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My Birthday Top Ten - 1963 Trivia Quiz

Fourth in a series of quizzes exploring the records which were in the UK Top Ten during the week of my birthday (19th July) - we're now onto 1963.

A multiple-choice quiz by Bazingstoke. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Bazingstoke

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
360,807

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Question 1 of 10

1. At the top of the UK charts with "Confessing (That I Love You)" was a young singer who was enjoying his fourth number one in the space of a year, and was well known for his yodeling style. Who was he? Hint

Tommy Steele

Jim Reeves

John Leyton

Frank Ifield

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Question 2 of 10

2. At number two is the first appearance in my birthday week chart of one of the new Liverpool bands. Singing "I Like It", the second of their three consecutive chart-toppers all in the same year, who were they? Hint

The Fourmost

The Merseybeats

Gerry and the Pacemakers

The Searchers

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Question 3 of 10

3. At number three was Elvis Presley, with his 14th UK chart-topper, which included the lyric "You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel....". Name the song. Hint

Crying In The Chapel

Marie's The Name (Of His Latest Flame)

(You're The) Devil In Disguise

Surrender

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Question 4 of 10

4. At number four was a fairly rare appearance in the 60's charts - an instrumental. "Atlantis" was released by a group who had fifteen top ten hits in their own right, as well as appearing as a huge UK star's backing band on numerous hits - on the first couple of these they were billed as The Drifters, but under what name did they release "Atlantis"? Hint

The Shadows

The Ventures

The Hurricanes

The Tremeloes

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Question 5 of 10

5. At number five was a girl group, produced by Phil Spector, with their first big UK hit, "Da Doo Ron Ron". Who were they? Hint

The Ronettes

The Crystals

The Shirelles

The Shangri-Las

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Question 6 of 10

6. At number 6 was Ray Charles with a classic song, originally released in 1953 by Hank Williams, containing the following lines, "Give my heart just a word of sympathy, be as fair to my heart as you can be". Name the song. Hint

Take These Chains From My Heart

Your Cheatin' Heart

Unchain My Heart

I Can't Stop Loving You

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Question 7 of 10

7. At number seven is the d�but chart hit from another Liverpool group. Like the Beatles they performed in Hamburg for much of the latter part of 1962, before returning to the UK and a string of hits. The song, "Sweets For My Sweet" was released by which band? Hint

The Merseybeats

Gerry and The Pacemakers

The Fourmost

The Searchers

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Question 8 of 10

8. Unusually, the record at number eight was a posthumous release. "Bo Diddley" was a hit for an artist who had died more than four years earlier. Who was he? Hint

Otis Redding

The Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson)

Buddy Holly

Ritchie Valens

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Question 9 of 10

9. At number nine is Lesley Gore, with her biggest hit, the story of a miserable evening. What was its title? Hint

It's Judy's Turn To Cry

You Don't Own Me

She's A Fool

It's My Party

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Question 10 of 10

10. At number ten is an odd one, as it was performed not by a singer but by an American disc jockey, who went on to be a TV game show host on many shows. "Deck of Cards" had reached number seven in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959, and peaked at number five in the UK four years later. Who was the performer? Hint

Wink Martindale

Bill Wendell

Alex Trebek

Kenny Williams

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Frank Ifield

This was Frank Ifield's last big hit although he had a handful of top forty entries, with the last in 1966, until he reappeared there in 1991 on a track called "She Taught Me To Yodel" featuring The Backroom Boys!

Answer: Gerry and the Pacemakers

Gerry and the Pacemakers were the first act to have number one hits in the UK with all of their first three releases. This feat remained a record for more than twenty years, when it was equaled by fellow Liverpudlians Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

3. At number three was Elvis Presley, with his 14th UK chart-topper, which included the lyric "You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel....". Name the song.

Answer: (You're The) Devil In Disguise

On a British TV programme of the time called "Juke Box Jury", on which celebrity guests reviewed newly released discs and voted on whether they would be a Hit or a Miss, John Lennon voted "(You're The)"Devil In Disguise" a miss, as he said that "Elvis had turned into Bing Crosby"!

Answer: The Shadows

The Shadows were one of UK's biggest bands in the '50s and '60s, both as an instrumental band and as Cliff Richard's backing band. It is an odd fact that in the 70's, when they entered The Eurovision Song Contest (in 1975), they did it as a singing act, with their song "Let Me Be The One"; even odder is that they outscored Cliff's entry "Power To All Our Friends" in 1973 - Cliff came third with 123 points while The Shadows came second with 138 points!

5. At number five was a girl group, produced by Phil Spector, with their first big UK hit, "Da Doo Ron Ron". Who were they?

Answer: The Crystals

Previous Crystals' releases had featured Barbara Alston, and then Darlene Love on lead vocals, but for this one the well-named Dolores "LaLa" Brooks took over the lead.

Answer: Take These Chains From My Heart

Ray Charles is without doubt one of the greatest musicians of the modern era, and it is hardly surprising that he appears at number ten and number two respectively in "Rolling Stone"'s lists of Greatest Artists of All Time and Greatest Singers of all Time

Answer: The Searchers

Many of The Searchers' early hits were covers - "Sweets For My Sweet" was originally released by The Drifters, and they also covered Brenda Lee's "Sweet Nuthins", Jackie DeShannon's "Needles and Pins" and "When You Walk in the Room", and The Clovers' "Love Potion No. 9".

8. Unusually, the record at number eight was a posthumous release. "Bo Diddley" was a hit for an artist who had died more than four years earlier. Who was he?

Answer: Buddy Holly

Buddy, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens all died in the same plane crash in February 1959. Otis Redding also died in a plane crash and had posthumous hits, but not until 1967.

9. At number nine is Lesley Gore, with her biggest hit, the story of a miserable evening. What was its title?

Answer: It's My Party

Lesley's career in the charts was relatively short-lived, but she turned to composing and in 1980 she composed songs for the soundtrack of the film "Fame", receiving an Oscar nomination for one of them "Out Here On My Own" (written with her brother Michael), but was beaten to the Oscar by "Fame" - also written by her brother, and composed by Dean Pitchford.

Answer: Wink Martindale

"Deck of Cards" tells the story of a young GI in World War II, who was arrested for playing cards in church; he explains to the provost marshal that he used his deck of cards as a bible, an almanac and a prayer book, giving each card a significance relating to the bible story or the calendar.

Source: Author Bazingstoke

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