Name that Girl - Music Quiz

[Sniffer]

36. Just about five feet four from her head to the ground. Gloria - Them.
This threw me as I was reading it as one line but it's delivered as two - I know, I'm a pretentious twat, but I was a singer and lyricist and pretentious twat was the job description when I signed up.
Wanna tell ya 'bout my baby
You know she comes around
Jus' 'bout five feet four
From her head to the ground

G.L.O.R.IIII
GLORIA
Glorious!

[Sniffer]

Just played 13th Floor Elevators' version. Guitar, bass, drums and jug to the fore. Vocals way back in the mix.

[Mellor]

I have the pleasure of Patti Smith's company next Monday in Manchester. She's performing Horses in its entirety - cracking version of her adapted version of G-L-O-R-I-A expected. Seen her before - incredibly powerful performer. Top stuff.

[Sniffer]

I have the pleasure of Patti Smith's company next Monday in Manchester. She's performing Horses in its entirety - cracking version of her adapted version of G-L-O-R-I-A expected. Seen her before - incredibly powerful performer. Top stuff.

Wow! Very jealous, Mr M. Off to a gig in Saturday (local guy Gaz Brookfield) and then off to the Isle of Wight Festival next week - Fleetwood Mac, Blur etc. Not bands I'd normally see but not bands I'd avoid either.

[Mellor]

Good weather forecast I believe - enjoy the IOW. I'm no late period Mac fan either but they certainly have what it takes to put on a show so should be worth seeing.

[Selby White]

All the answers :-

1. Waits at the window wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. - Eleanor. (Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles) - Mellor

2. Hitch hiked her way cross the USA, plucked her eyebrows on the way. - Holly. (Walk on the wild side, Lou Reed) - Mellor

3. She invented medicinal compound. - Lily. (Lily the Pink, Scaffold) - Mr R

4. Your lips feel like winter, your skin has turned to white. - Lady D'Arbanville. (Lady D'Arbanville, Cat Stevens)

5. She got a police bike, she got a turned up nose. - Jean. (Blue Jean, David Bowie)

6. Thought she was a woman but she was another man. - Loretta. (Get Back, The Beatles) - Sniffer

7. Words mean so little when you look up and smile. - Clair. (Clair, Gilbert O'Sullivan)

8. But I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress. -Alison. (Alison, Elvis Costello) - Mellor (1st to get it)

9. I just gotta talk to her, I'll only keep her a while. - Sylvia. (Sylvia's Mother, Dr. Hook) - Davy

10. What'll you do when you get lonely and nobody waiting by your side. - Layla. (Layla, Derek and the Dominoes) - Sniffer

11. She's the waitress who wants to be a star. - Rachel. (Picture Postcards from LA., Joshua Kadison)

12. You got me rockin and a rollin, rockin and a reelin. - Barbara Ann. (Barbara Ann, Beach Boys) - Davy

13. The stars won't come out if they know you're about. - Candida. (Candida, Tony Orlando and Dawn)

14. Now she's gone and I have to say, meet you all the way, meet you all the way. - Rosanna. (Rosanna, Toto) - Sniffer

15. Her dog days just begun, now everybody is on the run. - Janie. (Janie's got a gun, Aerosmith)

16. You're beautiful but ain't it time we said goodbye. - Angie. (Angie, Rolling Stones)

17. And she never walk down Lime street any more. - Maggie Mae. (Maggie Mae, trad. Beatles) - Sniffer

18. She's leavin now cause I heard the slammin of the door. - Ruby. (Ruby, don't take your love to town, Kenny Rogers) - Davy

19. Do you ever dream of me, do you ever see the letters that I write? - Nikita. (Nikita, Elton John) - Brighouse

20. I like the way you walk I like the way you talk. - Suzie Q. (Suzie Q, Creedence Clearwater Revival) - Cheffy

21. On a barstool she took off her ring. - Lucille. (Lucille, Kenny Rogers) - Davy

22. The morning sun when it's on your face really shows your age. - Maggie. (Maggie May, Rod Stewart) - Sniffer

23. 42, 39, 56, you could say she's got it all. - Rosie. (Whole lotta Rosie, AC DC) - Sniffer

24. Well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking. - Mandy. (Mandy, Barry Manilow) - Davy

25. Do you smile to tempt a lover. - Mona Lisa. (Mona Lisa, Nat King Cole) - Sniffer

26. She's singing hey la my boyfriends back. - Juliet. (Romeo and Juliet, Dire Straits) - Sniffer

27. You don't have to wear that dress tonight. - Roxanne. (Roxanne, Police) - Mellor

28. He said "son, now don't be silly, she's been dead since 1929." - Lily. (Pictures of Lily, The Who) - Brighouse

29. You fill up my senses like a night in the forest. - Annie. (Annie's Song, John Denver) - Davy

30. I'm a blonde single girl in the fantasy world. - Barbie. (Barbie Girl, Aqua) - Davy

31. I played the janitor you played the monitor. - Carrie Anne. (Carrie Anne, Hollies) - Sniffer

32. The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same, you're not to blame. - Renee. (Walk Away Renee, The Left Banke)

33. Hold your head up you silly girl. - Martha. (Martha my dear, The Beatles) - Sniffer

34. Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run. - Sharona. (My Sharona, The Knack) - Sniffer

35. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China. -Suzanne. (Suzanne, Leonard Cohen) - Sniffer

36. Just about five feet four from her head to the ground. - Gloria. (Gloria, Them) - Sniffer

37. I could see that girl was no good for me. - Delilah. (Delilah, Tom Jones) - Cheffy

38. You're my pride and joy et cetera. - Eleanor. (Eleanor, Turtles) - Sniffer

39. At the age of 37 she realised she'd never ride thru Paris in a sports car. - Lucy. (The Ballad of Lucy Jordan, Marianne Faithfull) - Davy

40. You're not at all that funny awkard little girl I knew. - Gigi. (Gigi, Louis Jordan)

Great effort everybody

[big jon]

Even though i never answered any I knew a few of them but peeps got in before me
Just to say what a fantastic Quiz.
Cheers Selby White

[Sniffer]

Good weather forecast I believe - enjoy the IOW. I'm no late period Mac fan either but they certainly have what it takes to put on a show so should be worth seeing.

Thanks for that, Mellor. You're more of a Peter Green era fan, then. I first heard those albums as a gauche 18 year old in a bar in Minehead, Somerset. I was working at the Butlins there, dreaming of That'll Be The Day and being treated as a chattel of the management. I'd wandered in to town, heard this music and stood there, mouth open in wonder, for a couple of hours. Marvellous stuff. I finally got to see Green play, on a double bill with John Mayall, about 6 or 7 years ago. He wasn't a well man, sadly, but it was an honour to hear him play. Mayall, who must be 10 years his senior, was jumping around all over the place.

[Mellor]

I prefer the blues based Mac to the pop version as you say sniffer but tbf to the later model they did write some cracking pop songs and a good pop song is a work of genius, for me, music being at its best on 45 on a juke box (soul & reggae & even jazz really come into their own on 45 I think). Never did see Green whose tone is heart stopping but I did see Mayall in 70. Great days.

[Sniffer]

I prefer the blues based Mac to the pop version as you say sniffer but tbf to the later model they did write some cracking pop songs and a good pop song is a work of genius, for me, music being at its best on 45 on a juke box (soul & reggae & even jazz really come into their own on 45 I think). Never did see Green whose tone is heart stopping but I did see Mayall in 70. Great days.

I have to agree. Pure pop can lift the soul if it's good. The 45, when done well, was a distillation of all that you could ever love. A true joy.
1970? So that was post-Mick Taylor, just as Mayall was getting into his rootsy/Americana stage. I've just looked for a double album compilation of his from that time and I've got a horrible feeling the ex-wife still has it. Looks like I need to visit my local record shop. Money out but soul replenished.