Do you Know your Rock and Roll Era: Part One Quiz

Answer: The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock

The song was written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and released by the Everly Brothers in September 1957. It topped the charts in the US.

Answer: Sun Records

Elvis first signed for Sun Records and Sam Phillips in 1954. In February 1955, Colonel Tom Parker became his manager and he signed a recording contract with RCA Records. They produced his first hit "Heartbreak Hotel", which peaked at number one in May, 1956. The rest is history.

Answer: On Blueberry Hill

Fats Domino (1928-2017) was a pianist and songwriter and one of the pioneers of rock and roll. His two most famous songs are "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That A Shame". Over the years "Blueberry Hill" has been recorded by numerous artists including Bing Crosby, Ricky Nelson, Cliff Richard, The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, Andy Williams, The Everly Brothers, Elton John and Nat King Cole.
Nob Hill is an upper-class area of San Francisco and Claude King released the hit "On Woverton Mountain" in 1962.

Answer: Annette Funicello

Paul Anka wrote the song which reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart. He wrote the song for Annette Funicello with whom he was having an affair during a tour. As Annette revealed in her autobiography " As Paul wrote in his hit song about us, just because we were 17, didn't mean that, for us, our love wasn't real".

Answer: MacHeath

Mack is MacHeath, the titled character who is a criminal. "Mack The Knife" peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks in October/November 1959. The song was originally composed in German for a musical play in Berlin in 1928.

Answer: 77 Sunset Strip

Edd Byrnes (b. 1933) is an American actor who played the role of Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III in the private detective drama series "77 Sunset Strip" (1958-1964). The song peaked at number four on the US pop chart in 1959. He was accompanied by Connie Stevens on the single. Edd Byrnes played the role of Vince Fontaine in the 1978 hit musical "Grease".

Answer: Blackboard Jungle

The song debuted on the teenage movie "Blackboard Jungle" in 1955. The movie was about teachers and students in a interracial inner-city school starring Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow. The song is not the first Rock and Roll song recorded but it is considered the one that brought rock and roll into the music culture worldwide.

Answer: Maybellene

Chuck Berry (1926-2017) was a singer and songwriter. His songs developed and refined rhythm and blues with such classics as "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven", Rock and Roll Music" and " Johnny B. Goode". "Maybellene" told the story of a Hot Rod racer and his broken romance. In 1988 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Answer: Tutti Frutti

The song "Tutti Frutti" was recorded by Little Richard (b. 1932) in 1955 and became his first big hit. He was working in a kitchen at a Greyhound bus station when he wrote the song. He also wrote "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Long Tall Sally" also in the same kitchen. "A-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom" was a phrase he used in the kitchen when the boss came in with more dishes to wash.

Answer: That'll Be The Day

"That'll Be The Day" peaked at number one on September 23, 1957. All of the others mentioned were hits in the USA and UK but they did not reach number one.