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1. The group that recorded this song, "American Beauty Radio Spot" is heavily hinted at or referred to within this section of the lyrics:
"But you're no fool,
you'd complain,
we'd get in trouble,
Jerry Garcia probably would get busted again.
So if you don't have the dead's American Beauty album
we can't say you're missing 42 minutes of pleasure
in a world that is owned by thousands of little Tricias."
2. "Radio Spot #1" and "Radio Spot #2" are two tracks from this blues singer's 1972 album "Everything Stops For Tea."
3. "This girl in her bedroom doing her homework
She's foolin' with the logarithms, she's going berserk
One hand has a cigarette resting on the window
The other one's twiddling with the radio."
This song, "Who Listens to the Radio?" is a 1978 single by this Australian rock band.
4. "Hello honey, it's me
What did you think when you heard me back on the radio?
What did the kids say when they knew it was their long lost daddy-o?
Remember how we listened to the radio
And I said 'That's the place for me'"
These are the opening lyrics to "W.O.L.D." by which American singer/songwriter?
5. Speaking of disc jockeys, Boyd Bennett recorded "Cool Disc Jockey" with his band The Rockets. It was on their 1955 album "Tennessee Rock 'n' Roll." Boyd Bennett has been inducted into which of these Halls of Fame?
6. We interrupt your regularly scheduled program, with a hot news flash
Dan, Dan, are you there?
Yeah I'm here, and what a crowd!
"This is Dan Summers, your super scoop news reporter, at the local ticket outlet center
Excuse me sir, what's all the excitement about?
Yo man, you don't know?!
Run-D.M.C. and the Raising Hell Tour is coming to town, B!"
This tidbit is from RUN-DMC's "Raising Hell Radio Tour Spot." Which of these rappers was NOT a member of Run-DMC trio?
7. "Say you don't know me, or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee-deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
We got too many runaways eating up the night
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll"
Who doesn't remember this giant hit song from 1985 by Starship? Betcha never guessed what huge songwriting talent wrote the lyrics for this song?
8. From the Canadian group Martha and Muffins came what 1984 song that tackled racism in the radio industry?
9. "Radio has changed our lives and practically saved our lives
Oh yeah!
I want to tell you about dead city radio man
And the new gods of supertown.
A world of magic lanterns and chemical blues.
A world where x stands of the unknown and y is the zero."
These lyrics are from "Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown" by whom?
10. The title "Radioactive" is shared by five different songs about radio. These four groups had songs called "Radioactive" but which group's "Radioactive" charted highest on the U.S. record charts and is the best selling record of the five?
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