Sing This With Me Trivia Quiz

Answer: Peaches & Herb

Herb has always been Herb Fame. The original Peaches was Francine Barker (Peaches was her real nickname). Peaches on "Reunited" was Linda Greene. There have been a total of six Peaches since 1966. "Reunited" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in 1979.

Answer: Hey Schoolgirl

Sounding like a typical East Coast rock song of the time, "Hey Schoolgirl" started Simon and Garfunkel on their career path. Changing to their real names they achieved national prominence in 1965 with "The Sounds of Silence".

Answer: Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty

Written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell as a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" became the name of an album and the first song on the 1981 release for Stevie Nicks. Jimmy Iovine, who produced both singers at the time arranged for Petty and Nicks to do a duet. It reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100.

Answer: Loggins & Messina

Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina were a 1970s duo who sold over sixteen million records early in the decade, more than any duo until Hall & Oates hit their stride in the late '70s.

Answer: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Record producer T-Bone Burnett brought together one of the godfathers of Heavy Metal, Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) and longtime bluegrass musician, Alison Krauss (Union Station), to record a thirteen-song album "Raising Sand" in 2007. At the 51st Grammy Awards "Please Read the Letter" won Record of the Year for 2008 and "Raising Sand" won Album of the Year. Reviewer/author Alanna Nash said of the two: "Perhaps only the fantasy duo of King Kong and Bambi could be a more bizarre pairing than Robert Plant and Alison Krauss."

Answer: Peter and Gordon

One of the last hits for Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller), "Lady Godiva", a song about a striptease artist, borrows from the story of Lady Godiva of Coventry, England, who supposedly rode through the town naked to protest her husband's (Leofric, Earl of Mercia) excessive taxation on his tenants. Peter and Gordon's biggest hit was "A World Without Love".

Answer: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

Written by the Bee Gees, "Islands in the Stream" was a number one hit for Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers on every U.S. and Canadian chart in 1983. In 2005, the Country Music Television network named it the best country duet of all time.

Answer: Jennie Lee

Jan Berry and Arnie Ginsburg were founding members of The Barons, a high school band which included Dean Torrence. After taking "Jennie Lee', a song about a burlesque performer, to number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958 they recorded "Gas Money", which only reached number eighty-one. Ginsburg tired of the music business and was replaced by Torrence. Both songs had the elements of what would become Surf Music. Jan and Dean had several hit records involving surfing and cars into the mid-1960s. Among those who played with The Barons over time were drummer Sandy Nelson and future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston.

Answer: Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Thomasina "Tammi" Terrell had a professional recording contract before she was fifteen years old. After moving up and signing with Motown at age twenty, she was introduced to Marvin Gaye, who had sung duets with three other women who had left Motown; he was looking for a new partner.

They started singing together in 1967; the results were magical. Besides the song in this question they recorded "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "Your Precious Love" and "You're All I Need to Get By", among others. But later that year she collapsed on stage in Gaye's arms.

She was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died in 1970 at age 24. Gaye was shot to death by his father in 1984.

Answer: One Toke Over the Line

Michael Brewer and Tom Shipley started working together in 1968. Their greatest success came in the early 1970s while they were recording for Kama Sutra Records. "One Toke Over the Line", a song about smoking too much marijuana, was written as a filler piece for their 1970 album "Tarkio Road".

The song has been performed by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead and the Lawrence Welk Orchestra. Honest!