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1. Team leader redwaldo walked a couple of miles to purchase his first single at the local record store. The Beatles performed this song in a 1967 satellite telecast.
Which song was it?
2. In 1961, Tezza was ten, and worked in her uncle's shearing shed for 2/6 (25¢) a day and thought she was the richest person in the world. When she next went to Perth, she had over a pound ($2.00) to spend on ANYTHING she wanted! She bought her first ever record, which coincidentally was the first number one Billboard Hot 100 song for Del Shannon in the spring of 1961. Which song was it?
3. PSB1969 tells us: The first album I brought was by an Australian band; I purchased it in 1979 when I was in primary school. It was the band's second album, containing songs such as "Cold Cold Change", "Koala Sprint", "Back on the Borderline" and "Stand in Line". Can you guess it?
4. When elvislennon was ten years old he purchased his first album with his hard-earned pocket money. It was by his favorite band at the time, Abba. Everyone knows that the band hailed from Sweden, but which member was not born there?
5. This is a song Wyambezi wanted to buy in 1964 but purchased 40 years later! Recorded by Cilla Black, "You're My World" was an international number one hit but failed to make it into the Top 25 in the United States. Who wrote and originally recorded the song in 1963?
6. Casey317 purchased his first album even before there was anything at home to play it on! The album, 'Time Out', went on to be the first jazz record to sell more than a million copies, but for which group?
7. At seven years old, iCaramba took the bus with her sister to Vogue Records on Hollywood Boulevard and spent her holiday money on "Up to Date", which was the second album released by this made-up "band" that had a hit television show in the 1970s. Who were they?
8. A day or two after her eighth birthday in December 1962 our UK member Holkham16 purchased her first record with her own money. The record was Cliff Richard singing 'Bachelor Boy', this was released as a double A side disc. What was the partner song?
9. When Gloriabrazil was a little child, before she could read, she asked her father to bring her a record with a history. He was a classical music lover and choose a Russian children´s tale composed for narrator and orchestra. Among thousands of narrators we have Peter Ustinov, Leonard Bernstein, Sean Connery, David Bowie, Alec Guinness, John Gielgud, Jack Lemmon, André Previn, Boris Karloff, Dudley Moore,Charles Aznavour, Christopher Lee, Sting and in Brazil, Paulo Autran. Which of the following did he bring Gloriabrazil ?
10. When Aussie_Rock was 12 he purchased "Crawl File", a compilation album by Australian Crawl. The lead singer of Australian Crawl, James Reyne, was born in which city?
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