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1. We're gonna start off real easy-like with a 1967 song about balloons by the Fifth Dimension. What was the name of this hit with which they enjoyed a huge success all over the globe?
2. Who brought us the tune "Uptown Girl", in 1983?
3. These lyrics, that belong to the "interior" of a song popularized by the group Canned Heat in 1968, should help you figure out where they were planning to go.
"Now baby, pack your leaving trunk
You know we've got to leave today
Just exactly where we're going I cannot say
But we might even leave the U.S.A.
'Cause there's a brand new game that I wanna play."
What was the location that the group wanted to visit?
(Remember the quill music/pan flute intro to the tune.)
4. This song by CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) featured the following verses. Can you name that song, in say, 80 notes?
"There's a place up ahead and I'm goin' just as fast as my feet can fly
Come away, come away if you're goin', leave the sinkin' ship behind.
Bring a song and a smile for the banjo, better get while the gettin's good,
Hitch a ride to the end of the highway where the neons turn to wood.
You can ponder perpetual motion, fix your mind on a crystal day,
Always time for a good conversation, there's an ear for what you say."
What line from the song title fills in the gaps for the chorus?
5. Bob Marley wrote it.
Johnny Nash popularized it in 1972.
Which upbeat song was this that Mr. Nash featured on his album, "I Can See Clearly Now"?
6. My, my. This song hit the music charts SEVERAL times in the 50s, 60s and 70s, with a variety of different artists achieving success with it each time!
So, in 1974, what brother and sister duo had a chart topper with "I'm Leaving It All Up To You"?
7. The Foundations had a hit with these lyrics in 1969.
"... "I'll be over at ten", you told me time and again.
But you're late, I wait around and then (dah-dah-dah)
I went to the door, I can't take any more
It's not you - you let me down again."
What was the name of this tune that charted at the number three position on the U.S. charts that year?
8. A "flower" originally sang the song "You Light Up My Life", prior to Debby Boone's version which peaked at number one in 1977.
What was the name of the American songstress of Ukrainian ethnicity whose version featured in the movie of the same name in 1977?
9. "When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space"
"Up On The Roof" became a major hit for which R & B group in 1963?
10. "It's Up To You" became a hit for this artist in 1962.
"It's up - to you
Because I've done everything I can
I hope - that you
Will say that I'm your lovin' man"
Who crooned this tune in '62?
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