Name that food tune and win!

Just for fun, here’s a little contest.

Everyone knows songs with food in them, right? Just don’t get Christina Aguilera’s recent version of “Candy Man” confused with the one by Sammy Davis, Jr., which went to Number One on the Billboard charts in the spring of 1972. Sammy was singing about “groovy lemon pie,” but Christina is singing about something entirely different.

Google might make this contest entirely too easy, but who cares. The first person to post all the correct answers in the comments — or the most entertaining non-answers, to be determined solely by me — gets one hell of a prize: A brand-new, spiral-bound copy of Liberace Cooks, purchased at the world-famous Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, still in its original shrink-wrapping! It’s the ultimate combination of food and musical talent!

Ready, set? Name that food tune!

1) What was the name of the spice in the 1969 song hit from Derek?

2) Two different pop acts recorded songs called “Cherry Pie” and had hits exactly 30 years apart. Who recorded the songs and in what years?

3) What 1957 song hit by Patti Page asked “if you like the taste of a lobster stew…?”

4) Fats Domino charted at #30 in 1962 with this song about “crawfish pie” and “file gumbo.”

5) This 1974 song by Abba wasn’t one of their biggest hits, but it was awfully sweet. 

6) Who recorded the 1963 song “Hot Pastrami with Mashed Potatoes?”

7) Al Hirt had a sugary hit with this jazzy song in 1964.

8) More people remember this 1962 hit song — recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary — as a long-running commercial jingle than a jukebox hit.

9) A 1960s Saturday afternoon cartoon series based on a comic book was the inspiration for the “band” that had a surprising #1 song hit in 1969. Name the song and the musical act that recorded it.

10) The Chordettes had a #2 hit with this “sticky” song in 1958.