Resurrection of an old Meme

[papabearnz]

 I was listening to the selection of music on the cd player in the car on my drive (1.5 hours from $HOMETOWN to $WORKTOWN) and thought that the mix was quite eclectic.  I wondered how many people might know some or all of the songs that I was listening to. So I thought I would resurrect a meme I've seen from time to time.  Namely:

Guess the song

Comments

[micheinnz]

2. Wuthering Heights, by Kate Bush
8. Waterloo, by Abba

Your second pair is about Chess. I don't know the first one but the second one is One Night in Bangkok by Murray Head.

[papabearnz]

correct on 2 and 8

Correct on the theme and the second song of the second pair.

[lyz_nz]

I got all the above, and I have no idea of anything else except I beleive 3 goes something like 'shwing shwing walla walla ding dong'

[papabearnz]

epi_lj named it elsethread. It's Witch Doctor.

[epi_lj]

#3 is "Witch Doctor," but it's been done so many times that I neither remember who the original was by nor know which version you might have been listening to. Wikipedia has suggestions as to who it might be, but without referring to that I didn't remember who the original artist was.

[papabearnz]

Indeed - it is Witch Doctor. I'll let you off on the artist because I too can think of maybe 3 or 4 different covers of it :)