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QUIZ 42 - SEPTEMBER 2010

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Months and Seasons

In this month's quiz we asked you to solve the following clues to fifteen songs/tunes that have either a month or a season in the title. If it helped, after the clue we gave you the number of words in each answer:

1. The qualities of these months 'make way for the sweet May flowers - and then comes June and moon and you'. (5 words)
March Winds and April Showers
[Click here for a brief reminder of Wingy Manone's recording].

2. When the livin' is easy. (1 word)
Summertime

3. This season decides to go. (2 words)
Autumn Leaves
[Click here for a video of a nice version by Keith Jarrett]

4. A season in the Big Apple. (4 words)
Autumn In New York

5. A month in the City of Love. (3 words)
April In Paris

6. O.K. so you don't believe in Winter, but .... (5 words)
You Must Believe In Spring
[Click here for a video of the Nicolas Folmer Quartet playing the tune]

7. I may forget March, but .... (3 words)
I'll Remember April

8. It's hot, but what's that blowing through my hair? (2 words)
Summer Wind

9. If it's not this Spring, it must be ... (3 words)
Some Other Spring

10. Where will we find a meadow where we can build a snowman, then pretend that he is Parson Brown? (2 words)
Winter Wonderland

11. A period of sunny, warm weather in autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, typically in late October or early November, after the leaves have turned following an onset of frost but before the first snowfall. (2 words)
Indian Summer

12. So why doesn't my heart go dancing? Why isn't the waltz entrancing? (3 words)
Spring Is Here
[Click here to listen to a great version by Bill Evans]

13. I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud, or a robin on the wing, but I feel so gay in a melancholy way ... (6 words)
It Might As Well Be Spring
[Do you remember Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz? Click here]

14. This month was wet, but they decided to use it as a title for Nelson Riddle's biography. (4 words)
September In The Rain

15. Perhaps I'll sing to you how I haven’t got time for the waiting game, especially when the days dwindle down to a precious few . . . (2 words)
September Song
[Click here for a video of Sarah Vaughan and Wynton Marsalis playing September Song with the Boston Pops].

 

 

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