Everything Old Is New Again Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jake Holmes

"Dazed and Confused" was a folk rock song written and recorded on Jakes Holmes' debut album, '"The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes" in 1967. That year Holmes opened for a Yardbirds' concert and the song was adopted by Jimmy Page (a former member of the Yardbirds) who reworked the song and it appeared on Led Zeppelin's eponymous debut album in 1969. It became one of the group's most popular songs. The track has little in content with Holmes' original and he was not given a credit for song-writing as a result. The case was settled out of court in 2011.

Answer: Pérez Prado

The original recording by Cuban Pérez Prado in 1949 was a mambo and jazz number. It was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. German Lou Bega had a number one hit in Australia and in the UK but it only reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. There was a legal battle with Prado's estate before the Bega version was declared a new song co-written by Prado and Bega.

"Bob the Builder", a British animated children's show also made this a hit.
In 2007, a poll conducted by "Rolling Stone" to identify the 20 most annoying songs placed "Mambo No. 5" at number six. Noticeably, it did not discriminate between the Bob the Builder version or the Lou Bega version.

Answer: Shocking Blue

Bananarama made a hit of the song first released by Dutch psychedelic rock band, Shocking Blue, in 1969. The Bananarama version, covered in 1986, went to the top in seven countries, including the USA, Australia and South Africa. It has since been released by numerous other artists and used in many films and commercials, but none has been as successful as the Bananarama version.

Answer: Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were, possibly, the greatest songwriters of the early rock and roll era with such great hits as "Yakety Yak" for the Coasters (1958) and "There Goes My Baby" for the Drifters in the same year. In 1952 they wrote "Hound Dog", providing Willie Thornton with her only hit. Importantly, Thornton's version is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".

Elvis Presley's version was released in 1956 and to say it was huge would almost mean underselling it. His version has sold in excess of ten million copies globally and has been ranked in Rolling Stones' magazine as one of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Answer: The Arrows

The song was originally released by the Arrows in 1975. Lead vocals, guitar, music & lyrics were performed and written by Alan Merrill, the Arrows' lead singer. In a 2012 interview with "Outsight Radio Hours", Merrill said he wrote it as "a knee-jerk response to the Rolling Stones' 'It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)". The song was recorded as a B-Side but became the A-side before release.

Joan Jett saw the Arrows perform the track on television in 1976 when she was part of The Runaways. She first recorded it in 1979 but would re-record it with the Blackhearts in 1981. The latter version went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, where it for seven weeks and ended up being the number three best-selling song for 1982. It was ranked number 89 in Rolling Stone magazine's "List of 100 Greatest Guitar Songs".

Answer: Lis Sorenson

This was Natalie Imbruglia's debut single. It became one of the most played songs on US radio in 1998 and it earned Natalie a Grammy nomination for Best Female Vocal Performance, which she lost out to Celine Dion ("My Heart Will Go On").

The song was written in 1993 by Scott Cutler and Anne Preven and had been planned to be a solo project for Preven but this not eventuate. Sorenson would record the track in the same year though, hers was titled "Brćndt", which translates as "Burned". US band Ednaswap would also produce a version in 1995.

Answer: Robert Hazard

This song was written in by Robert Hazard, who recorded only a demo of it in 1979. Notably it was written from a male point of view.

Cyndi Lauper's version changed the song drastically and it became a synthesizer-backed anthem, with a marked feminist point of view. It was included on her 1983 debut solo record, "She's So Unusual". It went to number one in 25 different countries including two weeks there on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song won the "American Video Awards" for Best Female Performance in 1983 and "MTV Video Music" Award for Best Female Video in 1984.

Answer: Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie

Though this song has been recorded many times, one of the most popular (and possibly significant) recordings of the track was by Led Zeppelin when it appeared on their fourth and untitled album. The album, which is sometimes referred to as "Led Zeppelin IV", was released in 1971. Whilst Jimmy Page made alterations to the original riff in this version the most talked about feature of the their version is Jon Bonham's drumming.

The original version was recorded by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929 as a 78 record. The original songwriting is sometimes credited to Joe McCoy.

Answer: Badfinger

This song was written by Badfinger's Pete Ham and Tom Evans. The group, previously known as The Iveys, had four hits between 1970 and 1972. When Nilsson heard the record, he thought it was a Beatles' song and wanted to record it for his upcoming album "Nilsson Schmilsson" (1971). The song featured musicians Garry Wright (then with Spooky Tooth) on piano, and Jim Keltner on drums and Klaus Voorman on bass. Nilsson won a Grammy for this song.

Mariah Carey did a technically good version, but inferior to Nilsson's song.

Answer: P.P. Arnold

We could have picked a handful of artists for the cover version of this track as it has been a hit for Keith Hampshire (1973), Papa Dee (1995) and Sheryl Crow (2003) as well. Arnold's version came out in May of 1967 and Stewart's in 1977. Norma Fraser also recorded a reggae version of "The First cut is the Deepest" in 1967, with slightly different lyrics.

Noting that Arnold's version came out in May of 1967 is important as that makes it the first "release" of the song. The song was originally written by Cat Stevens and it appears on Stevens' second album, "New Masters", however, this was not released until December of the same year.