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  The Music of Rosemary Clooney   popular trivia quiz  
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Rosemary Clooney was both an accomplished musician and actress. This quiz will focus on her music career which spanned seven decades. Good luck!
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  America's Girl Singer: Rosemary Clooney    
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George's Aunt Rosie had one of the great voices of the last century. How well do you know her and her work?
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Rosemary Clooney Trivia Questions
1. Rosemary Clooney's first four Billboard Hot 100 top 25 hits came as a duet with an Italian American saxophone player and band leader. Who was this individual that performed the duet "Grieving For You" with Rosemary Clooney in 1949?

From Quiz The Music of Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Tony Pastor

In the mid 1940s Rosemary Clooney performed with her sister Betty in Cincinnati. After attending one of their performances Tony Pastor was so impressed that he decided to tour with them and sing several duets with Rosemary. The other chart-topping duets that Rosemary Clooney and Tony Pastor collaborated on include "You Started Something", "It's Like Taking Candy From a Baby", and "A You're Adorable".

2. What year was Rosemary Clooney born?

From Quiz America's Girl Singer: Rosemary Clooney

Answer: 1928

May 23, to be precise, in Maysville, Kentucky, the oldest of three children. Her family moved to Cincinnati, the parents split up and the mother remarried and moved to California with the youngest child. Rosemary and her sister remained with their father who subsequently departed also, leaving the two teenagers on their own.

3. In 1951 Rosemary Clooney had her first song appear at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. What was the name of this inviting song that ironically Clooney mocks in the 1953 film "The Stars are Singing"?

From Quiz The Music of Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Come On-a My House

"Come On-a My House" remained at number one for six weeks in 1951. It was actually written in 1939, 12 years before the release of the song. Pulitzer Prize winning author William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian co-wrote the song and based the melody on an Armenian folk song. Interestingly years later Rosemary Clooney confessed to hating the song and that she was forced to release it or be fired by her producer Mitch Miller. The incorrect answer choices were also 1951 releases by Rosemary Clooney but none of them cracked the top ten.

4. The year 1952 saw the release of a song that would be the theme song for Rosemary Clooney's variety show that aired from 1956-57. What is the name of this song that begins "The evening breeze caressed the trees ________"?

From Quiz The Music of Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Tenderly

Rosemary Clooney's 1952 rendition of "Tenderly" reached number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. The music for the song "Tenderly" was written by Walter Gross with lyrics by Jack Lawrence. The 1953 musical film "Torch Song" starred Joan Crawford and one of the seven songs that she sang was "Tenderly".

5. Rosemary Clooney was a success in her early 20s and was signed to a contract with Capitol Records. However, it wasn't until 1951 when she recorded a song Mitch Miller convinced her to do that she became a household name. What was that song?

From Quiz America's Girl Singer: Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Come On-a My House

Rosemary (by now known as "Rosie" to her fans) did not like the song. She thought it was demeaning, and she particularly felt uncomfortable putting on an Italian accent. She also thought the lyrics were risque. Her fans, obviously, disagreed, and she achieved her first gold record. "Abba Dabba Honeymoon" (Spelled variously as "Aba Daba") was a hit for Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter (you remember him, of course). "They're Either too Young or too Old" is a Rosemary Clooney song, but it was recorded in the 1940s and referred to the men left at home during World War II. Finally, the Oscar winning "High Hopes" (from the film "A Hole in the Head") was performed by Frank Sinatra.

6. Written by Curley Williams, Rosemary Clooney's second Billboard Hot 100 number one hit was released in 1952. Describing a love that is not fully returned, what is the name of this song which Hank Williams also released in 1952?

From Quiz The Music of Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Half as Much

The lyrics to "Half as Much" begin "If you loved me half as much as I love you You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do." In addition to the versions by Rosemary Clooney and Hank Williams, other artists to release "Half as Much" include Patsy Cline and Ray Charles in 1962, Petula Clark in 1974, and Van Morrison in 2006.

7. Rosemary Clooney married an actor 16 years her senior and had five children in six years (Gasp!). Who was her babies' daddy?

From Quiz America's Girl Singer: Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Jose Ferrer

Jose and Mel Ferrer are no relation to each other, but are frequently confused. (The Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton of their day, I suppose.) Both were actors, and both were married to beautiful, talented women. Jose Ferrer won an Academy Award in 1952 for "Cyrano de Bergerac." Television audiences might remember him as Stephanie Van der Kellan's father on "Newhart" in the 1990s. Mel Ferrer was Audrey Hepburn's first husband. Jose Melis was Jack Paar's bandleader on "The Tonight Show" in the '50s, and Mel Torme, dubbed "The Velvet Fog" much to his chagrin, was another popular cabaret singer and contemporary of Rosie's.

8. Recorded with back up vocals by the Mellomen our next song incorporated words from different languages. In what 1954 song by Rosemary Clooney can you find the words siciliano, tarantella, mozzarella, and pizza?

From Quiz The Music of Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Mambo Italiano

"Mambo Italiano" peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1955. The song was famously written by Bob Merrill on a paper napkin in New York City in an Italian restaurant while he was close to a deadline. In addition to the aforementioned words in Italian, the song also includes the Spanish words mambo, enchilada, and rumba.

9. Rosemary Clooney co-starred in the top-grossing picture of 1954. What was it?

From Quiz America's Girl Singer: Rosemary Clooney

Answer: White Christmas

"White Christmas" had a spectacular array of music and dancing talent in its four leads: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera Ellen, and Rosie. The latter played sisters and one of the most memorable numbers in the film is when they sing a song called "Sisters" which is later performed in semi-drag by Crosby and Kaye. If you know the tune, it's hard to get out of your head! "Marty" won the Best Picture Oscar for 1955, but no one has ever confused Rosemary Clooney with Ernest Borgnine. "Two Weeks in Love" (1950) contained the "classic" "Abba Dabba Honeymoon." Finally, "Roman Holiday" was the first film of the other Mrs. Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn, released in 1953.

10. During Rosemary's breakdown years, she did a series of commercials for a product with which she became identified. What was it?

From Quiz America's Girl Singer: Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Bounty Paper Towels

All these products had celebrity spokeswomen: Jan Minor (Madge the Manicurist) for Palmolive, Florence Henderson for Wesson Oil, and Anna Maria Albergetti for Good Seasons, but Rosie was the "Bounty Lady." (Subsequently, she was succeeded by Nancy Walker, a diner waitress named (what else?) "Rosie."

11. In 1976, the bad times got better. Rosie got an offer from an old friend to tour with him, and these appearances marked her comeback. She soon resumed her career, this time identifying primarily as a jazz singer. Who was her savior?

From Quiz America's Girl Singer: Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Bing Crosby

It may have been Rosie's comeback, but it was Crosby's farewell. He died in 1977, and this was his final tour. The two did a duet of "Slow Boat to China" that brought down the house. Even though "Come On-a My House" was huge, Rosie didn't have anything to do with Mitch Miller after the 1950s! Danny Kaye was, as mentioned above, a co-star in "White Christmas," and Clooney and Hope worked together in other concerts and television shows.

12. One of Rosemary Clooney's sons married the daughter of another 1950s popular music star, Pat Boone. Which daughter became Rosie's daughter-in-law?

From Quiz America's Girl Singer: Rosemary Clooney

Answer: Debby Boone

Debby Boone has recorded a CD called "Reflections of Rosemary." Brave girl. By the way, I found it enormously convenient for this question that Pat Boone had four daughters. Thanks, Pat!

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