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Quiz #2
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Congratulations to our winner, Wendy
Feikert, who scored a perfect 500 points!! J.
McClelland ran a close second, just 1 point back
with 499, and K. Krycia followed in 3rd
with 498.
Here
are the correct titles and artists with year of release
and highest charting position on the Billboard Hot 100:
01. Archies, The - Sugar, Sugar (1969) <1>
02. Avalon, Frankie - DeDe Dinah (1958) <7>
03. Beach Boys, The - Little Honda (1964) <65>
04. Brenda & The Tabulations - Dry Your Eyes (1967)
<20>
05. Charles, Ray Singers - Love Me With All Your Heart
(Cuando Calienta El Sol) (1964) <3>
06. Clapton, Eric - Willie And The Hand Jive (1974)
<26>
07. Cooke, Sam - Shake (1965) <7>
08. Gore, Lesley - You Don't Own Me (1963) <2>
09. Hawkins, Dale - Susie-Q (1957) <27>
10. Ides Of March - Vehicle (1970) <2>
11. Lee, Dickey - Patches (1962) <6>
12. Little Anthony & The Imperials - Shimmy, Shimmy,
Ko-Ko-Bop (1959) <24>
13. Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes (1972)
<37>
14. Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime (1970) <3>
15. Nilsson - Coconut (1972) <8>
16. Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy (1968) <4>
17. Peter, Paul And Mary - For Lovin' Me (1965)
<30>
18. Pickett, Wilson - Hey Jude (1968) <2>
19. Rolling Stones, The - As Tears Go By (1965) <6>
20. Simon, Carly - That's The Way I've Always Heard It
Should Be (1971) <10>
21. Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years (1973) <11>
22. Tempo, Nino & April Stevens - Deep Purple (1963)
<1>
23. Thunder, Johnny - Loop De Loop (1962) <4>
24. Valens, Ritchie - Come On, Let's Go (1958) <42>
25. Winter, Edgar, Group - Free Ride (1973) <14>
THEME:
There was a double dose of bubblegum in this month's
quiz, and the theme was related. Not a single player
discovered the theme.
The other bubblegum hit in this month's quiz, "Yummy
Yummy Yummy" was the hint I referred to in my
original mailing. Admittedly obscure, I had thought that
someone would stumble across the fact that Joey Levine,
lead singer of Yummy Yummy Yummy's Ohio Express, also
recorded later as Reunion, wherein lies the solution to
this month's impossible theme. "Life Is A Rock (But
The Radio Rolled Me)" - the top ten 1974 hit by
Reunion recites every song and/or artist in this month's
quiz.
"B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray
Charles Singers, Lonnie Mack and Twangin' Eddy, here's my
ring, we're going steady. Take it easy, take me higher,
liar, liar, house on fire, Locomotion, Poco, Patches,
Deep-uh Purple, Satisfaction. Baby, baby gotta gotta
gimme gimme gettin' hotter. Sammy's Cooke-in, Lesley Gore
and Richie Valens, end of story. Mahavista, fujiyama,
kama-sutra, rama lama. Richard Perry, Spector, Barry,
Righteous, Archies, Nilsson, Harry. Shimmy shimmy ko-ko
bop and Fats is back and finger pop it."
You get the picture - the other artists and songs in this
month's quiz appear in the song's two other major verses.
The songs in the quiz ended in 1974 because "Life Is
A Rock" was released on September 7th of that year.
As you can see, the song mentions many more artists and
singers that weren't included in this month's quiz.
TRIVIA:
As you probably all know, The Archies weren't a real band
- just the voices that were chosen by Don Kirshner to
sing the songs on the Saturday morning kids' show. Though
most deride "Sugar, Sugar" as a
saccharine-dripping bubblegum hit, there's some good
trivia behind the song. "Sugar, Sugar" was
written by Jeff Barry ("Chapel of Love",
"Doo Wah Diddy Diddy", "Leader of the
Pack", "I Honestly Love You", and many
others), and Andy "Rock Me Gently" Kim. The
"Archies'" lead singer was Ron Dante, who was
also the voice of other non-existent or purely studio
bands. Dante hits included The Laundromats' "Leader
of the Laundromat" (yes, a parody of "Leader of
the Pack"), and The Cufflinks - "Tracy",
which was a Top 5 hit for Dante as "The
Cufflinks" at the same time that "Sugar,
Sugar" was Number 1 for him as "The
Archies".
Songs that created havoc included #9, which was recorded
as "Susie-Q" by Dale Hawkins (the version used
in the quiz), but as "Suzie Q (Part One)" by
Creedence Clearwater Revival. Jose Feliciano also
recorded it with the "Susie-Q" title. Song #10
was easily identified as "Vehicle", but some
players gave "Ides Of March" a misplaced
"The". Song #16, the now-famous "Yummy
Yummy Yummy" cost a few grammarians points when they
added the missing commas.
Two of this month's players prefer the strategy of
answering only songs they recognize, and don't do
research. Both had trouble with pretty much the same
songs, especially "Dry Your Eyes", "Love
Me With All Your Heart", "Shake",
"Susie-Q", "Patches", "Shimmy,
Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop", "Yummy Yummy Yummy",
"For Lovin' Me", "That's The Way I've
Always Heard It Should Be", "Deep Purple"
and "Loop De Loop". I'm guessing these were the
more difficult songs for the other players, too. Several
players mentioned that the "Shake" lyrics were
similar to those used in a lot of other songs.
Steely Dan founders Walter Becker and Donald Fagan took
the band's name from a sex toy that appeared in William
Burrough's 1959 novel "The Naked Lunch".
Mott The Hoople took their name from a novel of that
title by Willard Manus.
Ides Of March refers to March 15th in the year 44 B.C.,
the day that Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was murdered.
Listed below are the points for each
player:
W. Feikert |
500 |
J. McClelland |
499 |
K. Krycia |
498 |
B. Zukowski |
490 |
J. Shields |
487 |
R. Morgan |
279 |
M. Goetting |
130 |
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