The Songs of 1966 - Third Volume Quiz

Answer: Homeward Bound

Simon and Garfunkel's follow up to "Sounds Of Silence", this song reached a commendable #5 on the charts. Altogether, they would have three #1 hits and eight top 40's before their split in 1971. Together, they would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990.

Answer: You Keep Me Hangin' On

The Supremes were in the midst of a hot streak in late 1966 - early 1967 with four consecutive #1 hits. This was the second one of the sequence following "You Can't Hurry Love" and preceding "Love Is Here And Now You're Gone" and "The Happening". Then they became Diana Ross and The Supremes and the "mojo" was broken.

They would only have two more #1 hits in three years. In 1970, Ross went solo and The Supremes would never again have a chart topper. Incidently, Vanilla Fudge covered the song a year later and charted at #6 with it.

Answer: 19th Nervous Breakdown

Harsh stuff from the pen of Jagger and Richards and we're left wondering about the object of their warnings. It was a #2 song for three weeks early in 1966.

Answer: Daydream

A Sebastian composition, it paints a picture of a young man so smitten with a gal that he just floats through the day daydreamin' of her. Mmmmm, I can relate!

Answer: Kicks

The song peaked at #4 in April 1966. It was written, much to my surprise, by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil who have written such classics as "I Just Can't Help Believing" for B.J.Thomas, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" for The Righteous Brothers and "Blame It On the Bossa Nova" for Eydie Gorme. As of 2004, they've been married and collaborating on songs for 43 years. Pretty remarkable!

Answer: Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

Sonny Bono wrote the song and Cher took it to #2 on the charts. Although still married at the time, Cher had five solo top forty songs in the late 1960's. All were produced by Sonny and he wrote the majority of them.

Answer: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Now I have to believe that Dylan was a little "stoned" when he wrote this classic, a #2 hit. If anyone has any insight as to how the title evolved, I'd love to hear from ya. It's one of the few occasions that I know from the earlier days of rock music where the song's title is not reflected somewhere within the lyric.

Answer: My Love

Petula Clark made this her second #1 hit almost exactly a year after "Downtown" became her first. Both were written by Tony Hatch and he would write several more hits for her. Alas, however, there would be no more #1's among them.

Answer: Bus Stop

The Hollies formed in Manchester, England in 1962 and over the years, have had considerably more success in the U.K. than in North America. This particular song was #2 there, #5 here, for example.

Answer: Groovy Kind Of Love

This was the second and last hit for The Mindbenders. The song was written by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer (later Carole Bayer Sager) who had just commenced a writing collaboration that would continue for three years. However, this would be the only big hit they would create together. Later, Wine would co-write "Candida", a hit for Tony Orlando and Dawn in 1970, while Carole Bayer Sager went on to more than modest fame co-writing a number of hits in the 1970s and 1980s... among them were: "Midnight Blue" by Melissa Manchester in 1975, Leo Sayer's Number One hit "When I Need You" in 1977, Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" from the Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me", also from 1977, and most notably, "Arthur's Theme", sung by Christopher Cross for the movie "Arthur" in 1981.