FunTrivia Music Mix: Vol 23 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Boris Karloff

Robert George Pickett is better known as Bobby "Boris" Pickett. He performed the song mostly impersonating Boris Karloff, though he also briefly impersonated Bela Lugosi when he did the voice of Dracula in the song. Karloff himself was so impressed with Pickett's performance that he himself preformed the song on an episode of the TV show "Shindig".

Question by player F6FHellcat

Answer: coal

Searching for another hit song to follow his successful recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Gene Autry commissioned Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson to write it. They produced "Frosty the Snowman" which Autry recorded with the Cass Country Boys in 1950.

The song has since been covered by Jimmy Durante, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Jan and Dean, Johnny Mathis, Guy Lombardo, The Canadian Brass, The Hampton String Quartet, and Burl Ives (for television). The lyric says "Frosty the Snowman was a jolly happy soul with a corncob pipe and a button nose and his eyes made out of coal."

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Bryan Adams

The Juno Award winner and native of Kingston, Ontario co-wrote "Tears Are Not Enough" with Canadian super-producer David Foster in the wake of the American smash hit "We Are The World". Adams recommended that Foster's lyric, "We can close the distance/Only we can make the difference" has better symbolism when changed to "we can BRIDGE the distance". His song "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" is immortalized on the soundtrack to the 1991 film "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves".


Question by player BRY2K

Answer: Twisted Sister

Probably Twisted Sister's best known hit is "We're Not Going To Take It"

Question by player Starlord

Answer: Los del Rio

Macarena was released on the 1993 album from Los del Rio, "A Mi Me Gusta". It reached number one internationally, and received extensive airplay from 1995-1997. On a 2002 countdown, VH1 ranked Macarena as the "Number One Greatest 1-hit wonder of all-time".

Question by player illteach

Answer: None of these

Traditionally, barbershop music is sung a cappella style and the only instruments would be the singers' voices. The most popular barbershop groups are quartets generally composed of tenor, bass, baritone and the lead.

Question by player mlcmlc

Answer: Muzak

Founded in 1934, Muzak provided background instrumental music specifically programmed to influence the mood and behavior of the listeners. Popular in offices in the 1970s, the music was programmed to optimize worker productivity while limiting fatigue.

Question by player Aliquis

Answer: The Marrakesh Express

Graham Nash was a member of the Hollies from 1962 to 1968. He wrote "Marrakesh Express" about his vacation trip on the train from Casablanca to Marrakesh. The Hollies declined to record it but Nash's new band -- Crosby, Stills and Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) -- recorded it in 1969.

The lyrics' reference to "ducks and pigs and chickens" is an accurate recollection of the domesticated animals with whom Nash shared the train trip.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Paul and Ringo

Paul was the "sinister" Beatle. It's debatable if Jimi Hendrix or Paul is the more famous rock and roll lefty. Some people claim photos of Paul handling any random object with his right hand is proof he was replaced with a doppelganger after an untimely death. Ringo Starr is also left-handed! 'I'm your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills ... because I'm really left-handed playing a right-handed kit. I can't roll around the drums because of that."'

Question by player DaMoopies

Answer: South

Leroy Brown lived on the south side of Chicago, in the baddest part of town according to the song by Jim Croce. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Top 100 chart in 1973.

Question by player deaconblues63