I scored some free tickets to see the $250,000 Game Show Spectacular at the Las Vegas Hilton.The game show was hosted by Bob Eubanks. They play a bunch of games based on popular games shows and take players out of the audience. My tricket was drawn for a game they called Name That Song. I played against two other audience members, they played 7 songs, and as soon as we knew the title of the song we were to buzz in and give the answer. The person with the most correct answers would win the game.
The first song was Ruby Don't Take your Love to Town, I remembered the name of the song just a second too late as time ran out, none of the contestants buzzed in.
The second song was Sweet Home Alabama, I knew this one immediately, but guy on the other end beat me to the buzzer.
The next song was a trick question and it even fooled the Host. A couple of seconds of music and the young lady in the middle hit her buzzer, but she couldn't come up with a name. As soon as her time was up I hit my buzzer nad gave the correct song title Escape, and Bob started to tell me that it was incorrect but then looked at his card and acknowledged it was correct. You see many people have no idea that this song by Rupert Holmes is actually called Escape, most people know it only as The Pina Colada Song.
Three songs down and I'm tied for first place.
Next song was Carly Simon singing Your So Vain, and i quickly buzzed in and got the point.
The fifth song was something I never heard before and missed the name when he announced the answer. No one buzzed in, no one got the point.
The sixth song was Alan Jackson's Chattahoochee, This one almost got away from me as I struggled to remember if it was called On The Chattahoochee or just Chattahochee but i buzzed in on time and got the point.
At this point I had three points, the other guy had 1 point and the girl in the midlle hasd zero, there was only one song left and I couldn't be caught. Bob walked up to the girl in the middle told her that she needed to get a point and told her that the next song would be Jessie's Girl, and I took my hand off the buzzer and allowed her score the point as they played the final song.
My prize was $200 cash. Pretty good score for knowing three song titles.
