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1. "Driving into town
With a dark cloud above you
Dial in the number
Who's bound to love you
Oh honey you turn me on
I'm a radio
I'm a country station
I'm a little bit corny
I'm a wild wood flower."
She was born Roberta Joan Anderson, and she recorded this song "You Turn Me On I'm a Radio" for her album "For the Roses." Who is she?
2. The song "Pure Radio Cosplay" goes like this:
"It seems that fifty years have come and gone, since the rise and the fall of the radio song (WTF!)
Steal another bottle to save my soul, it's been another dead year for rock and roll (who said so! )"
From their 2011 album "Tao of the Dead" what Austin Texas band recorded this song?
3. This Texas-born former member of the Traveling Wilburys recorded "Heartbreak Radio" for his 1992 album "King of Hearts."
4. The hip-hop group Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three recorded this song, perhaps their best known single which went to number 21 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart.
5. "I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Comes out of the Virginia swamps
"Cool and slow with plenty of precision
With a back beat narrow and hard to master"
Who recorded this song, "The WASP (Texas Radio and The Big Beat)" for the 1971 album "LA Woman"?
6. "You must be, a radio station
And who are we, we must be
The number one songs, spinning all day long
And over again,
And over again,
And over again..."
Yes it's yet another song by a recording artist criticizing the repetitiveness of radio and the ties to big corporations that rule it. Who recorded this song, "State Run Radio" in 2011 for his album "Lasers"?
7. "Alone with disconnection
And not a lonesome word
I reach out to the radio
And the clinically disturbed
"Give it up," the man says
Surrender and be saved
He'll drive away your demons
His help is on the way
Turn it up
Oh turn it up!"
This song "Turn it Up" was written by and recorded for his 2014 album "Lullaby And...The Ceaseless Roar." Who is the recording artist/songwriter/singer?
8. "Love Her By Radio" by Billy Jones was one of the biggest hit records in 1922. He teamed up with Ernie Hare to host a radio program in 1921 and that's what launched his career and made him famous. The duo sang novelty songs and became the highest paid singers in radio. What was the name of their radio show?
9. "Carolina mark the mile "south of the border" bumper signs
And styles I don't recognize
A weeping willow motel sign
By Georgia I am hypnotized more batteries for my power ma'am
I'm tuning into radio let it change me till we drive again"
This is from the song "Moonjock" by Animal Collective. They are an experimental alternative pop/rock band that according to an article "Animal Collective: Biography" at Allmusic.com combines all of the following music genres along with psychedelia, except for one which I've completely made up. Which is the bogus music genre?
10. Here's another music superstar with not one but two songs that you might hear on the radio that are about the radio. Who sang both "Wavelength" (also the title of his 1978 album) and "In The Days Before Rock and Roll" (from his 1990 album "Enlightenment")?
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