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Quiz #3
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Congratulations to a quiz newcomer, Terri Trotti, who posted the highest score in her very first quiz, a perfect 520 points!! G. Ziegler ran a close second, just 8 points back with 512 and B. Zukowski followed in 3rd with 510 points.

Here are the correct titles and artists with year of release and highest charting position on the Billboard Hot 100:

01. Anderson, Lynn - Rose Garden (1970) <3>
02. Anka, Paul - Diana (1957) <1>
03. Babys, The - Every Time I Think Of You (1979) <13>
04. Beatles, The - Rocky Raccoon (1968) <-->
05. Buckinghams, The - Kind Of A Drag (1966) <1>
06. Burdon, Eric And War - Spill The Wine (1970) <3>
07. Cheech & Chong - Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces (1973) <15>
08. Collins, Judy - Amazing Grace (1970) <15>
09. Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me (1982) <4>
10. 4 Seasons, The - Let's Hang On! (1965) <3>
11. Freddie And The Dreamers - Do The Freddie (1965) <18>
12. Greene, Lorne - Ringo (1964) <1>
13. Guns N' Roses - Live And Let Die (1991) <33>
14. Harris, Major - Love Won't Let Me Wait (1975) <5>
15. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love (1967) <5>
16. Kiss - Beth (1976) <7>
17. Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er (1973) <20>
18. Monkees, The - A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You (1967) <2>
19. Nicks, Stevie - Edge of Seventeen (Just Like The White Winged Dove) (1982) <11>
20. Queen - Radio Ga-Ga (1984) <16>
21. Riley, Jeannie C. - Harper Valley P.T.A. (1968) <1>
22. Rolling Stones, The - Beast Of Burden (1978) <8>
23. Ross, Diana And The Supremes & The Temptations - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (1968) <2>
24. Seger, Bob -Turn The Page (1976) <-->
25. Simon, Paul - The Late Great Johnny Ace (1981) <-->
26. U2- In God's Country (1987) <44>

THEME:

Several people correctly identified the theme. With the exception of one oddball (see below), one half of the song titles in this quiz made reference to a member of a group that recorded the other half of the songs in this quiz. It sounds more confusing than it is. Here are the matchups:

ROSE Garden ==> Axl ROSE (of Guns N' Roses), singers of Live And Let Die
DIANA ==> DIANA Ross, singer of I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
Beast of BURDEN ==> Eric BURDON, singer of Spill The Wine
Love Won't Let Me WAIT ==> John WAITE, lead singer of The Babys (Every Time I Think Of You)
Basketball JONES ==> Davy JONES, singer on A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
Amazing GRACE ==> GRACE Slick, singer of Somebody To Love
Harper VALLEY P.T.A. ==> Frankie VALLI, singer of Let's Hang On!
Do The FREDDIE ==> FREDDIE Mercury, singer of Radio Ga-Ga
RINGO ==> RINGO Starr, performer on Rocky Raccoon
Turn the PAGE ==> Jimmy PAGE, performer on D'yer Mak'er
The Late, Great Johnny ACE ==> ACE Frehley of Kiss (Beth)
EDGE of Seventeen ==> Dave "The EDGE" Evans of U2 (In God's Country)

and the song that didn't quite fit the same pattern:

The BUCKINGHAMS ==> Lindsey BUCKINGHAM, performer on Hold On

TRIVIA:

Just in case you ever wondered: "Harper Valley P.T.A" is the only #1 song that managed to inspire both a theatrical movie and a television series. Tom T. Hall wrote the 1968 song, which was recorded by an unknown Nashville secretary, Jeannie C. Riley. The record leapt from 81 to 7 on the Billboard charts in its first week, and reached the top of the charts in week five.

Ten years later, Barbara Eden starred in a film based on the storyline of the young widow who goes to battle with the local P.T.A. When NBC broadcast the network televison premiere of the film on February 24, 1980, it turned out to be the highest rated program of the week. Come 1981, "Harper Valley P.T.A." (the movie) had given rise to "Harper Valley P.T.A." (the television series), which ran for parts of two years with Barbara Eden recreating her role as Stella Johnson.

The Monkees' "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You", like "I'm a Believer", was written by Neil Diamond. When a song tops out at Number 2 on the Billboard charts, it always makes me wonder what song kept it from the top - in the case of "A Little Bit Me", that powerful chart-topper was Nancy and Frank Sinatra's "Somethin' Stupid", which topped the charts for 4 weeks in April and early May of 1967. "Somethin' Stupid" was Frank's last visit to the Top 20, and it's interesting to note that daughter Nancy had almost as many #1 hits as her dad - her "Somethin' Stupid" and "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'", are topped only by her dad's credit for "Somethin' Stupid", plus "Strangers In The Night", and "Learnin' The Blues", way back in 1955.

Of course Lorne Greene, the singer of the #1 hit "Ringo", was the same Lorne Greene who starred in "Bonanza" and "Battlestar Galactica". Greene became the second Canadian to ever top the American charts - coincidentally the second song in this quiz, Paul Anka's "Diana", was the first song to accomplish that feat. Greene's deep baritone earned him more than just television and music fame - in 1940, the 25-year-old Greene replaced Charles Jennings (the father of ABC-anchor Peter Jennings), as lead news anchor for the Canadian Broadcasting radio network.

Led Zeppelin buffs argued for many years about the meaning of the title to "D'yer Mak'er", but bassist John Paul Jones told a 1993 radio interviewer that the phrase comes from an old cockney vaudeville joke. Two men are sitting in a bar tipping back a few, when one tells the other that he and his wife have just returned from a trip to the West Indies. "Jamaica?", asks the one. "No, she went on 'er own accord", replies the other. A song is born.

Listed below are the points for each player: