Musical Monday #50

Welcome to the 50th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote, as well as the common theme of the set of songs.

In honor of MM reaching its half-century milestone this week, I put in a bit of extra effort and came up with a corresponding 50 song quotes. And since I suspect the theme won't be all that difficult to find, please try extra hard to get as many of the songs/artists as possible this time. Let's go for a record percentage - or at least a record number - of correct identifications!

Just one more hint/warning before we start: I bent the rules - slightly - on #13 and #35.

1. "The weight on your shoulders that's breaking your back"
2. "We've lost our good old mama"
3. "Majordomo Billy Bojangles"
4. "Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers"
5. "Big Sam left Seattle in the year of ninety-two"
6. "I'll be the Count of Monte Cristo, you'll be the Countess May"
7. "Well I'm just a lonely acrobat, the live wire is my trade"
8. "And still those voices are calling from far away"
9. "The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake"
10. "I dig a French bikini on Hawaiian Island dolls"
11. "If I didn't tell her, I could leave today"
12. "Will you tell the folks back home I nearly made it"
13. "Can't you just feel the moonshine?"
14. "Gorgeous enough to make an angel's heart run wild"
15. "Still in peaceful dreams I see the road leads back to you"
16. "Well you're pretty good, old son"
17. "And the judge said 'Guilty' in a make-believe trial"
18. "Bought a one way ticket to the life he once knew"
19. "The night is heavenly, and you are heaven to me"
20. "Don't go on the patio, beware of the pool"
21. "If a man ever needed dyin', he did"
22. "Gonna get my baby back home, yeah yeah"
23. "And a day that's all wrong looks all right"
24. "Shine on the one that's gone and left me blue"
25. "Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline"
26. "Something's telling me I must go home"
27. "Like a crazy fool I'm a digging in this frozen ground so cold"
28. "While the rest of them dudes were a-gettin' their kicks"
29. "Ain't big-headed from a little bit of fame"
30. "The road just ain't no place for whiners"
31. "Raisin' my lonely Dental Floss"
32. "Me and her went for a ride sir, and ten innocent people died"
33. "With some money in her pocket she's a rocket on the fourth of July"
34. "They're breaking out the tractors to build more interstates"
35. "I know a place where the dancing's free"
36. "I don't have any reasons; I left them all behind"
37. "And find I’m king of the hill"
38. "I get the news I need on the weather report"
39. "To the left and to the right, buildings towering to the sky"
40. "Well things were spinnin' round me, and all my thoughts were cloudy"
41. "How can you run when you know?"
42. "Where the waving wheat can sure smell sweet"
43. "Write it down, in your book, on your wall"
44. "Hollywood don't do what it once could do"
45. "My friend stole my sweetheart from me"
46. "We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping"
47. "Her eyes are bright as diamonds, they sparkle like the dew"
48. "The Sage in bloom is like perfume"
49. "Pennies in a stream, falling leaves, a sycamore"
50. "I sold my piano; it couldn't come with me"

Good luck and enjoy!