Music trivia - ricki's favorite songs "edition" updated

(Update: I'm gonna leave this up while I'm out of town next week. I've noted the two that were correctly guessed, and I've added better hints for the ones that weren't.)

Okay, so this is utterly, completely, shamelessly stolen from Ken.

At least one of these is going to be a total giveaway - at least if you read my recent comments over there - because it's what made me think of doing this. (Update: okay, maybe not. Maybe I just have odd, anachronistic taste in music. Think late 40s, early-to-mid 50s.)

And heck, maybe all of these will be giveaways. I have no idea how obscure or mainstream my tastes in music are. (Note that this is NOT a "rock and roll" trivia edition; most of these songs are "standards" or are more in a Rat Pack/Vegas type mode. Most of these - with the possible exception of the first - are songs I like because of the clever lyrics.)

So anyway. Leave the answers in the comments. In most cases it's the song title.

1. There will come a day, when youth will pass away (zzzzzzip). In the end, what will "they" all know about the singer? (Hint: The version of this song that I know and love was performed - mostly in Vegas - in the 1950s by an Italian-American singer. However, circa 1984, it was covered by a former hair-band frontman. Oh, and big hint: the singer talks about being paid for every dance, and selling each romance.)

2. What is the name of the man about whom it is said, "His form, his face, his manly grace/are not the kind/you would find/ in a statue." (The song starts out - at least in the version I know - "I used to think that I would discover, the perfect lover, one day. I knew I'd recognize him, if ever he came 'round my way...." The lyrics were written - in part at least - by P.G. Wodehouse. The song was originally written for a now-forgotten musical; today it is most closely related with "Show Boat." I suspect this is one of the more obscure ones but it's a song I really love, because of the lyrics.)


3. If I don't like crap games with barons and earls, won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls, and won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls, what does that say about me? (Many, many versions of this out there, some with slightly different lyrics. I have the Sarah Vaughn version and the Peggy Lee version on tape. Sammy Davis, Jr. did a version too - as did Frank Sinatra - but obviously for those the lyrics were changed to third person, as they were describing the attributes of the "lady" in the song, rather than referring to themselves.

The singer also declares at one point that she "get[s] too hungry for dinner at eight, loves the theater but never comes late, and never bothers with people [she] hate[s]." She also refers - in some versions - to reading "Walt Winchell, and I mean every line" and in other (possibly later) versions "Kilgallen, and I mean every line"

I'll actually be a little sad if no one gets #3 as it's a song that I sort of consider a bit of a personal soundtrack. Because, you know, social circles spin too fast for me.)

4. When an irresistible force, such as you, meets an old immovable object, like me* what can you bet, as sure as you live? (Dave got it. "Something's Gotta Give." I figured that was going to be the quickest one to be gotten, because I think it's been used in a couple fairly recent movies. The version I love best is a Sarah Vaughn version.)

(*it bugs me very much that that sentence isn't "parallel." I feel that that second part should also say "such as me" but the above is how the lyrics have it rendered, at least in the version I'm familiar with).

5. If I've found more clouds of gray than any Russian play could guarantee, and although I can't dismiss the memory of his kiss, what must I conclude? (You may either state the title or the continuation of the lyric here...they are slightly different). (Again, Dave - the correct title is "But not for Me" and the singer I know it best from is Sammy Davis, Jr.)


(Bonus question: in the version of this song that I know -which is actually sung by a male singer, so properly, that would say "memory of her kiss" above, reference is made to Beatrice Fairfax. Who was she, and why would reference to her be appropriate to the song?)

6. If "I say with a shrug I think you're a mug to marry me" what is the singer trying to convince her intended that she is going to be? (later, she promises him, "I'll be living my life in bed, but they always will be twin beds, and I warn you, you'll be living like a monk")
This one is extremely obscure - the version I know best is by Dinah Washington but Ella Fitzgerald also sang it. Apparently a version with different lyrics was used in an Astaire-Rogers film. (The chorus and "key phrase" is the same, but the lyrics are substantially different).