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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:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg
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Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
I loved Fogelberg. Great man and fabulous poet.
https://youtu.be/cfAxWtcfDUk?list=RDcfAxWtcfDUk
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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https://youtu.be/_qs9AKobHLA?list=RD_qs9AKobHLA
https://youtu.be/9gkYW4b5jpA?list=PLpGiKE3f5mzbL1Nps-aMO14upsoUKdRcu
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quQ_WYNaQmA&list=PLz6cAheObZciT-NWOotE_WUrI6OawkcW2&index=3
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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