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Quiz #1
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Nine people participated in the first-ever
NMLQOTM. Congratulations to our winner, Jill
Shields, who scored 498 of a possible 500 points!! K.
Krycia and L. Hoover ran a
close second, just 10 points back.
A few players resorted entirely to memory in solving the
quiz - others approached this as a treasure hunt. I'd
recommend a combination of the two - but, hey, your
strategies are entirely up to you. I strongly suspect
that the different approaches explain the disparity in
scores - we all know what a strong competitor our last
place finisher has proven to be in past competition.
Here
are the correct titles and artists with year of release
and highest charting position on the Billboard Hot 100:
1. Beatles, The - Sun King (1969) <-->
2. Berry, Chuck - Little Queenie (1959) <80>
3. Bowie, David - Heroes (1977) <-->
4. Brown, Julie - The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun (1985)
<-->
5. Cash, Johnny And The Tennessee Two - Ballad Of A
Teenage Queen (1958) <14>
6. Cole, Nat "King" - (I Love You) For
Sentimental Reasons (1946) <#1 for 6 weeks prior to
the Rock Era>
7. Counting Crows - Rain King (1994) <not released as
commercial single, but appeared on Billboard
"Airplay" list>
8. Dixie Cups, The - Iko Iko (1965) <20>
9. Dylan, Bob - Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
(1971) <-->
10. Hendrix, Jimi - The Wind Cries Mary (1967) <-->
11. Hollywood Argyles - Alley-Oop (1960) <1>
12. Joel, Billy - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
(1978) <-->
13. King, Carole - A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel
Like) (1971) <-->
14. King, Evelyn "Champagne" - Shame (1978)
<14>
15. King, Jonathan - Everyone's Gone To The Moon (1965)
<17>
16. King Harvest - Dancing In The Moonlight (1972)
<13>
17. Martin, Steve and the Toot Uncommons - King Tut
(1978) <17>
18. Martindale, Wink - Deck Of Cards (1959) <7>
19. McLean - Don - American Pie - Parts I & II (1971)
<1>
20. Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood (1989) <6>
21. Mountain - Mississippi Queen (1970) <21>
22. Queensryche - Silent Lucidity (1991) <9>
23. Seger, Bob - Against The Wind (1980) <5>
24. Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger (1979) <15>
25. Tone Loc - Wild Thing (1988) <2>
T1. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young or Hollies, The:
King Midas In Reverse (Hollies' version charted #51 in
1967)
T2. King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson King - Part 1
(Including The Return of the Fire Witch and The Dance of
the Puppets)(1970) <80>
THEME:
Obviously, every song in this quiz was linked by a King
or Queen (and sometimes both) reference in either the
lyric, title or artist.
TRIVIA:
Not a single song in the quiz was exactly identified by
every contestant. The closest we came were with songs 19
and 23. American Pie - Parts I & II was correctly
identified by every player, but many of you identified it
only as "American Pie". Three players correctly
included the "Parts I & II". Song #23,
"Against the Wind" was correctly attributed to
"Bob Seger", but four of you erroneously gave
"The Silver Bullet Band" credit as well. This
one was an oddball - the album "Against the
Wind" was listed as "Bob Seger & The Silver
Bullet Band", but the single (which was, of course,
the song included in this quiz) was released - as is
frequently the case for Bob Seger - as simply
"Against the Wind" - Bob Seger. My reference
shows 32 Seger records in the Hot 100, with 3 listed as
"Bob Seger System", 14 listed just as "Bob
Seger", and 15 listed as "Bob Seger & The
Silver Bullet Band".
Records #6, #15, #18 and #20 gave the players the most
trouble. Nat "King" Cole's "(I Love You)
For Sentimental Reasons" was far and away the oldest
song in the quiz - it was a huge hit for Cole, but won't
appear in rock n' roll era chart books because the rock
era is commonly pegged as beginning in 1955. The question
wasn't entirely unfair; first of all, Cole remains a
much-cherished performer whose hits are well-known and
memorable, and more importantly, perhaps, Sam Cooke took
his own version of this song into the Top 20 in 1958.
Song 15 was "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" by
Jonathan King. King scored hits as a singer, songwriter
and producer - he wrote "In The Summertime",
the hit for Mungo Jerry.
Song 18 was "Deck of Cards", Wink "Tic Tac
Dough" Martindale's only Top 40 hit. Martindale was
a radio DJ long before he became a TV game show host.
"Deck of Cards" tells the tale of a World War
II soldier brought before his commanding officer for
spreading out playing cards during a church service. The
soldier explains that he uses his cards as a substitute
for his prayer book, because the various cards and suits
remind him of religious messages. It was a hokey song,
but not original to Martindale - Country and Western star
T. Texas Tyler had a #2 country hit with the song in
1948.
Song 20 was one of the two most recent songs included in
the quiz - Mötley Crüe's "Dr. Feelgood", from
the band's #1 album of the same name in 1989.
Other songs that gave some players difficulty included #1
(The Beatle's "Sun King" from Abbey Road), #5
("Ballad of a Teenage Queen" by Johnny Cash and
the Tennessee Two), #8 ("Iko Iko" by the Dixie
Cups), #14 ("Shame", the disco hit by Evelyn
"Champagne" King), #17 ("King Tut",
recorded by Steve Martin (the famous comedian) and the
Toot Uncommons - the Toot Uncommons were really The Dirt
Band (of Mr. Bojangles fame)), and #25 ("Wild
Thing", the raunchy Tone Loc rap hit from 1988 that
would never be confused with the Troggs garage band hit
of the same name).
The bizarre lyrics from the end of "Sun King"
mixed Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and English. In an
interview, John Lennon explained that they were joking
around at the end of the recording singing "Quando
para mucho", and then began stringing together any
Spanish words they could think of. Apparently
"chicka ferdy" was some sort of Liverpool taunt
at the time.
Listed below are the points for each
player:
J. Shields |
498 |
K. Krycia |
488 |
L. Hoover |
488 |
B. Zukowski |
474 |
J. McClelland |
416 |
W. Feikert |
376 |
M. Major |
315 |
R. Morgan |
216 |
M. Goetting |
126 |
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