Dream Weavers Sing Some Colorful Songs! Quiz

Answer: White Room

The music to "White Room" was co-written and then sung by Jack Bruce. In 1968 this song appeared on their album "Wheels of Fire". Ginger Baker played drums and Eric Clapton used the Vox Clyde McCoy Picture Wah to perfection in this classic hit. "White Room" reached number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number 28 on the UK Singles Chart in 1969. The List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time listed "White Room" as number 267. Lyricist Peter Brown, who caught Cream's attention when he was with the band The First Real Poetry Band, wrote most of Cream's songs with Jack Bruce.
The British blues-rock band, Cream, was made up of Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker.

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Answer: My, My, Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue)

"My, My, Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue)" and "Hey, Hey, My, My (Into the Black)" are both featured on the 1979 Platinum album "Rust Never Sleeps" by Neil Young. This song's line "It's better to burn out, than to fade away." was the concluding line of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain's suicide note.

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Answer: Brown-Eyed Girl

The song was released in May 1967 on the album "Blowin' Your Mind!" It reached number ten on the Billboard Top 100 in that same year. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007. It was fourth most played song by radio DJs in both 2006 and 2007.

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Answer: The Hollies

Allan Clarke, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway were the songwriters of the 1972 solo song release. The Hollies had produced an album titled "Distant Light" (1971), when after about a year, they decided to release the song as a single. Before the release, Clarke had left the group, but after the song became a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on Cash Box in the USA, he rethought his solo career choice and instead chose to return to The Hollies. The song is most notable because of how it features Allan Clark playing the rhythm guitar in the opening of the song.
Part of a verse, where the effect of the woman on the man is described, is:
"She was a long cool woman in a black dress, Just a 5'9", beautiful, tall,
With just one look I was a bad mess,'Cause that long cool woman had it all"

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Answer: Blues Theme

"Blues Theme" was recorded by Davie Allen & The Arrows. Allen is best remembered today for the series of movie soundtracks he recorded in the mid to late '60s. He is also credited for his invention of the fuzz tone guitar sound. He, (along with a new set of Arrows), revived his career in the early '90s and continues to record, as of 2010, for Restless Records in Los Angeles.

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Answer: Irving Berlin

While Crosby is famous for singing the popular song, he did not write it. Berlin wrote it in the early 1940s and Crosby later popularized it both on record format and through the movie "Holiday Inn." The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1942. While it is definitely one of the most popular songs of all time, there is some historical debate on whether it is the best selling single of all time. Sales figures before the 1950s are somewhat sketchy and it us unknown how many records were sold. Based on known numbers, Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" has sold more copies (approximately 33 million). However, if the number of singles sold before the 1950s is estimated, "White Christmas" easily outsells "Candle in Wind" (50 million).

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Answer: Black is Black

Los Bravos was a Spanish band, from Madrid, which formed in 1965. Mike Kogel, their lead singer, was from Berlin, Germany. Their hit single, "Black is Black" (1966), reached number two on the UK Singles chart. This song also reached number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, which marked Los Bravos as the first Spanish group to reach this position on the charts.

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Answer: Blue Moon of Kentucky

William "Bill" Smith Monroe, a native of Rosine, Kentucky, wrote "Blue Moon of Kentucky," in 1949 and performed it with his group, The Bluegrass Boys. Years later it was recorded by Elvis, Ricky Scaggs, Patsy Cline and Patty Loveless, and many others. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were part of the Bluegrass Boys and played in the actual recording; the vocals however, were that of Bill Monroe. Flatt and Scruggs would later leave the group to form the Foggy Mountain Boys.

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Answer: Golden Slumbers

When Paul McCartney was looking at some of his step-sister's sheet music, he came across a poem called "Cradle Song". Paul couldn't read music so he composed his own music for the Beatles' song "Golden Slumbers", using most of the lyrics from the Thomas Dekker poem. "Golden Slumbers" appeared on the 1969 Beatles album "Abbey Road".

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Answer: Green Door

"Green Door" by Jim Lowe followed Elvis' "Don't Be Cruel" into the number one spot.
Jim Lowe was born May 7, 1927. He started a long career as a disc jockey in his hometown of Springfield Missouri after graduating from the University of Missouri. He also was a singer/songwriter. He did not write "Green Door", which was his biggest hit.
The song was written by Bob Davie and Marvin Moore and recorded in Davie's New York apartment. Lowe eventually worked his way from Springfield to New York
where he worked at WNEW-AM and NBC Radio's "Monitor". "Green Door" was bumped from the number one spot by another Elvis Presley recording "Love Me Tender".

(contributed by conundrum49)