Fun! With Indian jeweled turban, desert keffiyehs, and "Pharaohs", you know this band would have been celebrated today for its cultural allusions
JM 🤓10:49 · 2022-10-17T16:07:36.346Z
I think Wooly Bully was the first 45 I ever bought.
boharr 3s · 2022-10-17T16:23:19.179Z
Did the same thing as rjy did (see the forum). Went to hit "submit" but clicked "reveal." Nevertheless, the revelation matched my attempted submission. Fun one. Thanks, Jay
Laura M 🤓11:38 · 2022-10-17T16:59:31.866Z
Fun! Amazingly got there without Google, but did do a final check before submitting.
DrTom 3s · 2022-10-17T17:47:19.730Z
Wow, I should have gotten this IMMEDITELY. I kept looking to use 4 answers with two parts to make an 8 letter word. Jay told me "and the", and of course the wool from the bull was removed from my eyes. Full disclosure, I had to look up the proper spelling of Pharaohs. Now if only Bird had been able to include SAM I'd have had it right from the get go. I did not know Mike and the Mechanics and I tried to stuff Karen Carpenter in there at one point. Great Bird puzzle as usual, hits a sweet spot in my history.
hoover 4s · 2022-10-17T21:52:44.468Z
LOL, Mike and the Mechanics was one of the two I got immediately along with Blowfish. Ants I was pretty sure of but had to google to confirm. Miracles I had to google but headslapped when I saw the result. Ditto for Karen Carpenter.
Maybe I shouldn't have given up so easily... but, hmm, can't seem to figure out how to back-engineer it. Maybe back-engineering will be as challenging and fun as solving.
Anyway, thanks for the fun puzzle. I'm sorry that I have absolutely no idea what it means.
Ah! Now I see 1) how I couldn't solve it, 2) Others solved it quickly, and 3) How I could stare at it and get frustrated there was nothing there.
I legitimately figured SHAM but .... lack of cultural knowledge it meant nothing to me. (In hindsight, I suppose I could have google for "quote sham and the quote" and see what came up but that didn't occur to me.... sigh.
Good puzzle.
DIS 🤓6:55 · 2022-10-17T18:13:37.900Z
Sometimes being old is an advantage. Thanks for a good puzzle.
Anita and Steve 4s · 2022-10-17T21:23:32.438Z
Got the first bit right off and even thought of Sam the Sham. But forgot about his back-up band! D'oh moment.
I have never heard of this group. I guess they never made it to Australia? But I loved the puzzle: great meta (mike and the) mechanic(s)!
whimsy 14:43 · 2022-10-18T14:34:10.008Z
Thanks, Jay. "You sure are looking good...."
DrTom 3s · 2022-10-19T02:56:17.322Z
and I swear to that by the hair on my chinny chin chin.!
Sharkicicles 2s · 2022-10-18T16:01:53.802Z
I too hit the wrong button. But I did figure out the mechanism beforehand. This was a good one… glad my parents listened to 104.3 when I was a kid or I probably wouldn’t have known the band.
michaelm 3:35 · 2022-10-18T20:40:04.304Z
Thought it might be Crickets for me this week, among other Heartbreakers and Wailers, but found my way down E Street.
Thanks Jay (and any Americans that might have been involved).
Great grid, clueing and meta!
Whoosh. Definitely before my time (though I have heard of Bully Wully or however you spell it)
Teamdoubletow 3s · 2022-10-19T02:22:42.646Z
Doh! I blame my phone's spell check for giving me misleading information. Despite our last yard fumble, we enjoyed this.
Cindy Heisler 5s · 2022-10-19T12:41:54.026Z
I certainly should have gotten this sooner. I definitely knew all the names. I just took forever to see the second step. Great meta, Jay. For once, songs for my age group!
LB800 3s · 2022-10-19T20:06:40.641Z
I saw them at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City in 1964. On the bill with Peter and Gordon. :)
ReB 5s · 2022-10-19T21:53:14.478Z
Got the four music groups rather quickly. Then a major stew over what next. Never thought that there would be a group "Sham and the _____" until the avalanche of nudges forced me to try this out. Clever
KayW 🤓9:42 · 2022-10-20T00:29:59.038Z
oh jeez I can't believe how long this took for me to see - and how many nudges!
Carolyn 5s · 2022-10-20T15:08:21.709Z
WOW! Finally got that but had to be dragged kicking and screaming. It didn't help that I'd never heard of most of these and I AM of Social Security age! Thanks for the final AHA!