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1. A long time ago the year was 1945. I know, you probably weren't even born yet. Well neither was I, but I just love a song that was written that year, and which later became a "welcome home" song of sorts for U.S. troops who were returning from overseas duty in the aftermath of WW2.
"Sentimental Journey" was immensely popular in 1945, but do you know who sang the tune?
2. Let's take a quantum leap forward to 1977, the year in which Linda Ronstadt took us to "Blue Bayou".
What singer/songwriter originally recorded this ballad in 1961?
3. "W-e-l-l-l; let's all go down to Dumas Walker", the southern rock band known as The Kentucky Headhunters suggested to us in song in 1990.
So what WAS this guy named Dumas Walker known for anyway, at least regionally in Kentucky and Tennessee?
4. "All my bags are packed; I'm ready to go
I'm standing here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye..."
This hit song for American folk musicians Peter, Paul and Mary was popular upon its release as a single in 1969, but can you tell me who both wrote and recorded this tune in 1966?
5. "Vernon'll meet me when the BOAC lands,
Keys to the M.G. will be in his hands.
Adjust to the driving and I'm on my way,
It's all on the right side in..."
In what location was the BOAC landing, according to this 1970 one-hit wonder by Bobby Bloom?
6. "I think I'm goin' to Katmandu,
That's really really where I'm going to
If I ever get out of here
That's what I'm gonna do."
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band cranked out this hit in 1975, but can you tell me to what country that featured Kathmandu as its capital it was that Bob wished to visit in the song?
7. Gladys Knight and the Pips recorded this number one hit in 1973.
"L.A. proved to much for the man;
L.A. proved too much for the man
(Too much for the man he couldn't make it)
So he's leavin' the life
He's come to know, o-oh..."
What was the ORIGINAL title of this song when it was recorded by the man who wrote it, Jim Weatherly?
8. A former draftsman and insurance salesman, this songwriter and musician recorded a Billboard Hot 100 number five hit that was released in May 1974.
"Please Come To Boston" also managed to go to the top of the Easy Listening charts that year.
Who wrote and sang this tune?
9. This "King of the Road" invited us to go on a journey in 1965.
What location in Europe did Roger Miller suggest that we all might like to visit?
10. Can you tell me what country Paul McCartney was in when he wrote the song "Back In The USSR", which was a hit for The Beatles in 1968?
11. "Night Train To Munich" was released by this artist in 1995.
Perhaps you can tell me this musician's name if I mention some of his previous hits like, "Year of the Cat", "Time Passages" and "On The Border".
12. The Gordon Lightfoot tune "Carefree Highway" was written about a thoroughfare in the United States. Gordon was a Canadian-born singer, but he wrote this song about a route located in which western U.S. state?
13. This song made it to Woodstock, the famous venue of the late 60s rock music festival.
Where, though, were Crosby, Stills and Nash singing about taking a train ride?
14. This song just sort of flows along, kind of like a river, and was released on an album entitled "Gorilla" in 1975 by singer/songwriter James Taylor.
In what American country did James imagine himself to be, "carrying" the listener along with him?
15. In Roger Whittaker's number one hit "The Last Farewell", where was the subject of the song going and what was he planning to do while there?
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