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• • Here are the answers for previous rounds of "Be Unique!"

• • January 1^st - 5^th
Category: Songs with specific years mentioned in lyrics or titles

Three point responses: (Completely unique - no other players gave same answer)

P.T. 109 by Jimmy Dean
"In '43 they put to sea, 13 men and Kennedy"
-- submitted by FourHbCaps

One Piece At A Time by Johnny Cash
"Well it's a '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67, '68, '69, '70 automobile ....."
-- submitted by AlanKalt

I Hear You Knockin' by Gale Storm and Dave Edmunds
" I told you way back in 52 that I would never go with you"
-- submitted by Skyboy2

19 by Paul Hardcastle
"In 1965, Vietnam seemed just like another foreign war, but it wasn't"
-- submitted by Clete6

Good Timin' by Jimmy Jones
"Who in the world would've ever known, what Columbus could do, if Queen Isabella hadn't hocked her jewels in 1492"
-- submitted by Milmar13

Night Moves by Bob Seger
"Out past the cornfields, where the woods got heavy, out in the backseat of my sixty Chevy" and "How far off, I sat and wondered, started humming a song from 1962"
-- submitted by Layla48977

The Battle of Kookamonga by Homer and Jethro
"In 1959 we took a little hike, with our scout master down to Lake Oneeganite"
-- submitted by SGTEAGUE

Running on Empty Jackson Browne
"In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one...." and "In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own"
-- submitted by LADYLION14

Hotel California The Eagles
"So I called up the Captain, please bring me my wine, he said, ''We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"
-- bravely submitted by Roxie1971 ;)

Back Together Again Hall and Oates
"Remember sixty-five, well the kids are all grown up, but their records are still alive, just like the old days, old days, old days"
-- submitted by Frannytune

Rock This Town Stray Cats
"Well, we're having a ball just 'a bopping on the big dance floor, well, there's a real square cat, he looks a 1974"
-- submitted by MsTinTear

The Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams
submitted by Ronnie016

Walk Don't Run '64 by The Ventures
submitted by RocN60s

Two point responses: (Two players gave same answer)

Little Egypt by The Coasters
"She had a picture of a cowboy tattooed on her spine, saying 'Phoenix, Arizona, nineteen forty-nine.'"
-- submitted by Ron Hontz, RaglandT

The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton
"In 1814 we took a little trip"
-- submitted by Terry T, Golden@midwest.net

Sink The Bismarck by Johnny Horton
"In May of 1941 the war had just begun"
-- submitted by Wmbradspa, Raynode1

New York Mining Disaster 1941 by the BeeGees
-- submitted by Spnnrn, Loonatique

1900 Yesterday by Liz Damon's Orient Express
-- submitted by JRUSSELL21, Youngwins

Also Sprach Zarathustra(2001) by Deodato
-- submitted by A RE7, BAGGYGUY

One point responses: (Three or more players gave same answer)

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by Joan Baez
"In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive"
-- submitted by Mr. Jaded, FLMyst, SameOldHal

Love Potion #9 by The Clovers and The Searchers
"I told her that I was a flop with chicks, I've been this way since 1956"
-- submitted by RVB442, Crowmagnuman, MuziKatNat

In The Year 2525 by Zagar & Evans
-- submitted by Hdgdn, GTGMB, DevilWo, Imbratt612

December, 1963 (Oh What A Night) by The Four Seasons
-- submitted by JO201, Starweavr2, Jill Comma

Once the results were posted, I asked our players if they had any other songs they could add to this list.
Spnnrn and Raynode1 submitted "'65 Love Affair" by Paul Young.
Ronnie016 sent in "Surf City" by Jan and Dean: "I bought a '30 Ford wagon and we call it a woodie."
Other answers that I had expected but didn't receive in the course of the game included
"***1999***" by Prince
"Mustang Sally" by Wilson Pickett: "I bought you a brand new Mustang, we're talking 1965."
"Hey Nineteen" by Steely Dan: "Way back when in '67 I was the dandy of Gamma Chi."
JRUSSELL21 sent in this fascinating website: Songs of the Century.
If you guys think of others, let me know and I'll add it here!

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