Over the past year or so, this blog has been moved over from its old blogspot.com digs, inadvertently broken through my e-incompetence, replaced with a wedding webpage, moved back to its old blogspot.com digs, and yesterday brought back to its rightful home here at monkeysong.net. It’s been a turbulent year, and I’m curious to see whether anyone’s bothered to keep up.

So, as used to be my somewhat regular wont, let’s have a quiz. Quizzes are fun. This one will be song lyrics! Name the tune and the composer (and/or performer) and fabulous* prizes can be yours! Post your answers in the comments (with the new WordPress system the old word verification is gone, replaced by limited moderation. The first time you comment I have to approve you as non-spam, and from then on (in theory) the blog will remember your name/e-mail combination as approved) and I’ll add them to the main quiz as they come in. Gosh, but this’ll be dandy! And away we go…

1. Even if you’re never seen on the silver screen, I’ll still be dreaming about every single time you told me that you were mine. Identified! Central Standard Time, performed by supergroup Purrs of Rage and recorded by The Kendalls.

2. Half of what I say is meaningless. Identified! Julia, by the Beatles (composed by Lennon). This line was the inspiration for my old blog title.

3. I see you sitting quietly, staring into space. Identified! Last Song For You, as recorded but almost never performed by a very nascent indeed Central Standard Time once upon a May Term.

4. I don’t know just where I’m going, but I know this ain’t where it’s at. Identified!. Tremblin’ Tracks, by Storyhill. I could play this song, once upon a time, but after a few months of practicing it my right arm hurt all the time, not just while I was playing. So I let that skill drift away.

5. “I adore you,” wrote the lady cat, who was fluffy, white, and nice and fat. Identified! The Ballad of Don Gato, by I’ve no idea who. Classics from elementary music, Texas-style.

6. Sergeant Devine, stationed on the front line, took a bullet while drawing his gun. Identified! (She gave the title in the lyric she quoted; blog management rules it Close Enough) Blessed Disease, by Peter Mayer.

7. I don’t know where we get the dough, it just seems to appear. Identified! The Country of Beeg Muscles (The Germanappawappawegianese National Anthem), lyrics by John Ham.

8. Ne’er thy name shall cease to be a most happy memory. Identified! The Wartburg College Loyalty Song, identified by loyal Macalestrian Joel. Hmm.

9. Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices? Identified! The Rainbow Connection by Paul (and not, as I thought for quite some time, John) Williams)

10. I have here some newspaper thirteen months old. Identified! I Love Trash, by… I guess I’m not sure, either. I, too, would have guessed Raposo. Performed by Oscar the Grouch, at any rate.

* Fabulousness of prizes may vary. Prizes not guaranteed to be monetarily valuable or to actually exist.