No. 1 Hits Of the 60s Vol. 7 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cathy's Clown

"Cathy's Clown" hit the top of the charts in the spring of 1960 and it was The Everly Brothers first release after changing record labels. What a release it was. It proved to be their biggest single ever, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts.

It also spent seven weeks at number one in the U.K. The song made the list of Rolling Stone Magazine's "500 Greatest Songs Of All Time" at number 149.

Answer: True

Presley spent two weeks at number one in the U.S. with this song and also got to the top of the charts in the U.K. The song was originally titled "Torna a Surriento" or "Come Back to Sorrento" in translation. It is estimated to have been written in 1902.

The original song's composer is not clear, but the songwriter team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, who wrote many of Presley's hits, got a hold of this one and helped make it a top of the charts success.

Answer: Don't Break the Heart That Loves You

Connie had three number ones in her career. This song the last of them. The others were "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", and "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own". The song here was number one for one week in March of 1962. Francis had numerous other hits in the Top 10, including all three of the other choices listed.

Answer: False

They actually charted three Top 40 hits during 1963 and early 1964. The others were "My Summer Love" which reached number 16 on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 charts and also "Hey There Lonely Boy" which got as high as number 27. They did record some other songs that actually were covered and became hits for other artists such as Eddie Holman, The Marvelettes and The Carpenters. "Our Day Will Come" took the number one spot for one week March of 1963.

In the 1970s it was covered by Frankie Valli as a solo artist and it reached as high as number 11 on the charts.

Answer: My Guy

All of the four listed songs were Top 10 hits for Wells, but it was "My Guy", penned by the immortal Smokey Robinson, that spent two weeks at number one in the spring of 1964, during the height of the "British Invasion". Ironically, she left Motown Records at the height of her success, and her career was never the same.

Answer: My Girl

The Temptations were one of Motown's stable of stars. They had been recording since 1961 and had scored a number of hits on the R&B charts. They hit number 11 on the U.S. Hot 100 with "The Way You Do The Things You Do" in 1964, but it was "My Girl" that established them as superstars.

The song was written by Smokey Robinson, and it was the first song they recorded with David Ruffin as lead singer. Amazingly, it only was number one for one week in March 1965, but 40 years later it is the group's most recognizable song.

It is listed on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" at number 89.

Answer: The Ballad of The Green Berets

Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler was recovering from a wound he received in Vietnam when he co-wrote "The Ballad Of The Green Berets", a song which documented the heroism of the U.S. military. It was number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts for five weeks in the spring of 1966, number one for that year as well, and ended up as the number 21 song for the decade of the 60s according to Billboard.

Answer: Happy Together

The group had scored U.S. Billboard Top 40 success with ""It Ain't Me Babe" (#8), "You Baby" (#20) and "Let Me Be" (#29) before finally hitting pay dirt with "Happy Together" which spent three weeks at number one in the springtime of 1967. It ended up as their only number one hit.It also hit number 12 on the U.K charts.

The song has become embedded in pop culture over the years, being used in many movies, television shows, and commercials. It also has been covered by numerous artists with a diverse list including Weezer, Donny Osmond, The Captain and Tennille and The Nylons.

In 1999 BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) named the song as the 44th most played song on the airwaves in the 20th century.

Answer: Honey

Bobby Goldsboro gave us "Honey", a ballad describing the premature death of the singer's sweetheart from some unknown illness. The lyrics just describe good times together until she was found to be ill, and then one day "the angels came". After that all that was left was memories. Sad song, but it spent five weeks at number one in the U.S. on the Billboard charts, as well as being a number one song in Australia, and a number two hit in the U.K.

Answer: Hair

Hair gave us a number of enduring hits such as the song with the same name as the title "Hair", "Easy To Be Hard", "Be-In", "Where Do I Go?" and "Good Morning Starshine" among others, but it was the medley of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine hit which made it to the top of the charts for The Fifth Dimension, spending six weeks at the top of the charts in the spring of 1969. The performance won the group two Grammys in 1970. The song is also listed on Billboard Magazine's list of the "Greatest Songs of All Time" at number 57.


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