"Musical Number" - December 5, 2021

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This took me a while since I had never heard of it. You need to include songs for the geriatric generation -- those I know! Nonetheless, it was a fun puzzle and thank goodness for Google.
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I guess I am among the oh-so-lucky demographic who remembers this one well.
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Dino me, but only with the help of Google. This musical number clearly never made it to Australia!
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Cinny wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:16 pm This took me a while since I had never heard of it. You need to include songs for the geriatric generation -- those I know! Nonetheless, it was a fun puzzle and thank goodness for Google.
Ha and I thought I was in "the geriatric generation" yet I knew it.
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Dino me please! I tried to make it harder but when I returned to it after a while the answer popped out, or rather AN answer popped out and I believe I got lucky. If you are old enough there may well be two earworms going on right now. More about that when the puzzle is over, for now I will rest on my dinosauric laurels (both the DIno part and the fact that I am probably now officially a dinosaur cause I'm an early Boomer).

Thanks for a fun puzzle Will
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Nice one Will. College-era ear worm for me, brought a stupidly big grin to my face when I suddenly saw the answer
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A fun puzzle (as PBWMC's always are!) Count me in the too-young-to-know-this-one generation, but luckily I remembered it from a recent-ish NYT puzzle that put me on the right trail. I'm sad the season is coming to a close, but of course am excited to see what Will has in store for the season finale next week!
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Fun one!
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Made that way harder than I needed to. Fun! And I know the song.
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Dino me.
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Dino me. Love this song! :D
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Dplass wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:15 pm
MamaE wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:12 pm The Dino is rocking out with me, an old Gen Xer! Fun one and enjoying the ear worm :)
Gen Xers unite!
Count me in!
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I had to use Google. However, I do know two musical numbers with a similar mechanism, one by Glenn Miller, the other by the Marvelettes.
Last edited by Bird Lives on Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:52 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Bird Lives wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:14 am I had to use Google. However, I do know two musical numbers with a similar mechanism, one by Glenn Miller, the other by the Marvettes.
You mean Marvelettes?
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boharr wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:46 am
Bird Lives wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:14 am I had to use Google. However, I do know two musical numbers with a similar mechanism, one by Glenn Miller, the other by the Marvettes.
You mean Marvelettes?
Yes. It's now corrected. I was doing it on my phone. I need either a bigger keypad or smaller thumbs.
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TeaJenny wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 9:14 pm
Dplass wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:15 pm
MamaE wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:12 pm The Dino is rocking out with me, an old Gen Xer! Fun one and enjoying the ear worm :)
Gen Xers unite!
Count me in!
Biggest hit in the world for part of...7th or 8th grade for me, I believe...
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MikeM000 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:24 pm
TeaJenny wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 9:14 pm
Dplass wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:15 pm

Gen Xers unite!
Count me in!
Biggest hit in the world for part of...7th or 8th grade for me, I believe...
Same! We must be the same age.
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MamaE wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:12 pm The Dino is rocking out with me, an old Gen Xer! Fun one and enjoying the ear worm :)
Dplass wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:15 pm Gen Xers unite!
TeaJenny wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 9:14 pm Count me in!
MikeM000 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:24 pm Biggest hit in the world for part of...7th or 8th grade for me, I believe...
Dplass wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 5:30 pm Same! We must be the same age.
(Un-nested the quotes because apparently it won't show more than 3 levels)
Me too (give or take a year)! According to the interwebs this song was huge when I was in 6th grade, but I would have sworn up and down it was at least a year earlier, so now I'm questioning my entire childhood... Still, enjoyed the puzzle!
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Laura M wrote: ↑Thu Dec 09, 2021 3:08 am
MamaE wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:12 pm The Dino is rocking out with me, an old Gen Xer! Fun one and enjoying the ear worm :)
Dplass wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:15 pm Gen Xers unite!
TeaJenny wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 9:14 pm Count me in!
MikeM000 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:24 pm Biggest hit in the world for part of...7th or 8th grade for me, I believe...
Dplass wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 5:30 pm Same! We must be the same age.
(Un-nested the quotes because apparently it won't show more than 3 levels)
Me too (give or take a year)! According to the interwebs this song was huge when I was in 6th grade, but I would have sworn up and down it was at least a year earlier, so now I'm questioning my entire childhood... Still, enjoyed the puzzle!
8th grade for me too!
If any of you fellow xers are tik tok watchers (I thank/blame my kids) there is a hysterical GenXer on there @corrbette - who does the "Gen-X Update". Recommend. YMMV
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