We'll Sing In The Sunshine (Weather Permitting) 2 Quiz

Answer: Eddie Cochran

Eddie Cochran had a number eight hit on the US pop chart with "Summertime Blues" in 1958. It reached number 18 on the UK chart the same year. It reached number 34 on the UK chart on re-release in 1968.

Buddy Holly had a number 37 hit on the US pop chart with "Rave On" in 1958. It reached number five on the UK chart the same year. Eddie Cochran was fatally injured (he died later in hospital) in a one vehicle car crash in Wiltshire UK in 1960. Fellow passengers, singer Gene Vincent, Eddie's fiancé Sharon Sheeley (writer of "Poor Little Fool" for Ricky Nelson) and tour manager Pat Thompkins were injured. The taxi driver George Martin was uninjured and later fined £50 for dangerous driving and banned for 15 years.
In the Believe it or not/Rumour department: A police cadet at the local police station was David Harman who became Dave Dee of the '60s UK pop group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. He taught himself to play guitar on Eddie's impounded Gretsch guitar. Earlier, on the Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent tour the guitar had been carried to their transport by a very young fan Mark Feld, who later changed his name to Marc Bolan and he himself died in a car crash in 1977.

Answer: Misty

Ray Stevens had a number 14 hit on the US pop chart with "Misty" in 1975. It reached number two on the UK chart.

Country/pop/novelty singer/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/producer/arranger Ray Stevens has had many comedy and serious hits in the US and UK. He had his own US TV show in 1970. He is still having hits and has had hits on the Country chart and his album "We The People" was a top five entry on the Billboard Comedy album chart in 2010. He is involved with The Tea Party in the US these days.

Answer: Johnnie Ray

Johnnie Ray had a number two hit on the US pop chart with "Just Walking In The rain" in 1956. It reached number one for seven weeks on the UK chart the same year. The song was written and first recorded by the group The Prisonaires who were inmates of the Tennessee State Prison in 1954.

Frankie Laine had a number 19 hit on the US pop chart with "A Woman In Love" in 1955. It reached number one for four weeks on the UK chart in 1956 and was his last UK number one hit. Eddie Fisher had a number ten hit on the US pop chart with "Cindy, Oh Cindy" in 1956. It reached number five on the UK chart the same year and was his last UK chart hit. Guy Mitchell had a number one hit for ten weeks on the US pop chart with "Singing The Blues" in 1956. It reached number one for three non-consecutive weeks on the UK chart in 1957.

Answer: Summer

Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen had a number seven hit on the UK chart with "The Green Leaves Of Summer" in 1962. It reached number 87 on the US pop chart the same year.

After playing in various bands Kenneth Daniel Ball formed his own traditional jazz band in the late '50s. There was a jazz revival in the UK in the early '60s and Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band and Chris Barber's Jazz Band were at the forefront of the movement. Their joint album "The Best Of Ball, Barber And Bilk" reached number one on the UK album chart in 1962. They all achieved top five hits on the UK & US pop charts.

Answer: The Doors

The Doors had a number 14 hit on the US pop chart with "Riders On The Storm" in 1971. It reached number 22 in 1971, number 33 in 1976 and number 68 in 1991 on the UK chart. Spooky Coincidence, it entered the US chart on the July 3rd 1971, the same day that lead singer Jim Morrison died of heart failure in Paris, France.

Answer: Wild Wind

John Leyton (John Dudley Leyton) had a number two hit on the UK chart with "Wild Wind" in 1961. Like his first hit and UK chart topper "Johnny Remember Me" it did not chart in the US.

John Leyton had appeared in the 1960 UK TV series "Biggles" and made a few forgettable records. His manager Robert Stigwood got him a guest part as a singer in the 1961 UK TV department store soap opera "Harpers West One" in which he sang "Johnny Remember Me" as a singer named Johnny St. Cyr. The record was released under the John Leyton name and went to number one and John Leyton the actor, was a teenage singing idol.

Answer: Nine

George Harrison had a number ten hit on the UK album chart with "Cloud Nine" in 1987. It reached number eight on the US billboard album chart the same year.

George was not the first to leave The Beatles or the first to have a solo hit on the singles or album charts. He was however, the first ex-Beatle to have a solo number one hit on the singles chart. "My Sweet Lord" was number one for five weeks on the UK chart in 1971. It was number one for four weeks on the US pop chart in 1970.

Answer: Spring

Frank Sinatra had a number 25 hit on the US chart with "Summer Wind" in 1966. It reached number 36 on the UK chart the same year.

Old Blue Eyes had a bit of a revival in the mid-sixties with two number one hits on the US & UK pop charts. "Strangers In The Night" in 1966 being his fist number one hit since "Learnin' The Blues" in 1955 in the US and "Three Coins In The Fountain" in 1954 in the UK.

Answer: Hurricanes

Johnny And The Hurricanes had a number five hit on the US pop chart with "Red River Rock" in 1959. It reached number three on the UK chart the same year.

Although they were an American group they only had two top 20 hits on the US pop chart, one reaching the top 10. In the UK they had six top 20 hits, four of them reaching the top 10. "Red River Rock" in 1959 and "Rocking Goose" in 1960 peaking at number three.

Answer: Arnold Dorsey

Engelbert Humperdinck had a number seven hit on the UK chart with "Winter World Of Love" in 1969. It reached number 16 on the US pop chart in 1970.

Arnold George Dorsey was born in 1936 in Madras, India. He moved to Leicester, England just after WWII. He had no success in the UK for years as Gerry Dorsey until he changed his name. His first UK chart hit under that name "Release Me (And Let Me Love Again)" was number one for six weeks and spent 56 weeks on the chart. It reached number four on the US pop chart the same year. It was the record that kept The Beatles double A-side "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever" off the top spot in the UK. It stopped their run of consecutive UK number one hits at 11 which would have reached 17 otherwise.

Thomas Woodward is Tom Jones, David Cook is David Essex and Terence Parsons is Matt Monro.