I Got the Music in Me Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dusty Springfield

Whilst at a San Remo festival Dusty Springfield heard, and became enamoured by, a song by Italian singer Pino Donnagio. She then asked her friend, Vicki Wickham, to write a set of English lyrics to the tune. Rather than creating a translation of the track, Wickham, in an interview for the 2005 book "1000 UK #1 Hits" by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, stated that it was a lot easier to borrow the tune and write a whole new set of lyrics for it. Released in 1966, it would be Springfield's most successful single, peaking at number one on the UK Singles' charts and number four on Billboard's Hot 100.

The Elvis version was recorded for his 1970 album "That's the Way It Is" and the single would reach number eleven on Billboard's Hot 100.

Answer: Frank Sinatra

Paul Anka discovered a French song called "Comme D'Habitude" and he would later re-write the lyrics as "My Way". He presented it to Frank Sinatra who would record it at the end of 1968 and release it the following year. Telling the tale of a man looking back upon his life with fond memories, Sinatra was not impressed (he "loathed" it) with the track but it would go on to become his signature song.

Elvis Presley used the track in concerts and a live version of it would become his first posthumous single release, after his death in 1977. It would peak at number twenty two on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Answer: Brenda Lee

Written by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson Thompson it would, initially, be recorded by B.J. Thomas (he of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" fame) but the first release, as a single, would be by Brenda Lee, whose version would make an impression on the US Billboard's Hot Country Singles' charts in 1972. In that same year, Elvis would release a version as the b-side to his single "Separate Ways", which was released only weeks after his separation from his wife Priscilla.

The man who would have the greatest success with the song was Willie Nelson, whose 1982 release of the track would result in three wins at the 25th Grammy Awards in February 1983.

Answer: The Righteous Brothers

The first vocal single release of this song appeared in 1955 when Al Hibbler's version reached number three on the US Billboard charts. An instrumental version (reaching number one on the same charts) had previously been released by Les Baxter. The first public appearance of the song came as part of the soundtrack to a little known prison drama called "Unchained" (1955).

Bob Hatfield, one half of the Righteous Brothers, heard the song and wanted to record it in 1965. Phil Spector was not taken by it as much as Hatfield, refused to produce it and consigned it to the b-side of their single "Hung on You". Radio DJs, however, much preferred "Unchained Melody", and played that instead. To say Spector was not impressed would be an understatement. This was supposed to be a "throwaway" and it was getting airplay. He rang radio stations and insisted it not be played. He failed and the Righteous Brothers were blessed with a hit that would reach number four on the Billboard Hot 100.

An Elvis live version of the song became his second posthumously released single in 1978.

Answer: Tony Joe White

A hit for Tony Joe White in the summer of 1969, the singer had to fend off allegations that "polk salad" was a euphemism for marijuana. "It's not true" he said. Polk salad was a southern delicacy, but the leaves used to make had to be collected and made in a special way because they were toxic. White stated that he was a fan of Elvis Presley and, in his younger days, played many Elvis tunes as a way of practising his guitar playing. Accordingly, it was a massive thrill for him when Elvis invited him to the International Hotel in Las Vegas in February of 1970, where Elvis performed "Polk Salad Annie" several times.

A version would appear on Elvis' album "On Stage" later that year and then be released as a single.

Answer: Carl Perkins

Perkins, who never owned a pair of the shoes (considered a luxury item in the day), wrote and recorded the song in 1956 at Sun Records after hearing a story about them from Johnny Cash. This would be Perkins' only Top Forty hit on the US Cashbox charts, but its influence was profound, so much so that Perkins would find himself inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

At the same time, Elvis Presley, who'd been a stablemate of Perkins' at Sun Records, was being pressured by his new label, RCA, to use the track as his first release with them, feeling they could steal the hit from the Sun label. Presley did relent to the pressure, in a way, insisting on releasing "Heartbreak Hotel" first, which allowed Perkins his moment in the sun (no pun intended) and "Blue Suede Shoes" would follow hot on its heels.

Answer: Jerry Reed

"Guitar Man" was a minor hit for Jerry Reed in 1967. Elvis endeavoured to record a version of the track soon after but was not happy with the creation, indicating that the sound was not right. Legend has it that an exasperated Presley then shouted "Get me that redneck picker who's on the original tune". Reed waltzed into the studio and the song was, supposedly, closed in one take.

The Elvis version would reach number one on the Billboard Hot Country charts. Another version would be released in 1981. Elvis' vocal from the 1967 recording would be retained but the musical arrangement, with Reed in tow, would be electrified.

It peaked at number twenty eight on the Billboard Hot 100.

Answer: Al Martino

For many years, Al Martino's version of this Leon Payne (1949) song has proven to be the most successful. Released by Martino in 1963 it would peak at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Elvis first recorded the song whilst he was a part of the Sun Records stable in 1954. Label owner, Sam Phillips, felt that this would not be a suitable song for Elvis to release as his first single and the recording was consigned to be an album filler on his eponymous release in 1956.

In 2012, with the aid of modern technology, a duet between Elvis and his daughter, Lisa Marie, would be released as a single, as a part of Lisa's album "Storm and Grace".

It would fail to chart.

Answer: Lloyd Price

Crying over a broken heart, Lloyd Price, who'd borrowed the title of the song from a Maxwell House (coffee) advertisement, was banging out this little wailer on an old piano in his mother's sandwich shop, when, as luck would have it, a travelling record executive, Art Rupe, happened into the store to buy his lunch. He was taken by the sincerity in Lloyd's voice and introduced him to Dave Bartholomew and a new hit was soon born. Both Cashbox and Billboard magazines would vote the song as the number one R&B Song of the Year in 1952 and, in 1995, the single was recognised by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".

Elvis released his version in 1956 and it would reach number fifteen on the UK Singles' chart.

Answer: Chuck Berry

In 1964, Chuck Berry is in prison, serving time for a conviction under the Mann Act (White Slave Traffic Act), and he borrows an atlas from the prison library. He then uses it to plot a course that is taken by a poor boy, from his home in Norfolk, Virginia, using planes, trains and automobiles, to make it across to the "promised land", which was supposed to be in Los Angeles, California. Berry rounds out the song by having the poor boy call home and tell his folks that he'd made it. The song would appear on Berry's first album after his release from prison, "St. Louis to Liverpool", and the single, released in 1965, would reach number forty one on Billboard's Hot 100.

Elvis Presley would release a hard driving version of the song in 1974, reaching fourteen on Billboard and breaking into the Top Ten on the UK Singles' chart.