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💖 80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 35 💘

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 22/01/2022 21:06

Come on in.
Post a few lyrics of a song from 70s, 80s, 90s with the decade & we will try to guess the artist

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MrsTophamHat · 01/02/2022 19:10

Sorry 19 is Splish Splash

anothersmahedmug · 01/02/2022 19:13

Groan at 3 . It was all tone favourite aged about 8 ( when I got working ears )

Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 19:16

@shinynewapple22

3 is Elvis - teddy bear (if that's what it's called )
correct artist, wrong song.

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Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 19:17

@shinynewapple22

Number 20 might be fools rush in
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Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 19:19

@AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes

First time ever I saw your face was written by Ewan MacColl, Kirsty MacColl's dad. I think his partner Peggy Seeger sang it although it was Roberta Flack who had a big hit with it. I think!
I remember hearing an interview with the wife of the person who wrote it (didn't know it was Kirsty's dad. Love her!) saying that the song had been around for a while, but Roberta Flack made it huge.

Roberta Flack sings it so absolutely beautifully

Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 19:20

Frankie, not quite sure I'm recognising the washing the sand off the shore one. Sorry

Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 19:21

@MrsTophamHat

18 is Splish Splash by Bobby Darin
correct, and welcome to the thread.
Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 19:22

Last few outstanding. I'll add more/different lyrics later if still not got.

3
Well I don’t want no other love honey it’s just you I’m thinkin’ of
50s
You’ve got that it’s Elvis, but not the song.

15
You can tell her I had to see the world, or tell her that my ship set sail
You can say she'd better not wait for me, but don't tell her I'm in jail
Oh, don't tell her I'm in jail
60s

20
People tell me love's for fools
So, here I go, breaking all the rules
50s

31
To string her along's just not right
If I couldn't I wouldn't
But what can I do, I'm lonely too
60s

33
Why Don't You Say Goodbye
Well There's A Light
And There's A Hope
Come Swing Me Baby
From This Here Rope
I Sold You A Lie
And Prayed That Maybe
Someday You'd Return It
60s

Fleamaker123 · 01/02/2022 20:03

Is the Elvis one All Shook Up?

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 01/02/2022 21:08

I thought 3 was Elvis but can't think of the song.

@Rogue1001MNer yes Roberta Flack's version is amazing. Have you seen the film Play Misty for Me, I saw it years ago, the song is in the film.

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 01/02/2022 21:09

15 sounds like a Johnny Cash song.

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 01/02/2022 21:13

@Rogue1001MNer love Kirsty MacColl as well, sadly missed.

Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 21:32

Yes flea.

Haven't seen play misty for me. Clint Eastwood????

Not johnny cash.

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 01/02/2022 22:44

@Rogue1001MNer

Yes flea.

Haven't seen play misty for me. Clint Eastwood????

Not johnny cash.

Yes Clint Eastwood. Think the writers of Fatal Attraction got some ideas from it!!
fanifanakapants · 01/02/2022 23:06

31 Mamas & Papas
I saw her again last night

Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 23:08

@fanifanakapants

31 Mamas & Papas I saw her again last night
well done. Yes. Hello
Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 23:11

the outstandings:-
15
You can tell her I had to see the world, or tell her that my ship set sail
You can say she'd better not wait for me, but don't tell her I'm in jail
Oh, don't tell her I'm in jail
60s

I don't think there's any point in putting up more lyrics for this one. It's the Everly Brothers (again). But not a very well known one, but my dad liked it.
It's called Take A Message To Mary.
The premise is that he's done a crime that's gone wrong. So he's asking someone to take a message to Mary to cancel their wedding and all their plans, but not to tell her he's rotting in jail.

MN would spot a load of red flags, but it's kind-of sweet.

Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 23:13

20
People tell me love's for fools
So, here I go, breaking all the rules
50s

Surprised nobody got this one (midge-mug), it's so doggon easy

Rogue1001MNer · 01/02/2022 23:15

33
Why Don't You Say Goodbye
Well There's A Light
And There's A Hope
Come Swing Me Baby
From This Here Rope
I Sold You A Lie
And Prayed That Maybe
Someday You'd Return It
60s

I thought this one would have been got from a later cover. And a very famous tv tune.

Do these lyrics help more (from earlier in the song)?
Why Don't You
Tell Me Lies
You Ought To

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 02/02/2022 10:57

Sorry @Rogue1001MNer I can't think what it is. Sounds like a country and western song?

shinynewapple22 · 03/02/2022 17:37

Can we have the answers now please Rogue? Plus what was the title of song number 3?

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 03/02/2022 18:26

I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm older

80s

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 03/02/2022 18:30

I can see your face still shining through the window on the other side

80s

AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes · 03/02/2022 18:35

Oh men and women
Here we are, caught up in this big rhythm

80s

shinynewapple22 · 03/02/2022 18:44

@AllTheYoungGoodyTwoShoes

I better read between the lines In case I need it when I'm older

80s

Think that's I wanna know what love is - foreigner

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