h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Could we have a military family here (soldier, batman) and an elements family (fire, rain)?

Hmmm - imdb is resolutely denying all knowledge of a 'Booney'

B

Yep, Dr Chase Meridian has killed off your protest songs.
To recap :
Tom = Hard Rain (doesn't have a family yet - we're looking for suitable parents)
But then the beginnings of the two 'families' are :
Meridian = Batman Forever
Deveraux = Universal Soldier
along with unknowns Booney, McCormick, Williams and Gant
(3 of whom are evidently Daniel, William and Sandy)
Odd that Booney's proving tough, since he's the one who (more or less) existed

...Oh, yeah.
Toxxin and Luckystar - you're recent ideas are wrong, for once

Mel Gibson (Capt. Daniel McCormick)
. . . Forever Young (1992)

Laura Dern (Sandy Williams)
. . . Blue Velvet (1986)

Are we the victims of a couple of spelling mistakes here?

Ummm..

Okay
William Bonney (aka Billy the Kid) : Young Guns
Luc Deveraux : Universal Soldier.
Honus Gent : Soldier Blue
Chase Meridian : Batman Forever
Daniel McCormick : Forever Young
Sandy Williams : Blue Velvet

So Young Guns and Batman Forever give you Forever Young
Universal Soldier and Blue Velvet give you Soldier Blue.

Therefore Tom's parents could be :
Boudreaux(m) (Hard Target) &
Selden (f) (Singin' In The Rain)

Oops...

Deep contrition - this is what comes of checking your memory with Google. It can give you a false confirmation by repeating other people's spelling mistakes!

Sorry about that folks - but, yes, OG's Monkey has it.
Strictly, I'd intended 2-word titles and didn't care too much about gender, so that I'd got Tom's possible parents as John McClane (Die Hard) and Raymond Babbitch (Rain Man).
But this is certainly close enough.

(Well, Hoffman did play Tootsie. Just an extension of the role, really...)

Over to Organ Grinder's Monkey (and apologies again...)

* goes off to find stone to crawl under)

What a great question Pinniped.

Well done OGM.

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!
I'da never got that.

And here's me wandering around in the boonies.

Hope OGM does an easy one like obscure 60s one-hit wonders.

jwf

I'd love one on obscure one-hit wonders If at all possible...

*starts a chant - we want a music question *

*joins in chant*
We want a music question!

The one I thought up in the chemists was a music question - but that was the first clue, now I'm gonna have to think up another one.

B

Okay - having a think - be there in a minute...

Okay then - here goes - hang on to your hats. You asked for obscure music questions...

David, Wendy, Denny, Harry, Joe, Mike, Rick and Jennifer were each half of a duet which got to at least number 2 in the charts. Put the four hits in chronological (and alphabetical, coincidentally) order.

Take word 3 from hit 4, word 1 from hit 1, word 1 from hit 2 and word 1 from hit 3. Who said this on which UK number one song, and what are the next three words?

Good luck!

Well just for starters, it seems that in all probablity, Hit #1 word #1 is 'A'. OK, it's early daze

I'd suggest pairing up the artists as a start. Once you've done that the rest is easy...

I'm having trouble with Denny!

need help.....

is it definitely "Denny" not "Danny" or "Donny" or "Lenny"?

I'm not ruling out that it may be a surname as well as a first name....yeah?

*mutter mumble if it have been Kylie and Jason, or Renee and Renata it would've been easier mutter mumble*