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1. This leader of "The Velvet Underground" said that their song "Rock And Roll" "is about me. If I hadn't heard rock and roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet...Movies didn't do it for me. TV didn't do it for me. It was the radio that did it." Who is it?
2. The Treniers, an American up-tempo style blues group recorded the song "Moondog" in 1952. That title, "Moondog" was the nickname of what famous American radio disc jockey?
3. Which of these songs' lyrics is based on The Shipping Forecast, a radio show on the BBC that announces weather reports and forecasts for the waters surrounding the British Isles?
4. "I don't know where I'm goin'
Now that I am gone
I hope the wind that's blowin'
Helps me carry on
Turn on your radio, baby
Listen to my song."
That's how the song "Turn On Your Radio" goes. It's by a singer that none other than the Beatles called their favorite singer.
5. How about the 1952 bluegrass song "Radio Boogie?" Which of the following groups recorded that song? (The other three are completely fictitious)
"Well I got me a hat and old guitar
And I made a down payment on a second hand car
I got me a job on the radio
Now I'm saving up money for a fiddle and a bow"
6. "I'll love you till the world stops slimming
Doing the radio
People go to parties when they get a white shirt
They listen to records in a shirt and tie
The stupid and the stupid and the meaningless drivel
The stupid and the people and the meaningless lyric
Happening to people when they do their hands and knees."
That song, called "Blacks/Radio" is from the 1980 debut album of what English rock band?
7. The Desperate Bicycles were a punk rock band from England that were among several other bands that blazed a pathway through the DIY genre of rock music. What did DIY stand for?
8. "Turn the radio up for that sweet sound
Hold me close, never let me go
(Keep) Keep this feelin' alive
Make me lose control..."
"Make Me Lose Control" was a hit for Eric Carmen, reaching Number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks Chart in 1988. What group did Eric Carmen have success with before his solo career?
9. "From the transmitter, to the receiver.
Across the ether, out of your speaker.
Radio waves have life! Radio waves have life!
Machines are living too, they're working for me and you!"
This is from the song "Radio Waves" off of the 1983 album "Dazzle Ships". It's an album loaded with radio-themed songs and uses shortwave radio recordings in those songs that dealt with the Eastern Block Cold War. Who was this electronic English band that released this experimental album?
10. Here are two complete;y different songs, both titles "Listen to the Radio".
One goes like:
"Lie down on the bed, lay back your head
And smoke a cigarette
And listen to the radio
Listen to the radio
In the city late tonight"
and the other goes like:
"When you can't find a friend
You've still got the radio
When you can't find a friend
You've still got the radio..."
Who are the two recording artists that released these two songs, the first by a British rock band, the second by an American country singer?
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