Music H-K: 'H' Trivia

1. Mary Hopkin's first record featured her singing songs in the native language of her home country, which is part of the United Kingdom. Which country is that?

From Quiz Chanteuse: The Mary Hopkin Story

Answer: Wales

Mary started out as a folk singer with a Welsh group called the Selby Set, and her first record, an EP released on the small Welsh label Cambrian, consisted entirely of Welsh-language songs.

From Quiz Happy Hour Again: The Music Of Paul Heaton

Answer: Bromborough, Cheshire

Paul Heaton was born in Bromborough, a town about seven miles from Liverpool, on May 9, 1962. When he was aged just four, the family relocated to Sheffield, before moving to Surrey. When he was about 21, he moved to Hull and later settled in Manchester.

From Quiz The Housemartins

Answer: London 0 Hull 4

The title is partly a reference to the city where the band were based, and partly a reference to Paul Heaton's quote that the Housemartins were the 'fourth best band in Hull'. (Everything But the Girl, the Marine Girls - both of whom featured Tracey Thorn - and the Red Guitars were apparently the Top Three.)

From Quiz Home Free Vocal Band

Answer: "The Sing-Off"

They actually auditioned twice for the show, but didn't make it on the first time. The first time they auditioned they didn't classify themselves as country, the second time they did, and that earned them a place in the show. "The Sing-Off" competition was cancelled in 2015 do to poor ratings.

From Quiz Richie Havens

Answer: Brooklyn, New York

Richard Pierce Havens was born in Brooklyn on January 21, 1941. The other choices given all pertain to places either directly relevant to his life or his parents' origins.

From Quiz The One and Only Imogen Heap

Answer: Angry angel

The sixth song on Imogen Heap's debut album is called "Angry Angel." The full lyrics are "Over there stands my angry angel and he's shaking his head, in disgrace with me. Over there stands my angry angel and he's frowning like hell, I'm not feeling guilty." The beginning of the song is chaotic and exciting. The album, called "I Megaphone," was released in the US in 1998. The title is an anagram of her name.

From Quiz Where'd My Mind Go? A Holy Modal Rounders Quiz

Answer: The Fugs

The Holy Modal Rounders (THMR from here on) recorded and released their first two albums in 1964 and 1965 on the Prestige label. After the release of the second album they briefly hooked up the Fugs and recorded what originally was released as 'The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction' and then reissued as 'The Fugs First Album'. The Velvet Underground were the band that Lou Reed was in with the Andy Warhol affiliations, The Ultimate Spinach was a band from Boston that included Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter, who actually played with THMR briefly AFTER leaving The Ultimate Spinach (and prior to his joining Steely Dan) and The Moray Eels may (or may not) have been an early name the band used for a moment.

From Quiz The Talented Musician Named Bruce Hornsby

Answer: Strut

The single "Strut" was recorded by Sheena Easton for her 1984 album "A Private Heaven". The song charted in six different countries. Bruce Hornsby appeared in the song's music video playing keyboards behind Sheena Easton.

From Quiz The Solo Career of Don Henley

Answer: Stevie Nicks

The 1981 duet "Leather and Lace" by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley was the second single released from Nicks' album "Bella Donna". The song hit the top twenty in the United States and Canada.

From Quiz Songs Sung by Nick Heyward

Answer: Blue Hat For A Blue Day

'Blue Hat For A Blue Day' written and recorded by Nick Heyward. The song got to position 14 in the UK charts in 1983 and it is on the album 'North Of A Miracle'.

From Quiz That Song Is Driving Me Crazy

Answer: high low

"That Song Is Driving Me Crazy", first verse: "That song is driving me crazy, I gotta hear it again First time I heard it, I was with some friends It's a simple little song, you can sing along, with an old time melody So would you play that crazy little song again for me" This song peaked at number two in 1974 both U.S. and Canada, from his tenth studio album. Throughout his prolific songwriting career, Mr. Hall became known as "The Storyteller" and "The Poet Laureate Of Country Music" citing his eloquently detailed narration and vivid images of the common person in everyday situations.

From Quiz The Music of Morten Harket

Answer: 1982

A-ha formed in Norway in 1982, with Morten Harket as a later addition to the band than its two original members, Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar (now Paul Waaktaar-Savoy).

From Quiz Halestorm Lyrics

Answer: I Get Off

"I Get Off" was Halestorm's first single release (2009). The video shows the band members playing their instruments. The song went to number 17 on the US Billboard Rock chart.

From Quiz Here's the Hideaways

Answer: They were at school together

Ozzie Yue remembered his school days during a 2007 interview: "I took the 11-plus and moved to the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, a grammar school that is now the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Paul McCartney and George Harrison were in the Upper School when I was in the Lower. During my first year, Paul used to go to the art class during free periods and sit opposite me. I would flick pieces of paper at him" (Source: "The Independent", 11 January 2007).

From Quiz Hollywood Undead- a Band from the 'Hood

Answer: A story about a girl who had been murdered

According to Artist Direct, J-Dog said he wrote "My Black Dahlia" because he had heard a story about a girl who had been brutally murdered. Many people thought this song was about a boy who killed his ex after she dumped him.

From Quiz Heatmiser

Answer: Hampshire College

The origins of the band Heatmiser were laid at this college. In Northampton, Massachusetts, the pair would perform original compositions interspersed with Ringo Starr and Elvis Costello covers. In October 1991, the band expanded its line-up in Portland, Oregon adding a drummer and a bassist. Heatmiser's first acknowledged public performance was on Valentine's Day 1992.

From Quiz Justin Hawkins - The Darkness & Beyond

Answer: Barbecue Rock Records

Hot Leg's debut album "Red Light Fever" came out in 2009. Three singles were released from the first album: "Trojan Guitar", "I've Met Jesus", and "Cocktails".

From Quiz Emmylou Harris

Answer: Birmingham, Alabama

Seguin was the birthplace of Nanci Griffith, Staten Island was Joan Baez' birthplace and Duluth was where Bob Dylan came into the world.

From Quiz Free Electric Bandsman: The Albert Hammond Story

Answer: Gibraltar

Born in London during WWII, (May 18th, 1944) he was taken to the family home Gibraltar. He was appointed OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2008 and in 2009 Gibraltar announced plans to put his picture on commemorative postage stamps. In 2008, Hammond was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. During his recording career, Hammond made albums in both English and Spanish. His son, Albert Hammond Junior, followed in his musical footsteps, and has found fame as a guitarist with The Strokes.

From Quiz "Jump Around" by House of Pain

Answer: 1992

House of Pain was an Irish-themed US hiphop group who released three albums in the early to mid 1990s. "Jump Around" was by far the group's biggest song, reaching "Billboard" number three in the US in 1992.

From Quiz The Music of Lisa Hannigan

Answer: Silent Night

This song is hidden on the track, "Eskimo". Another song, "Prague", precedes "Silent Night" within the track.

From Quiz The Hold Steady

Answer: Craig Finn

Craig Finn, along with lead guitarist Tad Kubler, was formerly a member of the critically acclaimed cult Minneapolis band Lifter Puller. Finn spins tales in a style similar to Bruce Springsteen, and his songs often contain wry observational humour, are besieged with social and literary references, and frequently allude back to tracks on previous albums as though everything fits together like one big jigsaw. Franz Nicolay plays keyboards, accordion and harmonica, whilst Bobby Drake took over as the band's drummer in 2005, to replace the departing Judd Counsell. One further member, Gavin Polivka, plays bass guitar.

From Quiz The Blackfly Song

Answer: Little Abitibi with the survey crew

The Unemployment office sent him 'to the Little Abitibi with the survey crew'. Gotta watch the government employment office folks. They have been know to send people out on miserable jobs. Like planting trees. No problem right? Except, for me it was in Long Lac, Ontario and still snowing, with a foot of rotten ice and snow on the ground on the first of April. Would have thought it was a cruel April fool's joke and went back home if they hadn't bought me only a one way bus ticket. There were no blackflies yet though...

From Quiz Ofra Haza

Answer: "Chai"

It was the title track from an album Haza released that year. The eventual winner of the 1983 contest was from Luxembourg: Corinne Hermes performed "Si La Vie Est Cadeau (If Life Was a Gift)."

From Quiz The Hoosiers

Answer: Worried about Ray

It was the first single to be released from the band's debut album "The Trick To Life". It was released on June 25, 2007.

From Quiz Davey Havok

Answer: Passaro

Davey Havok was born as David Anthony Passaro on November 20, 1975 in Rochester, New York.

From Quiz Guess the Hellogoodbye Song

Answer: Baby It's Fact

This song was on Hellogoodbye's CD "Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!" released in 2006 by Drive-Thru Records.

From Quiz One Night in Bangkok.....

Answer: Chess

THE AMERICAN version: "Bangkok, Oriental setting And the city don't know that the city is getting The creme de la creme of the chess world "

From Quiz The Hush Sound

Answer: intertwined

The song 'Like Vines' is (unsurprisingly) from the cd "Like Vines."

From Quiz The Essential Hot Water Music

Answer: Gainesville, Florida

Other bands that started in Gainesville include Less Than Jake, Against Me! and True North.

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