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steve(thelil)

Name an original Paul Revere and the Raiders member who left during their popular period?

What group that had a big hit and another song that was covered and made more famous by the Lovin Spoonful included an autoharp player?

What group recorded the hit song "I Love You"

Who was the house band at the Peppermint Lounge?


11-14-2001 11:27 AM

RBS
House band -- Ray Milan and the Quarternotes?

11-14-2001 11:30 AM

Brian Olewnick
What personage better known as an actor had a minor hit with a cover of what Leonard Cohen song in 1967?

11-14-2001 11:48 AM

Chris DuPre
Can't anser thelil's ?'s.
As for Brian's, Noel Harrison had a minor hit with Cohen's "Suzanne."

11-14-2001 12:08 PM

RBS
What sixties actor sang the worst possible human rendition of "Try A Little Tenderness?"

11-14-2001 12:17 PM

steve(thelil)
Chris: Very Nice on the Noel Harrison. I actually liked his version.

It's possible RBS was right about the house band. The band I'm thinking of was very associated with the Peppermint Lounge, but might not have ever actually been the house band.

Here's a crummy hint, I believe a future Rascal (or more than one?) was in it - but he (they) is (are) NOT the guy(s) who was (were) famous for performing at the Peppermint Lounge.

11-14-2001 12:20 PM

Brian Olewnick
What OTHER personage better known as an actor produced a record which included his arrangements of "A Taste of Honey" and "Downtown"? What was the name of the album?

11-14-2001 12:28 PM

BFrank
I believe that Mark Lindsey left Paul Revere during their prime, didn't he? If not him, was it Fang?

11-14-2001 12:43 PM

Squaredancecaller


Peppermint Lounge was Joey Dee and Starlighters (You gotta do a dance and it goes like this,/ Bob doo bop, woppaloppadoomop/ The name of the dance is the Peppermint Twist.) Also had a second hit with What Kind Of Love Is This (that makes me want to twist and shout). 49th Street? Something like that.

The Volumes -- I Love You. (I-I-I love you-u-u-u-ou, I-I-I-I-I love you-u-u-u-ou, Youre lov-uv, is Oh so heavenly...) [Great doo-wop, listening to it now, but I'm not sure if this is as late as 1960.]

Lovin' Spoonful -- just a guess: Rooftop Singers?

11-14-2001 02:08 PM

steve(thelil)
SDCS right on the money with Joey Dee and the Starlighters as house band at the Pep

No correct guesses on the Raider who left (although Fang might have left too - but I THINK he replaced the guy who left)

Still no correct answers on the group with the autoharp player whose song was covered by the Spoonful

I had a different "I Love You" in mind:

"I could could tell you
I love you I do
The words would explain
But the words don't come"

11-14-2001 02:14 PM

Chris DuPre
On the Radiers question, Fang replaced "Doc" Holiday. Is that who you want?

11-14-2001 02:46 PM

lex luthor
#7 - Brian, are you speaking of the great Allen Sherman? "Mommy and Dad are never worried or sad when you teenagers go/ Downtown./ Daddy and Mom just stay at home and keep calm and watch the late, late show/ Uptown..." "I wanted to get/ Some new girlfriends,/ So I went and bought/ A Mercedes-Benz --/ A waste of money!/ Eight thousand bucks down the drain." Don't know the record since I just have the greatest hits.

11-14-2001 02:48 PM

steve(thelil)
Allan Sherman did do a version of Downtown (called, with an UNcharecteristic lack of cleverness "Crazy Downtown"), but he was not known as an actor. He WAS the producer of the game show I've Got a Secret, and my first great influence in life.

I'm guessing it was Jackie Gleason who (supposedly) did the arrangements in question.

11-14-2001 02:55 PM

Squaredancecaller

Brian: it wasn't "Sir Cedric Hardwick Gets Somewhat Funky," was it?


Autoharp: Ian and Sylvia?

11-14-2001 03:01 PM

Chris DuPre
I know Jackie Gleason did a version of "A Taste of Honey" with his orchestra.

11-14-2001 03:05 PM

Brian Olewnick
(thelil), lex, Chris and sqdcSteve - nope.

11-14-2001 03:48 PM

steve(thelil)
OK. Answer time for the questions I raised in post 1:


1) Name an original Paul Revere and the Raiders member who left during their popular period? DRAKE LEVIN

2) What group that had a big hit and another song that was covered and made more famous by the Lovin Spoonful included an autoharp player? THE CRITTERS - their hit was "Mr. Dyingly Sad and they originally recorded "Younger Girl", made more famous by the Spoonful

3) What group recorded the hit song "I Love You" The group's name was PEOPLE. The song sounded alot like early Zombies

4) Who was the house band at the Peppermint Lounge?
As SquareDanceCaller correctly answered, it was Joey Dee and the Starlighters




11-14-2001 04:16 PM

steve(thelil)
NEW QUESTIONS:

1) What British Rock stars played British Rock Stars (BUT not themselves) on the Dick Van Dyck show

2) What Beatle Invasion Era band had a record that was used on a Flintstones episode. Hint. The band was called the same thing as in real life, except with a "Stones" at the end of the name (for example, if it was the Merseybeats, they would have been called The Merseybeatstones)

3) Who were the TWO famous members of the band THEM? Why was the one who is now (by far) the less famous of the 2 the more famous at the time?

4) What was the Caption the Ed Sullivan Show put under John Lennon's image when the Beatles first appeared on the show?

5) What 60's one hit wonder leader legally changed his name to a name that has no letters in it?

11-14-2001 04:21 PM

RBS
4. "Sorry, Girls, he's married!"

11-14-2001 04:24 PM

John Keene
From Post 5: my favorite version of Try A Little Tenderness has always been and always will be Jack Webb's. Otis came close.

From Post 17: I think Fang and Drake Levin were the same person.

From Post 18:
1. Chad and Jeremy
2. dunno.
3. Van Morrison and Peter Bardens, who had a very popular Irish band called the Peter B's.
4. dunno.
5. "?" of Mysterians fame.

11-14-2001 04:30 PM

Chris DuPre

1. Peter and Gordon
3. Van Morrison and the immortal Jerry Cole (?)

5. ?, of the Mysterians

11-14-2001 04:31 PM

Jasontis
1. Chad and Jeremy
2. Shit, used to know this. I was a big fan of the Ann Margrock episode.
3. Only know the obvious one.
4 & 5. No idea.


Some more:

1. What was Brian Wilson's first #1 record?
2. What two bands' names were influenced by Buddy Holly?
3. What was the first rock album not to list the song titles on the cover?

11-14-2001 04:32 PM

steve(thelil)
RBS was right about the caption for Lennon's first Beatles appearance on Sullivan: "Sorry Girls, He's married!"

Those who guessed Chad and Jeremy appearing on Dick Van Dyck were right (half credit for Peter and Gordon!!)

Question Mark did, in fact, change his name to ?

The THEN famous THEMster has still not been guessed correctly.

The band that played their real hit under basically their real name on the Flintstones has still not been answered correctly


ANSWER to Jasontis's #2: The Beatles and the Hollies names were influenced by Buddy Holly. (The "Beatles" is a take-off on the Crickets)

11-14-2001 04:47 PM

Chris DuPre
Brian Wilson's first #1 was "Surf City" as recorded by Jan and Dean.

First rock album not to list titles: Led Zep IV. (But that was '70s, so maybe not.)

11-14-2001 05:06 PM

Dr Dave
Billy Harrison and Alan Henderson were the only other guys besides Peter Bardon to be in THEM for more than a few months. I give up.

11-14-2001 05:11 PM

Squaredancecaller

60's Hot-rod songs -- who did:

Drag City
409
G.T.O.

11-14-2001 06:50 PM

BFrank
What 60's group riffs on Coltrane's "Afro Blue" on what song on a live album?

11-14-2001 07:15 PM

philpal
Just to set the record straight, Fang - of the Raiders, was a very nice, large-toothed cat named Phil Volk. He replaced an earlier bass player...don't know his name.

11-14-2001 07:23 PM

Brian Olewnick
Hint for #7--My earlier question provides an oblique association.

11-14-2001 07:30 PM

Lenny the Guitarist
What was the name of the two-hit wonders whose top ten song was ostensibly about cannibalism? What was the name of that song? What was their other hit? Who produced their album?

11-14-2001 08:02 PM

steve(thelil)
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs on both

11-14-2001 09:59 PM

jeff54
The answer to the Flintstone question was The Beau Brummelstones they did "Laugh Laugh" great song

11-14-2001 10:02 PM

GoodSpeak
OK.

Alright.

1. Which man 'Loves a Woman'?

2. Who wants to 'Do It Again' AND in the 'Cottonfields'?

3. Whiskey Bar was the parenthetical name for what Doors song?

4. What was the opening lyric to a Moody Blues tune about insanity? AND name the song.

5. Spencer Davis Group did what hit tune in 1967?

6. Who was happy together?

7. What girl group did the tune about Deadman's Curve?

8. The Essex did what song in 1963?

9. Deep Purple is a group or a song? And who did it?

10. What Cream song was an acronymn? Which one was a nonsensical title?

11. If 6 was 9, who sang it?

12. 'Time Was' this boogie woogie band played a song Willie Nelson ripped off it's title and made it's title famous. Name it.

13. Who did Bluebird and who did Blackbird?

14. The name of the first song on the first album Jethro Tull did was...?

15. Tull also did a tune that was first done by Roland Kirk. Name it.


Hey...this is fun


Bring it, fellow 60s rejects.



11-14-2001 10:37 PM

jeff54
Which man 'Loves a Woman'?

Perct Sledge

11-14-2001 10:43 PM

GoodSpeak
I assume you meant to type 'Percy Sledge' and you're right.

11-15-2001 12:15 AM

BFrank
GoodSpeak, some of these are too easy:

3) Alabama Song - Kurt Weill
5) "Gimme Some Lovin'"
6) Turtles
9) Group AND a song
10) a - SWLABR (She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow)
b - Badge (a note referencing the "bridge" to the tune was mis-read as the title of the song "Badge")
11) JIMI!!!!!
13) a - Buffalo Springfield
b - Beatles
14) "My Sunday Feeling"
15) "Serenade To A Cuckoo" (Ian Anderson is a big RRK fan)

11-15-2001 01:21 AM

Jazzooo
What one man band arguably out-McCartneyed Paul with his solo debut? (I just got this album on CD--what a fine piece of pop work.) Extra points if you can name the band he came from and his original instrument.

11-15-2001 01:37 AM

Squaredancecaller
from Goodspeak's list

2. CCR

8. Easier Said Than Done (great song!)




11-15-2001 02:19 AM

Squaredancecaller

60's girl group songs -- name the group

1. Beechwood 4-5789
2. Nowhere To Run
3. The Boy From New York City
4. Sweet Talkin' Guy
5. A Lover's Concerto
6. Tell Him
7. Summertime (Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime)

11-15-2001 02:34 AM

John Keene
4. What was the opening lyric to a Moody Blues tune about insanity? AND name the song:
A: "Timothy Leary's dead" lyric from "Legend of a Mind".

9. Deep Purple is a group or a song? And who did it?
A: Deep Purple was the 1964 Grammy winning record of the year by Nino Tempo and April Stevens, as well as the name of the subsequent English band.

Q: What one man band arguably out-McCartneyed Paul with his solo debut? (I just got this album on CD--what a fine piece of pop work.) Extra points if you can name the band he came from and his original instrument.
A: Todd Rundgren -(guitarist?) from The Nazz.





11-15-2001 04:59 AM

steve(thelil)
A Lover's Concerto - The Toys
Nowhere to Run - Martha and Vandellas

By out-McCartneying Mac do you meen Emmett Rhodes?

QUESTIONS:

1) What Herman's Hermits hit was written by Ray Davies?

2) Which of these three bands WAS actually British:
a)Knickerbockers ("Lies")
b) Beau Brummels (Jeff was right about the Beau Brummelstones on Flintstones singing Laugh Laugh)
c) Badfinger

3) What hit single featured a steel drum solo?

4) Name a hit song by a 60's band whose title included a girl's first AND last name?

5) What song did I personally record on Jeff54's Lafayette tape recorder when I had a mad crush on Shirley Spark?


11-15-2001 08:21 AM

henrymc
Answers to Post #26

Drag City - Jan and Dean
409 - THe Beach Boys
G.T.O.- Akron's Ronny and the Daytonas


1) What Herman's Hermits hit was written by Ray Davies?

DAndy

2) Which of these three bands WAS actually British:
a)Knickerbockers ("Lies")
b) Beau Brummels (Jeff was right about the Beau Brummelstones on Flintstones singing Laugh Laugh)
c) Badfinger

BAdfinger ( avery tragic band in many ways)


3) What hit single featured a steel drum solo?

No IDea

4) Name a hit song by a 60's band whose title included a girl's first AND last name?

"Have I the right?" by the Honeytrees perhaps featuring Honey Lantry on Drums? or do you mean 'Jennifer Eccles' by the Hollies?


Crafty Steve ...did you add No 5 afterwards?????
lets see.....

You are too old for 'Greetings to the New Brunette' by Billy Bragg which uses the name Shirley ..and has the great line 'how can you lay there and think of England/when you don't even know who's in the team'

and if you were truly smitten it could have been
'You're my World' by Cilla Black

I think I need another hint mate

11-15-2001 08:27 AM

Brian Olewnick
Answer to #7: David McCallum, Open Channel D

11-15-2001 08:53 AM

henrymc


More Trainspotting responses

40. Squaredancecaller 11-15-2001 / 02:34 AM


60's girl group songs -- name the group

1. Beechwood 4-5789
The Marvelettes

3. The Boy From New York City
The Ad-Libs

4. Sweet Talkin' Guy
The Chiffons

6. Tell Him
The Exciters




11-15-2001 08:57 AM

RBS
John Keene is correct about Jack Webb singing (yakking) "Try A Little Tenderness."

What famous sixties TV star croaked his way through
"It Ain't Me Babe?"


11-15-2001 09:46 AM

steve(thelil)
Nice work by HenryMc, especially on Jennifer Eccles

The hit song with a steel drum solo is eminently gettable. It was a big hit by a very successful group.

NEW QUESTIONS:

1) Name 2 hit 60's singles by American artists about England

2) Name the borderline hit singles that were responses to these other hit songs, and the artists:

a) Eve of Destruction
b) Leader of the Pack
c) King of the Road

3) What was the flip side to Soupy Sales's novelty hit the mouse?

4) Where was the title of the answer to #3 whispered? ANSWER MUST BE 3 WORDS

5) What are Doris Day's 2 connections to 60's rock?


11-15-2001 09:50 AM

Chris DuPre
Steel drum solo: "Carrie Ann" by the Hollies.

11-15-2001 09:55 AM

steve(thelil)
Yep.

11-15-2001 10:04 AM

henrymc
NEW QUESTIONS:

1) Name 2 hit 60's singles by American artists about England

Emgland Swings - Roger Miller

2) Name the borderline hit singles that were responses to these other hit songs, and the artists:

a) Eve of Destruction

Dawn of Correction

b) Leader of the Pack


c) King of the Road

Queen of the House

3) What was the flip side to Soupy Sales's novelty hit the mouse?

4) Where was the title of the answer to #3 whispered? ANSWER MUST BE 3 WORDS

5) What are Doris Day's 2 connections to 60's rock?

her son Terry Melcher was part of Bruce and Terry and hung around with Dennis Wilson

11-15-2001 10:07 AM

RBS
1) Name 2 hit 60's singles by American artists about England


Winchester Cathedral?

11-15-2001 10:11 AM

steve(thelil)
Big yeps on Winchester Cathedral and England Swings

Yes on Terry Melcher as Doris's son. Her other connection?

Yep on Dawn of Correction and Queen of the House. Still need the artists AND the song and artist that was the response to
Leader of the Pack

Still need:
3) What was the flip side to Soupy Sales's novelty hit the mouse?

4) Where was the title of the answer to #3 whispered? ANSWER MUST BE 3 WORDS

Jeff54 must know these 2



11-15-2001 10:32 AM

Chris DuPre
The Kinks'"Session Man" is about what cat who prowled the studios?

Who got his "big show" start playing bass for the Jeff Beck Group?

The Who wrote two songs about getting off manually. Name them.






11-15-2001 10:33 AM

lex luthor
Who Songs: "Fiddle About" and "Happy Jack"?

11-15-2001 10:47 AM

henrymc
A Jimmy Page?

B Jimmy Page?

C Pictures of Lily / Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand?


Leader of the Laundromat - The Detergents
Dawn of Correction -The Spokesmen????
Queen of the House - Jody Miller


Winchester Cathedral was by the New Vaudeville Band (around 1965??)

11-15-2001 10:58 AM

Chris DuPre
Henry got the Who question. ("Fiddle About" I hadn't considered!)

The Kinks and the Jeff Beck bassist question remain unanswered.

11-15-2001 11:08 AM

Uli
"5) What are Doris Day's 2 connections to 60's rock?"

check your e-mail, Steve. Does your address work?

11-15-2001 11:15 AM

steve(thelil)
Henrymc correct on these three:
Leader of the Laundromat - The Detergents
Queen of the House - Jody Miller
and NICE on Dawn of Correction - it was the Spokesmen!

Chris: I'll check my email now

11-15-2001 11:47 AM

steve(thelil)
Chris> My email address works. However, it's my home address and when I access it remotely from work I have to use Webbox. Maybe there is a delay, because I haven't gotten anything from you yet.

11-15-2001 11:50 AM

jeff54

3) What was the flip side to Soupy Sales's novelty hit the mouse?
Bafalackaka (sp)

4) Where was the title of the answer to #3 whispered? ANSWER MUST BE 3 WORDS
all over Turkey

Shirley Spark question was Younger Girl - I think it was recorded at my urging


11-15-2001 12:15 PM

jeff54
The Who wrote two songs about getting off manually. Name them.

Pictures of Lily






11-15-2001 12:23 PM

steve(thelil)
Nice work, Jeff.

11-15-2001 02:17 PM

Jasontis
Just a follow up to my third question. The first rock album not to feature the songs on the cover was The Who Sell Out (1967).

Here's one:

In 1968, after original guitarist Mick Abrahams left Jethro Tull, but before permanent replacement Martin Barre joined, Ian Anderson offered the job to a guy who eventually became a very successful and influential lead guitarist in his own right. He did, however, appear with Tull in "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" TV show, miming in the background. Who was he?

11-15-2001 02:22 PM

BFrank
Jason - the interim guitarist with Tull: Mick Taylor?

-- Bass player with the Jeff Beck Group: Ron Wood

11-15-2001 07:28 PM

steve(thelil)
Nice. Wow. I totally forgot the Jeff Beck/Ron Wood connection. That seems like lifetimes ago.

11-15-2001 07:31 PM

BFrank
"That seems like lifetimes ago"

- It WAS

11-15-2001 07:38 PM

henrymc
Any of you guys into Bluebeat/Ska ..the true roots of reggae
Who did originally did these timeless classics

(a) A message to you, Rudy (the original 1960's version that is)

(b) 007 (Shanty Town)

(c) Double Barrel (which starts 'I am the Magnificence..')

and

the ubiquitious

(d) Pressure Drop

11-15-2001 08:39 PM

steve(thelil)
Pressure Drop is Toots and the Maytals
Message to You Rudy - Wailers?

11-15-2001 09:04 PM

Lenny the Guitarist
Still awaiting an answer to my question on post #30. While I'm waiting for that one, try this.... What group had a semi-hit with a musical version of an Edgar Allen Poe poem?
Which poem?

11-15-2001 09:34 PM

bruce massey
I will guess Annabel Lee though I haven't a clue.

11-15-2001 09:53 PM

Squaredancecaller

Poe = The Raven, by the Alan Parsons Project.

*********

henry got all the hot-rods, and henry and thelil got the girl groups, except for

Sum-sum-summertime, sum-sum-summertime, which was by The Jamies, unfortunately '58 so disqualified as a question, now available on vol. 1 of HardToFind45sOnCDs.

*****************

The Beatles original American contract with Vee-Jay Records of Chicago was negotiated as a throw-in. The Beatles weren't known in 1962, but Vee-Jay agreed to release the American version of a then current #1 hit in Britain, and the Beatle contract was added to sweeten the deal for Vee-Jay.

What was the hit song that brought the Beatles to Vee-Jay and who did it.

11-15-2001 10:12 PM

Chris DuPre
B Frank is right on Ron Wood with the Jeff Beck Group.
Now, c'mon, who is "Session Man" by the Kinks about? BIG hint: He was the second favorite piano player of the Rolling Stones.

11-16-2001 09:55 AM

steve(thelil)
nicky hopkins?

11-16-2001 10:06 AM

Chris DuPre
Is correct.

11-16-2001 10:19 AM

steve(thelil)
Was either Big Girls Don't Cry OR Sherry by the Four Seasons the Vee Jay song that connects with the Beatles?

11-16-2001 10:36 AM

David Gitin
Love Me Do.

11-16-2001 10:39 AM

RBS
Answer to #69 -- Dr. Tar and Professor Feather, The Alan Parsons Project?

11-16-2001 11:18 AM

Jasontis
Mick Taylor is an incorrect response to the Tull interim guitarist question.

Here's a hint. Shortly after the Tull bit, this guitarist formed a blues band called Earth. Earth changed its name before its first album came out and the group has been a superstar act ever since.

11-16-2001 12:07 PM

Chris DuPre
Peter Green?

11-16-2001 12:24 PM

BFrank
Geeeeeeeez, I guess I better watch that "R&R Circus" tape (that I've never watched) this weekend!

11-16-2001 12:34 PM

Squaredancecaller

to clarify the Beatles/Vee-Jay Question --

The main contract was for a British song by a British act-- the song was #1 in England. The Beatles were unknown. The song was a hit here, not sure it got to #1, but certainly top ten. The British company was EMI and the Beatles "sweetener" was a five year deal.

British act -- what's the song?

11-16-2001 02:02 PM

steve(thelil)
Tommy Sheridan - Aint She Sweet?

11-16-2001 02:22 PM

Squaredancecaller

No, but it is a solo male singer. Rockabilly-type ballad. Unusual range.

11-16-2001 02:30 PM

steve(thelil)
Lonnie Donnegan?

11-16-2001 02:31 PM

Chris DuPre
"Town Without Pity"?

11-16-2001 02:31 PM

Brian Olewnick
Special for sqdcSteve: What SF band performed two numbers in the classic movie hit, "Riot on Sunset Strip"? What were the songs?

Toughie: What song, by what band, began with the lyrics:

"Hot flash, cold flesh
Your fingers itch."

?

Opinion question: What was the most embarassing song ever released by Donovan? (Despite being an opinion, I'm going for a specific answer here)

11-16-2001 02:35 PM

Chris DuPre
I know it's labeled for SQDC, but is the band the Chocolate Watch Band? I know they were on the soundtrack, a killer of kitsch, with Mama Cass and the Mugwumps, the Standells and more.


Donovan: Epistle to Dippy!

11-16-2001 02:54 PM

BFrank
"Opinion question: What was the most embarassing song ever released by Donovan? (Despite being an opinion, I'm going for a specific answer here)"

- I believe the answer to that would be "The Intergalactic Laxative" from the 'Cosmic Wheels' album.

11-16-2001 02:58 PM

steve(thelil)
That must be the sequel to "Catch the Wind"

11-16-2001 03:02 PM

Mike P
#61. "Hand Jive" by Johnny Otis.

11-16-2001 03:08 PM

lex luthor
BFarnk - You beat me to it. "Oh, the intergalactic laxative will getcha from here to there, relieve you and believe me, without a worry or care..." Just dreadful.

11-16-2001 03:15 PM

Squaredancecaller


chris and thelil: no, no. It was Frank Ifield's "I Remember You."

Brian:Never hoid of the movie. But I do remember being in LA in '69 or '70, and asking for directions to Sunset Strip from a guy on the street, and he said, "Four blocks down and two years ago."

Using Chris's post, I'd guess you meant The Mugwumps, which was an early name of The Mamas and The Papas.

11-16-2001 03:18 PM

Brian Olewnick
Chris' first guess (the Chocolate Watch Band) was what I was going for. Back when rock group names first started cooly using singular forms, that was a fave of mine. I thought it was watchband, like the thing your watch is attached to--whoa! wicked!. Hey, I was 13.

No one's gotten my preferred Donovan answer yet, though it's tough to argue with some of the choices. Its B-Side was "I Love My Shirt".

11-16-2001 03:25 PM

steve(thelil)
I just now learned that it was not a watchband like you hold a watch with and I'll never be the same. I think my flashbacks have even stopped.

11-16-2001 03:34 PM

Dr Dave
What Donovan album featured Jeff Beck?

11-16-2001 03:58 PM

RBS
What group sang a song that began with the lyrics:
"I can't stand still cause ya got me goin'
Your slacks are low and your ships are showin'
If you knew me like I knew you girl,
Your knees would bend and your hair would curl."

11-16-2001 04:02 PM

lex luthor
RBS - Isn't that the alternate beginning to "Psycho Killer"?

11-16-2001 04:06 PM

Brian Olewnick
Dr. Dave--The album you're referring to apparently (I just searched) contains the song I'm looking for.

11-16-2001 04:12 PM

Jasontis
In case I don't get online over the weekend, I'll give the answer to the Tull guitarist question before I split work.

His band Earth decided to rename themselves after the song that would lead off their debut album. The song, the album, and the band were called Black Sabbath. And the almost-Tull guitarist, therefore, was Tony Iommi.


11-16-2001 04:30 PM

Squaredancecaller

Don't know the Chocolate Watch Band, either. If they were contemporary with the Mugwumps, they were gone before I arrived.

Before closing the page on the Frank Ifield/Beatles thing, it should be noted that EMI later reneged on the deal and Vee-Jay went broke.

11-16-2001 04:31 PM

Elliot
"I can't stand still..."

That would be The Troggs. The song was "I Can't Control Myself," their follow up to "Wild Thing."

11-16-2001 04:57 PM

BFrank
Jeff Beck played on Donovan's "Barabajagal".

I'm sorry, but "The Intergalactic Laxative" is *definitely* Donovan's most embarrassing tune - regardless of what the "right" answer is ("Superlungs My Supergirl" ??)

Q: What are the names of Donovan's children, and what do they do?

11-16-2001 05:16 PM

Lenny the Guitarist
Answer to post #30... the two-hit wonder group which had a hit song with a song about cannibalism? The Buoys! .... the song "Timothy".... hungry as hell, no food to eat, etc etc..
my stomach was full as it could be, Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go? Timothy, Timothy! God, what did we do?"

Their other hit? "Give Up your Guns". Their producer? Rupert Holmes. Their lead guitarist? The excellent musician Bill Kelly.

Answer to post number 69? What group had a semi-hit with a musical version of a Poe poem? The Glass Prism. The Song..
The Raven.

Name the guitarist who played a "four-head" guitar. Reports of a five-headed guitar may be unsubstantiated.

11-16-2001 06:22 PM

henrymc
I pss my trainspotting badge to Lenny, they are darned obscure

11-16-2001 07:28 PM

Brian Olewnick
Isn't Ione Skye, the actress, one of Donovan's kids?

And, I'm sorry, but take a look at the lyrics of "Atlantis" and tell me it's not one of the most embarassing ditties ever. "Hail Atlantis! Ruler of the Sea!"

11-16-2001 07:38 PM

Dr Dave
Let's face it: Donovan has a lot to be embarrassed about.

"Barabajagal" is of course correct. Who covered "Superlungs" in a FAR superior version?

11-16-2001 07:41 PM

Lenny the Guitarist
Which musician met his demise by electrocution? Which met his demise by being hit by a car?

11-16-2001 08:00 PM

Jazzooo
<,Q: What one man band arguably out-McCartneyed Paul with his solo debut? (I just got this album on CD--what a fine piece of pop work.) Extra points if you can name the band he came from and his original instrument.
A: Todd Rundgren -(guitarist?) from The Nazz. >>

Good answer, John--but not the guy i'm thinking of. A truly terrific pop writer...anyone?

11-16-2001 08:49 PM

Squaredancecaller

electrocuted: Keith Relf of The Yardbirds, kilt ded by his own gitar. In the bathtub. (by Colonel Mustard)


lots killed in car accidents, Lenny (Eddie Cochran, Johnny Horton...), so do you mean as a pedestrian?

Brian: you mean that Donovan song isn't a Sun Ra Tribute?

11-16-2001 09:14 PM

Brian Olewnick
I know this is heretical in these here parts, but personally, I find a lot of Mr. Ra's, um, pretensions, to be pretty embarassing too. Some great music, to be sure, but leave the Saturn stuff home, please.

Now back to our regularly scheduled trivia...

What folk-rock demi-star went by a single name, that of a type of candy?

11-16-2001 09:21 PM

GoodSpeak
OK...I'm back [a little computer trouble and $265 BUCKS later]

BFrank came closest...but here's the answers to my Post #34:

1. Percey Sledge
2. The Beach Boys
3. 'Alabama Song'
4a. 'Departure'...to fly to the sun without burning a wing, to lie in the meadow and hear the grass sing and with all these things...they use them...to help us... to find...peace of mind...ha, ha, HA, HA, HA [fade to...]
4b. 'Ride My See-Saw'
5. 'Gimme Some Lovin' '
6. The Turtles
7. Um...I thought you'd know [my brain is at full speed stop today...sorry]...the tune is 'Leader of the Pack'.
8. 'Easier Said Then Done'
9. Both a group and a song. Nino Tiempo sang it.
10. 'SWALBR'
11. Jimi Hendrix
12. 'On the Road Again' by Canned Heat.
13. 'Bluebird' by Buffalo Springfield and 'Blackbird' by the Beatles.
14. 'My Sunday Feeling' first song on THIS WAS.
15. 'Serenade to a Cuckoo' also on THIS WAS

Yer GOOD BFrank

11-16-2001 10:35 PM

GoodSpeak
Mick Abrahams was the Tull guitarist.


Here's another one or two:

1. Name the Beatles song dealing with their first trip on LSD...and it ISN'T Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

2. Who did Surf City?

3. Who did Surfin' Safari'?

4. Who did Surf's Up?

5. What was unique about the album jacket of Jethro Tull's STAND UP?

6. Who played keyboards for Rod Stewart in the early daze? Who played guitar?

7. What was the name of Taj Mahal's first big hit album?

8. Who played rythm guitar for Humble Pie? Who played lead?

9. Who did Miserlou?

10. Name the two bands with the word "electric" in their names.





11-16-2001 10:53 PM

bruce massey
1. A guess, Blue Jay Way

2.Jan & Dean

3. Beach Boys

4. A stab, The Ventures

5. Stand Up had a pop up of the band in the middle of the album.

6.Keith Emerson, Ron Wood

7. My first taste of Taj Majal was the double album Giant Steps/De Old Folks at Home and I only picked it up because I thought his name was cool. I never knew that he had a big HIT record but The Real Thing got more airplay than anything I can recall.

8.Peter Frampton played lead, I believe

9. No idea

10. Electric Prunes

11-17-2001 01:44 AM

BFrank
Answer my own question: Donovan's kids = Ione Skye (Brian got that one) and Donovan Leitch (I don't think he is also "Jr."). Both actors - or at least "celebrities".

Four head guitar: Just a guess - either Steve Howe or the guy from Cheap Trick.

I'm thinking there's another electrocution besides Keith Relf. Another "hit by car" - Clarence White.

GoodSpeak - I grew up with a lot of this stuff, but only semi-accurate when it comes to trivia. I was a Tull freak up through "Passion Play" - saw every tour at the time.

For your 2nd quiz:
2) Beach Boys
3) same
4) ...again...
5) Pop-up inside cover
6) Are you talking about Ronnie Land and Ron Wood?
8) Too easy - Steve Marriot & Peter Frampton
9) Dick Dale natch
10) Electric Prunes, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Electric Flag (oh, that's 3 - sorry)

11-17-2001 02:04 AM

henrymc
Another Guit

arist who have died whilst playing:

Les Harvey - Stone the Crows - 1972

In addition 'Tomorrow never knows' is acid influenced if not derived.

Another who died in a car accident - Harry Chapin




11-17-2001 03:02 AM

djpens
man i cany remember none of this stuff --
but the weed was sure good
ok list the types of lsd that came out in order
purple flats
blue cheer
sunshine
grey flats
sugar cubes
blotter acid

11-17-2001 03:06 AM

djpens
licorace is what for ????

11-17-2001 03:09 AM

Lenny the Guitarist
Trivia.. as my good friend Wesbound has seen fit to debate the specifics of this trivia question, I offer it to you guys for your thoughts. What musician was said to die from an allergic reaction to his lawn treatment? A subsequent autopsy report revealed traces of cocaine in his blood,however.

11-17-2001 07:55 AM

Brian Olewnick
I'm assuming djpens' #117 is a bizarrely spelled, unusually phrased answer to my #110. If so, correct!

11-17-2001 08:45 AM

Jazzooo
Like, hasn't anyone ever heard of Emmit Rhodes?

11-17-2001 04:39 PM

GoodSpeak
Once again, BFrank is on top of it...Massey was pretty doggone close, too.

Answers to Post #112:

1. The song was 'Doctor Roberts'. He was the person who first turned the Beatles onto LSD...put it in their drinks. The song's lyrics are about that day.

2. Jan and Dean did it first, then the Beach Boys. It was a trick question

3. Beach Boys

4. Beach Boys

5. There was a pop-up of the band as you opened the cover. The single most despicable thing about CD art is you can't DO that.

6. Keyboards: Keith Emerson [later of Emerson, Lake and Palmer]; Guitar: Ron Wood [later of the Rolling Stones]

7. GIANT STEP...one of Taj's best, IMHO.

8. Peter Frampton was the lead guitarist for Humble Pie; Steve Marriot was the rythm guitar. Frampton was a one hit wonder with his LIVE album.

9. Dick Dale and the Deltones...he used to have a house on the entrance to Newport Beach Harbor near where I body surfed; a place called The Wedge.

10. Electric Prunes and Electric Flag were the ones I was thinking of...BFrank ID'ed the third: Pacific, Gas and Electic.


Quit being so good, BFrank!

11-17-2001 07:46 PM

BFrank
Sorry, GoodSpeak - I'll try to be more ignorant next time.
:-]

This just happens to be a niche period of time that I am pretty good at. If you went much earlier or got a little more obscure, I would probably explode.
= - 0
... and why CAN'T you have a pop-up with CD cover art?

11-17-2001 08:41 PM

GoodSpeak
<why CAN'T you have a pop-up with CD cover art?>

Too damn small. It would never fit into the jewel case.

Besides, ANYbody who knows Jethro Tull from WAY back in the day is OK in my book.

THIS WAS, STAND UP and BENEFIT were the absolute best albums Tull ever did. They lost me with THICK AS A BRICK then [ugh] Bungle in the Jungle [ACK].


The nightmares HAVE stopped, though.

11-17-2001 08:48 PM

Jasontis
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab did a CD of Stand Up that faithfully recreated the original cover; they did the same with Thick as a Brick, the opening to which is now being used in a car (or other product) commercial.

That said, I notice that a lot of questions aren't particular to the 60s. Not to be anal about it, but that is what the thread is about.


11-17-2001 09:29 PM

BFrank
Tim - Yeah, first 3 Tull were the best although "Aqualung" wasn't bad and I actually like "Thick As A Brick" and even "Passion Play" a little bit. But as you said, "Bungle in the Jungle" (accchhhh). Oh, yeah, "Living in the Past" had some good singles and live stuff that hadn't been released at the point it was released.

I'll tell you how stupid I was about Tull at the time. A couple of my buddies and myself went down to LA (from Santa Barbara - 100 miles) to see the group and party after HS graduation - the rest of the class went to Disneyland. I think this was around "Aqualung" time.

More trivia:

1) The Sons of Champlain changed their name to *what* at one point in their career? (and I don't mean "The Sons")

2) Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" cover had to be altered for what reason?

3) Why did Eric Clapton leave The Yardbirds?

4) What name did Jimmy Page choose for the group that eventually became Led Zeppelin?

5) What's the connection between The Animals and Hendrix?

11-17-2001 11:45 PM

Squaredancecaller

Returning for a moment to the 1962 Beatles-contract-as-a-sweetener for the Frank Ifield deal --

Where does one find an avant-garde jazz version of "I Remember You"?

11-18-2001 05:33 AM

Lenny the Guitarist
Answer to #118... drummer Jeff Porcaro of Toto.

11-18-2001 07:09 AM

steve(thelil)
I got Emmitt Rhodes correct (as the McCartneyish guy) dozens of threads ago. Still waiting for the prize (no doubt an album of Screaming Lord Such leading the Masked Marauders)

11-18-2001 11:32 AM

BFrank
Ahhhhhhhhh, the late Screaming Lord Sutch. Such a gentle soul. May he rest in peace.

11-18-2001 02:37 PM

Lenny the Guitarist
What sax player died in Thailand when his raft sprang a leak?

11-18-2001 06:48 PM

RBS
Answer to #130 -- Art Porter.

11-19-2001 09:23 AM

David Gitin
Chas Chandler is the Animals/Hendrix link.
And didn't Albert Ayler cover "I Remember You" on one of his early lps?

11-19-2001 09:32 AM

Elliot
125, #4--The New Yardbirds

11-19-2001 09:38 AM

steve(thelil)
Or perhaps "Jimmy Page's New Yardbirds" (what Hit Parader magazine said Zep was gonna be called)

11-19-2001 09:40 AM

Chris DuPre
Clapton left the Yardboids to woodshed because he thought he wasn't good enough.

Wrong andwer on the Beatles' LSD song, Goodie. The first acid song was "She Said, She Said." "Dr Robert" (singular) was about an all-purpose pill dispenser.

11-19-2001 10:09 AM

Jasontis
What was the name of [blank]'s old band before he/she went solo/became famous?

A. Minnie Riperton
B. Sam Cooke
C. Steve Howe
D. John Denver
E. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen

11-19-2001 02:10 PM

GoodSpeak
OK, another cover art question:

Why did Blind Faith have to change their original cover to suit American consumption? Circa 1969, I believe.


Jasontis,

Which questions were not of the 60s?

Just curious...

11-19-2001 02:18 PM

Chris DuPre
Blind Faith: The naked prepubescent girl was considered beyond the pale.

Sam Cooke: The Soul Stirrers

11-19-2001 02:31 PM

lazarus
A.Minnie Riperton - The Rotary Connection

C. Steve Howe - Tomorrow

11-19-2001 02:46 PM

steve(thelil)
OK, some 60's "underground bands" stuff

1) Name 2 "underground" white, blues based bands that made the scene before Hendrix and Cream that were made up (almost?) entirely of Jewish musicians. Hint: from 2 (different) major US cities.

2) What seminal psychedelic band included 2 members that was always rumored to be on the verge of forming a *supergroup* with Jeff Beck.

3) What very large lead guitarist teamed with Felix Pappalardi to form a band that recorded a theme song for a non-existent movie?

4) What r&b/gospel song was recorded by both the Chambers Brothers and another psychedelic 60's group that is the answer to one of the above questions.

5) The Youngbloods featured which fruit?

6) Name a group that included 2 members of Cream in their Pre-Cream days?




11-19-2001 03:08 PM

lex luthor
thelil - 3) is Leslie West, but that's the only one of your questions I can answer offhand. Is one of the answers to (1) Savoy Brown?

11-19-2001 03:11 PM

lazarus
2. Tim Bogart and Carmine Appice from Vanilla Fudge (later Cactus).
3. Leslie West from Mountain (Theme For An Imaginary Western)
6. Graham Bond Organisation

11-19-2001 03:16 PM

Chris DuPre
OK, some 60's "underground bands" stuff

1) Name 2 "underground" white, blues based bands that made the scene before Hendrix and Cream that were made up
(almost?) entirely of Jewish musicians. Hint: from 2 (different) major US cities.

One was the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, from Chicago.


4) What r&b/gospel song was recorded by both the Chambers Brothers and another psychedelic 60's group that is the answer
to one of the above questions.
"You Keep Me Hanging On"

11-19-2001 03:25 PM

GoodSpeak
Chris,

Fair enough.

But the fact is, Dr. Robert was the man who turned them on to it...the 'all purpose pill dispenser' is the connection to the drug and the Beatles, hense the song.

If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.

11-19-2001 03:33 PM

steve(thelil)
CHRIS:

I don't think the Chambers Bros ever recorded "You Keep Me Hanging On" and I don't think of it as gospel/r&b. I had another tune in mind.

And while Butterfield arguably qualifies as correct (although Nick Gravenites isn't Jewish) , I had a different Chicago based blues based band (with a psychedelic name) in mind as one of the Jewish underground big city bands

LAZARUS: NICE work on all 3:
142. lazarus
11-19-2001 / 03:16 PM

2. Tim Bogart and Carmine Appice from Vanilla Fudge (later Cactus) were always rumored to be forming (and finally did form) a supergroup (that wasn't so super) with Jeff Beck
3. Leslie West from Mountain (Theme For An Imaginary Western)
6. Graham Bond Organisation (produced Jack Bruce as well as Ginger Baker)


LEX: I didn't think of Savoy Brown as an answer to any of my questions.

11-19-2001 03:35 PM

Elliot
1. Blues Project(NY)
6.John Mayall's Bluesbreakers?

11-19-2001 03:38 PM

steve(thelil)
Blues Project is CORRECT (Kooper, Kalb, Kulberg and Katz)

The other one (from Chicago, I think) remains unnamed. Maybe they weren't all Jewish. In fact, I named their Greek singer by mistake in one of my posts above, and was wrong about him being in Butterfield. So we might have to throw out the question.

Oh hell. I was thinking of Mike Bloomfield and Harvey Brooks's Electric Flag .


11-19-2001 03:42 PM

steve(thelil)
What bands did these guys - who were NOT the leaders, but prominent number 2 (or maybe 3) guys - come from:

1)Barry Melton
2)Goldie McJohn
3)Mark Lindsay
4)Jerry Miller
5)Augie Myers
6)James Gurley
7)John Cippolina
8)Joe Bauer
9)Carson Van Osten (BONUS POINTS)
10)Zalman Yanovsky

11-19-2001 03:50 PM

Chris DuPre
Steve,
Butterfield's band predated Electric Flag and included both Gravenites and Bloomfield.

Barry Melton: Country Joe and the Fish

Mark Lindsay: Paul Revere and the Raiders

Augie Meyers: Sir Douglas Quintet

John Cippolina: Quicksilver Messenger Service

Zalman Yanovsky: Lovin' Spoonful

11-19-2001 03:56 PM

BFrank
4) Jerry Miller - Moby Grape
8) Joe Bauer - Youngbloods

Country Joe & the Fish - All Jewish, but not blues-based (maybe?)

5) The Youngbloods featured which fruit? - Banana
+++
Answers from my questions (post #125)
1) The Sons of Champlain changed their name to *what* at one point in their career? (and I don't mean "The Sons")
- Yogi Phlem
2) Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" cover had to be altered for what reason?
- There was a "bulge" in Spencer Dryden's pants. They lowered the picture on the cover to crop it out.
3) Why did Eric Clapton leave The Yardbirds?
- He thought that they were becoming too commercial. He wanted to play the blues.
4) What name did Jimmy Page choose for the group that eventually became Led Zeppelin?
- The New Yardbirds
5) What's the connection between The Animals and Hendrix?
- Chas Chandler (Animals bassist/Hendrix manager)

11-19-2001 04:09 PM

steve(thelil)
Chris and BFrank all correct as follows:

149. Chris DuPre
11-19-2001 / 03:56 PM

Barry Melton: Country Joe and the Fish

Mark Lindsay: Paul Revere and the Raiders

Augie Meyers: Sir Douglas Quintet

John Cippolina: Quicksilver Messenger Service

Zalman Yanovsky: Lovin' Spoonful


150. BFrank
11-19-2001 / 04:09 PM

4) Jerry Miller - Moby Grape
8) Joe Bauer - Youngbloods

11-19-2001 04:43 PM

GoodSpeak
Wasn't Goldie McJohn the keyboard player from Steppenwolf?

11-19-2001 04:56 PM

BFrank
I thought it was Mars Bonfire.

11-19-2001 06:20 PM

GoodSpeak
Nope...it was Goldie.

Found his name in the liner notes of an old Steppenwolf 'Greatest Hits' album.

In fact, he and Mars Bonfire ripped off the Steppenwolf name and toured for a time in several bars and dives for beer money, basically, until John Kay sued them for the rights to the name.


[Hey! Chalk one up for the Speakerman!]

11-19-2001 11:39 PM

BFrank
You ROCK, Goodie!

11-20-2001 12:10 AM

David Gitin
Jim Gurley, lead guitar, Big Brother & The Holding Company

11-20-2001 12:54 AM

steve(thelil)
Gittie and Goodie right on Goldie and Gurlie. Geeeee!!!

11-20-2001 09:42 AM

Jasontis
9) The Nazz


On my question, I was looking for Chad Mitchell Trio and Jay & the Americans as original bands for John Denver and Becker & Fagen, respectively.

BTW, the J. Geils Band could also be considered a white, Jewish, underground blues-based outfit.

11-20-2001 10:22 AM

steve(thelil)
Good point about Geils. And from a big city, too.

11-20-2001 11:56 AM

Chris DuPre
They had more than one Top 10 hit. Hence, not underground.

11-20-2001 12:44 PM

Jasontis
They were underground in the 60s, anyway. First real hit wasn't until "Give It to Me" in 1973.

Blow your face out, baby.

11-20-2001 02:24 PM

BFrank
I don't think J. Geils had any records until about 1970. So, in the 60s they were pretty much strictly a Boston band.

11-20-2001 02:32 PM

steve(thelil)
I never even knew there was an operational definition of "underground band". I thought it was a funny label, in part, because of its meaninglessness.

11-20-2001 04:24 PM

Jasontis
Subway musicians are underground.

And some are very good.

11-20-2001 04:36 PM

Dr Dave
One hit wonder: UNIT 4 +2

name the hit!

11-20-2001 05:20 PM

BFrank
"Concrete and Clay"
- Easy to look up on AMG. Still never heard of them and don't remember the song.

Q: CS&N are famous for saying at Woodstock: "this is only our second gig, man, and we're scared s##tless!". Where was their *first* gig?

11-20-2001 06:16 PM

steve(thelil)
Concrete and Clay was a great song. I believe there were 2 different artists (Unit 4 plus 2 and another artist) out with this same song at the same time.

the sidewalks and the streets
the concrete and the clay beneath my feet

begin to stumble
but love will never die
because we'll

see the mountains tumble (crumble?)
before we say goodbye
my love and i

will be in love eternally
and that's the way
it's meant to be...

11-20-2001 06:23 PM

GoodSpeak
OK...late 60's stuff:

1. What tune was Iron Butterfly known for BESIDES In-a-gadda-vida?

2. What happened to their guitarist?

3. What was the last single of the Beach Boys in 1969?

4. Who was a 'Monster' and what song spurred on the anti-war movement?

5. What British blues band is considered the Father of Punk? What was their 'theme' song?




11-20-2001 10:39 PM

BFrank
Hey Speak, you're getting "out there"! Where did you get these questions?

1) BESIDES In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida? I was a huge IB fan at the time, and I don't remember them having any other hits. "Iron Butterfly Theme" maybe?
2) Are you talking about Danny Weis who went on to form Rhinoceros.
4) Steppenwolf? "Draft Resistor"? I don't remember the song, let alone it being a hit with the anti-war crowd.
5) The Who? "Won't Get Fooled Again"?

11-21-2001 12:11 AM

GoodSpeak
BFrank,

4. 'Draft Resister' by Steppenwolf...and amongst us draft aged kids facing bullets in Vietnam's rice fields, it was VERY much a motivator against the war. Personally, I faced the inhumane-ness of the Lottery...twice. Nearly went to Canada...once. Living in LA and being hip deep in the anti-war movement, I and my friends were sure targets of the Selective Service. A buddy of mine was drafted WHILE in high school...they got him right after graduation. I've not heard from him since. Maybe it's an underground thing, who knows.

5. The Who, absolutely! The tune is 'My Generation'. The best version is on LIVE AT LEEDS.

The rest, tomorrow...


11-21-2001 12:29 AM

lazarus
Larry "Rhino" Rheinhart who was in a later version of Iron Butterfly (he´s playing on my favorite Iron Butterfly album "Metamorphosis" from 1970) played guitar in one of the the best heavy metal groups of the 70´s, Captain Beyond. Their selftitled debutalbum from 1972 is a classic!

11-21-2001 02:21 AM

Jasontis
Last Beach Boys single of the 60s, I believe, was Breakaway, written by Brian and "Reggie Dunbar," who in fact was Papa Murry. Must have been a torturous process. I don't think it was released on an album until the Spirit of America collection in '75.

I used to know the answer to the CSN question. I believe it was a show with Joni Mitchell in California.

Or maybe it was an orgy with Joni?

11-21-2001 10:46 AM

BFrank
Forgot about Capt. Beyond. "Thousand Days of Yesterdays" was a great song.

GoodSpeak - "Live at Leeds" is one of the great live albums. Now there is the "Deluxe Edition" which apparently is the entire concert. I have the previous expanded edition, which was great, too.

Sounds like we're about the same age. I still don't remember that Steppenwolf song, and I went to plenty of anti-war rallies just up the coast in Santa Barbara! I guess my radio station was just out of it. :-[

11-21-2001 12:51 PM

Chris DuPre
The deluxe "Live at Leeds" includes a second disc that is the performance of "Tommy" at that gig.

11-21-2001 12:58 PM

GoodSpeak
Here we go [ans. to Post # 168] :

1. 'Most Anything You Want', it was on the flip side of the single version of Inagadavida. 'Flowers and Beads' was played a lot, too.

2. The gutarist, Erik Brann, went on to work for the government and later disappeared w/o a trace.

3. 'I Can Hear Music' was more popular, but 'Break Away' was the last Beach Boy single of 1969. Jasontis got that one.

4. 'Draft Resister'

5. The Who and 'My Generation'


BFrank,

My guess is we are about the same age...I was living in East LA County back then and I was pretty much in the heart of the anti-war movement down there. I used to listen to a lot of underground FM stations including KPFK run by hippies in the basement of a Baptist Church [Hey, Steve(thelil)...maybe this answers your question about the origin/use of the term?] and KMET before they went the way of KLOS and started playing that mainstream AM radio cra-, er, stuff. But there was a huge and faithful following which gave KMET ratings up the whazzoo.

Now KMET is called 'The Wave' [KTWV] and they play that smoothie stuff. Ugh.


BTW, was CSN's 'first gig' at the Whiskey A Go-Go?

11-22-2001 02:24 AM

BFrank
Some of the first FM I listened to was out of LA, actually. I don't remember the call letters - might have been KMET.

CSN answer from post #166: Chicago. (my girlfriend saw the show)

11-22-2001 02:52 AM

Lenny the Guitarist
Who is the oldest female singer to have the number one single on the US music charts?

11-24-2001 01:51 PM

BFrank
Tina Turner?

11-24-2001 02:08 PM

Squaredancecaller

Are we still in the 60's here? Couldn't have been Tina in the 60's.

Mrs. Miller? She never made #1, did she?

11-24-2001 02:30 PM

Lenny the Guitarist
Nah.. we're not in the 60's. Oldest female singer to have a number one hit on the US music charts?

11-25-2001 06:04 PM

BFrank
Ethel Merman?

11-25-2001 07:17 PM

GoodSpeak
Rosemary Clooney?


I give.

11-25-2001 11:36 PM

Wesbound
"Oldest woman to have a #1 song on the charts" ... gotta be Cher.

09-14-2002 11:58 PM

Squaredancecaller

By Jove, I think I've got it!

It's Grace Slick. Jefferson Starship had 3 #1 hits -- We Built This City On Rock'n'Roll, Sara, & Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.

Grace was 46 on the first one, and 47 or 48 by the third.

I heard her interviewed on Bay Area radio a couple of years ago and remember her saying she didn't really consider herself a singer, 'more like a cheerleader.'

09-15-2002 05:28 AM

Wesbound
It's Cher. I think the question was: Who was the odest woman to have a top 10 hit on the rock charts?"

09-15-2002 01:31 PM

Squaredancecaller

Not top ten, Wes -- Number 1.

>>180. Lenny the Guitarist
11-25-2001 / 06:04 PM

Nah.. we're not in the 60's. Oldest female singer to have a number one hit on the US music
charts?<<

Pretty sure Grace Slick is right. Go get your buddy to arbitrate this, Wes!


09-15-2002 04:29 PM

shoe king irving
senator everitt dirkson

09-15-2002 08:32 PM

Harold_Z
Moms Mabley? "Abraham, Martin, And John"?

09-15-2002 08:53 PM

Brian Olewnick
What regular member of Barry Guy's London Jazz Composers Orchestra was also a member of Manfred Mann's band in the early 60's?

09-15-2002 08:55 PM

Dr Dave
Jack Bruce.

09-16-2002 03:55 PM

Brian Olewnick
No, but Bruce also played with him. In fact, reading the first part of the Wickes book I mentioned elsewhere, I was surprised how active Bruce apparently was in the avant-jazz scene in England in the early 60's. But Bruce never played with the LJCO, I'm pretty certain.

My guy's much more obscure. It is _trivia_ after all!

09-16-2002 04:15 PM

Squaredancecaller
Having just listened to my first LJCO this week, I took the time to cross-check Penguin and AMG on this last night -- I don't see it.

09-16-2002 04:50 PM

shoe king irving
Senator Everett Dirkson-Smythe?

09-16-2002 09:39 PM

Dr Dave
Dick Hextall-Smith (a blood relation to Sen. Everett Dirksen-Smythe)?

(edit) No, that's not right either. Jack Bruce was a good guess, though. I think. I give up!

09-18-2002 10:33 AM

Brian Olewnick
All right, I'll break the suspense. Trumpeter/violinist Henry Lowther was with Mann around 1963-64 and appears on the "Soul of Mann" recording.

Just read last night that saxophonist Lol Coxhill was all set to join the Kinks early on until they decided to go without a horn player.

[Just thought of how distracting it must be for Coxhill to read bbs' and such, always thinking people are referring to him when they react to something amusing]

09-18-2002 10:39 AM

Chris DuPre
Pete Townshend inserted a song into "Tommy" to appeal to a certain critic.
Who was the critic and what was the song?
(This should be semi-easy.)

09-18-2002 10:51 AM

Brian Olewnick
Couldn't be 'Fiddle About', could it???

09-18-2002 11:02 AM

Chris DuPre
Well, that was an Entwistle tune. Sorry.
Next!

09-18-2002 11:17 AM

Wesbound
Oldest woman to have a number one hit on the US charts.... Cher.

What British rock group had two of its members commit suicide?

09-19-2002 11:29 PM

BFrank
Too easy, Wesbound - BADFINGER

09-20-2002 01:30 AM

Squaredancecaller


>>Oldest woman to have a number one hit on the US charts.... Cher.<<

Wes: I hate to break it to you, but simply repeating this over and over and over again doesn't actually make it any truer and doesn't actually strengthen your argument.

To support my contention that the correct answer is
GRACE SLICK,
I offer the following two on-line excerpts, the first from a history of the Starship, the second from a bio of Grace.

Wes: now what -- if anything -- do you have? Name the song by Cher. Put up or shut up.

°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°

>>Starship plunges headlong into the commercial direction by
recording radio-friendly material from outside writers. The result is an album that
reaches #7 and a single, We Built this City (co-written by Bernie Taupin) that hits
#1 in November - the band's first-ever #1 single. Grace, at the ripe old age of 46,
breaks Tina Turner's record as the oldest woman ever to sing lead on a #1 hit. (Grace
will top her own record twice in the next two years.)<<


**

>>Grace remained with the truncated Starship as it went on to
achieve its greatest success with three number one hits, We
Built this City (1985), Sara (1986), and Nothing's Gonna
Stop Us Now (1987). But Grace doesn't appear to have enjoyed this run at the top;
rather, she felt distanced by the band's blatant commercialism as well as Mickey's
subtle hints that he'd be happier as the sole vocalist. Furthermore, Grace was
becoming more aware of her age -- at 47, she set a record for the oldest woman to
appear on a number one hit, but Grace seemed embarrassed at being a "middle-aged
person on a rock-and-roll stage," as she described herself in her autobiography. The
10 to 15-year age difference between her and her band mates did little to dispel her
doubts.<<


09-20-2002 04:46 AM

Chris DuPre
C'mon. Somebody's got to know the "Tommy" question.
What song did Pete Townshend add to his rock opera to please an influential critic?
For bonus points, who was the critic?

09-20-2002 08:21 AM

Brian Olewnick
I know, but only 'cos I looked it up.

09-20-2002 08:47 AM

Wesbound
Oldest woman to have a number one hit on US charts? Cher.
Song Title: "Do you Believe?"


09-22-2002 09:00 AM

Chris DuPre
(Exasperated sigh.)

Brian, tell the class, please.

09-23-2002 10:10 AM

Chris DuPre
Well, it appears Brian is absent without excuse. He will have to repeat Rock Operas 101 next semester.

What song did Pete Townshend add to "Tommy" to please an influential critic?
"Pinball Wizard"

For bonus points, who was the critic?
Nik Cohn

I thought that was a gimme.

09-23-2002 02:24 PM

Brian Olewnick
Aggh! Didn't see the offer in #205 'til now. That's what I woulda said!! Please, no more rock operas! Please.

btw, the local news radio station I listen to in the morning while showering (1010 WINS) plays commercials for Elton John's 'Aida' fairly often. This may be, and I understand it has much competition, but this may be the WORST, most INSIPID music I've ever heard in my life.

Just wanted to get that down in pixels somewhere. Forgive the intrusion.

09-23-2002 02:33 PM

BFrank
What Mongo Santamaria tune is "riffed" in the middle of a Doors tune? And which Doors tune?

09-23-2002 04:55 PM

Squaredancecaller

Wes: You're right. Cher broke Grace Slick's record with "Believe" in 1999 at the age of 53.

09-23-2002 06:56 PM

Chris DuPre
What drummer was once a member of two of the acknowledged Top 5 British Invasion bands? (not at the same time)

10-14-2002 02:40 PM

jeff54
Mick Avory preceded Charly Watts as the drummer for the Stones before he went to the Kinks, but it was before the Stones were famous does that still count?

10-14-2002 03:44 PM

Chris DuPre
Yep. You are correct, sir.