aflem wrote:

It's amazing how many of these seem to involve clowns. ...

A Little Bitty Tear - Burl Ives
A little bitty tear let me down
Spoiled my act as a clown
I had it made up not make a frown
But a little bitty tear let me down

That's it!  Thanks

GrimsbyFan wrote:

Bobbie Gentry has never said what was thrown off the bridge, but she insists that it isn't important.”

Over the years I’ve concluded she doesn’t know.  She just put the line in to create mystery like “The Lady, or the Tiger?”
 
The only thing I ever came up with was an engagement ring,  If there had been any relationship between her and Billie Joe, the family would have know something about it.  Billie Joe who “never had a lick of sense”, proposed out of the blue.  She might have answered she hadn’t thought much about such things and wasn’t ready to make those kinds of decisions.  Being obsessed with her, Billie Joe was devastated and threw the ring into the river.  This leaves here feeling responsible for his death.
 

I remember it well. That Memorial Hall is where my high school graduation was held.  Wyandotte class of ’65 was way too big to hold the ceremony at the school.  I’ve also been to a couple of wresting matches at Memorial Hall in my preteen years and some dances as a teenager.  I never heard that Soldiers and Sailors part until I read about Patsy Cline on Wikipedia.
 
Later in the article linked above it refers to the building as Memorial Auditorium.  I think that confusion comes because across the state line in Kansas City, Missouri is Municipal Auditorium.  It’s about a 3 mile drive between the two and you will pass through that part of KCKS that appears in the Truman Capote movie “In Cold Blood”.  Alternatively, you could take the 2 tenths mile longer route across James St. past Asner Iron and Metal, the family business where I met Ed Asner long before he was Lou Grant.

I see Paul Mauriat’s Love is Blue got mentioned a few times.  I also liked it for a while but now hearing just the first few notes reminds me of Claudine Longet and I find it hard to listen.
 
 
I’ll also add Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown to the list.

Did everybody else get it or am I wrong in thinking there is at least a very strong similarity between;
 
Scarlett O'Hara - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ePG1LWGIM
posted by GrimsbyFan
 
and the Dallas theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i54iR-7j0nY 
starting about 12 seconds in on each song?

Little Rich wrote:

Thx aflem.  Only having the Top 10 made the decision-making process difficult, at best,  BUT you helped fill out several that I would have like to have added, including the three Theme songs.

I know the feeling.  5 on his list were on mine before I cut it down and I had Let There Be Drums by Sandy Nelson rather than Teen Beat.
 
Before I ripped everything to mp3, I had 2 of the towers below but taller.  One side of one was all instrumental only CDs, mostly Bill Black Combo, Ace Cannon and Boots  Randolph but Magic Organ, Jo Ann Castle, Lawrence Welk and Myron Floren were well represented too along with many, many others.

A few more

Quentin's Theme - The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SanyDXy05p4&list=PLl4KJVTSf0ROWptJmV6G7UdfTe0lbRNOg
 
Apollo 100 | Joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mq2NohrRJQ
 
Lucky Day - The Mocha Beans (Starts 15 minutes in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YymbwjzrUgo

 
Mambo Jambo - Dave Barbour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN6dd3hJ2Fes4
 
Kaw-liga - Cannon, Ace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD3fqIvksGg
 
Green Onions - Booker T. & The Mg's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oox9bJaGJ8
 
I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman - Whistling Jack Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AY30CLEJBU
 
Phoenix Love Theme - Brass Ring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3iqyy_zQc
 
Night Train - Alvino Rey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grmsyj0f_Es
 
Harlem Nocturne – The Viscounts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29Y7YjXKBI
 
Pipeline - The Chantays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7c2ZKamzS4
 
Ribbon of Darkness - Bill Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMj_TMFdt8
 
Midnight Cowboy - Ferrante & Teicher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHAw1NevuyI
 
Ruby - Richard Hayman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFqRwoFBzL0
 
A Walk In The Black Forest - Horst Jankowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ktk1Nrilc
 
Maria Elena - Los Indios Tabajaras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQheOglFos
 
Caravan - Ralph Marterie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azJxT2e_2OE
 
Shangri La - Robert Maxwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zfj9jATWE
 
Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LRsYn9ufY0
 
The Green Mosquito - Tune Rockers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ7y2OEw2Yw
 
Chariots Of Fire - Vangelis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXxhb8US7Rg
 
Washington Square - The Village Stompers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBOT6dfnerc
 
Calcutta - Lawrence Welk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyHCw-c_ivI
 

GrimsbyFan wrote:

Is this Oldies Board now expanding its scope to include songs from the 1980s as oldies?

In the word of Bluto, “It don’t cost nothin”
 

I Dreamed of a Hill-Billy Heaven by Tex Ritter
Mr. Custer by Larry Verne

Fever by Peggy Lee - Captain Smith and Pocahontas

P.T. 109 by Jimmy Dean - JFK

Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes
Carrie Anne - Hollies about Marianne Faithful 
Candle in the Wind by Elton John - Marilyn Monroe



 
1          The Carefrees – We Love You Beatles
2          Al Fisher & Lou Marks – Paul, George, John & Ringo (All The Way To The Bank)
3          Donna Lynn – My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut
4          Bonnie Jo Mason – Ringo, I Love You
5          The Angels  – Little Beatle Boy
6          Murry Kellum – I Dreamed I Was A Beatle
7          Bill Clifton – Beatle Crazy
8          The Starlettes  – Ringo
9          Larry Finegan – A Tribute To Ringo Starr (The Other Ringo)
10        The Bulldogs – John, Paul, George And Ringo
11        The Bagels – Meet The Bagels Singing I Wanna Hold Your Hand
12        Veronica Lee  With The Moniques  – Ringo Did It
13        The Twiliters – My Beatle Haircut
14        Little Cheryl – Yeh, Yeh, We Love 'Em All
15        The Young World Singers – Ringo For President
16        Dora Bryan – All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle
17        Scott Douglas – The Beatles' Barber
18        Annie And The Orphans – My Girl's Been Bitten By The Beatle Bug
19        Tracy Steel – A Letter To Paul
20        Jack White  – I Ain't No Beatle
21        Gene Cornish & The Unbeetables – I Wanna Be A Beetle
22        Neil Sheppard  – You Can't Go Far Without A Guitar (Unless You're Ringo Starr)
23        Brad Berwick – I'm Better Than The Beatles
24        Homer & Jethro – Gonna Send 'Em Home
25        Johnny And The Hurricanes – Saga Of The Beatles
26      

Taking a trip up to Africa, Benny