Positive Pop Quiz

[margo]

Positive Pop Quiz

This time, I give you the artist and the year, and you have to say the title (which has something positive about it)

1. The Who (Oct 1967)
2. The Move (1967)
3. Baccara (1977)
4. The Hollies (1965)
5. Johnny Nash (1972)
6. R.Kelly (1996)
7. Paul Simon (1987)
8. Beatles (Oct 1965)
9. Billy Swan (1988)
10. Free (1970)

One point for each correct answer.

[petem]

3 Yes sir I can Boogie
5 I can see clearly now
6 I Believe I can fly
10 Allright Now

I better score these for margo as she's not quite up to speed yet.

Four correct for Petem.

Leader:
[glow=red,2,300]Petem 4pts[/glow]

[Hammy]

1. I can see for miles.
:)

massive2 said:

1. I can see for miles.
:)

I can too, Jase.
Each time I look up at the moon I'm seeing something that's 250,000 miles away. So I can see for miles and miles. Anyway, 1pt.

1. Petem 4pts
2. Massive2 1pt

[CraigC]

4 = I'm alive

[davejones]

8. We Can Work It Out ( mathmaticians – with a pencil)
9. I Can Help

[Sir Jock o The Strap]

I can see for miles, written by Pete Townshend, which was recorded for the band's 1967 album, The Who Sell Out. It was the only song from the album to be released as a single, on October 14th, 1967.

Flowers in the Rain, written by Roy Adrian Wood (sometimes erroneously thought to be born as Ulysses Adrian Wood, from an offhand interview comment in the 1960s) (born 8 November 1946 in Birmingham, England), is a songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. co - founder of the Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard, His first group in Birmingham in the early 1960s was Gerry Levene and the Avengers. Then he went on with Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders (the band later to become Idle Race, in which his musical partner Jeff Lynne made his first steps).

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, sold more than 16 million copies in 1977, In 1976, baccara are Spanish Television's Ballet, Mayte Mateos and María Mendiola.

The Hollies, tricky this one I think you mean the Air That I breathe written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood, initially recorded by Phil Everly of the famed Everly Brothers. But that was 1974 so I'm gonna plumb for Just One Look 1964.

I Can See Clearly Now, written and recorded by Johnny Nash. A hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 4, 1972. It is a common misconception that this song was written and/or performed by Bob Marley, possibly based on the fact that The Wailers were the backing band on Nash's original recording. Marley wrote Nash's next single, "Stir It Up.

I Believe I Can Fly, by R&B singer R. Kelly. The song was written, produced and also arranged by R. Kelly. It was the theme song of the movie Space Jam. The song was #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number #1 on the UK charts. The song can be heard on his 1998 album R. "I Believe I Can Fly" has also won 3 Grammys, and ranked #406 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Paul Simon, You Can Call Me Al, the first single released from his album Graceland. The song originally charted in the US at #44 in October, 1986 but it was re-issued with greater promotion in March, 1987 and hit #23. In the UK it peaked at #4.

beatles, take your pick in 1965 from Help, Yesterday, Drive my car, Nowhere man or In my life! Not going to say owt about beatles, its all been said!!!

Mmmmmmmmmm...........!!!!! Billy Swan only one I know of his is a 1974 hit called I Can Help. Unless your on about something he did with Randy Herman Meisner, co- founder of The Eagles, which would be Take it to the limit but in 1988? Good one got me puzzled!!!!!

Free - All Right Now. Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums, while lead guitarist Paul Kossoff, a much revered blues-rock guitarist, was to die from a drug-induced heart failure at the age of 25 in 1976.

Thanx
(sorry used to be a DJ)

[Chunky Monkey]

Blimey Mate, you posted somthing sensible. Whats wrong?? :D

'Kinell, Jock
- Used to be a DJ, eh ?
Takes me back to the sixties when I used to do the honours for the Church youth club. Me and a little ginger fellow who looked like Mick Hucknall (it was his equipment - a twin turntable deck and you had to key the next record up using a cloth and holding it in position before letting it go).
No 'mixing' involved in those days, but we did it for free and went down a treat because we had always bought the latest stuff.

So I'll score you when I can shake this headache, but would comment that not all your answers fit the Quiz which is a Positive Pop Quiz (the clue is in the title). I promise not to take any points off and you will have earned quite a few bonus points for the extra information. ;)

[Mark James]

On a positive theme, No. 2 should be "I can hear the grass grow". As covered these days by my own favourite band, The Fall.

Ready now to score the straightforward bit.

CraigC - 1pt for I'm Alive. My preferred answer was Yes I Will, but they're both by the Hollies, both 1965, and both positive, so fine by me.

DaveJ - 8) and 9) both correct, and little joke thrown in about the constipated mathemetician, so 2.5pts.

Sir Jock - 7) You Can Call Me Al - thanks very much, henceforth you will be known as Sir Al o' the Strap ! Perhaps not, doesn't quite have the same ring to it. Seriously, 1pt for the mo' and BP's to come later.

MarkJ - 2) I Can Hear The Grass Grow - I think worth 1.5pts for recent associated band.

Leaderboard:

1. Petem 4pts
2. DaveJ 2.5pts
3. MarkJ 1.5pts
4=Massive2 1pt
4=CraigC 1pt
4=Jock 1pt

Will now dissect Jock's extra answers before closing quiz.

The dissection of Jock's dissemination ;D ;)

I Can See For Miles 1.5 BPs for the trivia concerning the uniqueness of this track.

The Move/Roy Wood 1.5 BPs for naming Roy Wood as a famous Brummie and his prior association with the E.L.O.

Yes Sir I Can Boogie 1.5 BPs for the trivia on Baccara - it was news to me ! :o

The Hollies 0.5 BPs for info regarding who penned The Air That I Breathe.

I Can See Clearly Now 0.5 BPs for the misconception info regarding Bob Marley. A personal misconception was that it was a hit for Jimmy Cliff. It was in fact a minor one for him, but much later in 1994.

I Believe I Can Fly 2.0 BPs - reduced to a mere 1.5 BPs for the failure to expose R Kelly as a pervert of considerable stature:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly

Paul Simon 1 BP to add to the 1pt already awarded.

The Beatles 0 BPs - Drive My Car being the only positive one - but that was written much later than 1965.

Billy Swan 0 BPs - Dave Jones had already supplied the answer.

Free 1.5 BPs for the information on Rodgers and Kossoff. You could have gained a further half by addin that All Right Now was a hit all over again in 1978 (as an EP) and in 1991.

So, 10 bonus points to be added, and you have won the quiz !

Quiz ended:
1. Sir Jock o' the Strap 11pts
2. Petem 4pts
3. DaveJ 2.5pts
4. MarkJ 1.5pts
5=Massive2 1pt
5=CraigC 1pt

[Sir Jock o The Strap]

Thank you, thank you all, I won't try to bore you all in this little acceptance speech but I would like to thank a few people so here goes.........................! Nah cannie be arsed!!!!!!

Cheers Tommo for scoring it and cheers to Margo for the questions on something I am good at!!!!