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1. "Sh-Boom" (1954), was the only number one hit recorded by a quartet from Canada, who were originally known as The Four Tones. At the time they were the opening act for the popular Canadian songstress, Gisele MacKenzie, they were called The Canadaires. When they took "Sh-Boom" to Number One on both the "Billboard" and "Cash Box" charts by what new name, changed in 1953, were they then known?
2. "Let Me Go Lover", recorded in 1954, is a sad saga of a girl who has fallen hard for a guy who unfortunately doesn't have reciprocal feelings. Many popular artists who also recorded it, had many other big hits, but for this lady, however, it was her only song to chart. The singer's name is not as familiar as this song, but can you name the artist whose version sold 10,000 copies in the first week after it was released?
3. "The Ballad of the Green Berets" (1966), was an homage written by a member of the Green Berets to his fellow troops fighting an unpopular war in Vietnam. It helped to bring out badly needed feelings of patriotism among deeply divided American citizens. While serving as a Green Beret he was badly wounded and almost lost a leg. He wrote "The Ballad of the Green Berets" from his hospital bed. Do you know the name of the Staff Sergeant who wound up recording the biggest hit song of 1966?
4. "Mule Train" was a song about a mule-rider with deliveries to make and a determination to make them. He had to urge the animal through some obstacles, but it was for many good causes. Do you know which prolific singer's version of "Mule Train" spent three months on the best seller charts in 1949, eventually reaching Number One?
5. Sailing is a great way to relax and get away from it all. For a certain singer, "Sailing", was also his Grammy Winning Record of the Year in 1980. Which sea-loving singer was it who was the first to capture "Song of the Year", "Album of the Year", "Record of the Year", and "Best New Artist of the Year", when he did it all in in 1980?
6. If you found out your sweetie was leaving you, I'll bet you'd feel like, "Singin' the Blues" (1956). The artist who recorded it was born with the moniker of Albert Cernik, February 22, 1927. Early in his career he sang under the name Al Grant, but when he signed with Columbia Records, their talent scout, a man named Mitch Miller, had him change it. By what smoother sounding sobriquet do we know him?
7. "Many a tear has to fall, but "It's All in the Game", all in the wonderful game that we know as love". An singer recorded it in 1951, and saw it get no higher than 18th on the Best Seller in Store's chart. He would re-record it in 1958 and this time it became Number One on the Best Seller list, the Rhythm & Blues list and the UK charts. Can you remember whose signature song this was?
8. All together now, everybody sing: "I'm A Girl Watcher"
"I'm a girl watcher, I'm a girl watcher...
Watchin' girls go by, hey, my my
I'm a girl watcher, I'm a girl watcher...
Here comes one now"
Can you perceive who was pleased by the passing parade of pulchritude?
9. "There's a Moon Out Tonight" was recorded by a septet of high school male doo-woppers, who originally called themselves the Supremes. (At that time Diana Ross and her gal-pals were singing as The Primettes). Aside from its "B" side, it was the only song they released (1958) before graduating and finding real day jobs. "There's a Moon Out Tonight" first appeared on the "Billboard" charts in January 1961. At that time what new name had the group taken?
10. "Hey Venus, oh, Venus. Venus, if you will, please send a little girl for me to thrill, a girl who wants my kisses and my arms, a girl with all the charms of you". Who was this very popular young male singer who promised if Venus delivered the girl of his dreams that he'd give her all the love he had to give for as long as they both would live?
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