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I'm home, I'm leaning towards bored and there's nothing on TV, so I thought I'd start another of my music quizzes, since I still have loads of questions left. First answer wins the point, 50 questions, and there may be some sort of prize for the winner. I'll start it soon.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The questions will come from the couple of hundred I put together for a Trivial Pursuit variant with a bunch of friends. Some are easy, some aren't. I'm selecting them at random.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

once i win you can give me the prize in person when we (hopefully), meet this week. fire away!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

If you're the only one watching, Julio, your chances are good!

1. Same name, but two are less famous groups: what did the Shadows, Stranglers and Crickets have in common?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

they'll be tears before bedtime...

― blueski, Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

They all had to change their names at one point?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry, Dom - I don't think any of the groups to which I refer changed their names.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

this is a stab in the dark...were ceratin members of all three killed on a plane crash?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Afraid not, Julio.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

did all three have a single of theirs banned by radio at one time?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry Julio, no again.

Well, no right answers in ten minutes or so. I'll leave it there for a bit, but also fire out...

2. Whose first recordings were as part of a group called The Creations, in the mid-'60s?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah, another rule I made last time I did this that is worth using again. To stop whoever has the best connection just firing off loads of guesses, I will only take ONE guess from a person, then they are not entitled to another guess until at least one other person has had a stab.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

no idea but...Yardbirds?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, I'm after an individual who was a member of The Creations - they weren't a group that changed their name then got famous.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lou Reed?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jimmy page?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think Lou's first were as Louis Reed - I have a very cute one called Merry-Go-Round. So, no. I seem to have (randomly) started with two really tough ones.

And no - there is no Yardbirds connection at all.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eric Clapton

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

another question then

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry Dom - the Yardbirds connection has not materialised in the last minute.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, I'll start a third. Questions will expire after 30 minutes, and I'll give the answer. Fortunately this one is easier, I think...

3. Who co-wrote, with Sonny Burke, the songs for Lady And The Tramp?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

you're wrong about the easy part...this quiz must be more indie, I think

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Do you mean that it's not indie enough? It's true, no white rock questions yet, except sort of the first one. Some will turn up as we go, I expect.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

only a joke really...pre-80s and a lot of my knowledge goes to pieces. I'll keep watching for a while (though i'm going home soon).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

watching and trying to answer that is...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, the answer to Q1 was that all three bands backed Bobby Vee - only the Crickets mentioned were the famous band of that name.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, we'll try another...

4. Who wrote I Write The Songs?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can only Julio and Dom play? Cause that's Peggy Lee. Remember that from an obit earlier this year.

― sj (sinner), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Num. 3, that is.

― sj (sinner), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Which question are you answering SJ? And anyone can play. More seriously, that is correct for Q3 - we have the first right answer! Ah, you now tell me it's Q3.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

So we still have a few minutes for Q2 and Q4 was asked recently.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've just recalled that the early leader in the first quiz I did a while back was CJ: now sj is winning. There is some meaning there, surely?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

i guess amg-ing all the answers and getting the prize that way is too shifty, huh? too bad, 'cos it's real easy that way.

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, Q2 is now withdrawn. The answer was Al Green.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Q4: Hal David?

― sj (sinner), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

You shouldn't be able to find every answer that way, mitch, but I can hardly tell if that's what someone is doing. If there's a prize at all, it'll be hardly worth having, so it's only worth joining in if you will have fun doing so, and I don't know if that is a fun way of doing it.

Sorry sj, nope.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

You can still keep trying for 4, but here is the next one...

5. Who wrote the lines "I believe in the web of fate, and I believe I'm going to be late, so I'll be leaving"?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

That'd be the Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley, yes?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

And Q4 was Barry Manilow, I think.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Correct on Q5, Sean, but not on 4 - he covered it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Q4 is still available, but here's the next...

6. What is Tom Jones' real surname?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

erm... Something fantastically Welsh. But 'Jones' is Welsh, so I'm at a loss.

― sj (sinner), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

sj: Jones was his middle name, oddly.

Okay, Q4 is withdrawn: the answer was Bruce Johnston out of the Beach Boys.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Time for another one (though 6 remains open)...

7. Who were Bob Marley's two partners in the Wailers?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bunny Wailer and Pete Tosh

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dom is of course correct. Q6 remains open, but we continue:

8. Who wrote Solitaire, a hit for Andy Williams and the Carpenters?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jimmy Webb?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

We are getting some of the standard good old guesses for songwriters here (Webb and Hal David earlier), but no.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Neil Sedaka. Also a standard guess, but the right one.

― sj (sinner), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

sj is right, and leaps into the lead!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

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David Thomas and Crocus Behemoth

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Met him briefly in 1991, actually -- friendly guy, said that Peter Murphy got the cover of "Final Solution" wrong by taking out the solo!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned is right.

37. Who was Mungo Jerry's lead singer?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ray Dorset...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Right again. Perhaps we're the only ones still here!

38. Which 'new country' star covered Tammy Wynette's Stand By Your Man?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think we are! Lyle Lovett.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Right again, and you're now in joint first! If no one else is playing, I think you're firm favourite.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

39. With whom did vocalist David Barker score huge hits?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's something! But I'll be leaving here for lunch shortly, so I expect the crown will not be worn forever. The Upsetters?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, but you're in the right country, Ned.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hm, I'll have to call myself stumped -- and I have to bow out, at least for now. I'll check back in later to see what all the answers were!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay Ned, bye, and thanks for playing.

Is there anyone else out there? Q33 is now closed - all of those people were at the same school, Hollywood High, at about the same time.

Q35 and Q39 are both still open, but here's another (I'm pretty sure my answer is still true):

40. What is the shortest single ever to be a US number 1?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lee Scratch Perry?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Welcome back, Sean. I assume you don't mean that Perry was a painter McCarthy sang about, nor that he was a short #1 hit, but the answer is no anyway - actually, given that the Upsetters are Perry's band, I'd probably have given that to Ned had it been correct.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually, time to close Q35 - the painter was Franz Hals, of Laughing Cavalier fame.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmph. I'm only here for a few minutes anyhow, and I come back with a WRONG ANSWER. I'm tempted to say "Song 2" for shortest #1 hit single, but it's probably a TV theme or something.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, it goes back a long way, back when songs were often pretty short. This one clocks in at 1:58. Was Song 2 a #1 in America?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Since that fleeting intervention from Sean is the only visit from anyone except Ned and me in ages, and Ned has gone, I'm going to pause this for a while and questions 39 and 40 will remain open for some time while I get some food. I'll check back a little later and revive this if anyone has shown an interest.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maurice Williams apparently had a #1 hit single with "Stay", which was just over 1:30, apparently.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

And with that I leave again for a while.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not the answer I have, Sean, but I will now dig out Stay and time it. It did make #1. If it is shorter than 1:58 I'll get out that tune too, and time that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Stay' by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs clocks in at about 1:35. The Letter by the Box Tops, which I had as the shortest, clocks 1:48 (not 1:58). So Sean gets a point for proving me wrong!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Q39 remains open. No more questions at least until I've eaten.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, let's try to restart. Q39 will be closed in five minutes, but...

41. Which pop star once changed his name by deed poll to Clark Kent?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 18:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, I think we have a dead thread here. I'll leave those questions standing there and check again some time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Back again, at least for a few minutes anyway!

As for Q41 I think it may be Stewart Copeland of the Police.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

The only other person I can find named David Barker that might have conceivably had hits was the one in Fortran 5, but he wasn't the singer was he? As for Stewart Copeland, I thought he was Klark Kent (two Ks) so I don't think that's it.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

You're right that those aren't right, Sean - indeed, David Barker had his first name in the act name. The act had two top ten hits in the UK (one a #1). And I did spell Clark Kent correctly, as in Superman. The person concerned has had about 15 top ten hits hear, five of them at #1. What I'm pointing out there is that I'm not choosing impossibly obscure people!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Another clue for David Barker: it is fair to say that he was magnificent.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmmm, suddenly I'm thinking David Lee Roth of Van Halen fame.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

But of course that doesn't have Dave in it.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, remember: Jamaica. David Barker claimed to be magnificent at the start of their number 1 hit.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

If you'll allow me to cheat and earn the point through TIRELESS RESEARCH, let's say Dave and Ansell Collins.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well done, Sean - I expect some of you will now remember his "I am the magnificent" opening?

Let's try to get through the last few. I'll withdraw Q41, which is an obscure nugget about Shakin' Stevens, and move on:

42. What was the Electric Light Orchestra's first single?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

That'd be 10538 Overture.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Right again, Sean. It's now a 3-way tie for first! Exceiting, if there were people around to get excited! An easy one:

43. Who is responsible for the music in The Prodigy?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, moving on anyway, but leaving that easy one available, my suspicion is that there aren't many people looking in, and it's late here, so I'm going to just post the rest, maybe check back once tonight, but otherwise I won't be back for over 18 hours, until 6pm (UK) tomorrow.

44. Whose 'Just Waiting' have the Fall covered?
45. Who is Vincent Van Gogh the baddest painter since?
46. What Cyndi Lauper single was covered by Miles Davis?
47. What soul singer sued Otis Redding for plagiarism over These Arms Of Mine?
48. Who did Johnny Rotten describe as "punk's Perry Como"?
49. Which rock star shares his real name with one of the Monkees?
50. Who wrote the music for 'Annie Get Your Gun'?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

First right answer for each question gets the point, whenever it is posted. Bear in mind the guessing rule: if you have multiple guesses they will be taken in order, but all beyond the first will be assessed after the next person has a go. If you guess "X, Y", only X gets assessed immediately. If someone else then says "Yes, that's right, Y", they get the point.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

46. Time after Time, though she wasn't the only one who wrote it.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

49. was David Bowie.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Two correct answers, Sean. No, Cyndi didn't write it - that's why I phrased it as her single rather than her song. And Bowie's real name is David Jones.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 20:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh oh oh, and 45 was "God's Jan Vermeer". Just had to remember my Richman, was tempted to say "Pablo Picasso", because of the whole Richman painter thing.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

44 is Hank Williams

Goddamit, I knew the answer to that McCarthy question. I just woke up a few hours too late

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 25 August 2002 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

43 I'm tempted to answer "THASS NOT MUSIC MATE" but instead I'll remember that compilation he put out and say Liam Howlett instead.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 25 August 2002 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

47: Irma Thomas (for Pain in my Heart)

Am I right or am I wrong?

And I knew about Bruce Johnston out of the Beach Boys and Frans Hals of Laughing Cavalier fame too. Can I have the points? The points are very lonely and they need an owner, they are crying in fact.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 26 August 2002 08:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am wrong :-( I am also incapable of reading.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 26 August 2002 11:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

David Bowie = Davy Jones of The Monkees!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 August 2002 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hello again. Punk's Perry Como was Billy Idol (fair enough, in a meaningless kind of way), and Irving Berlin wrote the music for Annie Get Your Gun, but it doesn't matter because Sean won by a good margin anyway, with Ned and Bill runners up. Congratulations, Sean!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 August 2002 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Academy, Puff Daddy and ooo ooo oh yeah GOD for the chance and privilege to win this bad boy! (And thanks Martin for the interesting questions!) I know you said the prize was inconsequential...was it a boot in the butt?)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 26 August 2002 15:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I said that if there was a prize it wouldn't be worth having. I have since realised that I offered a C90 comp prize last time I did this, and still owe it to the winner. That's pushing two months ago! Aargh! If you'd like to send me your address by email, Sean, maybe having two tapes to send off might get me off my lame arse...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 August 2002 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

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