Good job, RR. One of my favorites, as well.Quote:
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Good job, RR. One of my favorites, as well.Quote:
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15. This is a He-said/ She-said story. He said, "Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do." She said, "I loved you years ago. I tell myself you never loved me, no . "
What he said was the first release and a top ten single off a legendary album that spent 31 weeks at the top of the charts. What she said was booted from the album and relegated to the B-side of his hit song about her. DAGGER!!!
Her song was pretty much lost to time for nearly two decades, until 1997, when she finally got a chance to look him in the eyes on stage and singe him with those haunting words from long ago. Her song has become a powerful breakup anthem for women everywhere. The inspiration for the tune was the name of a town she saw on a freeway sign, while driving through Maryland. In her mind, the name symbolized an idealized relationship that she and her one time lover could have had.
What's her song?
Go your own way and Silver Springs.
Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
16.When the aforementioned #1 hit , "Sundown, " by Gordon Lightfoot reached the top of the charts for a week in the summer of '74 , it knocked a song out of the top spot that was sung by a band from Cincinnati. That Cincinnati-based band was formed in 1965, and toured with the Osmonds in the early 70's before getting their big break and having a #1 smash hit in '74.
Can you name the Cincinnati-based band and the song that was knocked out of the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 by Gordon Lightfoot and "Sundown" in June of 1974?
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I saw Fleetwood Mac on this '97 tour. I read that there was one show during this tour in which Nicks completely froze up on this song, and with her back to the crowd, began sobbing uncontrollably. She had to be escorted off stage , with Buckingham singing the last verse of the song. The emotions were real with this one.
Speaking of frozen love , if you've never heard the Buckingham-Nicks song, "Frozen Love," do yourself a favor and listen to it. It's fantastic! The whole Buckingham-Nicks album is amazing.
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Pure Prairie League
Aimee
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Good guess, but I think "Aimee" hit the charts a year later. It wasn't a top ten, I don't think, but it was a big hit for PPL. PPL's roots are from this area , as well.
I looked it up and I had no idea that group had Cincinnati origins. Good trivia :thumbup:Quote:
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I also did not know there was any local connection to PPL.
I gave up on the original question of the song following Sundown and searched. Did not know that had a local connection either.
I saw Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods do a post-game concert at Riverfront Stadium. Billy - Don't Be a Hero was performed also by a British band and was a #1 hit in both the UK and Australia, but not in the states. This British pop group had another hit that actually did reach #1 in the US charts. Name that group and the song.
Oh boy, I have to chime in on that one!!! It's the song I post on the game thread every time the Reds hang a "L" on the Cubs. Pape Lace and "The Night Chicago Died." I had a 8-track with that song on it that I played all the time . I probably played this song more than any back in '74 and '75. I still know every word.Quote:
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17. Here's the story of a band I know well, because its origins trace back to a town I know very well...Richmond, KY. I have lived there, on and off, at different points in my life.
The band was formed by some high school kids at Madison Central and Madison High in Richmond back in 1963. They started out playing local clubs in the area but eventually branched out and, in the mid 60's , found themselves touring as a backing band for the "Dick Clark Caravan of Stars" revue. During this early period they worked with Tommy James and the Shondells, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the Yardbirds.
The band's big break came when they were discovered by songwriter/producer Mike Chapman. Chapman changed their name(actually dropped the last letter in their name) and he, along with his writing partner , Nicky Chinn, penned a song that the band sent to the top of the Billboard charts for four weeks in the fall of 1978. It was the #1 song in the US, Australia and New Zealand and was a smash hit in 60 countries worldwide.
With the success of their smash hit, they toured, and opened, for bands like Aerosmith, Boston, Fleetwood Mac and Heart. In the years following , they transitioned to a country band where, from 1983 to 1988 they had TEN #1 country hits, including an incredible 7 consecutive #1 singles at one point. The band, consisting of all five members of their classic hit-making lineup(minus one , who passed away in 1985) are still touring today, more than 60 years after forming back in the early 60's. I saw them just a few years back and they still kick ass.
What is the band's name and what was the #1 song that launched the band's career into the musical stratosphere???
Exile - Kiss You All Over.Quote:
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The song was recorded at a music studio in Covington, Kentucky. The song is Kiss You all Over. and the band is Exile(s). I had no idea they became so big in the country western arena.Quote:
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I read an article on Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn that covered the many hit records they have written. I was, for a while, a big fan of the band Sweet and fell in love with the song Ballroom Blitz. It is still in my youtube video rotation.
Are you ready, Steve? (Uh-huh)
Andy? (Yeah)
Mick? (Okay)
Alright fellas, let's go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pYpii2Atg&list=RDr8pYpii2Atg&start_radio =1
Cincinnati native Larry Goshorn was in PPL and earlier in the psychedelic band the Sacred Mushroom (who I saw at a HS sock hop). Goshorn and his brother formed the Goshorn Brother Band who played a lot around the Cincinnati music scene.Quote:
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Every time I hear the song "Shooting Star," by Bad Company, I think of Jimmy Stokley, lead singer of Exile back at the time of their #1 hit, "Kiss You All Over." Most of those young guys back in the early formative years of the band would have been content just playing music in local clubs and pubs around Richmond. Jimmy was different. He wanted to be a rock n roll star. That was his dream. He had the long hair, wore the glam duds that his rock idols did, and had the stage persona of a rock star. He longed for that lifestyle. His stage presence suggested as much. He's been compared to Jagger with his slender build, charisma , and unique movements on stage. He was sometimes referred to as the "American Mick Jagger."
Exile member J.P. Pennington admitted that the band rode Jimmy's coattails to fame and success. Jimmy WAS that guy in the Bad Company song. He got the song that went "straight up to number one." He found himself suddenly living the life that he had dreamed. He was a sure fire rock n roll star, sharing the stage , and who knows what else, with acts like Aerosmith, Heart, Boston and Fleetwood Mac.
The rock lifestyle , and its excesses of sex, drugs and rock n roll, that Jimmy had craved is also the lifestyle that he succumbed to. Just like "Johnny " in the BC classic , Jimmy made a record, went straight up to number one . Suddenly everyone loved to hear him sing the song . Watching the world go by, surprisin' it goes so fast, Jimmy looked around him and said, "Well, I made the big time at last." Yes, you did , Jim. I'm glad he got to experience the success he had always longed for.
Jimmy had a myriad of health issues the last few years of his life. Benefits were held for him in Richmond and Lexington to help raise money for his medical expenses. Jimmy died in the emergency room of our local hospital back in 1985, at the age of 41. He died from complications of hepatitis. His performance on that #1 smash hit was pretty epic.
Sometimes , if I listen to the wind, I can still hear him play. RIP, Jimmy Stokely.
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18. This song started out as a catchy tune in a 1970 TV commercial for a bank in California that was looking to appeal to young people just starting out their adult lives. The bank hired an ad executive from San Francisco to develop a new ad campaign targeting young people. He convinced the bank executives to hire songwriters to come up with a song that spoke to young people and their changing lives. Songwriters , Paul Williams and Roger Nichols, were hired for the task. And the rest, as they say, is history. Williams sang the part of the song that they had written for the commercial.
One half of a musical act heard the commercial and it sent his mind soaring. His band had just experienced smashing success with a hit single that had gone all the way to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. He was looking for a song to record as a follow-up to their #1 hit. He wondered if there was an entire song to go with what he heard in the commercial spot. There was. Williams and Nichols had finished writing the song by that time. With a few changes in the song's arrangement, he made the song into one for the ages. After it's release, it climbed up the charts and peaked at #2 in the summer of '71. The duo performed the song at the Grammy Awards ceremony, where they won the award for Best New Artist.
In 1998, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for recordings “of lasting quality or historical significance.”
Still today, it remains one of the most played songs at certain events across the country, and the world.
Can you name this song and the band that made it much more than just a commercial jingle for a bank?
"Hotel California" by The Eagles?
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Carpenters
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Found the original.Quote:
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19. Allow me to take you back to Christmas Eve, 1975. This singer/songwriter was back home in Peoria, Illinois sharing Christmas with his parents. He was wanting to make some Irish coffees but needed some whipped topping. Meanwhile , Jill Anderson was also back in Peoria for Christmas visiting her family. At the request of her mother, she headed out to the store to get some egg nog. There wasn't a lot of stores open late on Christmas Eve, so it just so happened that both the songwriter and the woman ended up at the same convenience store to pick up their items.
Although she didn't quite recognize his face at first , Jill quickly realized that the guy she ran into at the convenience store was her old high school sweetheart from Woodruff High School class of '69. She had first met him as a teenager back in Peoria. The couple went their separate ways after high school. He headed out west to start a music career; she headed to Chicago to teach schoolchildren.
After each of them picked up their supplies at the store, they decided to go get a drink(or two) but there were no bars open on Christmas Eve, so they ended up splitting a six-pack of Olympia beer, instead. That chance meeting between the two former lovers was a brief, but impactful moment, that became a lasting memory for both of them. This brief encounter back on Christmas Eve in 1975 was the inspiration for a song five years later that is still a favored song to be listened to at yuletime. It charted in late 1980 and peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February of 1981. It has become a beloved holiday classic, although it was not originally intended as a Christmas song.
Btw, if you are curious if the two former lovers ever met again, they did. Once more. Jill came backstage after a concert he performed in St. Louis , a few years after the song's release. During their talk , the singer apologized for a couple of inaccuracies in the song. Her eyes were green, not blue(blue rhymed better) and her husband was a PE teacher, not an architect. Also, they didn't drink the beer in her car. They drank it outside in the parking lot.
As for whether Jill's husband really kept her warm, safe and dry ... apparently not enough. Jill and her husband divorced by the time the song was released in 1980. Jill, now Jill Greulich, married her second husband later in 1980 and moved to St. Louis, where she taught second grade. The composer and singer of the song died nearly twenty years ago of prostate cancer.
Can you name the song and songwriter???
I know this one. Breaks my heart every time I hear it.Quote:
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Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg
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I loved Fogelberg. Great man and fabulous poet.
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20. Asking the question, "what is the best-selling studio album of all-time?" would be the easiest trivia question ever. So, I'll dig a little deeper. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" spent a total of an incredible 37 non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart from late February 1983 until late April 1984. That's chart domination!!! During its incredible run there were TWO stretches of 17 consecutive weeks at #1.
Here's my question. What was the first, and last , albums to knock "Thriller" off of its #1 perch? The first album to replace "Thriller at #1 occurred on June 25 of '83 and the second album to knock "Thriller off of #1 for good occurred on April 21, 1984, ending its nine-month reign at the top of the album chart.
Both albums that knocked "Thriller" out of the #1 spot were movie soundtracks. Both had one word titles and both started with the same first letter.
Can you name these two albums that hijacked the "King of Pop" and his reign at the Top ???
The 83 one is probably "Flashdance" and maybe "Footloose" in 1984. Just guessing by movies with soundtracks at around that time.Quote:
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21.
During a 1975 tour with the Beach Boys, this singer/songwriter learned about the drowning death of Carl Wilson's beloved Irish Setter . This inspired him to write a song , whose title bears the same name as the dog. The song achieved international success. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976 and went all the way to #1 in both Canada and New Zealand. Being an animal lover myself, the song made me cry as a kid and still makes me cry as a 63 year-old today. One of the saddest songs I've ever heard, right up there with Gilbert O' Sullivan's , "Alone Again, Naturally."
While the singer had one other top 40 single and some other minor chart success, the song about the dog was his only major international, multi-platinum smash and often defines him as a one-hit wonder.
Can you name this sad song about Carl Wilson's dog and the the singer who wrote and recorded the song?
Shannon sung by Henry Gross.Quote:
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When I get to Macon they won't know my name so plug me into something let me pick away!Quote:
At age 18, while a student at Brooklyn College, Gross became a founding member of 1950s Rock & Roll revival group, Sha Na Na, playing guitar and wearing the greaser clothes he wore while a student at Midwood High School. The 18-year-old Gross was the youngest musician to perform at Woodstock.
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22. A song called "Popsicles and Icicles" peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January of 1964. It was the only hit for an all female trio named The Mermaids. Now, I'm not gonna ask you a damn thing about the Mermaids, because I don't a whole lot about them. However, the writer of that song started out as a session musician and songwriter, working with the likes of Elvis, Bobby Darin, and Merle Haggard. He formed a band in 1968, and two years later, in the summer of 1970, he and the band took their first chart single all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Over the next few years they had an additional five top ten hits . They disbanded in 1973, before reuniting briefly in 1976. The lead singer/songwriter of the band also had five top 50 solo hits on the Billboard Top 100, including a song that peaked at #15 early in 1978. That song was the title track of a Neil Simon movie, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason.
From "Popsicles and Icicles" to Neil Simon... quite a career. His band was one of my favorite bands of the '70's. Can you name him, his band and their breakthrough #1 hit from 1970?
23. They are the only band in the history of the world to achieve four consecutive, RIAA certified, triple platinum albums. You want the dates... Okay, I'll give you the dates. 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981
Who's the band?
24. What singer holds the record for the longest gap between #1's on the Billboard Hot 100 and what were those #1 songs? (She holds the record by a WIDE margin)
25. Only two Dutch bands have ever landed hits in the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 .
The first band did it in 1970, with a song that went all the way to #1 . Can you name this band and its chart-topping song?
The second band did it in 1982, with a song that peaked at #10. (They also reached #13 in 1973 with a song that is my personal favorite Dutch treat).
Can you name this band and their top ten from '82 ?
Twilight Zone - Golden Earring. A criminally underrated band.Quote:
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The band is Bread and the guy is David Gates. Their first hit I’m having trouble with. Make it with You? Guitar Man was my favorite song of theirs but that was later on.Quote:
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Never bought any of their albums but their songs were on the radio all the time.
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You're correct on all three answers. Nice job. You and Rev are top shelf on old school rock trivia.Quote:
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"Radar Love" is favorite of mine from '74. Do you know the first Dutch band who hit #1 and their song?
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