Rolling Stones' All-Time 500 Songs Numbers 60-51 Quiz

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1. Number 60: The song is titled "Let's Stay Together". Which R&B legend recorded the song at number 60 on Rolling Stone's list?

Answer: Al Green

The song was released in 1971 off the album of the same name and topped both the Billboard 100 and R&B charts, while peaking at number seven in the UK.

Al Green is nicknamed "The Reverend". He was ordained as a minister in 1976 in Memphis, Tennessee. He still presides over his church there.

2. Number 59: The "protest" song that is next on the list is called "The Times They Are A-Changin'". It was written and first recorded by an American folk/rock legend. Name the artist who released this song in 1964.

Answer: Bob Dylan

The song was released on the album of the same name in January 1964, and about a year later, in March 1965, as a single. in the USA. It was released as a single in the UK in 1964 and made it to number nine on the British Singles' chart.

In December 1965, the American group The Byrds did a cover version of the song that eventually reached number one on the Billboard 100 singles' chart.

3. Number 58: This song was a number one single off the "Thriller" album by Michael Jackson. Jackson sang that the girl in the song was "not my lover, she's just a girl who claims that I am the one". What is the title of this smash hit?

Answer: Billie Jean

"Billie Jean" is one of the top selling singles of all-time. It was number one on the Billboard 100 chart and the UK Singles' chart in 1983.

The video was ground breaking, becoming the first video by a black artist receiving heavy rotation play on MTV. The song was also a showcase for Jackson to reveal one of his signature moves, the Moonwalk. He did this on the "25th Anniversary of Motown" special shown on television while performing the song.

"P.Y.T" was the sixth single released off the "Thriller" album, but peaked at number ten on the USA Billboard Hot 100 charts.

"She's Out of My Life" is a Michael Jackson song off the "Off the Wall" album, and peaked at number ten on the Billboard charts in the USA.

"Blue Jean" is a song by David Bowie off the 1984 "Tonight" album.

4. Number 57: A 1960s classic called "A Whiter Shade of Pale" is next on the list. It was done by a British progressive rock group. What is this group called?

Answer: Procol Harum

The song was released in May 1967. It peaked at number five on the Billboard 100 chart in the USA, but reached number one on the UK Singles' chart.

The song was featured on the soundtrack for the 1983 movie "The Big Chill". The soundtrack, interestingly, featured eight songs from Rolling Stone's "All-Time 500" list, from a high of number 41 "The Weight" by The Band to number 364 "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

5. Number 56: "Anarchy in the U.K." was a seminal British punk rock song in the 1970s. It was off a controversial album by a controversial group. Name the ill-fated group that recorded this song.

Answer: The Sex Pistols

The song was released as the Sex Pistols' first single in November 1976. It peaked at number 38 on the UK Singles' chart. It was eventually added to the Sex Pistols' first album in 1977.

The opening lyrics of the song, "I am the Antichrist" was a supposed start, in this song, as a call to arms for the disenfranchised working class youth in the UK.

Sadly, by 1978 the Sex Pistols were no longer together after an acrimonious American tour. In 1979, member Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose.

6. Number 55: Song number 55 is off Little Richard's first album "Here's Little Richard". He sang the lyrics, "she's built for speed, she's got everything Uncle John needs". What was the name of this early Little Richard hit song?

Answer: Long Tall Sally

The song peaked at number six in 1956 on the Billboard 100 singles chart and number one on the R&B chart.

"Little Queenie" is a song from Chuck Berry, "Goodnight Irene" is a classic blues song from Leadbelly, and "Ah! Leah" was an early 1980s hit for Donnie Iris.

7. Number 54: "Louie, Louie" was a controversial song from the 1960s. Its garbled lyrics made radio stations say "we gotta go"! What "garage band" recorded the controversial song at number 54?

Answer: The Kingsmen

Some have called "Louie, Louie" the first punk rock song. It peaked at number two on the Billboard 100 chart in 1963. The song has been inducted into both the "Grammy Hall of Fame" and "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame", among others.

The band was accused of intentionally slurring the lyrics to cover up obscene lyrics in the song. This led to a 31 month investigation by the F.B.I. into the songs lyrics. The band denied any obscenities, and the F.B.I never found any obscenities because they couldn't understand the lyrics. However, in several magazine interviews years later, Kingsmen's drummer Lynn Easton said after he accidentally dropped his drumstick, at 0:54 of the record, he then dropped an "f-bomb" on the recording.

Last add: There is an official "Louie, Louie" day on April 11 each year. This is the birthday of the writer and original performer of the song, Richard Perry.

8. Number 53: This song was recorded by R&B artist Percy Sledge. In this song of heartache Sledge sings of the man: "He'd give up all his comforts and sleep out in the rain, if she said that's the way it ought to be...Deep down in his soul, she can bring him such misery, if she's playin' him for a fool". What is the title of this Percy Sledge song?

Answer: When a Man Loves a Woman

The song topped both the weekly Billboard 100 and the R&B charts in 1966. It was written by Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright. In 1991, Michael Bolton's cover version also topped the Billboard charts in the USA.

"Blueberry Hill" is a song from Fats Domino not Richie Cunningham!

"Try a Little Tenderness" was a cover hit done by Otis Redding.

"I've Been Trying" is a song by the Impressions.

9. Number 52: "When Doves Cry" is off the hit album "Purple Rain" in 1984. It was recorded by a Minneapolis, Minnesota artist with his group The Revolution. Name the artist who wrote and sang "When Doves Cry".

Answer: Prince

"When Doves Cry" was number one for five weeks in the summer of 1984. It peaked at number four in the UK.

Prince biographer, Per Nilsen, said the song was inspired by Prince's relationship with Vanity 6 member, Susan Moonsie.

10. Number 51: This social conscious rap song is the highest rated 1980s song on Rolling Stones' List. It is by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Some of the lyrics are: "Rats in the front room, cockroaches in the back, Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat... Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge, I'm tryin' not to lose my head ah huh-huh-huh, It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder How I keep from going under" What is the title of this poignant song?

Answer: The Message

"The Message" was released on Sugarhill Records in July 1982. The song was written by Ed "Duke Bootee" Fletcher, Sylvia Robinson, and Melle Mel - the "MC" rapper on the song. It is cited as the first song to take rap music from the party platform to socially conscious lyrics.

In 2002, it was the first rap/hip hop song to be added to the Library of Congress' "National Recording Registry", one of the first 50 songs in the Registry's inaugural year.

Not only was the song the highest 1980s song on Rolling Stone's list, it was also the highest rated hip hop/rap song on the list.

"It's Like That" is by Run-DMC.

"Fight the Power" is a song from Public Enemy.

"Planet Rock" was done by Afrika Bambaataa.

Source: Author Alepcot

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