We Don't Need A Singer Vol. 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Ventures

The Ventures had been recording since the early 1960s and were most famously remembered for their hit recording of "Walk, Don't Run". The song was a number 11 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 U.S. charts in 1960. After that, they continued to record and release songs that would make it onto the Billboard charts, but just barely crack the Top 100 in most cases.

They re-released "Walk Don't Run '64" in 1964 and again charted at number 17. Then in 1968 they were asked to do the theme song for "Hawaii Five-O", the hit series starring Jack Lord.

They went back to the top of the charts peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 charts that year. In 2008 The Ventures were inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.

Answer: The Chantays

The Chantays were a group of California high school students who formed a band in the early 1960s. They recorded "Pipeline" in late 1962 and it was released early in 1963, shooting up the charts to the number four position on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Answer: The Beatles

The Beatles, of course, laid down this track as part of the "Magical Mystery Tour" album in 1967. It was the first Beatles tune to be credited to all four members as co-writers. The end of the song is highlighted by all four chanting...la la la lalala...is what's heard at the end. The song was originally called "Aerial Tour Instrumental", but was changed before the album was released.

Answer: Booker T. and The M.G.'s

It was Booker T. and The M.G.s who put this song together for the soundtrack of the motion picture "Uptight", and took it all the way to the number six position on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1969. It was their second biggest charting hit. They had charted with "Green Onions" back in 1962.

Answer: Santana

The song was played at the end of the set that Santana performed at Woodstock during the Saturday session on August 16, 1969. The song was taken from the group's first album release, simply called "Santana". After their appearance at Woodstock, the album received wide airplay on most progressive rock stations around the U.S. and "Soul Sacrifice" was quite often heard on the airwaves, although the group never released it as a single, choosing to run with "Evil Ways", which was one of the few songs on the album that actually did have lyrics, and it became a springboard for the group, becoming a major hit. Santana has had many hits over the years.

The group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1998.

Answer: Horst Jankowski

Horst Jankowski, a classically trained pianist from Germany, was a musician who concentrated on the easy listening genre of music. This song was the peak of his success in the U.S., reaching number one on the Easy Listening charts, as well as number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Answer: Billy Preston

While all these choices were great musicians, it was Preston who scored with the instrumental "Outa-Space" in 1972, which reached number two on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100, and eventually garnered Preston a Grammy Award. Preston had worked with some of the greatest artists of all time, some of which included The Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles, among many, many others.

He also is famously remembered for working with arguably the greatest group of all time, The Beatles.

He is the only non-Beatle to ever be given credit in his own right for a song which appeared on any Beatles LP. The billing for "Get Back" reads "The Beatles with Billy Preston", which is the only time any other artist was given equal billing with them. Preston played most musical instruments impeccably which accounts for all his collaborations over the years.

Unfortunately, Preston's talent was silenced in 2006, as he passed away due to kidney failure.

Answer: Focus

The song comes off an album called "Moving Waves". The group hails from The Netherlands. The song went to number 20 on the U.K. charts and to number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1971. The group's follow-up song called "Sylvia" did well in the U.K., reaching number four, by only got to number 89 in the U.S. No singles by the group have charted in either country since that song.

Answer: Vangelis

I won't attempt to write his birth name here, but Vangelis, as he is known, has been described as a progressive, electronic, neo-classical musician, who does in fact hail from Volos, Greece. He has been recording since the 1960s and is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of electronic music of all time.

This song, which was from the motion picture "Chariots Of Fire", made it to number one on the U.S. Billboard charts in 1982.

Answer: Jan Hammer

Jan Hammer came to us from Prague, in the Czech Republic,and has been recording tunes since 1968. Hammer was a close associate of Jeff Beck and worked with him in the 1970s. In the 1980s, the producers of the television series "Miami Vice" asked him to write music for the series, and the theme song evolved from that request.

The song hit the top of the U.S. charts in 1985, and Hammer was rewarded with two Grammy Awards for it. He continued to write for the show until 1988, and then branched out into feature films.