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1. Blues/rock musician Jeff Healy was Canadian-born. Probably best known for his role in the 1989 movie "Road House", starring Patrick Swayze, and for the song "Angel Eyes" what was Jeff Healy's disability?
2. "Both Sides Now" from Joni Mitchell's album, "Clouds" was a reminiscent view of both the good and bad experiences of life.
Who popularized this tune, in 1967, watching it climb to the number three spot on the Easy Listening Charts?
3. "In the white room with black curtains near the station
Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment
I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines"
What group from the 60's popularized this song, "White Room"?
4. The coldest winter in 14 years; buffalo dying on the plains; a tune called "Mandolin Wind"...
Who wrote and performed this rock song about an old farmer who praised his wife in tribute for sticking with him through the hard winter?
5. In 1975 David Bowie had a U.S. top-ten hit called "Young Americans", a song that touched a bit on the less flattering side of Americans in general. The tune did well, however, on the U.S. charts with other cuts from the album by the same name performing equally well or better.
What nationality is David Bowie?
6. Scottish singer/songwriter Al Stewart had a hit with this song. Based on the lyrics given, can you determine the name of it?
"The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
And turns the rifles into silver, on the border"
7. This song by the British band "Electric Light Orchestra" began with the ringing of an American style telephone. What was the name of this hit by ELO that had lyrics that began this way, after repeated rings of the phone:
"Hello. How are you?
Have you been alright;
Through all of those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, nights?
That's what I'd say - I'd tell you everything,
If you'd pick up that telephone; yeah yeah yeah"
8. Many folks know that "Empty Garden" by Elton John was intended as a tribute to his good friend, John Lennon. What may not be as well known is just what the "Empty Garden" was.
Do you know what it referenced?
9. Deep Purple's song, "Smoke On The Water" was based on a real-life event involving a fire in Switzerland.
True or false?
10. What is the name of the British group that popularized the song "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" in 1967?
"We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
And the waiter brought a tray
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale."
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