Albums of the 1960s Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bo Diddley

He was born Ellas Otha Bates in 1928 in the city of McComb in southern Mississippi. Hus name was changed as a child to Ellas McDaniel, which is the name under which he wrote and composed most of his songs, but he performed under the name Bo Diddley.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and his 1955 recording of his song "Bo Diddley" was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. He died of heart failure in 2008 at the age of 79.

Answer: Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was born in 1936 in the city of Vernon in northern Texas. His debut album, "Roy Orbison at the Rock House" was released on Sun Records in 1961, but he had already moved to Monument Records before it even came out. "Lonely and Blue" was released later the same year and contained Orbison's first hit single, and the song that would become his trademark track, "Only the Lonely".

Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, just a year before his death at only 52. A year later, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.

Answer: Nat King Cole

He was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in 1919 in the Alabama capital, Montgomery. He began as part of the 'King Cole Trio', who made their radio debut in 1938 and released their first album in 1945.

In 1956, Cole created controversy when he began hosting 'The Nat King Cole Show' on NBC, the first major TV variety show hosted by an African-American. Throughout the 1950s, his records sold millions around the world, although his star began to wane along with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Dean Martin as the musical tastes of the 'youth of the day' turned to rock and roll.

Cole died of cancer at the age of just 45 in February 1965.

Answer: Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin was born in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee and she released her first album, a gospel collection called "Songs of Faith", in 1956. It was during the 1960s, though, when she signed first with Columbia Records and then with Atlantic, that she found great success. By the end of the decade she had been dubbed "The Queen of Soul".

She first won the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for the single "Respect" in 1968. She then won the same award in each of the next eight years and it is now often called simply 'The Aretha Award'. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1994, Franklin became the youngest ever recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, an award given for lifetime contributions to American culture (although Stevie Wonder broke that record in 1999). In 2005, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Answer: Johnny Cash

J.R. Cash was born in 1932 in the city of Kingsland in southern Arkansas. Although 'The Man in Black' is primarily known as a country music icon, he spanned numerous genres including rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk and gospel.

Cash released his first album, "Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar", in 1957. He released a total of 55 studio albums in a career spanning six decades, and 13 of his 165 singles topped the US Country chart.

Cash was inducted into the Songwriters hall of Fame in 1977, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

Cash died of diabetes in 2003 at the age of 71.

Answer: Bob Dylan

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, Bod Dylan released his eponymous debut album in 1962. His second album, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" topped the UK album chart in 1963. "Shadows in the Night", released in 2015, was the thirty-sixth studio album of a career spanning six decades (and counting).

"Bringing It All Back Home" also included "Mr. Tambourine Man", written by Dylan but not released as a single. The Byrds released their version of the song the same year, reaching number one in both the UK Singles chart and the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Gaining his 37th Grammy Award nomination in 2010, Dylan collected his ninth and tenth Grammy awards at the 2007 ceremony. He also won an Oscar with his first nomination, for Best Original Song ("Things Have Changed" from "Wonder Boys") in 2000. The same song won the Golden comparable Golden Globe award the following year.

Dylan was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1982. In 1997 he was awarded Kennedy Center Honors and in 2012 the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Answer: Rolling Stones

"The Sound of Music" soundtrack spent a remarkable 69 weeks at number one in the UK album chart. It replaced Bob Dylan in May 1965 and was then ousted after ten weeks by The Beatles' "Help". Nine weeks later, it was back for another ten weeks before "Rubber Soul" took its place for eight weeks. It returned for a third time, another ten weeks, before being ousted by our featured 1966 album, "Aftermath". Needless to say, after eight weeks at number one, it was replaced by, you've guessed it, "The Sound of Music" soundtrack. (In all the soundtrack would have eleven different runs at the top of the chart, finishing in January 1968.)

"Aftermath" was the fourth UK studio album by the Rolling Stones (their sixth in the US). It was also their third UK number one ("Out of Our Heads" having stalled at number two earlier in the year).

The U.S. version of the album featured the group's seventh UK number one single, "Paint it Black" although it was not on the UK release.

Answer: The Monkees

The three alternatives above all released their self-titled debut albums in 1967. The same year also saw the release of Dolly Parton's debut album, "Hello, I'm Dolly" and and a first solo album from Jimi Hendrix, "Are You Experienced".

Our featured album, "Headquarters" followed "The Monkees" in 1966 and "More of the Monkees" in early 1967. The group's fourth consecutive US number one album, "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd." followed later in the same year. After two number one albums in the UK too, "Headquarters" made it only to number two and the band's fourth effort reach only number five (and was their last appearance in the UK album chart).

The only single released from "Headquarters" was "Randy Scouse Git" with "Forget That Girl" on the B-side. It reached number two in the UK and failed to chart in the US. Meanwhile, their non-album single released about the same time, "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" made number two in the US and number three in the UK. Their big hit of the year, though, "Daydream Believer" would not come until right at the end of the year and appeared on their 1968 album "The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees".

Answer: Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd produced a solid follow-up to their 1967 debut album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". "A Saucerful of Secrets" was the second of four albums that reached the Top Ten in the UK album chart, but it would not be until 1970, and "Atom Heart Mother", that they would score their first number one. On the singles front, it would be 1979 before the group achieved their only significant success in that format, with "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)".

It is, perhaps, fitting that the final track on "A Saucerful of Secrets" should be "Jugland Blues". It was the only track on the album written by the group's spiritual and inspirational but ultimately unreliable guru, Syd Barrett, for whom this would be a farewell album.

Answer: Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen was born in 1934 in the affluent Montreal suburb of Westmount. A singer, songwriter, poet, painter and novelist, Cohen released his debut album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen" in 1967. He continued to produce albums at an average of around one every three-four years over the next half a century.

Cohen was awarded the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 1993. Always controversial, he was ordained as a Rinzai Buddhist monk in 1996. In 2003, he was named as a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's second highest civilian honour. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. Now in his 80s, Cohen's thirteenth studio album, "Popular Problems" won the 2015 Juno Award for 'Album of the Year'. A remarkable talent indeed,