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1. A song heavy on sax but light on lyrics (only one word, spoken three times) became a number one hit in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958. Which of these intoxicating numbers was it?
2. Sherlock Holmes lived on Baker Street in London. That may have, or may not have, influenced which artist who had a saxophone solo included in "Baker Street"?
3. In his song "Amnesia", Bill Morrissey had the narrator who couldn't remember things ask "Are my friends all hip, do they play tenor sax, or belt their pants at the armpits and wear plastic pen packs?"
One of the premier jazz saxophonists, with the nickname Bird, would certainly fit the hip description. Who played on the songs "Just Friends" and "Billie's Bounce"?
4. The Rolling Stones are usually thought of as a guitar band but they brought in a saxophone player for which of these songs?
5. The saxophone isn't usually thought of as a concert music instrument but one composer included a sax in his "Symphonic Dances" orchestral suite. Who was he?
6. Which musical group did Clarence Clemons notably play with?
7. You may like a bottle of red, or a bottle of white, while listening to Billy Joel play the piano, but which song with a sax solo concerned Brenda and Eddie?
8. We can "Turn the Page" but we'll still find a saxophone in this song, which was written and recorded by whom?
9. Though the music video for this song looked like it took place in a nightclub, not a jazz club, the saxophone part of the song set the mood for this "Smooth Operator", who we know as ___?
10. First came the song and then the album for the Australian group Men at Work. Which sax-heavy song might it be?
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