Use the clues below to identify popular songs featuring animals, real and imaginary. The answers appear on page 29.
1. Tom Jones had a huge hit in 1965 with what feline song used in a Peter Sellers’ movie by the same name?
2. What popular nursery rhyme and fingerplay song describes the adventures of an arachnid as it ascends and descends a waterspout?
3. What song about a semi-aquatic reptile was a smash hit for Elton John in 1973?
4. What Elvis Presley recording was a huge hit for him in 1956, although it brought a huge outcry over his hip gyrations?
5. What American folk song about a magical creature that “lived in Honalee” was recorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary?
6. What song about an animal with a “waggly tail” was made famous by Patti Page in 1953?
7. What Korean children’s song with hand movements was released by Pinkfong in 2016 and became the first YouTube video to reach 10 billion views?
8. What Christmas novelty song was performed by 10-year-old Gayla Peevey in 1953 when she desired an unusual animal for Christmas instead of a doll or Tinkertoy?
9. What 1982 hard rock song by Survivor was requested by Sylvester Stallone for his boxing drama movie Rocky III?
10. What song “in the jungle, the mighty jungle” was first released in the 1930s before becoming a centerpiece of Disney’s animated classic “The Lion King?”
11. What bird goes “tweet,” “tweet,” “tweet” in the well-known song first recorded by Bobby Day in 1958 but later covered by Michael Jackson?
12. What Harry Chapin song uses an old string game to describe the cycle of parenting in which a father doesn’t have time for his son?
