BLACK & WHITE WORLD VOLUME 1 BLACK & WHITE GIRLS INVITE YOU TO PLAY NAME THAT TUNE!

 Dorothy - B&W Girl 

Welcome to

  Black & White World 

...sister series to

Call Girls

Who needs color?...

 when the world looks so much better in black and white?

Haven't you heard... that The Bird is the word? 

...and that black & white's the hot new trend?

It's the latest and the greatest, best thing since canned grapefruit!

So get with the program and join the fun!

Keep pace with the changing times. Learn how to use a typewriter.

You don't wanna get left behind, bunky.

Like Call Girls, our Black & White World is a Brain Buster

quiz that tests your music I.Q. and challenges you to

Each volume of the series presents three B&W Girls. 

The girls have three mystery songs to play for you,

 but first you need to guess the correct titles.

 

Patricia "Pat" Crowley

You can get clues about the song titles by examining the old B&W images

the girls show you and by reading the descriptions and lyrics they provide.

  

Most of the songs are from the 50s and 60s, but occasionally

the old pictures will be used to introduce newer songs.

We call them Jarring Juxtapositions. (See what I did there?)

Riddle: What's black and white and read all over?

This great new Shady's Place series. Get it?  Here we go!

If you're working at the office, drop what you're doing.

Shady's Brain Buster is much more important.

Time to put your noggin to the test, so put on your thinking cap. 

Think! Think! Think! After all...

... a headache's better than the shame and
embarrassment of the dreaded dunce cap!

 SONG #1 

  Carolyn - B&W Girl 

Hi, I'm B&W Girl Carolyn! The secret song I'm set to play is a top 5 hit

by Simon And Garfunkel First released as a single in 1969, it is also

one of the songs on the duo's album Bridge Over Troubled Water

released the following year. Written by Paul Simon, the song

is a first-person lament about the struggle to overcome

loneliness and poverty in New York. Lyrics include:

I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest

The pictures above and below are the only additional clues you'll need to...

 NAME THAT TUNE! 

 MYSTERY SONG #1 

 CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE! 

 SONG #2 

  Rita - B&W Girl 

I'm B&W Girl Rita. See how easy it is to play Name That Tune with us?

 

The song I'm going to play for you is all about goddess worship.

Debbie Reynolds

To set the mood, I am showing you pictures of

stunning Hollywood actresses of yesteryear.

Millions of men worshipped and adored them...

... and millions of women envied them.

Their faces appeared on the covers of countless celebrity fan magazines.

Teresa Wright

The song I am challenging you to name is

arguably the granddaddy of all doo-wop songs.

If you know your oldies, a big clue is the fact that

the ditty was originally recorded by The Penguins.

Waxed in the summer of 1954 and released at Halloween, the single 

by the doo-wop vocal group topped the R&B chart in early 1955.

It is noteworthy for being one of the earliest rhythm & blues records

to cross over and become a major hit on the pop chart as well.

Dorothy Dandridge

The song has been covered by several other artists including
 Jacksonville country pop crooner Johnny Tillotson.  

Johnny's single, the one you are about to hear, was

released in March, 1960, as the A side of a single.

 On the B side was Johnny's cover of another 1955 ballad,

"Pledging My Love," a posthumous hit for Johnny Ace,

the singer who shot himself playing Russian Roulette.

Maureen O'Sullivan

The syrupy, highly romanticized song by The Penguins extols
 the virtues of a perfect woman and puts her on a pedestal. 

As you continue to gaze at these beauties of the 1930s, 40s and 50s..

Your final clues can be found in the song's lyrics:

I fell for you, and I knew

The vision of your love-loveliness

I hope and I pray, that some day

I'll be the vision of your hap-happiness 

By means of his poetic pleas... the boy in the song

hopes to win the heart and hand of the girl he idolizes. 

Please be mine

Joan Leslie

My darling dear, love you all the time

I'm just a fool, a fool in love with you

Gale Storm

 NAME THAT TUNE! 

When you've got the answer, click on the image of Gale Storm
below to make sure you're right and listen to the song.

 MYSTERY SONG #2 

 CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE! 

 SONG #3 

  Georgia - B&W Girl 

Hi, I'm B&W Girl Georgia! Song #3 is a schoolgirl song.

 Check out these pictures while I supply clues.

There are at least three great recorded versions of this rock & roll song.

It was penned and first waxed in 1957 by R&B and
R&R singer, songwriter and pianist Larry Williams.

 Larry's version, released on a single in 1958, failed to reach

the chart, but has stood the test of time as a genre classic. 

The Twin Cities-based blues rock band Crow did a fine job
covering the song on a single released in 1970, but the
record merely Bubbled Under the Hot 100.

  The most famous and successful cover is the one
I am about to play for you by The Beatles.

 Released in 1964 on the B side of "Matchbox," the Beatles'

Larry Williams cover reached #25 on the U.S. chart.

Your final clues can be found in the song's lyrics. 

Well, come on pretty baby,

won't you walk with me?

Come on, pretty baby,

won't you talk with me?

Come on pretty baby,

give me one more chance

Try to save our romance

Well, I used to walk you home,

baby, after school

Carry your books home, too

But now you got a boyfriend

down the street

Baby, whatcha tryin' to do?

Baby, now you're movin' way too fast

You gotta give me little lovin'

Give me little lovin'

Aw! If you want our love to last

 NAME THAT TUNE! 

If you think you know the song, click on the picture

below of the schoolgirl doing her homework.

 MYSTERY SONG #3 

 CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE! 

Okay, let's check the score and see how well you did in our little game of

ALL 3 SONGS CORRECT?

The sweet smell of success!
You're B&W World champion!

2 SONGS CORRECT?

Neato! You're a rising star

on the music trivia horizon!

1 SONG CORRECT?

  

Not great... but don't feel too badly.

C or D on a quiz is still a passing grade.

0 SONGS CORRECT?

 ZERO??? 

Oy vey!

I can't bear to look!

(SCROLL DOWN)

Tie  a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree a string around your finger

to remind yourself to be here for the next edition of

  Black & White World 

starring your Hostesses With the Mostesses...

  Black & White Girls. 

It's another Shady's Place exclusive.  Bye-bye!

Teresa Wright