From: ellis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (June Ellis)
Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
Subject: Remake Lyric Quiz #1 Results
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:21:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxM5Jr.G2q
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Here are the results of the cover quiz.  David Van Allen had the highest score
with 25, followed closely by Bob Marshall at 23.  This was a tough quiz and I 
appreciate the efforts of everyone who took a stab at it!  

David Van Allen        25
Bob Marshall           23
David J. Mulligan Jr   16
Charles Betz           15
Steve Carnes           11
Jeffrey Templon        10
James Drew              7

(Numbers) are the cover artists in alphabetical order.  Song/Old/New gives a 
breakdown of the scores.

1. "Somebody took you when I wasn't looking
    I should have known from the start"  (11)
TIPS OF MY FINGERS  Bill Anderson/Steve Wariner   3/1/3
(Only David Van Allen got Bill Anderson as the original artist; Anderson also 
wrote it.)

2. "And all the girls from there to Austin
    Were slipping away from home and putting jewelry in hock"  (2)
TENNESSEE FLATTOP BOX  Johnny Cash/Roseanne Cash    5/3/5

3. "But the winding sheet they'd wrapped him in was just an empty shell
    And how and where they'd taken him was more than I could tell"  (6)
HE'S ALIVE  Don Francisco/Dolly Parton    2/0/2
(Remember Dolly at the 1989 CMA show?   I realize Don Francisco was a very 
difficult name to come up with.  He wrote it and had a bit hit with it on 
Christian radio in the early 1980s.  Once in a while around Easter I have heard
it on country stations.)

4. "Why, oh why, do you want to do me this way?"   (12)
ALWAYS LATE (WITH YOU KISSES)  Lefty Frizzell/Dwight Yoakam   3/4/4

5. "I bet she's not like me
    She's out and fancy free
    Flirtin' with the boys with all her charms"  (4)
OH, LONESOME ME  Don Gibson/Kentucky HeadHunters   6/5/4

6. "Can you picture heaven with no angels singing
    Or a quiet Sunday morning with no church bells ringing"  (5)
A PICTURE OF ME WITHOUT YOU  George Jones/Lorrie Morgan   6/6/5

7. "For just a little while I thought that I might lose the game
    Then just in time I saw the twinkle in your eye"  (8)
FROM A JACK TO A KING  Ned Miller/Ricky Van Shelton  4/0/3
(No one got Ned Miller, who wrote the song and had a bit hit with it in the 
mid-1960s.  I have heard his version occasionally on stations that still play 
oldies.  For those of you who played the cover artist numbers game, it is my 
understanding that RVS's middle name is Van and Shelton is his last name, 
making him an "S" and not a "V".)

8. "Lord, how it'd ring
    You could hear it talk
    You could hear it sing"  (9)
UNCLE PEN  Bill Monroe/Ricky Skaggs  4/4/5

9. "We'll make a pot of coffee and you can rest your shoes
    And you can tell me them sweet lies and I'll listen to you"  (3)
HELLO TROUBLE  Buck Owens/Desert Rose Band  2/2/2

10. "I'm dreaming tonight of an old Southern town
     And the best friend that I ever had
     I've grown so weary of roaming around"  (10)
DADDY AND HOME  Jimmie Rodgers/Tanya Tucker  1/1/1
(Bob Marshall got this one across the board.  I don't recall if it was a 
single for her, but Ms. Tucker had a nice video out a couple of years or so 
ago.)

11. "Pardon me if I'm sentimental when we say goodbye
     Don't be angry with me should I cry"  (1)
(NOW AND THEN THERE'S) A FOOL SUCH AS I  Hank Snow/Baillie & the Boys 4/3/2
(No one got Hank Snow, who had the original big hit in the early 1950's. But I
did give credit for Elvis Presley as the original artist, although his was a 
remake, too!)

12. "I'm gonna tuck my worries underneath my arm
     And scatter right back to my pappy's farm."  (7)
HONKY TONK BLUES  Hank Williams Sr/Pirates of the Mississippi  1/1/0
(Charles Betz got the original.  The Pirates remake was their first single and
the local station here plays it quite a bit. In fact, as I sit here and 
listen and type, they just played it about three songs back!)
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