*** music trivia ***

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Group C contains the top song of the year. I could have put GFR's Locomotion in this group.
Terry Jacks - Season in the Sun
Redbone - Come and get your love
Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
Barbara Streisand - The Way We Were

Group H - Maria Muldaur used to make an annual pilgrimage to Dayton. If you remember Spiders and Snakes, it belongs here.
David Essex - Rock On
Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis
John Denver - Sunshine on my Shoulder
Blue Suede - Hooked on a Feeling

Group A - From today's perspective, that's a solid group of songs. Billy Don't be a Hero would go here.
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Olivia - Let me be There
Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Wings - Band on the Run

Group E - Again...That's a solid group of songs. Rock your Baby would go here. TIL that song was sung by a guy.
Steve Miller - The Joker
Carpenters - Top of the World
Billy Preston - Nothing from Nothing
Roberta Flack - Feel like Making Love

Group B - I'm a little surprised that the Entertainer was that far down the list. My dad wanted that movie to be real. The Night Chicago Died would go here.
Living For the City - Stevie Wonder
Abba - Waterloo
Brownsville Station - Smoking in the Boys Room
Marvin Hamlisch - The Entertainer

Group I brings us to the middle of the list. Rock and Roll Heaven would fit here.
Rufus - Tell Me Something Good
The Hollies - All I need is the Air that I breath
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose that Number
Joni Mitchell - Help Me

Group F is next.
BTO - Takin' Care of Business
Golden Earing - Radar Love
Dave Loggins - Please Come to Boston
Wet Willie - Keep on Smiling

Group D belongs with Ringo Star's Oh My My.
The O'Jays - For the Love of Money
Wings - Jet
Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff
Mike Oldsfield - Tubular Bells

Group G Brings up the rear along with Sister Janet Mead's version of the Lord's Prayer. Yes, it was a while ago.
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me
The Guess Who - Clap for the Wolfman
Anne Murry - A Love Song
Stevie Wonder - Don't you worry 'bout a thing

Y'all are welcome to try and order the songs within each group. Hopefully that tickled a couple of memories. 1974 was pretty good. I was 12 and just discovering FM radio.

[Roy Tucker]

Of those songs, these are my favorites..

Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Wings - Band on the Run
Wings - Jet
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose that Number
Billy Preston - Nothing from Nothing
Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis
The Hollies - All I need is the Air that I breath
Rufus - Tell Me Something Good
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me

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Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis
Olivia - Let me be There
Carpenters - Top of the World
Roberta Flack - Feel like Making Love
Joni Mitchell - Help Me
Anne Murry - A Love Song

That was women singers just prior to Linda Rondstadt, Stevie Nicks and Heart.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

119. You only get this kind of fun content on RZ music thread.

There is only one #1 song that I can think of that was written , produced and arranged by a serial rapist. Yes, you read that correctly. I said serial rapist. This song spent 10 consecutive weeks at the Top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It's probably one of my least favorite #1's of all time. Hell, it might be might least favorite song of all time. It makes many top 10 worst songs of all time lists, probably, due , in large part, to the fact that it was played so damn much. My musical tastes aide, however, the song won both a Grammy AND an Oscar. And , to further prove how great the chasm between my tastes and that of the record-buying public , this song was the biggest selling single in the entire decade of the 70's. Good God!

A number of years ago, the song's writer and producer was indicted on 91 counts of rape, sexual abuse, criminal sexual act, assault, and other charges. Before he went to trial, he asphyxiated himself using a plastic bag and helium gas. Just a year prior to that, his son murdered his girlfriend. Horrible, horrible family. The only thing more horrible is this record...

Can you name it , or do you even want to? Come on, I dare you.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

goreds2 mentioned in music news thread that the Tommy Tutone song, "867-5309" was now a Cancer Hotline #. That's all the motivation I need to do a trivia question.



I told this story back in a game thread last season. Sometime last summer I found myself at McDonalds around lunch time. The restaurant was busy. I ordered my Big Mac and got my ticket number. I sat down and waited for my number to be called. 10 or 15 minutes passed. I grew anxious for that Big Mac. Frustration and hunger was setting in. An idea for some improbable and grotesque mischief came to my deranged mind, the same mind that perpetually plays 70's and 80's music in a vicious loop 24/7. The number on the ticket was 867. I had an idea . Whenever the greasy-haired girl behind the counter called my number, I was determined I was gonna order up the Tommy Tutone special.

Finally, when she called out "Eight Six Seven," (yes, that's how she said it, much to my delight), I knew what had to do. I hollered back, as loud as I could, in my best falsetto singing voice ,"Five Three O Ni--- E -ine," expecting to bring the house down in a moment that would immortalize me in the Jocularity Hall of Fame. Instead, it was a demoralizing episode of pre-jocularity playing out in my own "back to the 80's" mind. All all I got was crickets---Nothing but Crickets--- an absolute an utter vacuum of silence and cold, emotionless stares. Not a hint of a cracked smile, not a sense that anyone in there knew who Tommy Tutone was, or even cared.

The sheer awkwardness of the moment penetrated my very soul. Shaken and defeated, I retrieved my brown sack of bad nutrition and , with eyes to the ground , walked my ass out of that eatery as quickly as my wobbly legs would carry me. I didn't venture into that establishment again for a good month or two, just to be certain that the stench of that awful day was gone for good. The memory of that dreadful moment still haunts my dreams, however. I grossly misjudged my target audience that day. I should have been at Cracker Barrel, instead. Baby boomers were probably lined up there for Momma's Pancake Breakfast , leaving me alone in the deep, dark abyss in the shadows of the golden arches with a throng of Gen Z'ers , who left me feeling old... VERY, VERY OLD!.


120. Now, for trivia. Tommy T. wasn't the only dude who had a hit with a phone number song. So did this guy, who is probably best known for his signature song, "In the Midnight Hour." In 1966, this phone number song became the second of his five #1 hits("In the Midnight Hour" was his first) on the Billboard R&B charts. It was also a successful crossover hit, peaking at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Patti Labelle sang backup vocals and Isaac Hayes played keyboards on the record. The song was later featured in the 1998 movie, Blues Brothers 2000.

The singer and the phone number title, please?

[texasdave]

Wilson Pickett....all you have to do is pick up the telephone and dial now...634-5789

Wilson Pickett covered a Beatles song and made it his own.....Hey, Jude. That's Mr. Duane Allman on the guitar.

[texasdave]

118- Def Leppard. Pyromania in 1983 and Hysteria in 1987. Why the four-year gap, you ask? Their drummer lost an arm in a bus accident. Hard to play drums with just one arm. To the rest of the band's everlasting credit, they didn't simply get another drummer, but waited until he recovered. Major props. Spinal Tap would have dumped the drummer in a heartbeat.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

118- Def Leppard. Pyromania in 1983 and Hysteria in 1987. Why the four-year gap, you ask? Their drummer lost an arm in a bus accident. Hard to play drums with just one arm. To the rest of the band's everlasting credit, they didn't simply get another drummer, but waited until he recovered. Major props. Spinal Tap would have dumped the drummer in a heartbeat.

Always had a lot of respect for that band for that very reason. Mad respect for the drummer, as well.

[Roy Tucker]

119. You only get this kind of fun content on RZ music thread.

There is only one #1 song that I can think of that was written , produced and arranged by a serial rapist. Yes, you read that correctly. I said serial rapist. This song spent 10 consecutive weeks at the Top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It's probably one of my least favorite #1's of all time. Hell, it might be might least favorite song of all time. It makes many top 10 worst songs of all time lists, probably, due , in large part, to the fact that it was played so damn much. My musical tastes aide, however, the song won both a Grammy AND an Oscar. And , to further prove how great the chasm between my tastes and that of the record-buying public , this song was the biggest selling single in the entire decade of the 70's. Good God!

A number of years ago, the song's writer and producer was indicted on 91 counts of rape, sexual abuse, criminal sexual act, assault, and other charges. Before he went to trial, he asphyxiated himself using a plastic bag and helium gas. Just a year prior to that, his son murdered his girlfriend. Horrible, horrible family. The only thing more horrible is this record...

Can you name it , or do you even want to? Come on, I dare you.

I don’t know this and I’m a little afraid of what searching for it will do to my Google search profile. Yikes!!

[RichRed]

I don’t know this and I’m a little afraid of what searching for it will do to my Google search profile. Yikes!!

My first thought was Gary Glitter but he’s still alive, and that’s all the digging I feel like doing on this one.

[Roy Tucker]

My first thought was Gary Glitter but he’s still alive, and that’s all the digging I feel like doing on this one.

R. Kelly is who I thought of but he’s still alive too.

[texasdave]

119. I have to agree with you on this one. You Light Up My Life. That is an automatic channel change for me. Joseph Brooks wrote it, and Debby Boone sang it. Side note: Brooks was at one time in a relationship with Cindy Williams of Laverne and Shirley fame.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

119. You only get this kind of fun content on RZ music thread.

There is only one #1 song that I can think of that was written , produced and arranged by a serial rapist. Yes, you read that correctly. I said serial rapist. This song spent 10 consecutive weeks at the Top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It's probably one of my least favorite #1's of all time. Hell, it might be might least favorite song of all time. It makes many top 10 worst songs of all time lists, probably, due , in large part, to the fact that it was played so damn much. My musical tastes aide, however, the song won both a Grammy AND an Oscar. And , to further prove how great the chasm between my tastes and that of the record-buying public , this song was the biggest selling single in the entire decade of the 70's. Good God!

A number of years ago, the song's writer and producer was indicted on 91 counts of rape, sexual abuse, criminal sexual act, assault, and other charges. Before he went to trial, he asphyxiated himself using a plastic bag and helium gas. Just a year prior to that, his son murdered his girlfriend. Horrible, horrible family. The only thing more horrible is this record...

Can you name it , or do you even want to? Come on, I dare you.

[texasdave]

Here is a song that would challenge You Light Up My Life for worst song ever.

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oooohhh I didn't know we were going to have a worst song contest.

Since we've been celebrating 1974, this one fits. It's not 1974, but it's 1975 so it is 1974 adjacent.

Sung by Waylon Jenning's wife......A romance spoiled by fate an earlier love story nipped in the bud. Sung by a woman whose love is tinged by the fact that her man can't get over a previous partner.

C'mon. Somebody knows the song.