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FNGD Q5 - SONGS OF 1965
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:34 pm
by etaoin22
B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"
Moon over _______
1 - Madrid
2 - Moscow
3 - Naples
4 - Frankfurt .
G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____
1 - Horses
2 - Rivers
3 - Problems
4 - Mondays
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:36 pm
by christie1111
Wow!
WAGging yet again!
Madrid
Mondays
Re: FNGD Q5 - SONGS OF 1965
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:36 pm
by SportsFan68
etaoin22 wrote:B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"
Moon over _______
1 - Madrid
2 - Moscow
3 - Naples
4 - Frankfurt .
G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____
1 - Horses
2 - Rivers
3 - Problems
4 - Mondays
I'll guess Madrid.
I'll guess Mondays.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:37 pm
by KillerTomato
The only thing I know about Bert Kaempfert I learned from the Barenaked Ladies.
B: 3. It's doubtful Al Martino didn't know Naples is in Italy, but...
G: 1. Just cuz.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:37 pm
by hermillion
Madrid?
Rivers
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:37 pm
by kayrharris
Madrid
Rivers
Re: FNGD Q5 - SONGS OF 1965
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:40 pm
by T_Bone0806
etaoin22 wrote:B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"
Moon over _______
2 - Moscow
G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____
2 - Rivers
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:40 pm
by silvercamaro
Moscow
Mondays
Re: FNGD Q5 - SONGS OF 1965
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:41 pm
by frogman042
etaoin22 wrote:B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"
Moon over _______
1 - Madrid
2 - Moscow
3 - Naples
4 - Frankfurt .
G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____
1 - Horses
2 - Rivers
3 - Problems
4 - Mondays
Highlighted my WAGs
---Jay
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:43 pm
by T_Bone0806
Dagnabbit. I bet I'm wrong. Madrid would make sense, wouldn't it? SPANISH eyes.
I'm thinking of Midnight in Moscow by Kenny Ball.
D'oh!!!
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:45 pm
by KillerTomato
That's nuthin' T-Bone. I was s caught up in the fact that Naples wasn't in Spain, I forgot Madrid WAS! But Martino's Italian.....
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:46 pm
by etaoin22
B - What KT said.
Even on at least 1980's Kaempfert anthologies, of which I bought one in the dollar ninetyeight bin, this is labelled as Spanish Eyes. Despite the mandolins.
Moon Over Naples.
G - Too Many Rivers.
G team wins by two or three points.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:48 pm
by silvercamaro
Woohoo, Gs! I was no help, but I will attend the victory celebration.
Magnificent, gentlemen. This was fun!
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:48 pm
by kayrharris
KillerTomato wrote:That's nuthin' T-Bone. I was s caught up in the fact that Naples wasn't in Spain, I forgot Madrid WAS! But Martino's Italian.....
But your reasoning worked out after all.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:49 pm
by KillerTomato
OMG. I thought Madrid HAD to be right!
I suppose "Neopolitan Eyes" just doesn't have the right cadence....
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:49 pm
by SportsFan68
silvercamaro wrote:Woohoo, Gs! I was no help, but I will attend the victory celebration.
Magnificent, gentlemen. This was fun!
Same here!! GREAT work, Ladies!
It was way fun.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:51 pm
by christie1111
Congrats girls, sorry I didn't help more.
Thanks for coming by KT!
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:51 pm
by T_Bone0806
Wow. I dint even realize we were on Q5 already. Time DOES fly when you're havin' fun!
Congratulations, G's!!
'Twas a fun game, with fun peoples, and a meister beyond compare!
See you next episode.
Same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Channel!
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:55 pm
by kayrharris
Worst thing about this question is I'm old enough to actually remember Brenda Lee's song.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:59 pm
by etaoin22
When I first heard "Spanish Eyes" my reaction was "you've got to be joking", or something like. It seemed to me Martino had not bought into the song at all, but was singing it for BS because some A and R man had said -- Spanish is big this year, look at Herb Alpert.....
Of course it became his biggest charted hit.
Brenda Lee was still very young IIRC but her sound was beginning to be heard as a bit old-fashioned, and that fact is there on "Too Many Rivers", IIRC her last big pop hit.
Re: FNGD Q5 - SONGS OF 1965
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:44 pm
by ulysses5019
etaoin22 wrote:B - By Bert Kaempfert and the Orchestra, this song started out as "Moon over ______". . When Al Martino got lyrics for it, it became "Spanish Eyes"
Moon over _______
1 - Madrid
2 - Moscow
3 - Naples
4 - Frankfurt .
G - Brenda Lee sang of Too Many____
1 - Horses
2 - Rivers
3 - Problems
4 - Mondays
naples
mondays