Easy Listening Hits of the 50s by MatherV

Champion(s):

Bix32
Hoops, Hosses, and Trivia


Runner(s)-Up:

ChernicoffS
Even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. —Bob Dylan


Quiz Description

There was no easy listening chart in the 50s, but all these songs hit No. 1 on the main chart and all could be considered "easy listening." In each case, read the lyrics and NAME THE SONG.

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Questions:

You're so like the lady with the mystic smile

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Mona Lisa

If your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye / It's no secret you'll feel better if you ...

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Cry

See the pyramids along the Nile / Watch the sun rise on a tropic isle

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You Belong to Me

Blow me a kiss from across the room / Say I look nice when I'm not / Touch my hair as you pass my chair ...

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Little Things Mean a Lot

Give him two lips like roses and clover (bung, bung, bung, bung) / Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over

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Mr. Sandman

In the morning mist two lovers kissed and the world stood still / When our fingers touch my silent heart has taught us how to sing ...

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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

In a lonely shack by a railroad track / He spent his younger days / And I guess the sound of the outward-bound / Made him a slave to his wand'rin ways

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The Wayward Wind

Love me sweet, / never let me go. / You have made my life complete, / and I love you so.

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Love Me Tender

Heavenly shades of night are falling, it's ...

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Twilight Time

When I want you in my arms / When I want you and all your charms / Whenever I want you ...

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All I Have to Do Is Dream

Please send a little girl for me to thrill / A girl who wants my kisses and my arms / A girl with all the charms of you

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Venus

They asked me how I knew / My true love was true

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes