CLASSIC RECORD LABELS
THE SPHINX
HEY, MIKEY!
THE LARGEST IN AREA
ALMOST-RHYME TIME
200
'After winning on "Star Search" Sam Harris signed with this "Supreme" label'
Motown
200
'An androsphinx has a human head, a criosphinx has a ram's & both usually have the body of this animal'
Lion
200
'Twice governor of Massachusetts, in 1988 he became a presidential candidate'
Michael Dukakis
200
'China,
Russia,
Canada'
Russia
200
'The song "It Ain't Necessarily So" says this Biblical man "Made his home in / that fish's abdomen"'
Jonah
400
'In the '60s this company whose logo is seen here had Dylan, Joplin & Santana in its lineup'
Columbia
400
'The addition of these avian features is the main innovation of sphinxes found in Asia'
Wings
400
'His flims include "Zulu" & "Hannah and Her Sisters", for which he won his first Oscar'
Michael Caine
400
'Wales,
Scotland,
Northern Ireland'
Scotland
400
'Fleetwood Mac song, "Just when I thought it was over...you got me runnin
Cover
600
'In the late '60s he sold his Sun Records & set up a label for Holiday Inn'
Sam Phillips
600
'The most famous Egyptian sphinx is known as the Great Sphinx of this place, near the Pyramids'
Giza
600
'This world-traveler was an original member of Monty Python's Flying Circus'
Michael Palin
600
'Jordan,
Lebanon,
Israel'
Jordan
600
'In a Pete Seeger song, this title line precedes "Gone to young girls, every one"'
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"
800
'The 1962 hit "The Lonely Bull" was on this label formed by the man who performed it'
A&M Records (co-founded by Herb Alpert)
800
'The Great Sphinx is probably a likeness of King Khafre, son of this pyramid builder'
Khufu (Cheops)
800
'He & his brother Leon both won Olympic boxing gold in 1976'
Michael Spinks
800
'Sudan,
Algeria,
Libya'
Sudan
800
'She wrote the almost-rhyming verse heard here
["Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul..."]'
Emily Dickinson
1000
'This early R&B, rock & jazz label had an "ocean" of talent, including Ray Charles, who signed in 1952'
Atlantic
1000
'In mythology, the riddle of the Sphinx stumped everybody except this future king of Thebes'
Oedipus
1000
'This Sri Lanka-born Canadian won Britain's Booker Prize for his novel "The English Patient"'
Michael Ondaatje
1000
'El Salvador,
Nicaragua,
Costa Rica'
Nicaragua
1000
'Poet Wilfred Owen almost-rhymed "teeth" with this; his own happened in World War I'
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