POETRYINMOTION

1.Steve Goodman wrote this song while riding on the Illinois Central Railroad to visit his wife’s family. He recorded it in 1971. But Arlo Guthrie made it ahit three years later after Goodman sang him the song in aChicago bar after first agreeing to buyGuthrie abeer. Arlo said he’d listen to the song only as long as it took him to finish the beer.

2.Complete this Glen Miller hit lyric….”Dinner in the Diner, Nothing could be finer than to have your ham and eggs in ____________.”

3.In what Doobie Brothers Hit recording did Tom Johnston, the song’s lyricist, see…”Miss Lucy down along the tracks, lost her home and her family and she won’t be coming back.”

4.This hit song by Tommy Hart and Bobby Boyce was about arealtown in Nevada called Clarksdale, but the name was changed to a similar sounding city in Tennessee because it was home to the 101st Airborne Division that fought in the Vietnam Warand in thesong ayoung woman is told to take the last train there. Name the song. (HINT –itwas a1966 hit for “The Monkees.”)

5.Name the artist who performed theselyrics, which also include the song’s title; “In the shuffling madness of the Locomotive Breath.” (HINT –the rest of this tune’s lyrics are alittle too “earthy” forthis quiz.)

6.In 1978 an advertising firm in Omaha wrote apromotional song forthisstill famous railroad, also basedinOmaha, which had the following lyrics. Fill in the blank with the name of the railroad. “We’re amillion miles of history, ashinin’inthe sun, we’re the _________ _________ and our story’s just begun.”

7.It’s the sad anthem of everything gone wrong by Bruce Springsteen. Complete the lyrics with the name of the song. “NowIwork down at the car wash, where all it ever does is rain. Don’t you feel like you’re arider on a_ ___________.” (HINT –the tune was on Springsteen’s 1984 album “Born in the USA”)

8.Most of the membersofthis group were from the Knight family of Atlanta, Georgia but it was young Gladys, who at age seven won first prize on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour in 1952, that would lead them to stardom. They started their singing career as the“Pips” after the nickname of one of their cousins. But it wasGladys who would shine bright at nightand take them on “ _________ ____________

Name this 1973 hit song.

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