’d pick siblings first. But we’ve not got them all yet..
Could it be Henry... the mild-mannered janitor?

(Bit tipsy).

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 09/01/2021 21:21

Thanks to Honey I am guessing NeedtK's theme is teenage bands. The ones already guessed -
I don't believe Musical Youth were all related but I do know they were all teenagers.
Bros originally had 3 members but the unrelated one left. I think they were 18 when they hit the charts.
5 Star were all siblings, but teens.
The Jacksons were teens until young Michael got involved.

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 09/01/2021 21:22

Could it be Henry... the mild-mannered janitor?

(Bit tipsy).

🤣🤣🤣 I loved HongKong Fooey

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Honeyroar · 09/01/2021 21:25

The Henry thing has gone right over my head, despite me being tipsy too. Can someone explain!🤪

NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:25

@CoffeeBeansGalore

Could it be Henry... the mild-mannered janitor?

(Bit tipsy).

🤣🤣🤣 I loved HongKong Fooey

And me! Him and Top Cat were the best!
NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:26

@Honeyroar

The Henry thing has gone right over my head, despite me being tipsy too. Can someone explain!🤪
Didn't you watch Hong Kong Phooey?
Honeyroar · 09/01/2021 21:26

Needtoknow could you add a line or two to the last one- it’s ringing a bell but I can’t get it

NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:30

@Honeyroar

Needtoknow could you add a line or two to the last one- it’s ringing a bell but I can’t get it
Of course @Honeyroar .. it's a soul song...

They say the day is ending
Let's watch the sun go down
And plan a holiday for two
For all eternity
We will ride a cloud so you can see
The world I created just for you

Oh, I saw you standing on the street
I wanted to meet just stop a while
You give me smile to say hello (Ooh, hoo, hoo)
You make me feel so good inside
That I realised I could not hide
The feeling that came when you failed to say

Honeyroar · 09/01/2021 21:30

I thought I had, but don’t remember anything but the theme tune!

ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 09/01/2021 21:31

@NeedToKnow101

A theme!!

80s
It was a cool and lonely breezy afternoon
(How does it feel when you got no food?)

70
Come on and love me just a little bit
I'm gonna teach you how to sing it out
Come on, come on, come on
Let me tell you what it's all about
Reading, writing, arithmatic

80s
Take a look at me
Wired to a machine
Never would believe it
This can't be happening

80s
Yes, you're suitably at one
With your body and the sun
Yes, you are
You've read Karl Marx
And you've taught yourself to dance
You're the best by far

60s
All we need is a drummer
For people who only need a beat
I'm gonna add a little guitar
And make it easy to move your feet

70s
They say the day is ending
Let's watch the sun go down
And plan a holiday for two
For all eternity
We will ride a cloud so you can see
The world I created just for you

The sixties one is called dance to the music.

Don't know who sang it

Honeyroar · 09/01/2021 21:33

I think it’s called I believe in Miracles don’t you? Not sure who it’s by. A female group - so going off my guess at the theme, Pointer Sisters or Sister Sledge?!

NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:33

@Honeyroar

I thought I had, but don’t remember anything but the theme tune!
Watch and remember. 😂 m.youtube.com/watch?v=-n91lSO0wJQ
NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:34

@Honeyroar

I think it’s called I believe in Miracles don’t you? Not sure who it’s by. A female group - so going off my guess at the theme, Pointer Sisters or Sister Sledge?!
Correct !!! 100 points! It's by the Jackson Sisters (no relation to the Jackson's and I think they were a one-hit wonder).
NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:37

'The sixties one is called dance to the music.

Don't know who sang it'
@ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf
Correct! It's by Sly and the Family Stone...

NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:38

And the theme is siblings correct everyone Grin

Honeyroar · 09/01/2021 21:47

Correct everyone??? Don’t you mean correct Honey! Although I’ll let you off if I manage to hold onto those 100 points once the spreadsheets come out!🤣

NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 21:53

@Honeyroar

Correct everyone??? Don’t you mean correct Honey! Although I’ll let you off if I manage to hold onto those 100 points once the spreadsheets come out!🤣
Ok ok correct @Honeyroar and @midgebabe ... you wouldn't commit Honey, whereas Midge put her money 10p where her mouth was. So great joint effort and 50 poix each.. Grin
midgebabe · 09/01/2021 21:57

Very honourable needtoknow

FlouncingBabooshka · 09/01/2021 22:05

Yes Shiny it’s one day in your life.

Willow let’s dance is right but Midge had already got it - sorry.

clearingspaceelfshelf - you’re right of course, New Rose was the 70s, not 80s - but I knew it would make you happy 😘

Needtoknow - I’d completely forgotten One Day in Your Life as well. It popped into my head from nowhere and has made me quite nostalgic and misty-eyed (mind you, it doesn’t take much) 😜. And yes, DH is constantly asking me to google stuff whilst I am trying to do extremely important things like catch up in the 80s lyric thread 😤 So far tonight it’s been could I look up and read out the entire top 100 chart hits of 1967. And then 1968. Oh well, only another fifty-two years worth of hits to go...

Honeyroar · 09/01/2021 22:13

Sounds like your husband is on a guess the 1960s lyrics group on dadsnet @FlouncingBabooshka!

I think One Day in your life made me feel nostalgic even back in the day- when I had nothing to be nostalgic about! It’s the melody.

ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 09/01/2021 22:20

@Honeyroar

Correct everyone??? Don’t you mean correct Honey! Although I’ll let you off if I manage to hold onto those 100 points once the spreadsheets come out!🤣
Will lesser other people on this thread just bloody STOP dishing out points. I maintain the spreadsheet, I dish out the points. The rest of you are fucked. It is what it is.
NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 22:21

@Honeyroar

Sounds like your husband is on a guess the 1960s lyrics group on dadsnet *@FlouncingBabooshka*!

I think One Day in your life made me feel nostalgic even back in the day- when I had nothing to be nostalgic about! It’s the melody.

Yes*@FlouncingBabooshka* - he's leading a parallel life to us.

My DP asks me to google anything from songs, to 16th century political systems, to car part suppliers. I think he thinks I am google.

midgebabe · 09/01/2021 22:24

Being fucked is a good thing though?

NeedToKnow101 · 09/01/2021 22:25

What it is ShelfElf, is that your kingdom of points monopoly has fallen..