Can you pick the first word that is sung in these famous songs?

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Famous Songs' First Words Quiz

by manonthemoon

Created Apr 25, 2012 in Music
Featured Jun 15, 2012
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	MandaandKris:	Jun 15th, 2012 at 21:13 GMT		17 points
	That Marty McFly is a rebel. He changes the lyrics to Johnny B. Goode AND he's just too darn loud.

	benmud:	Jun 15th, 2012 at 21:36 GMT		16 points
	Great quiz! I love the mix of songs, and it was challenging but not impossible. 5 Sporcly globes

	tink112:	Jun 15th, 2012 at 22:04 GMT		7 points
	Nice variety.

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	oklaclarinet:	Jun 15th, 2012 at 22:39 GMT		3 points
	"Over the Rainbow" almost caught me because I was thinking of the actual introduction to the song, but then I realized I had already used "when," so the quiz must be referring to how it is performed in the movie.

	wandering_goat:	Jun 15th, 2012 at 22:57 GMT		8 points
	Billllyyyyyyyy Shearssss!

	thewildboo:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 00:00 GMT		16 points
	Amazing how memory works. Some of these drove me nuts, I knew the song but just couldn't remember how it starts. Then I looked through the answers at the end and each song I'd heard just started right up in my head as I read the first word.

	pointofinfo:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 00:50 GMT		16 points
	Some fun facts -"Over the Rainbow" does technically have an introductory verse that many versions use, but you have to be pretty deep into performing arts to know that because nobody cares about the other versions. -"****" is, technically, the first word of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" and was intentionally kept on the album. -There is absolutely no way to settle whether "With a Little Help" begins at the group singing Billy Shears, the jangly Harrison guitar fill, or Ringo beginning to sing. It doesn't matter where they cut it on CD because God made vinyl. -"My Way" refers to numerous songs: "My Way" by Usher; "My Way" by [some French guys who wrote the song in English, translated it to French, then Paul Anka rewrote the lyrics making them completely unrelated, then that was sung most famously by] Frank Sinatra, and the song that I first thought of, Limp Bizkit's "My Way" from the seminal album, 'Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water'.

	eab21:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 01:58 GMT		14 points
	@Stumble: Well then you have your whole day planned out for tomorrow.

	chikka2:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 02:07 GMT		7 points
	The Click format lets us revisit some past quizzes but in a new way. Love this one! 5 Sporcles

	laschmela:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 02:10 GMT		15 points
	Isn't the first word of "Losing My Religion" "Oh," not "life"? "Ohhhhhhh life, it's bigger, it's bigger than you and you are not me..." Unless we're not counting "oh".

	ktappe:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 02:26 GMT		1 point
	OMG this was hard. Yet fun. Certainly needs more time though.

	Lolo76:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 06:01 GMT		2 points
	@laschmela: REM has been my favorite band since the '80s, and I was about to say the same thing! Thought maybe they weren't including interjections, conjunctions, etc, but they did use others like "so." Perhaps the quiz creator should consider changing that one?

	LauraF84:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 06:38 GMT		1 point
	This would have been so much better with an intro clip of the songs to get going from. Rough without.

	AdamBishop:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 07:19 GMT		3 points
	@pointofinfo: Some French guy! That's Claude François, the French Elvis.

	tehblooguy:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 10:15 GMT		4 points
	@pointofinfo: It's more like "fu-" on Good Riddance (Time of Your Life). :P

	PK9:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 14:38 GMT		12 points
	I was so sure "Smells Like Teen Spirit" started with "what". It turns out that was "Smells Like Nirvana" by Weird Al. :p

	Tongueforker:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 16:00 GMT		4 points
	I was ready to angrily insist 'Like A Virgin' started with 'life' before I finally realised I was thinking of 'Like A Prayer' :(.

	hempick:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 16:59 GMT		2 points
	I could have sworn that Wild Horses started "Tired of..." not "Childhood..." LOL, that must be the most misheard lyric ever.

	Tubs36:	Jun 16th, 2012 at 20:25 GMT		5 points
	The first word of Sweet Child o' Mine is "She's", not "She."

	slowthinker:	Jun 17th, 2012 at 10:27 GMT		2 points
	@Tubs I always heard it as She, but the lyric charts say you are right. Great quiz, I don't know how many times I was actually looking for the second word.

	scaramoucheEm:	Jun 17th, 2012 at 19:26 GMT		1 point
	There are a few titles here that could be multiple songs. It might be helpful if you put the original or most famous artist for each.

	ApeEater:	Jun 18th, 2012 at 12:14 GMT		3 points
	Great quiz, even though I've got two of the most irritating songs ever stuck in my head now - Hotel California and Don't Stop Believin'.

	g8r1992:	Jun 18th, 2012 at 13:47 GMT		2 points
	Nice to see the Melodians get some love.

	FloraDora:	Jun 20th, 2012 at 17:24 GMT		2 points
	loved it!

	Stuffed_Friia:	Jun 28th, 2012 at 04:34 GMT		1 point
	Hmm...I need to listen to more music, lol. But still fun!