Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Question > Music
What rocker's come-back album in the 90s featured artists such as Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, and Michael Penn as well as the actress Kimmy Robertson?
UPDATE: Answer: Roger McGuinn's "Back from Rio"
UPDATE: Answer: Roger McGuinn's "Back from Rio"
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Question > Music
What 1960s rocker created a on-stage shtick complete with turban and robe and extended it to carrying his band equipment around in a 1952 Packard Hearse?
UPDATE: Answer: Domingo “Sam” Samudio from Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
UPDATE: Answer: Domingo “Sam” Samudio from Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Question > Music
At the age of 14, Paul McCartney played songs for John Lennon as an impromptu audition. McCartney sang the lyrics all the way through, which impressed John Lennon since he could never remember lyrics and often made up his own. McCartney even wrote out the lyrics for two songs, and showed Lennon the chords. As a result of this meeting, Lennon asked McCartney to join his band, The Quarry Men. What were these two songs?
UPDATE: Answer: Be-Bop-A-Lula by Gene Vincent and Twenty Flight Rock by Eddie Cochran
UPDATE: Answer: Be-Bop-A-Lula by Gene Vincent and Twenty Flight Rock by Eddie Cochran
Monday, March 26, 2007
Questions > Music
Last week ended up being all about sitcoms. How about a new theme this week? Let's try Rock n' Roll.
What early rock n' roller from St. Louis created a new version of the traditional tune called "Ida Red", renamed it, and had it go to number 5 on the Billboard charts?
UPDATE: Answer: Chuck Berry rewrote the song and called it "Maybellene"
What early rock n' roller from St. Louis created a new version of the traditional tune called "Ida Red", renamed it, and had it go to number 5 on the Billboard charts?
UPDATE: Answer: Chuck Berry rewrote the song and called it "Maybellene"
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