NMLQOTM #3

Quiz #3

There are 26 songs in this month's quiz. The chart period this time is 1957-1991.

21 of the 26 songs charted Top 20, and only 3 of the 26 failed to achieve a ranking on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

There is a theme that is at play within this quiz. Once again, the theme is the tiebreaker.

All submissions for this quiz will be due by 11:59 pm eastern on Friday, December 3. Good luck!

Answers, Results & Commentary for Quiz #3

So smile for a while and let's be jolly
Love shouldn't be so melancholy
01>

Thrills I get when you hold me close
Oh, my darling, you're the most
02>

People say a love like ours
Will surely pass
But I know a love like ours
Will last and last
03>

Her name was Magill and she called herself Lill
But everyone knew her as Nancy
04>

Girl, even though you make me feel blue
I still love you
I'll always love you
05>

This really blew my mind
The fact that me
An overfed, long-haired leaping gnome
Should be the star of a Hollywood movie
06>

I need, I need someone to set a pick for me at the free throw line of life
Someone I can pass to
07>

And when we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
08>

I'm just around the corner
If you got a minute to spare
I'll be waitin' for ya'
If you ever wanna' be there
09>

That little chip o' diamond on your hand
Ain't a fortune, baby, but you know it stands
(For your love)
10>

Kick your feet up swing your arms up too
Move your head both ways like you see me do
11>

They say that was the only time
That anyone had seen him smile
He slowly lowered his gun and then
He said to me "We're even, friend"
12>

When ya got a job to do ya got to do it well
You got to give the other fella hell
13>

I need your love so desperately
And only you can set me free
When I make love to you
We'll explode in ecstasy
14>

When the garden flowers, baby, are dead, yes
And your mind is full of red
15>

You say you feel so empty
That our house just ain't our home
I'm always somewhere else
And you're always there alone
16>

When I read the letter you sent me
It made me mad, mad, mad
When I read the news it brought me
It made me sad, sad, sad
17>

Don't know just what I said wrong
But, girl, I apologize
Don't go, here's where you belong
So wipe the tears from your eyes
18>

I went today
Maybe I will go again
Tomorrow
And the music there
It was hauntingly
Familiar
19>

You made 'em laugh
You made 'em cry
You made us feel
Like we could fly
20>

Well there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there
And seven times he's asked me for a date
21>

You can put me out on the street
Put me out with no shoes on my feet
But put me out, put me out
Put me out of misery
22>

Every breath I take
And each and every step I make
Brings me closer, baby, closer to you
23>

Many times you can't hear 'em talk
Other times you can
All the same old cliches
"Is that a woman or a man?"
24>

It was the year of The Beatles
It was the year of the Stones
It was 1964
I was living in London
With the girl from the summer before
25>

Desert rose
Dreamed I saw a desert rose
Dress torn in ribbons and in bows
Like a siren she calls to me
26>