Supertramp Trivia

1. "Give a little bit / Give a little bit of your ____ to me." What word is missing from the blank?

From Quiz Song by Song: "Give A Little Bit"

Answer: Love

The song opens: "Oh, yeah Alright Here we go again Hey hey, whoa no, da na, hey hey, yeah Give a little bit Give a little bit of your love to me Give a little bit I'll give a little bit of my love to you." Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson share writing credits for the song. Supertramp was founded in London in 1969.

From Quiz Song by Song: "The Logical Song"

Answer: Breakfast in America

Supetramp's 1979 album "Breakfast in America" was their sixth studio album. It was nominated for four Grammy awards and won two, for Best Recording Package and Best Engineered Album, Non-classical. The album peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200. It also hit number one on the Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish, West German, New Zealand, French, Canadian, and Australian album charts. It ticked in at number three on the U.K. album charts. "The Logical Song" was the lead single released from the album, in March of 1979. Three other singles followed: "Breakfast in America" in June, "Goodbye Stranger" in July, and "Take the Long Way Home" in October.

From Quiz Crisis? What Crisis?

Answer: 1975

"Crisis" came out in November 1975. Several songs on the album, however, were heard before the album's release in a live performance recorded by the BBC. These were "Lady", "Another Man's Woman", "Sister Moonshine", and "Just a Normal Day".

From Quiz Breakfast In America

Answer: 1979

"Breakfast In America" reached number one on the Billboard charts. It also spent 88 weeks on the Billboard charts.

From Quiz The Very Best of Supertramp

Answer: "Crime of the Century"

This song usually opened Supertramp's tours for the album "Crime of the Century".

From Quiz Supertramp

Answer: Breakfast In America

Worldwide, "Breakfast in America" sold millions of copies, making Supertramp a household name.

From Quiz Supertramp

Answer: Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson

The two members wrote most (if not all) of the songs that Supertramp recorded.

From Quiz Song by Song: "Give A Little Bit"

Answer: The Golden Rule

Ultimate Classic Rock website rated "Give A Little Bit" Supertramp's number one song, followed by "Bloody Well Right." The website said, "Hodgson's singalong paean to the Golden Rule has since completely transcended its respectable, but not massively huge, number 15 showing on the charts." The Golden Rule, found in the Bible, is a statement of Jesus's that one should "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

From Quiz Song by Song: "The Logical Song"

Answer: The years that Roger Hodgson spent at boarding school

Supertramp's founders, Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, wrote the band's songs, and although Davies contributed to "The Logical Song," it was primarily written by Roger Hodgson. The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters awarded Hodgson the Ivor Novello Award for "The Logical Song" in 1980. According to Hodgson, as quoted by Paul Elliot in "Classic Rock Magazine," the song was "very autobiographical" and refers to when he was a "shy and sensitive" boy at boarding school, where he spent ten years of his youth. Hodgson attended the boarding schools Woodcote House (near Windlesham) and Stowe School (near Buckingham). Hodgson was also, in the words of Elliot, "deeply affected by his parents' divorce when he was 12." The future musician was given his first guitar as a parting gift from his father. Hodgson went on to form a band at boarding school.

From Quiz Crisis? What Crisis?

Answer: Just a Normal Day

This is one of the few Supertramp songs in which the vocals are shared equally between Hodgson and Davies. It was written primarily by Rick Davies, with Roger Hodgson contributing the repeated verse which he sings on the record.

From Quiz Breakfast In America

Answer: 4

"Goodbye Stranger", "Breakfast In America", "The Logical Song", and "Take The Long Way Home" were released as singles. All of these songs were considered the best off the album.

From Quiz The Very Best of Supertramp

Answer: Mary, Jane

From "Breakfast in America" - 1979.

From Quiz Supertramp

Answer: Roger Hodgson & Rick Davies

Roger Hodgson had the higher vocals, as in "Give A Little Bit", and Richard Davies had the lower vocals, as in "Goodbye Stranger."

From Quiz Supertramp

Answer: Supertramp

From Quiz Song by Song: "Give A Little Bit"

Answer: All You Need is Love

"I'm A Believer" was a song by the Monkees. Hodgson told Songfacts, "That time, the late '60s, early '70s, was a very idealistic time, one of hope, a lot of peace and love and the dream of the '60s was still very alive and maturing, if you like. The Beatles had put out 'All You Need is Love' a year prior to that. I believed in love - it was always for love - and just felt that was the most important thing in life."

From Quiz Song by Song: "The Logical Song"

Answer: magical

The song opens on a picture of youthful optimism and wonder at the beauty and joy surrounding the narrator: "And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily Oh joyfully, playfully watching me." The narrator is in innocent awe of life before being sent away to be molded and forced to conform by his educational institutions. "The Logical Song" peaked at number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and at number seven on the U.K. Singles charts. It hit number one the Canada RPM Top Singles charts.

From Quiz Crisis? What Crisis?

Answer: Whistling

A nice little song. The whistling was likely done by sax player John Helliwell, who was usually seen doing whistling parts in songs such as "Goodbye Stranger" in live Supertramp performances.

From Quiz Breakfast In America

Answer: Peter Henderson & Henderson

"Breakfast In America" was Supertramp's sixth album released.

From Quiz The Very Best of Supertramp

Answer: Scooter

"The Logical Song" is one of the most identifiable songs with Supertramp, and was released to a whole new audience 23 years after its original success.

From Quiz Supertramp

Answer: Breakfast in America

The album had such great songs like 'The Logical Song', 'Goodbye Stranger' and 'Take the Long Way Home'

From Quiz Song by Song: "Give A Little Bit"

Answer: Even in the Quietest Moments

"Blonde on Blonde" is a Bob Dylan album. "Famous Last Words" was released in 1982 and "Paris" in 1980. "Even in the Quietest Moments" was Supertramp's fifth studio album. "Give A Little Bit" peaked at number 15 on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles chart and 29 on the UK Singles chart. The album reached number 16 on the U.S. Billboard 200.

From Quiz Song by Song: "The Logical Song"

Answer: cynical

In an interview with "Exclusive Magazine," Roger Hodgson spoke of how we transform from "the innocence and wonder of childhood to the confusion of adolescence that often ends in the cynicism and disillusionment of adulthood." He also told the interviewer, "We are taught how to function outwardly, but not guided to who we are inwardly." We are shown how to be sensible, responsible, dependable, and practical, as the song says, but we are not shown how to, in the words of Hodgson, discover "our true self." The real question on the singer's heart - the question of who he is - is not addressed in school: "Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned I know it sounds absurd Please tell me who I am."

From Quiz Breakfast In America

Answer: Breakfast In America

When "Breakfast In America" was released as a single, it hit number 62 on the Billboard charts. This song is also the actual title of the album.

From Quiz Supertramp

Answer: Bob C. Benberg

In albums after 1983, he had his real name, Bob Stiebenberg, listed on the liner notes.

From Quiz Supertramp

Answer: Paris

The double album was a hit all over the world.

From Quiz Song by Song: "Give A Little Bit"

Answer: Clavinet

For the album, Rick Davies supplied clavinet, piano, and backing vocals. "Give A Little Bit" uses a Hohner clavinet, which is played through a Leslie speaker in the bridge of the song. A clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord, which is a stringed rectangular keyboard frequently used in the Renaissance age. Bob Siebenberg played drums for the album, while Roger Hodgson played acoustic and electric guitar and supplied lead vocals.

From Quiz Song by Song: "The Logical Song"

Answer: independent

"I said, watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical Liberal, oh fanatical, criminal." The French jazz band Pink Turtle covered "The Logical Song" on their 2008 album "Pop in Swing." At Vance, a German neoclassical power metal band, covered it on their 1999 album "No Escape." The song has been covered by Panic on the Titanic, Caravelli, Miami Horror, and the Young Romans as well.

From Quiz Crisis? What Crisis?

Answer: Another Man's Woman

"Another Man's Woman" was performed at the concert in Paris, but could not be fitted onto the live album. Another version, however, was included on the live album, "It Was the Best of Times", recorded in London in 1997, and also on a bootleg live recording entitled, "Is Everybody Listening?" recorded in 1975 and released in 2001.

From Quiz Breakfast In America

Answer: Gone Hollywood

The album cover was designed by the late Mike Doud. The waitress on the cover is depicted as the Statue of Liberty holding a glass of orange juice instead of the torch. The background is the skyline of New York City and the buildings have been replaced with a cornflake box, ashtray, cutlery, eggboxes, vinegar, ketchup, and mustard bottles. The plate of breakfast represents Battery Park, where the Staten Island Ferry leaves from. Also, the song "Dreamer" isn't even on the album.

From Quiz The Very Best of Supertramp

Answer: Texas

Rick Davies hated this song - didn't want it on the 1979 album, much less as its name. Fortunately he came around.

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