Self-quarantine Quiz


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Here is a music quiz. I trust you not use the internet or magaines or books to find answers. You get all the questions, then all the answers
in a different order. Your job is to match them up.
Here are the correct answers. New quiz on Monday or Tuesday.
Quiz 10
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Phil Kives - The man who invented the cheapo hit compilation album. In the 60s and 70s they were all over the charts. But in the 80's the record companies put pressure on the chart people to stop albums that were not "full price" appearing in the lists. "Hooked on Classics" and albums from 1982 were their last gasp. Which label am I talking about? Not Ronco. Not "Top of the Pops".
K-tel -
Singer Helen Kane ("Button Up Your Overcoat" 1929) used the phrase "Boop Oop a Doop". She inspired a cartoon character who was a 1930's "Flapper". The character also appeared in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Name the cartoon character.
Betty Boop -
It's number 260 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Reached only 44 in the UK but was in top 100 in three separate years. The "Top line" credit for the original album was Ry Cooder though you can barely detect him in the sound mix.
Buena Vista Social Club -
"I got blisters on my fingers". Name the album.
Beatles White Albums -
Originally released in 1968, it didn't reach the charts till 2018. "God save Donald Duck Vaudeville and Variety"
Kinks Village Green Preservation Society -
"She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune; And Verdi's always creeping from her room". Name that song. Don't forget the exclamation mark at the end. Between the original album and the re-master a false-start by the woman singer was removed.
Rockaria! -
Neil Young released a live album of feedback, guitar noise, and vocal fragments in 1991. One track only, lasting 35 minutes.
It was a companion piece to "Weld". Name it. Definitely an endurance test.
Arc -
Krautrock cosmic music. Founded by Edgar Froese in 1967, this band have released over 100 albums. They reached the top 50 from 1974 to 1983. Their name came from a line by the Beatles: "tangerine trees and marmelade skies".
Tangerine Dream -
This song was no 1 in the USA and 38 in the UK. It was first heard in the film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
There is bright sunshine but no rain in the scene. Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote it.
Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head -
The phrase is derived from Hindi tikai babu (it's all right, sir) UK 1939. One of the great "singing while on a bicycle" songs.
The song, written by Johnny Mercer, appeared in 1958 in the film "Merry Andrew". Name the singer.
Everything is Tickety Boo (Danny Kaye) -
Aah political correctness. In 2015 West Australia Opera dropped "Carmen" from its schedule. Was it because of cruelty to bulls? No.
Was it because of sexism? No. Please give the real reason.
The first scene in Carmen takes place outside a cigarette factory -
Possibly the most famous record producer. Mick Brown wrote a biography of him: "Tearing Down The Wall of Sound: The Rise And Fall of -".
Who?
Phil Spector -
Evelyn Glennie is profoundly deaf. What is her contribution to music?
Percussionist -
Nicole Kidman sang "One Day I'll Fly Away" in "Moulin Rouge" on a rooftop on a metal elephant. Who sang the original?
Randy Crawford -
This composer (1556/7 - 1602) of madrigals is best known for his setting of "Now is the month of maying" and "It was a lover and his lass".
There is no proof that he knew Shakespeare. He has the same surname as an NME journalist and presenter of "The Late Show". He did the marketing of "Frankie Goes To Hollywood".
Thomas Morley/ Paul Morley

Self-quarantine Quiz