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Ned is not right this time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hm. No other guesses? On this, or Q33, still awaiting answer? Should I ask another?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Either that or I'm the only person around! Ask a new one!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

OK. Note 33 and 35 are still open, though.

36. By what two names was Pere Ubu's lead singer known?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 August 2002 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

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