Groovy Sixties Quotes V - Peace, man. Quiz

Answer: "Stand!" - Sly & the Family Stone

Sly & the Family Stone played the legendary Woodstock festival in 1969. Their set started at around 01:30 AM during the night from August 16 to August 17. Their exuberant performance ended with "Stand!", their appeal to people to 'stand' for what they believe in. The gospel singing at the end of the song alone was worth the price of admission.

Answer: "Cloud Nine" - The Temptations

The Temptations were probably the definitive male vocal group of the 60s. They were one of Motown's biggest success stories, with hits like "My Girl", "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and "(I Know) I'm Losing You". At the end of the decade they started getting political. Hits like "Cloud Nine", "Psychedelic Shack", "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" and "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" perfectly fitted in with the times.

Answer: "The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Captain Beefheart's nickname was inspired by a creepy uncle of his. Don Van Vliet - that's his real name - used to hang out with Frank Zappa and sometimes they had girls come over. One day Van Vliet's uncle exposed himself to one of the girls and squeezed his penis until its tip turned purple. "Look at that!", he remarked. "Doesn't it look like a big ol' beef's heart?" And the rest is history.

Answer: "The Porpoise Song" - The Monkees

The beautiful "The Porpoise Song" is the theme tune to The Monkees' movie debut "Head" (1968). The Prefab Four wanted to be taken seriously, so they started to write their own music and play their own instruments. Next, they wanted to make a movie, so they gave Jack Nicholson a lot of drugs and he began to write the script. "Head" was a very surreal psychedelic experience. In one scene The Monkees turn into dandruff on Victor Mature's head and are sucked into a vacuum cleaner. Great fun.

Answer: "Psychotic Reaction" - The Count Five

"Psychotic Reaction" was a #5 hit in the US charts in 1966. The Count Five had built up a good live reputation, with their energetic shows where the five members all would wear Dracula-capes. Get it? When subsequent releases failed to grab the public's attention, the Count Five disbanded. All members decided to pursue a college degree.

They reformed only once, in 1987, for one single performance.

Answer: "Any Way that You Want Me" - The Troggs

The Troggs' name of course comes from 'Troglodytes'. This was rather appropriate because of their public image as rather caveman-like. In 1970 they went into the studio to record a single, but wound up bickering among themselves, swearing a lot and generally not producing the great single they were arguing about.

A studio hand recorded Reg Presley and his bandmates using foul language in every single sentence and released it as a bootleg a few years later. The 12 minute long "The Troggs Tapes" became an instant cult classic.

It even inspired a scene in the legendary "This is Spinal Tap" movie. In 1976 the Troggs tried to capitalize on their infamous success and released an official album called "The Trogg Tapes". However, if you bought it expecting hilarious studio warfare, you would've been disappointed because it was just their attempt at a comeback album, featuring new material and not a swear word in sight.

Answer: "A Well Respected Man" - The Kinks

After their 1965 American tour the American Federation of Musicians had The Kinks banned from re-entering the USA for five years. The Davies' brothers unruly behaviour during the tour is generally blamed for this ban - the tour was poorly attended and singer Ray Davies and his brother Dave often got into fights with each other and anybody who got too close.

Another theory, however, is that the AFM was scared of the socalled 'British Boom' overtaking the American music industry. The Beatles and The Stones were of course untouchably big, so they picked on their less popular brethren.

Answer: "Come and Get It" - Badfinger

First they were called The Panthers, next The Iveys. When they signed to the Beatles' Apple Records they changed their name to Badfinger, after the working title of "With a Little Help from my Friends" (aka. "Bad Finger Boogie"). McCartney wrote their first hit single, released on december 5 1969, but they were quite capable of writing hits themselves. Singer Pete Ham and guitar player Tom Evans wrote a song for their second album "No Dice" (1970), called "Without You".

In 1971 this song became a huge hit for Harry Nilsson. Later it was also ritualistically beaten to a pulp, gnawed on until it died and then had its dead body jumped up and down on and battered with tiny fists of rage by Mariah Carey.

Answer: "19th Nervous Breakdown" - Rolling Stones

Not only did the Stones sneak a drug reference into this song, that went over the radio censors' and their own record label's head, but they got a lot of flack for this song because of other reasons. Singer Mick Jagger once explained that people were outraged in 1965 because they dared to write a song about a nervous breakdown, which was quite unusual for a pop song. "Popular songs didn't really address anything very much. Bob Dylan was addressing it, but he wasn't thought of as a mainstream pop act. And anyway, no one knew what he was talking about. Basically his songs were too dense for most people. And so to write about anything other than the normal run-of-the-mill love cliches was considered very outre and it was never touched. Anything outside that would shock people. So songs like "19th Nervous Breakdown" were slightly jarring to people.

But I guess they soon got used to it. A couple years after that, things took a sort of turn and then saw an even more dark direction. But those were very innocent days, I think."

Answer: "The Intro and the Outro" - Bonzo Dog Band

The New Vaudeville Band was a project of producer Geoff Stephens that was influenced by vaudeville, trad jazz and the British music hall styles of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1966 he recorded a song called "Winchester Cathedral", with mainly anonymous studio musicians. Stephens claimed he sang on the track, but later it was discovered that Flowerpot Men singer John Carter was actually responsible for the vocals. "Winchester Cathedral" was a top five hit in Britain and a number one in America.

When Stephens went looking for a band to tour as The New Vaudeville Band, he approached The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, because they shared the same influences.

The Bonzos however thought the single was too much of a gimmick and declined. Only their saxophonist Bob "Pops" Kerr participated in the tour.