The Jeffersons: Airplane or Starship? Quiz

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1. "One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice, when she's 10 feet tall." Which group recorded this?

Answer: Jefferson Airplane

This is the opening line to "White Rabbit". If you want to get technical about who originally did it, the original recording was done by The Great Society, which was Grace Slick's band prior to Jefferson Airplane. Grace brought it with her when she replaced Signe Anderson as Jefferson Airplane's female singer.

2. "Go now. Don't look back. We've drawn the line." Which group recorded this?

Answer: Starship

This is the opening line to "Sara". The video starred Rebecca DeMornay as the title character, showing flashbacks to Sara's now-ending relationship with lead singer Mickey Thomas, paralleling it with the childhood relationship between Thomas and his mother as they survive a tornado. Actually, what the two story lines have to do with each other is not clear, except perhaps that one tends to marry a woman who is like his mother.

3. "I might have to move heaven and earth to prove it to you, baby." Which group recorded this?

Answer: Jefferson Starship

The opening line to "Miracles", a wonderful ballad written by Marty Balin. It was the top single off "Red Octopus", the best selling album of any of the Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship incarnations.

4. "When the truth is found to be lies and all the joy within you dies." Which group recorded this?

Answer: Jefferson Airplane

The opening line to "Somebody to Love", another song Grace Slick brought from The Great Society. Like "White Rabbit", it appears on the Great Society album "Conspicuous Only in its Absence", re-released on CD as "Collector's Item".

5. "Precious love I'll give to you, blue as the sky and deep in the eyes of a love so true." Which group recorded this?

Answer: Jefferson Starship

This is the opening line to "Count on Me", a song which shows Marty Balin's singing style perhaps more than any other Jefferson Starship song.

6. "Say you don't know me or recognize my face. Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place." Which group recorded this?

Answer: Starship

This is the opening line to "We Built This City", a song that was notable for the disc jockey segment in the middle of it, often adapted to whatever radio station was playing the song. Written by Bernie Taupin (Elton John's songwriting partner), Martin Page (wrote and sang "In the House of Stone and Light"), Peter Wolf (NOT the one of the J. Geils Band), and Dennis Lambert (wrote "One Tin Soldier" and "Don't Pull Your Love").

7. "Is everything alright? I just called to say how lost I feel without you." Which group recorded this?

Answer: None of These

This is the opening line to "Hearts", by Marty Balin. Balin was a lead singer and primary songwriter for Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, but he did this one for his 1981 solo album.

8. "He was just a little boy and he sat there in his school And the little girl in the very next chair she thought he was so cool." Which group recorded this?

Answer: Jefferson Airplane

Opening line to "Planes (Experimental Aircraft)", which was the single released when Jefferson Airplane reunited in 1989 and released the eponymous "Jefferson Airplane" album. Paul Kantner wrote and sang the lead in this song about a child's dreams of becoming a pilot.

9. "Well, I came upon a child of God, he was walking along the road." Which group recorded this?

Answer: None of These

This is the opening line to "Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell and popularized by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Jefferson Airplane and CSN&Y both did "Wooden Ships", which was written by David Crosby, Steven Stills, and Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner.

10. "Looking in your eyes I see a paradise. This world that I found is too good to be true." Which group recorded this?

Answer: Starship

This is the opening line to "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now". One of the criticisms many had about Starship was that they had gotten too commercial. This song is the quintessential example. It was written by prolific commercial songwriters Albert Hammond and Diane Warren for the soundtrack of the movie "Mannequin".

Starship's commercial appeal can be seen by considering that all three incarnations of the Jeffersons combined for only three number one hits, all three by Starship ("We Built this City", "Sara", and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"). Jefferson Airplane peaked at number five with "Somebody to Love" and Jefferson Starship peaked at number three with "Miracles".

Source: Author eauhomme

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Is it Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship, or none of these? I give you the opening line to a song (not including the chorus), you decide which incarnation of the San Francisco group recorded it.

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