A Little Bird Told Me About Oviparous Songs Quiz

Answer: Albatross

Released in 1968, and written by (then) band member Peter Green, "Albatross" was an instrumental hit for Fleetwood Mac. It was their only number one single in the UK despite the mega-success of the 70s and 80s. Despite its lush production, the song contains only two guitar chords: Emaj7 and F#m. "Albatross" was the biggest-selling selling rock instrumental of the 20th Century.
Peter Green was inspired by the poem "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge. This song then, in turn, inspired the Beatles song "Sun King" on the 1969 "Abbey Road" album.

Answer: Steve Miller Band

"Fly Like an Eagle" (1976) was the ninth studio album by the Steve Miller Band and arguably the most creative. The title track was also a major hit as were "Take the Money and Run" and "Rock'n Me". The title track went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
This album was ranked number 450 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003.
Steve Miller obviously likes flying: "Jet Airliner" (1976) was another hit of his band.

Answer: Marc Bolan

"Autograph" (1979) was the fourteenth album for John Denver. Best known for its title track, "On the Wings of an Eagle" whilst recorded with the other songs on the album, was not released until a 2001 re-release of the same name.

Russel Morris had a top ten hit in Australia in 1973 with a song with this title. It was another hit when it formed part of the soundtrack for the Australian movie "The Dish" in 2001. "Wings of an Eagle and Other Great Hits" was a Russell Morris 1973 compilation album that came in at number 59 in the book "100 Best Australian Albums", in 2010.

Steve Bell, a Canadian Christian singer songwriter had success with "The Wings of an Eagle" song off his 1992 album "Deep Calls".

Marc Bolan of T-Rex fame was English.

Answer: James Taylor

"Mockingbird" (1963) was a song written and recorded by Inez and Charlie Foxx. The song was based on the folk song "Hush Little Baby". Carly Simon and then husband Taylor had a US top gold-certified hit when it was released as the lead single off Ms Simon's 1974 "Hot Cakes" album.
Carly Simon and James Taylor were married between 1972 and 1983. Ms Simon has won an Academy Award, a Grammy and a Golden Globe for her music.

Answer: Anne Murray

"Snowbird" was written by the Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan and whilst recorded by Elvis Presley and Bing Crosby, it is best known as a song sung by Anne Murray in 1969 where it reached number two on her native Canadian pop chart. The song was RIAA-certified gold and, in fact was the first American gold record awarded to a Canadian solo female artist.
Mr Lightfoot and Ms Twain are also Canadian (the latter only born in 1965) but Ms Reddy is an Australian.

Answer: False

"El Cóndor Pasa" was written in 1913 by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles. It is an orchestral piece. It became the most famous Peruvian song in the English speaking world when it reached number one in many countries (number 18 on US Billboard Hot 100) for Simon and Garfunkel in 1970 as "El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)". Paul Simon asked permission to use the song when he heard the Argentinian band Los Incas perform the song.

The band's leader Jorge Milchberg told Mr Simon that the song was a traditional folk song from the 18th century. Mr Simon was then sued by the estate of Daniel Alomía Robles.

Answer: Leonard Cohen

This is a signature song for Mr Cohen. Though never a hit, it is a mark of the song that it has been covered by over twenty other renowned artists yet is is a profoundly personal song about Mr Cohen. Judy Collins was the first to release the song in 1968 but Mr Cohen recorded it in the same year in Nashville and it is a feature song on the classic album "Songs from a Room". The song's background is about how Mr Cohen came out of a depression when living on the Greek island Hydra when his partner Marianne Ihlen (Photo on the back cover of the album) handed him a guitar and he wrote a song superficially about a bird he saw perched on a telegraph wire - but with characteristic profundity.

Answer: Lynyrd Skynyrd

When released in 1973, this song wasn't a mega-hit at the time, peaking at number 19 on on the Billboard Hot 100, However in 2008, "Guitar World" voted this song as having the Number Three spot on "100 Greatest Guitar Solos", and according to a music reviewer for Amazon.com in 2009, it is "the most-requested song in the history of rock music." "Free Bird" is one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll" and earned number 193 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" (2009).

Answer: Glenn Miller

Leon Rene wrote this song in 1939 to honour the annual migration of cliff swallows to Mission San Juan Capistrano near San Diego. The Ink Spots' and Glenn Miller's version are quite dissimilar yet both were hits. The song has been covered many times since most notably by Pat Boone who reached number 80 on the Billboard Top 100 Chart in 1957 with this song.
In 1944, when Miller was flying to France to entertain US troops, his aircraft disappeared. The plane and its passengers were never found.

Answer: The song was written, played and sung only by Paul McCartney

The song's meaning has been explained several different ways with such explanations as "simply about a bird" to civil rights.
Only three sounds were recorded for this song: Mr McCartney's voice, his acoustic guitar and a tapping sound to keep time. The source of the tapping is unknown: Some say a metronome, some say it is Mr McCartney's foot.
The bird sounds were later dubbed in from the Abbey Road sound effects archives. the guitar arrangement was inspired by Bach's "Bourrée in E minor" for lute. The song appears on The Beatles' 1968 double album "The Beatles".