Word Association #15

[sophisticated_soul]

Send For Me - Nat King Cole, Julie London, etc.

[midnight johnny]

Send It-Ashford and Simpson

[westgrandboulevard]

You Send Me - Sam Cooke

[gary_james]

Don't Send Me Away - The Temptations

[westgrandboulevard]

Stay With Me - Lorraine Ellison

[sophisticated_soul]

Never Leave Your Baby's Side - Martha & The Vandellas

[westgrandboulevard]

[[and especially not with a clipped intro....:[[)

Move Closer - Phyllis Nelson

[sophisticated_soul]

[[Exactly WGB!)

Get Closer - Linda Ronstadt

[Methuselah2]

THE CLOSER I GET TO YOU
Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway

[westgrandboulevard]

Stepping Closer To Your Heart - Gladys Knight & The Pips

[sophisticated_soul]

Keep Stepping Never Look Back - Carolyn Crawford

[midnight johnny]

Don't Look back-The Temptations

[gary_james]

Look For The Union Label

[Methuselah2]

DO YOU SEE MY LOVE [[FOR YOU GROWING)
Jr. Walker & the All Stars

[[Not to be confused with MY MALE CURIOSITY--which might be more obvious
Kid Creole & the Coconuts)

[MotownSteve]

It's Growing - Temptations, Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers

[gary_james]

Scotts Miracle Gro

[sophisticated_soul]

Scotts Turf Builder

[midnight johnny]

Scott Towels

[sophisticated_soul]

I Think We're Alone Now - Scott Allan

[midnight johnny]

I Think I Love You-Partridge Family

[sophisticated_soul]

I Think It's Gonna Rain Today - Randy Newman

[Jerry Oz]

I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations

[gary_james]

Raintree Country [[Montgomery Clift, 1957)

[Methuselah2]

Tea Tree Shampoo
From Paul Mitchell

[sophisticated_soul]

I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair - South Pacific

[midnight johnny]

The Wash-Brenda and the Tabulations

[westgrandboulevard]

"...let the rain come down and wash away my tears.."

A New Day Has Come - Celine Dion

[144man]

Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday - William Bell

[westgrandboulevard]

"When the day is grey
and ordinary,
Mary makes the sun shine bright.."

Jolly Holiday - 'Mary Poppins'

[Methuselah2]

SHE'S NOT AN ORDINARY GIRL
The Temptations

[westgrandboulevard]

'There's Something About Mary' - Matt Dillon, Cameron Diaz, 1998

[midnight johnny]

Imaginary Girl-The Silver Seas

http://youtu.be/nWMWV4MfM4g

[westgrandboulevard]

[[and very nice indeed, mj...)

She's The Ideal Girl - Jermaine Jackson

[midnight johnny]

[[and very nice indeed, mj...)

She's The Ideal Girl - Jermaine Jackson

[[Thanks, WGB!!)

Girls It Ain't Easy-Honeycone

[Doug-Morgan]

Earth Girls Are Easy -- [[1988 film, Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum)

[westgrandboulevard]

Easy To Be Hard - 'Hair'

[gary_james]

Don't Take It So Hard - Paul Revere & The Raiders

[westgrandboulevard]

Make It Easy On Yourself - Jerry Butler, The Walker Brothers, Dionne Warwick

[gary_james]

Make It Funky - James Brown

[midnight johnny]

Take It Easy-The Eagles

[sophisticated_soul]

Take It To The Limit - The Eagles

[midnight johnny]

No Limit-Jean Terrell

[sophisticated_soul]

Endless Love [[solo version) - Diana Ross

[gary_james]

Higher Love - Steve Winwood

[westgrandboulevard]

Higher Ground- Stevie Wonder

[midnight johnny]

Higher and Higher-Jackie Wilson

[westgrandboulevard]

Touch The Sky - Smokey Robinson

[midnight johnny]

Skywriter-Jackson 5

[sophisticated_soul]

Writer - Carole King

[westgrandboulevard]

I Write The Songs - Barry Manilow

[Methuselah2]

WRITTEN ON THE WIND [[1956)
Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone

[westgrandboulevard]

Written In The Stars - Elton John & LeAnn Rimes

[sophisticated_soul]

Written Off

[westgrandboulevard]

"..here's a promise you gave to me
of the tomorrow I'll never see..."

I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You - Rita Wright

[Methuselah2]

"I'm gonna be stuck with it
No matter what sign you are."

Er, make that "No matter what I do."

[westgrandboulevard]

Do What You Do, Do Well - Ned Miller

[sophisticated_soul]

Mister Magic - Esther Phillips

[Methuselah2]

"I can't give back the love
That's a part of me;
If you want just a little bit
Ya gotta take the whole enchilada."

Mr. Food's Slow Cooker Chicken Enchiladas

[westgrandboulevard]

Nothing Rhymed - Gilbert O'Sullivan

[gary_james]

Chicken Licken

[westgrandboulevard]

I Ain't Been Licked - Diana Ross

[sophisticated_soul]

Oral Roberts

[Methuselah2]

HE WAS REALLY SAYIN' SOMETHIN'
The Velvelettes

[gary_james]

Speak To The Sky - Rick Springfield

[sophisticated_soul]

Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing - James Brown

[westgrandboulevard]

Talk To The Hand

[sophisticated_soul]

All Up In Your Face

[westgrandboulevard]

Oops Upside Your Head - The Gap Band

[sophisticated_soul]

'cause poor Little Melvin woke up every mornin'
with two black eyes and knuckle bumps on his head

Big Mabel Murphy - Dallas Frazier

[westgrandboulevard]

First Round Knockout - Joe Frazier

[sophisticated_soul]

You Beat Me To The Punch And Judy

Mary Wells/puppet show

[westgrandboulevard]

Put Your Hand In The Hand - Anne Murray

[144man]

Let's Shake Hands [[And Come Out Crying) - Newbeats

[sophisticated_soul]

Bruce Boxleitner

[westgrandboulevard]

The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

[sophisticated_soul]

Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

[westgrandboulevard]

'Track Of The Cat' - Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, 1954

[Methuselah2]

The ol' cat & mouse routine.
Embodied by TOM & JERRY.

[westgrandboulevard]

The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game - The Marvelettes

[Methuselah2]

THE GAME IS OVER [[1966)
Jane Fonda, Michel Piccoli

[westgrandboulevard]

Cowboy : "Is this a game of chance?"
W.C. Fields : "Not the way I play it, no"

'My Little Chickadee' , 1940

[midnight johnny]

Chances Are-Johnny Mathis

[gary_james]

Take A Chance On Me -ABBA

[sophisticated_soul]

I Don't Want To Take A Chance - Mary Wells

[gary_james]

I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That - Elton John

[sophisticated_soul]

You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers, Dionne Warwick, Hall & Oates

[Methuselah2]

YOU AIN'T LIVIN' TILL YOU'RE LYIN'
Marvin & Tammi

Oh, LOVIN'. Right. LOVIN'.
Gotta remember that.
Maybe that's it. Hmmm.

[sophisticated_soul]

Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles

[westgrandboulevard]

Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac

[144man]

Little Brown Jug [filled with hooch]

[westgrandboulevard]

Little By Little.......Dusty Springfield

[144man]

Stuart Little

[westgrandboulevard]

Little Bo Peep

[MotownSteve]

Little Darling - The Diamonds, The Gladiolas

[westgrandboulevard]

My Darling Forever - Rosie & The Originals

[144man]

Forever And A Day - Carol Moore

[westgrandboulevard]

Day By Day or Never - Chris Clark, Bobby Taylor, San Remo Golden Strings

[gary_james]

Never Comes The Day - The Moody Blues

[Jerry Oz]

Never Say Never Again [[1983)

[gary_james]

Never My Love - The Association

[Jerry Oz]

[[My Love) Never Gonna Get It -En Vogue

[MotownSteve]

Never Gonna Give You Up - Barry White

[westgrandboulevard]

The Twelfth Of Never - Johnny Mathis

[Methuselah2]

OUR DAY WILL COME
Ruby & the Romantics

[westgrandboulevard]

That'll Be The Day - The Temptations

[sophisticated_soul]

That'll Be Johnny - Sarah Vaughan

[gary_james]

Johnny Paycheck

[sophisticated_soul]

Johnny Cash

[westgrandboulevard]

Johnny One Note - 'Babes In Arms', Rodgers & Hart, 1937

[sophisticated_soul]

One-Trick Pony - Paul Simon

[midnight johnny]

Pony Time-Chubby Checker
.............Boogety, boogety, boogety shoo

[westgrandboulevard]

Ride Your Pony - Lee Dorsey

[Methuselah2]

RIDE
Dee Dee Sharp

Not to mention
The Lone Ranger

Possibly
Joan Crawford in JOHNNY GUITAR [[1954)

and elsewhere.

[sophisticated_soul]

Horsey Dearest

[westgrandboulevard]

Ride On Time - Black Box

[Methuselah2]

"Christina . . . bring me the shoe!"

"This ain't my first time at the rodeo!"

[["Driver, Rodeo Drive, please.")

[sophisticated_soul]

Hangar 18 - [[1980)

[midnight johnny]

Sixteen Reasons-Connie Stevens

[westgrandboulevard]

Making Excuses - Marty Robbins

[sophisticated_soul]

Making Love - Roberta Flack

[Methuselah2]

Michael Ontkean
Kate Jackson
Harry Hamlin
[[1982)

[westgrandboulevard]

Makin' Whoopee! - Eddie Cantor, 'Whoopee!', 1928

[sophisticated_soul]

Git Down [[Guitar Groupie) - Cher

[Methuselah2]

G.I.T. ON BROADWAY [[1969)
The Supremes, The Temptations

[MotownSteve]

On Broadway - The Drifters, George Benson

[westgrandboulevard]

Nights On Broadway - Candi Staton

[gary_james]

City Lights [[Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

[midnight johnny]

Party Lights-Natalie Cole

[MotownSteve]

Light My Fire - The Doors, Jose Feliciano, and my favorite, Astrud Gilberto

[144man]

Harbour Lights - Platters

[sophisticated_soul]

Light of a Clear Blue Morning - Dolly Parton

[westgrandboulevard]

Blue Light - Ultravox

[sophisticated_soul]

Blue Lights In The Basement - Roberta Flack

[westgrandboulevard]

Basement Blues - W. C. Handy

[sophisticated_soul]

In The Basement, Part 1 - Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto

[gary_james]

Down Under - Men At Work

[sophisticated_soul]

Under My Thumb - The Rolling Stones

[144man]

Tom Thumb played by Russ Tamblyn

[westgrandboulevard]

I'd LoveTo Take Orders From You - Mildred Bailey

[sophisticated_soul]

Achtung Baby - U2

[westgrandboulevard]

Pay Attention -Sister Act 2 : Back In The Habit

[rovereab]

Pay To The Piper - Chairmen Of The Board

[sophisticated_soul]

The Fife Piper - The Dynatones

[midnight johnny]

Dinah Shore

[MotownSteve]

Stranger on the Shore - Acker Bilk

[gary_james]

Girls On The Beach - The Beach Boys

[sophisticated_soul]

Remember [[Walking in the Sand) - The Shangri-Las

[midnight johnny]

Shangri-La--The Four Coins

[gary_james]

Lost Horizon [[ Ronald Colman, 1937)

[Doug-Morgan]

Lost In The Ozone Again -- Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen

[sophisticated_soul]

Hole in My Soul - Aerosmith

[midnight johnny]

Ace In The Hole-Honeycone

[sophisticated_soul]

Hole In The Wall - Bobby "Blue" Bland

[Methuselah2]

WALL STREET [[1987)
Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen

[Jerry Oz]

Beat Street [[1984)

[sophisticated_soul]

Beale Street Blues - W.C. Handy

[Methuselah2]

MY LITTLE CHICKADEE [[1940)
Mae West, W. C. Fields

[sophisticated_soul]

Chick-A-Boom [[Don't Ya Jes' Love It) - Daddy Dewdrop

[Methuselah2]

BOOM BOOM
John Lee Hooker
Original album version, 1961,
with several Funk Bros.

[sophisticated_soul]

Sophisticated Boom Boom - The Shangri-Las

[Methuselah2]

SOPHISTICATED SOUL [[the album)
The Marvelettes
and
Sophisticated Soul [[the person so named for)

[westgrandboulevard]

Sophisticated Lady - Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday....

[Methuselah2]

"Jheri curls . . . style, sophistication."
-- RuPaul in BACK TO MY ROOTS

[sophisticated_soul]

Back To Black - Amy Winehouse

[westgrandboulevard]

Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones

[midnight johnny]

Paint Your Wagon [[1951) Lerner and Lowe [[Broadway)

[westgrandboulevard]

Three Wheels On My Wagon - The New Christy Minstrels

[midnight johnny]

Three Roses-America

[gary_james]

Three Amigos [[Steve Martin, 1986)

[Methuselah2]

The Three Degrees, but of course!

[westgrandboulevard]

Three Dog Night

[gary_james]

Cold As Ice - Foreigner

[Jerry Oz]

Cold Blooded - Rick James

[midnight johnny]

Garden Party-Rick Nelson

[sophisticated_soul]

Rikki Don't Lose That Number - Steely Dan

[gary_james]

Riki Tiki Tavi - Donovan

[sophisticated_soul]

Kon-Tiki - The Shadows

[Jerry Oz]

Tiki Barber

[westgrandboulevard]

Tikka Masala

[midnight johnny]

Mika Brzezinski

[sophisticated_soul]

Mischa R. Bakaleinikoff

[midnight johnny]

Mitch Miller

[westgrandboulevard]

Mrs Miller

[Methuselah2]

Miller High Life

[sophisticated_soul]

After The Fall - Arthur Miller

[Jerry Oz]

After The Love is Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire

[sophisticated_soul]

The Elements - Tom Lehrer

[Jerry Oz]

The periodic table of the elements.

[sophisticated_soul]

An Occasional Man - Julie London

[westgrandboulevard]

Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough - Patty Smyth & Don Henley

[midnight johnny]

Just Ain't Enough Love-The Isley Brothers

[westgrandboulevard]

Part Time Lover - Stevie Wonder

[Jerry Oz]

Nighttime Lover - The System

[sophisticated_soul]

All NIght Lover - Diana Ross

[westgrandboulevard]

'Up All Night' TV series

[sophisticated_soul]

All Night Long [[All Night) - Lionel Richie

[Jerry Oz]

Early In The Morning - Gap Band

[westgrandboulevard]

New Day - Alicia Keys

[sophisticated_soul]

Every Day Is A New Day - Diana Ross

[Jerry Oz]

[[Can You Feel) A Brand New Day [[From "The Wiz")

[westgrandboulevard]

Feelin' Stronger Every Day - Chicago

[sophisticated_soul]

More Today Than Yesterday - The Spiral Starecase, Diana Ross, Bruno Mars. . .

[westgrandboulevard]

One More Tomorrow - Electric Light Orchestra

[sophisticated_soul]

One More Baby Child Born - Valerie Simpson

[westgrandboulevard]

One More Heartache - Marvin Gaye

[sophisticated_soul]

One More Ride On The Merry-Go-Round - Jane Olivor

[gary_james]

One More Night - Phil Collins

[144man]

Stop This Merry-Go-Round - Bill Brandon

[westgrandboulevard]

"Gotta get off, gonna get
Have to get off from this ride..."

Theme from 'The Valley Of The Dolls' - Dionne Warwick

[midnight johnny]

Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls [[in memory of Roger Ebert...R.I.P)

[westgrandboulevard]

Can You Feel The Love Tonight - Elton John

[gary_james]

Saturday Night At The Movies - The Drifters

[midnight johnny]

Western Movies-The Olympics

[westgrandboulevard]

[[There's Always Room For) Love In A Movie - Bob Kayli

[midnight johnny]

Make Room For Daddy-Danny Thomas

[westgrandboulevard]

Daddy's Home - Shep & The Limelights

[midnight johnny]

Shepherd's Pie

[westgrandboulevard]

Sheep - Pink Floyd

[sophisticated_soul]

The House Of The Rising Sun - Frijid Pink

[144man]

House of Beauty [[HOB) records

[midnight johnny]

Beauty is as beauty does-Aesop

[gary_james]

Beautiful People - Melanie

[Methuselah2]

BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP IN VOGUE
The Temptations/Malcolm McLaren

[Jerry Oz]

Malcolm and Eddie [[TV show feat. Malcolm Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin)

[gary_james]

The Courtship Of Eddie's Father

[midnight johnny]

Malcolm In The Middle

[Jerry Oz]

[[Two excellent responses, both within one minute of each other. One took "Malcolm" and the other took "Eddie"... I like that! But still...)

Tie Goes to The Runner - Public Enemy

[sophisticated_soul]

The Homestretch - [[1947)

[midnight johnny]

Jack LaLanne's Glamour Stretcher

[gary_james]

The Bullworker

[sophisticated_soul]

The Abdominizer - Charlene Tilton

[gary_james]

Lingam Pendulum

[sophisticated_soul]

Penduli Pendulum - Bobbie Gentry

[midnight johnny]

Keep On Dancin'-The Gentrys

[westgrandboulevard]

Elegance - 'Hello Dolly'

[144man]

Lois Reeves, member of Vandellas and of Quiet Elegance

[Methuselah2]

HERCULES [[1958)
Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina

[westgrandboulevard]

Hercules Poirot, created by Agatha Christie

[Methuselah2]

"Muscling in on my territory again, eh?"
-- Elmer Fudd in WHAT MAKES DAFFY DUCK? [[1948)

[144man]

"Cockles and mussels alive, alive-o"
MOLLY MALONE

[westgrandboulevard]

Under The Sea - ' The Little Mermaid'

[midnight johnny]

The Littlest Angel-The McGuire Sisters

[gary_james]

The Little Match Girl [[Hans Christian Anderson)

[Jerry Oz]

Light My Fire - The Doors

[westgrandboulevard]

Lucky Strike - Maroon 5

[gary_james]

Light Up - Styx

[sophisticated_soul]

Strike Up the Band - George Gershwin

[midnight johnny]

Band Of Gold-Don Cherry, Freda Payne

[Jerry Oz]

Midas Touch - Midnight Star

[westgrandboulevard]

When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again - Elvis Presley etc...