Dedicated To The One I Love... Quiz

Answer: Christie Brinkley

"Uptown Girl" is about a series of women dated after his divorce including model Christine Brinkley. Brinkley, daughter of director Don Brinkley, also appeared in four other Joel videos ('Keepin' The Faith', 'River Of Dreams', 'A Matter Of Trust' and 'Leningrad'), but 'Uptown Girl' was written for her. Brinkley and Joel eventually married and later divorced.

Answer: Annette Funicello

Reportedly, Anka and Annette met during a rock and roll package tour, but she was hampered by a clause in her contract about dating while employed by Walt Disney. She eventually married Anka's manager, Jack Gilardi, in 1965. The marriage lasted till 1981.

Answer: Mel Blanc

'Dead Man's Curve' is the nickname of a stretch of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. In the early 1960's, the 'Man of a Thousand Voices' Blanc was involved in a near-fatal accident that left him in a coma. The doctor reportedly talked him alert by having him use his 'Bugs Bunny' voice.

He stayed in the hospital for six months and voiced his work on 'The Flintstones' (he was Barney Rubble) from a body cast.

Answer: 'Mr. Tamborine Man'

Langhorne used to work with the song's author, Bob Dylan, who remembered him from one session, where he was given a huge tamborine to play, and the image stuck. The Byrds took the song to the top of the U.S. charts in 1965.

Answer: False

The physical attributes of 'Big Bad John' were based on an actor friend of Jimmy Dean's, John Mentoe, who was taller than the 6'3" Dean, and the rest was from Dean's imagination. The song hit Number 1 in 1961.

Answer: True

Jim Croce had met 'Leroy Brown' (a pseudonym) while stationed in the U.S. Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey. 'Brown' stayed about a week before going AWOL. He was arrested when he returned to pick up his paycheck at the end of the month. The song went to Number 1 in 1973, shortly before Croce was killed in a plane crash.

Answer: Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison's wife, Claudette, was the inspiration not only for this, but also a song Orbison wrote as a flip side song for the Everly Brothers 1958 song 'All I Have To Do Is Dream'. 'Pretty Woman' hit Number 1 in 1964, two years before she died in a motorcycle accident.

Answer: 'Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter'

Boyd is the ex-wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton. 'Layla' was, in fact, a love song from Clapton while Boyd was still married to Harrison.

Answer: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The term 'sexy' was given to the Maharishi by John Lennon after it was revealed that the Indian guru who popularized transendental meditation has made a move on a pupil, actress Mia Farrow. The group became disenchanted and soon left.

Answer: Don McLean

Author Lori Lieberman listed McLean, author of 'American Pie', as her inspiration. Singer Roberta Flack took the song the the top of the U.S. charts in 1973.

Answer: Not known, except for one other person

In 2003, Simon, ex-wife of Taylor, offered for charity to reveal who specifically the song was about on condition of maintaining the secret. NBC executive Dick Ebersol successfully bid $50,000 and was whispered the name over a snack of peanut butter sandwiches and vodka. Jagger performes as a backup singer in the song.

Answer: Marvin Gaye

Both songs were tributes to Gaye, the victim of a homicide at the hands of his own father, on April 1, 1984, a day before his 45th birthday. Incidentally, the reference to 'Jackie' in 'Night Shift' was to the late Jackie Wilson.

Answer: 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree'

The story about an ex-con's request for a yellow handkerchief in a tree before he returns home appeared in the January, 1972 issue. Tony Orlando and Dawn made it one of the most popular songs of 1973 and since the Iranian hostage crisis of the late 70's, a symbol for any loved ones away from home.

Answer: 'Maybelline'

'Maybelline' was originally called 'Ida Red' and used by Berry onstage as a parody of the country music scene. When it was recorded, the producers suggested a name change. Berry remembererd the name 'Maybelline' from a nursery rhyme about a cow. The song reached in the top five in 1955.

Answer: 'Windy' - The Association

Composer Ruthann Friedman wrote the song about her hippie-boyfriend named Windy while they lived in the famous Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. By the time the Association, friends of Friedman, took the song to Number 1 in 1967, the lyrics were changed to make 'Windy' a girl. The Toto hit, 'Rosanna', is about actress Rosanna Arquette.