Cities in 60s Songs Trivia Quiz

Answer: Funky Street

Soul singer Arthur Conley first started recording in 1959, but it wasn't until 1967 when, under the tutelage of Otis Redding, Conley scored with his biggest hit "Sweet Soul Music." "Funky Street" made it to number 14 on Billboard's Top 40 chart in April of 1968. Conley relocated to Europe in 1975 and lived in England, Belgium and, finally, the Netherlands where he died of cancer in 2003.

Answer: Boyfriend in the navy

Philadelphia native Diane Renay was only 17 when she recorded the biggest seller of her two Billboard charted songs. "Navy Blue" was composed by the multi-talented writer, producer and artist Bob Crewe, and told of a young girl's longing for her boyfriend deployed at sea.

Answer: Engine, Engine #9

"Engine, Engine #9" was Texan Roger Miller's follow-up hit to his only certified gold record "King of the Road." "Engine, Engine #9" had a seven week run on Billboard's Top 40 chart in the spring of 1965 where it peaked at #7. Miller learned his first guitar chords from boyhood friend Sheb Wooley ("The Purple People Eater") and would work with a host of Nashville country music stars before making it big with a dozen hits of his own.

Answer: Berlin

Few 60s pop artists were fortunate enough to debut their talents before a nationwide television audience, but then again, none of them had a family with a mega-hit TV sitcom in which they co-starred. That was the situation surrounding Ricky Nelson in May of 1957 when he performed a cover version of Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'" on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett." Under the careful management of his bandleader father Ozzie, Ricky Nelson would go on to chart over 30 hits on the Billboard Top 40.

Although "Travelin' Man" was only his second Number 1 hit, it was (along with the flip side "Hello Mary Lou") his first of two million seller gold records.

Answer: You Belong to Me

"You Belong to Me" was a smash hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom for Jo Stafford in 1952. The 1962 version by the Duprees topped out at #7 on the Billboard Top 40 and was the biggest hit of the Jersey City quintet's four charted songs.

Answer: None

The Standells were a California "garage rock" band whose only Billboard Top 40 hit was "Dirty Water." The song was on the charts for nine weeks in June of 1966, not quite cracking the top 10. Although none of the band members were from Boston, the lyrics of the song were inspired by a near mugging experienced by the band's producer.

Answer: Cass Elliot

"Creeque Alley" was the Mommas and the Papas sixth and final hit to chart in the top 10 of the Billboard Top 40. The up-tempo musical autobiography in which Mamma Cass hitch hikes to New York hardly does justice to the real drama and turmoil that the group went through, from multiple breakups to legendary drug abuse over their nearly 30-year recording career.

Answer: Pasadena's

"New York's a Lonely Town" was the classic one-hit-wonder for the Tradewinds, a Rhode Island duet made up of Peter Andreoli and Vincent Poncia Jr. The song tells of a distraught, transplanted California surfer stuck in New York with "no place to go, now..." The song peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Top 40 in February of 1965.

Answer: Billie Joe McAllister

Bobbie Gentry's smash hit "Ode to Billie Joe" commanded the top spot on Billboard's Top 40 chart for four consecutive weeks in August and September of 1967. But the question of what Billie Joe and his girlfriend threw off the Tallahatchie bridge would follow Gentry for the remainder of her career. She never told.

Answer: An airline strike

Although "The Great Airplane Strike" was one of the lesser known Top 40 hits of the legendary slapstick, garage band Paul Revere and the Raiders, the zany, first-person tale of being stuck at the Los Angeles International Airport was the perfect creative vehicle for the group's self-deprecating stage antics.

The latest edition of the Raiders is still touring and has found a semi-permanent off-the-road home in Branson, Missouri.