Every Little Song You Hear Is Magic Quiz

Answer: we

"Magic" is part of the soundtrack to the 1980 movie "Xanadu", and as a single it spend four weeks ranked as number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. The single was released in a couple of different formats, and one version includes a B side song called "Whenever You're away from Me", which is a duet with Newton-John and Gene Kelly, whose last film performance was in "Xanadu". The video released to accompany the single "Magic" attempted to break the Guinness World Record of most members among the cast of a music video with 350 people; interestingly, Olivia Newton-John does not appear in the video.

The item in the picture is a handheld controller for Nintendo's Wii gaming system.

Answer: eyes

"Magic" is a single from The Cars 1984 album "Heartbeat City". Many listeners may recognize it as that song about summer as it begins "Summer turns me upside down / Summer, summer, summer / It's like a merry-go-round". "Heartbeat City" is arguably The Cars most successful album and spawned several other hits such as "Drive", "You Might Think", "Why Can't I Have You", and "Hello Again".

The video for this song was filmed on the Hilton estate in Beverly Hills, California. To create a "magic" theme, the director Tim Pope filmed Ric Ocasek walking on the water of the family pool. A plexiglass platform was built into the pool and collapsed during the very first attempt to film Ocasek walking on it.

Answer: sticks

Peter Green, noted blues guitarist and the founder of Fleetwood Mac, wrote the song, and the band recorded it and released it as a single in 1968. However, in 1970 Santana released its version of the song, and it became a much bigger hit, climbing to number four in both the United States and Canadian charts. Santana's version is longer and has a slightly different chord pattern; this interpretation of Green's song is a result of Carlos Santana's making a medley of the "Black Magic Woman" and "Gypsy Queen". Thus, the Santana version is over five minutes long (on the album) and incorporates Hungarian and Latin influences to mix with the American blues and jazz sounds.

Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie claims that Peter Green met some people who were into black magic because of the release of this song. These individuals, she claims, turned Green on to LSD, which contributed to his leaving Fleetwood Mac and giving away all of his money. Later on, Green would have been destitute, but ironically the royalties from "Black Magic Woman" and other early hits contributed to his later financial stability.

Answer: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

The line following the question asked in the question above is "It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet".

"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" was written by Sting in 1976 and recorded and released by The Police in 1981 on the "Ghost in the Machine" album. Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, the other two members of The Police, resisted the inclusion of this song on the album at first, arguing that the song was "too soft" or lacked "The Police sound". Summers also disliked the arrogance of the guest piano player Jean Roussel (the song is one of the very few Police tunes to feautre piano). However, Sting got his way, and the song ended up becoming a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and climbing to number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Answer: roll up

"Magical Mystery Tour" is a song from the soundtrack of the movie of the same name. The Beatles were responsible for the creation of the entire film although its concept is usually attributed to Paul McCartney, who wanted to make a surreal film with Beatles music following the positive reaction to the release of the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album, which itself incorporated elements of the surreal through the decision of one of the greatest bands in the world at that time to pretend to be another band.

The song "Magical Mystery Tour" is credited to Lennon-McCartney; however, Lennon himself has given McCartney most of the credit for the song's composition, claiming to have helped out only a little with the song's lyrics. Paul McCartney claims that the lyrics were in some ways a playful reference to drugs. For example, the phrase "roll up" is a playful reference to the action of creating a joint, and a "magical mystery tour" can refer to a drug trip.

Answer: heart of stone

"You Can Do Magic" was written by Russ Ballard of Argent fame and recorded by America; it was released on their 1982 album "View from the Ground". The song returned America to the limelight as the band had not had a hit since 1976 and climbed to number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

America, who rose to fame with their hit "Horse with No Name", interestingly formed while its members were in England. The original band members were the sons of United States servicemen stationed overseas.

Answer: the moon

"Witchy Woman" was written by Don Henley and Bernie Leadon and was recorded and released on The Eagles very first album "Eagles". As a hit song, it rose to number nine on the US Billboard Pop chart and is the only single from The Eagles' debut album to feature Don Henley as the lead singer.

Henley claims that much of his inspiration for the song came from his reading a biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, the free-spirited wife of American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and most likely his inspiration for Daisy Buchanan from "The Great Gatsby".

Answer: Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Screamin' Jay Hawkins was the stage name of Jalacy Hawkins, who lived from 1929 to 2000 and achieved fame as a stage performer, musician, singer, and actor. His song "I Put a Spell on You" is considered by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" (the songs on the list are not ordered or ranked) although it never made any of the Billboard charts. Still, it was and has remained a very popular song among many listeners and other rock and roll performers. On the original recording of the song, Hawkins and his band were drunk and performed rambunctiously with Hawkins doing a lot of screaming and guttural noises.

In fact, Hawkins passed out following the recording and, upon awaking, could not remember any of the session so that he had to listen to the recording to learn how to perform what he and his band had concocted.

This nonconformist behavior would have more of an impact on rock and roll than Hawkins' music. On stage, he would rely on operatic singing (his early goal had been to be an opera singer), attention-getting costumes (leopard skin, leather, and extravagant headwear), and spectacular props (a coffin out of which he would rise and a smoking skull and other items associated with voodoo). Thus were the beginnings of what many would come to recognize as shock rock.

Answer: the sky

"Magic" is one of the few songs composed by Darren Jessee, the drummer for the band Ben Folds Five. It appears on the album "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner", the band's third studio album released in 1999, and is one of the more notable songs on that album. Jessee is also responsible for the title of the album. Apparently, "Reinhold Messner" is the name he and his younger friends made up for use on the fake ID's they made; however, he had no idea that Reinhold Messner was the real name of the famous solo climber of Mount Everest until after the release of the album.

Answer: the night's

"Moondance" originally appears on Van Morrison's 1970 album of the same name, but the song was not released as a single until seven years later in 1977. This primarily acoustic song barely made the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at position ninety-two, yet it remains the most often played song at Morrison's concerts and is one of Morrison's most critically praised and most popular jazz pieces. Morrison claims that the song started out as just an instrumental melody that he would often play on a saxophone and that it eventually evolved into the more sophisticated song that it became.