The answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. Change your story
2. Elaborate excuse
3. Spill the beans
4. Offering nothing new
5. Whine and complain
6. Lavish compliments on someone
7. First line of a nursery rhyme
8. Classic 1952 movie musical
9. Old Testament Book
10.. A rising and falling rhythm in speech or verse, considered monotonous by some

Answers:

1. Sing a different tune
2. Song and dance
3. Sing like a canary
4. Singing the same old song
5. Sing the blues
6. Sing someone's praises
7. Sing a Song of Sixpence
8. Singin' in the Rain 
9. The Song of Solomon
10. Singsong

Credit: LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick
TRILLER (#1-4)