It's a Woman's Name Part 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Pink Floyd

The song was written by Syd Barrett and was intended as a non-album single. Later it was included in the US version of their debut album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". At the time Dave Gilmour had not yet joined the band. Syd Barrett claimed that the song is about a vision (of a girl) he had after taking drugs. Later he said that in fact it was not true as he had said this just for the publicity.

Answer: The Turtles

Intended as a parody of their hit song "Happy Together", the band presented this song to their label who had been nagging about a repeat of their successful single. Complete with silly lyrics, it was intended as a joke but the record company loved it and it turned out to be a hit both in the UK and the US and in other parts of the world.

The band members themselves came to love this song as they admitted that the production was very good.

Answer: Little Richard

One of the singer's best known tunes, "Long Tall Sally" has been covered by numerous artists and bands including Elvis Presley, The Kinks, The Beatles, Cactus, Scorpions, Molly Hatchet and Heart. The song is included in the top 100 of Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Answer: Bob Dylan

The album reached number one in the US charts and was well received by both the fans and the critics. However some controversy surrounds the album as Dylan makes an uncredited use of some lyrics, choruses and arrangements of older songs. In fact the song "Nettie Moore" gets its title and part of its chorus from an 1857 composition called "Gentle Nettie Moore".

Answer: Toto

Keyboardist Steve Porcaro left the group after the tour promoting this album. The song "Lea" was only released as a single in Holland and the Philippines. The album contains two top forty singles "I'll be Over You" and "Without your Love".

Answer: Jethro Tull

Written by Ian Anderson, the song is about a girl prostitute. The album "Aqualung" was the band's fourth studio release and it marked a turn in the band's fortunes. According to Anderson, the album is the band's best selling album.

Answer: Santana

Taken from the album "Supernatural" released in 1999, the single reached the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for ten weeks. Like many other songs on the album, this song is a collaboration between Santana and other musicians - in this case with Product G&B. Restaurants called "Maria Maria" were opened after the release of this song by Santana and chef Roberto Santibanez.

Answer: The Kinks

Although not as successful as previous singles of the mid-sixties, "Victoria", which was released in 1969, marked a return to the charts for the band after two non-charting singles. The single refers to Queen Victoria and is taken from the album "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)".

The follow up single was called "Lola" - another woman's name but in this case Lola turned out to be a man.

Answer: The Knack

The single reached the number one spot on the Billboard hot 100 where it stayed for six weeks. The group's lead singer Doug Fieger had met a 17-year old girl Sharona Alperin, with whom he had fallen in love and the song is a direct reference to her. The riff had been written by Berton Averre.

The song has been covered a number of times as well as parodied by a number of bands such as the Dead Kennedys who turned it into "My Payola" in the song "Pull My Strings" and "Weird Al" Yankovic who turned it into "My Bologna".

Answer: The Zutons

Taken from the band's second album "Tired of Hanging Around", the single peaked at number nine in the UK singles chart. Mark Ronson covered the song a year later on his album "Version". This song also featured Amy Winehouse.

Answer: The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

The single reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. The single remains one of this southern rock band's biggest success. The song was sung by the group's drummer Larry Lee.

Answer: The Velvet Underground

Written by Lou Reed who was the band leader at the time, this song has become a classic and is often included in best rock songs lists as compiled by various magazines and websites. Mott the Hoople covered the song on their 1972 album "All The Young Dudes", releasing the song as a single in early 1973.

Answer: America

Taken from the album "Hearts", "Daisy Jane" just scraped the top twenty in the Billboard chart. The author Gerry Beckley says that the song is about someone who flies back to Memphis to meet up again with a girl he once knew. But he insists that he had never been to Memphis and that the girl is imaginary.

Answer: Neil Diamond

Released in 1969, this song remains one of the most popular songs by Neil Diamond. Although the song reached "only" number four on the Billboard Chart it eventually sold over a million copies and by 2014 had also sold over two million digital downloads. Neil Diamond says that the song was intended as a love song for his then wife Marsha, but he needed a three-syllable name to fit the tune so he chose the name Caroline instead.

Answer: Therapy?

Originally written by Hüsker Dü and included in their 1983 "Metal Circus" EP, Therapy? rerecorded the song and had a top ten hit in various European countries in 1995. The song is about the 1980 murder of a waitress called Diane Edwards by Joseph Ture.

Answer: The Hollies

The single was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic reaching number three in the UK charts and hitting the top ten in both the US and Canada. Years later Graham Nash, one of the authors, said that the song was about Marianne Faithfull. At the time he claims to have been too shy to use her real name in the song.

Answer: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Written by Byrds founding member Gene Clark, "Polly Come Home" was included on the critically acclaimed collaboration between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. The album, released in 2007, won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Answer: Lindisfarne

Formed in the late sixties, Lindisfarne were a British folk rock band from Newcastle. The single "Lady Eleanor" was largely unnoticed when released in 1971. But after the success of their second album "Fog on the Tyne", the single was reissued and this time the single reached number three in the UK charts.

Answer: Barenaked Ladies

This love song was entered in a competition and landed the band the first prize of one hundred thousand US dollars enabling them to record a full length album on CD. The band also made their first video for this song.

Answer: The Beatles

Taken from the album "Revolver", the single was coupled with the song "Yellow Submarine" as a single. This well known song is about the fate of lonely old people. McCartney said the song was to be about Daisy Hawkins, as this was the first name that came into his head. He later took the name Eleanor from the actress who had starred in the Beatles film "Help!" - Eleanor Bron.