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Ready to to test your 70's groove?

The first verse is provided below. (Omitting the section with the title if it was present.) Guess the song and the band! None of these are one-hit wonders - all were decent sized bands in the 70's and many continued to the 80's and beyond.

No cheating with the Internet! (Your collection of CD's at home is fair game though!)

Feature for those who guess correctly!!

GOOD LUCK!

1)
Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find
I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind
Whatever happened to our love?
I wish I understood
It used to be so nice, it used to be so good


2)
Call it morning driving
through the sound and in
and out the valley
in and around the lane
mountains come out of the sky
and they stand there one mile over
we'll be there and we'll see you
ten true summers we'll be back
and laughing too
twenty-four before my love
you'll see I'll be there with you.
The music dance and sing
they make the children really ring
I spend the day your
your way.
Roundabout by Yes

3)
It's not in the way that you hold me
It's not in the way you say you care
It's not in the way you've been treating my friends
It's not in the way that you'll stay till the end
It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you do
Hold The Line by Toto


4)
We used to laugh, we used to cry
We used to bow our heads then, wonder why
And now you're gone, I guess I'll carry on
And make the best of what you've left to me
Left to me, left to me
I Need You by America

5)
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Time by Pink Floyd


6)
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down
Helpless people on a subway train
Scream My God as he looks down on them
He picks up a Mustang and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult


7)
Mother told me, yes she told me
I'd meet girls like you
She also told me stay away
You'll never know what you'll catch
Just the other day I heard
Of a soldier's falling off
Some Indonesian junk
That's going 'round
Surrender by Cheap Trick


8)
I woke up this morning and the sun was gone,
Turned on some music to start my day.
I lost myself in a familiar song,
I closed my eyes and I slipped away.
More Than A Feeling by Boston


9)
I ain't got a heart of stone
I'm hurtin' more now than I've ever known
If you mean the things you said
I'm gonna wind up outta my head
Can't sleep alone at night
I just can't seem to get it right


10)
Sun is shinin' in the sky,
There ain't a cloud in sight
It's stopped rainin'
Everybody's in a play
And don't you know
It's a beautiful new day.



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