Canadian Music Trivia

1. 1944 - Which Canadian band leader, famous for New Year's Eve music, made it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 list with "It's Love-Love-Love"?

From Quiz Canadians at #1 on the US Hot 100 Billboard Charts

Answer: Guy Lombardo

Guy Lombardo was born in London, Ontario in June, 1902. His orchestra played at venues around North America, but is most famous for New Year's Eve radio and television broadcasts from 1929 through the mid-70s. His hit song "It's Love-Love-Love" arrived on the Billboard chart on April 6, 1944, lasting a total of ten weeks on the chart, peaking at number one for two weeks.

From Quiz Name the Song - by Canadian Greats

Answer: Acadian Driftwood

This is The Band's song about the expulsion of the Acadians, from the 1975 album "Northern Lights-Southern Cross. "Bobcaygeon" is by the late Gord Downie and the Tragically hip. "Hard Road" is written by Sam Roberts and "Snowbird" is by Anne Murray from Springhill, Nova Scotia.

From Quiz Canadian Music Festivals

Answer: Ontario

Orillia, Ontario. Mariposa was conceived in 1961, and has moved to different locations many times in its life. My favorite venue was Toronto Islands, and Molson Park, in Barrie. It is now back home in Orillia, where it began so many years ago. It's a multi day festival, held in early July. "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town", written by Stephen Leacock, was loosely based his experiences in Orillia.

From Quiz One Flew Over Canadian Music

Answer: Seasons in the Sun

The song is a farewell from the dying main character to his loved ones. In the Jacks version, the protagonist bids farewell to a childhood friend of his, his father, who had tried to dissuade him from his lifestyle and Michelle, his little daughter, who will grow without her father. Despite its success when it was released, today it is frowned upon by critics and the general public.

From Quiz The Canadian Invasion: US Number 1s from Canada

Answer: Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies didn't actually have any ladies in the band, but they did have a very nice cult following. They gained a bit of a resurgence when they were chosen to record the theme song to the CBS comedy, "The Big Bang Theory".

From Quiz Out on The Mira

Answer: Allister MacGillivray

'Song for the Mira', a folk song in the Celtic style was written in 1973 by Allister MacGillivray. Its lyrics speak of a longing for, and eventual return to, the serenity of the Mira River region of Cape Breton, NS.

From Quiz Popular Canadian Musicians

Answer: Jann Arden

The two songs mentioned in the question were written by Jann Arden, whose full birth name is Jann Arden Anne Richards. The songs both came from her second album, "Living Under June". Both tunes went to number one on the Canadian adult contemporary charts in 1994. "Insensitive" represents her biggest success internationally and it hit the number twelve position in 1994 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song also gained notoriety when it was included on the soundtrack of Christian Slater's 1996 film, "Bed of Roses".

From Quiz Music of the Great White North II

Answer: Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde broke up in 1991 after releasing three studio albums, and changing their name to The Blondes for their fourth release.

From Quiz Music of the Great White North

Answer: Bif Naked

Besides acting and singing, Bif is also a poet. She released a spoken word album entitled "Okenspay Ordway: Things I Forgot To Tell Mommy" in 1997.

From Quiz Songs For Canada

Answer: A wandering Canadian, banished from his home, travelled through many lands while his tears flowed.

"Un canadien errant" is one of the most poignant of Canadian folk songs. Prior to Canada's Confederation, Quebec was known as Lower Canada. After the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837-1838, several of the rebels were condemned to death or exiled to the United States. The author, Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, a Quebecois poet, wrote this song that captures the pain of exile.

From Quiz Canadian Music of the 80s

Answer: Harlequin

Harlequin was a rock band based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, popular in Canada in the late seventies to mid eighties. They produced eight albums and nine singles. Their drummer, Brent Fitz, has recorded and toured with Alice Cooper and Theory of a Deadman.

From Quiz Canadian Music of the 70s

Answer: The Poppy Family

The Poppy Family were based out of Vancouver, B.C. Although their first big hit "Which Way You Goin' Billy" was recorded, released and reached number one in 1969, The Poppy Family had most of their hits into the early 1970s. These included "Where Evil Grows" and "That's Where I Went Wrong". Terry and Susan divorced in 1973. Terry went on to have a hit with "Seasons in the Sun" and Susan was successful with "I Thought of You Again".

From Quiz Hoser Hair Metal

Answer: Kick Axe

Kick Axe were from Saskatchewan. The album "Vices" was released in 1984.

From Quiz Canadian Country Music

Answer: NCN - New Country Network

Canada went ahead with their New Country Network, but after only two years CMT struck a deal with them to create CMT Canada.

From Quiz Ten Genres, One City (Part 5)

Answer: The Band

If you knew that only The Band were from Toronto, then you had most of the question figured out. The Band recorded this album in, you guessed it, a big pink house they rented in upstate New York. By the way, for purposes of trivia, three songs on this album were written or co-written by Bob Dylan.

From Quiz The Barrie Music Scene

Answer: Sarah McLachlan

Although Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian artist, she performed in the Philadelphia Live 8 concert. Live 8 was watched by three billion people around the world as it was held eight different cities- one of which was Barrie, Ontario. More than one thousand musicians performed at these concerts, and twenty-two bands performed in Barrie. Some of these included Motley Crue, Gordon Lightfoot, Great Big Sea, Our Lady Peace, and Blue Rodeo. This event was hosted by Tom Green and Dan Aykroyd.

From Quiz Canadian Eh?

Answer: 54-40

This song "Get Back Down" is from the album "Show Me" (1987) which also included one of their biggest hits "One Day in your Life".

From Quiz Canadian Women in Music

Answer: Avril Lavigne

Avril mentions Napanee in her song "Anything but Ordinary".

From Quiz Can-Rock Craziness

Answer: Blame Your Parents

This marked the first time ever, after almost 14 years of recording, that they actually charted in the singles charts other than a low placing for "One Day In Your Life" in the late 80s. "Blame Your Parents" can be found on the 1994 album "Smilin' Buddha Cabaret."

From Quiz Canadian Bands

Answer: Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet

The Shadowy Men were an instrumental band from Ontario. The song used for "Kids in the Hall" is "Having an Average Weekend".

From Quiz Who Sings It? (Canadian)

Answer: Tragically Hip

This is the opening line from "38 Years Old", a single from The Tragically Hip's "Up To Here".

From Quiz Canadian Music from the 1980s

Answer: Rough Trade

Pope earned a reputation early-on as an outsider, boycotting the Junos (Canada's answer to the Grammys) and writing songs that raised the ire of censors for their racy content. Sadly, however, she too fell for the dark side in the 80s, appearing in a 1983 Pepsi ad, of all things.

From Quiz General Canadian Music Trivia

Answer: St. John's

The four-membered rock and Celtic group, Great Big Sea, is from St. John's, Nfld. They are my favourite band and I encourage everybody to go out and buy their new album (2002) 'Sea Of No Cares'.

From Quiz Canadian Lyrics

Answer: The Guess Who

Good old 'American Woman'.

From Quiz Canuck Music

Answer: Juno

From Quiz Canadian Music Tidbits

Answer: The Band

From Quiz Canadian Music

Answer: The Tragically Hip

I think I'm the only Canadian who doesn't like this band!!

From Quiz Canadians at #1 on the US Hot 100 Billboard Charts

Answer: The Crew-Cuts

The Crew-Cuts met at St. Michaels Choir School in Toronto in the late 1940s. They formed a group and had multiple songs on the Billboard charts over the years, but "Sha-Boom" was the only one to make it to #1. Besides being a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks in the 1950s, "Sha-Boom" by the Crew-Cuts made it into later pop culture with its appearances on "Happy Days" in the 70s, as well as in the movie "Clue" in 1985.

From Quiz Name the Song - by Canadian Greats

Answer: No Sugar Tonight

From The Guess Who's 1970 album "American Woman". "Big Yellow Taxi" is by Joni Mitchell (later covered by Counting Crows 2002), "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is by BTO (also from Winnipeg) and "One Week" is by The Barenaked Ladies.

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