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Here's some more lines - identify the song and the act...
1. When the day seems to drag along,
and all that I do is workin' out wrong.
2. You can't fool me, 'cause I'm gonna know if you hide and try to peek
I'm gonna treat you to a movie
3. I've learned my lesson, it left a scar
and now i see how you really are
4. Please, let's forget the past,
the future looks bright ahead...
5. Sweet from the flowers,
honey from the bees
I've got a feeling, I'm ready to release
Special note: all the songs are from either 50s or 60s

1. ?
2. Billy J Kramer - Little Children
3. You're No Good - most famous by Linda Ronstadt. Written by Clint Ballard. Did someone else do it in the 60s?
4. Don't Be Cruel - Elvis and Otis Blackwell
5. Roses Are Red - can't remember by whom

How'd I do, Sheena?

3,5/5, Mark, since the first track is not a song titled "?", and no artist for #5...
"You're no good" was also done by the Swinging Blue Jeans, the only version i've heard, in fact... perhaps some others as well...

Sheena

1 Even the Bad Times are good - Tremeloes
2 Little Children - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas
3 You're No Good - Swinging Blue Jeans,Betty Everett


Artist for 5 is Bobby Vinton or Ronnie Carroll from sixties but I have answered only those I knew straight away so Mark is ahead I reckon

Yes.
As far as #2 is concerned, i also have a version of BJK without the Dakotas, so i've counted it as "1/1".

If that is the case Sheena, what you have is a re-recording not the original.

I know that, Roy - it's from the same compilation i've mentioned several times here... looks like all the tracks there are re-recordings, but i truly like re-recorded Ivy League's "Funny how love can be" more than the original version...

I've heard a version of "You're No Good" from the 50's or more probably the '60's, done by an African American woman. Very well done, to my knowledge the first version. L.R.'s version is nearly the same, save for the guitar break.

Probably Betty Everett who I mention Jerry

That particular guitar break was ripped right out of the chorus of Rare Earth's "I'm Losing You"...

Not vice versa, Dane?..

Right, Roy, sorry. Early, no coffee yet!

Uh oh, Sheena...now you've got me second-guessing myself. For one thing, I'm assuming Rare Earth's is the original, as opposed to Rod Stewart and The Faces' version...for all I know I'm wrong about that as well...someone can clear it up though, I'm sure. My recollection of Ronstadt's 'YNG' is that it came out after 'ILY' by at least a couple of years...

Anyone out there with 60's 'total recall'?

Well, a version of "You're no good" recorded in 1957 was mentioned somewhere at AMG, that's why i'm guessing, Dane... but it could've been another song with the same title...

Original version of You're No Good was by Dee Dee Warwick in 63, may be the singer Jerry is thinking of. Not aware of versions by Rare Earth or Rod Stewart and The Faces but not a fan of either, so Dane must be right.