We Are Family! Get Up Everybody and Sing! Quiz

Answer: Kenny Loggins

Dave Loggins was originally from Mountain City, Tennessee, as is reflected in the chorus of "Please Come to Boston":

And she said, "Hey, ramblin' boy, Now won't you settle down? Boston ain't your kind of town. There ain't no gold and There ain't nobody like me. I'm the number one fan Of the man from Tennessee."

His second cousin Kenny Loggins was born in Everett, Washington but moved often throughout his childhood before settling in Alhambra, California. He started writing songs for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, then teamed up with Jim Messina (most notably singing "Your Mama Don't Dance" and "Danny's Song"), and finally going out on his own.

Answer: Not at all

Nick Rhodes and John Taylor were drinking in a pub watching "Barbarella" when they came up with the name Duran Duran after a character in the movie (Dr. Durand Durand). Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor, and Simon LeBon would join the group later, forming a lineup that all but defined 80's New Wave.

In 1985, Duran Duran split into two different side projects: The Power Station (Andy and John Taylor with Robert Palmer, known for "Some Like it Hot") and Arcadia (Simon LeBon, Roger Taylor, and Nick Rhodes, known for "Election Day").

Answer: Jim Croce

Jim Croce was only 30 when he and five others were killed when their chartered plane hit a tree while taking off from the Natchitoches Airport in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Croce had just performed one concert and was on the way to another in Sherman, Texas.

In Jim's short career, he had released five albums with nine songs in the US Top 40, "You Don't Mess Around With Jim", "Operator", "One Less Set of Footsteps", "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", "I Got a Name", "Time in a Bottle", "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song", and "Working at the Car Wash Blues". "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle" were both #1 on the chart.

While son Adrian James "A.J." Croce has not had his father's success, he has made a name for himself, releasing nine albums (as of 2017).

Answer: Seals and Crofts

Despite his name, "England Dan" Seals hails from McCarney, Texas. He was given the nickname in high school due to an obsession with the music of the Beatles and his tendency to speak in a mock English accent. After his partnership with his high school classmate John Ford Coley broke up, he became a very successful solo country musician. He sadly died of cancer in 2009.

His older brother Jim Seals teamed up with Darrell "Dash" Crofts in a variety of bands (including the Champs, best known for "Tequila" and an early band of Glen Campbell's), before striking out on their own.

Later in life, the Seals brothers often toured together, singing hits from both their groups.

Answer: Styx

Bassist Chuck and drummer John Panozzo were 12 years old when they started playing music with their 14-year old neighbor, keyboardist and vocalist Dennis DeYoung. They originally called themselves The Tradewinds, but changed their name when another band with the same name became known nationally. Guitarists James Young and Tommy Shaw later joined up with DeYoung and the Panozzos.

Shaw liked straight-up rock music and Young favored harder and more exotic guitar pieces, while DeYoung was into elaborate Broadway-style stage musicals. Soon DeYoung's pieces became more over the top, with band members donning costumes and delivering lines as characters over and above the music they were playing, until Shaw and Young finally pushed back. Styx disbanded and reunited several times with different lineups that always contained James Young and usually Tommy Shaw, but which hasn't contained Dennis DeYoung since 1999.

Meanwhile, Chuck and John Panozzo carried on with the band through its many iterations, and Chuck continues today. John, sadly, passed away in 1996.

Answer: Berry Gordy

Kennedy Gordy, better known as Rockwell, was Berry Gordy's sixth child. While it may appear that the Motown connections helped secure none other than Michael Jackson to sing the chorus on Rockwell's 1984 hit "Somebody's Watching Me", reportedly Rockwell signed his record deal without his father's knowledge and he and Jackson were childhood friends.

LMFAO was composed of an uncle and nephew. Redfoo (Stefan Gordy), Berry Gordy's eighth and final child, is the uncle of SkyBlu (Skylar Gordy). SkyBlu's father is Berry Gordy IV, the second child of Berry Gordy.

Answer: Joe Jackson, "Steppin' Out"

While the patriarch of the Jackson family is named Joe, the Joe that recorded the 1982 hit "Steppin' Out" is a British singer and now classical music composer. Marlon and Jermaine were both members of the Jackson Five, while sister Rebbie (Maureen) was the oldest of the 10 Jackson children.

Answer: Wilson Phillips

Sisters Wendy and Carnie Wilson were daughters of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, while their childhood best friend Chynna Phillips is the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.

The Beach Boys themselves were also a family band, with Brian Wilson's brothers Carl and Dennis and their cousin Mike Love.

Answer: Ravi Shankar

Geetali Norah Shankar is the daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar and American concert producer Sue Jones. Sitarist Anouschka Shankar is her half-sister. She was raised by her mother in Texas. After college, she moved to New York City and became a lounge singer, finely honing her jazz-pop style while working with collaborators that would help her perfect her sound.

Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury (Ravi Shankar) brought Indian classical music, and specifically sitar music, to Europe and the Americas when he began touring the world in the 1950s and 1960s. George Harrison began incorporating sitar music and Indian influences into the music of the Beatles--most notably "Norwegian Wood", and later into his own music. Other musicians soon followed, either through Shankar or through visiting India on their own. Shankar was later a member of India's parliament, and passed away in 2012 at the age of 92.

Answer: Husband and wife

Meg White worked at a restaurant called the Memphis Smoke, and Jack Gillis would read his poetry there at open mic night. Soon he began playing in local bands, and she would accompany him to the gigs. When they got married in 1996, he decided to buck convention and take her last name. Meanwhile, Meg started practicing on Jack's drum set and soon she became a reasonably good drummer, leading them to start playing their own music. They started out their image with childlike motifs--peppermint stripes, basic color schemes in their decor, and their presentation as brother and sister.

Though they divorced in 2000 and married other people, they continued to play together until Meg's anxiety disorder caused her to take a hiatus from performing in 2007 and permanently retire from performing in 2011.